Diego. Columbus continued south with eight ships and headed east via the Cape of Good Hope route. Marin, on the other hand, led two ships along the North Equatorial Current of the Atlantic Ocean from east to west, and arrived at the earliest colony, Grenada.

On the island, George Sr., the old butler of the Hoffman family, who had been governor for many years, had been waiting here for a long time. George Sr. gave Marin a warm reception and took Marin on a walk around the island of Grenada to see the island's construction achievements.

Of course, Marin had no interest in the local towns. After all, no matter how good these towns are, they can't compare to the local cities of Aurich and Emden.

So, George Sr. led a large group of men and horses to accompany Marin to inspect the farmland on the island. The island of Grenada is mountainous and plain, with only a small area of plains. Most of these minority plains were reclaimed by George Sr. for rice and sugar cane, and ginger was grown in some areas.

As for the hills and mountains, they can be used to grow spices. Spices are mainly trees or shrubs and do not need to be grown on plains. For example, nutmeg, which is a small tree, can be planted in the mountains and forests. Moreover, the requirement of nutmeg is that there should be no stagnant water. Cinnamon is also an arbor, while pepper is a vine that grows in the woods......

So, a tropical island like Grenada, which is mountainous and rainfally, can grow spices, and it is very suitable for growing spices.

And now European spices are expensive, so a lot of spices are also grown on the island. For nutmeg, for example, Marin had a batch of nutmeg that had not been ground into powder in India as seeds and shipped to Grenada Island for planting.

The reason why nutmeg is grown on the island of Grenada is because the island of Grenada was originally the second largest producer of nutmeg in the world, and it must be very suitable for growing nutmeg.

Then, the island also planted female cloves (cloves are divided into male and female, but male cloves are petals, and they cannot be planted if they are bought. The mother cloves are seeds, which can be planted), cinnamon (seeds bought in Sri Lanka, not far from Calicut, otherwise cinnamon bark would not have been planted), and pepper, which were also planted in the mountains and forests of Grenada.

It's just that cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg have a relatively long growing period, and it takes a few years to bloom and bear fruit, so they can only wait slowly. Peppercorns, on the other hand, have a shorter growth cycle and have begun to produce pepper beans. George Sr. took Marin on a tour of the pepper woodland and saw the pepper fruiting. After a while, the pepper beans on the island of Grenada will be harvested and ready to be supplied to the mainland.

After visiting the spice-growing area, Marin went to the plain grain producing area to inspect it. Then, with black lines on his head, he saw a head die of heat in the field......

"Damn, it's so unlucky to heat a dead cow right under my nose......"

After investigation, Marin found that the cattle that died of heat were indeed Eastern European cattle imported from the Crimean Khanate and were not heat-tolerant. Although Marin also made people buy cattle from Africa. However, Africa was too uncivilized at this time, and the number of cattle was also small. Coupled with the fact that the Portuguese were not very cooperative, the number received was not much.

Moreover, African cattle are not domesticated to a high degree. You know, the African buffalo is known as one of the most dangerous wild animals in Africa, and it is easy to lose your temper and be difficult to drive.

Therefore, the serfs of Grenada still prefer to drive the more docile Eastern European cattle, and do not like the African cattle, which have too much residue in the wild.

In order to better drive the African cattle, George Sr. had to order the bulls to be castrated to keep them quiet. However, as a result, African cattle could not continue to breed and more African cattle had to be purchased from the Duke of Coimbra of Portugal.

Marin frowned when he heard this, this is not a good thing. Duke Jorge of Coimbra. Morality. Lencastre, although an ally of his own, is only an ordinary alliance of interests. Moreover, the other party is more greedy and offers a high price. It is not cost-effective to buy African cattle from them for a long time.

The biggest problem with the use of Eastern European cattle is that the cattle are often heated......

Both Marin and George Sr. were troubled by this......

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Probably seeing the troubles of the two, at this time, an Indian serf standing at the edge of the field suddenly came up and said in German, which he was not very proficient in:

"Two nobles, are you worried about the problem of cow fever death?"

"Mahal, do you have an idea?" Old George looked in amazement at the dark-skinned Indian serf in front of him.

Mahal was one of the early Indian untouchable serfs bought from India, but Mahal was a smart man among the Indian untouchables, and over the years, he had learned a lot of German and was able to communicate with old George. Therefore, he was promoted to the chief of the Indian serfs, and usually held the position of overseer, responsible for supervising the work of those Indian serfs. At the same time, it was responsible for conveying the orders of old George. After all, he was the only one of those Indian serfs who could speak German and could communicate with old George.

Mahar nodded and said:

"Yes, I can see that there is a problem with the cattle used on the island. My lord, you said that the African cow is not afraid of heat, but its temperament is too fierce to control. And Eastern European cattle are easy to control, terrible hot, easy to die of heat......"

"And what do you mean?"

"O cows from our hometown! It was a cow with sarcoma on its back, and in our hometown, the white cow was called the Holy Cow ......"

"Wait, the cow you said with sarcoma on its back, is it a zebu cow?" Before Mahar could finish, Marin interjected.

"Zebu? What is that? Mahal was a little confused.

Marin also reacted, at this time, the zebu is not called a zebu cow. Indians worship cattle and would never give zebu such a name.

When it comes to zebu, Marin comes to mind a lot of things. He remembered that in later generations there was a type of cattle called Brahmin cattle, which was a well-known breed of heat-tolerant cattle.

Of course, this Brahmin cow was not made by the Indians, but by the Yankees using a mixture of Indian zebu and European cattle. Among them, the bloodline of Indian zebu cattle accounts for the majority, and the bloodline of European cattle accounts for only a small part.

This kind of cattle is specially bred for the tropics. Later, Brahman cattle were also introduced to places such as China and Australia, and became one of the preferred breeds for cattle breeding in tropical areas.

In addition, it should be pointed out that in later generations, the main breed of cattle raised in Brazil was zebu. This is mainly because, most of Brazil is located in the tropics, which is humid and hot. Cattle that are not heat-tolerant will have a hard time surviving here.

Marin had read a certain football book in his previous life, and he mentioned a paragraph when describing the situation in Brazil, mainly when introducing Brazilian barbecue. And these memories, because football is useless, are buried in the depths of memory.

And today, with Mahal's reminder, it came to Marin's mind again......

"Well, it seems that tropical cattle still have to rely on Indian zebu cattle!"

Thinking of this, Marin decided to let little Columbus's fleet buy more zebu cattle in India and bring them back to the island of Grenada for breeding. In the future, the cultivated land in the tropics will depend on the third brother's zebu cattle that are not afraid of heat...... (https:)

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