Laayoune, West Sahara, North Africa, who manages the local Quincy Jr., is counting the first batch of apatite production and is planning to ship it back to Emden. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Quincy Jr. is the grandson of Quincy Sr., the gatekeeper of Hoffman Manor, and is only 23 years old this year. The Quincy family was a family of servants of the Hoffman family, and their ancestors were serfs, until the elder Quincy became the squire of the Hoffman family. Old Quincy had no brains, and his force value was average, ranking last among old Hoffman's attendants. But it is better to be faithful. Therefore, the elder Quincy has always served as the gatekeeper of Hoffman Manor, guarding the safety of the manor.

Later, when Marin became Baron Texel, the elder Quincy sent his eldest grandson, Quincy Jr., to Texel Island, where he was placed under Kohler, where he studied arithmetic and culture, and was one of Kohler's disciples, second to Draka.

In the previous two years, Quincy Jr. had returned to the Hoffman Manor Coal Mine and managed the mine for a period of time, responsible for the statistics of production and the safety management of the mine.

When Marlin took Laayoune, he thought of Quincy Jr. In fact, Marin took Laayoune and was not interested in anything else, only in the apatite mines south of Laayoune. As long as the apatite mine is mined, Marin does not have to spend much manpower to collect fishmeal and fish bones. Moreover, the phosphorus content of apatite ore is also higher than that of fishmeal and fish bones.

Because he had been managing coal mines for two years and had experience, Marin handed over the affairs of Laayoune to little Quincy to manage. In this way, little Quincy was fortunate enough to become the governor of Laayoune.

Upon arriving in Laayoune, Quincy Jr. immediately followed Marin's instructions and first built the Laayoune Pier, which was suitable for mooring large ships, and then built a fort to fortify the castle. Not only that, but little Quincy also built a large courtyard, and every night, drove all the people of the Laayoune tribe into this courtyard to rest, and locked the door of the compound to prevent them from escaping.

Before the big courtyard was built, more than a dozen young men had already escaped at night. After the large courtyard was built, these people of the Aayoune tribe would no longer be able to run around.

When the castle, forts, docks, and compound were built, Little Quincy finally began to explore for apatite mines......

With a group of men, riding camels and carrying a large amount of food and water, he headed south at the Laayoune Pier and began his journey in search of apatite.

Of course, Marin had given the method of identification - one was a blue-gray stone; Second, if it is burned on a fire, it will emit green light......

In fact, Marin's first method of identification was no different from that of Wushu. Because, most of the stones are blue-gray......

In desperation, little Quincy took firewood and looked for stones to burn everywhere to observe the color......

After more than a month of burning stones, Little Quincy finally discovered an apatite mine not far from the south of the Laayoune Oasis Lake, which is rich in reserves. Little Quincy can't estimate how many, but there are still hundreds of millions of tons.

Then, it's time to mine. To this end, Quincy Jr. sent people back to China and applied for a ship to carry ore on the Laayoune route. Then, he applied for another fund to trade with the Saadians to buy black slaves......

Yes, buy black slaves. The Moroccans were also slave traders, and in the Sahara Desert, they had a trade route to the Mali Empire and the Songhai Empire in West Africa.

The route is connected by several oases in the desert. And between the oases, it is also transported by camels. Moroccan merchants, first crossed the Atlas Mountains, eastward into the Algerian region, and then, through the desert oasis in the south of the Algerian region, all the way south, carrying salt and other goods urgently needed in West Africa, arrived in Timbuktu (Timbuktu), the most prosperous city in the Marin region, where they traded with the locals.

The climate in West Africa is hot all year round, and food preservation is not easy. Therefore, table salt was very popular in both the Mali Empire and the Songhai Empire. Moreover, both the Marin Empire and the Songhai Empire, which now replaced the Mali Empire and controlled Timbuktu, the trade center of West Africa, were in great demand for salt.

However, black West Africans did not know how to make salt, and produced less salt, and most of it was collected from the sea. As a result, this brought huge business opportunities to Arab merchants from North Africa.

North African Arab and Berber merchants, driven herds of camels and bags of salt, came to Timbuktu to trade with the Mali Empire and now the Songhai Empire.

In the West African Empire, salt was an important currency alongside gold. Whether it is the Mali Empire or the Songhai Empire, their small goods are traded, using agate shells as currency. In the case of bulk goods, gold and salt, as well as copper coins brought by the Arabs, were used as currency.

Strange as it may seem, the two great empires of West Africa are rich in gold reserves. Through gold panning, the Mali Empire and the Songhai Empire obtained a large amount of golden sand. The merchants of the two empires then used these golden sands to exchange with merchants from North Africa for salt, iron weapons (iron was not produced in West Africa at this time), horses, copper, glassware resold from Europe, and handicrafts (including woollen fabrics) from North Africa......

The commodities that West Africans traded to North African merchants were mainly gold, ivory, spices, cotton fabrics, and...... Black Slave ......

The West African Empire, in fact, was still in the era of slavery empires. So, here, science and technology were not yet developed, and the slave trade was also prosperous. Through inter-tribal conflicts, West Africans sold captured prisoners of war as black slaves in Timbuktu, the trade center of West Africa, to Arab traders in exchange for salt, weapons, horses and other urgently needed local supplies.

In fact, the slave trade in Africa was not initiated by the Europeans on their own initiative, but by the local chiefs. The poor chieftains, who had no gold or silver, exchanged goods with the Europeans who came to trade. So, they started to use their crooked brains - to take blacks from other tribes as slaves and sell them to Europeans......

Later, European colonizers discovered that it was very profitable to sell blacks into slavery on plantations in the Americas. As a result, they raised the price and went into battle to destroy villages and capture slaves, which caused the suffering in Africa.

Long before the Europeans traded slaves, the Arabs had been trading slaves for hundreds of years. Moreover, the Arabs did it cruelly. They prevented the black slaves they bought from fornicating with their wives and concubines, so they simply castrated the black slaves they bought. In this way, it is safe to put in the inner house......

When little Quincy came to Laayoune, he also dealt with the merchants of the Saad tribe and heard about black slaves. It is said that these black slaves are obedient and honest, and they have great strength, and are suitable for work. That's why little Quincy planned to use black slaves to mine.

As for why not use the local Laayoune tribe to mine? Mainly, Quincy Jr. was worried that these locals would take advantage of the mining opportunity to escape. After all, the terrain of the mine is complex and not easy to track. Moreover, Marin also plans to raise Arabian horses and merino sheep in the local area, and he also needs their help to graze. Therefore, it is better to buy some black slaves from the Moroccan merchants to mine.

Actually, it's not that African slaves are obedient and honest. In fact, the black yearning for freedom is very strong. It's just that those blacks who yearn for freedom have long been killed or maimed by slave owners. Therefore, the remaining black slaves, of course, were honest and obedient. They all saw the tragic fate of those who resisted.

What's more, Arab slave traders castrated those black slaves very inhumanely. Therefore, those blacks lack the secretion of male hormones, so they are naturally dull and have no desires. Aggressive people, generally with strong male hormones in their bodies, either love to fight, or love to find women. However, the black slaves sold by these Arabs were castrated, and there was nothing to make them excited. That's why they're so honest......

Little Quincy's development of apatite mines naturally requires honest and willing slaves. Therefore, buying black slaves who have no desire and are more obedient have become the first choice.

However, when Quincy Jr. went with gold coins to buy black slaves with the Saadians, the Saad chieftain Abu Abu. Abdullah. Kaim refused to accept the coins. Because, they need iron ...... more

The Saad tribe was an ambitious tribe that wanted to rebel and defeat the Wattas dynasty, who now controlled Morocco. Therefore, they need a lot of weapons.

However, Morocco does not produce iron at the moment, and most of the iron tools are imported. In order to obtain a weapon crafted from steel, it is necessary to pass through the northern regions of Morocco. However, in this way, the Wattas dynasty would receive news that the Saad tribe had imported a large number of iron tools, which caused them to be alarmed.

Therefore, over the years, the Saad tribe has not obtained many iron tools. Now, with the opportunity to trade with the Europeans, Abu. Abdullah. Qayim asked, "Buy slaves?" No problem, trade a sword or an iron ingot for ......

As a result, little Quincy had to send someone back to Europe again to report the matter to Marin......

However, this matter is in Marlin's hands......

Marin's steel mill, which produces 3 tons of pig iron and 2 tons of steel a day, is struggling to sell ......

So, Marin had the ships bring a lot of pig iron ingots south to Laayoune, and let Quincy Jr. and the Asad tribe go to trade. As for the Saad tribe using these scimitars made of iron ingots to threaten Laayoune? Marin never thinks about it. Because Laayoune built a strong castle, and it was right by the sea. Even if the Saadians wanted to turn their backs, it would be difficult for them to storm the castle. What's more, thinking that at the seaside, Marin can also support from the sea at any time. Therefore, Marin was confident and bold to buy iron for the Laayouns......

The price of black slaves is ridiculously low. When trading with the Saadians, little Quincy was able to trade only a 50-pound reborn iron ingot for a strong black slave. And it's castrated, honest black slaves. With only 5,000 pounds of pig iron ingots, little Quincy was able to exchange for 100 strong, honest black slaves.

Then, after shackling the slaves to prevent escape, Quincy assigned them to take their pickaxes to the apatite mines south of Laayoune, and soon dug up the first batch of apatite, which he intended to load on ships and transport back to Europe......