In fact, in 1507, when the Portuguese were exploring the Indian Ocean routes, they sent ships to the Indian Ocean east of the island of Madagascar in search of new routes. On that occasion, the Portuguese failed to explore a new route, but they stopped at the island of Mauritius and had seen this huge stupid bird that was not afraid of people.

However, due to the failure to explore the new route, the Portuguese never visited Mauritius again. It wasn't until 90 years later, when the Dutch also came to Mauritius, that humans began the process of hunting dodos......

Marin wanted to get the specific coordinates of Mauritius from the Portuguese sailors, but the Portuguese sailors did not know the latitude and longitude, and only said that it was east of the island of Madagascar, which was equivalent to not saying it. So, it's up to Marin's fleet to find it on its own.

Of course, the search for the dodo is only incidental, and the finding of Perth to house the Merino sheep is the right thing to do. At most, on the return voyage, the fleet can go and find the dodo.

Marin thought about it and canceled the plan to return to the southern coast of Australia, and instead planned to let the fleet return from the east wind belt of the Indian Ocean north of the 30th parallel, and find Mauritius by the way.

This is so because Marin does not want the fleet to find the southeastern part of Australia with a good climate. The climate there is indeed very good, but there is no population in Marin to immigrate to Australia now. So, it's better not to let the sailors find out there.

As for the coast of Perth and Western Australia, even if the news spreads, no one will care about Australia. Historically, after the Dutch occupied the Spice Islands and Java, they sent people south to investigate Australia. As a result, most of Australia's western coast, near the island of Java, is a tropical desert area, and only near Perth is barely inhabitable because of the river. So, the Dutch have little interest in Australia at all. Even though the navigator Tasman later discovered Tasmania and New Zealand in the southeast, it was too remote to arouse the interest of the Dutch.

After all, the Netherlands was a commercial country, more interested in spices and trade than in farming. It wasn't until the British lost the thirteen states of North America and had no place to exile prisoners that they thought of Australia, which no one cared about......

Marin now has no manpower to develop Australia, so he doesn't want the news that the southeast of Australia is suitable for immigrants to leak out. Therefore, it is appropriate to only find the arid areas of the west coast of Australia. At that time, Spain, which already occupies the spice islands in the north, even if it sends people to see, it will only see the boundless tropical desert along the northwest coast of Australia, and there will be no idea of contention.

Marin intends to graze Merino sheep in abundance along the Swan River in Perth and introduce Arabian horses to breed and expand the population. In addition, Marin also plans to bring in hornless Angus cattle from Scotland and drop them in Perth to graze sheep.

Hornless Angus cattle are small and not very suitable for farming, so they are only suitable for raising for meat. And the Australian prairie is obviously also a very suitable place for Angus cattle to survive. After all, the Angus cattle in Australia were also quite famous.

In the future, the Western Australian grasslands on the banks of the Swan River near Perth will exclusively supply the North Sea country with merino wool, Angus beef and Arabian horses......

However, Marin suddenly remembered that it seemed that Australia was still an indigenous world in this era. If only a few dozen ordinary farmers were sent over, they might be wiped out by the local Australian aborigines.

So, after thinking about it, Marin decided to send 500 German Cossacks to establish small towns in Perth, and also to drive out and exterminate the local natives.

The authentic Cossack Marin definitely did not want to be sent here, and if they were to occupy the place and build a country by their anti-guest, Marin would be ashamed. Therefore, Marin will only send the German Cossacks, which are composed of Germans, to develop here. Moreover, it had to be a German Cossack who was loyal to himself. In this way, we can ensure that this part of Australia is out of our control.

In fact, Hungarian herders, accustomed to a nomadic life, are more accustomed to the arid grasslands of western Australia. In particular, among the tens of thousands of Hungarian prisoners of war that Marin had obtained before, there were twenty or thirty thousand cavalry prisoners of war. These people are all ruthless characters who are good at riding horses and cutting people, and they must be adapted to the grassland life over there.

But where did Marin dare to let the Hungarians go to Australia? Perhaps, those people will immediately get out of their control there, and a country of Magyars in the city will let the Marlin chicken fly eggs. Therefore, Marin was only willing to let the Hungarians go with him to North America. Moreover, it was necessary to live with German peasants from Württemberg. Moreover, they had to learn to speak German and Germanize as soon as possible. Otherwise, it is a huge hidden danger.

Therefore, facing the vast Australian continent, Marin would rather only build a German Cossack village than let the more suitable Hungarian Magyars go there.

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Just when Marin was about to send a fleet to find a route to Western Australia, Panama came with two 250-class armed merchant ships loaded with goods from the Ming Dynasty.

The large number of silks, porcelain, and tea leaves on the ship made Marin's eyes shine. It's all money! Auctions in major European cities such as Paris, London, Hamburg, Lübeck, Venice, Rome, Milan, and Florence can bring a lot of cash flow to Marin.

Marin's surplus of food may not be able to exchange much cash flow, after all, for the average person, food is enough to eat. However, for those wealthy aristocrats and merchants, luxury goods were indispensable. Only these luxury goods from the Ming Empire can be in line with their "noble identity".

Why are most of the European aristocrats in this era unable to make ends meet? It's not that they spend their money mostly on luxuries. If it's just a simple food, clothing, housing and transportation, it won't cost a lot of money at all. But most of the European aristocracy in this era was in debt because they spent too much money on luxury goods.

But their extravagant living habits are what Marin likes. Because, they may not pay for more grain (after all, the European aristocracy is a big landowner, who doesn't have surplus grain?). and the poor who lack food cannot afford it), but when it comes to the luxuries they like, these nobles will spend a lot of money without frowning. Moreover, they also compare themselves with each other......

If there are two big nobles with similar status, and your family has porcelain and the other family does not, the one who does not will feel very ashamed. Then, smashing the pot and selling iron also has to be bought back to support the scene......

Therefore, whether you can get your hands on the gold and silver hidden in the homes of those nobles depends on these luxuries. Although, these so-called luxury goods in the Ming Dynasty were also ordinary goods......

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However, to Marin's shock, the Ming Dynasty goods that were brought back with the ship also included a letter from Kong Tai and a special batch of goods......

What letter and what special cargo? It turned out that Contai, who was the governor of Dongfan Island, had suggested that betel nut chewing be promoted in the colonies in the tropical region of the North Sea Kingdom. And that special batch of goods was the dried betel nut sent back by Kong Tai for Marin to try......

Ma Lin's head was full of black lines - Nima, before Lao Tzu crossed, the whole world was discussing the carcinogenic characteristics of Binglang, and you also suggested that Lao Tzu chew Binglang, is he trying to kill the king?

However, continuing to read Conte's letter, the anger in Marin's heart was eliminated......

Why? Because Kong Tai said that in the past few years as the governor of Taiwan, he found that the Hakka people introduced from Hu Jian and Guangdong, they often chew betel nuts. Moreover, it is said that the betel chewing can withstand the miasma of the tropical jungle in the south......

Kong Tai was suddenly excited, this is the biggest problem in colonizing the tropical jungle area! Although Kong Tai has artemisinin, the miracle drug for malaria, that Marin has developed, artemisinin is only for the treatment of malaria. And many infirm people who open up the tropical jungle often get sick because of the miasma in the jungle, and even die with a whimper.

Therefore, the current tropical jungle areas that have not yet been reclaimed are not suitable for people with average physique. Otherwise, it's easy to get sick.

For example, Panama, controlled by Marin, is a place with severe miasma. At the moment, Marin has only sent a thousand physically strong young men to control there. As for the production of something, it mainly depends on black slaves who adapted to the tropical rainforest climate. Otherwise, immigrants from the homeland can easily die in large numbers.

And chewing betel lang can resist miasma, and can allow ordinary people to live normally in the tropical rainforest area, an absolute artifact!

Therefore, Kong Tai wrote a letter to Marin, strongly recommending the promotion of betel lang in the tropical rainforest colonies of the North Sea Country, so that everyone can chew betel lang, especially those with average physique, in order to resist miasma and improve survival rate......