Albert also wrote a report on the liquor trade with the Indians, and sent a clipper ship through the North Atlantic Warm Current, quickly returning to the mainland, and sending it to Marin for approval.

Marin quickly approved Albert's report and gave it a strong thumbs up. At present, in order not to waste grain, Beihai Country is using all the old grain that is about to expire to make wine. However, there is too much stale grain, and the amount of wine brewed far exceeds the market demand. Now, Marin is worried about the sales of alcohol.

In order not to waste the drink, Marin purified a lot of surplus wine into a classic spirit of about 56 degrees, and then buried it in the ground with a jar of mud. This spirit, which is above 53 proof, is the most resistant to shelf. As long as it is left for a long time, after a few decades, it will be the best wine. And the two pots that Marin buried in the ground seem to be a bit too much - more than 100,000 jars......

There was no way, there was too much leftover wine, so I had to process it into spirits and bury it. Anyway, spirits last long, and the longer they last, the better they taste.

However, if there is a market, Marin does not want to bury all the wine in the ground. Hearing that the Indians liked to drink, Marin immediately came to the spirits.

How many Indians there were, Marin is well aware. There are not many Shawnees in Pennsylvania, only a few thousand. There are also few Canadian Indians near Cape Breton Island, and the market is actually not large.

However, there are many Indians on the Mexican and Peruvian sides! The Indians over there, but they are counted in the tens of millions, if they sell the wine......

Well, if nothing else, it is not a problem to exchange some gold and silver with the Aztec Empire and the Inca Empire.

Today, the craftsmen sent to the Aztecs by Marin have succeeded in helping the Aztec Empire find several large silver mines and establish a technically sophisticated silver smelting base. In a few years, the Aztec Empire will be able to mass-produce silver. When the time comes, Marin can take the wine and exchange silver with the Aztecs in Mexico to solve the money shortage.

In addition, the old Yin Bimarin, who had lost his conscience, also planned to use the wine trade to provoke the Indians to fight among themselves, so that the Indians themselves would attack each other and consume their strength.

The way to do it is simple – exchange the drink for the Indian kids......

This kind of trade, which has lost the conscience of the people in later generations, is very normal in this era. For example, in the Songhai Empire in West Africa, the slave trade was one of the country's main sources of finance.

The Indians of North America, on the other hand, do not seem to have entered the era of slavery, so the slave trade is not popular.

But it doesn't matter, the immoral Marin will let them get it up. Marin planned to exchange liquor for Indian children with those Indian drunkards.

Of course, Marin would not be so cruel as to ask the Indians to sell their children. However, he would advise the Indian drunkards to go to other tribes and rob them! A sturdy Indian boy for a medium jar of wine, and a girl for half a jar...... As for beaver skins, the pricing is much lower......

In this way, there will always be alcoholic Indians who are tempted. As long as they attack other tribes, it will inevitably cause fierce conflicts between Indian tribes.

Moreover, children are the future of the tribe. Once the children of the tribe are plundered by other tribes, it is equivalent to cutting off the hope of the tribe.

Although those tribes were not slaughtered directly, because the children were robbed, after twenty years, those tribes without a new generation of strong men will inevitably decline or even die......

After the boys and girls were bought by Marin's colonists, the strongest group of boys would be trained in the same way as Mamluk cavalry, and trained to be the bravest warriors as the assault force of the Beihai army. And the girls, if they were good-looking, were sold to the rich colonists as maids. Moreover, Marin would also acquiesce to the Germans who bought maids, and took Indian girls as lovers and had children with them in order to increase the population of the colony. Marin will not give up these unnamed half-breeds, but will grant land in the same way to help develop the colony.

In this way, through the lure of alcohol, the Indian tribes will become mortal enemies because of each other's population, and they will cut off each other's inheritance and hope. Moreover, because of the feud, it was difficult for these Indian tribes to form a unified tribal alliance similar to the Iroquois League to resist colonial rule.

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"I seem to be looking more and more like the Englishmen of later generations......" Marin said speechlessly. This method of stirring up is exactly what the later British are best at.

First provoke the infighting of the target, and then reap the benefits of the fisherman...... In addition, the children of the Indians were plundered, and the inheritance of those tribes was severed...... Proper British-stirring methods, and, because cutting off the future of those tribes, seems more insidious than those of the British......

As for the Indian children who were exchanged for drink, Marlin would let Taylor's disciples and grandchildren brainwash them from an early age. When they grow up, they will become yellow-skinned and white-hearted banana people, and they will be born and die for the Beihai Kingdom, or become the leading party......

Speaking of the banana man, Marin suddenly became very uncomfortable. But now I have a yellow heart, but I have changed to a white skin, what is this? Poached egg? Well, poached eggs are indeed yellow-hearted and white-skinned......

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Then, Marin decided to go out for a walk, in the name of inspection work, to go to other places to relax......

In this way, Marin traveled to Goslar, the city of miners, to inspect the silver mines of Rammelsberg near Goslar.

At this time, the autumn harvest in the south had long since ended, and 57,800 Hungarian men returned to the Rammelsberg silver mine and became silver miners again.

The Rammelsberg silver mine was mined as early as 968, and after more than 500 years, the surface ore has been exhausted. Now, the silver mine is deep underground, mined underground by twisting holes.

Fortunately, this is not a coal mine, and there are no dangers such as gas explosions, so I am not afraid to use torches in underground mines. But in this era, the biggest problem of underground mining is the problem of water accumulation.

Just like the Tara lead-zinc mine on the island of Ireland that Marin originally founded, it was abandoned because the underground water was too difficult to manage.

But now, Leonardo da Vinci has built the Watt steam engine. Although it is bulky, it has no problem pumping water from the mine. Previously, local silver mining required manual pumping of water from the mine before it could be mined further.

With the steam engine pumping water, the production efficiency of the Rammelsberg silver mine was greatly improved. Without the problem of stagnant water, the mining efficiency is greatly improved.

Moreover, in order to ensure the safety of the miners, Marin also asked his subordinates to make a lot of load-bearing frames out of sturdy logs, which were installed in the mine to prevent the mine from collapsing and dying. In this way, the safety of the Rammelsberg silver mine has been greatly improved. The widespread use of guide rails and minecarts has greatly improved the efficiency of silver ore transportation.

In addition to this, under Marin's guidance, the blast furnace at the Rammelsberg silver mine has been improved to greatly improve its efficiency.

What improvements did Marlin have the craftsmen make to the blast furnace? In fact, it is very simple, that is, the ordinary blast furnace is converted into a hot blast stove. The craftsmen did as Marlin had instructed them to make a long pipe made of iron sheets before the air inlet. The pipe is curved to increase the contact area with the flame.

Then, while the blast furnace is working, a fire is lit under the air inlet duct for heating. When the blower blows the air into the furnace from the air inlet duct, the air has been heated, and the air blown into the furnace is hot air, so there is no need to waste the furnace fire to heat the air......

In this way, the efficiency of the blast furnace has also increased a lot, which greatly increases the production speed. In just a few months, the production of silver at the Rammelsberg mine in Goslar had increased from less than 1,000 pounds per month to more than 5,000 pounds per month...... And that's not even counting the incidental processed lead, zinc, tin, copper, and a small amount of gold......