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Mosingen's journey was not destined to be easy, after all, it was a gold grabber with the bearded men of North Africa. Lao Ma said that with 300% of the profits, it (the capitalists) would dare to commit any crime, even at the risk of being hanged.

Obviously, if you exchange salt for Timbuktu for gold, the profit will not exceed 300%? Ten times and a hundred times. So, in the face of such huge profits, don't expect those bearded businessmen in North Africa to follow the rules. Killing people and selling goods or something, it's just a normal operation.

Therefore, Mosingen's team will prepare hundreds of Egyptian slave cavalry and 20 musketeers to deal with possible battles at any time.

Fortunately, conditions in the Sahara Desert are extremely harsh. The size of the caravan is not very large. Because, crossing the hot Sahara Desert is an extraordinary test of courage and will. It would be difficult for an average European to cross such a hot desert.

So Marin made a hat umbrella, which could be cooler than just wearing a white robe. Otherwise, Marin's team would not have dared to cross the Sahara Desert.

No matter how reflective the white robe is, it still absorbs a lot of heat. And a big hat umbrella on the head is equivalent to a moving gazebo on the head, and the heat insulation effect is not a little bit stronger.

Of course, Marin also knows that this is the secret weapon of the North Sea State. If it had been learned, other European countries would have been able to cross the desert as well.

Therefore, Marin ordered that as soon as the caravan approached the residential area, the umbrella should be hidden in a sack and placed on the back of a camel, so that it would not be learned.

After all, if this thing spread, it would be easier for the bearded North Africans to cross the desert. After all, people are more accustomed to tropical desert climates. If thousands of North African beards poured in, Mosingen's ranks would not be able to stir up the waves......

In addition, Marin also asked his glasses craftsmen to equip Mosingen and his party with sunglasses, an artifact for desert walking......

The tropical desert sun is scorching and wind-swept and sandy. Therefore, the Arabs often use a white cloth to cover their faces. However, the biggest impact of the ban on the face is not the other parts of the face, but the eyes.

Therefore, when walking outside the fortress in ancient China, there was a veil in front of the hat he worn. It can not only block the wind and sand, but also see the front clearly.

But this translucent veil is usually made of silk, but not in the Middle East and North Africa. Therefore, the Arabs had to wear a mask of 100 steps and squint against the wind and sand. In addition, so did the ancient Mongols. In order to withstand the wind and sand, often squint. Because I am used to squinting, many people are a little squinting as a result. It's not innate, it's the need to fight the sandstorms.

Moreover, the sun is strong in desert areas, and the eyes are too open, which is not only easy to enter the wind and sand, but also easy to be burned by strong light. Therefore, it is common and habitual for people in desert areas to squint.

With sunglasses, it is different, after wearing sunglasses, you can not be afraid of strong sunlight, but also can withstand the wind and sand head-on, and it is easy to use in the desert. For example, the American GIs in the Middle East in later generations basically had one sunglasses each. Moreover, many people's sunglasses are still bulletproof.

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Of course, the sunglasses that Marlin gave Mosingen were not black sunglasses, but green lenses. The so-called green lens sunglasses are actually sunglasses made of green glass with high iron ion content.

This kind of glass, which belongs to the inferior colored glass, is the result of poor craftsmanship. However, the sunglasses lenses made of this kind of iron green glass, which is not very transmittal, are really easy to use in the desert......

First of all, what people want to see most in the desert is green, which represents oasis and hope. Wear green sunglasses and look green. This may not be much of a problem elsewhere, but in the desert full of yellow sand, wearing green sunglasses can make you feel much better.

Because the light is generally transparent, it can naturally block strong sunlight like sunglasses. Marin asked the craftsman to make a stand out of wood, and then the place where the lower part of the lens and the bridge of the nose came into contact was wrapped in leather, which was soft and comfortable to wear. And, most importantly, green glass is the cheapest tinted glass!

It's just that what Marin didn't expect was that he was worried that someone would rob and imitate the hat umbrella that didn't happen. After all, he had long ordered that he must put away the hat and umbrella when he met someone. However, he did not order the green sunglasses to be hidden. As a result, Mosingen later bought their sunglasses......

Of course, this is a later story, as Mosingen's party had a hard time walking in the desert and could not reach Timbuktu for a while.

And, in order not to die of thirst halfway, the team needs to head east, to the desert oasis in southern Algeria. Then, follow the route with the oasis all the way south. Otherwise, if there is no fresh water supply on the way, let alone people, even camels will die of thirst.

In addition, the team also brought a group of war horses to fight the enemy, and the requirements for fresh water were greater, and it was impossible to leave the support of the oasis well. Fortunately, the Bobu horses that the Laayoune region exchanged from the Moroccans were originally desert horses. Otherwise, you won't be able to cross the Sahara Desert.

In order to keep your identity secret and avoid future disputes with the Portuguese. Although Mosingen was the leader of the party, he introduced a well-spoken Egyptian slave named Nessaf to pose as the leader of the party. In this way, the caravan could call itself the "Egyptian caravan". In the future, it will not be easy for the Portuguese to say that Marin is poaching their corners......

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Just as Mossingen's party was moving deep into the Sahara Desert towards Timbuktu. Far east, the handmaiden of Mizuko Hetoki, as the representative of Mizuko Hetoki and his son Nobunaga, led 3,500 soldiers and horses to land on Amami Oshima, the northernmost point of the Ryukyu Kingdom.

Of these 3,500 soldiers and horses, 3,000 were strong and honest black slaves that Marin bought from the Duke of Coimbra in Portugal. These black slaves were trained in queue and discipline by Marin's officers, and then sent to Taiwan Island, where Li Cripple, the head of the Beihai State Sword and Shield Soldiers, was further trained on Taiwan Island, and trained them all to become rattan players among the sword and shield soldiers, using single knives and rattan cards.

In addition, they also wore chain mail native to the Hokkai Province to protect against the swords of the Japanese samurai. Japanese samurai are small and nimble and adept at using sharp katanas. The rattan cards used by the black uncles can certainly block the katana. However, the Japanese samurai were short in stature, and if they rolled over and went around behind Uncle Hei and cut with a knife, it would be over.

Therefore, Marin asked the local people to prepare 3,000 sets of chain mail, which were specially used to prevent knife cuts. In addition, these black uncles also wore simple pot-lidded iron helmets to prevent the Japanese samurai's katana from slashing their heads.

With rattan cards, single knives, chain mail, and pot heads, these strong black warriors were not afraid of the surprise attack of the Japanese samurai.

In addition to this gang of black rattan players, there are 100 musketeers under the command of the chess piece, who are transferred from the homeland and use clockwork muskets. In addition, there were 400 musketeers recruited from the Han Chinese and Pingpu Fanren recruited from the island. However, they used arquebuses. Later, the Japanese troops mainly used arquebuses to suppress local resistance.