As soon as the decision was made, Marin began to arrange the matter. However, he only told Caesar about using locals to care for syphilis patients. Marin didn't tell him about shady things such as arranging death row inmates to show their tragic conditions and cutting out their tongues. Cultivating successors should also pay attention to individuality. At such a young age, you can show some strategy, but it's best not to show things that are too terrible, so as not to teach your child crookedly......

The pope's father-in-law told Marin that since the representatives of the German vassal states had not yet arrived in Rome, Marin had plenty of time to arrange in advance.

Therefore, Marin directly ordered to go to the prison to find a few death row inmates who could not write, and put them on a speedboat with an upper edge of the girder sail. This kind of slender three-masted speedboat, a bit similar to a clipper ship, is only a little "fatter", and is specially used by the Beihai State to deliver important news.

North-south sailboats rarely have a tailwind, so the modern schooner such as the upper edge of the oblique truss sail is very suitable for north-south sailing. After the gang arrived on the island of Haiti, they directly arranged for these death row inmates to be infected. After a while, the team almost arrived, and it happened to see their miserable side, and it was better for someone to die in front of the team, so that it would be scary enough......

In short, it is necessary to show the distinguished members of the investigation team the horror of the terrible diseases of the American colonies, and make them a little afraid. After returning, what they saw. It will be an important piece of evidence that Marin is not lying......

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In fact, there was no need to wait for the members of the investigation team to return from the Americas for someone to testify for Marin. Because, the Amazon expedition is back......

Just the year before, in 1514, the first Amazon expeditions returned and published the best-selling book "Out of Amazon". Later, Marin came up with an idea – he decided to recruit people from other countries to go on an expedition to the Brazilian Amazon basin, let them experience the horrors of the Amazon jungle first-hand, and then come back to tell the story...... Nominally, of course, to capture exotic beasts......

Later, Marin selected adventurers to carry out this plan, sending people to Portugal, Spain, and France to recruit adventurers to set off. In the end, about four or five hundred people from the three countries participated in this adventure party.

Shortly after Marin sent a clipper to inform the island of Haiti, the team also returned......

They had returned from their base on the island of Tobago, and before that had gone there were about 497 adventurers. However, only 319 survived. Moreover, many of the 319 people who survived were crippled by the fierce beasts in the Amazon jungle. There are those who have been bitten off their legs by crocodiles, those who have had their arms snapped off by jaguars, those who have lost consciousness in one foot after being bitten by poisonous snakes because of untimely treatment, and those who have been disabled by cannibal attacks...... In the end, less than 200 people came back in full force, not even half of the original total......

However, they were lucky to come back alive. Because, the 178 people who were unlucky were permanently buried in the terrifying Amazon jungle, either from the mouths of crocodiles, poisonous snakes and jaguars, or by piranhas, and by cannibals to be taken away and roasted......

In short, the return team was miserable. However, they also captured 50 crocodiles, 12 jaguars, several unknown giant venomous snakes, more than 40 piranhas, and 20 cannibals......

The fleet docked in Lisbon for a long time and went ashore to show off the animals it had caught, causing a huge sensation.

Fortunately, Marin had already made arrangements to buy a large piece of land in Lisbon and build a huge glass greenhouse so that these animals from the tropics did not freeze to death. Otherwise, with this spring's temperature, these tropical creatures may freeze to death.

In Lisbon, in a glass greenhouse known as the "Tropical Zoo", Easter, the head of the expedition, threw a purchased pig into a pond where more than 40 piranhas were located in front of everyone. Then, there was a violent churning of the water surface, and the domestic pigs that were still fluttering just now were directly divided into corpses by more than 40 piranhas that had been hungry for a long time, and even the bone frame was shattered, which shows how fierce the snatching was. And the surface of the water was quickly dyed red......

The scene frightened many Portuguese ladies and actresses, who let out pig-killing screams, while the adventurers who came back alive laughed with joy.

Subsequently, the more than 50 surviving Portuguese adventurers began to boast about their adventures in the Amazon jungle in a tavern in Lisbon. Because what they said was so terrifying and exciting, they didn't need to pay for their own drinks, as long as they stopped saying they were thirsty, someone would pay for them to refill their drinks.

"See? The little thumb and ring finger on my left hand were bitten off by a jaguar that suddenly appeared out of nowhere during a jungle expedition. The big guy killed the jaguar in the end, but the two fingers of pity were already chewed up, and they couldn't be reconnected......" The man who spoke was Neo, a bankrupt businessman in Lisbon. Because he owed a lot of money and couldn't pay it back, he turned his heart on and went to participate in the Amazon expedition. Because, the commission given by the expedition team is high, 1 shilling per day.

Although he came back with two broken fingers, he was able to secure most of his working capacity. Moreover, this time, the bounty is enough to pay off his debts, and he can still have a balance and start a small business.

He was lucky, because after he broke two fingers, he recuperated in the temporary base for more than ten days, and those ten days were precisely the time when the entire expedition encountered the most danger. In those ten days, the expedition lost 59 people, accounting for a third of the total losses...... And that's not even counting the unlucky ones who lack arms and legs......

At this time, another member of the expedition entered the tavern. The expedition member was unlucky, as his left leg was bitten off by a crocodile......

"Hey, José, you're here too! You see, this is my companion, the hapless José, who was bitten off by a crocodile during his expedition and had his left leg bitten off by a crocodile. It took a lot of effort for all of us to snatch him back from the crocodile......"

The crowd gathered around José to see his bitten off left leg and let out a burst of exclamation......

"Don't talk about that, gentlemen, who invited me to a drink, and I will also share with you my inner activity when I was bitten by a crocodile on my left leg......"

"Alright, we're invited, bartender, serve Mr. José a drink!"

After taking a big sip of beer, José smiled and said:

"I'll tell you, when I was bitten by a crocodile on my left leg, I was so frightened that I couldn't think or speak. But then there was a 'click' in my left leg because of the crocodile's bite, and then a huge pain came - I know, my left leg is finished. However, this is also a step away from the state of complete blindfolding. I started struggling and started calling for help...... The friends stabbed the crocodile with their spears, but unfortunately the crocodile's skin was too thick to have much effect. Knowing that Anders poked the crocodile in the eye with a spear, he forced the terrible crocodile back......"

"Oh-" The crowd exclaimed......

The same story plays out in more than a dozen pubs in Lisbon. Because, these more than 50 Portuguese explorers have already received the bounty and are ready to go home. Before returning home, they went to the tavern to tell the story of their adventures, and tricked them into drinking a lot......