In fact, Marin bought local slaves from Egypt not for a day or two. Previously, in order to develop the saltpeter mines in Chile, Marin bought a lot of slaves from Egypt. At present, the Chilean saltpeter mine has been initially developed. In order to expand the scale, Marin had planned to continue to buy Egyptian slaves.

Speaking of which, the Mamluk dynasty of Egypt was a slave dynasty. Even, the name Mamluk means slave. Most of the officers in the court were Circassian slaves. They were trafficked to Egypt and sent to brutal training camps. Only the strongest group of people can survive. Then, he entered the Egyptian army to serve.

However, later, with the expansion of the scale of Mamluk slaves, many Mamluk slaves married wives and had children in Egypt, and had Mamluk descendants, that is, native Mamluks. Then, many of the civil officials of the Egyptian court were basically the descendants of these native Mamluk slaves. However, the most powerful Janissaries of the Mamluk dynasty insisted on selecting Circassian slaves from the western Caucasus. It's just that because the Turks blocked the Turkish Straits forty years ago, the source of Mamluk slaves was cut off, and now Egypt can only rely on the native Mamluks to fill the façade.

The natives of Egypt are more sad. Because, the Mamluk Dynasty of Egypt, whether it was a civil official or a military general, was basically the descendants of Circassian slaves, and had nothing to do with the locals.

It's similar to India, where the dark-skinned native Indians end up as untouchables and are conquered and ruled by Aryan descendants from Central Asia.

The Egyptians and Indians can be regarded as a pair of difficult brothers. They are the same four ancient civilizations, but the natives eventually became slaves. The slave soldiers, who were originally foreigners, became Mamluk nobles......

Originally, Marin had planned to continue to buy thousands of Egyptian slaves from Egypt to dig saltpeter in the Atacama Desert in Chile. However, after Mosingen opened up the trade routes of the Songhai Empire, Marin changed his mind and decided to buy local black slaves from the Songhai Empire to dig saltpeter in Chile.

Why? Because the black slaves of the Songhai Empire are really cheap!

How cheap were the slaves of the Songhai Empire? According to Mosingen, a sack of salt (1 quintal, 112 pounds) can be exchanged for 10 strong and obedient slaves, can you believe it?

According to the price of 2 pfennig per pound of salt in the North Sea Country, a sack of salt is worth 224 pfennig, or 3.73 Gulden gold coins. 3.73 gold coins can buy 10 slaves, and each slave is worth an average of 0.373 gold coins, how cheap is that?

And the black slaves that Marin bought from the Duke of Coimbra in Portugal before asked for as much as 40 gold coins! No damage without contrast, 40 gold and 0.373 gold......

And Egyptian slaves are cheaper than black slaves, but they also cost more than ten or twenty gold coins each, which is much more expensive than the black slaves of the Songhai Empire.

What appealed to Marlin the most was the black slaves he bought from the Timbuktu market, which were also adapted to the harsh tropical desert climate. Because, Timbuktu itself is a city on the southern edge of the Sahara Desert!

In other words, the Songhai Empire slaves worth 0.373 gold coins purchased from Timbuktu can adapt to the climate of the desert in northern Chile just as well as Egyptian slaves, and they are dozens of times cheaper!

In addition, the black slaves of Timbuktu were adapted not only to the desert climate, but also to the tropical rainforest climate. Because, many black slaves in Timbuktu were taken by the Songhai Emperor ** team from the West African rainforest area south of Timbuktu!

Therefore, Marlin quickly adjusted the direction of buying black slaves. As for the Egyptian slaves, he changed his methods and trained them all into Mamluk cavalry to help him fight. The Egyptian slaves in the Chilean desert were also trained as overseers to supervise the black slaves of the Songhai Empire who would be transported to Chile in the future to dig saltpeter.

In this way, Marin was able to save a lot of troops to control Chile by sending officers. The Egyptians and blacks were of different races, and it was impossible for them to collude together to rebel. In this way, using the Egyptians to manage the blacks can also prevent the Chilean saltpeter mines from getting out of control.

Of course, Marin couldn't have traded only salt for the black slaves of Timbuktu. Because, if he ships too much salt, it may suppress the price of salt in Timbuktu, resulting in not enough gold. Therefore, Marin planned to use other goods and go to Timbuktu with salt to exchange slaves.

According to Mosingen, in the markets of Timbuktu, in addition to salt, sugar from North Africa is also expensive. Mosingen saw a bearded North African man exchange a small bag (about 5 pounds) of cane sugar for a strong black slave.

In other words, exchanging cane sugar for black slaves is also a way......

In the Timbuktu market, goods from North Africa were mainly salt, weapons, horses, copper, glassware, sugar, and North African handicrafts such as footwear and woollen fabrics, as well as European cloth. The merchants of the Songhai Empire, on the other hand, exported gold, slaves, ivory, spices, kolago, and cotton fabrics.

Among them, the slave trade actually ranked before the ivory trade, and was the second largest export category of "commodities" in the Songhai Empire. It is no wonder that the Arabs of North Africa had the bad habit of selling black slaves hundreds of years ago. If there is no demand, where will the supply be?

And the most cruel thing about the Arabs is that they castrated all the black slaves they bought...... castrated......

Many of the Kunlun slaves in the Tang Dynasty market were castrated black slaves brought by Arab merchants. All castrated......

If they hadn't been castrated, with the openness of women in the Tang Dynasty, maybe there would have been a scandal of giving birth to Xiao Hei in those wealthy families. But the Kunlun Nu of the Tang Dynasty did not leave Xiao Hei in the Central Plains. So, before they were sold, they were castrated by ruthless Arab slave traders......

Of course, Marin won't be so cruel. However, in order to control Uncle Black's powerful reproductive appetite, he would send the black slaves to Grenada first, where there was a special hospital for sterilization, and the Black Uncles would be sterilized and sterilized. In this way, it is not so cruel, and it also controls the black uncles' bathing hope very well......

In addition to his intention to exchange sugar for slaves, Marin also intends to exchange weapons for slaves. For example, the scimitar that the Arabs like to use, this thing is still very simple to produce in the Beihai ** factory.

There are also muskets, which can also be sold. However, what Marin intended to sell to the Songhai Empire was a copy of the Turks' Rumi Gun. Moreover, when trading, it will also be in the name of Egyptian merchants, not in the name of the North Sea State. Anyway, when the time comes, just find a few Egyptian slaves to pretend to be Egyptian merchants. The Arabic language used by the Egyptians was able to communicate directly with the merchants of the Songhai Empire. Because, the Songhai Empire is also a green country, and many people can speak Arabic.

It is also sad to say that Egypt, once the world's first ancient civilization, has not even been able to preserve its own language. After the Arab conquest, they all switched to Arabic. The once ancient and glorious civilization of ancient Egypt was destroyed by a group of turtles from the desert. Although Persia was also conquered by the Arab Empire, the Persian language was retained. Of course, the Persian language was also deeply influenced by the Arabic language, and even the alphabet became the Arabic alphabet.

Of course, the miserable Marin of Egyptian civilization did not care. Moreover, the Egyptians spoke Arabic, which saved Marin the trouble of hiring a translator. As long as the Egyptian slaves were taught German, they would have to go through the hassle of hiring a translator.

In the future, Marin planned to use the pseudo-Mamluk cavalry composed of thousands of Egyptians to open a trade route from Laayoune to the Songhai Empire, which was used to transport black slaves. After all, it took a lot of people to escort slaves. The slaves would then be boarded on ships in Laayoune and shipped to the Americas......