Spain operated on the island of Haiti for almost a decade and built several castles. When Christopher Columbus arrived, Haiti was the most populous island in the Caribbean, with a million people, more than Cuba.

However, a smallpox outbreak later occurred on the island of Haiti, which cost tens of thousands of people. But after years of childbirth, the population has returned to the millions.

Historically, the Spanish colonists brought smallpox several times, causing the Taíno people on the island to experience many terrible outbreaks of smallpox. By 1544, after several smallpox outbreaks, the island of Haiti, which had a population of one million, was deserted......

In desperation, Spain had no choice but to abandon the island of Haiti and develop the island of Cuba instead. After all, the development of colonies also requires labor.

Later, the British and French came to the island of Haiti, which had been abandoned by the Spaniards. But there was no one there, so they actively imported black slaves from Africa. By later generations, the island of Haiti had become a predominantly black island.

Now that the Spaniards have been scared away and replaced by Marin to run the island of Haiti, the situation is very different. The North Sea Kingdom, under Marin's rule, attached great importance to health issues.

It can be said that in today's Beihai country, there is almost no problem of defecation and defecation in the city. Moreover, Marin ordered that cats of other coat colors other than black cats be kept in the city to catch rats and reduce the possibility of plague outbreaks.

At the same time, the police of the North Sea Country are also tasked with smallpox warning. If a smallpox patient is identified, isolate immediately. In normal times, ports such as Emden Port in the North Sea Country will sprinkle some quicklime on the ground and docks from time to time to isolate the virus.

Marin even had a strict rule that foreign sailors were only allowed to be in the tavern on the dock, and were not allowed to go ashore. Want to go ashore? Yes, go to the bathhouse on the pier and wash it with hot water. At the same time, the clothes should also be boiled in a lime pond and then dried. After that, you can enter the city of Emden.

With such a strict entry and exit system, there have been almost no major epidemics in Beihai for so many years. Even if there have been cases of epidemics, they have basically been eliminated and isolated in the border areas.

At the same time, other European countries, because of their lack of attention to hygiene, often broke out of some large and small epidemics. Although the scale is not large, dead people are frequent.

However, other countries are not stupid. Although they did not pay as much attention to hygiene as the North Sea States, they learned how to isolate from the disease. For example, several countries around the North Sea country, as well as Austria and even France, have learned to isolate them. In this way, even if smallpox and plague appeared, most of them were contained in a certain area and did not spread.

Due to strict hygiene management, the possibility of the North Sea country's crew carrying the disease is low. Because, in every port, Marin would set up a hospital to prohibit the running of sick sailors.

As a result, the likelihood of the Taíno people on the island contracting smallpox several times is very low. With such a large population, it can also be used by Marin. The only trouble is that there are so many people, and it will become more troublesome to quarantine and check for syphilis infection.

After all, that's a million people! Even if there are 1 million pigs, it is very difficult to catch. However, fortunately, it is said that the people on the island are divided into five major tribes, and the population is relatively concentrated. They all live in large, densely populated villages, catch birds and fish, and cultivate them with stone axes and shovels, mainly cassava and sweet potatoes. The sweet potatoes that Columbus brought back to Europe were obtained from local villages.

Obviously, because of the cultivation of such an incomparably high-yield crop as sweet potatoes, the Taíno people have no shortage of food. After all, sweet potatoes are so high-yielding, even if the planting technology is poor, the yield per mu is hundreds or thousands of catties. As a result, the island's population has skyrocketed to millions of people.

The Indians in the North American jungle are different, they do not have such a domineering grain as sweet potatoes, only corn with a low yield per mu. Therefore, the population of the entire North American continent is not as large as that of the Tailen people on the island of Haiti.

No way, there is high-yield grain just like that! There are now only 250,000 people on the island of Ireland. But after the introduction of potatoes, the population skyrocketed to seven or eight million people. Of course, because of the potato blight, millions of people died at once.

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However, because of the habit of growing cassava and sweet potatoes, the Taíno people prefer to live in large villages. Moreover, they prefer to live in the plain areas along the coast along the river. After all, farming must be convenient in a plain near a river.

In this way, it gave Marin the convenience of using force against them. After all, it was much easier to surround a few villages on a plain full of farmland than to go into the mountains in search of pure wildlings.

Of course, Marin didn't want to embarrass them, but just wanted to eliminate the source of syphilis! The island of Haiti is the source of syphilis, and the private lives of the locals are certainly chaotic. Therefore, Marin needs to send someone to observe and isolate it well in order to eliminate syphilis. Without the plague of syphilis, the island of Haiti and its 1 million people would have the value of exploitation and utilization. Otherwise, it's a scary place.

Currently, the main cities on the island are several abandoned Spanish castles and ports, such as Santo Domingo, Santiago and Puerto Plata.

Of these, Santo Domingo is the most valuable. It was the first fortified city built by the Spaniards on the island to combine a fortress and a port, and the first colonial city in the Americas.

It was also the capital of the later Dominican Republic and was the most developed place on the island of Haiti. And, of course, it's important to note that there are gold mines nearby!

There is a gold mine near Santo Domingo, but it doesn't seem to be a big one, just a small gold mine. The local natives panned for gold in the nearby rivers to obtain golden sands, but the production was not large. Otherwise, the Spaniards would not have given up easily.

In fact, there are certainly gold mines on the island of Haiti, and not too little. The scale won't be huge, though. Marin vaguely remembers the introduction of the geography book he read in later generations, and it seems that the annual gold production of Dominica in the later generations was 400,000 ounces! That's more than 11 tons. The annual output of silver is as high as more than 2 million ounces, that is, more than 50 tons.

However, the information says that most of the gold and silver mines seem to be in the Rosario region......

However, Marin does not remember that there is a big city called Rosario in Dominica, but there is a Rosario in Argentina......

In fact, Marin didn't know that the Rosario district was located in the Azua region on the coast, not far west of Santo Domingo, and not far from the sea.

Of course, if the gold mines had been discovered earlier, the Spaniards would never have evacuated the island. At the very least, we'll have to finish mining that Rosario gold mine before we leave. And the gold mines near Santo Domingo were reluctant to give up because of the small production.

As long as the legendary gold and silver mines are found, the cost of Marin's occupation of the island of Haiti will be recovered, and it will be very profitable. Of course, growing tobacco is definitely not a loss.

Moreover, there seem to be copper and nickel mines on the island, and the scale of nickel mines seems to be quite small. In later generations, the island of Cuba produced millions of tons of nickel ore per year, and Dominica also produced tens of thousands of tons of nickel ore per year.

In addition, the island is rich in bauxite. Of course, bauxite is useless for the time being. Because bauxite cannot be smelted by ordinary methods, it must be reduced by electrolysis. Moreover, it has to be in the cryolite environment. It's no problem to get electricity, but cryolite is said to be synthetic...... Well, Marin doesn't understand......