For some reason, there is much more precious wood in the tropics than in temperate regions. Probably, there are no cold winters in the tropics, and trees are suitable for growth all year round, so that trees can grow better.

Marin suddenly remembered - it seems that Grenada and Panama are also tropical rainforest areas, and some of them are wood. Among them, there must be a lot of precious wood, right?

However, now that he is short of manpower, he can only wait for these Cuban shipbuilders to bring a few apprentices to Grenada and Panama to identify precious wood. However, the Panamanian rainforest has too many poisonous insects and mosquitoes, which is more dangerous. On the other hand, Grenada Island is a safe tropical island with no poisonous mosquitoes, insects, or predators.

After arranging the collection of precious timber, Marin left Moa with four ships and headed north, along the east coast of North America, first arriving in Savannah, which belongs to the subtropical region.

Kovok arrived with a few hundred Cossacks to meet Marin and invited him into the newly built city of Savannah. Marin then listened to a debriefing from Cowalk.

By listening to Kowalk's report, Marin learned that in the past two years, with the arrival of 500 Cossacks, the Cossacks in the Savannah region have laid down a large territory in addition to the Savannah steppe. According to Cowalk's estimates, the area under the control of the Savannah colony may now be six or seven thousand square kilometers.

However, because the Savannah steppe is surrounded by dense primeval forests, it is not conducive to the play of the Cossack cavalry. As a result, they now only control a few thousand square kilometers of land. If it were all grasslands, more than two years would be enough to lay tens of thousands of square kilometers.

In the past two years, Cowalker and thousands of immigrants have worked hard to cut down trees, and it has only been more than 1,000 square kilometers of open land that can be used to grow various crops, as well as the oil tung, sumac and moso bamboo, as well as Mexican upland cotton. Of course, the rice and winter wheat that Daming got over there are indispensable.

Marin went to inspect the cultivation bases of tung oil, sumac and moso bamboo. Tung oil and sumac are still growing, and it is not clear whether they are good or bad at present. After all, it takes several years for both trees to mature and produce steadily. Moso bamboo, on the other hand, grows very quickly, and after the rain in spring, it grows very quickly, producing a lot of new bamboo shoots. Now, outside Savannah, there are large bamboo forests, but these bamboos are very short. But Marin knew that Mao Zhu was "preparing for action". When the time is ripe, the bamboo will suddenly rise tall and quickly become a tall plant.

Marin was very happy, but he did not forget to urge Kowalk, and ordered him to send someone to carefully transplant the young plants of Moso bamboo to other places, and let it expand everywhere, and strive for as many as possible.

In addition to moso bamboo, Cowalker also reported on agriculture in Savannah. It's just that Savannah's agriculture is a bit off-the-beaten-path. For example, the rice brought from the Ming Dynasty was not well grown in Savannah.

It's not that Savannah is unsuitable for rice cultivation, it's that the thousands of white immigrants here are not used to growing rice, especially the paddy fields barefoot.

So, in desperation, Cowalker simply planted two crops of wheat in Savannah—one winter wheat and one spring wheat—and matched the wheat......

But this does not affect the cultivation of upland cotton in Mexico, after all, cotton is not grown in paddy fields, and those European immigrants are still used to it.

Marin came to the warehouse and saw that there was a lot of wheat and cotton piled up in the warehouse. However, because Marin was absent for the past two years, the Savannah colony did not know what to do with the wheat and cotton. After all, Marin once said that grain should not be sold casually.

Seeing the wheat in the warehouse, Marin didn't care. But Marin was happy to see the cotton. It just so happened that Marin brought several cotton spinning wheels from Songjiang Prefecture that were said to have been invented by Huang Daopo, and there was a family of craftsmen who knew how to build spinning wheels. So, Marin asked the craftsman to take the spinning wheel and began to teach the local women to use Huang Daopo's spinning wheel to start spinning and weaving. In addition, this craftsman also knows how to play cotton to make quilts.

Excited, Marin asked the craftsman to use a bow to help him play a few quilts, and he also made a few high-imitation military coats in a similar way to making quilts. Of course, not a green labor protection army coat, but an ordinary gray cloth army coat. After all, green dye is also very expensive in this era, and it is better to make the most ordinary gray cloth. And the dirtiness of the white cloth can be seen clearly, or the gray gray cloth army coat looks better.

When playing cotton, the craftsman Lao Song couldn't help but sigh - the cotton wool produced here is very long, and it is soft and smooth, it belongs to the top cotton, and he has never seen such high-quality cotton.

Ma Linxin said, isn't it? This is authentic Mexican upland cotton, much better than the Asian cotton grown by Daming now. In the future, Huaxia will basically plant upland cotton when planting cotton. As for the longer staple cotton (that is, island cotton), which is of higher quality, it is difficult to popularize because of the high requirements of the growing environment.

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Seeing that Savannah was developing well, Marin didn't say anything more, and left the craftsman Lao Song behind, who was responsible for instructing the local women to learn how to use the Zodiac spinning wheel and building a new cotton spinning wheel.

But Marin was a little unhappy with Kowalk's practice of planting two crops of wheat. As a result, Marin asked Kowalker to stick to the winter wheat. However, in the summer, soybeans or peanuts are planted to get enough vegetable oil.

After all, it is not enough for people to eat rice and noodles, they also need a lot of oil and water. The reason why ancient people loved big fat meat was because of the lack of oil and water. So, you can get a lot of soybean oil or peanut oil by using it in the summer to grow soybeans or peanuts. Moreover, planting soybeans can fix nitrogen and nurture the land, making the land more fertile when growing winter wheat.

To this end, Cowalker sent a special Savannah ship to follow Marin's fleet north to New York to obtain soybean seeds. After all, only two places in Marin are soybeans, New York and Cuba. But the Cuban side of the cultivation is very small, and if you want enough seeds, you still come to New York.

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In New York, Marin is also happy about the development here. New York's specialties are wheat and soybeans, needless to say. And Albert, because he loves to eat apples, actually brought a lot of apple seeds from the mainland and planted them in New York.

Seeing the patches of apple saplings, Marin shook his head. Truth be told, apples are a good thing. Moreover, the area around New York in later generations was indeed an apple producing area. But the problem is that in this era, there is no advanced refrigeration technology, and apples grow and can only be sold locally, and cannot be transported to other places for sale over long distances. Because, after being transported far away, the apple is broken......

"Or, you can make apple cider vinegar...... Canned apples aren't bad......" Marin thought.

At the new shipyard on Long Island, New York, Marin asked the ships that were carrying tung oil and lacquer to move large vasks of tung oil and lacquer, as well as copper nails, to facilitate the shipyard's shipbuilding. Moreover, on the formation of warships that are circumnavigating South America, there is also a large amount of tung oil and lacquer. With these tung oil and lacquer, the new shipyard on Long Island, New York, can burst ships......

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After a tour of New York, Marin left New York with the fleet and made a short stop at Cape Breton Island. Subsequently, Marin began to cross the Atlantic with four 250 armed merchant ships and returned to the mainland.

However, Marin did not make a big splash and chose to secretly return to his homeland. The reason for this is that Marin is supposed to have returned with Columbus Jr.'s fleet, and it is reasonable that he has not yet arrived in Europe, and his early appearance will arouse suspicion. Therefore, he needs to protect the existence of the Pacific route and cannot show his face for the time being; Second, Marin wants to take the opportunity to do something......

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