In fact, this good thing was not just a pair, but a triumph of joy - Tara's messenger brought back not only the good news of obtaining the sisal seeds, but also the good news that the fleet sent by Marin to Savannah had established himself on Taibi Island. It is said that the local Indians were relatively friendly to them.

At the beginning of the year, Marin sent five ships to find and occupy the Savannah region. Following Marin's instructions, the leader of this fleet, Coward, led the fleet and soon arrived in the Americas. After replenishing the island of Amerigo with fresh water and food, Cowalker continued his fleet south in search of the fabled Savannah and Tybee Island at the mouth of the Savannah River.

After two or three months of searching, in May, they finally found Tybbi Island at the mouth of the Savannah River. Then, Cowalker carefully built a dock and built houses on the small island of Tabbi, where the mouth of the river is small......

Because Taibi Island is separated from the mainland, there are no Indians here. So, after a period of operation, a small dock base was built here.

However, Marin had been instructed not to build a permanent structure on Taibi Island. So, the buildings on Taibi Island have no stone buildings, only temporary wooden buildings.

The reason for this was that Marin intended to start building the city directly on the site of what would become Savannah. After all, Savannah City's location is an excellent inland deep-water port and easy to navigate. In addition, Taibi Island is by the sea, which is easy to be seen by adventurers from other countries.

America is so big, Marin doesn't believe that other countries are not moved. Moreover, this era is the era of Italian navigators. Whether it was Columbus or America, or John Brown, who had worked for Henry VII and was now imprisoned on Cape Breton Island. Capote, are famous navigators produced in Italy. Columbus was the discoverer of America, while Amerigo and John. Capote, both Italian navigators who went on expeditions to the Americas. So, in this era, there are too many Italian navigators who like to explore the New World.

Marin feared that the base by the sea would be discovered by unknown Italian navigators, and if it was discovered, they would land and take a look, and the true situation in the Americas would be exposed.

So, Marin's instructions were to abandon this temporary stronghold on Tybbi Island as soon as he gained a foothold in Savannah. Moreover, all the houses should be torn down and taken away, leaving no traces to avoid being discovered by savage navigators passing by the local coast......

Marin's fears were very justified, for example, in Tara, Havana, Cuba, after sending someone to Mexico to trade sisal seeds, he sent a ship back to Europe to report the good news. As the ship passed along the coast near Savannah, it saw the temporary harbor on Tybee Island at a glance......

Tara's ship then docked to resupply and help Kowalker bring the good news back to his homeland......

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After Marin got the sisal seeds, he observed them - it was a sisal seed, yes, the classic triangular black melon seed shape. The sisal itself has leaves that resemble the body of a sword, and even the seeds are very angular. One of the units where Marin worked in his previous life was on the edge of a botanical garden. Sometimes, after lunch, Marin will also go for a walk in the botanical garden to eat, and by the way, he will see all kinds of strange plants. For example, this sisal, Marin saw the girls in the botanical garden plant it. At that time, Marin was still pestering the girl in the botanical garden to talk for a while, and watched the girl plant the sisal seeds in the shape of a black triangle into the culture medium. After planting the sisal, the girl smiled and told Marin that I was already married......

Marin was hurt that time, but also remembered the shape of the sisal seed - the black triangle......

So, this time Tara sent someone to Mexico to trade sisal seeds. Since there is nothing wrong with it, the next step is to promote planting.

As for the place of planting, Marin has long thought about it - Cuba......

In his previous life, Marin remembered that the Philippines was an important sisal producing area in the world, and the famous Canterlot sisal was also cultivated. Cuba and the Philippines share the same latitude and similar climate, which is naturally suitable for sisal cultivation.

However, Marin remembers that sisal does not seem to be tolerant to waterlogging, that is, water-immersion, so although sisal prefers heat and humidity, it cannot be grown in low-lying areas. Therefore, sisal is half planted in the highlands of the tropics to avoid sisal being soaked in standing water.

Although the Cuban region is flat, it also has a lot of hilly areas. Marin's plan is to grow crops such as sugar cane and rice on flat land. As for the hills, sisal and tea are cultivated.

In addition to the Havana region occupied by Tara, Marin also intended to send people to cultivate sisal in the Moa region controlled by Wiltz. This is because the Moa region is one of the few mountainous areas in Cuba, and there are more slopes there. Although there is some pollution in the area due to the mining of nickel sulfide in the laterite nickel ore, Marin has long moved the nickel sulfide processing site to the island of Great Inagua, and the local pollution is not too heavy now. Besides, sisal is a use item, not a food, and does not require such high health requirements.

Marlin was now in dire need of large quantities of sisal rope for steering wheels, as well as for large areas of sails of super-strength (for top-edge diagonal truss). Therefore, the cultivation of sisal cannot be delayed.

It's just that Marin remembers the content of the chat with the married girl in his previous life. The girl said that after the sisal is planted, it will grow for 2 to 2 and a half years, and there will be about 90 to 100 sword leaves before it can be cut. Moreover, if you choose to harvest in dry weather, you should keep half of the sword leaves each time......

In other words, even if you plant sisal now, you will have to wait more than two years before you can harvest it......

"It's so depressing...... It's going to take that long...... So, let's make do with linen rope now......" Marin said with some frustration.

Fortunately, Leonardo da Vinci came up with a way to replace the part that is easy to be corroded by seawater with a rope made of copper wire drawn from navy copper, so that the problem of seawater corrosion of linen rope can be solved. Otherwise, every time you sail, you have to save a lot of rope for replacement.

Of course, even if this problem is solved, it will definitely be far less resistant than sisal in terms of the wear resistance of linen rope. Therefore, every time you sail, you still have to prepare a lot of spare linen rope. Moreover, the naval shelling has to break a lot of linen ropes every time......

In a reply to Tara, Marin ordered to quickly open up sisal plantations on a large scale, planting as many seeds as possible. As for sisal seeds, Marinte approved Tara to exchange locally grown cane sugar for more sisal seeds with Mexicans. Of course, it seems that you can also exchange sisal fibers with them......

Thinking of this, Marin became excited and emphasized in the letter that he must send someone to Mexico to buy the sword leaves of sisal, and it is okay if the price is high, and he will buy it together with the sisal seeds. After getting the sword leaves, Marin would send some veteran rope makers to Cuba to extract the fibers from the sword leaves and weave them into sisal ropes. Such high-strength ropes are intended to be used in a limited number of steering wheel systems. After all, during the voyage, the steering wheel cannot easily go wrong, otherwise the ship will not steer well and encounter a reef will be miserable......

After writing his reply, Marin urged the messenger sent back by Tara:

"Hurry up and go back to Cuba with this reply and these sisal seeds! Tell Tara to plant these seeds as soon as possible! The sooner the better! "Cuba is a tropical region that can be planted and harvested all year round, regardless of the time of year......