Gold was the standard hard currency in this era, because it could be minted into gold coins and circulated around the world. Just like the 70 pounds of gold sand that Mosingen returned can be minted into 8,918 gold coins. A little more, you'll be able to mint 10,000 gold coins.

And according to Mosingen, in the Timbuktu market, as long as there is enough salt, you can easily get back thousands of pounds of golden sand......

Thousands of pounds of sand! That's a few tons of gold! Marin was thrilled, this was something at his fingertips. After all, his Cape Breton Island boiling salt base, getting salt is too simple. As long as there is coal, just boil salt. Moreover, Marin can also expand the scale of boiling salt at any time in Newcastle. Salt or something, Marlin has the most in his hands.

Not only that, but Laayoune can cook salt locally!

Although there is no coal to boil salt in Laayoune, you can use a solar stove! In Laayoune, it basically does not rain, the sun is extremely abundant, and the temperature is also high. As long as you set up a solar stove by the sea, you can boil salt casually. In addition, with the addition of a condenser tube system, it is possible to produce distilled water while boiling salt. When the time comes, salt and fresh water will kill two birds with one stone.

The only problem was the fear that if the shipment was too large, it would offend the Arab merchants in North Africa. If the Arab bearded men were angry, they would have hacked Laayoune's camel caravan with their scimitars. After all, exchanging salt for gold has always been a taboo for bearded North Africans. Last time, Mosingen only traded 100 pounds of sands, which is not remarkable. Bringing a few thousand pounds of salt in exchange for a few thousand pounds of golden sand would surely anger the bearded men of North Africa.

When the time comes, for the sake of gold, both sides will definitely not die......

If it were to fight in person, the North Sea State could abuse those North African beards 10,000 times. But the problem is that if the other party cuts someone, it will definitely be in the desert. And most of the soldiers of the North Sea Country must not be able to endure the harsh climate of the Sahara Desert.

After thinking about it, Marin decided - to spend money to buy Mamluk battle slaves from Egypt!

Of course, what Marin wanted to buy was not the authentic Circassian Mamluk slave cavalry, which was the cornerstone of the Mamluk dynasty and could not be sold.

What Marin wanted to buy was only the native Egyptian slaves trained by the nobles of the Egyptian Mamluk Dynasty in the training method of the Mamluk cavalry.

At present, because the supply of Circassian slaves has been cut off for more than forty years, there are very few authentic Mamluks in Egypt itself, only the descendants of Mamluk slaves, or pseudo-Mamluk slaves selected and cultivated among local slaves.

However, the descendants of the Mamluk cavalry may not have been as brave as their fathers. The main reason is that the real Mamluk cavalry is extremely brutally trained and has a high elimination rate. Just like the killer training camp in later generations, being eliminated means death. And the Mamluk cavalry, who held out from the pile of the dead, were all top masters of cavalry warfare.

But the training of the Mamluk nobles for their children was certainly not so cruel. At least, it will not put the lives of their own children in danger. But this kind of training, which is not threatened with death, is actually not up to standard, and the real combat effectiveness is not as good as that of the genuine Mamluks. In particular, in the face of death, it is possible to collapse. And the real Mamluks, accustomed to life and death, have long been indifferent to this.

But even so, when the "Battle of Dabik Steppe" broke out in 1517, the cavalry of the two sides faced off, and the Egyptian pseudo-Mamluk cavalry beat the Turkish cavalry to the point that they could not take care of themselves. Had it not been for the guns of the Turks and the collapse of Egypt's local forces in Syria, Egypt might have won the war.

Therefore, in the Middle East cavalry, the combat effectiveness of the Mamluk cavalry is definitely in the front, even if it is a pseudo-Mamluk that has not experienced life and death elimination.

Marin planned to buy pseudo-Mamluk slaves from Egypt who had been trained by thousands of local Egyptian slaves, and then make them the guards of the camel caravan. If there is a bearded North African man who dares to cut people, let these pseudo-Mamluk cavalry take action, and let those North African merchant guards taste what is the strongest scimitar cavalry......

In fact, these brutally trained Mamluk cavalry, with their individual horse combat capabilities, are estimated to be world-leading. Even Napoleon said - "2 Mamluk cavalry can surely win 3 French cavalry; 100 French cavalry and 100 Mamluk cavalry were evenly matched; Most of the 300 French cavalry were able to defeat 300 Mamluk cavalry; 1000 French cavalry can always defeat 1500 Mamluk cavalry"......

This shows that the individual combat effectiveness of the Mamluk cavalry is super strong, and even the top Nakh cavalry in Europe cannot fight it alone. However, the discipline of the Mamluk cavalry was inferior to that of the modern cavalry of France, and as soon as the number was large, the disadvantage became apparent. Moreover, at that time, Europe already had a wall charge that specialized in restraining the scimitar cavalry. Therefore, if the emperor talks about the scale, he will definitely be able to defeat the Mamluk cavalry.

However, without modern cavalry and wall charges, the Egyptian Mamluk cavalry was probably the best of the classical cavalry.

Marin plans to introduce some shoddy versions of the pseudo-Mamluk cavalry trained by Egyptian slaves this time, in addition to protecting the camel caravan of the gold trade, and also intends to steal the Mamluk training methods.

If the German Cossacks also used the training method of the Mamluk cavalry in the future, even if it was a fake and inferior version of the training method of the undead, it would be possible to raise the combat effectiveness of the German Cossacks to a higher level.

Moreover, the German Cossacks had good discipline. Once they are trained, their strong individual fighting ability, coupled with the modern training and tactics of the Beihai Kingdom, will definitely be able to dominate the world.

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Marin suddenly remembered something, he took out a map of Africa and began to recall it carefully. Then, he finally remembered - it seems that the trade route in the desert taken by Mosingen is the route taken by the Saad dynasty of Morocco to destroy the Songhai Empire 76 years later!

It seems that the Saad Dynasty of Morocco only dispatched 4,000 mercenaries to Timbuktu along the desert trade route south, and defeated the 30,000 troops of the Songhai Empire (claimed, only 10,000 people).

Moreover, of the 4,000-strong expeditionary force, 2,500 were European musketeers from Spain. They were all mercenaries, and in particular, the command of the 4,000 men was a Spanish eunuch named Judal. The tactics they used were also Spanish phalanxes......

It is said that at that time, the Sultan of Songhai, Ishak II, was in a dizzy mind during the "Battle of Tongdibi", and actually drove 1,000 cattle to the front of the two sides, intending to use them to block the enemy's guns.

However, Ishak II probably had never heard of the "Fire Bull Formation". As a result, under the blows of the 1,000 cowboy Spanish 2,500 musketeers, not only did they fail to block the firepower, but they turned around in fright and impacted the military formation of the Songhai Empire, and disrupted the formation of the Songhai Empire's army......

Marin calculated, his army also used the Spanish phalanx. Therefore, the same four or five thousand people can destroy the Songhai Empire.

However, the harsh climate of the tropical deserts of West Africa may be the biggest obstacle. After all, native Europeans may have a hard time adapting to the tropical desert climate of West Africa.

But if you buy pseudo-Mamluk slaves from Egypt, those pseudo-Mamluk slaves from Egypt will definitely be able to adapt to the tropical desert climate. Because, Egypt itself is also a tropical desert climate, and they are used to it.

In addition to this, Marin would also buy a batch of ordinary Egyptian slaves. For this group, Marin would send officers and train them to be musketeers and spearmen. When the time comes, maybe they will be used to attack Timbuktu......

The price of Mamluk slaves in Egypt was also very high, with each slave costing more than 100 gold coins. After all, this is a combat cavalry trained from childhood to adulthood. If you buy 1,000 of them, you will need 100,000 gold coins. Marin thought about it again and again, and planned to buy 500 Egyptian Mamluk battle slaves to form a Mamluk cavalry regiment.

As for ordinary Egyptian slaves, it was cheaper, and some could be bought for 10 gold coins. It's not a lot of money to buy a few thousand......

In this way, in Marin's thoughts, the "Egyptian Legion" that later crisscrossed Africa was born......