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In the blink of an eye, it has been a month since Hong Tao arrived at Tu's tribe, and the day of his return is getting closer and closer, and he has to do something serious in addition to the important matter of creating a divine cult. You can't just rely on demagoguery, this thing is like bragging, you can't always brag about not coming up with something real, and sooner or later it will blow the cowhide out. If you want to really gain a foothold on the American continent, in addition to the human heart, there is one thing that is indispensable, and that is technology.

In addition to dozens of slave soldiers and a batch of weapons, Hong Tao's battleship also had more than a dozen craftsmen from Jinhe City, most of whom were young people like Charity, Kindness, and Bush. They have unlimited enthusiasm for entrepreneurship, and they always want to break free from the shackles of their masters and spread their wings on their own, which is also the main factor that Hong Tao can trick them into coming to the Americas.

Now a small shipyard is piling up the river, and in a few months, the construction of the first American Exocet-class whaling ship can begin under kind guidance. There is no shortage of wood here, and it is too late to dry in the shade, so you can only use manual drying to make do. I don't expect the ship to last for many years, it is just a test case, and the construction process can allow those young Indians to get acquainted with the working mode of craftsmen, and pave the way for further improvement.

The refractory bricks used to build the open-hearth have also found suitable soil, and Charity is leading people to build a brick kiln to the east of the village. But even if the open-hearth is built now, there will be no ore to smelt. The tribe of the figure has no idea what iron ore and copper ore look like, although the Mayan civilization is not backward and can smelt metal, but they can only play with gold and silver, and have never touched copper and iron.

There is no ore. There was no source of raw materials, and Bush, the future American chemical giant, had nothing to do but huddle in a cabin all day and conduct chemical synthesis experiments in small doses with sulfuric acid, soda ash and other finished products brought by the warships. But he also has another job, which is to ferment corn to make wine. Due to the severe shortage of artisans, sake brewing was also relegated to the chemical industry. After all, distilling alcohol from high-grade liquor is also considered a chemical category.

These are all God's favors to his people, but they are not known to mortals, and now I let you know them as they are. Your job is to inquire about the tribes, look for these stones, and then bring the results back to me. "Without ore, coal, and oil, Hong Tao would not be able to maintain enough force in the Americas, and this problem must be solved.

He had already considered this problem before he came, so the battleship held not only had iron tools, weapons, mixed oil, and gas lamps, but also several boxes of ore and oil specimens, as long as Jinhe City had them. He brought some samples. Distribute these samples to the warriors of the Tu tribe, and they will scatter to the nearby known tribes to inquire, and they should always find some traces.

Mexico is a big mining country, from oil and gas to coal, iron and copper, and non-ferrous metal reserves are also abundant, of which silver reserves are the second in the world; The world's third largest reserves of copper and graphite; Sulfur and barite reserves rank sixth in the world; The reserves of non-ferrous metals such as lead, zinc and manganese are also among the top ten in the world.

This is mainly due to the fact that it is a mountainous plateau and the country with the most active volcanoes in the world. Where there are volcanoes, there is no shortage of minerals. This is a law summed up by Hong Tao, regardless of whether geologists admit it or not. That's what he thinks anyway.

Half a month later, the first wave of returning Tu warriors had a harvest, and they found two identical ores from the tribes in the north, one was silver and the other was barite. Hong Tao was very happy on the surface and rewarded these fighters, but he was relieved and helpless in his heart.

Thankfully, the ore was not buried very deeply, according to the Tu warriors. It's easy to mine, and the local tribes don't take these things as good things, and they don't even know what barite is for. Unfortunately, these two ores are not the most needed in the tribe at present, and silver mining can only refine silver, and now the Indians have not yet entered the age of money. They are more accustomed to exchanging goods with each other. Barite, on the other hand, is an important source of barium sulfate, which is mainly used in glass production and is not currently used.

These two deposits are more than 30 kilometers away from the tribe of the map, and the middle is all jungle, and the transportation is not very convenient.

Soon, the first real good news came, and the Tu warriors, who had explored westward along the river, found two other ores in a village upstream, one in lead and zinc and one in coal. Compared to the white silver and the shiny barite, these two black things made Hong Tao more happy, at least they were useful, and they couldn't make bullets out of silver, it was too extravagant.

Over the next month, samples of tin, manganese, mercury, trona, sulphur and fluorite were sent back, as well as a small amount of sand, but copper, iron ore and oil were never found. However, Hong Tao is not in a hurry, prospecting is a slow job, and more than a month is obviously not enough, so take your time. Minerals don't have long legs and won't run, as long as there are these ore samples that gradually spread out with the expansion of the Tu people's sphere of influence, they will be found sooner or later.

Although no iron ore and copper ore were found, this large-scale net also gave Hong Tao a wake-up call. The upper reaches of the river, the western mountains, seem to be a place rich in minerals, and many mineral deposits are found in this direction. This also points to the direction of future development, just follow the river to the west, maybe there will be more gains.

So just before Hong Tao returned, Swann took more than 70 Indian soldiers he had trained, wearing leather armor, carrying steel spears and crossbows, and boarded the battleship together. He had to fulfill the promise he had made to Hong Tao, commanding these recruits to fight a winning battle and see Hong Tao off.

Speaking of these recruits, Hong Tao's eyelids twitched, now he knew how the Mamluks trained slave soldiers, the methods were very simple and effective, but they were very cruel. This was done by completely isolating the slaves from the outside world, in a cave in the ground, where they were not allowed to communicate with the outside world. Only one meal a day is given, and every five days it is put out for cleaning activities, and then locked in again until the person has a nervous breakdown.

The first time Hong Tao visited Swan's training camp on the west side of the wall, he almost didn't shoot Swan. He didn't blame Swann for being too cruel in his torture methods, but he suspected that the child was also a time-traveler, and the punishment of posterity had been used hundreds of years ago.

After more than a month of torture, more than 30 of the 100 Indian slaves became mentally ill, and not only could they no longer serve as soldiers, but they also had obstacles in farming at home. Seven of them simply became madmen and ran into the jungle and disappeared, alive and dead. The remaining sixty or so people are barely crazy, but they never dare to stay alone anymore, and they always like a few people crammed into a tent, and there are endless words.

When a person is extremely afraid of one thing, using it as a condition of punishment and letting them learn another thing will increase exponentially. We usually say a sentence: force you with a gun and you will be! That's the truth, people sometimes need to be forced to take a step, and forcing each other to death is the lowest, which can make life not as high-end as death.

According to Swan, this was just a rudimentary way for the Mamluks to train new slaves, just to make the new slaves forget their previous identity, status, and illusions, and recognize their own situation, not to train soldiers.

After breaking people's spirits, send those who can still hold out to the gladiatorial arena, give them the simplest weapons, and let them kill each other. The victor can stay outside the cave, and the loser will be locked up alone in the cave or simply die in the gladiatorial arena.

Through this selection, when the mortality rate reaches more than 50 percent, they can begin to be trained in physical, weapon, horsemanship, and tactics. Due to racial problems and natural physical fitness, this whole set of procedures has gone down, and in the end, less than 20% of the Mamluk soldiers can become Mamluk soldiers, which is why the number of real Mamluk cavalry is always not large, and elite soldiers mean that the number is small.

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