The Rise of the European Emperor

Laayoune, Western Sahara, North Africa, is responsible for managing the local small Quincy is counting the first batch of apatite production, and intends to ship back to Emden.

Little Quincy is the grandson of old Quincy, the gatekeeper of Hoffman Manor, who is only 23 years old this year. The Quincy family is the squire family of the Hoffman family, whose ancestors were serfs, until the old Quincy began to become the squire of the Hoffman family. Old Quincy has no brains and average strength, ranking last among Old Hoffman's attendants. However, the victory lies in loyalty. Therefore, old Quincy has been serving as the gatekeeper of Hoffman Manor, guarding the safety of the manor.

Later, when Marin became the Baron of Texel, the old Quincy sent his eldest grandson, Quincy, to Texel Island and arranged it under Kohler to learn arithmetic and culture. He was one of Kohler's disciples, after Draka. .

In the previous two years, Quincy returned to the coal mine of Hoffman Manor and managed the coal mine for a period of time, responsible for the statistics of production and the safety management of the coal mine.

When Marin took Layoune, he thought of Quincy Jr. In fact, Marin won Laayoune and was not interested in anything else, only the apatite mine in the south of Laayoune. As long as the apatite ore is mined, Marin doesn't need to spend too much manpower to collect fishmeal and fish bones. Moreover, the phosphorus content of apatite ore is also higher than that of fish meal and fish bones.

Because he had managed coal mines for two years and had experience, Marin handed over Layoune's affairs to Little Quincy to manage. In this way, little Quincy was lucky enough to become the governor of Laayoune.

After arriving in Laayoune, little Quincy immediately followed Marin's instructions and first built the Laayoune pier suitable for berthing large ships, and then built the fort to strengthen the castle. Not only that, Little Quincy also built a big yard. Every night, the people of the Laayoun tribe were driven into this yard to rest, and the door of the compound was locked to prevent them from running away.

Before the big yard was built, more than a dozen young men had already fled at night. After the big yard is built, the people of the Ayoun tribe will no longer be able to run around.

When the castle, fort, dock and compound were built, Little Quincy finally began to explore the apatite mine...

He took a group of men, rode camels, and after carrying a large amount of food and water, he headed south at Laayoune pier and began a journey to find apatite.

Of course, Marin gave a way to identify them - one is a blue-gray stone; the other is to burn it on a fire, it will emit a green light...

In fact, Marin's first identification method is no different from saying nothing. Because most of the stones are blue-gray...

In desperation, little Quincy brought firewood, looking for stones to burn everywhere, observing the color...

After more than a month of burning stones, Little Quincy finally discovered an apatite mine not far from the south of Laayoune Oasis Lake, with abundant reserves. Little Quincy can't estimate how many, but it is estimated that there are hundreds of millions of tons.

Then, it's time to mine. To this end, Little Quincy sent people back to China and applied for a ship specially designed to run the Laayoune route to transport ore. Then, I applied for another fund, traded with the Saads, and bought black slaves...

Yes, buy black slaves. Moroccans also traded black slaves. They had a trade route to the Mali Empire and Songhai Empire in West Africa in the Sahara Desert.

This route is connected by several desert oases. Between the oasis, traffic is also through camels. Moroccan merchants first crossed the Atlas Mountains and entered the Algeria region eastward. Then, through the oasis in the desert south of the Algeria region, they went all the way south, bringing salt and other commodities in short supply in West Africa to the most prosperous Marin region. The city of Timbuktu (Timbuktu), in this city, trade with the locals.

The climate in West Africa is hot all year round, and food preservation is not easy. Therefore, table salt was very popular in both the Mali Empire and the Songhai Empire. And, whether it was the Marin Empire, or the Songhai Empire that now replaced the Mali Empire's hegemony and controlled Timbuktu, the center of West Africa's trade,

There is a great demand for salt.

However, black West Africans do not know how to make salt, and they produce less salt, and they mostly pick it up from the sea. As a result, this has brought huge business opportunities to Arab businessmen from North Africa.

North African Arab and Berber merchants drove flocks of camels and dragged bags of salt to Timbuktu to trade with the Mali Empire and now the Songhai Empire.

In the West African Empire, salt was an important currency alongside gold. Whether it is the Mali Empire or the Songhai Empire, their small commodity transactions use agate shells as currency. For bulk commodity transactions, gold and salt, as well as copper coins brought by the Arabs, were used as currencies.

Strange to say the two empires of West Africa, where gold reserves are very rich. Through the gold rush, the Mali Empire and the Songhai Empire gained a lot of sand. Then, the merchants of the two empires used these golden sands and merchants from North Africa to exchange salt, iron weapons (West Africa did not produce iron at this time), horses, copper, glassware sold from Europe, and North Africa. Handicrafts (including woolen fabrics), etc...

The commodities traded by West Africans to North African merchants are mainly gold, ivory, spices, cotton fabrics, and... black slaves...

The West African Empire was in fact still in the era of slavery empires. Therefore, here, science and technology are not yet developed, and the slave trade is also very prosperous. Through inter-tribal conflicts, the West Africans used captured prisoners of war as black slaves and sold them in Timbuktu, the West African trade center, to Arab merchants in exchange for salt, weapons, horses and other materials that were in short supply locally.

In fact, the African slave trade was not initiated by the Europeans, but by the local chiefs. Those poor chiefs, without gold or silver, exchanged goods with Europeans who came to trade. So, they used their crooked brains - arresting blacks from other tribes as slaves and selling them to Europeans...

Later, European colonists discovered that it was very profitable to sell blacks to American plantations as slaves. As a result, they raised the price and went into battle to destroy villages and capture black slaves themselves, which caused suffering in Africa.

Before Europeans sold black slaves, Arabs had been selling black slaves for hundreds of years. Also, what the Arabs do is cruel. They prevented the bought black slaves from fornicating with their wives and concubines, so they simply castrated the bought black slaves first. In this way, it is also safe to put it in the inner house...

After Little Quincy came to Laayoun, he also dealt with the merchants of the Saad tribe and heard about black slaves. It is said that these black slaves are obedient and honest, and have great strength, suitable for work. Therefore, little Quincy planned to use black slaves to mine.

As for why not use the local Laayoun tribe to mine? Mainly, Quincy was worried that these locals would take advantage of the mining opportunity to escape. After all, the mine terrain is complex and not easy to track. Moreover, Marin also intends to raise Arabian horses and Merino sheep locally, and they also need their help in grazing. Therefore, it is better to buy some black slaves from the merchants in Morocco to mine.

In fact, it does not mean that African slaves are obedient and honest. In fact, black people's yearning for freedom is very strong. It's just that those black people who yearn for freedom have long been killed or maimed by slave owners. Therefore, the remaining black slaves, of course, are honest and obedient. They all saw the tragic end of those who resisted.

More importantly, the Arab slave traders castrated the black slaves inhumanely. Therefore, those black people lack the secretion of male hormones, so they are naturally depressed and have no desires or desires. Aggressive people generally have strong male hormones in their bodies. They either like to fight or they like to find women. However, the black slaves sold by these Arabs were castrated, and there was nothing to excite them. So, they are so honest...

The development of apatite mines in Little Quincy naturally requires honest and hard-working slaves. Therefore, it is the first choice to buy black slaves who have no desires and no desires and are more obedient.

However, when little Quincy took the gold coins to buy slaves with the Saad people, the Saad chief Abu Abdullah Qaim refused to accept the gold coins. Because, they need iron more...

The Saad tribe is an ambitious tribe who think of a rebellion against the Wattas dynasty that now controls Morocco. Therefore, they need a lot of weapons.

However, Morocco does not currently produce iron, and most of the iron is imported. To obtain steel for weapons, you must pass through the northern regions of Morocco. However, in this way, the Wattas Dynasty will get the news that the Saad tribe has imported a large number of iron tools, arousing their vigilance.

Therefore, over the years, the Saad tribe has not obtained many iron tools. Now, with the opportunity to trade with Europeans, Abu Abdullah Kaim proposed - buy black slaves? No problem, get a sword or an iron ingot in exchange...

So, Little Quincy had to send someone back to Europe again to report the matter to Marin...

However, this matter is in Malin's arms...

Marin's steel plant, which produces 3 tons of pig iron and 2 tons of steel a day, is struggling with sales...

So, Marin sent the ship to Laayoun with a lot of pig iron ingots, and let the little Quincy and the Assad tribe go to trade. As for the Saad tribe using these iron ingots to threaten Laayoun with a machete? Marin never thought about it. Because, Laayoun built a strong castle, and it was by the sea. Even if the Saad wanted to turn their backs, it would be difficult to break through the castle. What's more, Marin can still provide support from the sea at any time when he is at the seaside. Therefore, Marin boldly buys iron tools for the Laayoun...

The price of black slaves is appallingly low. When trading with the Saad, Quincy Jr. can trade for a strong nigger with just a 50-pound pig iron ingot. And it's castrated, an honest black slave. With just 5,000 pounds of pig iron ingots, Little Quincy got 100 strong, hard-working black slaves.

Then, after the little Quincy put the shackles on these black slaves to prevent escape, he assigned them to take mining picks and go to the apatite mine south of Laayoune to dig, and soon dug up the first batch of phosphorus Greystone, intended to be shipped back to Europe...