The Rise of the European Emperor

For these wandering knights who are willing to learn, Marin is very fond of them. He believes that only officers who love to learn have the potential for advancement. After hearing that wandering knights like to visit the layout of the camp and want to know some common sense about marching and fighting, Marin sent several officers to be their guides and commentators, and to answer their questions.

Of course, those things that are classified as secret, such as military training methods, will not be disclosed by those officers. Moreover, for these wandering knights who are keen to visit and learn, Marin also asked the officers who acted as guides and commentators to silently record their names. After the trials start, these people will get bonus points. Because these people are more willing to use their brains, which is a necessary quality for middle and senior military officers.

As for those wandering knights who drink all day long and drink and fight and make trouble, Marin is also secretly remembered and deducted points. Of course, all of this was done secretly, and with Adler's consent.

Of course Adler has no objection. After all, Marin is a famous European commander-in-chief. Its suggestion is certainly no problem.

In order to collect the information of these wandering knights, Marin issued identity wooden cards to each wandering knight for easy inspection. And, it is convenient for Kohler's spies to secretly record the words, deeds and performances of these wandering knights.

If these wandering knights know that their words and deeds have been recorded in the small books before the tournament, they will definitely complain-the city has deep routines, I want to go back...

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The role of the identity wooden card, in addition to facilitating the inspection of the guards and Kohler's spies to record his words and deeds, his other role is to use this card to receive lunch...

Yes, take a box lunch...

Box lunch is synonymous with low-end in later generations, and it is usually eaten by migrant workers, hard-working employees or actors who squat in the corner or sit on dirty tables and stools. But in this day and age, bento boxes are definitely on the high side...

You know, in this era, ordinary farmers or ordinary soldiers ate baguettes mixed with mud and stones. That thing can be used as a brick. Most, with some wild vegetable soup. Only during festivals or when the army is about to face a big battle, ordinary farmers or ordinary soldiers will eat some salted fish, bacon, sausage and other open meat. Even, many poor people may not be able to eat bread, they can only cook some unpalatable porridge mixed with rye and wild vegetables.

Therefore, the three-vegetable and one-meat box lunch provided by Marin is definitely a high-end product in this era. Generally speaking, only fief knights with territories can afford it. Ordinary people, I am afraid that only Christmas and other big festivals can be so extravagant.

Moreover, even if you have money, you may not be able to eat such a box lunch. Because this is Chinese food, Europeans in this era must not be able to eat it.

The only difference from the box lunches of later generations is that the rice inside is replaced by the black bread that Germans often eat.

Although the Kohler bread provided by Marin is mixed with grass bran, the taste is a bit rough. However, after all, this is bread fermented with yeast powder, which is relatively soft, and it is many times better than the kind of baguette that can be used as a brick.

Even these wandering knights from aristocratic families don't think there is any problem when they eat Kohler black bread mixed with grass chaff. You know, when they were at home, these wandering knights might be able to eat soft bread. But after becoming a wandering knight, he may not be able to eat soft bread for every meal. Sometimes, baguettes mixed with dirt, stones, sawdust, and wild vegetables can also handle it. Therefore, although the taste is a bit rough (nonsense, it is mixed with the grass bran eaten by pigs, can it not be rough), but the bread is still very soft and easy to digest.

And the three vegetables and one meat in the lunch box are amazing...

Because, the vegetables in these lunch boxes are all stir-fried vegetables, and they are stir-fried vegetables with oil...

In Europe right now, only nobles and rich families can enjoy food cooked with olive oil. Moreover, even those aristocrats and wealthy households use olive oil to cook in a very simple and rough way—their cooking method is to boil the dishes and then drip a few drops of olive oil, which is very similar to the way women lose weight in later generations...

What? You say pour olive oil on a pan and put the food in to fry? Come on, that's a popular practice among later generations of Europeans. And this kind of cooking method, the pinnacle of French cuisine, has just started, and it was created by Marin. Otherwise, the French will have to wait decades to enjoy this so-called "big meal"...

Moreover, even if it is the prototype of this French feast, it is only meteoric in the circle of the French aristocrats. Because this cooking method consumes too much olive oil, most people can't afford it.

Ordinary people can't afford olive oil-fried dishes, and the only way for them to get oil and water is to get it from fat meat. Therefore, ancient people regarded fat meat as good meat, while lean meat was inferior.

Apart from eating meat, ordinary people have no chance to consume oil and water at all, and even the knight family is rarely willing to buy olive oil. Unless, it is a wealthy knight like a French knight who has a land of up to 1,500 acres. But even rich French knights can afford olive oil at most, but they don't use olive oil all at once, that's too extravagant.

But the box lunch provided by Beihai Kingdom is one meat and three vegetables. Every dish is fried with oil, which is very refreshing for the wandering knights to eat, not to mention the delicious Chinese food.

"Oh, God, this vegetable is actually cooked, and... oil... what kind of oil is this?" A wandering knight ate the lunch box, and exclaimed and questioned.

Why do you doubt that the vegetables are cooked? Because, the way Europeans eat vegetables in this day and age is very crap - they are all eaten raw...

In contrast, those apples and other fruits are cooked and eaten by Europeans...

Can you imagine, what does a boiled apple taste like? This is not bad, raw vegetables... oh my god...

This year, European vegetables are also very scarce, mainly carrots, turnips, cucumbers, beets, onions, garlic, leeks, cabbage (cabbage), spinach, peas, broccoli, celery and so on. No green peppers, no shredded potatoes, no tomatoes...

Carrots, turnips, cucumbers, and beets are four vegetables that are fine to eat raw. However, what the hell are onions, garlic, leeks, etc. eaten raw? If it is placed on modern people, eating it like this will kill people...

However, this is how Europeans eat these days...

Therefore, after eating the fried onions, fried garlic and fried leeks in the lunch box, many knights failed to figure out what kind of vegetables they were. Because the taste of fried onions, garlic and leeks is too different from raw food. Moreover, I don't know how many times it is delicious. Also, it's all fried...

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Therefore, after the meal, many wandering knights who had a good meal found the temporary cafeteria and asked what kind of food they ate just now...

"It's fried onions, fried garlic, and fried leeks..." The chef in the cafeteria replied innocently.

In fact, Marin asked them to keep it secret, declaring to the public that it was pouring oil in a pan and frying vegetables... There are differences in the effects of the two, but there are also many similarities. However, frying is very oily...

Hearing that it was fried vegetables, these wandering knights suddenly wilted. why? They still know what frying is. That's a luxurious way of cooking by pouring oil into a frying pan, and most people can't afford it. Because the oil consumption of frying is much higher than that of stir-frying. Of course, in order to save costs, hawkers of fried food in later generations reused those oils repeatedly, even using waste oil. Otherwise, according to the strict health standards, the fuel consumption will be a little too big. Even if edible oil is cheap in future generations, the cost is too high.

In this day and age, those who can often eat fried food with olive oil are the nobles or the rich.

Therefore, for Marin to entertain them with fried vegetables, these wandering knights suddenly felt full of force and felt that they were treated like big shots.

In fact, cooking is very fuel-efficient, and a large pot of vegetables only needs a few spoons of soybean oil. Marin's North American colony now produces a lot of soybeans, and the cost of soybean oil is not high. Unlike frying dishes in a European-style pan, you have to pour a lot of oil on the pan first to soak the vegetables in the oil. Like the French feast of later generations, why is the portion small? The portion is too big, the layer of olive oil in the pan can't fully soak the dishes into the oil! Turning the big pot of cooking can allow a small amount of oil to quickly cover all the dishes.

Therefore, some people in later generations will argue about the merits of Chinese stir-fry and French cuisine, and the stir-fry master can proudly say - I am fuel-efficient, and the quantity is large, and it is delicious...

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Therefore, more than a thousand wandering knights misunderstood Marin, thinking that Marin poured barrels of olive oil (they were not sure if it was olive oil, after all, these wandering knights are also very rough) in order to entertain them. , Fried vegetables... This is definitely the treatment of a prince...

Moreover, a box lunch with a lot of oil and water is easy to be full. Usually, when there is no oil and water, these wandering knights can eat three large pieces of bread. And with the three vegetables and one meat that are full of oil and water, they are actually full with a large piece of black bread...

What surprised these wandering knights the most was that unpalatable vegetables such as onions, garlic, and leeks turned out to be very delicious after being fried in oil...

But alas, even if they knew fried onions, garlic and leeks were delicious, they couldn't afford them. Because olive oil is too expensive...Even if they become fief knights successfully, they can't afford to eat fried food every day, at most during the festival...

It's just that they don't know that as Marin's territory penetrates into the North American continent, the production of soybeans in North America will increase greatly in the future. At that time, there will be a lot of soybean oil. I dare not say anything else, it is still no problem to supply the domestic Beihai country. As long as you can become a nobleman of the North Sea Kingdom, the supply of soybean oil is not a problem...

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Many years later, those wandering knights who participated in the North Sea Knights Tournament but were not selected said that the days when they received free box lunches outside Emden City every day were the most extravagant times in his life... because , Vegetables are soaked in oil...