The Rise of the European Emperor

Chapter 1108: The Knight Tournament Begins

In fact, Marin has long thought about how to promote drinking plain water. However, the current conditions are not very mature. This matter can only be promoted after Marin returns from Daming.

why? Because Marin intends to promote honeycomb coal stoves!

Anyone who has burned a briquette stove knows that as long as there is a briquette stove, there will be no shortage of boiling water at home. It doesn't matter even if there is no thermos bottle, because as long as the wind hole is blocked, the burning speed of the briquette will be very slow. And put a kettle on the briquette stove, although the firepower is very small, it can continue to burn. If you want to drink boiled water, you can go to the briquette stove and lift the kettle to pour the boiled water.

Of course, this needs to be coordinated with the promotion of tea. If you are used to drinking tea, you must boil water to cooperate. Otherwise, you can't make tea with cold water. Therefore, Marin intends to promote the briquette stove and tea together.

But to obtain a large amount of tea, you must first open the market of Daming, and you can freely buy cheap tea from Daming. Even if you grow tea yourself, you have to wait two or three years before you can pick it. Therefore, to drink tea in the early stage, you can only buy it from Daming.

Milk powder, tea leaves, sucrose, and honeycomb coal stove, these four things are a whole. Marin decided to combine the four things to promote them. In this way, they can promote each other, improve the promotion effect, and finally change the living habits of Europeans.

But before returning from Daming, Marin had to continue to abide by the old habit of providing beer as a drink to these wandering knights who came from afar.

The reason why Marin chose to wait until he came back from the Ming Dynasty before promoting it was that apart from the fact that tea was currently out of stock, he also did not want to stimulate his ally, Duke John II of Cliff.

After all, Marin had managed to exchange the Earl of Mark and the land between the Ruhr, Rhine and Lippe Rivers in the Duchy of Cliff from John II, Duke of Cliff. This is the core area of ​​the later Ruhr area, rich in coal resources.

If Marin had just exchanged the territory of these Ruhr areas on the front foot, and promoted the briquette stove on the back foot, people would understand that Marin had calculated John II, the Duke of Cliff.

But who is John II? That's Marin's ally! Even the allies are counting, who would dare to form an alliance with Marin in the future? Aren't you afraid of being plotted against?

Therefore, Marin will take out the briquette stove, but there must be a good opportunity. For example, this trip to the Ming Dynasty is a good opportunity.

After returning from the Ming Dynasty, Marin can take out the briquettes stove. Then, you can push the technology source of the briquette stove to the Ming Dynasty—you see, I didn’t deliberately seize your Ruhr area, and I didn’t know the use of coal before. I only learned this technique after I went to the prosperous Ming Empire. I didn’t mean to cheat you...

so,

Even if John II had resentment in his heart, it was not easy to explode. After all, according to this explanation, Marin didn't know that coal was so useful. The new technology obtained in the Ming Dynasty was purely accidental. I really didn't mean to trick my teammates...

Then, Marin could take advantage of the opportunity to promote honeycomb coal stoves to sell coal in the Ruhr area. With a briquette stove, you have to buy briquettes, right? Come on, I have it here. There is not much difference in the Ruhr, except that there is more coal. Just let the blacksmith make a batch of molds, pick a few anthracite coal mines, and then mass-produce briquettes. And then, lying down and counting money... The coal boss earns money, that's making money lying down...

Marin came from later generations, and he knew how popular briquette stoves were in China back then. Before the promotion and popularization of gas pipelines, most of the urban residents burned honeycomb coal stoves. Because the briquettes used in the briquette stove are anthracite, which will not produce much smoke. It is impossible to use earthen stoves to burn firewood in the city. Therefore, a briquette stove that occupies a small area and can be used for cooking at the door has become the first choice in Chinese cities in the 20th century.

So many people in the city burn honeycomb coal stoves, so they don't have to worry about sales. Therefore, coal bosses in the 1980s and 1990s got up very quickly. After all, the market is too big, even if several small coal mines are mixed in, they will not be able to make waves. The daily consumption of honeycomb coal in a county alone is scary, and the coal is not sold at all. Therefore, coal bosses in that era were synonymous with local tyrants.

However, after entering the 21st century, as the country popularized coal gas and liquefied petroleum gas, and later got natural gas, the sales of briquettes plummeted. Gas is okay, it has something to do with coal. And liquefied petroleum gas and natural gas are robbing coal jobs. Then, the coal industry as a whole entered a cold winter. Everyone no longer uses honeycomb coal stoves, and the coal boss can't shake anymore, and profits have plummeted. Then, real estate developers replaced the coal bosses as local tyrants...

Of course, the coal boss is also profitable, but he is not as aggressive as before. Before Marin crossed, the price of coal plummeted. It is said that the coal bosses were so squeezed by natural gas that they began to cry poorly...

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Of course, this is all a matter of the previous life. Marin now holds all the coal mines in the Ruhr area and England. Once the promotion of briquettes starts, the orders will skyrocket. You know, a briquette stove is much more convenient than an earthen stove. Especially in cities, it is difficult for urban residents to obtain firewood, and firewood is not cheap.

These days, every city in Europe has a city entry tax, usually about 1 pfennig. Those country people who went to the city to sell firewood also had to be exploited by the city gate guards. After the city entry tax was levied, farmers selling firewood had to increase the price of firewood. Otherwise, they will not be able to recover their costs. In this way, the cost of buying firewood for urban residents is also very high. Moreover, burning a meal is also a pile of firewood, and the amount is relatively large.

As for briquettes, two or three pieces of briquettes can be used for a day as long as you pay attention to plugging the wind hole in time after cooking and pressing a kettle on the stove. And the price of coal has never been expensive, it is always cheaper than a pile of firewood, and it is also very convenient. Therefore, Marin has already anticipated the scene of counting money and getting hand cramps in the future...

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In addition, in order to lie, Marin planned to introduce the briquette stove into Daming. Otherwise, Europeans will doubt the origin of the briquette stove if they will not see the briquette stove when they go to Daming in the future.

Anyway, Marin is planning to promote it in Europe, and he doesn't care about promoting it in the Ming Dynasty.

People in the Ming Dynasty still use briquettes stoves. It should be pointed out that the briquettes here are not briquettes, but coals that are really rolled into balls, that is, the briquettes that shake the briquettes. In history, briquette seems to have been invented by Guo Wende, a native of Dezhou, Shandong, in 1949, and then it quickly became popular all over the country. Marin planned to give the briquette stove as a gift to Emperor Zhengde. Moreover, it would suggest that Emperor Zhengde take advantage of the powerful eunuch Liu Jin to seize all the coal mines in Jin Province first, and then promote honeycomb coal. In this way, the Ming court will not be short of money and subjugate the country in the future. Moreover, the cheapness will not let Shanxi merchants make money.

Marin didn't like the Shanxi merchants in the late Ming Dynasty. If they hadn't helped sell wild boar skins and smuggled ironware to them, the Ming Dynasty would not have been so unlucky. Therefore, Marin intends to give this benefit to the royal family of the Ming Dynasty, not to the Shanxi merchants of the Ming Dynasty. And with the method of the great eunuch Liu Jin, it should not be difficult to seize the coal mines in Jin Province...

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Of course, this is something. Before going to Daming, this knight tournament still needs to be held well...

On July 28th, the knight tournament for the selection of fief knights for the Earl of Wicklow in Adler officially kicked off...

And what started first was not the knight competition, but the first round of knockout rounds. The main purpose is to weed out the poor wandering knights...

Not all the wandering knights are highly skilled in martial arts, and there are also many fake goods in them. It would be a waste of time to include these people in the official competition. So, Marin thought of a way, and planned to eliminate these smug guys in the first round...

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