The Rise of the European Emperor

Marin is obviously unwilling to be taken advantage of to accept the cheap Indian copper coins. In fact, according to the price of copper in India, the copper coin should depreciate several times. For example, like the Ming Dynasty, one tael of silver is exchanged for 1,000 copper coins.

If you accept the copper coins minted by Spanish and Indian copper, you will earn several times the price difference by the Spaniards. Although the relationship is good, Marin doesn't want to be tricked. As for the opening to buy merino sheep, it is completely the lion's opening. Because it is impossible for the Spaniards to agree.

The Spaniards treated the Merino sheep as treasures and held their hands against them. Marin does have thousands of merino sheep in Laayoune, but Spain does not allow him to sell the wool of merino sheep. Therefore, Marin has high-quality wool that cannot be sold on the European market.

Fortunately, Marin uses a cross between English ewes and Merino sheep - the North Sea sheep, which is a sheep with very good wool quality. Although the quality of wool is not as good as that of Merino sheep, it is a grade higher than that of British wool. However, in the past few years, there are only 30,000 to 40,000 sheep of this high-quality breed, and they are still desperately expanding the number, which is not enough to have an impact on the European market.

However, with the rise of East Frisian milk sheep, the inhabitants of the North Sea seem to prefer East Frisian milk sheep. The reason is that East Frisian sheep can provide a lot of dairy products, providing sheep farmers with a stable source of food and nutrition.

In this age of high food prices, any food is precious. The goat milk products provided by East Frisian sheep are obviously a low-cost, high-nutrition food. Also, it's cheap. After all, sheep only need to eat grass.

Now sheep farmers are lining up to keep East Frisian sheep rather than North Sea sheep. Fortunately, most of the farmers are serfs in these years, and Marin forced the promotion, so the Beihai sheep will not be ignored.

Before going to Daming, Marin selected a batch of ewes from Dongfrie sheep with the best milk production capacity for optimal breeding. Now, three or four years have passed, and the 1,000 looks have an average of two litters and two to three lambs per year. And the lambs grow up every year, and they can give birth to lambs... So, after three or four years, there are actually 10,000 or thousands of them. However, after re-screening, only 5,000 ewes can maintain an annual production of more than 500 pounds of goat milk. In other ewes, the production capacity is slightly degraded.

And the 5,000 that were handed over to the people for self-cultivation with an annual output of less than 500 pounds of milk would be terrible. After three or four years, the number increased to more than 50,000. There are more than 30,000 ewes alone. Moreover, there are more than 7,000 that produce more than 500 pounds of milk per year. Then, these high-yielding ewes were taken back by Marin and intensively bred to avoid breed degradation.

However, there are still more than 30,000 ewes of East Frisian sheep living in the folk. These East Frisian sheep, which produce less than 500 pounds of milk per year, are very popular among the people.

because,

Every farmer and manor that raises East Frisian sheep has an endless supply of cheese and cream, and an endless supply of goat milk. Children eat more dairy products and grow taller.

So, the estates below are all eagerly waiting for Marin's breeding center to start promoting the high-yielding East Frisian sheep to the people. In this way, everyone on the estate may have access to dairy products. Unlike now, because production is limited, only children can be given priority.

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In fact, Marin is also in a hurry. He also hopes to obtain stable high-yield varieties as soon as possible. However, stable varieties cannot be cultivated within a few years. Only when the production capacity is stable over several generations can it be regarded as a high-yield variety. Otherwise, the sudden outbreak of a certain generation does not count. Just like Yao Ming grew 2.26 meters tall, can you say that the Chinese are giants? Therefore, it has to rely on several generations of observation and cultivation to obtain a truly stable and high-yielding variety...

However, there is a big problem with goat milk now, that is, the smell of goat mutton is relatively heavy. Those children who ate too much goat milk always had a smell of milk on their bodies, which was very unpleasant. Unlike a noble child like Caesar, who drank milk every day, he smelled better.

How to get rid of these stinky smells? Marin suddenly thought of radishes. Cooking radish and mutton together can absorb the smell of mutton. Cooking with goat milk is also the same.

Last year, after Marin returned from Daming, he brought back the seeds of radishes. Later, people promoted planting in several manors near Wilhelmshaven where they hid in the early days, and I don't know what happened now...

So he called Kohler and asked him to send someone to take a look...

Soon, the people who were sent came back. The report said that the villages over there are now full of radishes. It's just that now the manor owners don't know what to do with those radishes, and they don't dare to make decisions without authorization, so they piled the radishes in the warehouse, and they rotted a lot... Of course, there is no problem with the preservation of the seeds. It's just that the radish itself can't be stored...

"I wipe..." Marin uttered a foul language, blaming himself for being careless, and he almost forgot those radishes.

According to the report of the dispatcher, three crops of radishes have been planted in the local area. On average, one crop has been planted in more than three months, and many radishes have been harvested. However, what has survived now is only the crop harvested last winter. Most of the first two crops were rotten, and those manor managers didn't dare to eat it...

"How many radishes are in storage now?" Marin asked.

The person sent to investigate thought for a while and said:

"There are probably millions of pounds. That thing called radish is too high-yielding, and it can be grown every two or three months. It's just that the local people dare not eat it. Because, this is what you personally ordered, Grand Duke, and you didn't let it go. They eat..."

"Then why didn't they report to me that the radishes were ripe?" Marin was a little depressed—how many radishes had to be wasted before...

"Uh..." The person who reported the report paused and said:

"They said that the manager of the small manor is not qualified to report to you the Grand Duke..."

When Malin thought about it, it was true, the manager of the small manor was equivalent to the village chief of later generations. Have you ever seen a village chief who can report to state leaders? So, in the final analysis, I was negligent and did not send someone to follow up.

In fact, with the radish seeds in the hands of those few estates, millions of pounds of radishes can be produced each season if there is enough land to plant them. Now, the reason why there are only one million pounds is because they did not dare to expand the planting area without permission...

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After realizing his mistake, Marin immediately sent someone to transport the radishes to the farmers who raised the sheep, so that they could cook with the goat milk. After cooking, goat milk will remove the taint. And the radish that has absorbed the smell of mutton can be used as fodder for livestock...

In addition, Marin asked the radish-growing estates to share some of the seeds and distribute them to farmers who raise East Frisian milk sheep to grow them themselves. This way, they can grow and harvest their own turnips in the future, and use their own turnips to cook goat milk. The goat milk boiled with radish has no taint, and the processed dairy products will be more popular... And children who eat goat milk products without taint will not only be healthy, but also have no unpleasantness on their bodies. taint...