The Rise of the European Emperor

The combination of milk sheep and radish (big white radish) is a match made in heaven. Milk sheep are cheap to feed and only need to eat grass. The radish, not only the high yield per mu, but also can be planted more than three seasons a year. It does not require a large area to be planted to meet the needs of the goat milk produced by a flock of dairy sheep.

In addition to solving the taint problem of goat milk products, the co-cooking of large white radish and mutton can also remove the taint of mutton, which is indeed a super invincible good thing.

Originally, Marin intended to promote the milk products of black and white cows. After all, drinking milk is mainstream. The problem is that the growth cycle of special black and white cows is too long and the frequency of birth is too low.

Without the level of modern veterinarians, in addition to having two years of growth to produce milk, black-and-white cows may not be able to produce one litter every year, only one or two calves per litter. As a result, the population expansion rate is very slow.

The East Frisian sheep, on the other hand, produce two litters a year. The annual growth rate of the number of black and white cows is more than twice that of the black and white cows. According to the number of 2, the speed of expanding the population will scare people to death...

The only downside was that the goat milk had a stinky smell. Now, with the appearance of the terrifying Chinese white radish, this problem has been solved. In each dairy sheep farm, as long as a few acres of radishes are planted, it is enough to remove the odor. Then, people can drink goat's milk without the taint...

As for the issue of milk production, Marin also decided to combine earthworm farming to boost milk production. Raising earthworms with cow dung and sheep dung is a good project. The earthworms raised from cow dung and sheep dung were originally intended to be used by Marin to raise chickens and promote laying hens to lay eggs.

However, Marin suddenly remembered that in his previous life, there seems to be a legend that the "Dragon Soup" made by earthworms has the effect of promoting milk for mothers...

Therefore, Marin decided to wait for the successful breeding of earthworms, and use part of them to feed the laying hens, while the other part is processed into dried earthworms, ground into powder, and added to the feed of dairy cows and dairy sheep, which can not only supplement nutrition, but also Can promote milk production...

However, the choice of earthworm species, Marin is now very headache. Although there are many earthworms in Europe, long-term cultivation and comparison are required to select the most suitable ones for breeding with cow dung.

Marin remembered that the earthworms raised by farmers in later generations with cow dung seemed to be a kind of red earthworm cultivated in Japan, and it seemed to be a high-quality variety of American red earthworms and Japanese native earthworms. Anyway, Marin didn't quite understand. Anyway, he asked his subordinates to collect various species of red earthworms for breeding and observation to see which earthworms eat cow dung and transform cow dung with high efficiency and fast growth. If it really doesn't work, you can also send someone to North America to find the so-called American red earthworm. Then, since Japan is also a colony, you can also send someone to find good red earthworms...

Think of the red earthworm crawling around,

Marin suddenly felt a little uncomfortable... However, in order to promote milk production of milk sheep and cows, this is still to be done. Anyway, it's not me who raises the earthworms myself. I only care about my mouth and raise such terrible things myself. It's better to let the serfs do it...

At night, seeing the spaghetti with red-brown soy sauce, Marin suddenly felt a little sick, and his mind was full of earthworms crawling around. Then, a bowl of pasta goes to waste…

...

The next day, Kohler hurried over and reported:

"My lord, it's not good. Several volcanoes we bought in the kingdom of Naples were confiscated by the French army!"

"Confiscated and confiscated, anyway, those volcanoes are just used to hide people's eyes and ears, and we don't really need volcanic ash." Malin didn't care.

"My lord, the problem is not here! Once the French cut off the supply of our volcanic ash, we will continue to produce high levels of food in the future. How to explain it? It will arouse suspicion!"

Marin then pays attention...

Just a few days ago, the city of Naples was finally breached. Because of the lack of ammunition, the Spanish defenders were greatly reduced in combat effectiveness after the Italian farmers ran out of ammunition, surrounded by Italian mercenaries.

To put it bluntly, the Spanish army has been very powerful recently, and it is also powerful in the musket. Really compared to martial arts, the Spaniards still can't compare to France, which has always attached great importance to the training of knight martial arts.

No, after running out of ammunition, the French went on their own...

Under the cover of the Italian cannon fodder mercenaries in front, a group of French knights dressed in Italian mercenary clothes inadvertently killed the city walls of Naples. Despite being beaten back several times, the French finally gained a firm foothold on the city walls.

Then, a large number of French knights in plate armor rushed up this section of the city wall...

Without the muskets specially designed to restrain plate armor, the weakness of the Spaniards' poor martial arts was quickly magnified...

Then, the Spanish defenders on the city wall retreated steadily under the attack of the French knights covered in plate armor...

The French invaded the city, evacuated the debris in the city gate from the inside, and opened the cast iron city gate...

Then, tens of thousands of French troops swarmed in, relying on the absolute numerical superiority and the martial arts superiority of French knights to defeat the Spaniards. In the end, only two thousand of the most elite Spanish fighters escaped with ropes. It happened that when they escaped in the evening, the French couldn't catch up, and they fled into the nearby mountains...

At this point, the French finally conquered Naples, the most difficult city to conquer in the Kingdom of Naples. The next day, the French divided several troops and horses and rushed to all parts of the Kingdom of Naples to control each city. Other cities basically have no defensive strength, and naturally they can only surrender in the face of the overwhelming French army.

Subsequently, Louis XII dispatched the remaining more than 16,000 Italian mercenaries to garrison several important cities. And Louis XII himself, with the main French army of less than 60,000 people, waited for the arrival of the main Spanish force in Naples, preparing for a decisive battle...

However, in the process of capturing all parts of the kingdom of Naples, all the volcanoes were forcibly confiscated by the French army without any compensation. Some of the men Marin had sent to Naples to buy the volcano were also driven away by the French. Even the tools and facilities used for digging volcanic ash before, including the temporary dock for loading and unloading volcanic ash, were "forced" by the other party...

Subsequently, the French began to forcibly recruit local farmers and dig volcanic ash for them. After digging, hire Genoa merchant ships (using their own merchant ships for fear of being sunk by the Spanish fleet), and ship them back to France...

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"My lord, what should we do? We have to find a cover..."

Marin thought for a while and said:

"Didn't we also buy a volcano in Sicily? It can also be used for cover!"

Kohler shook his head and said:

"We only bought one volcano near the sea in Sicily, and its volcanic ash production is not enough to cover it!"

"Then let me think about it..."

...

Half an hour later, Marin thought of a countermeasure - buy Iceland...

Iceland is a large volcanic island, known as the "land of ice and fire", and the "fire" of this "ice and fire" refers to volcanoes.

There are more than 100 volcanoes in Iceland's 100,000 square kilometers of land. Sometimes, volcanic ash from volcanic eruptions can float over the European continent. Even, there was a volcanic eruption, volcanic ash fell on the sea, directly forming a 2.1 square kilometer island...

Of course, Iceland is also more tragic. Because of its high latitude, its territory is located on the Arctic Circle. Although because of the influence of the North Atlantic warm current, it is not particularly cold. However, it has nothing to do with warmth. The most important thing is that in winter, there will be polar nights here, that is, it will be dark all day.

So, the lighting here is seriously lacking. Crops need to accumulate temperature. Therefore, in future Iceland, grains cannot be grown here, and at most some cold-resistant crops such as potatoes can be grown. In order to grow vegetables, Icelanders need to turn on the headlights all day long in the vegetable greenhouse to provide enough light for the vegetables to maintain photosynthesis...

Iceland is already cold, and right now, it is still in the "Little Ice Age". Moreover, there was no promotion of the potato crop in this era. Therefore, in Iceland now, the people above can only raise a few kinds of livestock such as Icelandic horses, Icelandic sheep and reindeer. Then, all that's left is fishing.

As a result, the local population is now extremely small, only a few thousand people. Moreover, concentrated inhabiting the narrow plains along the southwest coast. Such a place, Denmark will naturally not pay attention.

So Marin asked Kohler to send someone to Denmark and offer 20,000 gold coins to buy Iceland. The reason is, naturally, not for the volcanic ash, but for the Icelandic horse...

The Icelandic horse is a pony, similar to the Mongolian horse, hardy, hardy, and sturdy. Of course, heavy cavalry and tall horses are popular in Europe now. Icelandic horses, which are similar to Mongolian horses, are naturally not popular, and Marin is actually not interested. However, it is a reason to buy Iceland. If more reason is needed, say these horses are favored by the noble children of Beihai Kingdom...

But at the same time, Marin will also quietly reveal to the French that Lao Tzu bought an island full of volcanoes, so he doesn't need Italian volcanic ash... In the future, the North Sea country will still be highly productive, so don't be confused...