The Rise of the European Emperor

When there was a bumper harvest on the European side, the harvest in the American colonies was even more frightening. In particular, Colony New York, which was developed for several years.

Since Marin sent thousands of troops and dozens of Spike Commando warriors to the New York colony, the local army has started to clean up and annex the surrounding tribes. In addition to the hostile Mohicans being beaten away, many local Delaware tribes were bribed by Albert with food offensives.

Albert is not good at using soldiers, but he especially likes to bribe the natives with benefits. The Delawares near New York are all matrilineal clans, a clan in which women have the final say. Women are the easiest to fool and buy. Albert often entertains the local matriarchs, giving them beautiful clothes and glass beads all the time, which makes these matriarchs fall. Even, several Delaware matriarchs in their forties almost fell in love with Albert and wanted to recommend themselves as pillows...

Fortunately, Albert had his wife Maria in charge, which prevented Albert from being pushed back by those old women. Then, in order to obtain the territory of those Delawares, Albert cut down trees in the middle reaches of the Hudson River, built several small towns, and encouraged those Delawares to move there.

In order to encourage those Delawares to move to the upper and middle reaches of the Hudson River, Albert spent his money, repaired houses for those Delawares, and promised to give them thousands of cattle and thousands of sheep.

In addition, Albert agreed to regularly provide enough salt for the Delaware people and teach them cooking skills.

There are ready-made houses and fertile land near the water. In addition, Albert agreed to guide them in farming and also provided fertilizer. Then most of the Delawares agreed and happily moved to the new town of Albany. The name of this town is the name of a later generation that Marin lazily plagiarized. When Albert said that this place is about 225 kilometers upstream from New York, Marin immediately remembered that this is the location of Albany, the capital of New York State, and simply named it Albany .

Then, more than 9,000 Delawares from about 20 tribes from New York to Philadelphia all moved to Albany and lived in the houses Albert built for them.

In fact, Albert did not build much good houses for the Delawares, that is, he built more than 3,000 adobe houses for them. It is built with yellow mud and thatch, and the cost is very low.

However, each of these adobe houses has a Chinese-style earthen stove and chimney, which is convenient for cooking. What's more, there are heated kangs. This is very important for the area around New York. Winters in the northeastern part of the old United States are very cold. Every winter, many Delawares freeze to death. And the adobe house with heated kang built by Albert for the Delaware people is very warm in winter. After feeling it for a while, many Delawares agreed to move there. Especially in the winters of the past few years, when it was the most difficult time, Albert would send people to lobby those Delawares who had not yet moved, and take them to Albany to experience the benefits of the adobe house...

After a few years,

Albert finally took care of nearly all the Vanderavas near New York and sent them to Albany. Then, the land where the Delawares originally lived was all vacant...

From New York to Albert's fief Philadelphia, there is no human habitation now. Albert hurriedly applied to emigrate from Cape Breton Island to England.

At the beginning, Marin brought tens of thousands of refugees from England, but most of them stayed on Cape Breton Island. However, the corner of Cape Breton Island can only grow hardy rye, or herd sheep, which is a waste of labor.

Therefore, after Albert applied to Marin, he moved half of the population of Cape Breton Island, about 20,000 people, to the area between New York and Philadelphia, which is the later New Jersey.

This large piece of land is about 20,000 square kilometers. Moreover, because the Delawares took the initiative to move away, there are basically no threats to the immigrants from the local indigenous people.

More than 20,000 English farmers arrived there, quickly cut down trees, reclaimed farmland, and established several small towns and dozens of villages. There are as many as 100,000 acres of newly opened cultivated land in the area. Moreover, this number is still growing. After all, New Jersey has an area of ​​20,000 square kilometers, and it is easy to reclaim more than a million acres of arable land.

So, the fall harvest of 1513, the agricultural output of the New York colony was a bit of a horror...

Originally, the New York Colony had 50,000 acres of arable land. Together with the 100,000 acres cultivated in the New Jersey area, the total cultivated land in the colony reached 200,000 acres.

The most frightening thing is that, except for the 20,000 acres used to grow soybeans for oil extraction and 10,000 acres used to grow mung beans, peanuts and various vegetables, the other 120,000 acres are all planted with wheat! Moreover, because Marin brought thousands of Han immigrants, under the guidance of those Han farmers, the local immigrants quickly mastered many techniques for growing wheat.

Although due to insufficient fertilizer, the average yield per mu here is less than 400 pounds. But, this is wheat! Even if there is only 300 pounds of wheat leftover per acre, 120,000 acres, or 720,000 acres, is a huge 216 million pounds...

The price of wheat is 5 times that of rye, reaching the level of 5 pfennies per pound. Then, 200 million pounds can be sold for 1 billion Finneys, converted into gold coins, which is 16.667 million gold coins...

Of course, this is just YY, and it is impossible to fulfill all of them. If Marin dared to dump wheat back to Europe in this way, it would definitely arouse jealousy and madness throughout Europe. Before the successful development of large battleships and Pexan cannons, Marin had to admit—Mad, such a high wheat yield is meaningless...

The news was sent back to the mainland, and Marin was so depressed that his liver hurt after seeing the report. Because he obviously has so much food, but he can't cash it out. What's the difference between this and Hyundai's house, which has a high house price, but can't sell it?

Moreover, even if the wheat is taken back to the country, it will not be edible. After all, it is impossible to feed wheat to common people. If this is the case, the Beihai Kingdom will probably be envied to death. Because, in this era, most nobles in Europe dare not say that they eat wheat bread. If ordinary people in Beihai could reach this level, what they would gain would not be envy, but envy or even hatred...

Therefore, Marin reluctantly gave Albert a reply—you can eat it yourself...

Anyway, these wheat cannot be transported back to the mainland to eat. However, the colonies are still edible. This batch of Marin's reply caused the people in the North American colonies to start a luxurious life of eating white bread.

Of course, it's not appropriate to feed them all to the common people in the colonies. After thinking about it, Marin decided to extract part of the wheat and use it to make maple syrup biscuits. Before, maple syrup biscuits were made of rye, and the taste was average. Marin intends to use wheat instead of rye to make maple syrup biscuits supplied by the military. Of course, a little rye flour is also mixed in to cover the color. After all, if it was reported that the Beihai army ate white flour biscuits, it would be quite hated. And using white flour to make biscuits, the taste will be much better.

Dundon white noodles, plus grilled fish, and some bacon and canned food...Marin suddenly thought, why is this a bit like the US military in later generations? Probably, only the US military will have such a luxurious food ration...

Before World War II, I am afraid that only the US military had the top food rations in the world. At that time, the U.S. military had white bread, canned beef, and Coke...it was too extravagant...

It is said that during World War I, the British and American troops joined forces. As a result, when the American soldiers saw that the food was canned beef again, they were so depressed that they threw it away. Because they are tired of eating beef...

And the British soldiers of the friendly army were stunned when they saw it—Nimma, throw the beef too? What I ate was shriveled bread...

But the face of the British Empire is still important, so at night, the British soldiers quietly picked up the canned beef thrown away by the American soldiers and ate it...

There is no way, Laomei is so good, who said that Laomei's land is so fertile, so suitable for agriculture? Too much arable land, too much wheat to feed cattle. There are too many pastures, and there is so much beef that ordinary soldiers can eat...

It is said that during the Civil War, the U.S. military began to eat inhumanely. At that time, soldiers of the Union Army in the northern United States could get 12 ounces of pork or bacon, or 1 pound 4 ounces of beef every day; white bread or flour 1 pound 6 ounces; in addition, beans, tea, sugar and various vegetables...

In Europe at the same time, Germans and Russians were still eating mashed potatoes and black bread. The French are considered rich, but the food supply of the French army during the Franco-Prussian War was less than half of that of the American army...

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There is really no way. Who told the United States that there are so many arable land and pastures? The output is so large, there is nowhere to consume it, and it can only be used for army soldiers to eat...

Marin is also troubled by this now, because there is no place to consume food, and it is too extravagant to use wheat to make wine. Therefore, Marin's opinion is-to use wheat as military rations...

At that time, the ratio of wheat flour to rye in the military compressed biscuits will be 7:3. In this way, the taste of the biscuits is guaranteed to be better, and the color of the white flour can be covered with rye flour, so that outsiders can not feel the inhumanity of the Beihai army...

At the same time, the bagging technology of cumin grilled fish is also under study. When the time comes, sprinkle the salted fish with cumin powder and roast it, put it into an oiled paper bag, heat it with air isolation and seal it. Although it is not up to the level that ordinary soldiers can eat beef, but in this era, they can often eat grilled salted fish, which can also be compared to American soldiers of later generations...

In addition, some bacon sausages, as well as dried radishes and sauerkraut are occasionally served in the Beihai National Army. When the fruit production in Cuba increases, canned fruit can be provided during the holidays... As for canned beef... forget it, nobles seldom eat beef now...

And with this kind of treatment, if you tell it to hard-working soldiers from other countries, you will definitely hear them salivate... Especially the soldiers of Ming Dynasty who were deprived of military rations by officers and drank their blood...