The Rise of the European Emperor

Of course, when it comes to grass fabrics, we must not forget the adobe houses that Marin promoted very early. This kind of house made of yellow mud and thatch was a symbol of poverty in China at the end of the 20th century. But in Europe at the beginning of the 16th century, it was a "mansion" in the eyes of the poor...

After all, this kind of adobe house has complete facilities inside. There is an earthen stove with a chimney, and a kang for heating in winter. For the poor serfs in Germany, living in this kind of adobe house was like living in a mansion.

More importantly, the construction cost of this kind of house is extremely low, and it does not need a few pieces of wood. It is mainly made of yellow mud and thatch, and it is built quickly. Living in such a house is many times better than the thatched huts that the serfs used to live in.

Right now, in the countryside of Beihai country, except for the rich and big families, almost every family lives in adobe houses built in brick. Although this type of adobe house is the same as the thatched house of the poor in Europe in the past, the main body is mud and grass, but the European thatched house is first built with branches and thatch, and then covered with mud. However, this structure is very weak, and the soil is easy to fall off. Once the soil falls off, the whole house becomes leaky. As for the adobe houses built in blocks, the firmness of the houses has been greatly improved because of the use of yellow mud with thatched "bones" for block building, and the addition of rammed earth and fire baking in the later stage. Moreover, the thermal insulation and moisture retention performance is very good, better than brick and tile houses.

The disadvantages are probably the poor anti-seismic effect and the fear of flooding. After all, houses made of mud are not so strong, and they are also afraid of being soaked in water for a long time. However, the German region seems to have few earthquakes. As for the problem of flood immersion, Marin dug a lot of ditches in Beihai to drain water, which seems unlikely...

In addition to adobe houses, the people of Beihai Kingdom also use thatch to weave a kind of grass fabric called grass cover. This kind of thing is like a blanket, its function is to cover the body as a quilt to keep warm in winter...

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As time entered January 1514, the land of Europe also ushered in the coldest month of the year. During this month, the temperature in Europe dropped sharply. In northern Germany, the temperature even dropped below minus 10 degrees.

The emergence of such a low temperature caused people to freeze to death in many places in Germany. Only in Beihai country, because of the existence of adobe houses and heated kangs, few people died of freezing.

In order to ensure that the population does not decrease, Marin ordered across the country to release the forest in December and January, and farmers can enter the forest tax-free to cut firewood for heating. In other months, it is not allowed to enter the forest to cut firewood. Even if it is allowed, certain taxes and fees must be paid. Of course, there is no limit to entering the forest to pick up dead branches and leaves as firewood. In addition, the straw after harvesting the rural rye is also the most important source of firewood for farmers.

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However, the eight vassal states that were newly brought under the rule of the Beihai Kingdom seem to have encountered many problems. Many serfs froze to death in their own huts that were ventilated and rainy in the twelfth lunar month...

According to the statistics of officials from various places, in the cold wave in early January, hundreds of people froze to death in the eight vassal states, which shocked Marin very much.

Therefore, Marin quickly ordered 3,000 Beihai engineering troops, together with 10,000 civilian husbands, to divide into several groups and go deep into the disaster area to help the affected people repair their houses. Even, build a new version of the adobe house.

Marin's move greatly surprised the people of the eight vassal states that were newly incorporated into the Beihai Kingdom—eh, the nobles actually care about the lives of the poor? so strange...

But after watching the crowd strongly, they had to admit that the Duke of Beihai, Marin, was indeed a good nobleman who cared about the life and death of the common people...

But they don't know that this is the most basic official operation in later generations. If there is a disaster somewhere, and the officials don't respond accordingly, they will be scolded to death...

In addition to helping the common people repair their houses, Marin also purchased a batch of coir raincoats and grass covers from the original ruling area of ​​Beihai State at a low price, and sent them to the disaster area urgently to provide them to the victims. In addition, personnel who are good at weaving straw sandals among the engineering troops and civilian husbands,

Teach local people how to weave straw sandals, even coir raincoats and straw caps.

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These measures, as well as the novel grass fabrics, surprised the people of the eight vassal states that were newly included in the Beihai state. They knew that the North Sea State had a mysterious fertilizer that greatly increased crop yields, which already surprised them.

However, when it was cold in winter, the adobe houses and straw fabrics that the Beihai government sent people to promote, subverted their cognition...

They never thought that those thatch grasses, which they never thought of, could be made into so many practical things. In the cold winter, they can even save their lives...

Even Marin didn't know that this wave of operations, which was considered normal by later generations of officials, actually helped him win the hearts of the newly annexed 8 vassal states at once. Because those ordinary people know that Marin is a good nobleman who cares about their life and death...

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Marin, who had inadvertently won the hearts of the people, didn't know this yet. At this time, he was in a blacksmith shop affiliated to the military outside Aurich, supervising blacksmiths, carpenters and potters to build what he needed...

"Yes, this way, you squeeze the stove like this...well, it doesn't need to be too big...leave a hole here, the kind that can be blocked..."

Half a day later, a small stove with eyes on the bottom came out from the pottery stove. On the stove, there are movable movable handles...

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Later, Marin ordered the carpenter to build a set of wooden utensils that could be pedaled. After dismantling them, they handed them over to the blacksmiths transferred from the foundry, and asked them to use the method of sand box casting to produce wooden utensils that were made of wood. Iron tools of uniform size...

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When the complete set of appliances that can be used for pedals was successfully cast, Marin immediately ordered his men:

"Quick, add water to these anthracite coals, mix them with yellow mud at a ratio of 8 to 2, and then put them into this container..."

"You... pedal..."

"Let go, let go, pick out the stuff inside..."

Then, everyone saw a cylindrical black thing with 12 holes in it...

"Grand Duke, what is this?" The craftsmen were very curious.

Marin said mysteriously:

"Don't ask, this is an epoch-making artifact!"

The craftsmen were all taken aback - oh my god, the artifact...

Then, they became even more curious...

However, Marin didn't let them touch the Hessian cylinder with holes, and they didn't dare to touch it casually, so they could only tilt their heads and keep looking...

When several new black cylinders with holes were almost dried, Marin greeted the craftsmen and brought over the small stove that had been fired before. Then, he first put the first Hessian cylinder with holes into the blacksmith's stove, and after the surface was hot red, he threw it into the bottom of the stove, and then added two more pieces on top...

"Grand Duke, what is this?" A craftsman asked curiously.

"Honeycomb..."

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