The Rise of the European Emperor

Seeing that the kettle kept smoking, Marin asked someone to lift the kettle down, and put another tin kettle filled with cold water on it to seal the upper end of the briquette stove, so as not to let the briquette burn too quickly. .

Afterwards, he asked someone to find a tea brick, broke off a corner from the top, put it into a large teacup for brewing, and poured out the soaked water. Then, he added some powdered milk and maple syrup, and put the lid on...

A few minutes later, Marin tasted the hot milk tea comfortably, feeling extremely refreshed. It's winter, drink a sip of hot tea, don't feel too refreshed.

Drinking warm milk tea, Marin summed up an experience - if you want to prevent the tin pot from drying out or even melting, you must add water in time. Or, simply prepare two tin pots, and replace them with another one filled with cold water after a while, so as to ensure that the tin pots will not be burned dry.

After the test was successful, Marin sent people back to Aurich's palace with several new briquette stoves and a car of briquette.

Next, Marin asked the craftsmen to make several briquette stoves and a dozen tin pots, and sent them to the front yard of the palace to be looked after by a dedicated maid.

As a result, the bigwigs of the Beihai Kingdom who work in the palace can drink steaming hot tea at any time. Drinking tea and reading newspapers in the office is the top treatment that only future generations of civil servants can enjoy. Well, the officials of the Beihai King's Palace are probably only one short of reading the newspaper...

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The Beihai officials in the front yard thought that they would be happy if they could drink hot tea at any time, but they didn't know that the backyard was even happier...

Marin was not satisfied with drinking hot water, so he asked the blacksmith to build a relatively tall and large soup pot. Then, throw it directly on top of the briquette stove and start making beef bone broth...

The reason why Marin thought of making beef bone soup was because he accidentally remembered the pot of beef bone soup that had been boiled for three days and three nights in the stick drama "Dae Jang Geum" he watched when he was in middle school...

It just so happens that the North Sea State imports tens of thousands of cattle from the Crimean Khanate every year. Of these, several thousand bulls that were not strong enough to serve as breeding stock were slaughtered for meat. Therefore, there are a lot of beef bones in Beihai.

Therefore, Marin decided to make use of the waste, and got the big beef bones that the nobles of the North Sea Kingdom looked down upon, and made the legendary Da Jang Jin brand beef bone soup for Angela and Caesar...

Marin first asked the fresh beef bones to be scalded with hot water in the imperial kitchen, and then brought to the backyard, put them in a large soup pot above the briquette stove, and simmered slowly over the fire of the briquette stove.

In order to get rid of the special taste of beef, Marin also asked the maid to add slices of ginger and pineapple to the pot. Ginger slices enhance the flavor, and radish slices absorb the beef flavor.

After several hours of cooking, the radish slices used to absorb the flavor are removed. Then, the maids were divided into several groups by Marin, who guarded the soup pot day and night. Take out with a spoon when you see foam floating on top. Then, move on to the pan. If there is no fire, find a guard to lift the soup pot and replace the briquettes...

In this way, after three days and three nights, Marin took Angela and Caesar, and drank Shannon's delicious Daejanggeum beef bone broth...

"Ah, it's so cool! It's really good to use the briquette stove to make soup!" Marin said with emotion. It's not too cool to drink delicious beef bone broth in winter. What? You said mutton soup? How can I drink mutton soup when I have beef bone soup? Of course, you can also try it. Anyway, Marin is now a boss, and it would not be troublesome to set up an extra briquette stove for burning mutton soup in the palace...

Afterwards, the Marin family relied on the broth cooked by the briquette stove, allowing the whole family to eat steamed mutton...

Because of the wind direction in winter, the northwest wind blows the strong aroma of beef bone broth and mutton soup to the east side of the front yard of the palace, which is the guard camp on the southeast side of the palace.

Kahn, who was in charge of the guards in the front yard of the palace, smelled the aroma of beef bone broth and mutton soup, so he followed the aroma to find it. Seeing that Marin's family is drinking beef bone soup and eating mutton steamed buns...

Immediately, Kahn became angry-he didn't call me if there was something delicious...Then, this guy ate half a pot of beef bone broth and ate several bowls of steamed mutton.

It made my stomach bulge...

Marin was just stunned—Nimma, this is the reincarnation of the idiot... Thinking that Xue Rengui, the god of war, is almost as virtuous, and uses a bucket to eat... Then, Marin was relieved—there have been so many idiots since ancient times...

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What makes Marin depressed is that Kahn not only eats a lot, but also has a big mouth. The next day, Kohler, Schwartz, Sauer, Haider and other direct descendants all salivated and ran to the backyard to drink soup...

These country bumpkins have never seen a soup that has been boiled for several days in a row, and they are astonished as heaven and earth after drinking it. Then, the practice of asking for dashi began. After all, in the cold weather of January, it’s not too refreshing to drink the extremely fragrant broth.

Marin didn't hide his secrets, so he told them how to make broth. Moreover, each family sent a briquette stove and a lot of briquettes.

Then, in the next few days, there was an extremely strong smell of broth in the houses of these guys...

These guys also love to show off. After successfully cooking beef bone broth and lamb soup, the group began to entertain guests at home and invite people to drink soup.

So, within a few days, all the nobles and officials in the city of Aurich knew one thing - Grand Duke Marin got a kind of portable coal-burning stove from the Eastern Empire, which can be boiled day and night Beef bone soup or lamb soup. After two or three days of cooking, you can get a very delicious thick and fragrant broth...

Then, many officials ran to the palace and asked Marin to reward a briquette stove...

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Marin was a little stunned—I obviously wanted to promote the briquette stove by making tea, but in the end, because I cooked beef bone broth and mutton soup, the briquette stove ignited?

Although the process was not the same as imagined, Marin still accepted the reality. Boil soup, just boil soup, anyway, it expands the influence of briquettes...

Therefore, Marin opened a store next to the Aurich Palace, responsible for selling briquette stoves and briquettes. Of course, matching tongs and thin wood boards for fans are also provided.

The price of the briquette stove, matching tongs and thin wood boards is not expensive, only a little higher than the cost price. However, the briquette business is what Marin values ​​most...

Although the price of coal is very low, the mining price is only 2 shillings to 2.5 shillings per Chaltron (approximately 1.5 tons to 1.7 tons). The selling price is generally 3 shillings to 4 shillings per Chartron.

And each briquette weighs 2.5 catties, and the coal consumption does not exceed 2 catties. That is to say, for every Chaltron coal (calculated as 1.5 tons), at least 1,500 briquettes can be made.

Marin intends to sell it at a price of 25 briquettes per pfennig. Then, 1.5 tons of coal can be sold at a price of 60 pfennigs, which is 5 shillings, which is 20% higher than the market price. Of course, this also includes the labor cost of making coal powder into briquettes, which is not black.

However, this is only for places with river transport. Because the cost of river transportation is low, it can guarantee that the price of coal will not rise much. But for those inland areas without river transportation. If the honeycomb coal is transported by horse-drawn carriage, the price will definitely exceed this price, and may rise sharply.

But fortunately, the coal production in the North Sea country is not too large. Even if only the areas around several major transportation waterways such as the Rhine, Ems, Weser and Elbe can sell briquettes, it is still a huge market.

Therefore, this industry does not rely on profit margins, but on volume...