The Rise of the European Emperor

In fact, Marin is quite helpless now. Because, he felt that there was too much food. What is the concept of food that can feed seven or eight million people? This year, there are only about 12 million people in the entire German region. The Kingdom of France, the most populous country in Western Europe, has more than 15 million people.

If the food production is doubled, it will be more than enough to feed so many people in France, let alone the North Sea country with more than 2 million people? I took a lot of food to make wine in time, there is still a lot more...

In this era, Marin is probably the only monarch in the world who is worried about too much food. Even the Ming Empire, whose food production far exceeded that of Europe, did not dare to be so arrogant. Because the population of the Ming Empire was also too large, and the consumption was also large, which offset the high-yield effect of grain. Of course, the high yield of the Ming Dynasty was equivalent to the level after the use of volcanic ash, at most a little higher. Where, like Beihai country, the farmland with all three fertilizers is used, and the yield per mu is as high as five or six hundred pounds. This level could only be reached by the most fertile rice fields in the south of the Yangtze River in the Ming Dynasty. However, the yield per mu of rice is always higher than that of wheat. The yield per mu in the north of the Ming Dynasty was only two to three hundred catties, which was only better than volcanic ash feed.

Of course, Marin's volcanic ash fertilizer is not just volcanic ash. He also mixed some potassium salt and phosphate fertilizer in it, so the effect is much better than ordinary volcanic ash. Otherwise, general volcanic ash generally cannot achieve the effect of 200 pounds per mu, which is only a few tens of pounds. But the yield per mu is much better than no fertilizer.

Because there is too much food, Marin has decided to gradually reduce the grass bran content in "Kohler bread". Even, the wheat bran is screened out during flour grinding, and then used as feed for pigs.

Now, Beihai has Taihu pigs that breed super fast. At that time, pigs will be promoted in various farms, so that there will be no shortage of meat in Beihai.

Right now, because Taihu pigs have started to be bred on a large scale, the aristocrats in Aurich Palace and Aurich City have fully replaced the original European native pork with pork from Taihu pigs.

As for why? Because the pork of Taihu pig is more delicate, it is more suitable for cooking, and it is more oily...

European native pork is a bit woody and tastes bad. Therefore, most of the pork in Europe is made into bacon, bacon and ham. Such rough food conceals the shortcomings of poor taste of European native pork. Taihu pigs do not have this shortcoming. They have a delicate taste and a high fat content, making them very popular.

This is one of the best pig breeds in China. Although it tastes good, it has a lot of fat. This is a disadvantage in later generations, but in this era of general lack of oil and water, it is an out-and-out super advantage.

In fact, the pork taste of Taihu pig is better than the lean pork that Marin bought before traveling in his previous life. The kind of white pig imported from Europe and the United States with a large body and a high lean meat percentage does not have the aroma of black pork when cooked in braised pork. Otherwise, Ding Shitou from NetEase would not have raised black pigs.

The braised pork made from black pork has an excellent taste and is rich in oil and water. Rich people like Marin may not be used to eating fatty meat, but every time the braised pork made of Taihu pork and pork is served in the basin, the soldiers always quickly grab all the fat meat first, followed by fat and thin pieces of meat. Finally choose lean meat...

There is no way, these days, apart from the nobles, those fighters who were born as civilians are generally in short supply. When encountering Taihu pigs that are very rich in oil and water, they naturally grab them.

In particular, the Beihai ** team has high-intensity physical training every day, which consumes a lot of energy. Therefore, fat meat is especially popular in military camps.

But the nobles of the city,

Because I don't run at least 5 kilometers a day like soldiers, and my physical energy consumption is small. Therefore, many people eat Taihu pork, and their stomachs start to grow.

If the civil servant has a big belly, Marin doesn't think so. But many generals also got big belly, and Marin was upset. In this way, how will you lead troops to fight in the future?

Then, Marin ordered to organize a football game among the officers, and let those middle-aged officers play in person, and they would have to endure for 90 minutes. After 90 minutes of kicking, even if you often paddle and scatter on the court, your physical energy will be exhausted. In this way, the danger of middle-aged officers getting out of shape was avoided.

As for the civil servants, Marin made badmintons for them, allowing them to play badminton and exercise their bodies when they have nothing to do. Originally, Marin planned to promote table tennis. It's a pity that the manufacture of table tennis is too difficult, and Marin couldn't make it, so he had to make a relatively simple badminton.

Badminton has very low requirements on the venue, and it can be played on the open space in front of and behind the house. Therefore, the sport quickly became popular. Not only is it popular among civilian officials, but many military commanders also like to fight.

But Marin believes that generals need to know how to cooperate and tactics. Therefore, football is more suitable for generals. Then, he forced all generals to play football. Only the families of civil servants and generals are allowed to play a literati sport like Wan badminton.

Moreover, generals who do not play football well will be punished. For example, the whole team must each sing a song in public. If you can't sing, you will be punished to bark like a dog...

How many of these big bastards are good at singing? Singing is the scene of a car accident, which makes people laugh out loud. Therefore, most people are not willing to lose easily. Otherwise, you will be ashamed in front of all the soldiers. If you often lose face in public, how will you lead the team in the future?

With this kind of shame, these generals prefer to use their brains to make tactics when they usually play football, so as not to lose face when they lose. Especially those middle-aged generals, in order to win without shame, it can be said that they racked their brains and came up with tactics one after another. And it is precisely because of this habit that they often like to think about tactics in future wars and defeat their opponents in the most trouble-free way.

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In addition to the great development of the pig raising industry, the hatching rate of chickens, ducks and geese has been greatly improved due to the emergence of kang houses in Beihai.

Needless to say, because the North Sea country promotes civilian education, there is a huge demand for quill pens. Therefore, the goose raising industry has developed rapidly in Beihai. Moreover, in addition to the large feathers of geese that can be used as quills, the smaller feathers can also be used to make feathers for badminton, or as arrow feathers. Therefore, the goose industry is a promising gold industry.

As for raising chickens and ducks, they are important industries that provide poultry eggs. In order to obtain enough eggs, Malin specially asked people to introduce reed chickens with a high egg production rate from the Ming Dynasty, and also introduced Gaoyou ducks that were good at producing double-yolk eggs.

Needless to say, eggs and so on must be fresh eggs to supply the market. The duck eggs produced by Gaoyou Duck are naturally used to pickle salted duck eggs. Later generations of Marin like to drink porridge and eat salted duck eggs in the morning. It feels very refreshing to have a lot of butter flowing out of the salted duck eggs when you pull out the chopsticks...