The Rise of the European Emperor

Remember [New] in a second! In fact, if you switch to German mercenaries, you won't be too repulsed by this kind of "French sawdust cake". why? The black baguettes eaten by German mercenaries are piled up with dirt and stones, which often break their teeth. It is not as good as this kind of bread made of grass and wood chips.

Therefore, from the film and television dramas of German mercenaries in later generations, German mercenaries are often seen drinking soup around a large pot. It's not that the soup is delicious, it may be wild vegetable soup. But not without soup. Because the black baguette is too hard to eat, it must be soaked in hot soup before eating. The "French sawdust cake" is just a choke, similar to stick noodles, and can be eaten directly.

But the Italians are different. Because of the warm southern Europe and the fertile volcanic ash soil, although the Italian region has many mountains, but limited plains and river valleys, it still produces more abundant grain than the German region. Besides, the Italians are good at doing business. Even if local food production is insufficient, cheap food can be imported from Eastern European countries.

Therefore, the appetite of the Italian mercenaries was also cultivated, and they were not used to this kind of rough bread. However, they have no choice. Besides, during the war, it’s good to eat something, but what about the taste?

The French are also ruthless. They add wild vegetables, but they just add wild herbs to save trouble. It looks similar to wild vegetables, but in fact the taste is very bad, and it is not considered a vegetable. Fortunately, they had a little bit of conscience left, and sent poor people to taste it, and those grass leaves with extremely bad taste were not mixed in.

However, the French were surprised to find out that the leaves of clover (that is, alfalfa grass) seem to be mixed into the bread, and the taste will not be reduced, and the source is very rich. It's very simple, just go to the pasture to snatch food from the mouths of cattle and sheep

This opened the door to a new world for the French, and then, it got out of hand

Since then, the French began to mix a lot of alfalfa leaves in bread. Baguette, also became pasture bread.

You must know that in this era, the level of agriculture in Europe was extremely poor, and one hundred pounds per mu of land was considered good. Used to make bread, a drop in the bucket. The baguette is similar to the German black stick, it can be used as a brick to hit people, and it is full of dirt and stones. If all flour is used, the poor will not be able to afford it.

And what about adding clover (alfalfa grass) leaves? There are thousands of pounds of alfalfa per mu, and thousands of pounds of hay. You don't need hay to make bread, you can use fresh grass leaves directly, and fresh alfalfa leaves from one mu of land can be mixed with flour from ten or twenty mu of land to make bread. The point is, the taste is not bad, much better than sawdust and grass chaff.

Then, affected by this incident, the romantic France became the grass-eating France

Then, the French livestock industry was greatly affected. why? The grass that the cattle and sheep eat has been robbed.

"Fuck!" The news was sent back to Aurich, and Marin not only sighed. What the hell, the French in the 16th century were so good at keeping healthy? I have learned to eat grass

Of course, the information sent back by John Lafite shows that,

This kind of pasture bread is only accepted by the poor at the bottom, after all, it is for survival. The nobles and priests resolutely refused. Because they think it is an insult to their identity to eat the same thing as livestock.

Marin was greatly relieved. Fortunately, the French nobles did not accept it.

What Marin is most worried about is that France has since solved the problem of military ration shortage. After all, the yield of fresh alfalfa is dozens of times that of rye. Even if only leaves are used and no grass stems are used, the input of more than ten acres of wheat can be reduced.

If the French military rations use a large amount of alfalfa leaves, it will solve a big problem. At that time, the French violent soldiers can be as many as one hundred and two hundred thousand.

Although the French nobles and priests refused to eat bread with pasture, Marin still felt unsafe. So he sent out spies to make a big splash in French taverns, belittling the practice of eating pastured bread.

After thinking for a long time, Marin came up with a solution. He viciously asked his subordinates to spread the word in France that pasture is for animals. If they eat too much pasture for animals, even if they go to heaven after death, they will still be in heaven. in the barn. Because, you have become a beast of heaven. Then, slaughtered at will by the people living in heaven

I have to say that Marin's propaganda is too vicious. Many devout Christians have begun to boycott pasture-made bread. Even, they don't refuse to eat soil or stones, but they just refuse to eat bread with grass added, although the taste of alfalfa leaves is not bad.

As a result, a food revolution in France was beaten back to its original shape by the insidious Marin. But many people don't know that when Marin just crossed, because he was so hungry, he even grabbed wild grass with his war horse Karl to eat. At that time, the war horse Karl was stunned—why did the master grab grass with me? However, this is a secret, and Marin is never right to tell others. Otherwise, it would be too detrimental to the glorious image.

Marin's own propaganda is not counted, and he secretly contacted the Pope's father-in-law to ask him to question the behavior of mixing pasture in bread on various occasions. Moreover, he also ambiguously agreed with the statement that "if you eat too much pasture, you will go to heaven and live in the heaven barn". Driven by the spies of the North Sea State, the news spread quickly. Then, the French practice of making bread from hay was hit hard.

However, Charles, the cunning Earl of Nantes, did not want to give up the practice of adding grass to bread. Because, this can save a lot of food and money for the Kingdom of France.

So, he imitated Beihai country's method of grinding rye stalks into chaff, and had someone quietly chop up the alfalfa leaves and make them into fine powder. In this way, the Italian mercenaries will not recognize this as pasture. Then, add a small amount of ordinary wild vegetables, and you will get away with it.

But in France, they didn't do that. After all, Italians have nothing to do with being cattle of heaven. But if the news of the people in his own country becoming livestock gets out, the throne of François I will be affected.

Seeing that a "food revolution" was being suppressed, Marin was also relieved. why? Damn, everyone is eating grass, who will buy the grain of Beihai country. When the time comes, won't the grain be thrown into the hands?

Therefore, Marin does not allow everyone to eat grass, no matter from the perspective of defending against the adequacy of French military rations or the perspective of grain sales in the North Sea country. Even in Beihai, Marin united with the church, forbidding people to eat grass, and officially endorsed that it would indeed become livestock.

Christians don't talk about the afterlife, but they will go to heaven or hell after death. People go to heaven to enjoy blessings, but they don't want to be animals, even if they are animals in heaven.

Fortunately, Marin has a father-in-law who is the Pope, who has the endorsement of the Holy See, and most Christians believe it. Only a small number of ungodly people will add alfalfa to bread regardless of their care. However, such people are a minority after all, and they dare not eat grass openly.

In this way, through a series of means and the help of the Holy See, Marin successfully curbed the French's revolutionary behavior of adding grass to bread, and also kept the food market.

However, this also brought some negative issues. That is - the grass chaff in the Kohler bread is also grass. The people of Beihai country had eaten Kohler bread for a long time, and there was a panic in Beihai country of "worried about entering the barn of heaven after death".

Fortunately, Marin had Archbishop Taylor, the biggest fool in Beihai, and Archbishop Taylor came forward to fool him. It was an explanation—the chaff in Beihai was made of grain rye straw, not pasture. If people eat it, they will not become a paradise. or regional livestock.

Marin heaved a sigh of relief, and finally he didn't play off and bit himself back