The Rise of the European Emperor

Marin never thought that he would be troubled by too much food, yes, Marin is very troubled by too much food now...

During the fall harvest last year, Marin had a total of 500 million pounds of new and used grain in stock that he did not sell. Then, Marin emigrated, bringing the total population of East Friesland to 150,000 people.

However, with 150,000 people eating food openly, only 100 million pounds of rye were consumed in one year, leaving 400 million pounds of inventory...

This year, the entire lower class of East Frisian was very happy. Because bread is really enough! Because there is too much food, Marin does not allow other things to be mixed with the food. The "Kohler Bread" mixed with straw bran also reduces the amount of adulteration.

150,000 people eat 100 million pounds of grain, with an average of 666.6 pounds of rye per person per year - what a terrifying number in Europe in this era!

Now, the nobility of East Frisian Country has started a new business - that is, to exchange stock rye for 5 times more expensive wheat, and then eat white bread made of wheat flour...

In other words, the wealthy aristocrats of East Frisian counties no longer seldom eat rye bread, but instead eat white bread made of wheat flour, which was more favored by medieval aristocrats... Then, when eating white bread, it must be coated with Enough butter, enough cheese...  

Unadulterated brown bread was once the favorite of the nobility and soldiers of East Friesland. However, when they are rich, they disdain to eat brown bread. Only by eating wheat bread can one show one's identity - this is really the thinking of the local tyrant...

In fact, Marin knew that, despite the bad taste of brown bread, it was nutritionally better than white bread made from wheat flour. It's just that he can't stop the local tyrants of his subordinates. After all, when people are rich, there must be a way to show their local tyrants, otherwise, it will be uncomfortable...

Just as Xiang Yu said, "Wealth and honor do not return to their hometown, such as brocade clothing at night, who knows?"...

In the same way, for these nobles, "the rich do not eat white bread, who knows me as a local tyrant?"

Not to mention these nobles, Angela and sister-in-law Felice also think it's time to eat white bread...

After all, other royal families all eat white bread, and we still eat brown bread, which is too expensive and does not meet the status of local tyrants...

Then, Marin went with the flow, eating white bread with it, dipping it in butter, and stuffing cheese into his mouth...

But, if you eat like this, don't you worry about gaining weight?

Not to mention the local tyrants whose homes are full of food, Marin himself has accumulated too much food. Last year, 400 million pounds of grain was stored, and this year, 480 million pounds of new grain was put into the warehouse... Aside from the 200 million pounds to be sold in southern Europe, there is still an excess of 680 million pounds of grain...

In order to preserve the food, Marin built another outer city in the north of the city of Aurich, and connected it with the city of Aurich. In this outer city, there are no people, only food...

Because of the mass production of cement, Marin used cement to build the city wall and build a new granary... The granary is made of cement and bricks, and the city wall is made of reinforced concrete...

Build an outer city to store food, and there is no one except Marin...

680 million pounds of grain, that's 300,000 tons of grain, and Marin has a headache how to consume this grain...

Although, he would love to use food to lure immigrants. However, he did not dare to tell others that he had 680 million pounds of food in storage! If you say that, there will definitely be nobles who will team up to rob... There are people who hate the rich in any age. Whether it is the poor or the nobles... 680 million pounds of grain, if sold at the price of 1 pfennig per pound, would be worth tens of millions of gold coins. Such great wealth, even those great nobles, are also mad with red eyes...

Therefore, Marin can only keep secrets and not talk nonsense. Fortunately, the exchanges between East Frisian counties and foreign countries mainly take place in the port of Emden. Aurich's side, there are very few people from other countries. Because even a businessman,

Aurich was also a businessman in the Chamber of Commerce formed by Marin. Moreover, Marin is rich in capital, and foreign businessmen are not involved in Aurich's business activities at all...

Moreover, when Marin built the outer city to store grain and transported grain, it was tightly shielded. The grain transport trucks were all equipped with wooden carriages, and outsiders could not see that they were transporting grain. Many people still I thought it was a building material...

Not only that, the North Outer City, which was specially used to store food, didn't have a single civilian in it. They were all militia guards formed by Marin's own serfs. They were relatively reliable and did not use hired mercenaries.

However, Marin really doesn't know what to do with these grains...

Even if the population of East Frisian reaches 300,000 people and everyone eats it openly, only 200 million pounds can be eaten a year...

And Marin didn't dare to give out food on the mainland, to prevent being targeted by people with intentions. Therefore, how to consume food has become a problem for Marin...

So, in order to relax, Marin took a few guards and went to play in his manor...

Coming to a manor not far west of Aurich, Marin rode his warhorse Karl and walked into the manor leisurely...

Suddenly, from the bushes on the side of the road, two wild boars chasing each other sprang out, scaring Karl a lot...

No...that's not a wild boar, it looks like a domestic pig...

"Whose pigs were not shut down properly, they all ran out and ran around!" Marin was a little angry. Suddenly two pigs sprang from the roadside, that is, in the manor. If they were in the wild, wouldn't they scare people to death? You know, wild boars are very ferocious...

Fortunately, Marin's mount Karl and his guards' mounts are both war horses and are not easily frightened. If it were replaced by a horse, maybe it would be scared and run wild...

Marin's guards were unhappy, and hurriedly called the person in charge of the manor to lecture. The village chief who was in charge of managing the manor (a special position set up by Marin, the village chief was actually a serf, but the head of the serf) replied tremblingly:

"Lord Earl, all pigs here are free-range, and it's been like this for thousands of years..."

Marling was stunned for a moment, and he suddenly remembered that pigs were raised in free-range Europe in the Middle Ages, unlike in the East, they were raised in captivity...

Why is this so? It wasn't because of the food issue that it caused trouble...

Eastern people raise pigs in captivity, as long as the pig is in the pigpen, waiting for the owner to feed it pig grass, grain bran, wheat bran and other grain by-products.

The grain yield in ancient China has always been relatively high, and the yield per mu is basically two or three hundred catties, and grain bran and wheat bran are also sufficient. So, they have enough food by-products to feed the pigs.

However, Europe is different. Because of the long-term low grain production, there is no condition to use wheat bran to feed pigs. Because the wheat bran is eaten by people...

In the black baguette, let alone wheat bran, there is a lot of dirt...

Therefore, Europeans simply cannot afford the luxury of feeding pigs with wheat bran...

Therefore, they chose to keep domestic pigs free, running wildly in front of and behind the house, and looking for grass to eat like sheep...

Of course, in order to prevent these pigs from harming crops, many pigs were driven into forests and raised away from cultivated land...

But in this way, many pigs became wild boars after getting lost in the forest... Of course, they are wild boars without tusks, and their temperament is between wild boars and domestic pigs...

For example, the famous Spanish ham uses pigs that are raised in oak forests. These pigs, in addition to eating grass, also eat acorns that have fallen under the oak forest. Then, the Spanish black pig, which has been eating acorns for a long time, will have a special meat taste. And another name for Spanish ham, also "acorn Iberian ham"...

However, Marin knew that it would not gain weight by letting pigs run wild in the wild all day long. After all, how can a pig who is exercising all day get fat? If you can't get fat, there is no oil and water. In ancient times, people liked to eat fatty meat. Because, unlike modern people, the ancients had salad oil or sesame oil to eat every day. They usually lack oil and water. When they eat meat, they will grab the fat meat to eat to supplement the body's oil and water...

Moreover, pigs were raised in this era in Europe, and meat pigs were not castrated. Pigs that are not castrated will not only have a peculiar smell, but also be restless. Because boars have male hormones and sows have estrogen, which will make pigs restless. Then, throwing wild cannons in the wild became their way of consuming their remaining energy. However, this will lose weight...

In ancient China, domestic pigs were all castrated by veterinarians. Whether it was a boar or a sow, as long as it was raised as a meat pig, it was castrated when it was a little older. After castration, pigs have no desires or desires, and without hormones, how can they still move? Coupled with the barrier of the pigsty, they will eat and sleep in the small pigsty, sleep and eat... Then, their bodies grow very fast, and all of them are fat... Moreover, the smell of pork is gone. ...

Since Marin became rich, he has been eating more beef and mutton. Moreover, even if he eats pork, he mostly chooses pork from young pigs (before the pig develops, the hormones have not been secreted, and the pork naturally has no peculiar smell), so he temporarily forgot about the need to castrate the pig... until Now, I just suddenly remembered...

Moreover, even if Marin thought about it before, it was useless. Because, there is not enough food to feed the pigs...

For pigs to grow well, food is indispensable. There are many pig farms near the big cities of later generations. The owners of pig farms drive their cars every day, go to restaurants in the city to collect the swill dumped by the restaurants, and then pull them back to feed the pigs. Although it smells bad, those swills are real food. Therefore, pigs are still very fat when eating.

Now, Marin is worried that there is too much food to consume. Then, he met a pig... No, he met... Anyway, he just thought about raising pigs...

Marin was also a rural child in his previous life. He knew that before the introduction of professional feed, pigs usually ate grass bran to maintain their lives. When they needed to gain weight, they fed high-nutrition grain bran and wheat bran. Of course, in spring and summer, it is also necessary to cut fresh and juicy pig grass to feed the pigs.

Anyway, there is a lot of food now, and these manors are all their own. So, Marin decided to start promoting domestic pigs in captivity...

After the pigsty was built, Marin would find a veterinarian to castrate the pigs raised as meat pigs. As for where to find a veterinarian? Is there anything better than Morigen and Battle?

Mongolian doctors are universal, they can not only treat people, but also animals...

Of course, both Mo Zhigen and Battelle were court doctors, and it would be a shame to ask them to castrate pigs all the time. Therefore, Marin decided to let Mo Zhigen and Bartle select the incompetent ones from their disciples and become veterinarians, specializing in castration of pigs. The two teachers first demonstrated, and then instructed the disciples who were not able to achieve the goal. In the future, this will be done by their incompetent disciples... Of course, during castration, Marin will add alcohol to clean the wound to prevent the pig from dying from infection...

As for the usual feed for pigs, it is naturally the bran crushed by ryegrass. Then, Marin will let the mill of his own estate separate the wheat bran from the rye when grinding the flour, and use it as a concentrate for feeding the pigs. And the black bread eaten by the serfs, the wheat bran can't be used - who said that Marin has more food... If you have money or food, you can be willful...

In addition, Marin also plans to plant more alfalfa. Usually, when the alfalfa grass is harvested, some alfalfa grass can also be cut as pig grass to feed the pigs. At the very least, these alfalfa grasses are more nutritious than those weeds. It must be very good for feeding pigs...

So, this is settled. Many estates have begun to build special pig pens for raising pigs. Then, Marin went to invite Morrigan and Bartle to castrate the pig...

When the two Mongolian doctors heard that Marin asked them to castrate the pigs, their faces darkened even more. Fortunately, Marin explained that in the future, this kind of thing will be handed over to their disciples who are not good at medical science. Otherwise, the two Mongolian doctors with excellent medical skills will almost turn their faces on the spot...

Although Mongolian doctors are also very good at veterinary medicine, they are taller and taller when they see a doctor, especially for aristocrats. When treating animals, one should always be one head shorter than the doctor who treats people. As court doctors, it was a bit humiliating for them to castrate pigs...

But Marin can't help it, because at this time in Europe, doctors who see a doctor are unreliable, let alone a veterinarian who sees a doctor? Therefore, he can only invite two masters to go out. Of course, I didn't let them do it often, just a demonstration in the early stage. From now on, the most unsatisfactory group of disciples in their name will do this...

Both of them have received hundreds of disciples, but not everyone has learned medical skills well. Some people are very talented, learn well and quickly, and they will definitely become good doctors in the future. There are also those who study very poorly and may be eliminated in the future, unable to see a doctor.

This kind of stuff, Marin felt that it was a pity to be eliminated. It would be better to arrange for the serfs who came to help the pigs to castrate the meat pigs...

So much so that Marin later divided the more than 200 disciples of Mo Zhigen and Bartle into three grades—the first grade, for the best in medical science, they would treat people in the future; the second grade, for the academics In general, they will treat cattle and horses in the future and become veterinarians; in the third level, the worst students are not even veterinarians, but only half a veterinarian, specializing in castration of meat pigs, and of course also in charge of treating pigs. If I can't figure it out, I go to a second-level veterinarian to take action...

In this way, Marin built more than 3,000 independent single-room pig sties in his own estate in East Frisian (there are too many pigs in the sty, and they will fight and consume physical strength. Raised more than 3,000 pigs. And Mo Zhigen and Bartle also selected the 30 most unpromising disciples, who will serve as low-level veterinarians who castrate and treat pigs in the future...