The Rise of the European Emperor

In the Atlantic Ocean, a Kirk sailing ship is chopping the waves. This is a boat returning from Grenada. Since Marin collected all the warships, the only way to communicate with the colonies is the Kirk sailboat. Fortunately, there are no pirates making trouble in America in this era. Because gold and silver in America have not yet been developed.

The boat was loaded with rice and ginger, a total of five bags of rice and one bag of ginger, each weighing 100 pounds. This autumn, Grenada has also had a bumper harvest... No, there are no seasons in Grenada, and the harvest can be harvested in all seasons. It's just that, in autumn, there happened to be a wave of harvests.

Although sugarcane was also harvested, all the sugarcane was used to grow new sugarcane seedlings. Therefore, this time, no sugar cane was shipped back, let alone sucrose. However, by raising seedlings, Old George expanded the sugarcane planting area from the initial two acres to 200 acres. As you can imagine, next year will definitely be a bumper year.

The only problem is that there are few colonists and there is not enough feces...

Yes, the feces are not enough. Fewer people will have less excrement, and less raw materials will be used to make manure. By then, there will be insufficient fertilizer. Therefore, old George scratched his head a little. In order to obtain enough feces, Old George also actively and enthusiastically helped the large yard where the Bukas live to build a lot of toilets. Every few days, people are sent to the Bukas compound to collect excrement and transport it to the fertilizer factory.

But this is not enough, because the cultivated area has expanded, but the population has not grown much. Therefore, Old George let the ship that transported the cattle back to the mainland of Europe, and asked Marin for guidance. Because, Old George believed that as Marin, who had been instructed by Daxian, there must be a way...

The captain, bald-headed Aben, led the Kirk sailboat to dock in Emden, and immediately landed, took five bags of rice and a bag of ginger, and went to Aurich.

Seeing Aben coming, Marin was very happy, and quickly pulled him to ask about the situation in Grenada.

"My lord, the situation on Grenada Island is very good at present. The cultivated land has expanded a lot, and the timber has piled up into mountains and cannot be used. Moreover, this year, Governor George also led his soldiers to defeat the Caribs five times. They attacked and captured 100 slaves. However, Governor George lacked shackles and asked me to send 500 more shackles when I came back."

In the face of the shortage of population, Old George also had an idea and thought of a way to capture the prisoners. Those cannibalistic Caribbean soldiers were also captured 100 prisoners by old George. It's just that the shackles that limit them are missing. At present, old George does not let them work, but keeps them locked up. What are you keeping? Collecting excrement... Because these Caribbean prisoners of war have a ferocious temperament, Old George dare not let them out to work for the time being, and will not dare to drive them until they are shackled. After all, they are all cannibals...

"Is there anything else missing there?" Marin asked with concern.

"Mr. George said something inexplicable to me..." Aben touched his bald head, expressing incomprehension.

"He said...the most lacking thing on Grenada Island is excrement..." Aben was born as a fisherman and didn't know the role of excrement in agriculture. In addition, Marin deliberately blocked the news, so he didn't understand and felt very puzzled.

"What? Lack of feces?" Marin was puzzled at first, but quickly came to his senses.

He understood that a lot of arable land must have been cultivated on the island, but the amount of excrement is limited, because the number of immigrants is limited, and each person can only pull that much every day, so fertilization is not enough. Unlike the native, Marin brought in a lot of immigrants and could get enough feces. Even the tens of thousands of Polish cattle produce a lot of cow dung every day...

"Yes, cows...and horses and sheep...no, and pigs...all are good at pulling dung..."

Marin thought of a countermeasure in a blink of an eye...

Human feces are not enough, right? Let's develop animal husbandry at the same time! Raise more livestock and let the livestock pull together, won't there be enough manure?

Marin began to think of raising cattle,

But the cattle raising cycle is too long, and the herd growth is too slow. Fewer cows produce less manure. Finally, Marin thought about raising pigs...

On the island of Grenada, the four seasons are like summer, and there is no shortage of green plants. Therefore, when raising pigs there, tender hogweed can be fed all year round, which is better than the conditions in temperate regions. Of course, it's the food condition. The only problem is that it is too hot over there to prevent the pigs from dying. Fortunately, there are no poisonous insects in Grenada, and they will not kill pigs...

Moreover, pigs grow fast and reproduce fast. If you eat a lot every day, there will be a lot of natural pig manure. At that time, pig manure is also a good fertilizer...

Malin remembers that when he was a child, the peasants in the village had not yet set off an upsurge of working. At that time, almost every family raised pigs. They often build a large pool with a rain-proof roof by one or several families to store pig manure and human manure scooped out of the latrine. Before the crops are planted, the mixed and fermented manure will be dug out of the pond and put into the fields as base fertilizer, and then the land will be cultivated. And because they eat a lot, the manure produced by two pigs is definitely no less than that of a family of five.

Therefore, raising more pigs can definitely solve the problem of insufficient manure. But the premise is that the food should be abundant. Otherwise, what would be beaten into bran and fed to pigs? There was no problem in ancient China, but not in ancient Europe. In ancient Europe, the grain yield was too low, and the wheat bran was eaten by people and not used as pig feed. Of course, there is no problem in Grenada, where there are green grass all year round, and pigs can eat pig grass.

After making up his mind, Marin pulled Aben and instructed:

"Well, Aben, after you rest for a while, go to Grenada again and send 300 pigs there. Of course, it's piglets..." If you send 300 big fat pigs, the daily consumption of feed is astonishing. There may not be enough on the boat. But sending 300 little pigs is different. Small pigs are small and eat less. After a few months of sailing, although they will grow up, they will eat much less than simply taking big pigs there.

These piglets are not castrated, but are used for breeding. So, more sows and less boars. When the land is reached, it will be used for large-scale reproduction, which can not only produce pig manure, but also provide pork.

To this end, Marin wrote a letter on the spot. In the letter, Marin told Old George to the west that a separate pigsty must be built, and that these pigs should not fight each other and waste their energy. Moreover, the pigsty should pay attention to preventing high temperature and try to build it under the shade of trees to avoid the pigs being killed by heat.

It's just that Marin remembered the Taihu pig raised in his previous life...

The native European pigs of this period were small in size and had fewer cubs per litter, only five or six. Unlike Taihu pigs, which only give birth to a dozen or so in one litter, the population expands rapidly. Moreover, the body size of Taihu pigs is also much larger than that of European native pigs in this era, and naturally produces more meat...

But now there are no Taihu pigs in Marin's hands, and even the breed of Taihu pigs has not yet been formed in Daming. But the source of its varieties must be in the surrounding area of ​​Taihu Lake, otherwise it will not be called this name. However, in order to obtain such a variety, one must open the Daming trade route first...

As for raising sheep in Grenada, Marin never thought about it. Because sheep are covered in thick wool. It’s fine in temperate regions, but when you go to the tropical island of Grenada, it’s easy to get heatstroke... Just imagine, a person wearing a down jacket is warm and comfortable in Siberia, but when he goes to the equator in a down jacket, he will faint from the heat…

Sheep are covered in thick wool, like a man wearing a down jacket. Running to the hot and humid island of Grenada can be hard to adjust to. Therefore, it is better to raise pigs on tropical and humid islands like Grenada.

However, Marin remembered that since Grenada will have a shortage of feces, the same will happen to the North American Twin Islands and Cape Breton Island, which are colonies. It's just that it hasn't been reported over there yet. But Amerigo Island and Cape Breton Island are both temperate islands, which are suitable for large-scale sheep and cattle raising, and also suitable for raising horses. There are many more choices than Grenada...