The Rise of the European Emperor

A new year has arrived, however, in January 1508, it seems a little cold…

Generally speaking, July is the hottest month in the Northern Hemisphere and January is the coldest. . . Therefore, Marin has always felt that the Spring Festival is the most reliable. Because, after the "Spring" festival, it means that the "spring" day is coming. And the special New Year of the Western calendar, the January after the end, is cold and without, which makes people a little desperate.

Of course, he is a European now, so naturally he has to do as the locals do and celebrate the new year of the Gregorian calendar. But after the Western New Year, there was a cold 'wave' originating in Eastern Europe in northern Germany, which made the entire northern Germany freeze.

Normally, the northern part of Germany is weakly affected by the warm North Atlantic current, and the winter is not too cold, at most a few degrees below zero. However, in January this year, due to the influence of the cold wave in Eastern Europe, the temperature actually dropped below minus 10 degrees. In many areas, there were blizzards and it was extremely cold.

In modern times, cold is just cold. But in ancient times, cold weather meant that someone would freeze to death...

Sure enough, the reports sent from various places all reported that someone had frozen to death.

However, this is also impossible. Because, in this era, Europeans do not have down jackets, nor do they have cotton coats. As for quilts, there is no such thing. Because, in this era, Europeans have not used cotton 'flower' products.

As for quilts made of down, only nobles and wealthy merchants have them. And those serfs obviously didn't have the money to buy down quilts. And down jackets or something, not even the nobles.

It's not that the nobles can't afford down jackets, but that down products have a disadvantage - they are easy to get together...

The quilt made of down is okay, because it is flat, and the down is evenly distributed. However, if it is made into clothes, the wrapped down has a characteristic - it is easy to deposit down. In the end, the down of the down jacket was all piled up under the clothes...

Therefore, even nobles, in winter, can only wear a few more layers of wool 'wool' clothes to keep warm. Also, the effect is not very good.

In this kind of weather, most people basically huddle at home and sit in front of the fireplace to make a fire.

The problem is that in this era, the forest belongs to the nobility. Without the permission of the nobles, the peasants did not dare to go into the mountains to chop wood at will. Otherwise, if caught, no one will seek justice.

If they meet a kind-hearted aristocrat and face the cold, they may allow the peasants to go into the mountains to chop wood for warmth. If they are indifferent and ruthless, they don't care whether the people live or die. Moreover, in this era, the nobles who do not care whether the people live or die are the majority. Therefore, it is rare to meet a nobleman who cares about the life and death of the common people, and the serfs will be 'excited'.

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Relatively speaking, the situation in Beihai Kingdom is much better in other countries. Because, Marin popularized the adobe house and heated kang. At least, in the manor under Marin's name, every family lived in adobe houses and heated kangs with good thermal properties.

Moreover, for the serfs of his own estate, Marin is not stingy in allocating firewood to them. Therefore, when the severe cold came, only two people died in the manor under the name of Malin of Beihai Kingdom. Others, because of the heated kang hiding in the adobe house, were not greatly affected by the cold.

Most of the people who were frozen to death reported from various places were what happened in other noble manors, especially the original manor of the old nobles.

This is because most of the estates under the names of the ministers and generals under Marin's command are imitated by Marin's estates. Because it imitated Marin's manor, adobe houses and heated kangs were naturally promoted. Therefore, in the manor of Marin's military officials, very few people freeze to death.

Most of the original manors of the old noble families still retain their old habits. The houses where the serfs lived were still very dilapidated. Because they didn't get information from Marin's side, their serfs couldn't live in adobe houses with better warmth.

In fact, the cost of adobe houses is very low, and the 'sex' price is very high. However, those old nobles, because most of them were not reused by Marin, naturally could not share information with Marin and the new nobles under Marin.

Therefore, adobe houses, a low-cost and practical house, were not popularized in the manor of the old nobles. This time, a lot of people were naturally frozen to death by this type of extreme cold 'wave' that was once in a few decades.

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Although the cold 'tide' is raging, life still has to go on. Many people must also continue to work, otherwise, the whole society will be 'chaotic'.

For example, Marin and his ministers must work on a regular basis to deal with various problems. Of course, there is no shortage of stoves in the offices of Marin and his ministers.

There must be no kang in the office, nor can the fireplace be repaired. However, Marin popularized stoves with external chimneys to keep the office cool and not worry about stuffiness or even gas poisoning.

However, those who work outdoors are worse off. For example, the guards guarding the palace's "gate" were shivering with cold...

On the street, the employees who delivered food and other necessities of life also shivered from the cold. Basically, the pedestrians walking on the street trembled as they walked, as if they had a cerebral thrombosis.

Even when the officials got off work, the distance from the 'door' to the carriage was so cold that they shivered.

Marin felt that he should invent a thermal artifact...

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The first thing he thought of was cotton clothes, but there is no cotton 'flower' in Europe now. People who traveled through the Tang Dynasty could also get a lot of cotton 'flowers' from Gaochang. Marin now, not to mention that he has no cotton 'flowers' in his hand, even if he wants to go to Mexico to 'get' cotton 'flowers', it will take several months to go back and forth. At that time, it is estimated that it is summer. Who will use the cotton-padded clothes?

Therefore, to make a cold-proof artifact, the first condition is to have materials...

When he was covered with a velvet quilt at night, Marin naturally thought of a down jacket...

Down jackets are not made of velvet, but duck down. So Marin sent his men out to collect duck down the next day.

After collecting enough duck down, it is natural to sew down jackets. Fortunately, Marin had read the information in this regard, and also dismantled the old down jacket to play with. Therefore, he knew that a down jacket was actually a garment made of duck down sewn into separate small lattice spaces.

This method actually existed as early as the Tang Dynasty. Southerners in the Tang Dynasty "accepted" goose down and sewed it in a double-layered cloth. Each square where the needles and threads are 'interlaced' is an independent space separated from other squares. The squares have goose down...

However, this method was not popularized in ancient times. Because, after the Song Dynasty, cotton 'flowers' were promoted. With cheap cotton 'flower' quilts and clothes, the cumbersome goose down clothes and quilts were abandoned.

As for the heavier cotton coat? The productivity of the ancients was underdeveloped, and they paid more attention to the issue of cost, rather than the issue of whether the clothes were heavy... Therefore, this early down jacket was not popularized...

The modern down jacket was invented by foreigners after the First World War. A guy named Eddie Bauer found that after sewing duck down in a small square space enclosed by needles and threads, the resulting clothes no longer had the problem of down-depositing down in the past. Then, a modern version of the down jacket was introduced.

Compared with cotton-padded clothes, down jackets are light and breathable, and their warmth retention performance is not as bad as cotton-padded clothes. Then, this down jacket swept the world. In my country, it was only in the 1980s that some people began to wear them. At that time, who had opinions on down jackets, proper bosses or overseas relations...

After all, Marin ordered a tailor, who used two layers of thicker cloth to sew the spread duck down into small squares, and then made a down jacket that looked bloated.

After Marin wore it, he found that it was really warm. It's just that there is a smell of duck dung...

So, Marin took off the duck manure-smelling down jacket with great disgust, asked someone to find velvet and sewed a new down jacket. Sure enough, this high-grade velvet has no odor. But, it's expensive—a few pounds of velvet, worth ten gp...

That is to say, the cost of this velvet down jacket is as high as 10 gold coins... Counting the fabric, needlework and tailor labor, the estimated cost is 12 gold coins...

Therefore, Marin felt that it would be the most economical to treat the duck down with the smell of duck manure to remove the odor. Otherwise, if it's made of velvet, the average nobility can't afford to wear it...

Marin 'handed over' the task to the tanners, because they have the technology to remove the odor after processing the odorous animal hide. Although duck down is not leather, it is estimated that the odor can be removed by borrowing their technology and a little adjustment.

However, before the technology for removing the odor of duck down was developed, down jackets spread in the Beihai Guoliu society...

Because, wearing a down jacket, Marin strolled leisurely in the snow for a long time alone, and his appearance was not afraid of the cold, which attracted the attention of the ministers.

At first, everyone saw that Marin's down jacket was so bloated, and thought that Marin was wearing a heavy coat. As a result, Schwartz 'touched' the first time and found that the clothes were very light...

Then, Schwartz also "gets" a few pounds of velvet, and asks Marin to "get" a toll to process...

So, the next day, Schwartz also wore a down jacket, a pair of "I am very comfortable, I am very warm" look...

Then, all the high-level officials in the entire palace sent velvet and asked for processing...

They are not people who are short of money. When they see good things, they naturally want them. What's more, down jackets are very practical, allowing them to go out calmly in the cold weather.

These important officials and generals of Beihai Kingdom not only made down strands for themselves, but also down jackets for their families. Although the cost of 'spending' is quite high, their fiefs have adopted advanced agricultural technology, and their grain yields are very high. Therefore, they naturally have the money to splurge. The mere down jacket does not make them feel expensive.

In this way, down jackets quickly became popular in the Beihai national layer...\u003c/content\u003e

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