The Rise of the European Emperor

In the port of Emden, the young King Juan III of Castile, dressed in a mink coat, disembarked the ship shivering. This year, the northern part of Germany was suddenly cold, and King Juan did not expect it. Although I had prepared a mink coat before, I still felt a little overwhelmed.

"Welcome, Your Majesty Juan, the North Sea Kingdom is very honored by your presence! And you, Queen Margaret, the flower of our Holy Roman Empire!" Marin greeted him with a smile on his face, and stopped by the way. a gift.

Juan III did not put on airs, but gave Marin a warm hug:

"Marin, don't be so restrained, we are old friends!" King Juan is not as cunning as his parents, and in the circle of big nobles, he is relatively simple. Mainly, he was so well protected by his parents since he was a child that he had never seen any dark side. However, at present, Ferdinand II is strengthening the cultivation of his political means. Maybe in a few years, King Juan will not be so simple.

Also, Juan's wife, Margaret, is no fuel-efficient lamp. Many times, when Juan hesitated, he sought advice from Queen Margaret. And Margaret, in the original history, was also a female politician, and even the trainer of the European overlord Charles V.

Of course, both husband and wife feel very good about Marin. First of all, Juan's life was saved by Marin, otherwise he would have died. And Margaret came from Marin's old superior Habsburg family, and Marin has always had a good relationship. Therefore, both husband and wife have a very good attitude towards Marin.

King Juan and his wife in mink coats were taken aback when they saw Marin wearing a down jacket that looked very bloated:

"Grand Duke Marin, although the weather is a bit cold, you don't need to wear that thick, right?"

Down jackets are fluffy and look thick. Unknowingly, I thought the clothes were thick and heavy. Marin smiled, pointed to his clothes and said:

"Don't look too big, this kind of clothes is actually very light!"

Juan III didn't believe it, he squeezed it with his own hands and found that it was really fluffy and light, so he came to be interested.

After arriving at the Aurich Palace, Marin took out a spare down jacket and gave it to Juan III. Juan III happily put on the bloated down jacket. However, living in Spain, he doesn't really need such a big down jacket. Because the latitude of Spain is very low in Europe, it belongs to the southwest of Europe. Therefore, the climate in Spain is very warm, and this kind of cold weather is rarely encountered. So a mink coat or something is definitely enough.

Since it is a cold winter, it is naturally the best to eat hot pot. Because of the chili peppers, this time Marin brought a mandarin duck pot to the hot pot, half spicy and half not. Then, the ingredients for the shabu are mainly thinly sliced ​​beef rolls and lamb rolls.

Moreover, the mutton rolls are all from lamb. The so-called lamb meat refers to the meat of underage sheep. The juvenile lamb itself is very tender, but that's not the point, the point is - the meat of the juvenile lamb has no taint, or very little taint.

This is because, whether sheep or pigs, many strange smells actually come from the X hormones in the body after X development. The lamb's X organ is mature, and the body has no taste, and the meat is still very tender. Therefore, the nobles who are particular about food and drink generally eat lamb meat, rather than the mutton of adult sheep. Because the smell is too much...

There is also a kind of sheep with a lighter meat smell, that is Jieyang. Jieyang is a castrated ram, because the eggs have been cut, so the odor has also been reduced a lot. This is the same as raising pigs. In the past, pigs were not castrated, and the meat tasted strange. It was not as good as mutton, and only inferior people could eat it. And since humans learned to castrate meat pigs (regardless of male or female, as long as meat pigs are castrated), pork has no strange smell. If you have eaten old mother pork, you will find a strange smell, different from normal pork...

Of course, lamb is delicious, but don't watch the butcher kill the lamb, it's unbearable...

The lamb was so cute, but was caught and slaughtered by the butcher... That scene...

how to say,

Pigs are ugly, and the howls of being killed are ugly. Marin has seen them, but he doesn't sympathize with pigs. But the lamb is very cute. It looked very pitiful when it was slaughtered. It was the first time in my last life that I saw a lamb slaughtered. Marin almost rushed to stop the butcher from killing the sheep...

The simple truth is that if Sister Feng was publicly beheaded, no one would sympathize with her, who would call her... But if it was Bing Bing, it is estimated that there would be a lot of people who would feel pity...

Because of their high appearance, many celebrities will have a lot of fans forgive them even if they take a drug or mess around. If there was a uglier... everyone would have called the police...

...

After that, Marin never went to see the slaughtering sheep again. Anyway, just buy mutton rolls directly from the supermarket, don't worry about the process.

When Confucius said, "The gentleman is far away from the kitchen," probably because Confucius saw the scene of slaughtering sheep and felt very unbearable. But it’s impossible not to eat meat, so, instead of going to the kitchen to watch the slaughter of sheep, we just pretend to eat meat like ostriches…

...

This young couple seems to have different tastes. Juan III was not used to spicy food, but Queen Margaret liked it very much, and asked Marin a bottle of chili sauce to bring back.

After eating and drinking, Marin naturally took Juan III and Queen Margaret to see china and drink silk. Juan III had a special liking for blue and white porcelain. After Marin gave him a few pieces of blue and white porcelain, he refused to let go. And Queen Margaret had a soft spot for silk. However, raw silk could not attract her. What attracted Queen Margaret was a Nanjing Yunjin and a Suzhou embroidery, both of which were beautiful silk products.

After delivering the gifts, Marin asked them to show more of these things to the great nobles after returning to China, so that they could advertise for themselves. In this regard, the couple naturally have no opinion. Anyway, isn't porcelain and silk fabrics a sharp weapon to show off?

Moreover, Queen Margaret was very interested in the modified version of the 19th-century princess dress and the folk cheongsam that Angela wore, designed by Marin herself. When Malin saw it, he simply gave her two improved cheongsam princess dresses, which was considered an advertisement for himself. The cheongsam princess dress made of cloud brocade and Su embroidery will definitely set off a wave in the Spanish upper class, and the auction will be even hotter...

...

After picking out gifts, Marin suddenly pulled Juan III to the side, as if he had something to say...

Juan III was a little puzzled and asked:

"What's the matter, Duke Marin?"

Marin said in a mysterious tone similar to that of an Amway salesman:

"Your Majesty, have you heard of the Spice Islands?"

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