The Rise of the European Emperor

When forging French silver coins before, Marin deliberately had his staff make rough molds. Moreover, when pressing the coins, the screw press does not use its full force, resulting in the pressed French "silver coins" that are relatively rough and look like hand-made.

But to make brass coins for the country, Marin didn't have to make the mold rough on purpose, but ordered the craftsmen to pursue exquisiteness and precision. In this way, it is difficult for others to imitate it. It is very difficult to engrave exquisite patterns on a copper coin weighing only 1.5 grams, which is tantamount to dancing on the palm of your hand. Therefore, those traditional hand-made coins are often of uneven quality. After all, people make mistakes. The machine does not, as long as the mold is not damaged, the copper coins that are pressed are the same. Moreover, the protruding fonts can be suppressed deeper, just like the steel seals of later generations.

Don't look at copper is very hard, but if the temperature is high, copper becomes very soft. As long as you get an annealing furnace and heat the cut round copper sheet to more than 700 degrees, the copper sheet will be very soft. At this time, use the clip to put the copper sheet into the coin press, turn the screw column to press it hard and quickly, and you can do whatever pattern you want. Moreover, the pattern is exquisite and precise, and the marks are very deep.

This cannot be done by hand. Why? Because hand-made is very slow. Take the copper sheet out of the annealing furnace, knock it a few times and the temperature will drop below 700 degrees. Then, the copper that was originally softened gradually hardened, making it very difficult to process. Machine suppression is different. Because it takes only a short time to press successfully, it can be guaranteed that the mechanical processing is completed before the copper sheet is softened.

Sure enough, the copper coins of the nine-cross golden eagle processed by the mint are of very good quality. Its patterns and characters are not only exquisite and precise, but also the depth of the patterns and characters are almost the same as those of gold coins. However, if the purity of gold coins is high enough, they are very soft, and craftsmen can naturally beat them to a certain depth by hand. However, the current impure silver coins and copper coins are often difficult to achieve by hand because of their high hardness.

In addition, the copper coins are made of brass, and they are shiny and golden, causing many people to almost mistake them for gold coins. Fortunately, gold coins are generally 3.56 grams, much larger than this 1.5-gram small copper coin. Otherwise, it is easy to be misunderstood.

After making a batch of small copper coins, the mint suddenly announced that the copper was in an emergency. It turned out that the copper ore reserves in the metallurgical plant are limited, and the copper ingots are more. However, it is difficult to directly use copper ingots for smelting brass. In desperation, Marin ordered a large amount of refined copper ore powder from the Fayilun Copper Mine, which had taken back half of its shares, for the smelting of brass. As for the first batch of tens of thousands of small brass coins, Marin asked Kohler to send them to Emden, the core trading port of the North Sea Country. As for the first object of use, it is naturally the tavern. After all, a penny can buy a lot of beer in bulk. Change it to 8 copper coins for wine, and the amount is more moderate... Then, the large-scale promotion of copper coins can only wait until the copper can be produced in large quantities...

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When Marin was working on brass coins, it was the spring of March. This season happens to be the busy season of spring ploughing. Except for Manhattan Island, which specializes in growing winter wheat, and tropical colonies that do not need to consider the season, the North Sea country, and the colonies in North America are all busy with spring plowing this season.

Unlike sheep killing males and leaving females, cattle are draught animals, and bulls are the main force, even if they are castrated.

Therefore, the bulls of Beihai Kingdom, except for a few strong bulls without horns, survived because of the need to save seeds. The other bulls were stabbed in the crotch... and then they had copper rings on their noses...

Next, it's the work of taming the cows. It's fine if you obey, but if you don't...it can only be made into beef...

As for cows, although they can't keep up with bulls, they can still work. They just have less strength, but they are better than no animals. The most important thing is that cows can give birth to calves...

Moreover, what is different from previous years is that the fields of Beihai Kingdom, mainly the fields of old provinces such as East Frisian, have reappeared for ploughing horses...

Before,

Because cattle farming has always been advocated, and the source of cattle is very sufficient, Marin does not look down on those draught horses that are expensive to raise. Therefore, the first few thousand draught horses in East Friesland were either used to pull carts, or they were sent to the twin islands of North America, where they were used to breed mules with donkeys.

Even, Marin also intends to implement the system of cattle farming instead of horse farming for other North Sea countries other than East Frisian, in order to further save the cost of feeding.

But Mikel's remarks awakened Marin - although the cost of raising horses is expensive, there is also a lot of arable land. For Marin, which lacks population, it is the most reasonable to use horse farming, instead of considering the cost of feeding...

Then, Marin's attitude changed drastically, and he made a huge adjustment in this year's spring ploughing - manors with enough labor continued to use cattle for farming, and more cattle were allocated; , the horse farming is mainly used...

In addition, Marin used hard and semi-hard means to replace all the estates of the former aristocrats and Junker landlords who were not his own to the province of Bremen. Even the fiefs of the former nobles of Oldenburg and the Duchy of Schleswig, who had stood aside before, were also replaced by the province of Bremen. In this way, the province of Bremen has become a concentrated area of ​​abandoned people.

However, unlike exiles in other countries, these abandoned nobles did not suffer at all when their fiefs were transferred to Bremen Province. Because the land in Bremen Province is also quite fertile, no less than the land before them. The only bad thing is that Marin won't open up new farming techniques to them. In this way, the output will not go up. However, for the curved plough, Marin still shared it with them. After all, the curved plough only saves animal power and improves the efficiency of arable land, and has little impact on crop yields.

But this also shocked those nobles who stood aside. They even thought it was Marin's agricultural secret. However, no one dared to leak the secret casually. After all, Marin's ruthless heart is not a joke. Influenced by the ancient Chinese culture, Marin likes to "slash the whole family" when killing aristocrats. One nobleman commits a crime, and the whole family is killed. Therefore, these living nobles are already afraid of being killed, how dare they betray Marin casually?

Moreover, Marin is equivalent to giving up the province of Bremen, and casually those nobles are tossing in the province of Bremen. Even the aristocrats who were originally restricted from freedom and concentrated in Las Vegas City, Marin allowed them to return to their manor. Of course, the replacement to the estate in the province of Bremen.

However, many nobles have adapted to the luxurious life in Las Vegas and are no longer willing to return to the country manor. In this regard, Marin's attitude is - at will, as long as you don't recruit the army to engage in rebellion, or commit crimes, you can do anything else... In addition, if you want a woman, tell Las Vegas and pay in advance. Deposit, I can help bring some beautiful hair girls here...

That is to say, Marin has decided to give up Bremen Province and use it as an area where the old nobles are kept in captivity. Of course, there are areas in Bremen that are not part of the old noble manor, and Marin does not care. However, new agricultural technologies were not easily promoted there, lest the old aristocrats find it unfair. However, the curved plough and cattle, Marin still provided enough. After all, there is really no shortage of cattle now. The Crimean Khanate now supplies tens of thousands of cattle every year, and Marin has cattle in his hands.

Even, because of Marin's behavior, the Crimean Khanate reduced the number of looting. why? Who wants to go out and work hard when there is a chance to make money peacefully? Now, Crimea has expanded the scale of cattle breeding. The reason why I always went out to rob people before was because other countries were more resistant to the Tatars and were unwilling to trade with them. And the Turks who are willing to trade with the Crimean Tatars have no shortage of cattle and sheep at all, they only need the women and children seized by the Crimean Khanate... Then, because of the market demand, the Crimeans I had to rob the population of Eastern European countries...

How to say, market demand determines everything. The Crimean Khanate is a country that sees money, and the market needs slaves, so they go to Eastern European countries to grab the population. When the market demanded cattle, they turned into herdsmen and went to herd the cattle.

Of course, the demand for Maomei and Maozi (Maozi's children, referred to as Maozi) in Turkey is also very stable. Therefore, now the Crimean Khanate is grazing cows and robbing Maomei and Mao children. Of course, there is also Eunuch Mao. It is said that Mr. Mao is also quite popular in the market now. After all, Mr. Mao is strong and able to work, so he doesn't have to worry about being green, and Turkish bearded people can use it with confidence... Even some rich Turkish families from ordinary people also like to buy Mr. Mao as a slave to help Sheep...

Then, under the fascination of the Crimea, and the fact that Beihai Kingdom lacked population, he wanted to buy Maomei and Mao children in large quantities. As for Eunuch Mao, it seems that you can also buy some...

Mao Mei is beautiful and strong, and can be a wife to a young man from Beihai. At the same time, it can also be a woman for the colonists, and giving birth to a child is the population of Beihai Kingdom. Usually, the strong Maomei can also help with work. As for furry children, Marin only needs to be under the age of 8. Because, such a small child can be raised and become a real citizen of Beihai. If it is too young, it will be unfamiliar.

As for Eunuch Mao, Marin did not dare to buy more. why? Because these father-in-laws were forcibly castrated when they became adults, they must have a lot of resentment in their hearts, and they have their own mature values, and it is difficult to return to their hearts. If you buy too many and let them form a group, you might get revenge on the society...

It's just that Marin suddenly thought of a good place to put his father-in-law -- the Senegalese grasslands...

It was really difficult for Marin to let the black uncles hunt rhinos. After all, these black uncles were not smart enough to ride horses. Even if Marin sent a team to teach them, they didn't necessarily learn it. And those Mao Gonggong are different, they come from the savannahs and savannahs of Eastern Europe. It is very convenient to send them to hunt rhinos in the Senegalese grasslands. After all, many of these grandfathers can ride horses and use modern equipment. Even if it doesn't, it's quick to teach.

Unlike the local black natives, if you give them muskets, you may not be able to hit them. For example, how poor are the combat effectiveness of the armies of those black countries in later generations in Africa? They use firearms, basically not aiming. The large-scale use of AK47 is because AK can fool the enemy. As for precision aiming shots? Sorry, just look at the shooting posture of African black buddies holding AK, and you will know whether they can shoot accurately - regular troops in other places are holding guns in both hands, stooping forward, and using bunkers from time to time. And the black uncles stood there directly, holding the AK above their heads in ecstasy, completely shooting... Often after a battle of mutual shooting, a lot of bullets were knocked out, but few people died, just listening to the sound of the AK ...

Therefore, although Marin has developed a steel ball bullet specially designed to deal with rhinos, he still needs a reliable shooter to use it. If you use a musket with low accuracy for the local black buddies, it is estimated that the shooting accuracy is comparable to that of the national football team. And Eunuch Mao's shooting talent is stronger than that of the black buddies...

However, Marin did not know that it was this batch of Eunuch Mao that he sent to teach the locals to ride horses and shoot. Then, the indigenous people of Senegal grew into the most powerful force in West Africa. Even, in the myths and legends of later generations, this group of Mao Gonggong became the "envoys" sent by God to guide the black buddies in Senegal. It's just a pity that those gods don't look down on the black girls in Senegal, otherwise, it's better to keep a "god seed"... (Mao's father-in-law is crying and fainting in the toilet - the paralysis labor has been cut off, how to save the seed? ...)