The Rise of the European Emperor

With the efforts of the spies of the Beihai Chamber of Commerce, the "cousin hooked up with the cousin and killed the cousin" story was widely spread in France, and gradually began to spread to other countries.

However, with the communication level of this era, it is a bit difficult to spread across Europe in a short period of time. But with the help of Marin's spies, the speed of spread is not slow. Moreover, Marin does not need this rumor to spread everywhere in Europe, it only needs to spread to the capitals of all countries, so that the monarchs and senior nobles of all countries can know. In the final analysis, this is just to create momentum for Edward to send troops to Scotland. If it can spread throughout the capitals of various countries, even if the goal has been achieved.

As for Marin himself, he began to train 15,000 infantry fighters from southern mountain people selected by Schwartz. After all, they come from different troops and need to adjust to each other.

In addition, in order to enable them to adapt to the rapid march in the mountains, Marin has begun to train them to be armed cross-country. Now, the spring plowing in the North Sea country has roughly ended, and these selected fighters have also begun to gather near Aurich to start the training camp.

Although there are plains near Aurich, there are no mountains. However, Marin still found a hilly area near the province of Oldenburg in the east, allowing soldiers to train armed cross-country and "over the mountains".

In fact, these mountain people have the foundation to climb mountains and mountains, after all, they grew up in the mountains. However, they are still not familiar with climbing mountains and mountains in a team mode on such a large scale. And what Marin trained them was the habit of helping and supporting each other in the mountains and mountains. After all, crossing mountains and mountains is very dangerous. If we don't help each other, accidental casualties will inevitably occur. However, if specific targeted training has been done, the probability of casualties can still be greatly reduced.

Even Marin himself participated in the simulated training of climbing mountains and mountains. Because, he decided to direct this raid by himself...

As for why he chose to go out in person, Marin has considered repeatedly. If it is an ordinary dispatch of troops to fight, the implementation of Watts is enough to replace his own command.

However, this military operation was too risky. Because Marin used sneak attack tactics. The point of this tactic is to be quick, and sneak up on the opponent from behind without anyone noticing.

Because it needs to be fast, and it needs to cross mountains and mountains, the army will definitely not carry too many supplies. As for rations, even if you carry compressed biscuits that are easy to carry, everyone will carry a maximum of ten days of rations. No matter how much, it is not suitable to climb mountains and mountains with your back.

And this is also the problem. If the sneak attack is successful, the army can enter the city of Siena to obtain new supplies. If the sneak attack fails... With the amount of dry food they carry, once they fall into a protracted war and the food runs out, the Siena army will not attack them, and the army itself will be in chaos...

Therefore, there is no room for loss in this sneak attack. Otherwise, Marin will lose more than 10,000 elites, which he cannot accept.

Therefore, Marin decided to go out in person this time and lead a team to attack the city of Siena. The reason for this is that Marin has a lot of ghost ideas and is best at sneak attacks. As for Schwartz, the command of the frontal battle is okay, and there is absolutely no such thing as Marin thinking about things like sneak attacks. After all, don't have too many battle cases and ideas in Marin's mind. In terms of ghost ideas, Schwartz, who is deeply influenced by the traditional thinking of knights, has ten more ghost ideas than Marin...

The problem now is that Marin is waiting for maple syrup from America and rhinoceros hide from West Africa...

Maple syrup, needless to say, is what makes compressed cookies. Compressed biscuits added with maple syrup not only taste good, but also can supplement a variety of nutrients, which is very suitable for soldiers to eat.

The rhinoceros leather armor is much lighter than the plate armor, and its protection is also good. It is said that the Siena army has very few firearms. As long as it defends against their few artillery attacks, the rhinoceros leather armor is enough to deal with most of the Siena army's attack methods. What's more, wearing heavy plate armor, I don't have to climb mountains... I can't climb...

...

Just when Marin himself was sweating profusely with the soldiers in the border hilly area,

The port of Emden welcomed the return of the transport ship Garland from Cape Breton Island and sent the first batch of 4,000 barrels of maple syrup...

After learning the news, Marin was overjoyed, and quickly withdrew from the barracks and rushed back to Aurich to listen to the report.

According to the report from Garland's courier, Marin learned that this spring, the collection of maple syrup in Canada went relatively smoothly.

After Marin provided a large number of iron cones for drilling tree holes, pipes, and wooden barrels for loading maple syrup, and provided a group of people who taught the aboriginals, Garland hurriedly mobilized a group of translators who understood the local aboriginal language , as the guide of this group of people, led them to the North American continent, and taught those aborigines how to collect maple syrup...

Maple syrup has been harvested in Canada since March. Under the leadership of the translators, the manpower provided by Marin first familiarized himself with the specific process of collecting maple syrup and the temperature conditions required for collecting maple syrup, and then was assigned to various tribes on the North American continent to teach the local aborigines how to use it. Iron awl drilling holes in sugar maple trees, and how to collect maple sap using pipes and barrels. In addition, suitable temperature is also a very important condition.

Of course, Marin also kept a hand. For example, the method of boiling maple syrup into maple syrup was not taught to the aborigines. Regardless of the fact that the technique of making maple syrup is not difficult, just cook the maple syrup in a pot over low heat. However, the local aboriginal technology level is not much better than the primitive people, they may not really know how to boil and concentrate maple syrup into maple syrup.

Maple syrup and maple syrup are two kinds of things. The concentration of maple syrup is about 40 times that of maple syrup. In fact, the sweetness of maple syrup is not much different from the sweet drinks of later generations. Moreover, the taste is not as good as that of drinks. it is good.

Sure enough, as Marin expected, after the first batch of maple syrup was collected, those greedy local aborigines drank a lot of maple syrup by themselves, and it is estimated that they consumed one-third of the maple syrup. This made Garland very angry, but he had nothing to do. After all, he and those natives are just in a cooperative relationship. The other party drank a third of the maple syrup, and he couldn't stop it.

Fortunately, he used some commodities to lure the local aborigines, so that the aborigines forcibly controlled their urge to drink maple syrup. After all, compared with the sweet maple syrup, the European-style bows and arrows and other tools provided by Garland, as well as the shiny glass balls, were more popular among the natives.

Of course, this is on the premise that the aborigines have not drunk the purified maple syrup. If the aborigines have tasted sweeter maple syrup, they will probably be unable to stop. Fortunately, they don't know how to purify maple syrup, nor do they have a pot for purifying maple syrup. Otherwise, they retain more maple syrup.

Therefore, although many indigenous tribes were mobilized to help collect maple syrup, Garland received only 4,000 barrels of maple syrup made from maple syrup in March. Of course, this is also due to the fact that the indigenous people were not very skilled in collecting maple syrup at the beginning.

And in April, as the indigenous people can collect maple syrup more skillfully, the production must be higher. According to Garland's estimation, the total output of maple syrup this year should exceed the originally planned 10,000 barrels...

Marin was also very happy about the arrival of this batch of maple syrup. Because, he can order lots of maple syrup cookies. In addition, "Royal Salute" also needs a lot of maple syrup blending...