The Rise of the European Emperor

"Alas - too much food is also a trouble!" Marin shook his head and sighed.

If other princes learned that Marin sighed like this, it is estimated that they would angrily form a German coalition to besiege Marin together, then press Marin to the ground, rub hard, and say while rubbing:

"I told you to play B! I asked you to play B..."

But Marin is really not pretending, but really annoying. As a German vassal state, Marin had too much food in his hands. It is not a simple matter to double food production. Originally, the yield per mu of rye was only more than 100 pounds, and the income of the nobles in each mu of land was only about 50 pounds. Therefore, the nobles needed a lot of arable land to barely maintain a luxurious aristocratic life.

Komarin used later generations of advanced agricultural technology and fertilizer technology to double the production of rye, leading to a new problem - oversupply.

Under normal circumstances, if Marin normally puts these grains on the market, it will definitely cause turbulence and plummeting in food prices.

But Marin dared not. Although he has an elite army of 40,000 troops, the secret of doubling the food production is estimated to arouse the interest of all European monarchs. Therefore, Marin can only secretly sell food, and mainly sells to foreign countries. Otherwise, there is a great possibility that Marin will be beaten by the monarchs all over Europe in a group...

Therefore, although the grain warehouse was full, Marin still carefully controlled the sales of grain to avoid excessive shipments and arouse suspicion from other countries.

However, too much grain was placed in the warehouse, and Marin was also anxious. You know, before Marin's warehouse, the grain stock reached more than 1 billion pounds. Moreover, many of these more than 1 billion pounds of rye are old grains from the previous year and last year.

Although rye can be stored for three to five years after drying, it can be kept there, and it will easily deteriorate and age...

Therefore, how to deal with the old grains from the previous year has become a matter that Marin needs to pay special attention to. Because if you don't deal with it, it will go bad...

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As mentioned earlier, Marin has long been eyeing the brewing industry…

The ancient Europeans were very strange. Before the British introduced tea as a drink and developed the habit of drinking tea, if the Europeans were thirsty, they liked to go to the pub to have a drink. Noble people naturally drink red wine, and many people like real beer with hops. And ordinary workers, I am afraid that they can only drink those sour and inferior beer. But even so, Europeans still like to have a drink after work, no matter what brand it is...

Europeans love to drink so much, so Marin believes that taking out a lot of grain to make wine is not only profitable, but also not worrying about sales. At the same time, selling wine is more hidden than selling food directly. Who cares what the per-mu yield of the wine seller's home is?

In addition to the most classic dark beer in Germany, some of the excess grain can also be selected and used to brew high-strength spirits such as brandy. With the characteristics that Europeans like to drink a glass when they have something to do, those wines can still be sold. In addition, it can continue to be purified to obtain alcohol, which can be used in medicine.

Coincidentally, Marin has now entered into a lumber purchase agreement with Denmark. At that time, it is possible to use oak imported from Norway to make oak barrels for winemaking. It seems that Europeans like to use oak barrels for wine making. It seems that wine brewed in oak barrels tastes the best...

With the amount of grain now in Marin's hands,

If it is made into wine, it is estimated that the yield will be very large. Therefore, it is difficult to consume too much food by brewing alone. After all, the brewing cycle is quite long.

Therefore, after thinking over and over again, Marin decided that while working hard to make wine, he could also take out a large amount of grain and use it to raise pigs...

Yes, raising pigs...

Perhaps, feeding pigs with fresh grain is too extravagant. However, there is nothing to say about feeding pigs with old grain. Moreover, it is not to feed the pigs with grain every day. Under normal circumstances, it is sufficient to use the wheat bran of wheat grains as pig feed.

Under normal circumstances, it is enough to use the straw chaff obtained by crushing the straw as pig feed. Only those pigs that need to be fattened will be fed high-nutrient pig feed such as wheat bran.

Of course, Marin is in a special situation now, and there is too much food to eat. Therefore, Marin now has the conditions to use a large amount of old grain, which can be used as an important feed for raising pigs after being crushed.

Before, Marin's pig sty in East Friesland was already on a small scale. The total number of captive breeding has reached more than 6,000. Now, Marin can take out so much old grain and continue to expand the scale of pig farming, which is not a problem at all.

However, what makes Marin depressed is that the quality of European domestic pigs is very poor...

In this era, the reminder of European domestic pigs is less, and some European domestic pigs still have tusks, some like wild boars. Although, the taste of this pork is not bad. But Marin understands more clearly - as a domestic pig, body size and growth rate are the most important. Like European domestic pigs, in this case, they are smaller in size and take two years to grow up, so they are definitely inferior domestic pigs.

Moreover, the fertility of European domestic pigs in this era is very poor. Sows can only produce five or six piglets per litter, and the level is simply bad. You must know that in the Ming Dynasty during the same period, the Taihu pigs in the Taihu Lake Basin, sows can normally produce more than 12 piglets per litter. Many, even produce 20 piglets. Moreover, its growth rate is also far higher than that of European domestic pigs at this time. The growth cycle is twice as fast as that of European domestic pigs within one year.

As a result, the production and population expansion capacity of Taihu pigs in the same time period is more than four times that of European domestic pigs, which is naturally far superior to that of European domestic pigs in this era. Moreover, European domestic pigs in later generations have indeed introduced domestic Taihu pigs and improved European domestic pig breeds.

Marin intends, next, after the opening of the Daming route, he will take the opportunity to send people to look for Taihu pigs in the Taihu Lake area in southern Jiangsu. Then, the best boar and sow pairs are picked and shipped back to Europe. Then, the domestic pigs with faster growth and super reproductive ability were introduced into the Grand Duchy of Beihai to benefit the development of the pig industry.

Only when the scale of pig farming expands rapidly and more pigs are raised will the supply of pork be greatly increased to meet domestic demand. The more pork, the more people can eat meat. The Germans at the moment are also thin and thin, and their height is not high. Only with enough nutrition can the people grow taller and stronger. Then, when fighting bayonets on the battlefield, you will be more dominant...

At present, among the Germans, except for those from the knight family, many people can reach 1.8 meters due to genetic problems and better family living conditions, and many of those ordinary civilians are less than 1.7 meters tall. Very different from the later Europeans.

It's no wonder that Europe in later generations is a developed region, and people's living standards are very high. They eat steak and drink milk every day. Men are generally about 1.8 meters tall (except for naturally short southern Europeans, such as Spaniards).

But today's Europeans, the living conditions of ordinary people are extremely poor, many people may not even be able to eat black bread mixed with soil and stones, but can only eat black porridge mixed with messy things such as rye and wild vegetables . Holding such a thing, if it can grow taller, it will be a ghost.

Therefore, only by letting the people eat bread, eating pork and salted fish from time to time, and drinking more milk during the development period, can naturally grow taller.

Therefore, in the case of sufficient feed, vigorously developing the pig industry is a great thing that benefits the country and the people...

Sorry, I fell asleep and woke up again. The promised half hour has turned into two hours, I'm really sorry. It's so cold, I have to go to bed...