People in later generations may not understand the difficulties of the ancients' life. Not to mention the ancient times, they just talk about the 1970s and 1980s. At that time, people, let alone eating meat, even eating eggs, were considered to have greatly improved their lives. As for big fish and meat, they probably only appeared during festivals and weddings and funerals.
Moreover, Marin liked to read historical novels in his previous life. The novel says that the egg laying frequency in ancient chickens was very low, which made the eggs expensive and sparse. Generally speaking, a hen would only lay eggs every few days. Sometimes, because the nutrition could not keep up, eggs might not be laid during normal cycles. Of course, if you eat too much live food such as earthworms, the egg laying rate would be more frequent. After all, egg yolks are fat and egg whites are protein. If the chickens themselves do not have the nutrients, where can they have the energy to lay eggs?
Therefore, eggs in ancient times were very precious. Poor families used eggs as an important means to nourish the body. Even in the 1980s, it was almost the same. Even in the Qing Dynasty, the Office of the Internal Affairs purchased eggs, and the book price of eggs was 5 taels of silver per... Of course, this was a trap of the Emperor of the Interior. During the Emperor Daoguang period, the Office of the Internal Affairs account was 5 taels of silver per. The Guangxu period was even more awesome, and the purchase price on the account was 30 taels of silver per. Emperor Guangxu treated eating eggs as a very luxurious act... Of course, this was the act of the Office of the Internal Affairs of the Qing Dynasty deceived the emperor. Eggs on the market were actually only a few cents per. But considering the prices of ancient China, a few cents were also very expensive, which was more expensive than meat buns...
Until later, because of the introduction of varieties with high egg laying rates, that is, the high-product species that can produce eggs every day, and the high yield of grain, the chickens have enough feed, so eggs will become something that the public can afford.
There was once a local bull from Wanwan who joked about the mainland, saying that the people of mainland China could not afford to eat tea eggs. Although this story is funny, before the opening up, tea eggs were really a luxury thing. If we push the time to more than thirty years, this joke is really not a joke...
Therefore, after thinking about the method of raising chickens with earthworms, Malin was so happy. Because as long as this is done, the people of Beihai Kingdom can afford to eat tea eggs... Ah, they can afford to eat eggs...
Earthworms are very nutritious and have high protein. In later generations, some people even regarded earthworms as high-nutrition foods. Of course, that one is too disgusting, only gods dare to eat it. However, because of the high-protein, hens can indeed lay more eggs if they eat too much.
Malin collects and processes manure from all over the country and then uses it to breed earthworms. The vermicompost obtained is also very considerable. Similarly, there will be many earthworms obtained. This is the feces of hundreds of thousands of people across the country. The earthworms used to raise, and God knows how many chickens can be raised.
It can be expected that ordinary citizens of Beihai may also have the ability to eat chicken in the future. Now, it seems that a chicken costs several Finneys on the market. But ordinary people only have two Finneys per year... After counting this, according to the low standard of 100 yuan per person per day in later generations, it seems that chickens in Beihai only cost several hundred yuan per day...
After solving the problem of keeping the feces confidentiality and solving the problems of eating chicken and eggs for the people of the whole country, Malin felt that he was simply a peerless wise ruler, much more powerful than the Emperor of Khanxi. After all, Emperor of Khanxi asked the people to eat sweet potatoes, and he asked the people to eat chicken... This level is incomparable...
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The matter of transforming the feces processing plant into an earthworm farm was naturally left to Kohler, the number one confidant. Kohler is the confidant who has the most confidentiality under Marin. It is most appropriate to leave this kind of matter that needs to be kept confidential.
When Kohler, who came to Bremen to report to Marin, heard Marin's instructions, he looked confused.
"What? Feeding worms are grown? Is this... OK?" In Kohler's eyes, those earthworms seem to eat dirt. Do they also eat feces?
"It's OK!" Malin looked affirmative - just kidding, this was a way to get rich proven by later generations. If he hadn't known where there was a cattle farm that could get a stable supply of cow dung, he would have wanted to raise earthworms in his previous life...
"But... I really don't know how to raise earthworms... Also, lord, you said that human feces have to be processed before they can raise earthworms. What's the reason?"
Marin thought for a while and said:
"I don't know much. I only know that cow manure and sheep manure can be used to raise earthworms directly. However, human manure needs to be treated specially to raise earthworms... In this way, you can build a trash pit for collecting nitrogen. After collecting soil nitrogen, you should just use the feces to raise earthworms..."
"But……"
"Don't let it go, find someone to do it! I didn't ask you to shovel the poop and raise earthworms in person, so I don't know how to find someone to do it? As long as you offer a heavy reward, some people are willing to do it!" Marin waved impatiently. In later generations, although Marin couldn't stand the Americans, Marin still admired the Americans' concept of "professional things to let professionals do it."
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After explaining the matter of raising earthworms in feces, Marin arranged to appease the people of Oldenburg Province. Previously, in order to keep it a secret, Marin had to send people to burn most of the wheat fields in Oldenburg Province and even slaughtered several manors.
Now that the war is over, Marin will also send people to appease the local people in time. Otherwise, resistance forces will appear. For this reason, Marin made special instructions - this year, the living benefits of serfs in the Oldenburg Province have increased by a large extent. The main reason is that the supply of many salted fish has been increased.
The salted fish is really not a rare thing for Marin. His policy of lending fishermen to buy fishing boats and fishing nets to benefit the people has doubled the number of fishing boats of fishermen in the Beihai country, and the fishing volume has also increased significantly. The policy of providing salt for fishermen on credit has greatly increased the supply of salted fish in the Beihai country. The population of Oldenburg is not large, with only a hundred thousand people. Even if each person provides one more salted fish every day, it is only tens of thousands. After a small and medium-sized fishing boat goes to sea, it catches thousands of fishing every day. You should know that the Beihai Fishing Farm is one of the four largest fishing grounds in the world. In addition, in the Newfoundland Fishing Farm near Newfoundland Island, Marin also sent hundreds of fishing boats there, and even some whaling ships. It is really nothing to provide some salted fish. Moreover, this is just a few months, not permanently provided. Once the people feel at ease, they will not need to do it.
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This year's Beihai Kingdom's autumn harvest seems to be very unhappy. Because it was previously damaged by the coalition of the eight-nation princes, the entire autumn harvest work has stagnated.
Fortunately, Malin defeated the coalition forces of the eight kingdoms in time and the autumn harvest was restored. Subsequently, Malin arranged the captive 30,000 enemy troops and 30,000 people, to help seize them in Bremen Province.
Originally, Marin planned to send them to East Friesland to rush for harvest, but considering that the yield there could not be leaked, he had to bring them to Bremen to participate in the autumn harvest. After all, Bremen did not use new fertilizers and was not afraid of leaks.
When the autumn harvest in Bremen was almost over, Marin distributed 10,000 people to escort these prisoners of war to dig trenches and dig trenches.
Chapter completed!