In fact, Marin's army is now very short. In addition to preparing 3,200 black soldiers for Ganfu Nobunaga, he also had to build a colonial army of 10,000 people in the North American colonies. In addition to being responsible for expanding in the North American colonies, this colonial army will be transferred back to the local area to fight when the religious war breaks out.
In order not to affect the development of local agriculture, Marin will no longer recruit soldiers locally. Therefore, recruiting soldiers from other countries has become Marin's ideal choice.
In fact, Marin could also choose to recruit soldiers in Ukraine. However, Marin didn't believe in those Ukrainians. After all, the saying "If you are not my race, your heart will be different" is deeply engraved in Marin's mind. Especially, North America, a territory far away from overseas, is handed over to foreign troops to guard, what if those foreign soldiers have a different intention?
Therefore, Marin could accept that Ukrainians integrate into their native society, but did not allow foreigners to gain a foothold in the American colonies alone. Even if foreigners are allowed to go to the American colonies, the premise is that Germans and English must have the advantage of the number of people there. In this way, people from other ethnic groups will not be able to make waves. And the most important armed forces must be in the hands of their own people.
Therefore, Marin sent a large number of troops to recruit troops in southern Germany under the name of "replacing veterans".
At first, many princes were not happy, but Malin explained that the first group of veterans who followed him were old and had to retire, so those princes were willing to let go.
Moreover, this time Marin was smarter and focused on recruiting troops in the vassal states of the church. As for the obstruction of the church princes, this is too easy, and it can be solved by bribery. After all, the top leaders of the church in this era loved corruption. People spent so much money to compete for the position of bishop, just to make a comeback and make some profits? As long as Marin gave money, they turned a blind eye.
The final result is that, except for a few bishops from some vassal families who were hostile to Marin, most bishop states let Marin recruitment team go. After all, money can make the devil push the mill, and the bishop "pushed the mill" like money...
After obtaining permission, a large number of recruitment teams were sent to various places to promote recruitment of new recruits. However, Schwartz, who was in charge of this matter, discovered the difficulties - it seemed that those vassal states had carried out counter-propaganda...
The so-called anti-propaganda refers to the negative propaganda targeting Marin's propaganda, or slandering. After all, the princes were not the same as Marin. Even if they explicitly allowed Marin to send a recruiting team, they had already sent people to spread news and talk bad things about Marin.
For example, in the Saxony Election State, the local government propaganda that the army of the Beihai Kingdom does not treat soldiers as humans. Moreover, they usually eat poorly, and soldiers often get their teeth broken by stones in the bread when eating bread...
Although the recruiting team sent to make many explanations and took out the soft "Kolle bread" to prove that the Beihai Kingdom had eaten well, the young people from various vassal states still did not believe it. After all, in their eyes, the reputation of the local nobles was better.
The news came back to Orich, and Schwartz was so angry that he wanted to send a chef team to show youths everywhere what Chinese fast food is...
But Kohler rejected Schwartz's idea, mainly because the cost is too high...
First of all, there are not many chefs in the army who can make Chinese fast food. If they are sent out, what will the soldiers in the army eat? Moreover, those chefs need a lot of vegetables and meat to cook. It is very expensive to buy from the local area. Unlike in the Beihai country, because there is a planting center and the use of fertilizer production has increased significantly, the cost is lower.
If so many chefs were sent to various places to make Chinese fast food promotion, the cost would be too high, and the mobility was poor, which was inconvenient...
"Or, just use compressed biscuits mixed with maple syrup to promote it? This thing is easy to carry and delicious..." Schwartz suggested.
Kohler nodded, and Marin also agreed. This year, the Canadian colony sent another 15,000 barrels of maple syrup, but they were not used up. There was no problem taking out a large amount of maple syrup to make compressed biscuits.
At this moment, Kohler suddenly said:
"By the way, this time, not only did Cape Breton Island send back 15,000 barrels of maple syrup, but also a few ships of dried salted fish. Or, by the way, bring some dried salted fish and show them to those recruited people?"
Marin nodded, thinking that this is not bad. After all, Marin's colony in Canada now relies on the world's top fishing grounds, Newfoundland Fishery, and the catch is very high. If fishing is open, people in the entire North Sea country will probably not be able to finish it.
Moreover, it is close to the salt-boiling base, and it is very convenient to pickle salted fish with salt. Salted fish is very popular in Europe at present. After all, there were many rules during this period, and fasting was needed for nearly half of the year. During the fasting period, it was prohibited to eat "red meat", even aristocrats. However, fish are not within the fasting scope, so this led to the prevalence of the salted fish trade in this era. Lüneburg also made his fortune by supplying salted fish salted fish.
But because the salt price is not cheap, European ordinary people do not eat salted fish often, and they usually use large meals to improve their meals. People in coastal areas are better, but if they can eat salted fish in inland areas, they are simply local rich people...
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So, Marin made a decision directly - when he went to recruit troops, he asked the recruiting team to wear a large amount of maple syrup compressed biscuits and smoked and roasted dried salted fish. As long as he came to Beihai Kingdom to serve in the army, he would directly promise to cook biscuits and salted fish...
If this condition is put into later generations, it will probably be criticized. However, in this era, it is really a better treatment that is more attractive than the five insurances and one fund in later generations...
After all, if you can eat salted fish every meal, it is a life that only aristocrats can live...
In order to enhance the taste, Marin plans to send someone to the Ming Dynasty to find cumin seeds and bring them back for large-scale planting. In the future, sprinkle some cumin powder when grilling dried salted fish to enhance the taste...
"No! It seems that it is naturally native to Egypt..." Marin remembered that it seems that it is naturally native to Egypt and then passed on to the Western Xinjiang of China. So, just go to Egypt to buy cumin powder...
At that time, when grilling dried salted fish, sprinkle some cumin powder and some chili powder to make a spicy fish dry. Don’t be too cool...
Although it cannot be as good as the American soldiers in later generations, Marin felt that the level of spicy and salted fish every meal was still wide enough to achieve. Even this standard is definitely the only one in this era...
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In Cuba, it seems that chili has been introduced from Mexico and planted. Once the scale has expanded, Marin decided to produce chili powder on a large scale and ship it back to the local area for sale as an important seasoning. Europeans in this era generally have a heavy taste. Pepper can be eaten directly by dipping bread and barbecue, and chili powder is no problem...
Well, there are tomatoes that seem to be cultivated?
Suddenly, Marin thought of a dominant seasoning that was popular in the European and American worlds in later generations - tomato sauce!
Tomato sauce appeared very late and did not appear until the end of the 19th century. It was only when the United States was inspired by Chinese workers who moved to the United States. In other words, the Chinese from Fujian and Guangdong to the west coast of the United States brought the idea of ​​pickling tomato sauce, and then they were used and promoted by the United States.
Later, with the popularity of KFC and McDonald's around the world, tomato sauce quickly became one of the most popular seasonings in European and American countries. Without tomato sauce, there would be no famous French fries dipped in tomato sauce.
The sour and sweet taste of tomato sauce is very popular among European and American countries. In later generations, Americans like to apply some tomato sauce whenever they eat. When authentic Chinese restaurants arrive in the United States, they are forced to use tomato sauce to replace original classic seasonings such as chili sauce.
Many people think that it is not authentic when eating Chinese food abroad, because many seasonings have been replaced with tomato sauce. But that is also impossible - foreigners can eat this, what can you do? Most of the Chinese restaurants that insist on the original flavor have gone bankrupt...
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Marin suddenly felt that maybe the tomato sauce business is good. Not to mention foreigners, he also likes to eat fries with tomato sauce. He just uses tomato sauce to eat on bread, which seems to be quite delicious. Many burgers will be poured on tomato sauce to increase the taste.
Chapter completed!