As one of the earliest old ministers to follow Marin and a medieval college student, Haidel was both excited and rushed for granted by the news that he was appointed as the Prime Minister of the Oldenburg Palace.
Because Marin had been training him as the prime minister for a long time. However, Jeffrey was still there and he did a good job. Marin had no reason to replace Jeffrey with Heidel. Just so happened that Marin controlled the Oldenburg Kingdom and simply sent Heidel to be the prime minister.
But before setting out to take office in Oldenburg, Haidel found Marin and asked Marin to allocate a batch of laborers to go to Oldenburg with him, and set up several fertilizer processing plants locally.
As an old minister who followed Marin during the island of Texel, Heidel certainly knew the secret of high grain yield in the East Friesland country. It was nothing more than processing manure into fertilizer and then the grain would be harvested.
However, even though I know, Haider and the first group of old ministers who followed Marin did not know how to process the fertilizer.
Marin is also smart. After several months of drying and air-drying, the feces are almost gone. Moreover, processed fertilizer blocks do not burn seedlings. If the feces are directly applied to the field, it is easy to burn seedlings.
In fact, Haider and other old ministers actually tried to apply manure as fertilizer to the fields in private. But the result was that the seedlings were burned and yellowed...
Even if some experiments were successful, the effect was far from the compound fertilizer produced by the fertilizer processing plant that Marin personally controlled. After all, not only feces were found in the fertilizer processing plant, but also potassium salt and apatite were added. Of course, when Ayuen's apatite mine was not obtained in the early days, Marin added the fish bones left by the fishermen who killed the fish or the fish meal ground into dried and ground after the fishing meat that was eliminated by the fishermen. However, it was too much effort to collect the fish bones and fish meal. After Ayuen, Marin directly added apatite.
However, because of the good confidentiality work, Marin's subordinates knew that the fertilizer contained potassium salt and apatite components were only Kohler. Because he sent people to take charge of mining and transportation in the potassium salt mines in the Harz Mountains and Ayuen's apatite mines. As for others, even Schwartz, they could not understand the real secret of the fertilizer.
In fact, it is precisely because of this that Frenzberg, who had actually worked for the emperor, never gave up on Marin and directly threw himself into the emperor's arms. Because his fiefdom in Lair County also needed fertilizers supplied by Marin's fertilizer factory.
Frenzberg originally planned to completely change jobs to the emperor, but in the manor given to him, he tried to use manure directly, and found that the seedlings were burned. Moreover, even if some of the fields that did not burn seedlings had yielded only about 200 pounds per mu, which was more than half the yield of the manor in the East Frieslandbour country. Therefore, he did not think about leaving Marin completely. As a reward, Marin would send people to use sacks to transport a batch of compound fertilizers every year for Frenzberg's manor in the Principal of Tyrol in western Austria.
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Haider is now in Oldenburg as the Prime Minister of the Palace, and naturally hopes to achieve results. Moreover, if the farmland in Oldenburg is not used for compound fertilizer, the yield per mu will definitely be as low as before. For this reason, before going to work, he specially asked Marin to send veteran serf craftsmen to collect feces from Oldenburg and make fertilizers with "secret methods". In this way, the farmland in Oldenburg will be harvested, and he, as the prime minister, can have more money and grain to use, and his political achievements will be better.
When Marin heard Haider's request, he was also shocked - he almost forgot that the country of Oldenburg, the Principality of Schleswig, and including the Yevre area, had no fertilizer processing plant yet...
So he quickly dispatched 1,000 people from the 3,000 serfs responsible for the production of fertilizers from the 6 major fertilizer processing sites under his control and sent them to the Oldenburg State, the Yevre region and the Principality of Schleswig to build 20 fertilizer processing sites directly under his leadership.
Although there are only 50 people in each fertilizer processing site, the fertilizer processing technology is not difficult. These 50 veterans can bring apprentices and hundreds of honest local serfs as apprentices to form a new fertilizer processing site.
In fact, it is just right to set up a new fertilizer processing site now. Because it will take several months to collect the feces, dry them, and air-dry them.
Just so happens that the crops in Oldenburg, the Yevre region and the Principality of Schleswig were not able to catch up this year. Because the autumn harvest will not take long in the future. However, a few months later, when the first batch of fertilizers were made, it would be just right for the spring plowing in March and April next year, it would not be a problem at all.
After using compound fertilizers doped with potassium salt and apatite in the spring next year, by the fall of next year, the Oldenburg State and the Principality of Schleswig will also have full grain. At that time, the newly added land will have the conditions to attract more immigrants.
However, if 20 new fertilizer yards are built, Marin will certainly not issue an order saying that I will build a fertilizer processing yard. In that case, other countries will easily discover this secret and may jointly force Marin to hand over the secret of fertilizer.
In the case of disclosure, Marin will issue a government order under the pretext of personal and environmental sanitation, mandating residents to prohibit urination and defecation. If necessary, they must go to the toilet.
To this end, Marin stipulated that there must be at least one public toilet in all cities of the three vassal states on each street!
A large public toilet will also be built in every community in the city. At the same time, the eastern toilet is promoted in the city, requiring people to go to the public toilet during the day and use the toilet at night. The next morning, the feces in the toilet are poured into the septic tank of the public toilet.
Moreover, every morning, when the city gate is opened, the people in the fertilizer processing farm will arrange ox carts to come, use large wooden barrels to pull the feces from the public toilet out of the city, and send them to the septic tank of the fertilizer factory.
The septic tank is used to collect nitroso soil. After these feces are sent to multiple septic tanks, one month later, the soil on the edge of the septic tank will be taken to extract soil and nitroso. After the septic soil is cultivated, the feces will be shoveled away and placed in another pool, and stirred with the potassium salt and apatite sent by Kohler. After the stirring, they will be immediately dried and exposed to the sun to become hard feces.
Then, these composite fertilizer blocks will be sent into a rain shed and air-dried to exude the odor of feces. A few months later, these fertilizer blocks will no longer have any odor and become mysterious fertilizers that no one knows. With the current technological level, the discipline of chemistry has not yet developed. Even if this fertilizer is stolen, others will not understand what it is...
Outside the fertilizer plant, there are soldiers loyal to Marin, and tall urban walls will be built to protect the secrets of the fertilizer field. If the fertilizer field is besieged by the enemy, in the absence of hope, these soldiers will directly kill all the serfs who make compound fertilizers in the fertilizer field to keep the secret. The soldiers stationed in the fertilizer field are not allowed to inquire about the secrets of fertilizer processing. In this way, even if the fertilizer field is captured, they will not get any secrets.
In addition to ordering the construction of a large number of public toilets in cities, Marin also ordered the construction of public toilets at the lower vents to collect feces. Of course, the name is still for "personal and environmental sanitation"...
When Marin issued a comprehensive construction of public toilets in the Oldenburg State and the Principality of Schleswig and promoted the use of toilets, all those who did not know were confused - you, Marin, love to be clean and you are not allowed to urinate or defecate anywhere? Is the tube too wide?
However, Marin made a tough rule that all adults who find urinating and defecating anywhere will be fined 1 Finney...
At this time, the average person's salary is only 2 Finney per day. The fine is 1 Finney, which is equivalent to a half-day salary per person. Such a high fine, no one is willing to pay... Therefore, many people can only choose to surrender...
In fact, if it weren't for the fear of arousing opposition from the church, Marin would have planned to build public bathrooms in every area. Along the way, Marin discovered that people from the Principality of Schleswig and Oldenburg were not fond of taking baths.
However, it is advocated by the church that people do not take a bath, and Marin dares not publicly advocate bathing. Otherwise, he will be regarded as a heretic. Only when his father-in-law becomes the pope will he dare to promote public bathrooms in his own country.
As for now, Marin and Angela set an example and took baths in person. Doing so would at least make his courtiers and subordinates rush to imitate. Over the years, the people of the East Frieslander country have become accustomed to taking hot baths frequently.
Especially those nobles and soldiers, if they don’t take a bath, Marin will directly express his disgust for them. In such a general environment, those nobles, officials, and soldiers in the army have gradually developed the good habit of loving bathing.
As for the newly controlled Principality of Schleswig and Oldenburg, there is no hurry, so take it slowly. However, building toilets on a large scale will not touch the sensitive nerves of the church, but can be done with great fanfare. This will also facilitate the collection and processing of feces...
Among them, after the feces were collected, they were first used to extract nitroso soil in the first round, which was also Marin's decision after careful consideration. Last time he besieged Copenhagen, Marin did not order hundreds of artillery to bombard the city walls together, but he was reluctant to consume gunpowder.
Because Marin's current gunpowder is mainly made up of saltpeter purchased from India. It takes nearly two years to go to India to travel back and forth, which is too inconvenient.
Therefore, Malin ordered a process of extracting nitrosoil in the fertilizer processing site. In this way, he can also obtain a lot of soil nitrosoil every year for the configuration of gunpowder.
Only with enough gunpowder can the army under Marin be confident and bold in using queues to shoot and bombard the artillery. Otherwise, the consumption of gunpowder alone will make Marin's advanced tactics feasible...
Chapter completed!