The new fertilizer has no odor, and the vermicompost is really similar to the soil. Therefore, Marin does not hide it. Even envoys from other countries are allowed to view it.
Anyway, there were no chemists in this era, so it was impossible to detect the real ingredients. Moreover, after the earthworm manure stirred the phosphate powder and potassium salt, the color was a little ashed, more like volcanic ash.
Even, because he no longer had to worry about being seen by other countries, Marin agreed to export small amounts of new fertilizers. As for the export target, it was Maximilian I, the most poor emperor in the ages.
Why did you give it to Maximilian I? You are still afraid that His Majesty the Emperor will not be able to withstand it if he has no money...
The emperor was about to launch a war in Switzerland, and the money would definitely be like flowing afterwards. Marin could not lend him any more. After all, he himself was short of money. Borrowing food or something was too obvious, which could easily lead to hostility.
Therefore, Marin adopted a more concealed method - selling new fertilizers to the emperor!
In this way, because it is normal trade, other countries are not easy to say anything. Moreover, the price of Marin is very dark - the price of new fertilizer per mu of land is 100 yuan. Moreover, it is a weakened new fertilizer.
The so-called weakened new fertilizer actually means that there is no added phosphorus fertilizer. Phosphorus fertilizer is the key fertilizer to increase grain production and involves fruitful quantities. Nitrogen fertilizer promotes the growth of plants, while potassium fertilizer enhances the plant's stress resistance and pest resistance, and can also enhance the ability to high photosynthesis and save water.
Although nitrogen fertilizer and potassium fertilizer cannot directly promote the increase in grain yield, it can also indirectly promote the increase in grain yield by improving the growth of plants and increasing vitality. For example, if the original yield of less than 100 pounds per mu can be increased to more than 200 pounds per mu, and the yield will double.
Marin is offered at 100 per mu. If it is used for rye, the income is very low, which means that most of the increase in yield is used to pay for fertilizer.
However, if it is used for wheat that is five times the price of rye, it will be very different! Increased yield by 100 pounds is equivalent to making a profit of 500 Finney. However, from less than 100 pounds to more than 200 pounds, it is more than 100 pounds, and it can even reach 150 pounds. In this way, increasing profit can reach about 750 Finney. No matter how bad it is, there are about 600 Finneys...
Austria is different from the North Sea. Although it is in the Little Ice Age, Austria has a low latitude and a much warmer climate than the North Sea, and is also suitable for wheat growth.
The emperor had previously proposed to import the fertilizer needed to import 10,000 Yugram (120,000 acres) of wheat fields and was willing to pay a high price. However, Marin was worried that the secret of fertilizer was discovered, so he did not agree. The reason for rejection was that the volcanic ash production was insufficient.
But now he is not worried about the secret leak, so Marin decided to reply to the emperor and agree to export a weakened version of the new fertilizer. Moreover, the price of the sky is 200 yuan per mu.
The emperor happened to be in Ghent, the Netherlands. After rushing over, he learned that Marin guaranteed the yield per mu (Marin explained the meaning of half a day of a mu) to more than 200 pounds, he decisively agreed to the transaction and did not bargain. However, His Majesty the Emperor had no money and asked to pay after the autumn harvest and sold grain...
Marin was speechless, but he had planned to support the emperor, so he agreed. The emperor was definitely not losing money, because after using fertilizer, the emperor's wheat field increased by at least 300 per mu of Finney's income per mu, which was equivalent to 5 gold coins. 12,000 mu, which was 600,000 gold coins.
However, Marin added a clause, requiring the emperor to choose a manor with good safety. Moreover, patrols need to be sent to guard the emperor to avoid the leak of news that the emperor's yields surged after getting fertilizer. After all, Marin was so obvious and was hostile.
The emperor, who had benefited, was naturally willing to agree. Moreover, he wanted to do this business for a long time, so he naturally did not want to offend Marin.
But Marin is not that easy to fool. Although he can pay the bills after the autumn harvest, if he wants to get the fertilizer, the emperor has to send a group of Austrian immigrants first. Then, the escorted army just took the packaged fertilizer back.
Fortunately, the emperor did recruit immigrants in Austria, so the emperor went back to Austria without saying a word and organized immigration to go north. After all, His Majesty the Emperor also wanted to get the fertilizer early and apply fertilizer early.
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It should be pointed out that the North Sea Kingdom is really not short of fertilizer sources now. For example, the source of manure is because Marin had signed an agreement to collect manure with the vassal states along the Rhine River. Now, on the Rhine, more than 300 tons of manure are barreled and sealed every day, loaded into ships, and transported to sea through the water channel of the Rhine-Munster Canal-Ems River, and transported to remote islands of the East Friesian Islands. Then, fermentation and simmering of soil are carried out in the high walls. Then, it is loaded and transported to an island in the West Friesian Islands for earthworm breeding.
In fact, if it weren't for the insufficient ships and wooden barrels for transporting manure, it would be okay to get two thousand tons a day. After all, there are so many people on the Rhine River, eating, drinking, and urinating every day. Each person ranks one pound a day, and the two or three million people on the Rhine River have more than one thousand three hundred tons.
Moreover, in order to make more profits, people from all countries on the Rhine deliberately got wet to deal with the acquisition. The wet ones are naturally urea-rich. But they don’t know that nitrates are mostly in urea. Therefore, the Beihai country makes money.
In addition, sellers from various states along the Rhine River also secretly mixed horse manure and cow manure into the manure and sold it to the Beihai country's manure collection ships, which made the manure transport ships not enough.
But these sellers do not know that Beihai Kingdom will definitely not lose money, and they will make a lot of money. You must know that the purchase price paid by Beihai Kingdom is just a hard-earned fee. It is equivalent to paying the labor fee for the person who collects feces, and feces are equivalent to being paid for in vain. The big part of Beihai Kingdom's spending is actually in terms of freight.
However, after one ton of manure is processed, you can obtain vermicompost fertilizer equivalent to three acres of land and thirty or forty pounds of saltpeter. Now the manure transport ships in Beihai Country can receive almost 300 tons of manure every day, which is equivalent to obtaining vermicompost fertilizer equivalent to tens of thousands of acres of land and tens of thousands of pounds of saltpeter source every day. Over the past year, the income is extremely considerable.
Therefore, when Marin was proud of his face, he would rather gain feces from various countries along the river than to get feces from all over the river.
You should know that more than 300 tons of manure are equivalent to thousands of acres of nitrogen fertilizer and tens of thousands of pounds of fertilizer. Over the whole year, you can obtain more than 300,000 acres of nitrogen fertilizer and more than 3 million pounds of saltpeter...
After counting this, Marin himself was shocked:
"Damn, I don't have to develop Chilean saltpeter in this way!"
When developing Chilean saltpeter, the cost of digging saltpeter is indeed low, but the freight is high. Shipping saltpeter from Chile from thousands of miles back to the local area is much higher than digging saltpeter.
After this calculation, the cost of collecting manure and boiling saltpeter is no more than shipping saltpeter from Chile. Moreover, the output is still very large. More than three million pounds is equivalent to more than one thousand tons! Moreover, this is the amount purchased from other countries. The poop of more than two million people in Beihai has not been calculated. In this way, the output of saltpeter in Beihai may be overwhelming...
In addition, in addition to people, cow manure, sheep manure, pig manure and horse manure are also required to collect. The Beihai country has a lot of cattle, sheep, horses and pigs. In total, the daily feces produced can exceed 8,000 tons, which is more than twenty times the amount of manure transport ships. The number of earthworm manure and saltpeter that can be produced is also extremely amazing.
In addition, the number of breeding chickens, ducks and geese in Beihai has also begun to soar. Because of the kang house hatching technology, the number of chickens, ducks and geese has increased dramatically, and the feces produced have also skyrocketed. Of course, geese and ducks have to be stocked, so it is difficult to collect feces. Maybe, geese and ducks are swimming in the water and come in the river. Only chickens and geese are cage breeding and captive breeding, and chicken manure is easy to collect. According to the calculations of the breeding department, three years later, it is estimated that there will be hundreds of tons of chicken manure every day. Moreover, after ducks and geese return home every night, they can also produce a lot of feces, which can be collected.
In this regard, Malin could only thank the black technology during the War of Resistance Against Japan in the 20th century. At that time, due to the lack of gunpowder, our military base could only improve the soil-boiling nitrate technology. The average of 1,000 kilograms of soil and 100 to 150 kilograms of urea could produce eight or nine kilograms of saltpeter, which was extremely efficient.
The method of this era is to collect nitrate soil around the cesspool, and the amount of goods is very small. On average, even thousands of kilograms of urea may not be able to collect one kilogram of earth and nitrate. Its efficiency is far from reaching one-tenth of the black technology in the base area, or even one-twentieth.
Therefore, thanks to the black technology in the base area, he provided Marin with a large amount of saltpeter...
Chapter completed!