With the arrival of the spring of 1517, the arable land area of ​​Beihai Country this year increased from 12 million mu to 20 million mu. But Marin suddenly discovered that it seemed that the fertilizer was not enough.
The previous fertilizer was 12 million mu, barely enough. However, if the increase of 8 million mu, the demand for fertilizer will also increase sharply, which gave Marin a headache.
Therefore, Marin had to consider adding a large number of manure transport ships, from the Rhine and even the Elbe River to acquire poop from people, horses, cattle and sheep to make fertilizers. This requires adding a lot of inland boats and... manure buckets.
Therefore, Marin placed a large number of orders and placed a large number of manure buckets in the Netherlands, which made Prince Philip very happy. Because making these buckets was equivalent to giving him profits and taxes.
But Marin was still not satisfied, so he turned his attention to Britain and France...
Needless to say, Marin was strong in England, and there was no problem in establishing a factory for collecting feces and boiling soil and silt in the UK. After all, Marin was the Earl of Newcastle and still had a strong say in England.
As for France, Marin has no power here. However, France has a large population. Paris alone has a population of more than 200,000! If it gives up, it would be a pity. The feces it produces every day are as many as 200 tons, accounting for more than half of the entire Rhine region.
There is no way, now Europe is the largest population in Paris. Milan, the largest city in the Holy Roman Empire, has only 100,000 people, less than half of Paris's population.
So, even in a hostile country, Marin plans to go to Paris to collect that...
Of course, he definitely did not come forward himself. After all, the Beihai Kingdom had many spies in Paris. Marin decided to send some of the outside spies from the Beihai Kingdom to open factories in Paris, recruit beggars and poor people from Paris, and ask them to help collect feces, send them to the banks of the Seine outside the city, load them out, and then transport them out. Then, they were nominally taken overseas for processing, so as not to "smoke the noble Parisians."
The French court will definitely not refuse this. After all, this is helping Paris to sanitate. Moreover, it also helps to help beggars and the poor.
In addition, letting those poor people work without paying money. Just paying a little grain is enough for them to be happy. The Beihai Kingdom can also withdraw inventory and consume some old grain.
In order to collect manure in Paris, Marin even asked craftsmen to design small carts with wooden barrels, which can be dumped. This makes it very convenient to transport.
Paris alone can bring nearly 300,000 acres of nitrogen fertilizer and three million pounds of saltpeter every year. London has a much smaller population, only tens of thousands of people, but it can also benefit a lot.
In addition, Marin did not plan to let go of the crowded Netherlands, and planned to do it too.
If this happens, I believe that the 8 million acres of arable land will not be worried about insufficient fertilizer.
In addition, Malin also plans to increase the number of pigs raised in large quantities. Taihu pigs can produce more than a dozen piglets every year, and the number expansion rate is astonishing. A few years ago, less than 500 Taihu pigs brought back from the Ming Dynasty, have expanded to more than 50,000 in seven or eight years.
This is because of improper management in the middle and many pigs die of illness. If they are carefully raised, there are probably more than 100,000 pigs.
Nowadays, the pig farming technology in Beihai is very mature. The reproduction ability of Taihu pigs is amazing. Malin plans to vigorously promote the breeding of Taihu pigs. In particular, pig farming is vigorously promoted in North America's sweet potato planting areas. With the number of lees made from 1 million acres of sweet potato wine, it is stress-free to raise hundreds of thousands of pigs.
Moreover, because pigs eat more and ship more, they can reach more than double that of humans. Therefore, the ability to obtain fertilizers by raising pigs is above humans. Moreover, the increase rate of Taihu pigs is many times faster than that of humans.
In general, the efficiency of raising pigs to produce manure is more than a hundred times that of humans themselves, which is extremely cost-effective. But the key to restricting the number of pigs is food. After all, European food is too expensive and will not be wasted on feeding pigs. If you only eat grass, the pig growth rate will be very slow...
Therefore, in the United States, the most suitable and economical thing is to grow sweet potatoes and make wine and raise pigs.
"Okay, increase the number of pigs in the Americas!"
Originally, Malin only planned to send a few thousand Taihu pigs to the North American colonies, but now, he plans to send 30,000 pigs, accounting for three-fifths of the local Taihu pigs.
The reason for this is that with the arrival of Ross immigration, the North Sea country's grain would be a bit tight. It is a waste to feed pigs. Therefore, it is better to send it to America to feed it with sweet potato lees. As for not getting fresh pork, Marin felt that it was difficult for ordinary people in this era to eat pork, and it was no big deal.
Moreover, sausages, bacon and bacon are also delicious. At least, this is true for ordinary people. The 20,000 pigs left by the local area, the fresh pork produced by the aristocrats and officers is probably enough.
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As time passed, with the arrival of spring, the emperor far away in Austria could not sit still. He hurriedly collected more than 40,000 poor people and mountain people from Austria, and personally led 6,000 cavalry to escort them to the North Sea Kingdom to exchange for fertilizer as soon as possible. After all, spring plowing is not waiting for anyone.
As Marin expected, along the way, the emperor's team was blocked by the princes who opposed the Habsburg family. As a result, the emperor, who had always been gentlemen, directly cheated and asked the nobles who blocked him to take over the more than 40,000 people. Moreover, they were demanding not to hurt them...
Suddenly, the princes were stunned...
It should be pointed out that when the emperor marched, he deliberately selected weak vassal states to pass by, avoiding powerful countries such as the Principality of Lorraine. Therefore, these small vassal states were weak and could not fight against the 6,000 cavalry led by the emperor.
At the emperor's instructions, the Austrian poor surrounded the towns of the vassal states and begged loudly. The vassals' army was willing to drive them away, but the emperor's cavalry and swords were drawn out... Moreover, His Majesty the Emperor ordered that those who harm civilians for no reason be executed immediately...
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Finally, the little princes along the way compromised...
There is no way, this is too cruel. More than 40,000 poor people surrounded the town, making them afraid to open the city gate. The emperor's 6,000 cavalry horses also ate all the local grass...
In order to get food, the poor dig out grass roots directly (this is Marin's unique skill when he was a wandering knight back then).
Then, the little prince was surprised to find that not only were the grass around the town eaten up by horses, but the grass roots were eaten by the Austrian poor. And these people surrounded the town, resulting in the spring plowing in the prince's territory being unable to be carried out...
In desperation, the princes who wanted to intercept had to compromise...
In this way, along the way, relying on the unique skills of "no grass grows", this immigrant army scared the princes who wanted to block the road along the way. After all, those princes were particularly afraid that these poor people would stay.
Because His Majesty the Emperor told them that wherever the victims passed, no grass could grow, and the grass roots could be eaten, and the seeds of spring plowing can be eaten by them...
For the princes in the farming era, grassroots were eaten when they were eaten. But if the seeds of spring plowing were picked out by these people, it would be a perfect harvest...
If you want to kill these poor people, the emperor's six thousand cavalry are eyeing him...
Therefore, under the threat of the emperor's "no grass grows", the princes along the way had to compromise. Then, ten thousand Austrian poor and mountain people were successfully sent to the Beihai territory...
When he arrived at Orich and heard the emperor tell the story of "no grass grows", Marin laughed:
Chapter completed!