To be honest, Marin despised the European domestic pigs of this era. Not only are they small in size, but they have few cubs. In this era, European domestic pigs only produce a few pigs in one child. Unlike the Taihu pig raised in Malin's family in his previous family, it is a cow. One child can produce more than a dozen piglets, and one child can produce more than 20 piglets...
Pigs do not engage in family planning, and the more cubs, the better. In this way, the scale of breeding will expand faster. Moreover, Taihu pigs are larger and grow faster than current European domestic pigs. It can be said that they are completely explosive in all aspects. Later, Europeans specially introduced and crossed to improve the quality of European local pigs.
However, Taihu pigs appeared in the Wanli period in the late Ming Dynasty. Now, Wanli's grandfather Jiajing has not yet ascended the throne. However, in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang generation, there should be excellent domestic pigs. If they can be introduced, they can also promote the pig farming industry.
In fact, Malin not only wanted to introduce Taihu pigs, but also wanted to introduce wheat varieties from the Ming Dynasty. Because the wheat, which is native to Europe, is too pitiful at the moment. Not to mention the low yield, the growth cycle is very long!
Generally, after planting wheat in November, it will not be harvested until October next year. Nimad, the growth cycle is almost a little over a year. What kind of junk variety?
You should know that in the hometown of Malin in his previous life, it was continuous rice and wheat. In autumn, wheat was planted in November, and harvested in late May of the following year. Then, rice was planted in June, and harvested in October... Just in time, you finished singing and I made it...
In other words, the growth cycle of the wheat in China is several months shorter than that of the current broken varieties of wheat in Europe! Not to mention wheat, rye is the same. It is sown in spring and harvested in October. This also leads to the fact that only one round of crops can be planted in arable land every year, which is very inefficient. But Marin has no choice, it is just such a variety. He used potassium fertilizer and phosphorus fertilizer, but it only allowed rye to harvest about 20 days in advance. If you want to ripen early, you must change the variety...
Therefore, Malin planned to find opportunities and must go to Daming to introduce Taihu pig breeds, and introduce Huaxia wheat varieties with short growth cycles and higher yields. In this way, agriculture and animal husbandry will be promoted more.
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Marin was happy because he thought of a good way to consume part of the food by raising pigs. So he planned to have a drink...
In fact, Marin hasn't drunk for a long time. At home, probably influenced by Italy and the Holy See, Angela and Ferris are used to drinking red wine. According to religious explanation, drinking red wine is equivalent to drinking "holy blood". However, Marin is not used to drinking red wine. Therefore, he would rather have boiled water than drink red wine. In fact, Marin prefers to drink tea and milk tea. Unfortunately, there is no...
Moreover, before, in order to save food, Marin advocated drinking boiled water instead of beer in East Friesland. However, today he was happy, so he planned to go to the tavern to have a beer...
In fact, in Marin's home, except Marin, Hoffman and Adler also like to drink beer. However, after Marin got married, he usually did not eat with his parents and brothers. He would only sit together for the holidays, but he also drank some red wine with his wife Angela.
Not that Marin doesn't like drinking beer. In fact, Marin likes drinking beer very much. However, in this era, there was no regulation that hops must be added (this regulation was mandated by the Duke of Bavaria in 1516), so the taste is not good. Without hops, the unique aroma of beer will be lost. Moreover, beer will be more likely to be rancid, and together they have a sour smell, a bit like the smell of slurry...
Therefore, Marin is not used to beer in this era...
It’s not that there are no hops, but they grow in southern Germany like hops. There are no hops in the northern region. If you want to, you have to buy them in the south...
Where are the average people willing to spend money to buy hops in the south? Even if the amount of hops is not large...
Therefore, the beer that ordinary people drink is basically "swallow" beer that does not contain hops. Marin would rather drink boiled water than drink this beer. Therefore, for a long time, Marin has forgotten the taste of beer...
When I walked into an Orich's tavern and saw the Earl coming, the bartender immediately welcomed him enthusiastically and recommended various high-end wines - low-end wines are not in line with Marin's identity...
"Sir Earl, you see, this is a high-end stout beer from Dortmund, the kind with hops..."
"Dortmond...stout beer..." Marin seemed to be inspired, but she didn't remember it for a moment. So, the Dortmund beer handed over by the bartender slowly tasted it.
Perhaps because of the addition of hops, the Dortmund stout tastes very good, it is relatively mellow and slightly sweet, and the bitterness of the hops is not obvious. According to the bartender, this is the masterpiece of Dortmund's brewing master Boer...
In fact, as a Hanseatic city, Free City, has a history of brewing beer for more than 200 years. However, it is said that Munich in the south has stronger brewing skills...
After drinking, Marin felt that he was not satisfied, so he brought a bucket back to the palace. Just so happened that when he met the old Hoffman, the father and son drank a few drinks together.
"Ah, it's indeed an authentic Dortmund stout, it's so good to drink it!" Obviously, Old Hoffman is a fan of stout beer. Moreover, the hometown of the Hoffman family is located near Bochum, not far from Dortmund. Old Hoffman had actually drunk Dortmund stout before, but there were fewer opportunities. Generally speaking, Old Hoffman was drinking low-end, hop-free inferior beer. After all, his family was not well-off before...
"Is that delicious?" Marin was a little confused. He just felt that this was just more flavorful than those sour beers without hops.
In fact, although Marin drank a lot of beer in her previous life, she was more just to get together with friends, drink beer and eat barbecue... The feeling was very good... So, Marin just likes to drink beer and eat barbecue, rather than how much she likes to drink beer...
But Old Hoffman is different. He is an authentic German, and his love for beer is difficult for people in other countries to understand. When drinking authentic master-level brewed stout beer, Old Hoffman was even a little excited...
"I tell you, Marin, these good wines are all brewed by those brewers' selection of rye malt, hops, and the clear spring water in the mountains. It took the boss's effort to brew..."
"What did you say just now?" Marin suddenly stood up, staring at Old Hoffman with a bright look, looking a little excited...
"What are you doing? Show your face at you? Don't think you are an earl, I will beat you up!" Old Hoffman was dissatisfied with Marin's attitude and thought Marin got angry at him...
"No, Dad, I'll ask you what you said just now. This is very important to me!" Marin said seriously.
"Oh, I think about it, it seems like the master's selected rye malt..."
"Yes! That's it! Rye malt!" Marin jumped up excitedly...
"What's wrong with rye malt?" Old Hoffman was a little confused...
"Dad, our family now has so much food that there is no place to put it in. There is rye everywhere. In order to put this rye, I have built a new urban area... Do you think, rye can develop into rye malt? With hops and spring water, can you brew delicious dark beer?"
Just now, Marin thought of a wonderful idea as if he had an epiphany - take out some of the food and vigorously brew stout beer...
He has a great amount of rye in his hand, and a ton of rye can produce 10 tons of beer. So much rye, God knows how much tan beer can be brewed...
"But, we don't have hops... nor do we have a master brewing..." Old Hoffman said in confusion.
It’s not that rye can make good tan beer. There are also hops and masters who know how to make tan beer…
"What are you afraid of? What I don't need most is money. Hops, right? I'll send someone to the south to buy a large batch of them! Brewing master, right? Use money to smash it! Throw a handful of gold coins on his face. If he doesn't believe it, he will not come!" Marin said domineeringly in a very "nova" tone...
Then, Marin really sent his men to the south of Germany...
His men divided into three groups, all the way to buy hops; they went to Dortmund, and took a lot of gold coins to "smash" the top beer brewing masters; they also used gold coins to "smash" the top beer brewing masters, but they went to Munich...
At the same time, after these three teams set off, Marin also sent people to various places to purchase new oak barrels for beer brewing. You should know that the wine brewed in oak barrels will taste much better...
As long as there is good beer, you can't sell it if you don't believe it. You must know that Marin suddenly remembered that most Germans are beer lovers. As long as there is good wine, there will be a market...
Chapter completed!