On this side of Europe, Marin's fleet joined the warship formation outside the sea and continued to sail westward. A few days later, he arrived on the coast of England. When he arrived at the Isle of Wight, Marin's fleet stopped for a while. After all, the Isle of Wight is now Marin's fiefdom, so he decided to take this opportunity to inspect.
Marin's fleet docked at the port of Cowes at the mouth of the Medina River in the north of the Isle of Wight. Cowes' English is Cowes, and its name originates from two sandbanks at the mouth of the Medina River, which looks like two cows (Cow). Then, it is called Cowes.
Because it is located at the mouth of the larger freshwater river on the Isle of Wight, and the Sorent Strait in the north faces the important freshwater harbor of Southampton Bay, the island. Therefore, Coase is a very excellent freshwater port.
Therefore, Marin had long spent money to build a castle in Coase and built several long bridge docks to facilitate ship docking. Moreover, a dock was built to facilitate ship repair. After all, in the era of wooden boats, ships were eroded by shipworms and slapped by sea waves, and the hull was damaged. Therefore, the maintenance of ships was very important.
Moreover, Marin plans to build Coase into an important military port in the future. Therefore, Coase’s dock is not one, but three.
In order to ensure the safety of Coast and avoid being attacked by enemy fleets, Marin built multiple forts on the shore of the Sorent Strait where Coast leads to the sea, specifically used to attack enemy warships that dare to enter the strait.
You should know that the Sorent Strait is only 3 6 kilometers wide, and Marin built several turrets on the shore, which is definitely enough to deal with enemy ships that dare to invade. After all, the cannons of the turret are generally relatively large in diameter. Moreover, the recoil of the turret is transmitted to the earth by the base of the stone, and it will not be displaced like a naval gun, nor will it deviate due to the hull shaking. In addition, the protection of the stone fortress is much higher than that of the wooden ship, so the battleship and the turret are definitely not an opponent. As long as the two sides of the Sorent Strait are blocked with the turret, the Port of Couse is a very safe military port.
Moreover, after going out from the Sorent Strait, the warships at Coase arrived immediately in the middle of the English Channel, which was very beneficial for controlling the English Channel. Moreover, the Portsmouth Military Port in the northeast of the Sorent Strait was also the largest military port of the British Royal Navy, and it was also the place where the Royal Navy held a naval review ceremony to show off the British Empire's maritime force. Later Virgo was stimulated at the naval review ceremony here, and then went back to let the German Empire explode warships...
Although the harbor in Portsmouth is better, that harbor is backed by the English mainland. Before England was controlled by itself, Marin did not want to expose too many of his secrets to the English. Therefore, establishing a military port on the Isle of Wight, which is completely his own. Anyway, it is the era of wooden sailing, and the port does not need to be too big or too deep. A port like Coase Port is competent enough.
In order to maintain the secret, Marin arranged all the officials arranged by him on the Isle of Wight were Friesians from East Friesland. These people used Friesian language to communicate with the locals. Moreover, because they were Marin's loyalty, they had nothing to do with the English mainland. With them, Marin was not worried about the infiltration of England. In a few years, the whole of England would fall into his own hands, let alone the infiltration of England.
When we arrived at Coase Harbor, Marin found that Coase Harbor was still under construction. Although a large amount of money had been invested, it took a lot of time to build the port and castle. Therefore, when Marin arrived at Coase Harbor, Coase Harbor only repaired a batch of long bridge docks. As for the dock and castle, only half of the castle was built, and only one of the three docks was repaired...
After all, it was his own territory. With the warm invitation of his subordinates, Marin went to Newport, the administrative center in the central Isle of Wight, and lived in the famous Carrisbrook Castle. This castle is very famous. Later, Charles I was imprisoned in this castle in front of the guillotine...
Marin had no taboos. After all, Charles I had not appeared in this world yet. Not to mention Charles I, Charles I's grandfather James V could not appear under the intervention of Marin, so naturally there was nothing Charles I. No one had ever moved in as a bad guy, Charlesbrook Castle, so naturally there was no bad luck.
Because the war in the Americas was fake, Marin naturally did not rush to go to America. So, on the Isle of Wight, Marin simply came for vacation.
When it was okay, Marin took his guards to visit White and enjoyed the English island style different from Germany.
That morning, Marin took his guards to leave Carisbrook Castle and came to a nearby village for a trip.
During the trip, Marin was surprised to find that a young English farmer named James picked up two duck eggs on the grass beach by the river. After returning to his home, he used grains to lure the old hens in the chicken coop at the door to eat, and quickly put the duck eggs in the chicken coop. At the same time, he took out two eggs from the chicken coop...
"Hey, what are you doing?" Kahn asked curiously as Marin's bodyguard. Kahn also learned Friesian, so he could talk to the English farmer.
James saw that Marin, a large group of people wearing plate armor, were obviously nobles. So he bowed deeply and replied:
"Hello, all the masters, I just took the duck eggs to hatch for the hens!" James just finished speaking, the full hen really ran back to the chicken coop and continued to hatch the eggs. However, the silly old hen didn't notice that his eggs had been dropped...
Maybe people think it is incredible - the difference between eggs and duck eggs is so big, how can hens not discover it? Hey, I really didn’t find it, hens are so stupid...
After listening to James' explanation, Karn was shocked - the hen was so stupid...
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Then, he continued to ask:
"Why not hatch duck eggs for female ducks?"
"The master doesn't know that female ducks don't like to hatch eggs. They usually run away after laying the eggs and basically ignore the eggs. Generally speaking, we give the hens the important task of hatching duck eggs to help him..."
Kahn continued to be shocked...
However, Malin smiled and looked like "I know everything". Marlin lived in the countryside in his previous life, so hens hatched duck eggs, so he naturally saw many of them.
In fact, female ducks do not like to hatch eggs, which is also the result of long-term choices of humans. Because people have found that female ducks that do not like to hatch eggs are relatively fat. After multiple generations of choices, female ducks do not like to hatch eggs. In order to obtain small ducks, duck farmers can only use the duck eggs to hatch the stupid hens.
Hens are so stupid. After the duck eggs hatch, the little ducks and chicks are obviously different, but the hens still treat the little ducks as their own children. When they find insects, they will warmly greet the little ducks to eat. One day, the little duck jumped into the river and swam happily, and the hens were even more confused at that time - can my strange-looking child actually swim?
However, these are all traditional breeding methods. In fact, if you want to breed large-scale, you will usually take fertilized duck eggs, even goose eggs and eggs to the kang room for hatching.
It should be pointed out that there are two types of eggs, one is a fertilized egg, and the other is an unfertilized egg. How to say, eggs are actually eggs excreted by hens. If they do not combine with the essence of the rooster and become fertilized eggs, they will not be able to hatch the chicks.
For example, women will also send eggs every month when they have menstruation, but they will be lost with blood. If they are fertilized before excretion, they will get pregnant and have children. However, the eggs of the hen seem to be larger, that is, eggs...
Just like a woman's menstrual period, the hen is not pecked at the cock's comb by a rooster (the way of mating the chicken) and still lays eggs. However, women ovulate once a month, while the hen ovulates every day. The eggs discharged are eaten by humans...
It is very simple to identify fertilized eggs and unfertilized eggs - in the dark room, face the eggs against the light and observe the eggs. If there is a shadow in the egg, it is a fertilized egg. If it is very transparent inside, it is not.
However, there is another way to distinguish. When I was a child in my previous life, Malin saw those egg-collecting eggs. He carried two baskets, one basket put fertilized eggs, and the other was not fertilized. The way to distinguish is to first see if there are big roosters in the chickens raised in this family. If there are big roosters there, they will definitely not let the hen go. Generally, the eggs of this hen are mostly fertilized. If there are no big roosters, there are no neighbors either (the big rooster in the neighbor’s house is nicknamed Lao Wang next door. If the big rooster in the house is not careful, the big rooster next door will come to peck at the hen’s comb... Then, the big rooster at home will fight fiercely with the big rooster next door in order to maintain its second palace. This is the legendary cockfighting...)
Unfertilized eggs are usually sold to the people of the town for food, while fertilized eggs are usually sold to kang houses to hatch into chicks...
"Yes, kang room! Why did I forget this?" Ma Lin slapped his head.
In this era, a kang house was probably already appeared in China. The kang house is a greenhouse for hatching chicks, ducks and gooses. The structure is very simple, it is a small house with a kang. However, the cottage is closed to maintain the temperature in the house. The fertilized eggs, duck eggs and goose eggs are placed on the kang, with broken quilts or grass underneath (to prevent the temperature from being steamed too high) and continue to hatch.
The temperature of the kang room is definitely higher than that of the hens. Of course, the temperature should not be too high, otherwise the eggs will be roasted. As long as the temperature is controlled, the hatching of the kang room is more safe than that of the hens. Moreover, it can be hatched in large quantities.
The egg incubator is as high as dozens of days, and hens hatch up to two or three eggs at a time, which is very inefficient and very hard. Squatting there all day is not conducive to foraging and growth. Therefore, incubation in later generations is generally done in rural areas to kang houses.
Chicken is a little better, after all, hens are willing to hatch eggs. For ducks, the kang room is more important. Female ducks do not hatch eggs, and lay eggs everywhere. People who lay ducks often look for a circle on the river beach before work every day.
Therefore, before the emergence of the kang room hatching technology, the scale of duck raising has not increased. Because duck eggs are not as good as female ducks, giving them to the hens will not only harm the hen's body (after all, it is not easy to squat there for a month), but also inefficient.
If a kang house is built to hatch, it is OK to hatch hundreds of ducks at a time. Even hens who are willing to hatch eggs, the number of hatched eggs is very limited.
If it is replaced by a kang room to hatch in a centralized manner, raising chickens, ducks and geese on a large scale will no longer be a problem. If the breeding scale of chickens, ducks and geese has increased, then the residents of Beihai Country will not be short of chicken, and they will not be short of duck and goose meat, and eggs will not be lacking...
Therefore, the kang house hatching technology is a technology of great historical significance for the breeding of chickens, ducks and geese, especially ducks. With this technology, large-scale breeding of chickens, ducks and geese will no longer be a dream...
Chapter completed!