King of Mercenaries Chapter 223

Published at 14th of June 2023 05:19:55 AM

Although Marin has decided to marry Angela, Marin does not plan to get married immediately because it is too hasty. After all, as the head of a country, even if it is the head of a small vassal country, the wedding is sure to be grand. At least, you need a foreign guest to participate?

However, the current diplomatic situation of Emmarin can only invite guests from the Principality of Cliff and the Teutonic Knights. Moreover, it takes a long time to invite someone to a wedding at Teutonic. In addition, it will be March in two months, and we are busy with spring planting. Simply, Marin decided to set the wedding after spring ploughing in April.

下 In late April, spring ploughing is over, and everyone is free to attend the wedding. Moreover, the flowers were blooming at that time, which was the most beautiful time in spring.

Marin carefully solicited Angela's opinion, Angela agreed with a red face, with almost no hesitation. Angela was willing to marry Marin, and the private letter of Archbishop Rovere after Marin's tampering agreed. So, in the face of Marin's informal proposal, he agreed in one fell swoop ...

"Great, Angela, I am lucky to marry you! I will send someone to Portugal to order a large diamond and make a large diamond ring ..."

钻石 In Europe in this era, diamonds are considered a symbol of imperial power for generations. Before the 15th century, only the royal family and the royal family were generally eligible to wear diamonds. However, after the 15th century, many nobles also began to wear diamonds. At least, among those lords and nobles, diamonds became very popular.

At this time, the Portuguese often went to the west coast of Africa to exchange gold and diamonds with African black uncles for worthless gadgets. Therefore, there are still more diamonds on their side. After all, Africa is an important region for diamond production.

Just right, Marin has set the wedding at the end of April. There are still more than 3 months to go to buy diamonds and ask the master to process them into diamond rings. It is still enough time.

In addition, Marin also sent someone to Lyon, the European silk industry center, to order a pure white wedding dress. At the same time, a gold-encrusted luxury four-wheeled carriage has begun to build ...

In this era, Europe also has silk. It is just that the Europeans' level of sericulture and silk weaving is relatively backward and cannot catch up with the East, so they are obsessed with Oriental silk. However, being able to wear silk clothes produced by Lyon is also one of the pursuits of the nobles.

In ordinary times, the nobles were wearing silk robes to show their prominent identity. There was only Marin, who had seen more silk in previous lives and had raised silkworms at home, so he did not catch silk.

Therefore, Marin usually wears woolen clothes, and does not like wearing robes, but prefers short and convenient clothes worn by 19th century nobles in lace.

It was because of the beginning of the 18th and 19th centuries that Europeans began to abandon the less convenient robes and switch to short clothes. Only then did the silk trade decline, which was replaced by the tea trade and cane sugar trade. After all, silk people usually use it for robes. Of course, the silk trade was not bad later. Because, after all, men no longer wear silk, but women's skirts still need silk. However, later aristocratic men no longer wore silk robes.

Angela expressed great joy at these arrangements of Marin. After all, women are a little bit of vanity. They like to be the protagonist of the grand wedding and make others envious ...

Uh ...

While preparing for the wedding, Marin will arrange spring ploughing. From the hands of the original nobles, 70,000 Yougram's cultivated land was snatched by **** means, not for decoration ...

Although, Marin gave a lot of land to his men out of need. However, there are still 60,000 Yougram arable land in his hands. This time, Marin rewarded his men with a lot of money. For the land, it was very embarrassing, not much.

At this time East Frisian, there were only more than 80,000 Eugrams arable land, of which 60,000 were in the hands of Marin, and 10,000 were in the hands of Marin. There are still 10,000, in the hands of the original local nobles who surrendered to Marin.

Although he was exempt from tax for three years, Marin didn't care. He shamelessly snatched most of the cultivated land in East Frisian Land, and still care about that tax? As long as the fields are planted well, the benefits will be great.

If you want to plant the fields well, you naturally need fertilizer ...

So, Marin is now very worried about fertilizers.

Fertilizers of tamarin are naturally mixed with feces, plant ash, fish scraps, and some potassium salts. However, Marin is not willing to leak this technology to others.

After all, if others also know the secret of fertilizers, Marin will not be able to form a technological monopoly, and the revenue will be greatly reduced.

Prior to his death, he was on the Wadden Islands, isolated from the mainland, and there was little chance of leaks. Moreover, serfs could not leave the land at will. Therefore, Marin can legitimately promote the application of manure and plant ash on the islands.

But now that East Frisian is on the mainland, if you vigorously promote manure, you are telling others. Especially in Lyle County, the Bishop's State of Muenster lies to the south and the Archbishop of Utrecht and West Friesland to the west. It's impossible to promote the use of manure and then go undetected.

Therefore, Marin decided to change his approach ...

For example, the feces are collected, processed into dry solids, ground into powder, and sent to serfs for use. After the feces are dried and air-dried, their appearance is different. At least, the odor became very mild.

The manure is very stinky at first, but as long as it is exposed to the sun and air-dried for a long time, the odor will become weaker. Wait until the dried dung mass is in front of you, and you are not sure if it is a dung mass. Because, in people's common sense, feces should be smelly ...

In the previous life, Marin was a rural person. Naturally, I have seen adult people process feces to become feces. Often, farmers first sort out a large piece of open space, mix manure, plant ash, and even some hay and river mud, and place it on the open space for exposure and air drying.

Sassafras ash is a weak natural potassium fertilizer. As for river mud, because fish often urinate on the river mud, it is actually rich in nutrients and contains a certain amount of phosphorus. As for the hay, it goes without saying that its composition is not much different from the plant ash. After all, plant ash is the thing after the burning of hay ...

颜色 After mixing these things, the color changes. With the addition of river mud and plant ash, the dark yellow of the original stool became a bit black. After the air is finally dried, most of the odor will disappear, and most people cannot confirm that it is feces. In addition to the odor becoming very pale, the color is also darkened by plant ash and river mud, which is unrecognizable ...

Furthermore, manure cannot be directly applied to Shimoda because it will burn seedlings. Previously, Marin was using a pond to pile manure on Texel Island, but it was also a way to do it, but it also took into account the extraction of nitrate. In fact, that method didn't work well to turn the stool into a dry mass. Of course, the manure on Texel Island can also be processed into dry blocks, and the effect is equally good.

But Marin was too lazy to do it, after all, when he was on the island, his mind was full of expansion, expansion ...

Now that East Frisian has been won, Marin is thinking about farming. After all, he had 60,000 Eugrams in his hands. With 10,000 Yougram on the Wadden Islands, he is now a super landlord who owns 70,000 Yougram land. If converted into acres, there are 840,000 acres and 8400 hectares. Although it is not as good as the 20,000 hectares of the well-known rich and wealthy King Zhu Changxuan, it is still a super landlord. After all, in the Ming Dynasty, like Zhu Changyu, who owned 20,000 hectares, even the kings, there were very few. Many ministers, rewarded with land, and given hundreds or thousands of acres at a time, are considered a great grace.

The 10,000 acres of good land of the big landowner Liu Wencai, in front of Marin's 840,000 acres, is really nothing ...

In fact, Marin in the previous life has actually seen the processing of feces. Moreover, when he was very young, he saw Uncle Tai made it. Uncle Tai is an old-school farmer and naturally likes to use natural fertilizers. However, Uncle Tai died early, so Marin was not too impressed. However, this time when I thought of keeping it secret, I accidentally remembered how many years ago I saw the process of processing the feces by the uncle who was still alive.

After the death of Uncle Yun, there were basically no farmers in the village willing to process dung blocks. Because at that time, the use of chemical fertilizers had been promoted. Fertilizers are more effective than dung blocks, and processed dung blocks are stinky. Therefore, farmers who are younger than Uncle Tai are unwilling to do it, and are willing to use clean fertilizers, the effect is even better.

But in this era of Marin, it is not realistic to get fertilizer. Synthetic ammonia requires a strong industrial foundation and high equipment requirements. Therefore, Marin can only continue to rely on manure.

What is stronger than directly dropping the feces is the processed feces. In addition, Marin will also be mixed with a lot of fish-killing scraps, fish bones, and some potassium salts when processing manure. Such fertilizers are basically equivalent to weak compound fertilizers.

Furthermore, no one can tell what the fertilizer block is ...

After all, the longer the dung block is, the lighter the odor is. Plus, the color has changed, and the materials have been added. If most people can see it, then it is really amazing.

You know, the Mongolians on the steppe, because there are no trees to cut. Therefore, they use firewood and coal instead of firewood for cooking. Instead, they use dry sheep dung.

Sheep dung is combustible, and the odor is relatively mild. On the grassland, the climate is dry and windy, and the exposure and drying of sheep dung eggs is easier. The dried sheep dung has very little odor and is very good for fuel. Similarly, cow dung from cattle eating grass like sheep can also be used as fuel. And if it's smelly, no one wants their kitchen to be smelly ...

So, the dung mass after air-drying has no smell. Does the air dry longer?

However, Marin now lacks time and has no time to air dry the feces for several months. Because spring plough is coming, he has at most a month to dry his feces.

As a result, he immediately ordered a large number of serfs to collect manure uniformly in the whole East Frisian Land to facilitate the processing of feces.

In order to facilitate the collection, Marin divided the country's land of about 3200 square kilometers (excluding the Wadden Islands, because it is convenient for confidentiality and does not need to process dung blocks) into 60 sub-divisions, each of which has dozens of serfs. Wear a face mask and use a cart and bucket to collect feces from house to house.

As for the reason for collecting feces, the first reason is to be clean and hygienic and convenient for people's lives. This is particularly important for urban residents. Because there are so many people in the city, and no one collects the feces, it's stinking. Whether it was Emden or Orich, Marin could always smell a faint odor when he walked into the alleys of the residential area. This is still in winter, and the taste is not great. If it is changed to summer, it will be smoky ...

Marin proposed unified collection of feces ~ www.novelhall.com ~ and it is free, which really helped the citizens. Everyone supports this move wholeheartedly.

Another reason is also very sounding-Count Marin wants to use salt to extract saltpeter for national security ...

理由 This reason is also very valid, because with the gradual popularization of artillery and muskets, the demand for saltpeter is indeed growing. Count Marin collected a lot of saltpeter, and it really made sense. The people saw it, and dozens of cast iron cannons were set up in the city heads of Orich and Emden. The size of these artillery guns (12 lbs.) And the consumption of saltpeter are also amazing ...

In fact, Marin originally planned to collect saltpeter before processing dung blocks. However, time is short and spring plough is about to begin. Therefore, this time, Marin gave up the extraction of nitrate and used it directly for fertilizer processing ...

As for the processing of dung blocks, Marin has set up 6 processing points in the country, all of which are very hidden places. There are 60 manure collection points in the country, and a hidden processing plant is set up at every 10 points. The workers in the processing plant are all serfs under the control of Marin, and there is no migrant worker. In this way, it is difficult to leak the secrets of faecal processing.

At the same time, Marin also asked serfs to collect dung blocks, taking care of collecting plant ash. But the plants and gray marlins give money, the reason is to extract alkali, used to make soap or something. Of course, how much can the plant ash be worth? A large cart of ash, give a small Finny silver coin, even if it is passed ...

The plant ash was transported to the processing plant, together with the fish-killing scraps from Marin from the Wadden Islands, and the potassium salts from the bitter salt mine that Marin bought from Kohler to make a very powerful compound fertilizer block. . This powerful compound fertilizer block can not only be used as a base fertilizer, but also used for top dressing in the middle. The ash is often powerful ...

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