King of Mercenaries Chapter 67

Published at 14th of June 2023 05:29:20 AM

After returning to Texel with 500 serfs, Marin immediately led everyone to build a lot. First, adobe houses were set up as residences for 500 families.

Then, organized 700 male laborers in 500 serfs and started road construction. As for the sea salt cooking center, Marin specially invited several professional bricklayers from Cologne to help them build wood-saving stoves. In addition, Marin sent a boat to the mainland to pull a lot of bricks.

In fact, the firewood stove in Luan province is not technically difficult. The only trouble is to build a high chimney. Ordinary people have no problem building a furnace wall, but they are not professional bricklayers, and they can't build high chimneys. If one fails, the high chimney will fall easily. Therefore, Marin specially invited a bricklayer to build a wood-saving stove for cooking salt.

Professional is professional. Several masons have completed the task well and built 20 wood-saving stoves with high chimneys. And Kohler, from the Amsterdam side, retrieved the 20 big iron pots he had ordered before.

Because there are many places to be built on the island, Marin simply left the eight bricklayers borrowed from Wright. In addition, he sent someone to say hello to Wright, and received the family members of the eight people. Because he formed an alliance of interests, Wright did not hesitate and immediately agreed to Marin's request.

I spent a month, and the sea salt cooking center was built. The road from Te Hollencher to the salt cooking center was also successfully completed with 700 young men. In addition, they took time to dig a ditch on the sandy beach of the salt-boiler center, leading to the sea, and diffused the seawater for everyone to get it. In addition, Marin asked them to dig a drainage ditch to emit brine ...

后 After the road was repaired, the briquettes loaded and unloaded from Tholencher began to be transported to the salt center. This salt cooking center was named Salttown by Marin ...

With 20 pots fully activated, after several tests, everyone finally determined that the daily output of sea salt was 1,000 quarts ...

Moreover, the new technology proposed by Marin was used to cook the salt, and the fine salt was obtained ...

In fact, it is not advanced technology. The main reason is that when the salt is boiled to the final stage, a part of the seawater is left, not completely evaporated, but the seawater is discarded.

This part of the seawater actually contains chloride-magnesium and chloride-potassium salts that are more soluble than salt. Magnesium salt is different from table salt. It is bitter, while calcium salt is astringent. If the seawater is dried up, the remaining salt is coarse salt, and the taste of the coarse salt is slightly bitter due to the doping of magazines such as magnesium salt and calcium salt.

The part of the sea water that has been dumped is called "bittern." Discard the bittern, and the salt obtained is barely counted as fine salt. This refined salt also contains some magnesium salts, but the content is already very low. The bitterness of refined salt is relatively light and difficult to taste. This and the later chemically processed refined salt, the taste difference is already relatively small.

In the Middle Ages, the British did not know how to remove bittern from cooking salt. Therefore, their salt can only be regarded as coarse salt. And the mineral salts of salt mines such as Luneborg have a lot of bitterness, and there are very few high-quality, bitter-free refined salts.

In fact, the secret of removing bittern is that people inadvertently took out some salt under the bittern during tasting and found that there was no bitterness. Later, they left bittern only, and only took good taste. Refined salt. In the salt-boiling era, people used to boil the sea water to obtain the coarse salt at the bottom of the pot. Generally, no one dumps bittern when cooking for most of the way, and does not know how to remove bittern ...

The refined salt produced under the guidance of Marin, tastes better than most salt in Europe at present. After Wright tasted it, he immediately evaluated it as the finest salt, and thought that only this kind of refined salt would be served by nobles ...

Wright didn't know the reason, and thought the seawater quality in Texel was good. And he didn't know that Marin just added an extra step to drain the bitterness. But it is this simple step that greatly improves the taste of the salt.

After the bitter brine produced in Yancheng City is drained, Marin also allows to add some fresh water, and then dilute some impurities such as magnesium ions, and then drain it ... this way, there will be less residual bittern ...

Then, heat the remaining salt to evaporate the moisture. Then, someone smashed the salt particles with a copper hammer. In this way, the refined salts produced in Yancheng are all powdered white salts similar to the later generations ...

This white powdery salt was definitely a high-grade salt in medieval Europe. No wonder Wright gave a high evaluation.

Even, because of the high grade, Wright took the initiative to raise the purchase price to 4 shillings. Of course, the benefits of his 3 Finneys remain the same ...

After cost calculation, every day, these 20 cauldrons of boiling salt only need 15 charlotons of briquettes because of the use of wood-saving stoves. In other words, the 50 Charteron briquettes provided by Huffman Manor every day could not be used up, and only less than one-third were used.

In fact, Marin can expand salt production. However, Marin felt that at the beginning, it was necessary to test the market's response and not have to produce as much. Otherwise, there will be much production, and it will be troublesome if it cannot be sold.

20 And 20 salt pots, plus the labor to transport coal, etc., together less than 100 people are used. Then, there are 600 more young labor ...

This time Marin brought 500 serf families on the island, the total number reached 3100. The number of young people alone has reached 700.

At the moment, only 100 people need to cook salt, and Marin simply took the remaining 600 people to the wasteland near Dengbao ...

Today, it is early March in the early spring season. As it happens, spring ploughing is about to begin. Marin has 1,000 horses in his hands, which can be used to cultivate land. However, these horses lack ploughs.

As a result, Marin sent Kohler to the nearby cities, recruited a group of skilled blacksmiths, and settled in Denburg. At the same time, I purchased a lot of iron ingots, wood, and some forging equipment ...

The batch of blacksmiths arrived on the island, and Marin immediately arranged for them to work with the island's carpenters to make a batch of Qu Xi plows and various iron labor tools.

After the death, these agricultural tools were distributed to the serfs. The farmers of the original three farms were arranged to take care of the original 800 Ugram farmland.

Under the arrangement of Marin, all human dung on the island, as well as horse dung, were spilled into the fields. This caused widespread protests from serfs. They felt that Marin did nothing but soil the grain fields and made the grown grains "disgusting."

But Marin took no time to pay attention to their protests. Under the suppression of the 400 soldiers, the serfs had to do the same. Otherwise, angry serfs, have to beat Marin meal is not available. However, Marin has a castle, and 400 savage big soldiers who have seen blood. These honest serfs, although they feel sick, can only do so.

While arranging the serfs to plant their land, Marin also asked Kohler and Sauer to take people and go from house to house to pick up the families of these guys at the addresses given by the soldiers.

I sent Kohler because Kohler is the smoothest servant of Marin ~ www.novelhall.com ~. For example, Kohler has enough eloquence to negotiate with the family members who were held back by the original manor. You can even bargain and use your money to buy.

Therefore, only Kohler is suitable for this matter, and Sauer is barely capable, and Schwartz and others are not suitable. Marin himself is actually suitable, but he is now the lord, and there are so many things in the territory that he can't get busy. Moreover, going out of his own hands to pick up the family of a soldier was too insignificant. If the family members of the generals came to pick them up in person, it would be almost the same. But the family of No. 1 General Schwartz was placed in the Huffman estate. Therefore, I don't need to go out of my way anymore. Those big soldiers aren't worthy of their own ...

After Koller left, Marin personally calculated the cost. He found that the actual price of 1,000 quarts of refined salt in Yancheng was 3 shillings, 9 finnies and 1 quart. After deducting the price of briquettes and transportation costs, as well as labor costs, a total of about 9 Finneys. On average, his profit is 3 shillings per quart of refined salt. 1000 quarts is the net profit of 3000 shillings. And 3000 shillings is 150 pounds (or 225 marks), which is equivalent to 600 ducat ...

This is a day's profit! Marin fainted, 600 gold coins a day, 365 days of that year, even after deducting holidays such as Christmas and New Year, there were at least 350 working days (this year, there are no weekends, most major holidays are closed). So, can't you earn 210,000 gold coins a year? Marin was a little stunned, like Wu Lao Er, who is next to cerebral thrombosis ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Welcome the book readers to read, the latest, fastest and hottest serial works are in ~ www.novelhall. com ~ mobile users, please read.

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