Chapter 1090: East Friesian Sheep

The language problem is a big one, and it can never be solved overnight. It takes the efforts of several generations to achieve results.

Specifically-even if you promote English teaching for all, if you want to make English mainstream in Scotland, at least you have to wait for the old guys who only speak Scots to die. Then, the traditional older generation is gone, and the new generation's thinking can prevail.

An example is the issue of feudal superstition. Once, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, feudal and superstitious begging for worship was severely banned, and many temples were destroyed.

However, after the exercise, no one had to bother about this. Everyone was only concerned about their busy money and stopped suppressing feudal superstitions. The matter of praying to God to worship Buddha revived immediately. Why? Because the old people from the old society are still alive ...

But with the popularization of science education, after entering the 21st century, with the old people born in the old society have died, many young people now no longer go to God to worship Buddha. When the post-50s and post-60s died in a transitional period, when the trendy post-70s and post-80s became dying old people, I am afraid that few people would ask God to worship Buddha. At least, this is the case among Han Chinese.

Of course, it's not that asking God to worship Buddha is not good. In fact, most of the old people who pray to worship Buddha are very kind. Because they believe in karma, they will not do bad things at will. Old people without faith are often easy to be as shameless as old people who touch porcelain.

However, old ideas are old ideas. Coupled with the vigorous promotion of science in national education, old ideas will eventually be rejected by young people. When the old people are still there, they may agree. But once those old people have passed away, and those who grew up studying science since childhood, few people will go to pray to God to worship Buddha. Although there are still such people, the proportion is absolutely small.

Therefore, even if English education is promoted in Scotland, England must finally wait for the old people who have a strong sense of the original independent Kingdom of Scotland to die before England can truly complete the annexation of Scotland. And this process takes tens of hundreds of years.

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After talking with Edward about the major events of assimilating Scotland, Marin will be busy with his "little things" ...

What "little things"? In fact, it is not small at all, it is the economic problem of Marin's newly acquired territory ...

Marin wants to make the Scottish Highlands its own arsenal, first of all to make the Highlands more populated. If there is no population, where does Marin recruit?

Therefore, what Marin needs to do is-let the Highlanders find a way to survive, and then have the opportunity to have more people ...

Even, Marin also plans to recruit immigrants from other places to live in the Scottish highlands, and then integrate into the local area to form a rugged highlander style, and eventually become his source of troops ...

However, the premise of all this is-those people must be allowed to live in the Scottish highlands ...

Only when they are alive can Marin pick warriors from them. If they are starving, who is he going to?

In addition to the northern highlands of Scotland, the southernmost border county is also very important. This county is also a mountain-based county, which meets the requirements of the mountain people needed to breed Marin. Similarly, Marin also needs the local economy to develop. Otherwise, you can't support so many mountain people ...

How to invigorate the local economy and let more people survive?

In fact, the most important thing is food!

The ancients were not too demanding, in fact, they only needed to feed and warm themselves. As for other material requirements, I dare not expect too much. As for spiritual needs, it does not even exist.

And how to solve the problem of the food source of mountain people in Highland County and Border County? Farming is impossible, because the Scottish mountains are not suitable for farming. Moreover, the climate here is relatively cold.

There are some hilly areas that are suitable for grazing. Moreover, the Scots are indeed mainly grazing. Then, in terms of food, they will be on par with nomads. For example, the Crimean Tatars or something.

Therefore, in the absence of food, the best food source for Scottish mountain people is probably cheese. Mongolians, including Tatars, rely on cheese as their main food. What's more, the nutrition is not so low. People who don't look at nomads are strong.

However, the problem is that the Scottish Highlands and the southern border counties are mountainous, and there is no such a vast world suitable for grazing as the Mongolian steppes and the Eastern European steppes. Without enough pasture, there are not many cattle and sheep. If there are not many cattle and sheep, the milk source will be insufficient, and it is difficult to feed many people ...

"So, since there are few pastures, you can only take the high-yield route!" Marin said to himself.

The so-called high-yield route is to use animal breeds with high milk production. Under limited natural conditions, get enough milk to make cheese as food.

First, Marin thought of the famous Dutch Friesian cow. This kind of cow has a high milk production. Although the annual milk production is not up to 7,000 or 8,000 kilograms per year of later generations, there are 3,000 or 4,000 kilograms per year.

However, the biggest problem now is that Marin now has very few black-and-white cows in his hand and cannot supply Scotland in a large scale. Moreover, sending black-and-white cows to the bitter cold areas of Scotland is indeed very cost-effective and even affects milk production. Even if it is sent to the past, it may not necessarily adapt to the local climate.

"So, choose dairy goat milk as the main source of food?"

Marin suddenly remembered a life-long relationship between his last life-at that time, he talked about a girl who loves dogs. The family has a second ha, and then the puppy wants to drink milk, but not milk, but goat milk. So, Marin was ordered to look for goat milk ...

During that time, Marin checked the information and knew the goat's milk. Generally speaking, the sheep that mainly produce goat milk in later generations, if not Sanan goats, produce 600-1200 kilograms of milk per year. It can't be compared with black-and-white cows, but sheep eat less.

However, it seems that goats are more adapted to the warmer climate, and the Sanon dairy goat breed may not be available now. In a cold place like the Scottish Highlands, sheep are more suitable.

"Sheep? Dairy sheep? What kind of breed is good? What kind of breed is good ..." Marin paced in the hall ...

At this time ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ A Frisian guard who was in charge of the goal suddenly couldn't help but interject:

"Duke, a kind of sheep in my hometown can produce milk very well!"

Marin stopped abruptly and asked:

"Your hometown? Which way?"

"It's in Norton on the North Sea! Our nomads often use goat milk products as food, and sometimes eat fish. The sheep there produce milk very well, and can produce more than five or six hundred pounds a year ... … "

"Five or six hundred pounds?" Marin lowered his head and counted, feeling really a lot. You know, in this era, there is no professional breeding expert. It can produce five or six hundred pounds of milk per year, which is already a good variety. Moreover, people in this era do not know how to feed professional feeds such as alfalfa for dairy cows and goats. Of course, milk production is not high. If Marin sent people to specialize in breeding, it will definitely be better ...

"Norton ... East Frisian Norton ... Lying trough, is it the famous East Friesian sheep of later generations? The fighter in the milk sheep?"