Chapter 1445: For cover, buy Iceland

The combination of milk sheep and radish (white radish) is a natural fit. The cost of rearing dairy sheep is low and you only need to eat grass. The radish is not only high in yield per mu, but can also be planted for more than three seasons a year. There is no need to plant too much area to meet the needs of goat milk produced by a group of dairy sheep.

In addition to solving the problem of the smell of goat's milk products, the white radish and lamb cooking together can also remove the smell of lamb, which is indeed a super good thing.

Originally, Marin intended to promote dairy products of black and white cows. After all, drinking milk is mainstream. The problem is that the growth cycle of special black and white cows is too long, and the fertility frequency is too low.

In the absence of modern veterinarians, black and white cows have to grow for two years to produce milk. In addition, they may not be able to produce one litter every year, and only one or two calves per litter. As a result, the rate of population expansion is very slow.

The East Frisian sheep are different, but they are born twice a year. The annual number growth rate is more than double that of black and white cows. According to several calculations of 2, the speed of expanding the population scares individuals ...

The only shortcoming was that the goat's milk was stale. Now, with the appearance of the horrible Chinese white radish, this problem has been solved. Every dairy sheep farm, as long as a few acres of radishes are planted, it is enough to remove the odor. Then, people can drink goat's milk without unpleasant smell ...

As for milk production, Marin also decided to combine earthworm breeding to promote milk production. Breeding earthworms with cow dung and sheep dung is a good project. Earthworms produced from cow dung and sheep dung were originally intended to be used for raising chickens and to promote laying hens.

However, Marin suddenly remembered that in the past life, there seems to be a legend that the earthworm-made "dragon soup" has the effect of milking the mother ...

Therefore, Marin decided that after the earthworm breeding was successful, one part was taken to feed the laying hens, and the other part was processed into dried earthworms, ground into powder, and added to the feed of dairy cows and sheep, not only to supplement nutrition, but also Can promote milk production ...

It's just that Marin has a headache now because of the choice of earthworms. Although there are many earthworms in Europe, to select the most suitable for breeding with cow dung requires long-term cultivation and comparison.

Marin remembers that earthworms raised by cow dung in later generations seem to be a kind of red earthworm cultivated in Japan. It seems that it is still a high-quality variety of American red earthworms and Japanese earthworms. Anyway, Marin didn't understand too much. Anyway, he asked his men to collect various varieties of red earthworms for breeding and observation, to see which earthworms eat cow dung and transform cow dung with high efficiency and fast growth rate. If this is not possible, you can also send someone to North America to find the so-called American red earthworm. Then, Japan is also a colony. You can also send people to find good red earthworms ...

Thinking of how red earthworms crawled around, Marin suddenly felt a little uncomfortable ... However, in order to promote milk production for dairy sheep and cows, this still needs to be done. Anyway, it ’s not you who raises the earthworms yourself. You just keep your mouth and raise such terrible things in person, or let the serfs do it better ...

At night, when seeing pasta with reddish brown soy sauce, Marin suddenly felt a little disgusted, and his brain was full of earthworms crawling around. Then, a bowl of pasta was wasted ...

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The next day, Kohler hurried over, and Hui Hui reported:

"Protagonist, no good, the volcanoes we bought in the Kingdom of Naples were confiscated by the French!"

"Confiscate and confiscate, anyway, those volcanoes are just for covering people's eyes and ears, and we don't really need volcanic ash." Marin didn't care.

"Princess, the problem is not here! Once the French cut off the supply of our volcanic ash, in the future, our food will continue to be highly productive, how to explain? It will cause others to doubt!"

Marin took this seriously ...

Just a few days ago, the city of Naples was finally broken. Because of the lack of ammunition, the Spanish defenders, after being wrapped up by Italian mercenaries and holding up the Italian farmer, ran out of ammunition, and their combat effectiveness was greatly reduced.

To put it bluntly, the Spanish Army is very powerful recently, and it is also very powerful on the musket. Really better than martial arts, the Spaniards can't compare to France, which has always valued the martial arts training of knights.

No, after the ammunition was gone, the French personally got on ...

Under the cover of Italian cannon fodder mercenaries in front, a group of French knights dressed in Italian mercenary clothes accidentally killed the walls of Naples. Despite being repelled several times, the French finally got a foothold on the city wall.

Then, a large number of French knights wore plate armor and flooded this section of the wall ...

Without the musket that specifically restrained the plate armor, the weakness of the Spanish martial arts was quickly amplified ...

Then, the Spanish defenders on the walls were defeated by the French knights who were covered in plate ...

The French invaded the city, evacuated the debris in the city gate from the inside, and opened the cast iron city gate ...

Then, tens of thousands of French troops swarmed in, relying on the absolute number advantage and the martial arts advantage of the French knight to defeat the Spaniards. In the end, only more than two thousand of the most elite Spanish soldiers fled with ropes. Exactly, when they fled in the evening, the French couldn't catch up, and they fled into the nearby mountains ...

At this point, the French finally captured the most difficult city of Naples in the Kingdom of Naples. The next day, the French divided several soldiers and horses, and quickly rushed to all parts of the Kingdom of Naples to control various cities. Other cities basically have no defensive force, and in front of a crowded French army, they can only surrender.

Subsequently, Louis XII sent the remaining more than 16,000 Italian mercenaries to station in several important cities. And Louis XII himself, with the main force of the French army of less than 60,000, was waiting for the arrival of the main force of Spain in the city of Naples, preparing for a decisive battle ...

However, in the process of capturing all parts of the Kingdom of Naples, all volcanoes were forcibly confiscated by the French army and no compensation was given. Some of the men Marlin sent to Naples to buy the volcano were also driven away by the French. Even the tools and facilities used for digging volcanic ash, including temporary docks for loading and unloading volcanic ash, were "forced" by the other party ...

Subsequently, the French began to force the local farmers to dig volcanic ash for them. After digging, hire a merchant ship from Genoa (with its own merchant ship afraid of being sunk by the Spanish fleet), and ship it back to France ...

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"Protagonist, how do we deal with it? We have to find a cover ..."

Marin thought for a while and said:

"Aren't we also buying volcanoes in Sicily? They can also be used for cover!"

Kohler shook his head and said:

"We only bought one volcano by the sea in Sicily, and its volcanic ash production is not enough to cover it!"

"Then I think about it ..."

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Half an hour later, Marin thought of a countermeasure-buy Iceland ...

Iceland is a large volcanic island, known as the "land of ice and fire", and this "fire" of "ice and fire" refers to volcanoes.

There are more than 100 volcanoes on 100,000 square kilometers of land in Iceland. Sometimes volcanic ash from volcanic eruptions can float over continental Europe. There was even a volcanic eruption, and the ash fell on the sea, directly forming a small island of 2.1 square kilometers ...

Of course, Iceland is also sad. Because the latitude is too high, its land is on the Arctic Circle. Although it is not particularly cold because of the influence of the North Atlantic warm current. However, it has nothing to do with warmth. The most important thing is that during the winter, there will be a polar night, that is, it will be dark all day.

Therefore, the light here is seriously insufficient. The crops need to accumulate temperature, so in later generations, Iceland can not grow grain here, at most can only grow some hardy crops like potatoes. In order to grow vegetables, Icelanders need to turn on the headlights all day long in the vegetable greenhouse ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ to provide enough light to the vegetables to maintain photosynthesis ...

Iceland is already cold, and it is currently in the "little ice age". Moreover, there was no promotion of potato crops in this era. Therefore, in Iceland now, the people above can only raise a few animals such as Icelandic horses, Icelandic sheep and reindeer. Then, the rest is fishing.

Therefore, the local population is now very small, only a few thousand people. Moreover, they live on the narrow plains of the southwest coast. Such a place, Denmark will naturally not attach importance.

So, Marin asked Kohler to send people to Denmark and offer 20,000 gold coins to buy this place in Iceland. The reason, naturally not for volcanic ash, but for Icelandic horses ...

The Icelandic horse is a dwarf stallion, similar to the Mongolian horse. It is hardy, hardy and endurance. Of course, heavy cavalry is now prevalent in Europe, and high-profile horses are popular. Icelandic horses, which are short horses like Mongolian horses, are naturally not popular, and Marin is actually not interested. However, it is a reason to buy Iceland. If more reasons are needed, it is said that these horses are favored by the noble children of Beihai ...

But at the same time, Marin will also quietly reveal to the French that Laozi bought an island full of volcanoes, without the use of Italian volcanic ash ... In the future, the North Sea country will still produce high yields of food, don't doubt it ...