Chapter 1492: Trouble with too much food

When there was a bumper harvest in Europe, the harvest in the American colonies was even more scary. In particular, the New York colony was developed for several years.

Since Marin sent thousands of troops and dozens of warriors of the Tooth Commando to the New York colony, the local army cleaned up and annexed the surrounding tribes. In addition to the hostile Mohigan being run away, many local Drava tribes were bought by Albert with a food offensive.

Albert is not good at using soldiers, but he particularly likes to buy out indigenous people with benefits. The Delaware people near New York are all maternal clans, and women are the final clans. Women are the easiest to fool and buy. Albert often feasts on the local patriarchs, and beautiful clothes and glass beads keep sending them away, causing these patriarchs to fall. Even, several forty-year-old Delaware patriarchs almost fell in love with Albert and wanted to recommend pillows ...

Fortunately, Albert had a wife, Maria, to avoid Albert being pushed back by the old ladies. Then, in order to obtain the sites of the Drava, Albert felled trees in the middle reaches of the Hudson River and built several small towns to encourage the migration of the Drava.

In order to encourage the Delaware to move to the upper and middle parts of the Hudson River, Albert made the blood, repaired the houses for the Delaware and promised to give them thousands of cattle and thousands of sheep.

In addition, Albert agreed to provide the Delaware with enough salt regularly and teach them cooking skills.

There are ready-made houses and fertile land by the water. In addition, Albert agreed to guide them to plant the land, and he was willing to provide fertilizer. Then most of the Drava agreed, and moved happily to the new town of Albany. The name of this town is the name of Marin's lazy and plagiarized descendants. When he heard Albert said that this place was about 225 kilometers upstream in New York, Marin immediately remembered that this was the location of the later New York State capital Albany. .

Then, from the New York to Philadelphia, about 9,000 more than 9,000 Drava people, all moved to Albany, lived in the house Albert built for them.

Albert actually did not build a good house for the Delaware, that is, they built more than 3,000 adobe houses for them. Built with yellow mud and thatch version, the cost is very low.

However, each of these adobe houses has a Chinese-style clay stove and chimney, which is convenient for cooking. Moreover, the Kang has been blocked. This is very important for the area near New York. Winter in the northeastern part of Laomei is very cold. Every winter, many Delaware freeze to death. And the adobe house built by the Albert for the Drava people is very warm in winter. After many Delaware felt it, they agreed to move over. Especially in the winter of these years, when it is the most difficult time, Albert will send people to lobby the Delaware who have not yet moved, and take them to Albany to feel the benefits of the adobe huts ...

After a few years, Albert finally got all the Vandravas near New York and sent them to Albany. Then, all the sites where the Drava originally lived were emptied ...

From New York to Albert's territorial Philadelphia, now there is no more people. Albert hurriedly applied to transfer immigrants from Cape Breton Island to England.

At the time, Malin had brought tens of thousands of refugees from England, but most of them remained on Cape Breton Island. However, the Cape Breton Island can only grow cold-resistant rye or sheep, which is a waste of labor.

Therefore, after applying to Marin, Albert moved half of Cape Breton Island's population, about 20,000 people, to the area between New York and Philadelphia, that is, the place of later New Jersey.

This large area of ​​land is about 20,000 square kilometers. Moreover, because the Delaware moved voluntarily, there were basically no indigenous peoples who threatened immigrants.

More than 20,000 English farmers arrived in the area and quickly felled trees, reclaimed farmland, and established several small towns and dozens of villages. There are 100,000 acres of newly cultivated land in the local area. Moreover, this number is still growing. After all, New Jersey has an area of ​​20,000 square kilometers, and it is effortless to reclaim over one million acres of arable land.

So, in the autumn harvest of 1513, the agricultural output of the New York colony was a bit scary ...

Originally, the New York colony had 50,000 acres of arable land. With the addition of 100,000 acres of land in New Jersey, the entire colony has up to 200,000 acres of arable land.

The most frightening thing is that, in addition to 20,000 acres for planting soybean oil and 10,000 acres for green beans, peanuts and various vegetables, the other 120,000 acres are all for wheat! Moreover, because Marin brought thousands of Han immigrants, under the guidance of those Han farmers, local immigrants quickly mastered many techniques for growing wheat.

Although due to insufficient fertilizer, the average yield per mu is less than 400 pounds. But this is wheat! Even if there are only 300 pounds of wheat per mu, 120,000 acres, or 720,000 mu, there are 216 million pounds ...

The price of wheat is five times that of rye, reaching the level of 5 fenny per pound. Then, 200 million pounds can sell 1 billion finney, which is converted into gold coins, which is 16.667 million gold coins ...

Of course, this is YY, and it is impossible to fulfill all of them. If Marin dares to dump wheat back to Europe in this way, it will surely cause jealousy and madness throughout Europe. Before the development of large warships and Peixang artillery, Marin had to admit that-Mader, such a high wheat production is meaningless ...

The news went back to the local area, and after seeing the report, Marin was so depressed that he felt painful. Because he obviously has so much food, but he ca n’t realize it. This is different from Hyundai ’s house and high house prices, but what ’s the difference?

Moreover, even if the wheat is taken back to China to eat. After all, it is impossible to give wheat to civilians. If this is the case, Beihai will probably be jealous and die. Because, in this era, most nobles in Europe did not dare to say that they would eat wheat bread. If ordinary people in Beihai can reach this level, it is not envy but jealousy or even hate ...

Therefore, Marin reluctantly approved Albert-you eat it yourself ...

Anyway, these wheats cannot be transported back to the local area for eating. However, people in the colony can still eat. Marin's rebirth led the people of the North American colonies to start a luxurious life of white bread.

Of course, it is not appropriate to give the colonial people all. After thinking about it, Marin decided to extract part of the wheat and use it to make compressed maple biscuits. Previously, maple sugar compressed biscuits were made of rye, and the taste was average. Marin plans to use wheat instead of rye to make military-supplied maple sugar compressed biscuits. Of course, a little rye flour is also added to cover the color. After all, it would be hateful if the army of the North Sea country spread out to eat white-faced biscuits. And using white noodles to make cookies, the taste will be much better.

Dunton white noodles, plus grilled fish, and some bacon and canned food ... Marin suddenly felt that this is a bit like the American army in the future? Probably, only the US military will have such a luxurious food ration ...

Before World War II, I am afraid that only the food rations of the US military are the best in the world. At that time, the US Army Dunton had white bread, Dunton had canned beef, and also provided Coke ... It was simply extravagant ...

It is said that during the First World War, the British and American troops joined forces. As a result, the American soldiers threw away the canned beef as soon as they saw it. Because they are tired of eating beef ...

The friendly British soldiers were stunned when they saw them-Nima, the beef was also thrown? What Laozi eats is flat bread ...

But the face of the British Empire is still required, so, in the evening, the British soldiers quietly picked up the canned beef thrown away by the American soldiers and ate ...

No way, Laomei is such a cow. Who makes Laomei's land so fertile and suitable for agriculture? Too much arable land, so much wheat to feed the animals. There are too many pastures and so much beef to eat for ordinary soldiers ...

It is said that during the Civil War, the U.S. military began to eat without humanity. At the time, the EFF soldiers in the northern United States could get 12 ounces of pork or bacon, or 1 pound 4 ounces of beef; white bread or flour 1 pound 6 ounces; in addition, beans, tea, sugar and various vegetables ...

In Europe during the same period, the Germans and Russians were still eating mashed potatoes and dark bread. The French are rich, but the food supply of the French army during the Franco-Prussian War was not even half of the US army ...

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There is really no way. Who calls the United States so much cultivated land and pasture? The output is so large ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ It's nowhere to be consumed, so it can only be used by army soldiers ...

Now Marin is also this trouble, because food is nowhere to be consumed, and it is too extravagant to take wheat to make wine. Therefore, Marin's opinion is-use wheat as military food ...

At that time, the ratio of wheat flour to rye in the military compressed biscuits was set at 7: 3. In this way, not only the taste of the biscuits is improved, but also the color of the white noodles can be covered with rye flour, so that outsiders cannot feel the dehumanization of the Beihai army ...

At the same time, the bagging technology of cumin grilled fish is also under study. At that time, sprinkle the salted fish with cumin powder and roast it, put it in a greaseproof paper bag, seal off the air after heating. Although it does not reach the level that ordinary soldiers can eat beef, but in this era, they can often eat grilled salted fish, which can also be comparable to later American soldiers ...

In addition, some bacon sausages, dried radishes and sauerkraut are occasionally served in the Beihai National Army. Wait until Cuba ’s fruit production has increased, and during the holiday season, canned fruit can also be provided ... As for canned beef ... or forget it, now nobles rarely eat beef ...

And for this treatment, if you go out and listen to the soldiers of other countries, you will be able to hear them out of the water ... especially the Ming soldiers who were deprived of military food and drink blood from the soldiers ...