The Rise of the European Emperor

As one of the first old courtiers to follow Marin and a college student in the Middle Ages, Haider was both excited and taken for granted the news of his appointment as the Chancellor of the Oldenburg Country Palace.

Because, Marin has long been training him as a prime minister. It's just that Jeffrey is still there and doing a good job, and Marin has no reason to replace Jeffrey with Haider. Coincidentally, Marin controlled the county of Oldenburg, and simply sent Haider as prime minister.

But before setting off to take office in the Earl of Oldenburg, Haider found Marin and asked him to transfer a batch of manpower from a fertilizer processing plant to go with him to the Earl of Oldenburg and set up several fertilizer processing plants there. field.

As an old courtier who had followed Marin during the time of Texel Island, Haider certainly knew the secret of the high grain yield of East Friesland. It is nothing more than processing manure into fertilizer, and then the grain will be harvested.

However, knowing that he knew, Haider, and a group of old courtiers who were the first to follow Marin, did not know how to process the fertilizer.

Marin is also shrewd, drying and air-drying the feces for several months, making the feces almost odorless. Moreover, the processed fertilizer blocks do not burn seedlings. If the manure is applied directly into the field, it is easy to burn the seedlings.

In fact, Haider and other old officials actually tried to apply feces directly into the fields as fertilizer in private. But as a result, the seedlings were burned and yellowed...

Even if some experiments are successful, the effect is far less than the compound fertilizer produced by the fertilizer processing plant under the control of Malin. After all, not only manure, but also potash and apatite are added to the fertilizer produced by the fertilizer processing plant. Of course, when the apatite ore in Laayoun was not obtained in the early days, Marin added the fish bones left by the fishermen who killed the fish or the fish meal that was dried and ground from the unpalatable fish that were eliminated. It's just that collecting fish bones and fish meal is too laborious. After obtaining Layoune, Marin added apatite directly.

However, because of the good confidentiality work, among Marin's men, only Kohler knew that there were potassium salts and apatite in the fertilizer. Because, the potash mines in the Harz Mountains and the apatite mines in Laayoune, he sent people to be responsible for mining and transportation. As for the others, not even Schwartz, understands the true secret of fertilizer.

In fact, it was precisely because of this that Frenzberg, who had actually worked for the emperor, never gave up on Marin and threw himself directly into the arms of the emperor. Because his fief in Lyle County also needed fertilizer from Marin's fertilizer plant.

Frenzberg originally planned to switch to the emperor's side completely, but in the manor given to him by the emperor, after experimenting with the direct use of manure, he found that the seedlings were burned. Moreover, even in some fields that do not burn seedlings, the yield per mu is only about 200 pounds, which is more than half of the yield per mu of the manor in East Friesland. Therefore, he did not intend to completely leave Marin. As a reward, Marin will also send a batch of compound fertilizer in sacks every year to Frenzberg's estate in the Principality of Tyrol in western Austria.

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Haider is now going to Oldenburg as the palace minister, and naturally hopes to achieve results. Moreover, if the farmland of Oldenburg County did not use compound fertilizers, the yield per mu would definitely still be as low as before. To this end, before going to office, he specifically asked Marin to send veteran serf craftsmen to collect the dung of the Oldenburg Country and use the "secret method" to make fertilizer. In this way, the farmland of Oldenburg County will also be harvested, and as the Prime Minister, he will have more money and grain to use, and his political performance will be better.

Hearing Haider's request, Marin was also surprised - he almost forgot that the Counties of Oldenburg, the Principality of Schleswig, including the Yevre region, have not yet established fertilizer processing plants...

So, he hurriedly selected 1,000 serfs from the 3,000 serfs responsible for making fertilizers in the 6 major fertilizer processing plants under his own control and sent them to the Counties of Oldenburg, the Yevre Region and the Principality of Schleswig.

Build 20 fertilizer processing plants directly under its leadership.

Although each fertilizer processing plant has only 50 people, it is a little less, but the fertilizer processing technology is not difficult. These 50 veterans can bring their apprentices and hundreds of honest local serfs as apprentices to set up a new fertilizer processing plant.

In fact, now is the right time to build a new fertilizer processing plant. Because, after collecting the feces, sun-drying and air-drying, it will take several months to dissipate most of the fecal odor in the fertilizer block.

As it happens, the crops of the Earl of Oldenburg, the Jever region and the Principality of Schleswig are not in time for this year. Because it won't be long before the autumn harvest. However, a few months later, when the first batch of fertilizer was produced, just in time for the spring ploughing in March and April next year, there was no delay at all.

When compound fertilizers doped with potash and apatite are used in the spring of next year, by the fall of next year, the Counties of Oldenburg and Schleswig will also be full of grain. At that time, those newly added lands will be able to recruit more immigrants.

However, to build 20 new fertilizer farms, Marin will of course not issue an order saying that I want to build a fertilizer processing farm. In that case, other countries could easily find out this secret, and might jointly force Marin to hand over the secret of fertilizer.

In public situations, Marin will use personal and environmental hygiene as an excuse to issue a decree to compel residents to ban defecation anywhere. If necessary, you must go to the toilet.

To this end, Marin stipulated that in all the cities of the three vassal states, there must be at least one public toilet on every street!

In each community in the city, a large public toilet will also be built. At the same time, the eastern-style toilet was promoted in the city, requiring people to go to the public toilet during the day and use the toilet at night.

Moreover, every morning when the city gate is opened, people from the fertilizer processing plant will arrange for ox carts to come over, and use large wooden barrels to pull the feces from the public toilets out of the city and send them to the large dung pond of the fertilizer factory.

The large septic tank is used to collect nitrate. After the feces are sent to multiple large septic tanks, the soil on the edge of the septic tank will be taken to extract the soil nitrate after a month. And those dung, after cultivating the nitrate, will be shoveled again and put in another pool to be mixed with the potash and apatite sent by Kohler's men. After stirring, it is immediately dried and then exposed to the sun to form a hard dung mass.

Then, these compound fertilizer blocks will be sent to the canopy to be air-dried to dissipate the odor of feces. After a few months, the clumps of fertilizer had no odor and became a mystery fertilizer that no one knew. With the current level of science and technology, chemistry has not yet developed. Even if this fertilizer is stolen, others will not understand what it is...

The outside of the fertilizer factory is guarded by soldiers loyal to Marin, and a tall city wall will be built to protect the secret of the fertilizer field. If the fertilizer field is besieged by the enemy, in the absence of hope, these soldiers will directly kill all the fertilizer field serfs in order to keep it secret. And those soldiers stationed in the fertilizer field are not allowed to inquire about the secrets of fertilizer processing. In this way, even if the fertilizer field is taken down, it will not get any secrets.

In addition to ordering the construction of a large number of public toilets in the cities, those rural estates, Marin also ordered the construction of public toilets in the downwind to collect feces. Of course, the name is still for "personal and environmental hygiene"...

When Marin ordered the comprehensive construction of public toilets in Oldenburg and the Principality of Schleswig and promoted the use of toilets, all the people who didn't know were dumbfounded—you Marin love to be clean, Still not allowed to urinate anywhere? Is the tube too wide?

However, Marin firmly stipulates that any adult who finds defecation everywhere will be fined 1 pfenni...

At this time, the average person's salary is only 2 pfennig a day. A fine of 1 pfennig is equivalent to half a day's wages for a person. No one is willing to pay such a high fine... Therefore, many people can only choose to surrender...

In fact, Marin would have planned to build public baths in every district if he hadn't feared opposition from the church. Along the way, Marin discovered that the people from the Principality of Schleswig and the Counties of Oldenburg did not like to take a bath.

However, not bathing was advocated by the church members, and Marin did not dare to publicly advocate bathing. Otherwise, it will be considered heresy. Only when his father-in-law becomes Pope will he dare to promote public baths in his own country.

As for now, Marin and Angela lead by example and take frequent baths in person. In doing so, at least his courtiers and subordinates will compete to imitate. Over the past few years, the people of East Friesland have become accustomed to taking hot baths frequently.

Especially those nobles and soldiers, if they didn't take a bath and stinks, Marin would directly express his disgust for them. In such a big environment, those nobles, officials, and generals in the army gradually developed the good habit of loving bathing.

As for the newly controlled Principality of Schleswig and the Earl of Oldenburg, that's not in a hurry, let's take it slowly. However, building toilets on a large scale will not touch the sensitive nerves of the church, but it can be done with great fanfare. In this way, the collection and processing of feces are also convenient...

Among them, after the feces were collected, the first round was used to extract nitrate, which was also Marin's thoughtful decision. In the last siege of Copenhagen, Marin did not order hundreds of artillery pieces to bombard the city walls together, but was reluctant to consume gunpowder.

Because, Marin's current gunpowder is mainly made of saltpeter purchased from India. It takes nearly two years for the fleet to go back and forth to India, which is too inconvenient.

Therefore, Marin ordered to add a process of extracting nitrate to the fertilizer processing plant. In this way, he can also get a lot of soil salt every year for the configuration of gunpowder.

Only with enough gunpowder, the army under Marin's command can confidently use line-up shooting and artillery bombardment. Otherwise, the consumption of gunpowder alone will make Marin's advanced tactics unfeasible...

In addition, Marin will also set up a large number of nitrate collectors in the Principality of Schleswig and the Counties of Oldenburg, who are responsible for collecting nitrates near private toilets, stables and cowsheds, in order to increase the source of gunpowder...