"Alas—too much food is also a problem!" Marin shook his head and sighed.

If the other princes had learned that Marin sighed like this, it is estimated that they would have angrily formed a German coalition army, came together to surround Marin, and then pressed Marin to the ground, rubbed vigorously, and said while rubbing:

"Tell you to pretend to be B! Tell you to pretend to be a B......"

But Marin is really not pretending, but really troubled. As a German vassal state, Marin did have too much grain in his hands. Doubling grain production several times is not a simple matter. Originally, the yield per mu of rye land was only more than 100 pounds, and the income of the nobles per mu was only about 50 pounds. Therefore, the aristocrats needed a lot of arable land to barely maintain a luxurious aristocratic life.

The use of advanced agricultural technology and fertilizer technology in later generations has led to a several times the yield of rye, which has led to a new problem - oversupply.

Under normal circumstances, if Marin normally puts these grains on the market, it will definitely cause food prices to fluctuate and plummet.

But Marin did not dare, despite the fact that he had an elite army of 40,000 troops, the secret of several times the production of grain, which was estimated to be of interest to all the monarchs of Europe. Therefore, Marin can only sell grain secretly, and mainly abroad. Otherwise, there is a great possibility that Marin will be beaten up by the monarchs of all Europe......

Therefore, although the grain warehouse was full, Marin was still very careful to control the sale of grain, so as to avoid excessive shipments that would arouse the suspicion of other countries.

However, there was too much grain in the warehouse, and Marin was in a hurry. You know, in Marin's warehouse, the grain stock reached more than 1 billion pounds. Moreover, many of the more than 1 billion pounds of rye are still old grains from the year before and last year.

Although rye can be stored for three or five years as long as it is dried, it can be inhibited from being placed there, and it will also be easy to deteriorate and age......

Therefore, how to deal with the old grain of the previous year has become something that Ma Lin needs to pay special attention to. Because if you don't deal with it, it's going to go bad......

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As mentioned earlier, Marin has long had his eye on the brewing industry......

Ancient Europeans were very strange, before the British introduced tea as a drink and developed the habit of drinking tea, if Europeans were thirsty, they especially liked to go to the tavern for a drink. Aristocrats naturally drank red wine, and many people preferred authentic beer with hops. And ordinary laborers, I am afraid, can only drink those sour and inferior beer. But even so, Europeans still like to have a drink after work, no matter what brand it is......

Europeans are so fond of drinking that Marin believes that taking out a large amount of grain to make wine is not only profitable, but also marketable. At the same time, selling wine is too hidden than selling grain directly. Who cares what the yield of the land in the house of the wine seller is?

In addition to Germany's most classic dark beer, some of the surplus grain can also be selected and used to make spirits with higher alcohol content, such as brandy. With the characteristics of Europeans who like to drink a glass when they have nothing to do, those wines can still be sold. In addition, it can also be purified to obtain alcohol, which can be used in medicine.

It just so happens that Marin has now entered into a timber purchase agreement with Denmark. When the time comes, oak imported from Norway can be used to make oak barrels for winemaking. It seems that Europeans like to use oak barrels for winemaking. It seems that the wine made from oak barrels tastes the best......

With the amount of grain that Marin has now, it is estimated that the output will be very large if it is made into sake. Therefore, it is difficult to consume too much food by sake alone. After all, the winemaking cycle is quite long.

Therefore, after much thought, Marin decided that while making wine, he could also take out a large amount of grain and use it to raise pigs......

Yes, pig farming......

Perhaps, feeding pigs with fresh grain is too luxurious. However, there is nothing to say about feeding pigs with stale grain. Moreover, it is not a matter of feeding the pigs with grain every day. In general, wheat bran is used as pig feed.

Under normal circumstances, the use of straw crushing to obtain grass bran as pig feed is sufficient. Only those pigs that need to be fattened are fed highly nutritious pig feed such as wheat bran.

Of course, Marin is in a special situation now, and there is too much food to eat. Therefore, Marlin now has the conditions to use a large amount of old grain, which is crushed and used as an important feed for pig raising.

Previously, Marin's pig pen in East Friesland had become small-scale. The total number of captives has reached more than 6,000 heads. Now, Marin can take out so much old grain in his hands and continue to expand the scale of pig breeding, which is not a problem at all.

It's just that what makes Marin depressed is that the quality of European domestic pigs is good or poor......

In this era, the reminder of European domestic pigs is smaller, and some European domestic pigs still have fangs, some like wild boars. Although, the taste of this pork is not bad. But Marin understands better that as a domestic pig, size and growth rate are the most important things. Like European pigs, which are now smaller, and take two years to grow, they are definitely inferior pigs.

Moreover, the fertility of European domestic pigs in this era is very poor, and sows can only give birth to five or six piglets per litter, and the level is simply rotten. You must know that in the Ming Dynasty during the same period, the Taihu pigs in the Taihu Lake Basin, sows could normally produce more than 12 piglets per litter. Many, even can give birth to 20 piglets. Moreover, its growth rate is far beyond that of European domestic pigs at this time, and the growth cycle is twice as fast as that of European domestic pigs within one year.

In this way, in the same time, the production and population expansion capacity of Taihu pigs will exceed four times that of European domestic pigs, which is naturally far better than that of European domestic pigs in this era. Moreover, the European domestic pigs of later generations have indeed introduced domestic Taihu pigs and improved the breeds of European domestic pigs.

Ma Lin plans to take the opportunity to send people to look for Taihu pigs in the Taihu Lake area in southern Daming after opening the route of Daming. Then, select the best boars and sows in pairs and load them back to Europe. Then, this faster-growing, super-fertile domestic pig was introduced to the Grand Duchy of the North Sea to facilitate the development of the pig industry.

Only when the scale of pig breeding expands rapidly and more pigs are raised, the number of pork provided will be greatly increased to meet domestic demand. The more pork there is, the more people can eat meat. The current Germans are also thin and weak, and their height is not very high. Only with adequate nutrition can the people grow taller and stronger. Then, when fighting bayonets on the battlefield, you can be more dominant......

At present, among the Germans, except for those who come from knight families, because of genetic problems and better family living conditions, many people can reach 1.8 meters, and those ordinary civilians, many of them are not 1.7 meters tall, which is very different from the Europeans of later generations.

It is no wonder that Europe in later generations is a developed region, the people's living standards are very high, they eat steak and drink milk every day, and the height of men generally reaches about 1.8 meters (except for southern Europeans who are naturally short, such as Spaniards).

Nowadays, Europeans have extremely poor living conditions, and many people may not even be able to eat black baguettes mixed with dirt and stones, but can only eat black paste porridge mixed with rye and wild vegetables. If you can grow taller with such a thing, then there will be ghosts.

Therefore, only by letting the people eat bread, eating pork and salted fish from time to time, and then drinking more milk during the growth period, they can naturally grow taller.

Therefore, in the case of sufficient feed, vigorously developing the pig industry is a good thing for the benefit of the country and the people......