Marin was clearly unwilling to take the cheap Indian copper coins. In fact, if the price of copper in India is followed, the copper coin should depreciate several times. For example, like the Ming Dynasty, one tael of silver was exchanged for 1,000 copper coins.

If you accept a copper coin minted by Spanish Indian copper, it is equivalent to being made by the Spaniards several times the difference. Although the relationship is good, Marin doesn't want to be cheated. As for opening his mouth to buy merino sheep, it is completely a lion's mouth. Because, it is impossible for the Spaniards to agree.

The Spaniards treated the Merino sheep as if they were treasures and held on to them. Marin had several thousand merino sheep on Laayoune's side, but the Spanish did not allow him to sell the wool of the merino sheep. As a result, Marine Korn had high-quality wool that could not be sold on the European market.

Fortunately, Marlin uses the North Sea sheep, a cross between English ewes and Merino sheep, which is a sheep with very good wool quality. Although the quality of wool is not as good as that of Merino sheep, it is a grade higher than that of British wool. It's just that, after a few years, there are only 30,000 or 40,000 sheep of this high-quality breed, and they are still desperately expanding the number, which is not enough to have an impact on the European market.

However, with the rise of East Frisian dairy sheep, the inhabitants of the North Sea Kingdom seem to prefer East Frisian dairy sheep. The reason for this is that East Friesian sheep are able to provide a lot of dairy products, providing a stable source of food and nutrition for sheep farmers.

In this age of high food prices, any food is precious. The goat milk products provided by East Friesian sheep are obviously a low-cost, high-nutrient food. Moreover, it is cheap. After all, sheep only have to eat grass.

Now, sheep farmers are lining up to raise East Frisian sheep rather than North Sea sheep. Fortunately, most of the peasants were serfs in these years, and Marin forced the promotion of the order, so that the Beihai sheep would not be unattended.

Before going to Daming, Marin selected a batch of ewes with the best milk-producing ability of East Free's sheep for optimal breeding. Now, three or four years later, those 1,000 babies give birth to an average of two or three lambs a year. And when the lamb grows in a year, it can produce lambs...... In this way, after three or four years, there are thousands of them. However, after re-screening, only 5,000 ewes can maintain an annual production of more than 500 pounds of goat milk. For other ewes, production capacity is slightly degraded.

The 5,000 animals that were handed over to the private sector to produce less than 500 pounds of milk a year were terrible, and in three or four years, their number increased to more than 50,000. There are more than 30,000 ewes alone. Moreover, more than 7,000 of them produce more than 500 pounds of milk per year. These high-yielding ewes were then reclaimed by Marlin and bred intensively to avoid breed degradation.

However, there are still more than 30,000 ewes of East Frisian sheep in the people. These East Friesian sheep, which produce less than 500 pounds of milk per year, are very popular among the people.

Because, all the farmers and estates that raised East Friesian sheep had endless cheese and cream to eat and goat's milk to drink. The children ate too much dairy and grew taller.

So, now the estates are waiting for Marin's breeding center to start spreading the high-yielding East Friesian sheep to the people. In this way, everyone on the estate may be able to eat dairy products. Unlike now, because of limited production, only children can be supplied first.

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In fact, Marin is also in a hurry, and he also hopes to obtain stable high-yielding varieties as soon as possible. However, stable varieties cannot be cultivated in a few years. Only when the production capacity is stable over several generations can it be regarded as a high-yielding variety. Otherwise, it doesn't count if a certain generation suddenly erupts. Just like Yao Ming, a big man who has grown 2.26 meters, can you say that the Chinese are giants? Therefore, it is necessary to rely on several generations of observation and cultivation to obtain truly stable and high-yield varieties......

It's just that there is a big problem with goat's milk now, that is, the smell of goat is relatively strong. Those children who eat too much goat milk always have a smell of milk on their bodies, which is very unpleasant. Unlike aristocratic children like Caesar, who drink milk every day, it tastes better.

How do you get rid of these odors? Marin suddenly thought of turnips. Cooking radish and lamb together can absorb the smell. Cooking with goat's milk is also a reason.

Last year, after returning from Daming, Marin brought back radish seeds. Later, he was planted on several estates near Wilhelmshaven, where he was hiding in the early days, and I don't know what happened now......

So, he called Kohler and asked him to send someone to see ......

Soon, the people sent returned. The report said that in the few villages over there, there are now piles of turnips. It's just that now those manor owners don't know what to do with those turnips, and they don't dare to make decisions on their own, so they pile up the turnips in the warehouse, and a lot of them rot out...... Of course, there is no problem with the preservation of seeds, but the radish itself is not resistant to preservation......

"I'm ......," Marin burst into a foul mouth, blaming himself for being careless, and he almost forgot about the turnips.

According to the people who sent it, three crops of radishes have been planted in the local area, and an average of one crop is planted in more than three months, and a lot of radishes are harvested. However, the only thing that has been preserved is the stubble harvested last winter. Most of the first two crops were rotten, and the manor stewards didn't dare to eat them......

"How many turnips are stored now?" Marin asked.

The person sent to investigate thought for a moment and said:

"It's about a million pounds, and that thing called a radish is so productive that it can be planted in two or three months. It's just that the locals don't dare to eat indiscriminately. Because, this is what you personally ordered the Grand Duke, and you didn't let them eat it......"

"Then why didn't they report it to me that the turnips were ripe?" Marlin was a little depressed - how many turnips had to be wasted before......

The person reporting from the "......" paused, and said:

"They said that the steward of the small manor is not qualified to report to you...... Grand Duke."

Ma Lin thought about it, it was really the steward of the small manor, equivalent to the village chief of later generations. Have you ever seen a village chief who can report to the leader of the country? So, in the final analysis, it was my own negligence and I didn't send someone to follow up.

In fact, with the radish seeds that those estates now have, if there is enough land to grow them, they can produce millions of pounds of radishes every season. Now, the reason why there are only one million pounds is because they did not dare to expand the planting area without permission......

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When Marin realized his mistake, he immediately sent someone to transport the turnips to the farmers who raised the sheep and let them cook them with the goat's milk. After cooking, the goat's milk will remove the smell. Radishes, which have absorbed the smell, can be used as feed for livestock......

In addition, Marin asked the daivas, which grew turnips, to distribute some of the seeds to the farmers who raised East Friesian dairy sheep, so that they could grow them themselves. In this way, they can later grow and harvest their own turnips and use their own turnips to cook goat's milk. Goat's milk cooked with radish has no smell, and processed dairy products will be more popular...... And children who eat goat milk products that have no smell are not only healthy, but also have no unpleasant smell on their bodies......