In fact, Marin now has a large gap in the army. In addition to preparing 3,200 black soldiers for Nobunaga, he also had to build a colony army of 10,000 men in the North American colonies. This colonial legion, in addition to being responsible for the expansion of the North American colonies, will also be transferred back to fight when the religious wars break out.

In order not to affect the development of local agriculture, Marin will not recruit local soldiers. Therefore, recruiting troops from other states has become Marin's ideal choice.

In fact, Marin can also choose to recruit troops in Ukraine. However, Marin did not trust the Ukrainians very much. After all, the phrase "those who are not of my race must have different hearts" was deeply engraved in Marin's mind. In particular, North America is a place far overseas. If it is handed over to a foreign army to garrison, what will happen if those foreign soldiers have a different heart?

As a result, Marin could accept the integration of Ukrainians into native society, but did not allow foreigners to establish themselves in the American colonies alone. Even if foreign nations were allowed to colonize the Americas, only if there was a numerical advantage of the Germans and the English. In this way, those of other nationalities will not be able to make waves. As for the most important armed forces, they must be in the hands of their own people.

Therefore, Marin sent a large number of men and horses to recruit soldiers in southern Germany under the name of "replacing veterans".

At first, many of the princes were not happy, but Marin explained that the first veterans who followed him were old and had to retire, and the princes were willing to let go.

Moreover, this time Marin was more clever and focused his recruitment on the territory of those church vassal states. As for the obstruction of the church princes? This is too easy, a bribe can be solved. After all, the church leaders of this age were corrupt. People spend so much money to compete for the bishopric position, don't they just want to recoup the cost and make some money? As long as Marin gives money, they will turn a blind eye.

As a result, with the exception of a few bishops from a few princely families who were hostile to Marin, most of the episcopal states allowed Marin's recruitment team to go. After all, money can make the ghost grind, and the bishop "grinds" like money......

With permission, a large number of conscription teams were sent to various places to advertise the recruitment of new soldiers. But Schwartz, who was in charge of the matter, found the difficulty when he sent out a recruiting team - it seemed that the vassal states had carried out counter-propaganda......

The so-called counter-propaganda refers to the propaganda against Marin, or the slander. After all, those princes are not the same as Marin, even if they clearly allow Marin to send a recruiting team, they would have already sent people to spread the news and say bad things about Marin.

For example, in the Electorate of Saxony, the local government advertised that the army of the North Sea State did not treat soldiers as human beings. Moreover, they usually eat very poorly, and there are often soldiers who have their teeth broken by stones in bread when they eat bread......

Although the recruited team sent explained everything, and took out the fluffy "Kohler bread" to prove that the Beihai army ate well. However, the young men of the vassal states were still not convinced. After all, in their eyes, the local nobility had a better reputation.

When the news reached Aurich, Schwartz was so angry that he wanted to send a team of chefs to show young people everywhere what Chinese fast food is......

But Kohler vetoed Schwartz's idea, mainly, because it was too costly......

First of all, there are not many chefs in the military who can cook Chinese fast food. If they are sent out, what will the soldiers in the army eat? Moreover, those chefs need a lot of vegetables and meat to cook. If you buy it locally, it's expensive. Unlike in the Beihai country, because of the planting center, the production of fertilizer has increased significantly, and the cost is lower.

If you send so many chefs to various places to make Chinese fast food promotion, the cost is too high, and the mobility is very poor, so it is inconvenient......

"Or do you want to use compressed biscuits mixed with maple syrup to advertise? It's easy to carry and delicious...... Schwartz suggests.

Kohler nodded, and Marin agreed. This year, the Canadian colonies sent another 15,000 barrels of maple syrup, all of which were not used up, and there was no problem in taking out a large amount of maple syrup to make compressed biscuits.

At this time, Kohler suddenly said:

"By the way, this time Cape Breton Island not only sent back 15,000 barrels of maple syrup, but also sent back several boatloads of salted dried fish. Why don't you bring some salted dried fish and show them to those recruits? ”

Marin nodded, thinking that this was not unavoidable. After all, Marin's colony in Canada now relies on the world's top fishery, Newfoundland Fishery, and the catch is very high. If the fishing is open, it is estimated that the people of the entire North Sea Country will not be able to eat it all.

Moreover, it is close to the boiling salt base, so it is very convenient to take salt and marinate salted fish. And salted fish is very popular in Europe at the moment. After all, there are many canons during this period, and fasting is required for nearly half of the year. During the fasting period, it is forbidden to eat "red meat", even among the nobility. However, fish was not part of the fast, so this led to the prevalence of the salted fish trade in this era. Lüneburg, on the other hand, also made its fortune by supplying salt for pickled salted fish.

However, because the price of salt is not cheap, salted fish is not often eaten by ordinary people in Europe, and it is generally used to improve the diet. The people in the coastal areas are better, and the inland areas can eat salted fish, which is simply a local broadman......

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Therefore, Marin made a direct decision - when he went to recruit again, let the recruiting team wear a large number of maple sugar compressed biscuits, and smoked and baked salted dried fish. As long as you are willing to come to Beihai to serve as a soldier, you will directly promise to eat biscuits and salted fish......

This condition, put in the future generations, is estimated to be sprayed in the face. However, in this era, it is really a better treatment than the five insurances and one housing fund in later generations......

After all, if you can eat salted fish, that's the life that only nobles can live......

In order to improve the taste, Marin plans to send someone to Daming next time to find cumin seeds and bring them back for large-scale planting. Later, sprinkle some cumin powder when grilling dried salted fish to enhance the taste......

"That's not right! It seems that nature is native to Egypt......" Ma Lin remembered that it seemed that nature was native to Egypt and then spread to the western frontier of China. So, just go to Egypt and buy cumin powder......

When the time comes, when grilling the dried salted fish, sprinkle some cumin powder, sprinkle some chili powder, and make a spicy dried fish, don't be too cool......

Although it could not be as much as the American GIs of later generations who had canned beef, Marin felt that the level of spicy salted dried fish was still wide enough to achieve. This standard is definitely unique in this era......

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On the Cuban side, it seems that peppers have been imported from Mexico and planted them. Once the scale expanded, Marin decided to mass-produce chili powder and ship it back to the country as an important seasoning for sale. In this era, Europeans generally had a heavy taste, and pepper could be dipped in bread and grilled meat, and paprika was no problem......

Well, and tomatoes, which seem to be cultivable as well?

Suddenly, Marin thought of a hegemon-level seasoning that would later sweep the European and American worlds - ketchup!

Tomato sauce appeared very late, not until the late 19th century, and it was only when Lao Mei was inspired by Chinese workers who emigrated to the United States. In other words, the Chinese who went to the West Coast of the United States from Fujian and Guangdong brought the idea of pickling tomato sauce, and then it was used and carried forward by Lao Mei.

Later, with the popularity of KFC and McDonald's around the world, ketchup quickly became one of the most popular seasonings in European and American countries. And if you don't have ketchup, you won't have the famous french fries dipped in ketchup.

The sweet and sour taste of tomato sauce is very popular in European and American countries. In later generations, the Yankees liked to spread a little ketchup on everything they ate. And authentic Chinese restaurants, in the United States, are also forced to use tomato sauce to replace the original classic seasonings such as chili sauce.

Many people go abroad to eat Chinese food and feel that it is not authentic, because many of the seasonings have been replaced with tomato sauce. But that's also a no-brainer - foreigners just take this bite, what can you do? Most of the Chinese restaurants that insisted on the original taste went out of business......

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Marin suddenly thought, maybe, that it was good to do ketchup business. Not to mention foreigners, I also like to eat French fries with tomato sauce. It is eaten with tomato sauce on bread, and it seems to be delicious. Many burgers are topped with lettuce with tomato sauce to add flavor to the flavor.

While Europeans had not yet seen tomatoes, Marin could have a monopoly on the production and sale of tomato paste......

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