Chapter 1210: Purebred Turtle

Marin's raid on Wagyu cattle went very smoothly, and he found that the Japanese farmers of this era were very honest, and they were robbed of cattle by Marin's soldiers, and they hardly dared to resist.

At most, because cattle are the most important property of the farmer's family, they are very reluctant. Since they didn't dare to resist, these timid and cowardly Japanese farmers just hugged the cow's leg and didn't let go, and then cried desperately...... After all, the loss of a farming cow is no less than the fall of the sky for a farming family.

Marin has always been a man who eats soft rather than hard, and if these Japanese farmers had resisted violently, perhaps he would have suppressed it bloodily. However, in the face of the poor and crying Japanese farmer, Marin was a little helpless......

Moreover, because of their short stature, when these Japanese farmers, who are generally more than 1.5 meters tall, hugged the thighs of the cow and cried desperately, they actually gave Marin the illusion that "he bullied a minor......

This delusion made Marin very uncomfortable, and he always felt that he was some heinous villain. So, the soft-hearted Marin decided to make amends......

In fact, Marin also considered that he would colonize Japan in the future, so he could not lose his reputation and leave a bad reputation.

But how to compensate these little Japanese farmers? If you give money, Marin is not very happy. Because, his money is basically spent in Daming, and he doesn't have much in his hands. Moreover, thinking of what the descendants of these little devils have done, Marin doesn't want to compensate too much.

Then, while thinking, Marin took a sip of water and saw the glass from which he was drinking......

"Okay, just use this to compensate ......"

So, for every Wagyu cow he snatched, Marin would throw a glass to drink water as compensation. When you don't have enough glasses, you use your own glasses.

Then Marlin asked the liver to pay for the water and tell them that these glasses were precious enough to compensate them for the loss of their cattle......

And in fact, Marin is not lying. Because, the transparent glass produced in Beihai is indeed a treasure in the East, also called glass. A glass cup, in ancient China and Japan, selling for dozens of taels of silver is definitely not a problem, much more expensive than ploughing cattle.

But Marin and the sailors couldn't drink without cups, and then, Marin and the sailors who had lost their glasses took some ordinary porcelain cups and bowls from the families who had been robbed of cattle as drinking containers...... And these families with cattle are actually considered middle-class in rural Japan, and poor families do not have cattle at all. So, there must be porcelain at home......

These porcelain cups and bowls made of celadon or white porcelain are not precious things at all in the circle of East Asian Chinese civilization, and each piece is generally only a few yuan, at most a dozen yuan.

However, the sailors who grabbed these porcelain cups and bowls were treated as treasures and couldn't put them down......

This is the difference between the East and the West - porcelain is not uncommon in the East, but it is a treasure in Europe; In the same way, glass is not rare in Europe, but it is a treasure in East Asia......

Then, there was a strange win-win situation - the Japanese farmer who was robbed of the ploughing cattle, and then sold the glass for Marin and others to drink water, not only did he recover the loss, but also bought back the ploughing cattle, and there was still a lot left.

And the sailors who lost the glass water cup and had to rob the porcelain cup of the Japanese farmer's house also made it. These "broken" porcelain, even porcelain cups made of ordinary celadon or white porcelain, can be exchanged for gold coins when brought back to Europe, and many glasses can be bought......

Of course, Marin didn't care about the value of these porcelains. Because, he has already arranged for Zhang Cai to send someone to Jingdezhen to hire a master porcelain master from the official kiln who has gone home to retire.

These official kiln porcelain masters who went home to retire are all the best craftsmen, equivalent to the eighth-level workers and seventh-level workers who retired in later generations. Their children and grandchildren took their place into the official kilns to work, and they were idle.

But Marlin knows how good these old guys are. In later generations, many factories were willing to rehire those who retired as grade 8 workers. Because, their craftsmanship is top-notch.

Ma Lin plans to dig up a group of top retired official kiln porcelain masters from Jingdezhen and other places after finding the Yingge porcelain clay area in the west of the Taipei Basin, and then dig up a group of young craftsmen from the private kilns, and then let those top porcelain masters guide those young and strong craftsmen who are not skilled in the folk kilns to make ceramics in the Yingge area. Blue and white porcelain is the most basic operation, and bone china will be used in the future. Once successful, the Yingge region will continue to provide a large number of exquisite high-grade ceramics to the Beihai country......

Therefore, for the ordinary celadon and white porcelain on the Japanese side, Marin really doesn't look down on it. Others, however, see them as treasures. It is said that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Dutch had to import a large number of ordinary and inferior celadon and white porcelain products without color glaze from Japan and Vietnam because they could not obtain the qualification for normal trade with the Ming Dynasty, and shipped them back to Europe to sell them at high prices under the guise of Chinese porcelain......

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Marin's deeds of snatching cattle in the area of Matsusaka in Ise Province and Kobe in Harima Province finally alarmed the local daimyos. However, there was nothing the daimyo could do. Each of the two families sent dozens of samurai with a few hundred ashigaru to fight, only to be defeated by Karn and the others sent by Marin. After all, those katanas couldn't cut through the plate armor worn by Karn and the others, while the maces of Karn and the others could easily hurt those samurai.

For those vicious samurai, Marin didn't have any good feelings. In the future, the people who acted as Japanese robbers, as well as those who brutally invaded China in later generations, were basically these samurai.

Therefore, Marin told Karn not to stop, but to be ruthless when he saw the warriors......

Then, the samurai who came to battle were either killed by maces, or were severely injured and disabled, and none of them were left behind. And the two daimyos, Ise Province and Harima Province, were also too frightened to send troops to their deaths......

Seeing that no one was coming to make trouble, Marin began to be picky, carefully selecting strong and healthy Wagyu beef.

However, there is a limit to the cargo capacity of Marin's ships. Moreover, it was cumbersome for ships to transport cattle and horses, and special fences were required. After Ma Lin brought horses to the Ming Dynasty and gave all the war horses to the Ming Dynasty, there were only 100 single compartments left, which were just used to close the cattle.

As a result, Marin ended up taking only the healthiest 100 Wagyu cows. Of these, 70 are bulls and only 30 are cows.

In this way, Marin's plan is to use those 30 cows to continue breeding purebred Wagyu cattle in the future. For the 70 bulls, the task is heavier, because Marin will arrange for them to be mated with thousands of Crimean cows in order to get mixed Wagyu ......

Marin remembers that later generations of Australians seemed to use the essence of Wagyu beef and the female Angus cattle to produce the same high-quality Australian Wagyu beef, which is also the world's top beef. However, it is said that Australian Wagyu cattle breeding is very perverted, and the cow is actually allowed to drink red wine, and it has to be massaged frequently, and the cow is served like a second uncle......

Of course, Marin would not take such an extreme approach to serving beef cattle, and the people of this era are not as mouthy as later generations. In this era, people can even eat-like dark dishes, and they don't care too much about the quality of beef. After all, it's nice to be able to eat beef. Even, in general, only the aristocracy can eat beef.

So, it's good to be able to make a mixed-race Wagyu beef, but how can you pursue high-quality beef? After all, the Europeans of this age are not arrogant, pretentious, fastidious, and pretending Europeans in later generations, but just a bunch of purebred turtles......