In fact, Marin has long thought about how to promote the drinking of boiled water. However, the conditions are not very ripe at the moment. This matter will have to wait for Ma Lin to return from Daming before it can be promoted.

Why? Because Marin is planning to promote honeycomb coal stoves!

Anyone who has burned a honeycomb coal stove knows that as long as there is a honeycomb coal stove, there is no shortage of boiling water at home. It doesn't matter if you don't have a thermos, because as long as the eye of the wind is blocked, the honeycomb coal will burn very slowly. And put a kettle on the honeycomb coal stove, although the fire is small, but it can burn non-stop. If you want to drink boiled water, go to the honeycomb coal stove and lift the kettle to pour boiling water.

Of course, this needs to be accompanied by the promotion of tea. If you are used to drinking tea, you must boil water to cooperate. Otherwise, you can't always use cold water to make tea. Therefore, Marlin plans to promote the honeycomb coal stove along with tea.

But in order to obtain a large amount of tea, you must first open the market of Daming, and you can freely buy cheap tea from Daming. Even if you grow tea yourself, you have to wait two or three years before you can pick it. Therefore, to drink tea in the early stage, you can only buy it from Daming.

Milk powder, tea, cane sugar, honeycomb coal stove, these four things are a whole. Marin decided to combine the four things to promote each other, improve the promotion effect, and ultimately change the habits of the European people.

But before returning from the Ming Dynasty, Marin had to continue to abide by the old habit of serving beer as a drink to these wandering knights who had come from afar.

And the reason why Marin chose to wait for his return from the Ming Dynasty to promote it was not only because the tea was currently out of stock, but also because he did not want to irritate his ally John II, Duke of Cleaver.

After all, Marin had previously managed to trade the land between the Ruhr, the Rhine, and the Lipper from John II, Duke of Cleaver. This was the core area of the later Ruhr region, rich in coal resources.

If Marin had just bought these Ruhr territories on the front foot, and promoted the honeycomb coal stove on the back foot, people would have understood that Marin had calculated John II, Duke of Cleaver.

But who was John II? That's Marlin's ally! Even the allies are calculated, who will dare to form an alliance with Marin in the future? Not afraid of being plotted?

So, Marlin will come up with a honeycomb coal stove, but there must be a good opportunity. For example, this trip to the Ming Dynasty is a good opportunity.

After returning from the Ming Dynasty, Marin was able to take out the briquette stove. Then, you can blame the source of the technology for the briquette furnace on the Ming Dynasty - you see, I didn't mean to rob your Ruhr area, and I didn't know what coal was used for. I only learned this technique after I went to the prosperous Ming Empire, didn't I have the intention to pit you......

In this way, even if John II has a grudge, it is not easy to attack. After all, according to this explanation, Marin didn't know that coal was so useful before. The new technology obtained in the Ming Dynasty was purely accidental, and it was really not deliberately to pit teammates......

Marin would then be able to take advantage of the promotion of the honeycomb coal stove to sell coal in the Ruhr area. With a honeycomb coal stove, you have to buy honeycomb coal, right? Come, I've got it here, and there's not much difference in the Ruhr, it's just a lot of coal. Just let the blacksmith build a batch of molds, pick a few anthracite mines, and you can mass-produce honeycomb coal. Then, lie down and count the money...... The coal boss makes money, and that's lying down......

Ma Lin came from later generations and knew how popular honeycomb coal stoves were in China back then. Before the popularization of gas pipelines, most urban residents burned honeycomb coal stoves. Because, the honeycomb coal of the honeycomb coal furnace is anthracite, which does not produce much flue gas. It is impossible to use earthen stoves to burn firewood and grass in the city, so the honeycomb coal stove, which occupies a small area and can be used for cooking at the door, became the first choice in Chinese cities in the 20th century.

So many people in the city burn honeycomb coal stoves, and they don't worry about sales at all. So, the coal bosses in the eighties and nineties rose up very quickly. After all, the market is too big, and a few small coal kilns can't make waves. The amount of honeycomb coal used in a county every day alone is scared to death, and the coal is not marketable at all. Therefore, the coal boss of that era was synonymous with local tyrants.

However, after entering the 21st century, with the popularization of coal gas and liquefied gas in the country, and later natural gas, the sales of honeycomb coal plummeted. The gas is okay, it has something to do with coal. And liquefied gas and natural gas are snatching coal jobs. Then, the entire coal industry entered a cold winter. Everyone doesn't need honeycomb coal stoves anymore, and the coal bosses can't shake up, and profits plummet. Then, real estate developers replaced the coal bosses......

Of course, the coal boss also makes money, but it is not as aggressive as before. Before Marin's crossing, the price of coal plummeted, and it is said that the coal bosses began to cry out because of the natural gas run......

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Of course, this is all a matter of the previous life. Marin now owns all the mines in the Ruhr area and England, and orders will skyrocket once honeycomb coal is introduced. You know, honeycomb coal stoves are much more convenient than earthen stoves. Especially in cities, it is difficult for city dwellers to obtain firewood and grass, and firewood and grass are not cheap.

In recent years, various cities in Europe have an entry tax, usually about 1 pinknig. Those countrymen who went into the city to sell firewood were also subject to exploitation by the guards at the city gates. After the city tax was levied, the farmers who sold firewood had to increase the price of firewood. Otherwise, they won't be able to recover the cost. In this way, the cost of firewood for city dwellers is also very high. Moreover, there is also a pile of firewood and grass to cook a meal, and the amount is relatively large.

As for honeycomb coal, as long as two or three pieces of honeycomb coal are burned and the eye of the wind is blocked in time after the meal, and a kettle is pressed on the stove, two or three pieces of honeycomb coal can be used for a day. And the price of coal has never been expensive, it is cheaper than a pile of firewood and grass, and it is very convenient. Therefore, Marlin had already anticipated the scene of counting money and counting hand cramps in the future......

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In addition, in order to round the lie, Marin plans to introduce the honeycomb coal stove into the Ming Dynasty. Otherwise, in the future, Europeans will not see the honeycomb coal stove when they go to Daming, and they will doubt the origin of the honeycomb coal stove.

Anyway, Marin is going to promote it in Europe, and he doesn't care about promoting it in the Ming Dynasty.

The people of the Ming Dynasty still use briquette stoves. It should be pointed out that the briquettes here are not honeycomb coal, but the coal that is really kneaded into balls, that is, the briquettes that shake the briquettes. Historically, honeycomb coal seems to have been invented by Guo Wende, a native of Shandong, in 1949, and then quickly became popular all over the country. Marin planned to give the honeycomb coal stove as a gift to Emperor Zhengde. Moreover, it would be suggested that Emperor Zhengde borrow the hands of the powerful eunuch Liu Jin to first take all the coal mines in Jin Province, and then promote honeycomb coal. In this way, the Ming court will not be short of money in the future. Moreover, cheapness will not let Jin merchants make money.

Ma Lin had no good impression of the Jin merchants in the late Ming Dynasty, and if it weren't for them helping to sell wild boar skins and smuggling iron tools to each other, the Ming Dynasty would not have been so unlucky at all. Therefore, Ma Lin intends to give this benefit to the Ming Dynasty royal family, and does not intend to leave it to the Jin merchants of the Ming Dynasty. And with the means of the great eunuch Liu Jin, it should not be difficult to seize the coal mines in Jin Province......

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Of course, that's an afterthought. Before going to Daming, this knight tournament still has to be done......

On July 28th, the knightly jousting tournament for the selection of knights for Adler's Wicklow County officially kicked off......

And the first to start is not the knight competition, but the first round of elimination. The main purpose is to eliminate the wandering knights who are too bad......

Not everyone of the wandering knights is strong in martial arts, and there are a lot of indiscriminate goods in them. It would be a waste of time to include these people in the official competition. Therefore, Marin thought of a way, planning to eliminate these indiscriminate guys in the first round...... ()

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