Although the new compressed biscuits were shaped and a simple recipe for rye flour, salt and maple syrup was decided, mass production would have to wait until next spring. Because, Marlin didn't have enough maple syrup in his hand.

Most of the more than 100 barrels of maple syrup brought back from the Americas this spring were used by Marin to blend the "Royal Salute". So far, there are only a few buckets left for Marlin to keep for his own food. Nowadays, Marin's family mainly uses maple syrup as a sweetener, so naturally they can't leave some left.

Therefore, if you want to mass-produce maple syrup compressed biscuits, you can only wait for the arrival of the 10,000 barrels of maple syrup promised by Garland next year before mass production can begin.

Since rye was used as the recipe, the wheat that Albert brought was naturally saved. And wheat is so expensive......

Albert's first shipment of 1,102,000 pounds of wheat, a fraction of 2,000 pounds, was withheld by Marlin as a family ration. Then, the 1.1 million pounds have to be sold or exchanged......

You know, the price of wheat in Germany is now as high as 5 fennig per pound. Even at the wholesale price, there is 4 pfennig per pound. In other words, these 1.1 million pounds of wheat, even if they are wholesaled, are worth 4.4 million fennig, which is equivalent to 73,000 gold coins. And if it is sold to Spain, where the price of grain is high, the price can reach 8 pfennig per pound, and it can be even more profitable.

But this is only a small head, because Albert's side is only the first batch of wheat. The total yield of this batch of wheat reached 30 million pounds. If it's all sold. Even at the wholesale price of 4 pfennig per pound in Germany, it can be sold for 2 million gold coins......

With such a calculation, Marin was suddenly frightened......

Nima, 2,000,000 gold coins...... Ma Lin almost didn't shiver like Wu Lao Er, who had a cerebral thrombosis......

However, after calming down, Marin found that maybe this batch of wheat was not difficult to handle......

Why? Because although the value of this batch of wheat is high, the amount is not large. You know, Marlin squeezes more than two billion pounds of rye, which is super large. If it is shipped, the overwhelming volume will definitely make Europe shake.

But this batch of wheat is different, although it is very valuable, but the total amount is not large. If it is sold in Germany alone, it will definitely alarm everyone. But if you spread it out and sell it all over Europe, it will be inconspicuous......

In Europe, there is no shortage of aristocrats and wealthy merchants. These aristocrats and wealthy merchants, in order to reflect the difference between them and ordinary people, often like to put on music, and the degree of eating and drinking is different from that of ordinary people.

For example, they wore silk when they wore their clothes; A few pieces of Chinese porcelain should be placed on the ornaments at home; To eat a barbecue, you have to dip pepper and other spices vigorously, if there are fewer spices, you will lose face...... Drink fine wine; If you usually eat bread, you should also eat "queen bread" made with wheat flour.

This white bread, made with wheat flour, eggs, milk and honey, and fermented with brewer's yeast, was eaten regularly only by kings and archbishops in the early Middle Ages, and not all at once.

However, with the development of social economy, by the beginning of the 16th century, most of the nobles and wealthy merchants could afford to eat this kind of queen bread. However, the cost is also very high. Many aristocrats in this era were unable to make ends meet because they spent too much money on high-value items such as spices, silk, and wheat. However, if you don't wear silk clothes, don't use spices vigorously, and don't eat queen bread, you can't show the nobility of the nobility......

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Therefore, these wheat looks expensive, but there are aristocracy and rich merchants who really want to buy it in Europe. The problem now is that there is a severe shortage of wheat supply in Europe, and then the price also remains high.

The Italian island of Sicily is known as the "Golden Basin" because of the fertile volcanic soil and the "advanced" trenching irrigation techniques learned from the Middle East, which led to the high yield of wheat in the region. Wheat is expensive and can be exchanged for a lot of gold. Therefore, Sicily is also known as the Golden Basin. In addition to this, Sicily is also rich in olive oil, which is urgently needed for European cooking, which is one of the sources of the saying Golden Basin. After all, olive oil is also golden......

It should be pointed out that although Spain, one of the European powers, has a vast land area, most of its territory is mountainous and hilly, and there are few plains. Therefore, Spanish agriculture is not good, and the grain production is small. As a result, Spain has the highest food prices in Europe. Barcelona, in the Kingdom of Aragon, is the most expensive city in Europe. And the lack of food was also an important reason why the Kingdom of Aragon desperately grabbed Sicily.

In Italy, although agriculture is relatively developed in Europe, wheat production is among the highest in Europe. However, the Italians were extravagant, and the bishops of Rome lived in luxury. As a result, the consumption of wheat in Italy is also the largest in Europe, and it is not even enough to consume.

Therefore, if Marin shipped wheat to places such as Spain and Italy, it could still be sold at a good price. Even if it hits the price of wheat in the region, it is still higher than the price of wheat in Germany.

If Spain and Italy could not consume it, Marin planned to ship it to France and England to sell. This is because the price of food in these two countries is also higher than in Germany.

The part that really can't be sold will be pulled back to the German region to continue selling. After all, there were many princes and bishops in Germany who needed to eat white bread every day.

In addition, it should be pointed out that the domestic market in the North Sea country is not small. Since following Marin to farm and make a fortune, all the military nobles who have been allocated land have lived a prosperous life. As soon as people get rich, they want to live a luxurious life, so they are not happy to eat black bread......

In the past, Marin would help them import some wheat. But now, it seems that I can directly exchange the excess wheat for them...... It is not necessary to let them spend money, just let them exchange the excess rye they have stored. After switching back to rye, Marlin can also use it to brew rye two-pot heads......

And the leftover sake lees from winemaking, Marin found that it was also quite good to feed the pigs. Moreover, it can also be used as cattle feed. Marlin now makes a lot of sake and has a lot of lees. He found that it was too cost-effective to feed the pigs directly with grain. For example, it is not too cost-effective to use the grain to make wine first, and then use the remaining sake lees to feed pigs and cattle after obtaining wine, and develop the breeding industry.

Marin's only concern is that the pigs in Europe are too small......

Marin visually surveyed that the domestic pigs in Germany were only half the size of the big fat pigs of later generations, and only five or six piglets were born in one litter, which was also slow to grow and very uneconomical.

Therefore, Malint is looking forward to introducing Taihu pigs from the Ming Dynasty. Unfortunately, it takes time......

If the Taihu pigs are fed with distiller's lees, the supply of pork in Beihai will be greatly increased. Although white pigs with a high lean meat rate were more popular in later generations, Marin knew that in ancient times, the Chinese black pig with more fat meat was the best breed. Moreover, black pigs have a better taste.

Today, Marlin uses hundreds of millions of pounds of grain to make wine each year. There is so much wine that it makes to death. Even, supply exceeds demand.

But Marlin is not in a hurry, because spirits are shelf-stable and can be stored for many years. Moreover, the longer the better, the better the quality, and decades are definitely the best.

So, now Marlin is making rye two pot heads. In addition to the ones that are sold, the surplus is put into the jar, sealed and buried in the ground for preservation. Decades later, it's the best.

Unlike those low-alcohol wines, such as beer and wine, which are not resistant to preservation and must be drunk as soon as possible.

Moreover, the annual consumption of hundreds of millions of pounds of rye also produces hundreds of millions of pounds of distiller's grains, which can feed many pigs. You can even feed it to the cows.

It's just that Marin always feels wasted to feed low-quality European pigs. It seems that he has to go to Daming as soon as possible to get the Taihu Pig......

However, Taihu pigs are mainly found in Jiangnan Prefecture near Taihu Lake. Even if Marin sent a ship to Guangzhou to trade, he would not be able to buy it. Therefore, he had to find a way to send people to Nanzhili in the Ming Dynasty in order to get the Taihu pig breed. Then, bring it back to Beihai to promote ......

Taihu pigs can weigh more than 200 catties, and a litter can give birth to more than a dozen or even more than 20 pigs, and the growth rate is much faster than that of European pigs. Once introduced, the use of distiller's grains farming is bound to increase the rate of reproduction and expansion. It is foreseeable that there is a great deal to raise (Taihu) pigs on distiller's lees......