When there was a bumper harvest on the European side, the harvest was even more terrifying on the American colonial side. In particular, the New York colony, which was developed for several years.

Since Marin sent thousands of troops and dozens of warriors from the Wolf Tooth Commandos to the New York colony, the local army has carried out a cleanup and annexation of the surrounding tribes. In addition to the hostile Mohicans who were beaten away, many of the local Delaware tribes were bought and co-opted by Albert with food offensives.

Albert was not good at using soldiers, but he was particularly fond of bribing natives with favors. And the Delawares near New York are all matrilineal clans, and women have the final say. Women are the easiest to fool and buy, and Albert often feasts the local matriarchs, and the beautiful clothes and glass beads are constantly being delivered, so that these matriarchs have fallen. Even, several Delaware matriarchs in their forties almost fell in love with Albert and wanted to recommend their own pillows......

Fortunately, Albert had his wife Maria in charge, so Albert was prevented from being pushed back by the old ladies. Later, in order to gain the territory of the Delaware, Albert cut down trees and built several small towns in the middle Hudson River, encouraging the Delaware to move there.

In order to encourage the Delawares to move to the middle and upper Hudson River, Albert paid for the Delawares to repair their houses, and promised to give them thousands of ploughing cattle and thousands of sheep.

In addition to this, Albert agreed to provide the Delawares with enough salt on a regular basis and to teach them cooking skills.

There are ready-made houses, as well as fertile land by the water's edge. In addition, Albert agreed to instruct them on farming and was willing to provide fertilizer. Then most of the Delawares agreed, happily moving to the new town of Albany. When Albert said that this place was about 225 kilometers upstream of New York, Marin immediately remembered that this was the location of Albany, the capital of New York State, and simply named it Albany.

Then, more than 9,000 Delawares from about 20 tribes from New York to Philadelphia moved to Albany and lived in the houses Albert had built for them.

Albert didn't actually build much of a good house for the Delaware, that is, more than 3,000 adobe houses for them. It is built with yellow mud and thatch, and the cost is very low.

However, these adobe houses, each house has a Chinese-style earthen stove and chimney for easy cooking. Moreover, they all built a fire kang. This is very important for the area around New York. Winters in the northeastern region of Laomei are very cold, and every winter, many Delaware people freeze to death. The adobe houses with ondols that Albert built for the Dravaares were very warm in winter. Many Delawares felt it and agreed to move in. Especially in the winters of these years, when it was the most difficult, Albert would send people to persuade those who had not yet moved to Delaware, and take them to Albany to experience the benefits of the adobe house fire......

After a few years, Albert finally managed to get nearly 10,000 Dravais people near New York and sent them to Albany. Then, the territory where the Delawares lived was all empty......

From New York to Albert's fiefdom of Philadelphia, it is now uninhabited. Albert hastened to apply for an English immigration from Cape Breton Island.

At first, Marin brought tens of thousands of refugees from England, but most of them stayed on Cape Breton Island. However, Cape Breton can only grow hardy rye, or herd sheep, which is a waste of labor.

So, after Albert applied to Marin, half of the population of Cape Breton Island, about 20,000 people, was relocated to the area between New York and Philadelphia, which was later New Jersey.

This large area of land is about 20,000 square kilometers. Moreover, because the Delaware moved out on their own initiative, there is hardly any threat posed by indigenous people to the migrants.

More than 20,000 English farmers arrived and quickly cut down trees, cleared farmland, and established several small towns and dozens of villages. As many as 100,000 acres of new farmland have been opened up in the local area. And, that number is growing. After all, New Jersey is 20,000 square kilometers in size, and it is effortless to reclaim more than a million acres of arable land.

So, in the autumn harvest of 1513, the agricultural output of the colonies of New York was a little scary......

Originally, the New York colony had 50,000 acres of arable land. With the addition of another 100,000 acres in New Jersey, the entire colony has 200,000 acres of arable land.

The most terrifying thing is that in addition to 20,000 acres for soybean oil and 10,000 acres for mung beans, peanuts and various vegetables, the other 120,000 acres are all grown with wheat! Moreover, because Marin brought with him thousands of Han immigrants, under the guidance of those Han farmers, the local immigrants quickly mastered many techniques for growing wheat.

Although due to the lack of fertilizer, the average yield per mu here is less than 400 pounds. But it's wheat! Even if there is only 300 pounds of wheat left per acre, 120,000 acres, or 720,000 acres, is 216 million pounds......

And the price of wheat is 5 times that of rye, reaching the level of 5 pfennig per pound. Then, 200 million pounds can be sold for 1 billion fennigs, which can be converted into gold coins, which is 16.667 million gold coins......

Of course, this is also YY, and it is impossible to cash it all out. If Marin dared to dump wheat back to Europe like this, it would definitely cause envy and madness in all Europe. Before the development of large warships and Peksan cannons, Marin had to admit - Made, such a high yield of wheat is meaningless......

When the news came back to the mainland, Marin was depressed and had a pain in his liver after seeing the report. Because, he obviously has so much food, but he can't realize it, what is the difference between this and a modern house with a house and high housing prices, but he just can't sell it?

Moreover, even if the wheat is taken back to China, it will not be able to eat. After all, it is impossible to give wheat to the common people to eat. If this is the case, Beihai Kingdom will probably be jealous to death. Because, in this era, most of the European nobles did not dare to eat wheat bread for a meal. If the ordinary people of Beihai can reach this level, what they will gain is not envy, but envy and even hatred......

So, Marin reluctantly gave Albert an approval - eat yourselves......

Anyway, the wheat can't be shipped back to the mainland to eat. However, it was still edible for the people of the colony. Marin's approval led to the people of the North American colonies starting a luxurious life of eating white bread.

Of course, it is not appropriate to give it all to the common people of the colony. Marin thought about it and decided to extract some of the wheat and use it to make maple sugar compressed biscuits. Previously, maple compressed biscuits were made with rye and had a mediocre taste. Marin plans to use wheat instead of rye to make maple sugar compressed biscuits for military supplies. Of course, a little rye flour will also be mixed to mask the color. After all, if it is spread out that the Beihai army eats white flour biscuits, it will be quite hateful. And using white flour to make biscuits, the taste will be much better.

Eat white noodles with grilled fish, and get some bacon and canned food...... Marin suddenly felt that this was a bit like the American army in later generations? Probably, only the US military would have such extravagant food rations......

Before World War II, the U.S. military was probably the only food ration in the world. At that time, the U.S. military had white bread in Dunton, canned beef in Dunton, and coke was also available...... It's so extravagant......

It is said that during World War I, the British and American troops joined forces. As a result, when the American GI saw that the food was canned beef, he was so depressed that he threw it away. Because, they are tired of eating beef......

And the friendly British soldiers were directly stunned when they saw it - Nima, beef was also thrown? Lao Tzu eats shriveled bread......

But the British Empire still wanted face, so in the evening, the British soldiers quietly picked up the canned beef thrown away by the American soldiers and ate it secretly......

No way, Lao Mei is such a cow, who said that Lao Mei's land is so fertile and so suitable for agriculture? There is too much arable land, and there is enough wheat to feed the livestock. There are too many pastures, and there is so much beef that ordinary soldiers can eat for a meal......

It is said that during the Civil War, the U.S. military began to eat inhumanely. At that time, Union soldiers in the northern United States could get 12 ounces of pork or bacon, or 1 pound of 4 ounces of beef a day; 1 pound of white bread or flour 6 ounces; There are also beans, tea, sugar, and a variety of vegetables......

In Europe at the same time, Germans and Russians were still eating mashed potatoes and brown bread. The French were rich, but during the Franco-Prussian War, the French army was supplied less than half of the food supply of the American army......

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There is really no way, who called the United States so much arable land and pasture? The production is so large that there is nowhere to consume it, so it can only be used for the soldiers of the army......

Now Marin is also troubled by this, because there is nowhere to consume food, and it is too luxurious to use wheat to make wine. So, Marin's opinion is to get wheat for military rations......

At that time, the ratio of wheat flour to rye in the compressed biscuits of the military supply was set at 7:3. In this way, it not only ensures that the taste of the biscuits is better, but also covers the color of the white noodles with rye flour, so that outsiders do not feel the inhumanity of the Beihai army......

At the same time, the bagging technology of cumin grilled fish is also being studied. When the time comes, the salted fish is sprinkled with cumin powder and baked, then put it in an oiled paper bag, heated by air, and sealed. Although it is not up to the level of making ordinary soldiers eat beef at a time, in this era, being able to eat grilled salted fish often can also be compared to the American GIs of later generations......

In addition, some bacon sausages, as well as dried radishes and sauerkraut, were occasionally served in the Beihai Army. When the fruit production in Cuba increases, canned fruit can also be provided during the holidays...... As for canned beef...... Forget it, the nobility rarely eats beef now......

And if you talk about this treatment to the hard-working soldiers of other countries, you will definitely be able to hear them drool...... Especially the Ming soldiers who were deducted from military rations and drank the blood of the soldiers by the officers......