The Rise of the European Emperor

As a qualified landowner, although Marin was not like Zhou Papi, he couldn't see the serfs relaxing. So, Marin thought for a while, and then ordered the manor stewards under his command to organize the serfs to harvest pasture.

In addition to planting a large amount of grain, Marin also vigorously promotes alfalfa, a very excellent pasture, in the country. Moreover, in addition to managing farmland, farmers and herdsmen also help to manage alfalfa.

After all, Marin gave them a loaf of bread, and it wasn't for nothing. You know, in this era, in poorer manors, serfs could not afford bread at all. Those poor serfs could only get some rye, add a lot of wild vegetables and grass roots and other things, cook the bitter porridge of the dark cuisine of the previous country and drink it. In the manor where you can eat bread, the serf owners treat the serfs extremely well. Moreover, even if you eat black bread, it is the kind of black baguette that is mixed with a lot of soil, wild vegetables, sawdust and even stones, and can be used as a brick.

The bread that Marin gave to the serfs was "Kohler Bread" with a small amount of ryegrass mixed with it, and it tasted very soft. For those serfs, it definitely belongs to the top treatment.

However, these breads are not given for free. When there is nothing, Marin will also recruit the serfs and do that. However, there are snacks.

Of course, the serfs had no complaints. After all, their lives were much better than the serfs in other places. Not only do I usually have bread to eat, but from time to time there is also dried salted fish. This also led to the fact that the serfs in East Frisian, especially the serfs in Marin Manor, were very strong and worked hard.

For example, this alfalfa, in addition to a large number of horse farms, Marin also asked the manor under his name to plant a large amount of alfalfa in the open space of the manor after finishing the farm work.

Not only that, Marin also arranged for each manor to have a beekeeper. Because alfalfa grass is a flowering plant, during the flowering period, it needs to be pollinated. If you keep bees, you can not only use bees to pollinate alfalfa, increase the yield of alfalfa seeds (easy to expand the planting area), but also collect high-grade honey - alfalfa honey (first-class honey).

In addition, bees can also obtain beeswax, which is used to seal various packages against air. For example, the canned food that Marin intends to make requires a lot of cork and beeswax.

autumn,

Not only is it harvest season for rye, but it is also the time to harvest seeds for alfalfa. Therefore, Marin requested that the stewards of the manor organize serfs to harvest the reserved alfalfa to obtain more seeds and expand the planting area of ​​alfalfa.

The alfalfa that is preserved is completely different from the alfalfa that is not preserved. The alfalfa that does not leave seeds is harvested once every two or three months (except in winter). The alfalfa grass that grows in this way is all tender grass. The reserved alfalfa grass is not harvested every two or three months, but is pollinated in spring and harvested in autumn. After the seeds are obtained, they are dried in the sun and sown in new places next year to expand the distribution area of ​​alfalfa.

Therefore, this harvest is not only for the harvest of alfalfa seeds, but also for the harvest of fresh alfalfa grass. The reason for harvesting those fresh alfalfa grasses that do not leave seeds is to prepare fodder for the livestock in winter.

In winter, it sometimes snows heavily in northern Germany. Once the snow covers the ground, cattle and sheep will not scrape the snow to find food. Therefore, in rainy and snowy weather, if there is no feed reserve, livestock will easily starve to death.

Therefore, every winter, European countries, especially the northern half of Europe, will slaughter a large number of animals in the early winter, and salt the meat to avoid starvation in winter.

And if enough alfalfa is stored, then the animals will not easily starve to death. Alfalfa grass is rich in nutrients, and even if it is dried into hay, it is also an excellent feed. It's best to feed animals in winter.

Of course, better than hay is silage. In his previous life, when he read those online articles, he saw the application of silage more than once.

However, Marin had never studied the specific silage technology in his last life, but had only seen it in online articles. The specific method seems to be to chop the green grass immediately after harvesting it, and then add some additives. Mainly feed enzymes, organic acids, lactic acid bacteria and the like. Its purpose is to allow lactic acid bacteria to multiply and expand, affecting all pastures.

Marin has neither feed enzymes, nor organic acids, nor lactic acid bacteria. However, he knows that there is one thing that must contain lactic acid bacteria, and that is the natural yogurt produced by dairy farmers (the yogurt sold in the supermarkets of later generations without refrigeration has no live lactic acid bacteria).

At that time, when the cellar is closed, every 50 cm high, just sprinkle some yogurt on the green and tender alfalfa grass...

The reason why Marin wants to silage alfalfa is actually for those British semi-fine wool sheep that have been bred. You know, now they're Marin's treasures. In particular, this winter, it is the pregnancy period of those British semi-fine wool ewes, and they can't eat badly. Therefore, Marin did not hesitate to reserve a large amount of alfalfa grass, and even planned to use yogurt to silage alfalfa grass to supplement nutrition for pregnant ewes.

Although alfalfa hay is also rich in nutrients, it is still much worse than silage alfalfa. Ordinary sheep, eating alfalfa hay is enough. But pregnant ewes need more nutrients. So Malint ordered the construction of several sealed cellars for silage of fresh alfalfa. When there is no fresh forage in winter, the cellar is taken out for the pregnant ewes to eat.

If pregnant ewes eat the nutrient-rich silage of alfalfa, they will surely give birth to robust babies by next spring. At that time, Marin can let his subordinates optimize and cultivate excellent new sheep breeds.

Under the supervision of the stewards of each manor, the serfs took up their sickles and went to harvest alfalfa. Those who harvest alfalfa and keep the alfalfa seeds are also responsible for separating the alfalfa seeds after harvesting, drying them and storing them. Next spring, good for sowing.

Those responsible for harvesting fresh alfalfa are divided into two batches. The work of a group of people is very simple. They are only responsible for harvesting the alfalfa grass, drying it and bundling it.

The other group of people is responsible for turning the harvested fresh alfalfa into silage alfalfa. After they mowed the fresh alfalfa grass in the morning, they first dried the alfalfa grass for half a day, and in the afternoon began to cut the alfalfa grass into small pieces of grass. At night, the alfalfa grass is put into the silage, compacted, and a layer of natural yogurt rich in lactic acid bacteria is sprinkled on it every 50 cm. Then, press the cut fresh alfalfa grass until the cellar is full. Then, the silage was closed and the outlet was sealed with mud.

Next, in the winter in a month or two, open the cellar and feed the silaged alfalfa to the 10,000 pregnant British ewes...

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