The Rise of the European Emperor

Horse nails are too terrifying, they can hurt both the enemy and themselves. Moreover, no matter how its four sharp corners are moved, three sharp corners will support the ground and form a stable structure, while the other sharp corner will remain upward, and whoever steps on it will be unlucky.

Therefore, after being scattered, the power is too great. Legend has it that the horse nail was invented by Zhuge Liang in order to cope with the superiority of the cavalry of the state of Wei. With the horse tack, the opponent's cavalry can't let go and charge. Whether it is blocking the enemy or retreating, it can play a huge role. The only problem is that after throwing out the thorns, the charge of one's own people will also be hindered.

So, Marin began to think about how to pin the enemy with a horse without hurting himself... In the end, he found the answer from the thorns in the barbed wire...

The specific method is to punch a hole in the middle of the horse tack and string the horse tack with a string. When fighting, the horse tacks tied in a string are thrown out, and the soldiers who push the cart hold a rope that can retract the string of horse tacks.

Once their own troops need to attack, the soldiers in the carts will use ropes to retract the string of pegs, so as not to prick their own people. If the enemy is attacking, even if they stop and bend down, they can see a string of horse tacks and close them. However, the musketeer behind the unicycle would not give the opponent this chance. And the enemy's cavalry, because they rushed too fast, plus they were on their horses, would not have the opportunity to close the horses' spikes. As long as the opponent's cavalry rushes over, it is difficult to avoid being seriously injured by the horse tack.

When Marin showed dozens of refitted unicycles and dozens of built horses on the school grounds to show his officers, everyone took a deep breath. Especially the cavalry officers, after seeing it, only felt the scalp tingle.

Faced with the densely covered studs on the ground and the unicycle with four spearheads in front of the last vehicle, the cavalry officer did not know how to crack it. Its horror level is no less than the two trenches and wooden pickets that Marin had done before. The blocking function of both is very powerful. The difference is that the tactic of adding wooden pickets in two ditches blocks both the enemy and oneself, and can only be used for defense. The unicycle chariot with horse spikes can not only block the enemy, but also can be quickly retracted, without affecting our army's pursuit of the enemy.

The cavalry officers discussed for a long time, but could not think of any solution. Ultimately, they decided, avoiding the edge was the right thing to do. Or, counter it with the Black Knight's musket tactics.

but,

There were a lot of musketeers in Marin's phalanx. Moreover, it is still using a long-barreled rifle that is more powerful than the Black Knight's carbine. Therefore, the black knight is not very useful. In the case of a pair of shots, the black knight will definitely suffer...

If it is attacked with artillery, it is a very good way. However, the number of artillery pieces in the Marin Army has always been high. It doesn't seem very wise to shoot artillery with Marin.

In the end, everyone could only think of one way—that is, to use spearmen to bravely advance without fear of casualties, to clean up the strings of horse studs, and then to stab each other with the soldiers of Marin across the unicycle. However, under the blow of the arquebus platoon, this casualty was a bit too large. When casualties reach a certain level, the army can easily collapse...

At the end of the discussion, the cavalry officers all had some panic on their faces. They felt that as soon as the tactics of bombing a cart, stabbing a horse and refusing a horse came out, it would be infinitely difficult for the cavalry to attack the infantry phalanx in the future. It belongs to the era of the infantry phalanx, which is coming...

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Autumn is harvest time, with a bumper crop in Marin's homeland, as well as Cape Breton Island and Twin Isles. As for the island of Grenada, of course, there is also a great harvest. However, there is no concept of autumn there, it is summer all year round.

After the autumn harvest, the three colonies brought back a lot of supplies by ship. Cape Breton Island brought back rye, salt, and a lot of paper; Amerigo Island brought back 1 million pounds of soybeans and 2 million pounds of spring wheat; Grenada brought back 50 million pounds Ten thousand pounds of cane sugar, and lots of ginger and rice.

Originally, Grenada could bring back more sucrose. However, because of the newly established colony of Havana, Cuba, a large number of sugarcane seedlings are needed. So old George ordered that more sugarcane festivals be devoted to cultivating sugarcane seedlings. However, 500,000 pounds of sucrose was enough for the nobility of East Frisian. After all, in this era, sucrose is not something that ordinary people can eat. With so few nobles, the total consumption of sucrose is not large.

Cane sugar in this era was also very expensive, reaching 2 shillings per pound. That's 24 pfennig per pound, or 12 days' wages for an average worker. If it is calculated at the level of 100 yuan per day for ordinary people in later generations, a pound of sucrose may be sold for as high as 1,200 yuan - it's scary...

With a million pounds of soybeans brought back from Amerigo Island, Marin made sautéed soybeans and tofu last year. But this year, Marin suddenly remembered that he could squeeze soybean oil...

Now, the nobles of Marin and East Frisian have been using lard and tallow as cooking oil. Although the taste is not bad, it is not as healthy as vegetable oil. As a nobleman, because he eats a lot of meat, he still needs to pay attention to his health.

So, Marin got a screw press oil press and started to use soybean oil to squeeze oil. Marin fry the soybeans first, then put them into a screw-type oil press, and use a spiral column to squeeze the soybeans hard to make the oil come out. The oil extracted from cooked soybeans is fragrant and easier to store.

After getting soybean oil, Marin ordered that lard and tallow should not be used as cooking oil in the kitchen in the future. After all, there are many unhealthy ingredients in animal oils. Vegetable oils, by contrast, are much healthier.

Moreover, the remaining cooked bean cakes after oil extraction, with the aroma of fried soybeans, are also very good feed, and they are also very popular with horses when they are fed to horses.

With soybean oil, many Chinese-style stir-fried dishes taste more authentic. Especially when stir-frying vegetables, if you use animal fat to fry, you will still have a meaty smell. However, this takes away from the original intent of sautéing vegetables. Only by frying vegetables in vegetable oil can you taste the original flavor of vegetables more. Moreover, animal oil has a high cholesterol content, and eating too much is not good for health. Therefore, using soybean oil instead of animal oil for cooking is obviously more in line with health requirements.

In fact, Marin's practice, known to ordinary people in this era, will definitely be maddened. For ordinary people, oil and water are in short supply. Therefore, ordinary people, more invites animal oil. Because, animal oil can make them feel more meaty. This is like before the reform of China, when the people were short of oil and water, they preferred to eat fatty meat. In the 21st century, everyone began to like to eat lean meat rather than fatty meat.

Only a noble like Marin would get tired of eating animal oil. In addition, for health reasons, he switched to vegetable oil. When Marin ordered to eliminate all animal oil in the kitchen and use soybean oil instead, the few barrels of animal oil in the kitchen were instantly swept away by the cooks and kitchen helpers. Marin dislikes these animal oils, but for the poor like them, they are all very high-quality things, and it is not bad to eat them...

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