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Chapter 1492 The Trouble of Too Much Food

When there was a bumper harvest in Europe, the harvest level was even more frightening in the American colonies. In particular, the New York colony, which had been developed for several years.

Since Marin sent thousands of troops and dozens of Wolf Tooth Commando warriors to the New York colony, the local army has cleaned up and annexed the surrounding tribes. In addition to the hostile Mohigans being beaten away, many of the local Delava tribes were bribed and won over by Albert using food offensives.

Albert is not good at using military forces, but especially likes to use benefits to buy the natives. The Delavas near New York are all matriarchal clans and are clans whose final decisions are made by women. Women are the easiest to fool and buy. Albert often invites local matriarchs, and they keep sending beautiful clothes and glass beads, which makes these matriarchs fall in love with Albert. Even several Delava female matriarchs in their forties almost fell in love with Albert and want to recommend themselves...

Fortunately, Albert had his wife Maria in charge, so he avoided Albert being reversed by the old ladies. Then, in order to obtain the territory of the Delavas, Albert cut down trees in the middle of the Hudson River and built several small towns to encourage the Delavas to move.

In order to encourage the Delavas to move to the middle and upper reaches of the Hudson River, Albert spent a lot of money to repair houses for the Delavas, and promised to give them thousands of oxen and thousands of sheep.

In addition, Albert agreed to regularly provide the Delavas with enough salt and teach them cooking skills.

There were ready-made houses and fertile land by the water. In addition, Albert agreed to guide them in farming and was willing to provide fertilizer. Then, most of the Delava people agreed and happily moved to the new town of Albany. The name of this town was the name of Marin who was lazy and plagiarized. When Albert heard that this place was about 225 kilometers upstream of New York, Marin immediately remembered that it was the location of Albany, the capital of New York, and simply named it Albany.

Then, the nine thousand more than 9,000 tribes from about 20 tribes from New York to Philadelphia moved to Albany and moved into the house Albert built for them.

Albert actually did not build any good houses for the Delavas, that is, he built more than 3,000 adobe houses for them. It was built with yellow mud and thatched plates, and the cost was very low.

However, each of these adobe houses has Chinese-style earthen stoves and chimneys, which are convenient for cooking. Moreover, they are built with kangs. This is very important for the areas near New York. The northeastern United States is very cold in winter, and every winter, many Delavas will freeze to death. The adobe house with kangs built by Albert for the Delavas is very warm in winter. After feeling it, many Delavas agreed to move there. Especially in the winter of these years, when it was the most difficult time, Albert would send people to lobby those Delavas who had not moved yet and take them to Albany to experience the benefits of the adobe house kangs...

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

From New York to Albert's fiefdom, Philadelphia, is now deserted. Albert quickly applied to transfer England to immigrate from Cape Breton Island.

At the beginning, Marin brought tens of thousands of refugees from England, but most of them stayed on Cape Breton Island. However, only cold-resistant rye or sheep could be planted in Cape Breton Island, which was a waste of labor.

So, after Albert applied to Marin, he moved half of Cape Breton Island's population, about 20,000 people, to the area between New York and Philadelphia, which is later in New Jersey.

This large area of ​​land looks like about 20,000 square kilometers. Moreover, because the Delavas took the initiative to move away, there were basically no indigenous people in the area posing any threat to immigration.

More than 20,000 English farmers arrived in the local area and quickly cut down trees, cultivated farmland, built several small towns and dozens of villages. The newly opened farmland in the local area was as many as 100,000 acres. Moreover, this number is still growing. After all, New Jersey has an area of ​​20,000 square kilometers, and it is effortless to reclaim more than one million acres of farmland.

Therefore, in the autumn harvest in 1513, the agricultural output of the New York colonies was a bit terrifying...

Originally, the New York Colony had 50,000 acres of arable land. In addition, 100,000 acres of arable land were reclaimed in the New Jersey area, and the entire colony had as high as 200,000 acres of arable land.

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

Although the average yield per mu is less than 400 pounds due to insufficient fertilizer. However, this is wheat! Even if there are only 300 pounds of wheat per mu, 120,000 acres, or 720,000 acres, there are still 216 million pounds...

The price of wheat is 5 times that of rye, reaching the level of 5 Finney per pound. Then, 200 million pounds can sell 1 billion Finney, which is 16.667 million gold coins in 200 million pounds...

Of course, this is just YY, and it is impossible to fully cash out. If Marin dares to dump wheat back to Europe like this, it will definitely arouse jealousy and madness throughout Europe. Before the successful development of large warships and pexon cannons, Marin had to admit that Made, such a high wheat yield is meaningless...

The news came back to the local area, and Marin felt so depressed after seeing the report. Because he obviously had so much food, but he could not cash in. This is the difference between this and the house price of modern houses and the price is also high, but it just can't be sold?

Moreover, even if these wheat are taken back to China, they cannot be eaten. After all, it is impossible to give wheat to ordinary people. If this is the case, the Beihai Kingdom will probably be jealous of people. Because most European nobles in this era dare not say that they eat wheat bread every meal. If ordinary people in the Beihai Kingdom can reach this level, they will definitely not gain envy, but jealousy or even jealousy...

So, Marin had no choice but to approve Albert-you can eat it yourself...

Anyway, these wheats cannot be transported back to the local area to eat. However, the colonies can still eat them. Marin's reply led to the people of North American colonies starting a luxurious career of eating white bread every meal.

Of course, it is not appropriate to give it to the common people in the colonies. Marin thought about it and decided to extract some wheat to make maple syrup compressed biscuits. Previously, maple syrup compressed biscuits were made of rye and the taste was average. Marin planned to use wheat instead of rye to make maple syrup compressed biscuits provided by the army. Of course, it would also be mixed with a little rye flour to cover the color. After all, it would be quite hateful if it was reported that the Beihai Army would eat white flour biscuits every meal. And using white flour for biscuits would taste much better.

Every meal of white noodles, grilled fish, and some bacon and canned food... Marin suddenly felt that why did this look a bit like the American army in later generations? Perhaps, only the American army will have such a luxurious food ratio...

Before World War II, there were probably only the food rations of the US military in the world that were the top. At that time, the US military had white bread every meal, canned beef every meal, and also provided coke... It was so luxurious...

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

When the British soldiers of friendly troops saw this, they were stunned - Damn, throw the beef too? I ate shriveled bread...

But the British Empire still needs face, so at night, the British soldiers secretly picked up canned beef thrown away by American soldiers and ate them...

There is no way, America is so awesome. Who said that America's land is so fertile and suitable for agriculture? There is too much arable land, too much wheat to feed livestock, too much pasture, too much beef to give to ordinary soldiers every meal...

It is said that during the Civil War, the US military began to eat inhumane ways. At that time, the federal soldiers in the northern United States could get 12 ounces of pork or bacon, or 1 pound 4 ounces of beef; 1 pound 6 ounces of white bread or flour; and beans, tea, sugar and various vegetables every day...

In Europe at the same time, the Germans and Russians were still eating mashed potatoes and black bread. The French were considered rich, but during the French war, the French army's food supply was less than half of the US army...

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There is really no way. Who said that the United States has so much arable land and pastures? The output is so large and there is no place to consume it. It can only be eaten by military soldiers...

Marin is also worried now, because there is no place to consume food, and it is too luxurious to use wheat to make wine. Therefore, Marin's opinion is to make wheat for military rations...

At that time, the ratio of wheat flour and rye to the compressed biscuits in the military supplies is set to 7:3. This will not only ensure that the taste of the biscuits will improve, but also cover the color of the white flour with rye flour, so that outsiders can't feel the inhumanity of the Beihai Army...

At the same time, the bagging technology of cumin grilled fish is also under research. At that time, the salted fish will be sprinkled with cumin powder and baked, put it in an oil paper bag, and heated it away. Although it cannot reach the level of allowing ordinary soldiers to eat beef every meal, in this era, being able to eat grilled salted fish regularly can be comparable to that of later American soldiers...

In addition, the Beihai National Army occasionally supplies some bacon and sausages, as well as dried radish and sauerkraut. When the fruit production in Cuba increases, canned fruits can also be provided during the festival... As for canned beef... Forget it, nobility now rarely eat beef...
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