Chapter 878： Newcastle salt cooking base

October is a harvest season. In this season, nobles all over Europe are excitedly waiting for the output of the land, and then they can use it to squander.

By the end of October, in addition to the four old provinces that ended in the middle of the year, other provinces also sent success reports to report the autumn harvest. However, because no new agricultural technology is used, the yield per mu of these new provinces is still more than 100 pounds, which makes Marin really not interested. Therefore, he could only hold his smile, and encouraged the representatives of several new provinces.

In addition, Marin also sent representatives in the British territories of Northumberland and Isle of Wight to report the results of the autumn harvest. However, just after England had fought, Marin did not have high expectations there. As long as he was not allowed to allocate food support, he would be thankful.

To Marin's relief, Northumberland did not need him to allocate food support. After all, tens of thousands of refugees plundered by Henry Percy last year were swallowed by Marin. And this group of people, vigorously reclaiming wasteland in Northumberland this year, although there is not much harvest, but basically meet their own ration demand. Even the food produced has been fed by the local garrison. This is a surprise for Marin.

As for County Wicklow in Ireland, due to the war, there was a serious population loss there, and there were few people left there, and Marin did not expect any autumn harvest there.

However, there are still hundreds of thousands of people on the entire Irish island. Of course, mainly in other countries on the island. Marin intends to allocate a batch of food in the past to attract the floating population on the island and move to Wicklow County to live and reclaim. To this end, Malinte recruited a group of Irish people to go to various states in Ireland to promote it, and encouraged the Irish to move to County Wicklow to live. And the slogan that Marin asked them to promote was-"Dark bread is enough" ...

Putting this slogan in the modern era will probably make people laugh. But in this era, it is definitely a killer. Now, the Irish have not started to grow potatoes, so they are quite short of food. Therefore, there are not many people on the island, just like two or three hundred thousand people. Moreover, because of the backwardness of agriculture, many Irish people are not full. Promoting the slogan "Dark bread is enough" is absolutely powerful.

As for whether it would offend other nobles on the island, Marin didn't care so much. In fact, Marin even expects other Irish princes to take the initiative to find fault because of their anger. In this way, Marin has an excuse to send troops to annex his land ... Marin's slogan is-not afraid of causing trouble, fearing to provoke others, and other people have no reaction ... because, if the other endures, Marin has no excuse to play Now ...

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These agricultural problems are minor issues, but the new prime minister of Northumberland, the old Mason, sent an application report and asked Marin to establish a large salt cooking base near Newcastle ...

Old Mason was the former prime minister of the Principality of Cliff. After he helped John II, Duke of Cliff, he was sent by Marin and sent to Northumberland as prime minister.

After arriving in Newcastle, old Mason keenly discovered that the coal produced in Newcastle was very good for cooking salt.

In fact, locals have long used coal to boil salt. However, the Newcastle salt cooking method is quite extensive. They set up a large cauldron directly on the beach, and then found coal for cooking salt. However, this original crude salt cooking method is very inefficient. Unlike Marin's salt cooking base, all wood-saving stoves are used, which has high fuel efficiency and faster speed.

Moreover, it is silly for locals to cook salt. They did not filter the brine, they burned a pot of seawater directly, and then scraped the salt.

The salt boiled in this way has a bit of bitter taste due to the large amount of magnesium ions remaining. Unlike when Malin cooks salt, when he cooks more than half, he removes the salt from the remaining brine. In this way, the bitter magnesium ions, etc. are left in the last bit of brine. Although the salt removed cannot reach the level of refined salt in later generations, it is definitely much better than coarse salt.

The English people of this era didn't understand this, they only knew that the seawater was boiled to dryness, and the bitter coarse salt was naturally obtained. It's ok to pickle pickles and meat fish.

However, this is also Marin hypocrisy. To be honest, the coarse salt obtained by boiling the sea water tastes better than most mineral salts, although it does not taste good. The residual magnesium ions in the sea water are already very few, like the salt excavated from the salt mine, the impurities are more than one. Even some mineral salts contain toxic ingredients, and eating too much will cause cancer.

In general, the coarse salt cooked by the English in coal is considered to be the top grade in the salt. Generally speaking, the best salt is produced by some rare high-quality salt mines. Some salt mines are of high quality and have no impurities. Well, this kind of salt has become the most superior table salt, which is specially supplied to nobles and has a relatively high price.

Medium salt is coarse salt boiled from seawater. Although the taste of this salt is average, at least it has no strange smell and toxicity, and it is safe to eat. This kind of salt generally supplies the little nobility and the merchant class, that is, the middle class with a little money.

The inferior salt is the salt produced by the inferior salt mine. Most of this salt has a dull color and many obvious impurities. As for the taste of bitterness or something, it is normal, and it is not surprising to bring a little toxic substance ... In this way, it is difficult for ordinary people to eat such mineral salts often ...

The Duchy of Lüneburg, which is famous in Germany, developed from the salt mines of Lüneburg. In the Middle Ages, the salt of Lüneburg made the Principality of Brunswick-Lüneburg a wealthy country. Even the capital of the Principality moved to Lüneburg ... Moreover, the Elbe-Lübeck Canal connecting Lübeck and the Elbe River, the earliest function, was also to transport Lüneburg mineral salts to the Baltic region High-selling ...

However, the emergence of Marin's dehalogenated refined salt caused the mineral salt of the Principality of Lüneburg to appear unsalable in the Baltic region. After all, people's salt is not bitter, your salt tastes bitter, if the price difference is not big, the fool knows how to choose ...

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Of course, these old Mason are not clear. After all, Mason had just joined Marin ’s camp, and he did n’t know the secret of Marin making a fortune by boiling salt.

However, in Newcastle, he saw local people using coal to cook salt in a large cauldron by the sea. It seemed that the cost was very low. At least, it is much cheaper to burn salt with firewood than the Germans. So, the savvy old prime minister proposed-whether to use Newcastle's rich local coal resources ~ www.novelhall.com ~ to build a large-scale salt cooking center by the sea?

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For old Mason's keen intuition, Marin appreciates it very much. In fact, Marin had such a plan before. After all, it is cheaper to build a salt cooking center locally in Newcastle.

However, before Marin was planning the Ruhr area, he had not succeeded. Moreover, Marin's control of Newcastle was not high enough at that time, and he was worried that the news of the establishment of a salt cooking base in Newcastle would leak and affect his plan to seize the Ruhr area. Therefore, he temporarily shelved the plan.

Now that the Ruhr area has arrived, there are not so many scruples ...

However, considering that the old Mason was born in the Principality of Cliff, Marin, while approving the consent, also specifically ordered the old Mason family not to pass the news back to the Principality of Cliff.

Obviously, Marin did not want to stimulate his ally John II, Duke of Cliff. If he knew that the coal he had exchanged for Marin ’s Mark's Coal had the power to boil salt, he would certainly regret it.

Of course, even if John II knew it, it was useless. Because, John II has no coastal site. There is no coal in seawater alone, but it is also in vain. However, it is best to not stimulate him.

In this way, Marin approved Old Mason to set up a salt cooking center on the Newcastle beach, and gave it to Old Mason. However, Marin did not give the old Mason the technology of dehalogenated salt and wood-saving stove. In this way, the salt cooked by Newcastle is bitter, coarse salt. However, such coarse salt is also very popular in the European market. At least, it is more popular than lower grade mineral salts. Therefore, you can also sell a lot of money.

The reason for this is that Marin wanted to form a quality difference. With the coarse salt of Newcastle as the background, it can also show that the quality of the dehalogenated salt of Cape Breton Island is excellent ... The two salts are sold together and the effect is better ...