The Rise of the European Emperor

On the European side, Marin's fleet joined the battleship formation in the open sea and continued to sail westward. A few days later, they reached the coast of England. On the Isle of Wight, Marin's fleet stopped again. After all, the Isle of Wight was now a Marin fief, and he decided to take the opportunity to inspect it.

Marin's fleet docked at Cowes Harbour, on the estuary of the Medina River in the north of the Isle of Wight. Cowes is named Cowes in English. It's called Cowes.

Because it is located at the mouth of the Medina River, a larger freshwater river on the Isle of Wight, and the Solent Strait in the north faces Southampton Bay, an important freshwater harbor on the island. So Cowes is a very good freshwater port.

Therefore, Marin has long invested in the construction of a castle in Cowes, and built a number of long bridge piers to facilitate the docking of ships. Moreover, a dock was also built to facilitate the maintenance of ships. After all, in the age of wooden boats, it was inevitable that ships would be damaged by ship maggots and slapped by waves. Therefore, the maintenance of the boat is very important.

Moreover, Marin intends to build Cowes into an important military port in the future. So, not one, but three of Cowes' docks.

In order to ensure the safety of Cowes and avoid being attacked by enemy fleets, Marin built a number of forts on the shore of the Solent Strait, which leads to the sea, to combat enemy warships that dared to enter the strait.

You must know that the Solent Strait is only 3 lanes and 6 kilometers wide. Marin built several forts on the shore, which is definitely enough to deal with enemy ships that dare to invade. After all, the artillery of the fort is generally relatively large in caliber. Moreover, the recoil of the turret is transmitted to the ground by the base made of stone, and it will not be displaced like a naval gun, nor will it be deflected due to the shaking of the hull. In addition, the protection of the stone fortress is much higher than that of the wooden ship, so the battleship and the battery are definitely not opponents. As long as the two sides of the Solent Strait are blocked with forts, Cowes Harbour is a very safe naval port.

Moreover, the warships in Cowes Harbor, after leaving the Solent Strait, immediately arrived in the middle of the English Channel, which is very beneficial for controlling the English Channel. Moreover, the Portsmouth Naval Port in the northeast of the Solent Strait is also the largest military port of the British Royal Navy. The later Wei Er was stimulated at the naval review ceremony here, and then went back to let the German Empire explode the warship...

Although the harbour in Portsmouth is better, but that harbour is backed by England. Before England was under his own control, Marin did not want to expose too many of his secrets to the English. Therefore, it is the best choice to build a military port on the Isle of Wight that is entirely your own. Anyway, it's the age of wooden sailboats, and the port doesn't need to be too big or too deep. Ports such as Cowes are competent enough.

Even, in order to maintain the secret, the officials arranged by Marin on the Isle of Wight were all Frisian from East Frisian. These people speak Frisian and can communicate with the locals. Moreover, because they are Marin's die-hards, they have nothing to do with England. With them there, Marin is not worried about the infiltration of England. And in a few years, the whole of England will fall into his own hands, and he will not worry about the penetration of England.

Arriving at Cowes Harbour, Marin found that Cowes Harbour was still under construction. Despite the large investment, building ports and castles can take a lot of time. So, when Marin arrived in Cowes Harbour, Cowes Harbour had only had a number of Longbridge piers built. As for the dock and the castle, the castle is only half repaired, and only one of the three docks has been repaired...

After all, it was his own territory. At the warm invitation of his subordinates, Marin went to Newport, the administrative center in the middle of the Isle of Wight, and lived in the famous Carisbrook Castle. This castle is very famous. The later Charles I was imprisoned in this castle before he was guillotined...

Marin has nothing to be afraid of, after all, Charles I has not yet appeared in this world. Forget about Charles I.

Charles I's grandfather, James V, could not appear under the intervention of Marin, and naturally there would be no more Charles I. Charles I, the unfortunate man, has never lived in, and Carisbrook Castle naturally has no bad past.

Because the matter of going to America to fight is fake, Marin is naturally not in a hurry to go to America. So, on the Isle of Wight, Marin simply went on vacation.

When he was free, Marin also took the guards to play around in White, enjoying the style of the island country of England, which was different from Germany.

This morning, Marin left Carisbrook Castle with his guards and came to a nearby village to play.

During the tour, Marin was surprised to find that a young English farmer named James, after picking up two duck eggs on the grassy beach by the river, returned to his house and lured the old hens in the henhouse by the door with grain to come out After eating, I quickly put the duck eggs into the chicken coop, and at the same time, took out two eggs from the chicken coop...

"Hey, what are you doing?" Kahn asked curiously, as Marin's bodyguard. Kahn also learned Frisian, so he was able to converse with the English farmer.

James saw Marin, a large group of people wearing plate armor, obviously nobles. So he bowed deeply and replied:

"Hello everyone, I just took the duck eggs for the hens to hatch!" James just finished speaking, and the hens who were full ran back to the chicken coop and continued to hatch the eggs. However, the stupid old hen didn't realize that her eggs had been dumped...

Maybe people think it's incredible - the difference between eggs and duck eggs is so big, can hens find out? Hey, I didn't realize that, hens are so stupid...

After listening to James' explanation, Kahn was shocked - the hen was so stupid...

Then he went on to ask:

"Why don't you give the eggs to the mother ducks to hatch?"

"I don't know, mother ducks don't like to hatch eggs. They usually run away after laying eggs, and basically ignore the eggs. Generally speaking, we leave the hens to help with the heavy task of hatching duck eggs... …”

Kahn continues to be shocked...

Marin smiled, with an "I know it all" look. Marin has lived in the countryside in his last life, and he has seen a lot of things like hens hatching duck eggs.

In fact, female ducks do not like to hatch eggs, which is also the result of long-term human selection. Because, it has been found that female ducks who do not like to hatch eggs are fatter. After many generations of selection, the mother ducks no longer like to hatch eggs. And duck farmers, in order to get ducklings, can only take duck eggs for silly hens to hatch.

And the hens are really stupid. After the eggs hatch, the ducklings and the chickens are obviously very different, but the hens still regard the ducklings as their own children. When they find bugs, they will warmly greet the ducklings to eat. One day, the duckling jumped into the river and swam happily, and the hen was even more stunned at that time - my strange-looking child can actually swim?

However, this is the traditional way of farming. In fact, if you want to breed on a large scale, later generations will generally bring fertilized duck eggs, even goose eggs and eggs to the kang room to hatch.

It should be pointed out that there are two kinds of eggs, one is fertilized egg, and the other is unfertilized egg. In other words, eggs are actually eggs released by a hen. If it is not combined with the sperm of the rooster to become a fertilized egg, it is impossible to hatch a chick.

For example, women who have menstruation every month will also send eggs, but they will be lost with blood. If fertilized before expulsion, pregnancy will result in a child. However, the egg of the hen seems to be larger, that is the egg...

Just like a woman's menstrual period, a hen will still lay eggs without a rooster pecking her comb (the way chickens mate). However, women ovulate once a month, while hens ovulate every day. The released eggs are eaten by humans...

Identifying fertilized and unfertilized eggs is simple—in a dark room, hold the eggs under a light, and observe the eggs. If there is a shadow in the egg, it is a fertilized egg. Not if it's transparent inside.

However, there is another way to tell the difference. In his previous life, when he was a child, Marin had seen those egg collectors carrying two baskets, one for fertilized eggs and the other for infertile ones. The way to distinguish is to first see if there are big roosters in the chickens raised in this house. If there are big roosters, they will definitely not let the hens go. Generally, most of the eggs of this hen are fertilized. If there is no big cock, neither does the neighbor’s house (the neighbor’s big cock is nicknamed the next-door old king, if the big cock in the house is not careful, the next-door old king’s big cock will come and peck the hen’s comb... Then, the big cock in the house The rooster will fight fiercely with the old king rooster next door in order to maintain his harem. This is the legendary cockfight...)

Unfertilized eggs are generally sold to the people of towns to eat, while fertilized eggs are generally sold to kang houses to hatch into chicks...

"Yes, Kang room! How could I forget about this!" Marin patted his head.

In this era, there have probably been kang rooms in Huaxia. The kang room is a kind of greenhouse for hatching chicks, ducklings, and goslings. However, the hut is enclosed to maintain the temperature inside. The fertilized eggs, duck eggs and goose eggs are placed on the heated kang, with broken quilts or grass underneath (to prevent them from being steamed due to high temperature), and continue to hatch.

The temperature of the kang room is definitely higher than the body temperature of the hen. Of course, the temperature should not be too high, otherwise the eggs will be cooked. As long as the temperature is well controlled, Kang room hatching is safer than hen hatching. Moreover, it can be incubated in large batches.

The egg incubator lasts for dozens of days, and the hen can incubate at most two or three eggs at a time, which is very inefficient and very laborious. Squatting there all day is not conducive to foraging and growth. Therefore, incubating such things in later generations is generally handed over to kang houses in rural areas.

Chickens are better, after all, hens are willing to lay eggs. For ducks, the kang room is even more important. The female ducks do not hatch their eggs, and they lay eggs everywhere. The people who put the ducks often have to go to the beach to find a circle before finishing work every day.

Therefore, before the emergence of the kang room incubation technology, the scale of duck farming has not been able to increase. Because duck eggs are not willing to hatch eggs without female ducks. Giving it to a hen will not only hurt the hen's body (after all, it's not easy to squat there for a month), but also inefficient.

If you build a kang room to hatch, you can hatch hundreds of ducklings at a time. And even if there are hens willing to incubate eggs, the number of hens incubating eggs is very limited.

If it is replaced with centralized incubation in kang rooms, it will no longer be a problem to breed chickens, ducks and geese on a large scale. If the breeding scale of chickens, ducks and geese increases, then the residents of Beihai Kingdom will not be short of chicken, duck and goose meat, and eggs will not be short of...

Therefore, the hatching technology of kang room is a technology of great historical significance for the breeding of chickens, ducks and geese, especially the breeding of ducks. With this technology, the large-scale breeding of chickens, ducks and geese will no longer be a dream...

"It seems that we have to build a batch of kang rooms!" Marin thought. Of course, this will have to wait until he returns from America. As for the Isle of Wight, Marin has no plans to promote the technology for now. Good things, naturally give priority to local. Then, other regions will be considered...

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