King of Mercenaries Chapter 97

Published at 14th of June 2023 05:27:48 AM

In the village of Gelsenkirchen, after Adler won the championship, the old Huffmans officially came forward and began to discuss the marriage with the Cavaliers of Hamler.

哈 When the Hamler Cavaliers learned that the championship was from the Huffman family, they were very happy, but also a little lost. Because, the Hamler Cavaliers hope that the winner is the second child of the Huffman family, Marin. Because Marin was the hereditary baron lord, and Adler was just a trainee knight. However, after seeing Marin live, the Cavaliers of Hamler also knew that they really let the thin Marin participate in the competition, and they did not know whether the first round of competition could pass ...

As for Miss Hamler, she didn't have so many snobbish ideas. Despite being a daughter, Miss Hamler is even more fond of force. Therefore, the significantly stronger Adler was more in line with Miss Hamler's appetite. No, after the ceremony, Miss Hamler took the initiative to talk to Adler. Originally, Huffman was going to beat Adler because he was ashamed on the stage. But because Miss Hamler came over, Adler was spared a fat meal.

家族 Both families are cavalier families, and they don't like to mess around. And Adler and Liv are both old. So, the two people simply agreed-in order not to affect spring ploughing, they simply held the wedding on March 1st ...

And now it is January 16th, and there is only less than one and a half months left. Therefore, wedding preparations are still in a hurry. And because nothing happened during this time, Marin simply stayed at home and helped to prepare for the wedding.

Originally, a trainee knight got married and did n't need much pomp. Invite a few knight friends and a relative to hold a ceremony in the church in the local town, and then return to the manor for a wine banquet, and then summon serfs and coal mines on the manor. Even if the workers come to eat and drink together, it is OK.

However, as the soul of a Chinese, loving face has become a habit of Marin. Coincidentally, after the second son was promoted to baron, the old huffman who always loved face also felt he couldn't do it ...

Alas, the father and son decided to do something for Adler. Even the priest in the chapel in the town felt that the grade was too low.

To this end, Marin gave out 100 gold coins to the nearby big city Dortmund and hired an assistant bishop to preside over the wedding. The fact that having a powerful assistant bishop to preside over the wedding of a trainee knight definitely made the Huffman family very face-saving.

In addition to the preparation of the wedding, Marin was surprised to find that Gelsenkirchen is also a huge coal mine ...

Not only that, the coal mine in Gelsenkirchen is a coal type that Marin will need in the future-bituminous coal ...

Huffman's Anthracite is a high-quality coal-fired coal that is only suitable as a fuel. The use of bituminous coal is much more important. Because bituminous coal is the most important raw material for making coke in the steel industry!

At present, charcoal is mainly used as a reducing agent in European iron smelting. However, Europe is highly developed and most of the forest is cleared. Moreover, refining wood into charcoal itself requires a lot of fuel and labor costs, and wood itself is more expensive than coal. Therefore, the price of charcoal is high. And coke, although it also needs coking, but the cost is much lower than charcoal.

Marin will definitely engage in the iron and steel industry in the future. In that case, coke is essential. Therefore, the source of bituminous coal is very important.

Although Marin couldn't specifically measure the quality of Gelsenkirchen's bituminous coal, from the appearance of bituminous coal, it seems that the quality is very good. At least, there are very few impurities, pure black. Unlike the anthracite anthracite of the Huffman Manor during burning, Gelsenkirchen has more anthracite. In addition, the coal here has a high cohesiveness and is very suitable for coking bituminous coal.

Because the coal mine in Gelsenkirchen is a coking coal required by the iron and steel industry, Marin stopped in Gelsenkirchen with interest to investigate the development and utilization of local coal mines. At the same time, we began to observe local transportation conditions.

At this time, the "Rhine-Herne Canal" connecting Gelsenkirchen and the Rhine has not yet been excavated. Therefore, it is more troublesome to transport the bituminous coal from Gelsenkirchen.

However, Gelsenkirchen is not far from the Ruhr River in the south, only ten or twenty kilometers. Therefore, the transportation cost here may be much worse than that of Huffman Estate, but it is not bad. As long as the coal is shipped to the Ruhr River for loading, then it is OK.

Marin visited, Gelsenkirchen went to the Ruhr River to the south, but there was a paved boulevard, but it was only a little more than 10 kilometers long and could not reach the Ruhr River. Shizi Road is about seven or eight kilometers away from the Ruhr River. As long as Marin invests in repairing this road, it is very convenient for the four-wheeled carriage to load coal to and from Gelsenkirchen and the Ruhr River. Moreover, the knights of the several knight leaders along the way, either made good friends with the Huffman family or were friends of the Hamler family, and did not worry about being stumped.

What makes Marin happy is that in this era, bituminous coal was recognized as inferior coal because it emits a lot of black smoke during combustion. For this reason, although Gelsenkirchen is rich in coal mines, the Hamler family has little interest in developing coal mines. And in the market, the price of bituminous coal is much lower than cleaner anthracite. If the price of anthracite is 4 shillings per Charteron, bituminous coal can only be sold for 3 shillings per Charteron ...

The Cavaliers of Hamler are actually very happy that Marin liked the "inferior" coal on his territory. Although the Hamlet Knights Land in Gelsenkirchen is larger than the original Huffman estate, there is not much arable land, only less than 300 Eugram.

Although there are coal mines with huge reserves, they are “poor quality coal” that emits a lot of smoke. At this time, the market for anthracite is very bad, let alone "inferior coal" such as bituminous coal. If a businessman was willing to request bituminous coal, the Hamler family would have organized manual mining of coal mines ... Therefore, the Hamler family would very much like to get Marin's coal order.

However, Marin has not yet developed the steel industry. More importantly-Marin currently has no source of iron ore. Therefore, he bought bituminous coals to no avail.

So Marin had to be perfunctory and promised that as long as the road from Gelsenkirchen to the Ruhr and the pier by the Ruhr was repaired, he would be willing to give Gelsenkirchen a stable order. However, Marin guessed that when this road is repaired and the pier is built, it will have to pass this year. At that time, according to the situation, determine whether to place an order, and how big to place the order ...

Uh ...

While Marin stayed in Gelsenkirchen to inspect the coal mine, Adler was shameless in the name of "protecting his brother" and stayed at the Hamler manor, taking the opportunity to miss Miss Hamler appointment.

Fortunately, people in this era are more conservative, Adler is not a satyr. Therefore, this pair of lovers did not do anything desolate and unruly, they did not do anything in the wild.

But according to Sauer's observation report, what made Marin collapse is that this strange and unmarried couple also behaved strangely ...

Dating other people is all about talking about ideals and talking about literary elegance. But this fierce unmarried couple likes to compete ...

Of course, the competition between the two is not the kind of mars splashing, but a set of competitions like "love sword" and "eyes and swords".

Adler obviously has more martial arts than Miss Hamler, but she just likes to be entangled with Miss Hamler's children. When he hits love, Adler knocks out the wooden sword in Liv Hamler's hand, and then hugs it ...

But there is no more then ...

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Once again, Marin voyeured with a telescope. After Adler hugged Liv Hamler, he looked at Liv Hamler's face innocently. Just so obsessed watching ...

Marin almost got down and laughed, but did not intend to remind Adler. Because, it won't be long before the formal wedding, and there is no rush. Moreover, the canon of this era stipulated that what was not allowed before marriage. If he teaches Adler himself, if he accidentally spreads it, it might make the whole family shame.

The old Huffmans were eagerly planning a wedding at the Huffman Manor. Although Marin didn't go back to help himself, he sent someone to tell Kohler and Schwartz to return to the manor to help prepare. Even Kohler brought back a group of gold coins to subsidize the wedding expenses.

Marlin is not a stingy person. Adler got married and he took it very seriously. So he asked Kohler to bring back a lot of money in case he needed it. At the same time, Schwartz also brought a team of about 50 people back to maintain order and use it to build momentum. These 50 men are all skilled new hired mercenaries. Although it is not a knight or a trainee knight, it is just right for a light cavalry.

Because Marin's Spanish matrix lacks mobility, it needs light cavalry as an important supplement. For example, these light cavalry can be used for reconnaissance, to protect the side, or to hunt down enemies ...

Of course, this is a future thing. Now, the biggest role of this cavalry is to give the wedding a strong momentum and create an atmosphere ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Welcome the book readers to read, the latest, fastest and hottest serial works are all in ~ www.novelhall. com ~ mobile users, please read.

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