In Gelsenkirchen Village, after Adler won the championship, the old Hoffman and his wife officially came forward and began to discuss the marriage with the Hamler Knights and his wife.

When Hamler Knights learned that the champion was from the Hoffman family, they were very happy, but they were also a little disappointed. Because Hamler Knights hoped that the winner would be Marin, the second son of the Hoffman family. Because Marin is the hereditary baron lord, and Adler is just an apprentice knight. However, after seeing Marin's real person, Hamler Knights also knew that if the thin Marin really allowed to participate in the competition, they didn't know whether the first round of the competition could pass...

As for Miss Hamler, she didn't have so many snobbish ideas. Although she was a daughter, Miss Hamler advocated more force. Therefore, Adler, who was obviously stronger, was more in line with Miss Hamler's appetite. After the ceremony, Miss Hamler took the initiative to go to chat with Adler. Originally, the old Hoffman planned to beat Adler up because Adler was embarrassed on the stage. But because Miss Hamler came, Adler spared a fat beating.

Both families are knights and don’t like to drag things on the job. Moreover, Adler and Liv are both old. So, the two families simply agreed that in order not to affect spring farming, they simply held the wedding on March 1st...

It is January 16th now, with less than one and a half months left. Therefore, the wedding preparations are still in a hurry. Because there was no big deal during this period, Marin simply stayed at home and helped prepare for the wedding.

Originally, an apprentice knight would not need too much show when getting married. He invited a few knight friends and a group of relatives to hold a ceremony in the church in the local town, then went back to the manor to hold a banquet, and then summoned the serfs in the manor and the workers in the coal mine to have a big meal together. It would be fine.

However, as the soul of a Chinese, loving face has become a habit of Marin. Coincidentally, after his second son was upgraded to a baron, the old Hoffman, who had always loved face, felt that he could not make do with it...

So the father and son decided to give Adler a grand ceremony. Even the priest in the town's chapel, Marin, felt that the class was too low.

For this reason, Marin gave out 100 gold coins, went to the nearby big city of Dortmund, and hired an assistant bishop to preside over the wedding. It would definitely make the Hoffman family very proud to have an assistant bishop with real power to preside over the wedding of an apprentice knight.

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

Not only that, Gelsenkirchen's coal mine is also the type of coal that Marin needs very much in the future - bituminous coal...

The anthracite in Hoffman Manor is high-quality coal and is only suitable as fuel. The purpose of bituminous coal is much more important because bituminous coal is the most important raw material for the refining of coke in the steel industry!

At present, charcoal is mainly used as a reducing agent for iron smelting in Europe. However, Europe has a high degree of development and most of the forests have been cut down. Moreover, refining wood into charcoal requires a lot of fuel and labor costs, and wood itself is more expensive than coal. Therefore, the price of charcoal is relatively high. Although coke also requires coking, the cost is much lower than charcoal.

Marin will definitely be engaged in the steel industry in the future. In that case, coke is indispensable. Therefore, the source of bituminous coal is very important.

Although Marin could not specifically measure the quality of bituminous coal in Gelsenkirchen, the quality seemed to be very good from the appearance of bituminous coal. At least, there were few impurities inside, pure black and pure black. When burning, unlike the anthracite in Hoffmann Manor, there was more bituminous coal soot in Gelsenkirchen. Moreover, the coal here has high bonding properties and is very suitable for coking bituminous coal.

Because the coal mines in Gelsenkirchen are coking coals required by the steel industry, Marin stopped in Gelsenkirchen with great interest to investigate the development and utilization of local coal mines. At the same time, he also began to observe local transportation conditions.

In this era, the "Rhine-Herne Canal" connecting Gelsenkirchen and the Rhine has not been dug. Therefore, it is quite troublesome to transport bituminous coal from Gelsenkirchen.

However, Gelsenkirchen is not far from the Ruhr River to the south, only about ten or twenty kilometers. Therefore, the transportation cost here may be much worse than that of Hoffman Manor, but it is quite good. As long as the coal is transported to the Ruhr River to be shipped, it will be OK.

After investigation, when Marin came to Gelsenkirchen to the south, there was a gravel-paved avenue, but it was only a little more than 10 kilometers long and could not reach the Ruhr River. The stone road was about seven or eight kilometers away from the Ruhr River. As long as Marin contributed to repair this road, it would be very convenient for a four-wheeled carriage to travel between Gelsenkirchen and the Ruhr River. Moreover, the knights led by the knights along the way either had a good relationship with the Hoffman family or were friends of the Hamler family, and were not worried about anyone being interfered.

What makes Marin happy is that in this era, bituminous coal was recognized by the world as a poor coal because of a large amount of black smoke when it burned. Therefore, although there are abundant coal mines in Gelsenkirchen, the Hamler family did not have much interest in developing coal mines. In the market, the price of bituminous coal is far lower than that of cleaner anthracite. If the price of anthracite is 4 shillings per Chaltron, bituminous coal can only be sold for 3 shillings per Chaltron...

The Hamler Knights were actually very happy that Marin was interested in the "low quality" coal in his territory. Although the Hamler Knights territory in Gelsenkirchen was larger than the original Hoffman Manor, there was not much arable land, only less than 300 Yugrams.

Although there are coal mines with huge reserves, they are "low-quality coal" that smokes a lot. In this era, the sales of anthracite are very bad, let alone "low-quality coal" like bituminous coal. If a merchant was willing to ask for bituminous coal, the Hamler family would have organized people to mine coal mines long ago... Therefore, the Hamler family really hopes to get a coal order from Marin.

However, Marin has not yet developed the steel industry. More importantly, Marin currently has no source of iron ore. Therefore, it is useless for him to buy bituminous coal.

Therefore, Marin had to perfunctorily and promised that as long as the road from Gelsenkirchen to the Ruhr River and the dock on the side of the Ruhr River are repaired, he would be willing to give Gelsenkirchen a stable order. However, Marin estimated that when this road is repaired and the dock is built, the year will be over. At that time, according to the situation, we will determine whether to place an order and how big the order will be placed...

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While Marin was staying in Gelsenkirchen to inspect the coal mine, Adler shamelessly refused to leave Hamler Manor in the name of "protecting his younger brother", and took the opportunity to date Miss Hamler.

Fortunately, people in this era are more conservative, and Adler is not a pervert. Therefore, this lover did not do anything unfair and did not do anything in the wild.

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

When others are dating, they talk about ideals and literary elegance. But this tough unmarried couple likes to compete...

Of course, the competition between them was not like fighting the like, but a competition like "the love-loving sword" and "the sword of eyebrows and eyes".

Adler obviously has a lot of martial arts skills than Miss Hamler, but he likes to get in love with Miss Hamler's children. When he gets into a deep relationship, Adler knocks out the wooden sword in Liv Hamler's hand and then hugs it...

But, there is nothing else afterwards...

As for why? That's because Adler has not received premarital education and doesn't know what to do...

Once again, Marin peeked at Liv Hamler with a telescope. After Adler hugged Liv Hamler, he looked at Liv Hamler foolishly, and there was no other move... he just looked at it in a daze...

Marin almost laughed and fell down, but he didn't intend to remind Adler. Because it won't take long to get a formal wedding, and there is no rush. Moreover, the rules of this era stipulate that pre-marriage behavior is prohibited. If you instigate Adler, it may be embarrassing to the whole family if you accidentally spread it.

The old Hoffman and his wife were preparing for the wedding in Hoffman Manor. Although Marin did not go back to help himself, she sent someone to notify Kohler and Schwartz to return to the manor to help prepare. Kohler even brought back a batch of gold coins to subsidize the wedding costs.

Marin was not a stingy person. Adler paid great attention to his marriage. So he asked Kohler to bring back a large amount of money to prepare for emergencies. At the same time, Schwartz also brought a team of about 50 people to maintain order and use it to boost momentum. These 50 people are all newly hired mercenaries with skillful riding skills. Although they are not knights or trainee knights, they are just right to use them as light cavalry.

Because Marin's Spanish phalanx lacks mobility and requires light cavalry as an important supplement. For example, these light cavalry can be used for reconnaissance, to protect the side and back, or to chase and kill retreating enemies...
Chapter completed!