The Rise of the European Emperor

Not long after Marin returned to Aurich, the heads of the provinces sent reports of a bumper grain harvest. As Marin imagined, the provinces of East Frisland, Oldenburg, Schleswig and North Münster, which were originally under control, naturally gained a lot of money because of their advanced agricultural technology and complete three fertilizers. Harvest.

The combined grain harvest in these four regions amounts to 2 billion pounds of rye. Among them, as many as 1.3 billion pounds of grain are produced by Marin's manor alone. Even without food consumption, Marin will have net gain of more than 1 billion pounds of food this year.

And if next year, the newly acquired estates in Bremen, Jutland and West Friesland also start to produce according to the new agricultural technology, the total grain output will be even more frightening.

With so much grain, Marin didn't dare to open it up to sell. It must be said that this is a tragedy. But there is no way. After all, if too much grain is sold, it is easy for people to discover the secret of high grain yield.

Fortunately, Marin discovered a good way to use the surplus grain to brew rye Erguotou in time, and found a good place for the large amount of surplus grain. Selling wine is not as eye-catching as selling food, and Marin has also set up a few chambers of commerce to pretend to buy food everywhere, so no one doubts it. Even Marin asked his subordinates to tell others in Germany that a lot of food was produced abroad. Outside Germany, it's another way of saying it. By disguising this way, everyone is not quite sure that the grains used in Marin's wine are actually self-produced...

However, this also has a big problem. That is - even if you sell spirits, the market is limited. Because there are not many people who are addicted to spirits. Moreover, mostly concentrated in cold Eastern Europe. In Western Europe, only a small number of people are addicted to spirits.

The problem is that although people in the cold regions of Eastern Europe are fond of spirits, they are poor there. And spirits are expensive because they consume a lot of food. As a result, there are not many Eastern Europeans who can afford spirits, as long as they are some local aristocrats and wealthy businessmen. As for ordinary people, even if they like spirits, they can't afford it.

So, Marin has now begun to think about whether to limit the output of grain... Otherwise, if there is too much grain, it will only be piled there and moldy, and even if the wine is made, it will not be sold...

Fortunately, Marin suddenly remembered England, which had just gone through the war. Northumberland is now Marin's area of ​​control. There are now tens of thousands of refugees waiting for the rice to be cooked.

So Marin ordered that tens of millions of pounds of rye be transferred from the grain depot to help those refugees. Anyway, their food and drink are covered by Marin...

You know, the total population of Northumberland, including the 60,000 refugees snatched from Henry Percy, is only 70,000 to 80,000. Even if he had a population of 80,000 and each ate one pound of rye a day, he would consume only 80,000 pounds a day. Ten million pounds of rye is enough for them to eat for 125 days.

but,

Marin suddenly remembered - it seems that the level of agricultural development in Northumberland is very low. To develop Northumberland now, it takes a lot of manpower and material resources, cutting down a lot of trees, digging a lot of irrigation ditches... and these activities will greatly consume people's physical strength and increase the consumption of food. Even double the amount of food you eat...

However, this is not a problem. For other nobles, doubling their food intake will definitely kill them. Because food is expensive. But who is Marin? O Lord, who has too much food to eat! So Marin still ordered - organize those refugees to clear land and dig ditches and ditches in Northumberland. And, for those English laborers who took part in digging trenches, Marin's promise was that there was enough brown bread. Even if they perform well, they will reward more bread and allow those strong people to bring it back to their families to eat... In this way, it has found a good place for those grains...

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After counting the grain production of the four old provinces, it is the turn of the three newly acquired provinces - West Friesland, Bremen and Jutland... As for South Münster (including Osnab) The southern half of Luc), which is still under the control of Bishop Conrad, and before Bishop Conrad died, Marin was temporarily out of control...

As for the three provinces that can be managed, although the area is huge, the total output of the two cities is only less than 100 million pounds... Marin simply thought he had heard it wrong. Because, this number is less than one-twentieth of the other four provinces. However, these three new provinces are larger than the four old provinces. Jutland, in particular, is nearly 20,000 square kilometers in size... But why is food production so low?

But the reports from the three provinces puzzled Marin - it turned out that they were all caused by wars. Because of the war, Jutland and West Friesland were greatly affected. Many of the fields in these two areas are deserted, and there is not enough labor to cultivate. Only the province of Bremen, because it was exchanged, has little impact on agriculture.

In the end, the result was that the three new provinces produced barely enough food for the locals to consume. Even, because most of the food is concentrated in the hands of those nobles and Junker landlords, many serfs have to go hungry...

But that's not a problem, Marin decided to take out some old grain from the warehouse, mix some straw chaff, and make economical Kohler bread to help the starving serfs in these three new provinces. In this way, it can be considered to gain a wave of popular support, which is conducive to the stability of the rule.

In addition, Marin also intends to ship a shipment of grain to his territory on the island of Ireland - County Wicklow. Although the island of Ireland is backward, the population is quite large.

Although after the war, the eastern part of the island of Ireland is sparsely populated. However, the island of Ireland is currently a famous backcountry in Europe. As long as there are enough bread tubes, a large number of refugees can definitely be attracted.

Remember, the island of Ireland is different from the rest of Europe. Because of the large number of indigenous forces, they attacked each other, resulting in political instability on the island. In addition, on the island of Ireland, only some areas with less rainfall in the east and northeast are suitable for agriculture. The western region, facing the Atlantic Ocean, has too frequent and excessive precipitation, making most of the island unsuitable for agriculture. Therefore, sheep raising and fishing are prevalent on the island of Ireland, and the population is less settled. As long as Malin provides food and attracts some Irish herdsmen and fishermen to relocate, it is still very convenient. You know, those Irish herders and fishermen don't love their homes like farmers. After all, the herdsmen and fishermen do not have land, so they have no regrets when they relocate, so they pack up and leave. Therefore, it is more convenient to recruit.

Only by recruiting enough people to develop the county of Wicklow, which covers an area of ​​more than 2,000 square kilometers, can it proceed smoothly. Moreover, County Wicklow is located on the eastern coast of Ireland, just in the shaded part of the "Atlantic Storm" not covered by the "Atlantic Storm", which is a less oily area suitable for agriculture on the island of Ireland. It is also very good to develop.

Marin did not discriminate against the Irish. Although he always preached the superiority of the Germanic race, in his heart, he did not think so at all.

Although the Irish are Celts, not Germans, they are also good subjects if they make good use of them. Of course, Marin intends to win over the Irish with food. But at the same time, Irish children will be taught to speak English and German through free and compulsory education. After three generations, Irish people speak English or German, and they are no different from Germans. When the time comes to strengthen integration, it is easy to integrate into the big family.

As for why the Irish did not urinate in the same pot with the English in the original history, Marin felt that it was mainly due to language and customs. In addition, the influence of religion is also very big - the English people converted to Protestant Anglicanism, the Irish people still believe in Catholicism, it is strange that the two races can merge...

The problems of language and customs, Marin thinks are easy to solve - free compulsory education, mandatory use of only English in the classroom is enough. After several generations of education, the Irish, who were originally similar in appearance, were not much different from the Germanic English.

In the original history, although the English ruled Ireland, they did not promote English education, so that the Irish continued to be illiterate and used the native Irish language. The illiterate are the most fond of keeping traditions, so in a few hundred years, it will be difficult to integrate the Irish.

Marin has experienced China in the 21st century. In China in the 21st century, those ethnic minority compatriots who were originally very different from the Han customs, after receiving modern education, except for people from a special sect, they did not eat pork, etc. Except for their unique habits, young people of other ethnic groups are no different from the Han people in terms of dress, speech and behavior. Only those old ethnic minority compatriots who stayed in the stockade, because they had no culture, retained many traditional customs. Of course, people in later generations like to travel, and most like to see customs that are different from the mainstream culture, so the country specially protects those minority cultures, especially the song and dance culture. Otherwise, in a few generations, they will all be assimilated. Even so, Malin firmly believes that as long as the descendants of the minority people leave the village in the mountains, it will take a few generations, and no one will be able to see that they are minority people... Even in his previous life, Malin himself had no idea about the traditional culture of the Han nation. Not very clear...

As long as the free compulsory education is used, the phonetic symbols of the same pronunciation can be used to unify people's language and pronunciation. When people speak the same language with the same accent, as long as they are of the same skin color, it is easy to integrate.

Just like the big cities in China in later generations, those fellow villagers who fought against and even fought with outsiders were mostly elderly people who could not speak Mandarin. And a person like Marin who speaks Mandarin well, at work, and his colleagues, there is no sense of regional differences at all...

Therefore, Marin intends to teach Irish children to speak English with a London accent by providing free and compulsory education, taking advantage of the abundance of food in hand. When they grow up, they won't have too much estrangement from the English. Everyone speaks a language with the same accent, so it's easy to blend together...