Chapter 271： Early autumn harvest

Because of the extensive use of fertilizers that promote crop growth, East Frisian crops mature earlier than crops in other countries.

Therefore, after entering September, the crops in East Friesland have gradually started to mature and can be harvested. After Marin settled the affairs of Spain, he hurriedly returned by boat to monitor the autumn harvest.

Also, after the autumn harvest, the Saxon's invasion may be coming. According to news from Kohler, the Saxons are currently not doing anything in the military, but have been propagating that Marin was wrong. It can be seen that the Duke of Saxony did, as Marin reasoned, intend to start after the autumn harvest.

This is also normal. Marin's main troops are all mercenaries. Naturally, they can send troops at the autumn harvest. Because those mercenaries are not dragged down by land.

But the Saxony army is not the same. They are feudal troops. In Saxony's army, many officers were fiefdom knights. Whenever the autumn harvest time, they have to return to their respective estates to supervise the autumn harvest. Even some poorer knights have to go down to the autumn harvest in person. Otherwise, the labor force will be insufficient.

Not only that, many soldiers in the Saxony army also need to go home to participate in the autumn harvest. These people need to go home to participate in the autumn harvest more than those nobles and knights, because they are the main labor force at home.

Alas, the Duke of Saxony has a lot of business taxes. However, agriculture was also an important source of income for the feudal aristocracy. Therefore, it is impossible for the Duke of Saxony to attack Marin at the cost of giving up the autumn harvest.

Because, he also knows that Marin is not weak and it is difficult to win in a short time. Therefore, Albrecht, Duke of Saxony, has long been ready for long-term operations. For long-term operations, food is indispensable. Therefore, this makes the Duke of Saxony even more unable to send troops before the autumn harvest. Only after the autumn harvest has obtained enough food can capital and Marin fight a protracted siege.

Marlin hurryed and hurried back to East Friesland in early October. At this time, the autumn harvests in East Friesland and the Wadden Islands had already begun.

The autumn harvest began under the auspices of Angela. With the support of the old Huffmans and Jeffrey Palace, the shy Angela stood up bravely, on behalf of Marin, presided over the ceremony of the autumn harvest and announced the autumn harvest. Start.

At this time, all East Frisian people who owned the land, including the soldiers under Marin, were surprised. Of course, this does not include those veterans who had previously owned land in the Wadden Islands.

Everyone is surprised by the big harvest of rye this year, because people with good eyes can see that this year's rye ears have expanded a lot compared with previous years, and many wheat ears have bent the straw ... In previous years, wheat The spikes are straight up and not so heavy.

Before harvesting, everyone can predict that this year will be a bumper harvest ...

Of course, many aristocrats in East Frisian know that a war is about to take place. Therefore, for East Friesland to start the autumn harvest earlier this year, we are fully prepared. As soon as Angela ordered, the estates began to harvest wheat. Because everyone was worried that the Duke of Saxony's troops would come before the end of the autumn harvest. In that case, the wheat in the field will be too late to be harvested, and may even be rushed to harvest by the Saxon army ...

So when Marin returned to East Friesland, the whole East Frisian land was rushing to catch things like rye ...

After seeing it for a few months, Angela naturally missed Marin, and she swooped over like Lin Yanlin ...

When I saw Angela, Marin suddenly remembered that he seemed to promise his father-in-law to find Mother and Daughter of Ferris, and he almost forgot. So he called to Kohler and asked him to arrange for a man to go to the Genoa countryside to find him.

After becoming a countess, Marin found that Angela had matured a lot. Moreover, the little girl who loves to play even started to like reading. Moreover, it is no longer a novel or something, but a class of books governing the country. Because, Angela has realized that she is the spouse of a monarch of a country and is no longer a carefree little girl. In Europe, nobles can only have one wife, so those husbands and wives need not consider palace fighting. There is just a mistress in the palace, and who do you fight with? Therefore, European ladies, either obsessed with court ball or something, or assist their husbands to manage the fiefdom. East Frisian lacks the old school aristocracy (in fact, it was scarcely killed by Marin), and naturally no such thing as court ball is popular. Well, Angela's way to pass the time is to read books and find ways to help deal with government affairs.

However, Angela's efforts did not please Marin. Because, Marin thought of Wu Zetian, Lu Hou and other representatives of the harem. He didn't like women doing politics, and although Angela was simple, after all, she was the daughter of the old fox Julius II and had a gene for struggle. If Angela worked out, when Julius II became pope, would he still have a place to talk? With the support of the Pope's father-in-law, Angela may not be able to crush herself ...

So Marin decided to find something else to get Angela's attention. Angela is only 17 years old, the age of a playful girl. Therefore, Marin decided to "invent" mahjong and other gadgets to make Angela a little money. He'd rather Angela be obsessed with gambling than make her a female politician. After all, even if Angela was addicted to gambling, in East Friesland, no one would dare to win Angela, and won't give her a chance to lose. Because who dare to win more Angela's money, Marin must have troubled him privately ... even, those noble ladies who are busy courting Angela, may deliberately fire a gun ...

After I returned, Marin quickly processed a lot of the backlog of documents, the signature of the signature, the seal of the seal ...

Then, he also took the guard and rode around to inspect the autumn harvest work, and delivered some painless and itchy speeches, demonstrating his importance to the autumn harvest.

As the acres of acres were harvested, the rye production gradually came out. Because of the abundant fertilizers, basically, the rye of the East Frisian nobles did not produce less than 400 pounds per mu. This is still the poor and poorly managed wheat land. More, they have reached the level of 500 pounds per mu.

A lot of aristocrats are excited. This kind of output is basically more than three times higher than the previous one hundred pounds of acres. It can no longer be described by bumper harvests. It can only be described by abnormalities ...

Alas, Marin sent his men to privately order the nobles not to talk about it. Because, as long as they say it, the secret of fertilizers may cause cowardice in other countries. Once the secret of fertilizer is leaked, and the yield per person is so high, food prices may plummet, affecting everyone's interests ...

Marin said so, the nobles would understand. Indeed, if it is just a bumper grain harvest in East Friesland, and the rest of the world remains the same, then food prices will not be affected. After all, East Friesland is just a small projectile country.

However, if other big countries know this secret and also use a lot of fertilizers, and they produce 500 pounds per mu, then the price of rye is expected to fall to one-third of the original. Well, their harvest is meaningless. Therefore, in order to protect their own interests, these nobles naturally do not talk nonsense. As for the serfs, they can't leave the territory. Where can I go out and talk? Moreover, East Friesland has a small population, and those extra boys in serfdom families were basically recruited by Marin to work, and there was no possibility of population outflow. Marin himself thinks that the population is not enough. Where can he allow others to come to East Frisian to recruit excess population?

For the sale of grain, Marin organized a chamber of commerce to uniformly purchase and export the grain of the nobles. In fact, in order to prepare for the post-war recruitment, Marin would basically not export food. Because immigrants come, they need to consume a lot of food.

Moreover, as long as he bought the food of those nobles, he would not sell it to the surrounding areas. In this way, the surrounding countries will not find the grain harvest in East Frisian, which will help keep it secret. Even if the grain can really be sold someday, Marin will not choose to sell it locally, but will choose to ship the grain to the United Kingdom or Spain for sale. This is because the grain prices in both places are higher than in Germany.

A large amount of food ~ www.novelhall.com ~ was transported into the city of Orich. Marin even planned to expand the area of ​​Orich several times. However, now he has no time to build a new city. Therefore, when building the granary, Marin built a new city directly next to the old city. The new city is surrounded by a fence, and then it is full of granaries. In order to speed up the progress, Marin even built many adobe houses with shorter construction time and lower cost directly in the new city to temporarily store grain.

There are more than 80,000 Eugrams of arable land in East Friesland, and the total rye output reaches 500 million pounds. Most of them come from the manor owned by Marin. For the nobles, half of their own food was saved, and the other half chose to sell it to the Marin Chamber of Commerce. However, when Marin calculated, he was taken aback and found that it would cost more than 600,000 gold coins to buy about 60 million pounds of grain ...

So, Marin decisively chose to hit a white bar, first pay 10% of the purchase price, after the grain is sold, and then redeem the remaining 90%. Everyone understands this. After all, there was too much grain, and it was really difficult for Marin to take out more than 600,000 gold coins at once. Because although Marin makes more money, he spends more. Therefore, there is not much cash in hand. What's more, Columbus's spice boat has also returned. Everyone knows it. However, it takes time to sell the spices. However, no one is worried that those spices will not sell. With so many spices as a guarantee, no one was worried that Marin could not afford it. Moreover, many small nobles are willing to use spices to offset grain prices.

Then, Marin began to send Kohler to the previously established "North Sea Chamber of Commerce" and contacted the United Kingdom. He planned to dump the 60 million pounds of rye to Britain. After all, British rye is half the price of the German region. After Marin sold the acquired rye to the UK, he could not only pay off the remaining payment, but also make a fortune ...