Chapter 331： Good harvest

马 When Marin participated in the trial trial of Huffman 1 on the North Sea, the autumn harvest of East Friesland was in full swing.

This year's autumn harvest is not much different from last year. Although it is said that Marin organized more than 10,000 laborers from Saxony to dig trenches and drain canals, draining swamps, and using them as good fields. However, it took a long time to develop the swamp into farmland. Therefore, during the spring plowing, Marin only added 3,000 acres of cultivated land. By October, those workers had actually reclaimed 20,000 Ugram farmland, but they were only completed in the fall, and they could not grow crops in time. They had to wait until spring plowing next year. Therefore, together with the autumn harvest, there were only 3,000 newly cultivated lands in Eugram.

The difference between last year and last year is that during the autumn harvest last year, Marin still had 60,000 Yougrams in his hands, and nobles and soldiers had 25,000 Yougrams. However, after the Battle of Lyle County last year, Marin sealed off another 10,000 Yougram, resulting in that he now has only 50,000 Yougram left.

The arable land of the aristocrats and soldiers produced 168 million pounds of rye. Among them, they took out half, or 84 million pounds, to sell to Marin Organization.

Marlin continued to sell these rye to England. However, because of the large volume, the price of English rye fell by 0.1 pence per pound.

Umarin learned from the Jewish merchants employed by his men that the most expensive food in this era was actually Spain. In general, the price of rye in the German region is 1 fenny per pound; in England it is 1.5 pence per fenny per pound; in France it is 1.2 fenny per pound; in Spain during the same period it was 2 fenny per pound.

The reason why this is so is that although Spain has a large territory, most areas are plateaus. Only 11% of the country's land is located in the plains below 200 meters above sea level. Only in these plains do agricultural activities occur. Moreover, these 11% of the plains are not all cultivated into farmland.

So, Spain looks big, but the area of ​​arable land is not much. Coupled with a large population, food prices are more expensive. It is very cost-effective to send food to Spain for sale.

It happened that two new 250-class armed merchant ships were also completed. Marin simply sent the two ships south, carrying 660,000 pounds (about 300 tons) of rye, to Spain to test the water. After all, selling a higher price is also very beneficial for Marin. After all, when the nobles and soldiers in the country sold rye to Marin, they only had a wholesale price of 0.8 Finney per pound. When Marin sold rye to Britain, he charged 1.2 fennie per pound. Even though the price dropped to 1.1 Finneys per pound because of the large volume, Marin was still very profitable. If you sell to Spain with a higher price, the price of at least 1.5 Finneys per pound of rye per pound. That way, the profits will be even greater ...

As for more rye produced in Marin's own land, he did not sell it. Because tens of thousands of people have increased in East Frisian this year, Marin will use these rye to support these new populations.

In October, the accounts between Marin and the Principality of Saxony were settled. The Duke of Saxony paid one million Gulden coins and sent more than 40,000 of the 18,000 Saxon young family belonging to Marin.

In other words, Marin's East Frisian Land has suddenly increased the population by almost 60,000, reaching a huge population of more than 140,000 ...

Fortunately, Marin had a foresight and did not sell the grain in his territory last year and this year's grain, which is enough for the consumption of so many people. Moreover, it seems to be sufficient.

After all, the grain reserves of last year and this year amounted to more than 500 million pounds, with an average of more than 3,000 pounds per person. In fact, 500 pounds of rye per person per year is not bad. In fact, after bread is mixed with wild vegetables, sawdust, and dirt, 500 pounds of bread can be more than 300 pounds of rye. Therefore, food is very abundant.

However, Marin does not dare to ship too much now. Because, in this way, the secret of high grain production in East Frisian Land cannot be hidden.

This is a terrible secret, enough to drive any landlord with a lot of madness. Therefore, Ma Linning can make less money and do not want people to see the clue.

Therefore, Marin of his men has arranged to sell to the United Kingdom, and sold under the name of the North Sea Chamber of Commerce and other Dutch Chambers of Commerce, it is not clear to the bottom of East Friesland.

However, because of information provided by his Jewish merchants, Marin found that Spain has more food needs than Britain and relies on imports all year round. In previous years, Spain transported a large amount of food from the colony of Sicily, the "golden basin", and imported a large amount of food from neighboring France.

After learning this news, Marin planned to open the Spanish food trade route. Not only to make money by themselves, but also to rob the French.

Of course, after intending to grab the Spanish food market with the French, Marin sent people to order a lot of Kirk sailing ships, intending to use old ships to transport food, and will no longer use 250 class merchant ships to transport food.

At the same time, Marin intends to let those Kirk sailing ships flaunt the maritime powers of the Netherlands, Britain, Denmark, etc., to confuse the French, and avoid letting the French know that they are digging their corners ...

After sending someone out to inquire further, Marin also found a shocking news that the Italian region is also short of food ...

It turned out that although the Italian region is an important source of food. But since 1494, the outbreak of the Italian war has caused the flames of fire in the Italian region to endlessly. A large number of ordinary people fled, which resulted in a lot of deserted fields.

Coupled with the French army's invasion of Italy in the past two years, agricultural production in many places in Italy has almost stopped.

Therefore, this year's Italian food prices are even higher than in Spain. In order to get enough food, the Italians imported food on a large scale from German regions such as Austria. This is not enough. Venetian merchant ships also go to Egypt and Poland and Lithuania on the northern shore of the Black Sea to import large amounts of food.

Even so, because of the large shortage of food and the continuation of the war, Italy still starved many people this year ...

Despite Marin's vigorous blockade of the news, people abroad did not know about the great grain harvest in East Frisian, but people in East Frisian could not hide it. Among them, who found that the grain of East Frisian Land was abnormally rich, Archbishop Rovere, Marin's father-in-law ...

During the autumn harvest, Archbishop Rovere took two followers from the remote island residence to the upper reaches of the land. After observation, it was found that the farmland in East Frisian Land had abnormally high grain production. At least, barrels and baskets for food (Europeans used to load things in the Middle Ages were more accustomed to barrels and baskets, the famous unit of measurement for wheat, quart, is a unit of volume), more than in Italy. This shows that the grain yield per capita in East Friesland exceeds that of Italy.

This caused the bishop of Rovere to be extremely shocked. You know, the Italian region has always been the most developed place in Europe, and the yield has always been higher than in other parts of Europe.

And ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Even in Italy, the areas with high yields are only those with more volcanic ash soil. The average yield is not much higher in other regions.

However, according to the observation of Archbishop Rovere, the yield of rye in East Friesland is probably higher than that in Italy's richest volcanic ash soil region ...

This aroused his great interest, so Archbishop Rovere took the initiative to find the son-in-law of Marin ...

When Marin learned that Archbishop Rovere knew the secret of the extremely high grain output in East Frisian, for a moment, he was almost stunned and almost wanted to wipe out the old man's mouth. But he quickly reacted—this special code was Lao Zhangren, and he was counting on him to be the Pope to cover himself ...

Archbishop Rovere was also in his heart. From the fierce light that erupted in the eyes of Marin, he knew that his son-in-law was not a good stubble. Therefore, he also put an end to exploring the secrets of high-yield food from his son-in-law.

Eventually, Marin once again gave Lao Zhangren 100,000 gold coins for activities, allowing Lao Zhangren to buy more manpower in the Pope's country in preparation for his return to Rome.

But as soon as he turned his head, Marin sent someone to arrest two followers who traveled with the Laozhangren during the autumn harvest, which permanently restricted their freedom. Because, Marin believed that the old man would not reveal the secrets of East Frisian, but he believed the two followers who also knew the secret ...

Although Archbishop Rovere was dissatisfied, he could not help it. Who told him that he was under a fence now? Fortunately, only his followers, who were not important figures, knew the secrets of East Frisian's very high yield. Others (especially the most important followers) were still on the Frisian Islands and did not follow. Get up on land. Otherwise, Marin might have lost all the people around him ...