Chapter 289： Continue immigration

The plan for the division of South and North in the Bishop of Münster was officially finalized. However, for the sake of local stability, Marin ’s army did not withdraw, but remained on the ground, deterring parties and avoiding confusion.

In addition, it is time for Bishop Conrad to recruit his army. After obtaining the right to use 80,000 Ugram's cultivated land, Bishop Conrad knew that his good day had come. Therefore, he will not be stingy with money, but intends to recruit two thousand reliable German mercenaries to protect his safety.

As for Marin's army? Bishop Conrad is not stupid. If he lives a year longer, Marin will lose an additional year of 80,000 Ugram's land harvest. Therefore, after the initial period of chaos, if the Bishop of Munster still relies on Marin's army, Marin may think of himself as a hindrance and find a way to hang himself in advance ...

Therefore, Bishop Conrad believes that he must have his own army to protect his own security and prevent his life and death from being in the hands of others. Therefore, after forcibly passing the land transfer bill, Bishop Conrad immediately entrusted his brother John to help him find a 2,000-person German mercenary to protect his safety.

When the situation stabilized, Bishop Conrad was certainly not happy that Marin ’s army was still in the South Munster area, otherwise, he would not be confident.

Of course, his 2000 army is only enough to protect himself, even if the 80 church knights are added, it is not enough to protect the security of the South Munster area. Therefore, Bishop Conrad and Marin had agreed on a long time ago-Marin left 2,000 troops stationed in the South Munster area, but outside the city of Münster. If foreign enemies invade, these 2,000 troops can temporarily hide in the city to participate in defense. But in peacetime, these 2,000 troops can only be stationed outside the city, acting as a deterrent.

In the North Münster area, Bishop Conrad fully authorized the new consul appointed by Marin, the old Kussen. In order to give Marin face, Bishop Conrad promoted the old Cucson's church rank as assistant bishop. Old Cucson ’s deputy, the Arnold priest who had served as finance minister, was also promoted to assistant bishop.

Then, old Cucson and Arnold, with 180 priests and 2,000 soldiers and horses provided by Marin, went to the capital of North Münster-Cloppenburg and began to take over the local government affairs. As for military affairs, it has nothing to do with them. After all, the North Münster area was on the edge of East Frisia Lambert, and Marin settled the troops casually, and it was solved.

As for the Bishop of Osnabruck, Marin transferred several civil servants from the country, and from the territory of the Bishop of Osnabruck, promoted a group of previously unwilling priests to manage together.

However, considering the topographical characteristics of the Bishop Osnabruck, Marin decided to compress the religious power of the Bishop Osnabruck into the southern city of Osnabruck and the surrounding areas. Most areas in the north are placed under the jurisdiction of the North Münster area to reclaim wasteland.

The city of Osnabrück is a small bishopric. The domestic church is not strong, and naturally has no courage to confront Marin. Under the leadership of Bishop Conrad, the former boss, Marin happily divided the majority of the Bishop's land in Osnabrück, leaving only one-third of the southern area for the church people to continue to toss. Similarly, Marin divided the Bishop of Osnabrück. However, in the southern third of Bishop Osnabrück's country, it was not handed over to Bishop Konrad. Instead, he sent some of the people he sent and the mansion of the local church. The two-thirds of the northern area is under the management of two old priests, Kusen and Arnold.

However, Kusen and Arnold are also very clear that they are only Marlin's last resort in the case of serious shortage of people. Therefore, they did not have a big idea, but asked Marin everywhere, and dared not make good claims.

For the cooperation of the two, Marin will naturally not be stingy. Therefore, Marin directly allocated two manors to them as a source of their benefits.

Each of these two estates has 500 eugrams of corn. At the beginning, the two were still a little lost. After all, according to the usual situation, the profit of 500 gram of rye field brought to them every year is like 50 pounds of rye per acre, 500 gram of gram is only 6000 acres, but the profit is only 300,000 pound Rye, the market value is based on the batch price of 0.8 Finney per pound, and the total value is only 4,000 gold coins, which is inconsistent with their palace-level status.

However, after Marin called them to spy on them, they were taken aback. Because, Marin told them that in East Friesland, the income per acre of land is about 400 pounds (net of costs) of rye, which is 8 times that of ordinary fields. In other words, 500 Ugram's estate can bring in 32,000 gold coins. Such a large income can buy a large area of ​​land, and it is still a year's income.

However, Marin also required them to swear that even family members should not reveal this secret. Otherwise, the end result is the family being chased and killed. Both of them signed the oath, and they both understood that Marin was not a kind person, and he absolutely said that he would do it. However, as long as they don't say anything, they can still make a fortune with a muffled voice. Although the profit field is only 500 Ugram, but the income is worth the others' 4000 Ugram. Say it ~ www.novelhall.com ~ No one believes. You know, even Bishop Conrad, his interest is only 10,000 Ugram. However, the real gain is only equivalent to that of East Friesland 1250 Ugram Land.

Speaking of which, Marin now has absolute control of about 70,000 Ugram land in the North Munster area and a total of 30,000 Ugram land in two-thirds of the North of the Bishop of Osnabruck. However, for the North Münster area and the North Osnabrück area of ​​up to about 6,000 square kilometers, this is only a quarter of the total area. In other words, most of the land has not been developed yet.

Moreover, most of the North Münster area and the northern part of the Osnabrück diocese are mostly plain areas with sufficient water resources, which is very suitable for reclamation.

The only restrictive condition is the shortage of local labor ...

After all, before the advent of the era of mechanization, humans cultivated the land. Without labor, it is impossible to cultivate enough land. Therefore, the feudal dynasties of the past generations regarded population as an important indicator of the prosperity of the country. Without a population, no amount of land is useless.

Therefore, even if he had acquired so much land, Marin would need to send people to the southern region to continue recruiting the surplus labor in those manors and turning them into serfs.

Of course, it is not difficult to recruit excess people in these estates. As long as "the bread is enough", countless idle serfs will flock. If you add the sentence "Bao Maomei", it is estimated that these people will go crazy ...

In this way, Kohler's men once again took their missions to the poor areas of the South to recruit excess labor in those manors and immigrated to North Münster. The slogan for soliciting these people is "bread is enough, three meals a day" ...