Chapter 558： The colony also harvested

Before the Industrial Revolution began, the autumn harvest was so important that it was almost the lifeblood of a country ’s economy. An incorrect autumn harvest may lead to famine and political instability. Therefore, for the autumn harvest, Marin sent most of the soldiers to participate in the autumn harvest. Only tens of thousands of prisoners of war in South Munster did not participate in the autumn harvest. Because it is not important to dig through the canal that connects the Rhine.

In this era of backward transportation, roads and rivers are also important ways to expand power. In China in the 19th century, the British passed the important waterway of the Yangtze River and used warships to reach into the Yangtze River basin. The Russians, through the world-famous Siberian Railway, stretched their hands from faraway Europe to the northeast.

However, the Siberian Railway opened to traffic too late and was only opened to traffic in 1916, while Tsarist Russia was finished in 1917. But this railway also brought convenience to the later Soviet Union. Therefore, in 1905, Tsarist Maozi defeated in the Northeast, but the Soviet Union won in the battle of Nomenham. This is not to say how powerful the Soviet army is. In fact, the Soviet army has more casualties than the Japanese. It's just that because of the Siberian Railway, there are so many Soviet people and they don't care about casualties. Therefore, the devil chose to admit decisively. Moreover, later generations Stalin supported the founding of Outer Mongolia, but he did not want to return it to China because Outer Mongolia was close to the Siberian Railway. As long as the Siberian Railway is cut off, the Soviet Union will completely lose control of the Far East. What is outside Xing'an Mountains has nothing to do with the Soviet Union. This is why the next generation, the polar bear king Putin, still attaches great importance to Outer Mongolia, why weep crocodile tears in Outer Mongolia ......

If Huaxia really wants to capture the Waixing'an Mountains, it must first obtain Outer Mongolia. It can cut off the Siberian Railway at any time ... Of course, it is unlikely. Later generations are already in the age of nuclear weapons. If you want to grab so many sites, you have to eat a nuclear bomb. This assumption is based on the premise of conventional war. If the factors of nuclear weapons are set aside, as long as Huaxia seizes Outer Mongolia and cuts off the Siberian Railway, Mao Zi will lose control of the Far East ...

Far away, the above paragraph just shows the importance of transportation. Marin wants to reach into the Ruhr area and must get through the traffic line with the Ruhr area. The waterway traffic is currently the most suitable.

Although the Rhine is an important channel in Germany, it has a fatal flaw-the estuary is in the Netherlands ...

As long as the Dutch block the estuary, inland navigation will collapse. Therefore, in later generations, the Germans built a lot of canals. What is the Sino-German Canal, Dortmund-Ames Canal ... Of course, the Kiel Canal is indispensable ... This pile of canals connects and connects the northern plains of Germany. The sea has facilitated the transportation of important industrial strategic resources such as coal and iron ore. Moreover, even in later generations, the cost of canal transportation is still lower than that of rail transportation, which is the preferred mode of transportation for bulk cheap goods.

The Münster Canal that Marin is building is actually a simplified version of the Dortmund-Ames Canal in later generations. Mainly, the distance is shortened and the river channel is narrowed. However, the effect is similar, that is-connecting the Rhine and the Ames, and directly to the North Sea. The main function of the Sino-German Canal is to horizontally connect the Ames River, Weser River and Elbe River to form a three-dimensional waterway transportation network.

It can be said that as long as the Münster canal is dug, Marin can reach out to the Rhine and let Emden become the estuary of merchant ships on the Rhine. As a result, Emden ’s economy is difficult to take off.

It is precisely for this reason that at such an important time as the autumn harvest, Marin did not stop the excavation of the Münster Canal, at most let the construction army not affect the autumn harvest in the South Münster area.

Because he was busy with the autumn harvest, Marin's soldiers' rewards were not available for statistics and distribution. It will not be until the end of the autumn harvest that the question of war statistics and final rewards will be resumed.

Because of the autumn harvest, the armed conflicts in various countries have been suspended. Why? Although the armies of various countries are mainly mercenaries, they do not necessarily need to participate in the autumn harvest. However, the people who serve the mercenaries must participate in the autumn harvest. Otherwise, the labor force will be insufficient. Delaying the autumn harvest hits every country hard. Only a commercial country like Venice will not pay much attention to the autumn harvest. Because the citizens of the country are basically businessmen, or they are the sailors who serve the businessmen, and there are very few farms.

The same is true of Lubeck and Hamburg, they are Hanseatic cities. However, after the Principality of Holstein was acquired in the last war, they only had a lot of farmland under their rule.

But what made Marin speechless was that although Lübeck and Hamburg divided the Principality of Holstein, both cities focused their attention on several cities in the Principality of Holstein. They made great efforts to divide them into several cities in their own hands and developed them into commercial and prosperous cities. But for the vast rural areas, the two Hanseatic cities are actually unnoticed. Anyway, rural estates can't collect taxes. Lubeck and Hamburg, two Hanseatic cities, simply let the country's estate owners engage in parliamentary autonomy, don't come to the city's idea ...

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This fall, not only the locals are making big harvests, but Marin ’s colonies in the Americas are actually making big harvests. Moreover, because of the low latitude, the autumn harvest in the Americas is earlier than in Europe. Especially in Grenada, because it is in the tropics, the autumn harvest is actually long ago. No, because Grenada is a tropical island, there is no concept of spring, summer, autumn and winter, and no concept of autumn harvest. It ’s time for others to reap, regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter ...

In fact, as early as spring, Grenada sent a ship to return a ship of **** and sugar, and another ship of rice. However, at that time, Marin had already led troops to go out and did not receive this "filial piety".

At the time of the autumn harvest in the country, Grenada harvested another crop of **** and sugar cane, and brought a boat of **** and sugar to return.

This time, Marin just received this "filial piety", naturally happy. You know, this year, because the Indian route has just opened, and the sugar cane cultivation in Portugal and Spain is still small. Therefore, the price of **** and sucrose is very high.

Moreover, **** is actually a spice in this year, and the price is close to pepper. In the European market, **** does not have the high price of 10 shillings per pound as pepper, but it also has 8-9 shillings per pound (2 shillings per pound in the early Middle Ages, but as prices rose and Turkey rose, prices rose. After Portugal opened the Indian route, it began to fall back). Even in the time of Elizabeth I, the Indian route was opened for many years, **** is still expensive, and ginger-flavored cakes were still high-end food of the court at that time ...

Originally, Marin did not have a cold for the **** and sucrose filled with the boat. Especially cane sugar, because it does not have the yellow mud method of China, it is made black and darker than brown sugar. Therefore, Marin has no interest in those brown sugars (which can be called, it seems that there are also brown sugars in history). However, children can't stand eating it. Disregarding Marin's warning, Little Caesar stole brown sugar and licked sticky fingers after eating ...

Marin was furious and dragged Little Caesar over for a pp. He was so good, eating sugar is bad for children's teeth. There is so much brown sugar in the house. If you let this kid steal sugar, it will definitely be bad for your teeth.

Moreover, as a large aristocratic family, there is obviously honey in the family, and the bear child has to steal the unqualified brown sugar, it is simply to give up the white buns to eat grass bran ...

However, to Marin's surprise, not only little Caesar likes to eat brown sugar, but also the noble children of other families. Even those women like to eat brown sugar. It seems that brown sugar is a high-end thing ...

Marin finally woke up-he was used to white sugar in later generations, he couldn't look at this kind of brown sugar, but in this era, European turtles, like this kind of low-purity brown sugar, but also as a baby ...

The price of sucrose on the market now ~ www.novelhall.com ~ also exceeds 3 shillings per pound. Until later Spain spawned sugar cane on a large scale in the Americas, the British sugar price seemed to have 1 shilling and 6 pence per pound. The wholesale price of British merchants and Spanish is 1 shilling per pound ...

That is to say, the full **** and brown sugar are all high-end goods ...

Before, Marin was worried that he had no money to reward his soldiers. It ’s no problem to reward them with war horses, and reward them with second-hand weapons and armor.

So, Marin decided to learn the methods of the Chinese New Year and the Chinese New Year, pack the **** and brown sugar in oil paper bags produced by Cape Breton Island, as a reward, match those second-hand weapons and armor, and give them to the soldiers as a reward ...

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