Chapter 632： Spring farming is short of labor

Don't think it's ridiculous to use milk powder as a military drink, but in fact, this was the case in Europe at that time. In the absence of other mass-produced beverages (milk tea is good, but now the tea is too expensive and scarce, not suitable for military supplies), milk powder is indeed a good drink for military officers. .

Because, at this time, Europe is a hierarchical society. If officers and soldiers are treated the same, the rules are broken. Not only will it be opposed by the nobility and the military ranks, but it will also make ordinary soldiers unmotivated.

If officers and soldiers are treated similarly, who would desperately strive for merit, seek promotion and become a noble officer? At the very beginning, Marin and his first group of people worked together to eat and live together ... that's no problem, because Marin was just a knight. His men were all recruits and did not feel anything wrong.

However, with the advancement of status and the large number of noble children becoming officers under Marin ’s command, if Marin wants to pursue equality again, then the officers under him are not happy first-we are desperate to become officers, is it to fight with those mud legs Do big soldiers get the same treatment? The role of officers is very important on the battlefield. Therefore, Marin gradually changed the same opinion of the previous life, and he did not eat and live with the soldiers. Those officers are treated differently from ordinary soldiers. For example, ordinary soldiers eat dark bread and occasionally eat some salted fish and meat. But the officers basically kept eating meat, and they could drink wine during the non-war period. Malin was worried that the soldiers had opinions, but in the end discovered that the soldiers took it for granted ... but if the treatment of officers and soldiers is the same, everyone feels strange ...

Marin was unable to challenge the entire social system, and eventually assumed the existence of hierarchy. Besides, he is also a beneficiary of the existence of hierarchy, why should he oppose it?

The lifestyle of the nobles and military officers of this era, Marin can only be described by the words of the Huafei Lady-"Bitch is hypocritical." In order to show their status, nobles and officers will wear brighter armor and clothing, showing the difference from ordinary soldiers. In terms of food, they have meat or salted fish (do n’t eat meat during fasting, only fish). Even the drink is very particular.

For example, even if the noble officers drink German national drink, beer, they must drink better beer brewed with hops, and they will never touch the sloppy civilian beer. Some more elite noble officers even drank only wine and not beer to show their dignity.

However, in wartime, the strict military discipline of the Marin Army is not allowed to drink alcohol. Moreover, it is not allowed to drink raw water, but drink plain boiled water uniformly.

This point has caused strong protests from noble army officers. Because, in their view, drinking boiled water like a mud-legged soldier is a decent behavior. However, Marin couldn't find any other non-alcoholic beverages (in other words, Europeans used wine and beer as daily beverages and never boiled water), so they had to do that first.

This time, Marin came up with this kind of milk powder that is very suitable for carrying. Although some are not in harmony, Schwartz's carefulness immediately listed it as a military-only drink for officers, which also met the requirements of officers Need.

Sure enough, after the launch of delicious milk powder, although those officers did not necessarily like milk powder, they finally made them think they had a face. At least, you do n’t have to drink boiled water with the big soldiers ... that ’s too faceless ...

Although Marin whispered in his heart, he felt that these guys were too hypocritical, but he was also reluctant to fight against the general trend alone, so he accepted this situation. Anyway, as long as those officers are satisfied. Moreover, the cost of milk powder is not high. As for the big-headed soldiers, they didn't feel anything, because, in their view, the officers should be treated well ...

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With the retirement of time, the time entered March. At this time, Chun Geng was also vigorously launched in the Grand Duchy of Beihai ...

However, there are some problems with spring farming-East Friesland, Oldenburg, Schleswig and North Münster, areas that have been controlled by Marin for a long time because of the sufficient preparation and sufficient labor , Spring ploughing is no problem. The problem lies mainly in the provinces of West Friesland, Bremen, and Jutland, which were brought into rule only at the end of last year ...

Why? Because these three new provinces have enough land, there is no shortage of cattle, but there is a serious lack of manpower. Therefore, spring cultivation in these three new provinces has been seriously affected.

Without enough people, there is no way to control those cattle. Under such circumstances, there is no amount of cultivated land in Marin. After all, farming cattle don't pull the plow to cultivate the land by themselves, they always need people to support the plow and control the direction, and they have to be middle-aged labor. Generally old people and women can't hold the plow, but that's individual work. In this era of no agricultural machinery, agricultural production and labor determine everything ...

Therefore, even if the three new regions of Marin, West Friesland, Bremen and Jutland, have acquired a lot of manors, they have been assigned a lot of new land. However, this year's spring cultivation, because of insufficient preparation, could not be fully cultivated ...

In fact, in the South Münster area, tens of thousands of prisoners of war were digging the canal there, and if Marin was willing, they could be brought to the farm for spring cultivation.

However, the problem is that these tens of thousands of prisoners of war, those soldiers, after the canal was dug, were to be returned to Switzerland, Brandenburg and Saxony. It's no problem to pull them for spring farming, but the secret of giving the cow a nose ring and the use of quyuan plows will definitely be taken away by these people. This is not in line with Marin's principle of confidentiality.

Therefore, Malinen could bear the shortage of labor force, and was reluctant to transfer tens of thousands of prisoners of war in the South Munster area to help spring farming. Without him, just to keep secret advanced agricultural technology ...

Moreover, the canal in the South Münster area is also extremely important to Marin. Once the canal is dug, Marin's hand can be stretched back to his hometown-Ruhr District ... Then, it is convenient to control the Ruhr District. At the same time, it is much more convenient to transport coal from the Ruhr area.

Therefore, regardless of confidentiality and strategic considerations, Marin cannot call the tens of thousands of prisoners of war digging the canal in the South Munster area. After all, those prisoners of war are to be returned ...

In desperation, Marin and his noble officers could only tolerate the fact that part of the land was not produced this year.

In this way, Marin and his nobles and officers could only focus on the present moment, and first sealed the provinces of East Friesland, Oldenburg and Schleswig (Marin, North Munster) Under his leadership, the problem of spring farming in the manor because of the small population there is not yet developed. Then, if the spring tillage ends early, you can also send people to the three new provinces to see if they can lift the tail of the crane and catch up with the last wave of spring tillage.

Moreover, in order to save costs, Marin decided to-grant the nobility to recruit serfs on their own, and encourage them to send people to the inland areas of Germany to recruit serfs and enrich their own land ...

Anyway, those nobles' fiefdoms do not have to pay taxes. Those serfs belong to the nobles. Although Marin had previously recruited a large population from the interior, he was divided by everyone. As a result, his own manpower is not enough.

Since the introduction of three new provinces and the addition of Malinte, many nobles have been sealed to the Jutland Peninsula. Today, including Marin, all nobles in East Friesland who have land in the three new provinces are very short of labor.

Among them, as the largest landowner, Marin has many manor houses vacant, and few people are very wasteful. Therefore, Marin is the biggest landlord of the North Sea Principality, which lacks the most labor.

However, when he went to the South to recruit labor, he had to divide up with his men after returning, which made Marin feel very tired. Therefore, under Kohler's suggestion this time, Marin decided to grant the nobles who had land in the three new provinces to recruit the serfs themselves.

After all, one person counts short, many people count long ... Everyone is mobilized, it is better than Marin to work hard to recruit people, and to divide with these guys ... to know that Marin is the most serf-deficit, Why do you want to split up with everyone?

Thus, as soon as this policy came out, Marin was equivalent to throwing away a burden. In the future, Kohler was responsible for recruiting serfs, who belonged to Marin's own estate. As for other nobles, everyone "the eight immortals show their magical powers across the sea". Anyway, no matter what means they use, Marin doesn't care. Everyone can use their own means. Who can dig up enough people can develop the newly sealed land ...

Of course, Marin has drawn a red line for them-it is forbidden to recruit private soldiers in the name of recruiting serfs ... others ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Marin does not care. Even if they were kidnapped from other princes, Marin would pretend not to know. As long as you don't know how to grab it, you can. Also, people cannot be dug from other manors in the country. After all, most of the country ’s estates are under the name of Marin. Digging people in China is equivalent to digging Marlin's corner ...

What Marin didn't expect was that because of his policy, the nobles had full firepower, and they used any means to dig people from other princely states. Even a gray industrial chain-human trafficking ...

Unlike ordinary human trafficking, ordinary human trafficking is aimed at women and children. And the human trafficking that Marin ’s men jointly produced was actually aimed at young men, which is very strange ... However, who is called the Grand Duchy of Beihai is too short of labor ...

Later, Marin even resorted to this underground organization of trafficking young men to get enough labor ... After all, this organization is very good at digging people, and can give the strong serfs who have done well in other people's estates to Fangyou. Great. Previously, Marin could only recruit those young and strong Germans who did not work hard. However, such people are limited after all. And this organization of abducting young men can directly dig people from manor houses in other countries, expanding the source of labor. At least, it has a much wider source of recruiting people than Kohler ... because there are working serfs, which are the main part of the German population ...