Chapter 634： Margaret County Lord ’s suggestion

If someone carefully looks at the enlarged satellite map, they will find a phenomenon-that is, the areas where agriculture is developed are generally vertical and horizontal, and they are very regular.

Those rivers cut the developed agricultural areas into small squares, very neat. In one word, it is "gridded".

Now in East Friesland, under the leadership of Marin, a large amount of labor is used to dig irrigation rivers during agricultural slack, and the "grid" of the ditch has been initially achieved. Therefore, agriculture in East Friesland is now very developed.

However, this is difficult to duplicate. It's not that no merchants from other princely states have discovered the secrets of East Friesland digging a lot of irrigation rivers. It's just useless if found ...

You know, digging irrigation rivers, but it is a huge project, usually involves the organization of thousands or even tens of thousands of strong men to participate together. There are not many people, but the food consumption when digging rivers is several times that of usual. This problem is very big ...

Food in Europe is so expensive now, even if the strong men digging the river do not have to pay, but the consumption of the food is really painful. For example, a strong man, if he does n’t work very much, it is enough to eat more than one pound of food a day. Those who eat more than two pounds are considered to have a big stomach, because the consumption is not large.

However, in such occasions as digging rivers, the appetite of those strong men increased sharply. General Zhuang Ding can eat more than 3 pounds of food and consume a lot. In this way, 10,000 strong soldiers consume more than 30,000 pounds of food every day when digging a river. If it is converted into rye, it will cost 30,000 fenny, which is equivalent to 500 gold coins! If digging for a month, but the consumption of food, it will cost 15,000 gold coins ... too exaggerated ...

Of course, the food for the farmers who dig the river cannot be whole wheat. If you switch to a general nobility, you may be mixed with a lot of soil, wild vegetables, wood chips and even stones ... you can give your teeth a bit when you eat stones ... that kind of bread, because too much soil is mixed, it is very hard and can be used Breaking people with bricks ...

The bread given by Marin is better and softer, but it is also doped with about 30% ryegrass straw. At the beginning, the reason why Kohler strongly demanded the promotion of this kind of "Kehler bread" doped with straw bran was because he was distressed by the huge consumption of food. If 30% of the three pounds of food per day of the strong man is straw bran, then 0.9 pounds of rye can be saved. With 10,000 strong men, you can save 9,000 pounds of rye every day, that is, save 9,000 fenny or 150 gold coins ... So, Marin would only agree that Kohler uses this kind of unethical bread.

However, after all, this "Kohler bread" doped with 30% straw bran is already a food of conscience for the poor. After all, it does not gritt and is easy to digest. Moreover, coarse grains are also nutritious, at least much better than doped soil and stones ...

Although those black-hearted aristocrats mixed a lot of mess in the bread, they could save a lot of food. However, in any case, it took a month to organize tens of thousands of people to dig the river, and the cost of food input was also worth thousands of gold coins.

But the problem is that most nobles in Germany can't afford such consumption. After all, most of the nobility owe debts. Where can we organize the Zhuangding to dig rivers on a large scale?

Marin is different, because it has the secret of high yield of food, Marin has very sufficient food, and supplies the strong men to eat when they dig the river. Therefore, the construction of East Friesland water conservancy is very smooth. Now, the three areas of Oldenburg, Schleswig and North Münster have also dug many rivers for irrigation. Even if other nobles want to imitate, they must have the financial resources and courage.

Because of the tight time, from March onwards, spring cultivation in the Principality of the Northern Grand Principality can only give priority to the provinces of East Friesland, Oldenburg, Schleswig and North Münster. As for the newly joined provinces of West Friesland, Bremen and Jutland, as well as South Münster Province, which is not under the control of Marin, Marin can only temporarily give up, allowing it to follow the original extensive cultivation Engage. It is not necessary for these places to be able to produce high-yield food, as long as they do not need Malin to help.

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While Marin was busy plowing, suddenly information came from England that Henry VII was planning to send troops north and reoccupy several counties in the north. Even the military barracks were built, and food supplies began to gather. When the spring ploughing is over, you can deploy the people and the army, and Henry VII will immediately go north and reoccupy the north ...

The information came from the Countess of Salisbury, the sister of Margaret County, Edward's sister. Earlier, the Margaret Lord had not discovered this situation. After all, Henry VII didn't make preparations before, just discussed with a few ministers.

In fact, Sir Richard Ball, husband of Margaret County Lord, as a close associate of Henry VII, knew the plan to send troops. It is a pity that Richard Ball and his wife Margaret are not the same, and they also guard against their wives. Therefore, the former Margaret Lord was unaware of Henry VII's plan to send troops to the Northern Expedition.

However, after the Spring Festival, Henry VII began to gather soldiers, horses, and grain. The movement was too great, and it was difficult to hide it. Lord Margaret felt abnormal, sent someone to investigate, and spent a huge price, and finally learned that Henry VII was about to go northward.

According to Henry VII ’s plan, the British army will send 15,000 troops north to bypass Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Lincolnshire, which are messed up by thieves and refugees, directly from the west of England. Go north, so as not to delay the warplane.

As for the place where the army is assembled, it is Warwickshire, southwest of Leicestershire. Ironically, according to law, Warwickshire should have been Edward's enclave ...

And Edward, the Earl of Warwick, is now ready to kill Edward VII of Henry VII ...

Henry VII closed Edward for more than ten years, and naturally deprived Edward of his fiefs and sent his cronies to take over. Therefore, although Warwickshire was Edward's enclave, it is now the site of Henry VII, and the location of the rear camp where Henry VII's army headed north.

Although due to spring cultivation, neither the English soldiers nor the Zhuang could be mobilized. However, Henry VII still mobilized a group of non-farmer strong men (such as herdsmen grazing sheep) and began to build camps in Warwickshire and deliver grain and grass.

When the spring tillage is over, those British soldiers and soldiers recruited from all over the world can live directly in the large camp where they have been repaired, and the food can be directly prepared by Henry VII.

According to Margaret County Lord ’s estimate, the Warwick County camp will be repaired by the end of March. In addition, according to secret information, the food and grass needed by the British army will be basically in place by the end of March, waiting for the British army to come over and use it.

The Margaret Lord knew that the Robin Hood Rogue and Marin were related, and that Marin and Edward's army would also attack in early May. However, in order to make Edward's military operations smoother, the Margaret County Lord believed that-before the British assembled, the Robin Hood Rogue should be sent to attack the British Battalion in Warwickshire and burn the grain. Moreover, the best time is in late April, on the eve of the British military assembly.

As a result, the British army had to raise food and grass again, and military operations would be greatly delayed. Edward's army will go south as scheduled. One is well-prepared, one is not-prepared, and the fool knows who will win ...

Marin was surprised by Margaret County Master ’s information. Of course, what surprised him was Margaret County Master ’s suggestion-this is clearly a capable female politician! I actually knew that the food and grass prepared by Henry VII was destroyed ~ www.novelhall.com ~ This is the vision that only the ancient Chinese scholars ...

The Robin Hood Rogue Group now estimates that there are seven or eight thousand full members, all young and strong. Moreover, there is a 900-person horse team. If you just burned the grass before the British army assembled, it is the best choice to dispatch that 900-person horse team ...

So, for the Margaret County Master ’s suggestion, Marin gave an affirmative answer, and sent someone to order the Robin Hood Bandit Group to let them start exploring the road and prepare for the British army camp in Warwickshire, Benxi . At the same time, Marin will prepare them with the oil drums needed to burn the grain and grass-pour the oil on the grain and it will burn faster ...

However, with this suggestion, Marin was even more afraid of Margaret Lord. To be sure, Edward will be in power in the future, and the sister of Margaret County, Edward ’s sister, will become the superstar of the English court. This is not a good thing for Marin's future control of England. Therefore, Marin was murderous to Margaret Lord, a clever woman ...

Of course, Marin would not send someone to assassinate Margaret Lord. In fact, as long as he sent someone to tell Henry VII what the Margaret Lord had done, Henry VII would surely hack her. Not to mention, as long as Henry VII knew that Edward had been replaced by the Margaret County Master, he would definitely be very angry. It is estimated that the idea of ​​marring Margaret County Master would be ...