While preparing to build the paper mill and salt cooking center on Cape Breton Island, Marin discovered that robbing the 150 Kirk sailboats assigned by Denmark was really helpful. Whether it was transporting people or cargo, nothing was wrong in front of 150 Kirk sailboats.
However, the ship is not a problem, the sailor becomes a problem...
Mainly, 150 Kirk sailboats, each of which requires 20 to 40 sailors. In this way, these 150 sailboats require at least 5,000 sailors.
The East Friesland Country where Marin is located can only recruit about 4,000 young fishermen. Moreover, these 4,000 people have been divided up by 8 warships, 15 250-class warships and 17 Karak sailing ships, a total of 40 ships (including gunners). In other words, the sailor gap between those captured Danish merchant ships has reached about 3,000.
Fortunately, the coastal areas of the Oldenburg-Bern and the Yevre region that Marin acquired were mostly Friesians. Even the west coast of the Principal of Schleswig and the Dietmarshen region were mostly Friesian fishermen.
Therefore, Marin planned to recruit young Friesian fishermen to serve as sailors and steer these merchant ships in the Yevre region, along the coast of Oldenburg and the west coast of the Principal of Schleswig.
To this end, Marin recruited five people who stayed in the capital Orich from the "Thirteen Taibao" recruited at the University of Cologne three years ago (nickname for the first batch of 13 University of Cologne recruits).
Then, with the help of these five college students, Marin formulated the famous "Sailors Priority Act". In the future, this bill provides Marin with a large number of sailors, causing a large number of Marin's warships to roam around the world, scaring the pirates...
The bill stipulates that the tax rate for ordinary fishermen is 30% of the catch (the church's tithe is not included), and the salt used for pickling and salted fish that are paid as taxes can be reimbursed, but cannot be prepaid.
However, if a young man in the family serves the navy as a sailor or serves the merchant ship under Marin's name, the tax rate for the whole family will be reduced to 20% during his service. Moreover, the family can prepare the salt needed to pickle salted fish. If he dies in battle, the preferential policy will be extended for 10 to 20 years, depending on the age of the deceased.
In addition, the policy of the bank that Marin originally organized to support fishermen, that is, the bank that provides loans to poor fishermen to buy large fishing boats, has also changed, and it was announced in the "Sailors Priority Act" that from now on, loans will be provided to families with young and strong families serving the navy or directly serving merchant ships under Marin's name. Families without young and strong families serving the navy and Marin's merchant ships will no longer enjoy the policy of loans.
The enactment of the Sailors' Priority Act symbolizes that Marin divided fishermen into two types - those who served Marin (including those who served Marin) and those who did not serve Marin.
Fishermen who serve Marin will enjoy various discounts and can also borrow money to buy large fishing boats to increase income. They can also pre-fund salt for pickling salted fish (this is very important, because there is no enough salt, you cannot pickle enough salted fish. In this way, no matter how much fish is beaten, if there is not enough salt, some fish will only rot).
Fishermen's families who do not serve Marin will become ordinary taxpayers. If they want to buy large fishing boats, they can only rely on their own ability to bear it. However, the profit of selling salted fish is very low. If they want to save enough money to buy new large fishing boats, God knows the Year of the Monkey and Horse Month. The policy of buying fishing boats with loans will not benefit them from them in the future. Moreover, they cannot prepare salt for pickling salted fish, so they can only pay for salt for pickling salted fish. If they don't have enough money and cannot buy enough salt, even if there is too much fish, it will be a waste. Because there is no salt for pickling.
From then on, as time goes by, the fishermen's family who have sailors serving Marin will get better and better. Although the family who have no sailors serving Marin will live a better life than before being ruled by Marin, it will not be much better.
The biggest difference between the two is the qualification to buy a large fishing boat with a loan and whether you can prepare salt. Only with a larger fishing boat can the harvest be greater. Prepare salt can allow fishermen to have enough salt to pickle salted fish. Otherwise, if you don’t have enough salt, even if you have a large fishing boat, it will be useless to catch a lot of fish. Without enough salt, the extra fish will only rot and smell...
Although there was no forced recruitment of young and strong fishermen as sailors, after the promulgation of the Sailor Priority Act, it will use its interests to force young and strong fishermen families to rush to serve the Navy and Marin's fleet.
Moreover, the Sailors' Priority Act is actually aimed at the newly controlled Yevre region, the coast of Oldenburg, and the west coast of the Principal of Schleswig. As for Diet Marshen... Well, the last time there was a deal between the two sides, Marin allowed them to govern themselves...
In these areas, the total number of Friesian fishermen is estimated to reach about 40,000, which is a huge number. It should not be a problem to recruit five or six thousand sailors...
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During the formulation and enactment of the Sailor Priority Act, Marin naturally sought the opinions of Americo, who was helping Marin train the captain at the Captain's School.
Yamerico has no objection to the new bill, but has his own opinions on the 150 merchant ships seized from Denmark.
The ships docked at the newly built pier near Emden, and Americo visited them. He believed that among these 150 ships, only the 60 Kirk sailboats with displacement of more than 200 tons were worth for ocean navigation. Others with displacement of less than 200 tons were still dangerous to sail on the Atlantic Ocean.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Moreover, with Marin's current trade scale, even those 60 Kirk sailboats with a capacity of more than 200 tons may not be used, let alone the 90 Kirk sailboats with a capacity of less than 200 tons...
Marlin suddenly felt embarrassed...
He thought about using all the 150 seized ships, but he never considered the trade volume of the chamber of commerce under his name, whether it could use so many ships...
Even 60 merchant ships with a capacity of more than 200 tons are very terrifying. Because, the total capacity of these 60 ships will reach more than 7,000 tons at a time... Does Marin have so many cargoes to transport? The answer is no...
So Marin finally selected the 60 Kirk sailboats with a capacity of more than 200 tons and formed a ship company controlled by him for trade transportation and troop transport. Of course, he was also responsible for transportation between the local and colonies.
As for the 90 small boats with displacements below 200 tons...
"Or what, you should sell them to eligible fishermen as big fishermen in the 'Fishermen Loan Buy Big Boats' project?" Americo suggested.
A ship worth more than a dozen tons may be considered a small boat in the ocean trade. However, in the eyes of those Friesian fishermen, it is definitely a big boat. They have the conditions to go to the depths of the North Sea to fish, rather than now, most Friesian fishermen are still using a boat worth more than a dozen tons to fish in the offshore... Even in later generations, fishing boats with a displacement of more than a dozen tons cannot be considered small...
After thinking about it, Marin finally made a decision:
"A good idea, that's it. I plan to send 20 of these 90 ships to Cape Breton Island and Twin Islands, and send a group of fishermen to participate in fishing. As for the other 70 ships, they will be sold at a discount to those fishermen who meet the loan conditions and buy large ships with loans!"
In this way, Marin decisively disposes of 90 "boats" with a displacement of less than 200 tons, and only retains 60 Kirk sailboats with a displacement of more than 200 tons, as the newly established "Hoffman Shipping Company".
In this way, the problem of insufficient sailors that Marin was originally worried about was immediately solved. Because two-thirds of the ships were cut off, and the remaining one-third of the ships were completely enough with the existing sailors, and it happened to be enough...
In fact, Marin looked down on these 60 Kirk sailboats above 200 tons. Because, in his mind, the Garen ship with a capacity of more than 500 tons is the most suitable merchant ship. However, now he does not have any Garen ships. The only few are still warships.
Only when enough Garen ships are built can the Kirk sailing boats be replaced slowly. The eliminated Kirk sailing boats are cheaply handled to those fishermen who meet the conditions, which is also a very good way. In this way, it can also support the development of the fishery.
Chapter completed!