In the autumn of 1515, there was a golden lot everywhere. The Beihai Kingdom welcomed another great harvest. This year, the emergence of Prade plow trucks, sirloin trucks and marina, the arable land area of ​​Beihai Kingdom increased from 12 million mu to 15 million mu.
However, there was no increase in the tithes of cultivated land. Because the Holy See had confirmed with Marin that it was only tithes according to the standard of 12 million mu. Moreover, it was tithesized according to the standard of 150 pounds per mu, that is, tithes of 15 pounds per mu.
Of course, if you encounter natural disasters, you can also reduce the amount. Also, you only need to send half of the tithe to Rome, and the other half will be used by the North Sea Church.
In fact, even if you only give half of the tithe to Rome, it would be very scary. Because, 12 million acres of rye, 15 pounds per acre, totaling 180 million pounds, and half of it would be 90 million pounds!
According to the current grain price in Germany, if you count one Finney per pound, it is 90 million Finney, equivalent to 1.5 million gold coins! This batch of grain is enough for 200,000 people to eat for a year! Moreover, if you can consume more than one pound of rye flour every day (generally, the black bread that ordinary people eat can contain half of the flour, which is considered high-end. Ordinary farmers eat more than half of the black sticks, soil, stones, wood chips, wild vegetables and other ingredients). According to the way ordinary farmers eat, these grains are not a problem to feed 500,000 people!
The food originally produced by the Pope could meet most of the domestic needs, so the extra food was actually the financial income of the Holy See, at least hundreds of thousands of gold coins...
You should know that those who pay tithes to the Holy See as honestly as Marin has almost disappeared in Europe. Those who dare to bully the Holy See not only do not give tithes to the Holy See, but also levy taxes to the French church in turn, which is extremely awesome.
Although Spain and Britain are not as arrogant as France, they often make various excuses and bribe the cardinals in charge of the dioceses of the two countries, relying on most of the tithes and paying a little symbolically...
The only ones who really pay tithes are probably the bishops in Germany. It’s not that they would rather do so, but that the bishops’ power belongs to the Holy See, and those bishops dare not refuse to pay. But even so, these bishops will still take advantage of the odds and bribe the Roman cardinal who is responsible for collecting tithes taxes, deliberately reduce the amount of tithes taxes, and then privately divide the tithe shares... In the end, these bishops can send a quarter of the tithe to Rome, which is considered very honest...
There is no way, the atmosphere is like this, and Marin can pay so many tithes taxes, which is the first in Europe. As for Marin's request for a fixed tithe, the church people also know that there is something wrong with it. However, everyone is messing around, Marin is the most honest. Therefore, no one will find Marin's fault in this regard. Whoever dares to find fault, Marin will compete with him for whom's tithes pays more... As long as it is opened, even major countries such as Britain, France and Spain cannot compare with Marin...
Therefore, even if Malin reclaimed 3 million acres of land and did not pay extra tithes, no one would make a fuss about this. Because others did more than Malin. Do a murderer dare to report the thief? Don't dare! If you dare to do this, you will die first...
Malin did not take over the additional 3 million acres of land, but distributed one-third to his nobles. In other words, Malin occupied 2 million acres and his subordinates divided 1 million acres. Well, this is very consistent with the principle of dividing spoils of the counterfeit bandits - the boss took the big head, and the remaining brothers divided again...
The head of Ma Da... Oh, it was King Ma who was willing to give one-third of his subordinates, which was quite kind. After all, the homeless land in China belonged to her, the grand duke. His approval was required for the newly reclaimed land.
In order to suppress grain production and avoid too much food, Malin was still ahead of the market for hundreds of years, and introduced the Environmental Protection Law to restrict deforestation and protect the soil and water. However, the reason for protecting forests is a terrible one - it is to ensure the hunting rights of the nobles... However, in this era, this broken reason is actually tenable...
There is no way, this is an aristocratic era. The enjoyment of the nobles is even more important than the life and death of the common people...
In fact, Marin did not completely restrict the increase of arable land, but deliberately suppressed the increase of local arable land. After all, he still had a huge America to be reclaimed. If the land was reclaimed too much, no one would be willing to reclaim wasteland in the Americas.
Therefore, Marin's attitude is very clear - the increase in local arable land must be approved, otherwise it will be confiscated. However, Marin encouraged land reclamation in the Kingdom of America. Even offered various preferential conditions. For example, civilians who reclaimed land in the past can become landlords. Of course, the premise is that they must pay taxes to the official. In addition to the tithes of the church, they must also pay 10% of agricultural tax and national defense tax. Of course, if a male student joins the army, the national defense tax will be exempted during the military. If a male student dies in battle, the national defense tax exemption period will be extended by 18 years. These 18 years are theoretically the newly born son of the male student grows up. Of course, if he has no children, his family still enjoys this treatment. If he has certain military merits, the degree of pension will be greater...
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What disappointed Marin was that the people of this era were like the locals in the early years of Hudong in later generations, and they were stubborn. In later generations, there was a famous joke - "I would rather have a bed in Puxi than a room in Pudong." It was about the stubborn locals in Hudong who would rather die in Puxi than go to Pudong to seek development...
Now, this situation has also occurred in the Beihai Kingdom - let alone those civilians, even the nobles are not willing to go to America to reclaim wasteland.
For example, when the land was enfeoffed, many soldiers with military achievements would rather have 200 acres of local arable land (equivalent to 100 Yugrams, 1,200 acres) than 1,000 acres of arable land in the Americas when they were granted the title of knight.
You should know that in the local area, the good land beside the river has long been divided up by the great nobles. Only ordinary arable land that does not rely on the river will be unowned and enfeoffed. However, those hard-working meritorious soldiers like the thin land and are unwilling to ask for the fertile land along the river. You should know that the development level of the Americas is low, and the land given by Marincoln is all treasure land that is extremely convenient for irrigation along the river. If it were later generations, such a farm would cost tens of thousands of dollars per acre. 1,000 acres, worth tens of millions of dollars.
However, in this era, the land of America was not valuable! In addition, in order to prevent other countries from competing, Marin deliberately portrayed America as a terrifying "wild land", so no one was willing to put his fiefdom in America.
Only Kohler and Schwarz and other core leaders of the North Sea countries can understand how fertile and suitable for agriculture. Just the wheat planting is suitable for growing it will be the rye fields in the North Sea countries. You must know that the price of wheat is several times that of rye...
But Marin couldn't say it directly, mainly because he was afraid that some people would be unhappy and leak it out. Therefore, the land in America can only be cheaper than those guys. Fortunately, they are not outsiders either.
However, it is not enough to give those confidants, and others have to drink soup. Therefore, Marin tried every means to "sell" the land of America.
As a result, not only were the grassroots soldiers who were granted knights for their merits unhappy to seek land in America, but even the middle-level officers who were granted barons were not willing to seek land in America five times the area of ​​the Americas.
In desperation, in order to promote the development of America, Marin finally made a decision - to give the land of America to the meritorious soldiers as a waste of time...
Of course, not everyone gave it to you, but the baron started. For example, the land that the third-level baron was granted from the baron was 1,000 local Yugram arable land, that is, 2,000 acres. Marin was still enfeoffed according to the old rules, but would give 2,000 acres of good land along the Americas to the recipients for free.
These people may not be happy at first, but after knowing the truth and taste the benefits, they are happy to ask for land in America. After all, it is a farmland that can grow wheat! You must know that in this era, being able to eat white bread made from wheat noodles every meal is a symbol of identity!
You should know that even ordinary knights with only 1,000 acres of river-along fiefs in the Americas can eat wheat flour and white bread every day as long as they grow wheat. There is no way, the American land is so good. Because summer is hotter than Europe, it is conducive to wheat accumulation temperature, so it is very suitable for wheat growth.
In the early 19th century, most people in European countries mainly used black bread as their staple food, and the poor Germans even ate potatoes every day to make a living. At that time, the newly established Americans could generally eat white bread. There was no way, the family had good land, so they were so arrogant...
Chapter completed!