Sure enough, within two days Simon received a letter from Marin's blood-ridden pigeon - the unlucky pigeon was the only one who arrived alive, but was also attacked by a peregrine falcon and injured. The blood stained the letter red, but fortunately it didn't make the words confused.
After reading Marin's letter, Simon scratched his head a little - I'm a fight, but, what about recruiting farmers? Leading troops to arrest people? Then, he went to ask his little wife Princess Anna, Princess Anna, of the Ramack family... Oh no, she should be called countess Anna. Anna thought about it, but she had no idea, so she suggested that Simon give up the blame and ask Marin what to do...
Simon really did this, released a batch of pigeons and added meals to the hawks along the way, but Marin received the letter at least.
"This brat, I'll ask me this kind of question..." Marin was speechless, but thought of his brother's touching IQ... Forget it, I'll give me some guidance...
After brief discussion with his subordinates, Malin determined the means to recruit Ukrainian farmers - both soft and hard, and coercion and temptation!
The so-called use of both soft and hard, coercion and inducement are naturally to force and use benefits to attract Ukrainian farmers. For this reason, Marin even came up with a not-so-smart poisonous plan - raising bandits!
The so-called raising thieves means that Simon deliberately secretly raises a group of thieves, letting these thieves rob the Ukrainian villages, rob all the food and property of Ukrainian farmers, and even snatch away their fur for winter to keep warm (the fur on the grassland is very cheap), leaving them desperate.
Then, Simon sent someone to lend a helping hand, accepted the Ukrainian farmers in the unlucky village, provided them with food and accommodation, and "recommended" them to settle in Beihai Kingdom on the grounds that they could not afford to support them...
After this combination of punches, the Ukrainian farmer who was already desperate had no other choice. He either starved to death or was killed by Simon. Or he accepted the conditions and immigrated to the Beihai Kingdom...
However, Marin was worried that Simon, a rough man, would not do strict things. If someone knew that he secretly supported the bandits to loot the farmers, he would be ruined.
Therefore, Marin asked Kohler to select several capable members from the spy, learn the local language from the Cossacks, and go to the Eastern European prairie, use spirits to attract the Cossacks, and pull up the team of Cossack bandits, and professionally loot the Ukrainian villages. He only robs things and does not kill people. Then, the Ukrainian farmers who were forced to go to the fore, could only accept Simon's recruitment.
Of course, Simon also had to do something and send troops to recover. But Marin would ask Simon to arrange his subordinates to notify the bandits established by the Spy Sect in advance, so that they could just run away. In this way, Simon made efforts. It was not that he did not work hard, but that the bandits were too cunning... In this way, no one would accuse him of colluding with the bandits...
This routine is not very clever in later generations, but in this era, it is definitely the most top-notch and most vicious, but most effective strategy.
As long as this strategy is implemented, there is no need to worry about not being able to recruit Ukrainian farmers. If it really doesn't work, Marin can even spend money to hire Crimeans to do this. After all, in the original history, the Crimeans were willing to attack their ally, the Grand Duchy of Moscow for 15,000 gold coins. As long as they are given money, they really don't worry about not being willing to help.
But the problem is that if Simon does this, he may have a reputation for being incompetent. After all, it is a failure to fail to solve the problem with the bandits.
So, after thinking about it, Marin decided to tell Simon not to recruit Cossack cavalry easily. He also revised the recruitment principle - someone invaded the Ukrainian country and recruited them again.
As for the 2,000-person Flying Knights, Marin decided to pull 1,000 people first and send them to the Beihai Kingdom to help train the winged cavalry belonging to the Beihai Kingdom. These winged knights were trained by Ukrainian winged cavalry officers. They have been trained for a long time and have solid basic skills. When they come to the Beihai Kingdom, they can also help train many winged cavalry.
In this way, Simon usually only had the permanent power of 1,000 flying winged knights. It would be understandable that he could not protect the Ukrainian prairie. If the permanent power was still 2,000 flying winged knights and at least two or three thousand Cossacks, the fact that the village was robbed would definitely fall on him to solve it.
In the future, Simon just needs to take care of his fief of ten thousand square kilometers around Kiev. If he leaves the fief, he will not care about anything, which will be consistent with his lord's identity...
As for Simon's energy, he has nowhere to vent his energy? This is simple, Marin decided to let Simon play football in Kiev. Since he is full of energy, he can play the game himself... Marin doesn't believe it anymore. He has a 90-minute game every day, and this guy still has the energy to toss...
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In addition to asking Simon to recruit Ukrainian farmers, Marin had to consider how to bring them back to China after they were recruited. At the beginning, Marin planned to use the route of trade with Crimean livestock. It was to go straight to the northwest from the Ukrainian prairie, then through the Kingdom of Poland, then enter the northeastern region of Germany, enter the coastal Pomeranian region, and then head west, passing through Mecklenburg to the North Sea.
But the problem is that animals are different from humans. They can maintain their food by eating grass all the way, and at most they lose some weight. If they are awesome, it is impossible to eat grass all the way, they have to eat food.
Using the Mongolian method, people walk with the mare, drinking horse milk while walking, or eating cheese processed by horse milk, is also a solution. But the problem is that hundreds of thousands of people migrate, and there are no more mares who provide horse milk after giving birth!
With thousands of people, Crimea may be able to get a breastfeeding mare that provides horse milk along the way. No matter how many people have, they cannot get a breastfeeding. Therefore, for large-scale migration, food must be provided along the way.
Then, the supply of food along the way is a big problem. It is certainly OK to take the livestock transportation route, but the cost of food transportation is too high.
In this era, horse carriages transported very small, but consumed a lot. Horses pulling the cart every day eat at least a few pounds or even more than 10 pounds of food. According to the French cavalry standards, horses must be fed 4.8 kg (10.58 pounds) of barley or oats every day!
Although the horse pulling a cart is not as expensive as a war horse, the food consumption is no less than that of a war horse when pulling a cart. Therefore, the cost of transporting grain on land is extremely high! If it is a few days, if it is transported for a few months, the cost... 10 pounds of grain per day will cost 300 pounds per month, a few months... But an ordinary carriage only takes more than one ton...
Therefore, the cost of transporting grain by land is really high. Especially in this era, the price of grain in Europe was still expensive.
Therefore, it is better to reduce transportation costs as much as possible. In this way, transporting grain by water is the best choice!
Marin looked at the map and finally determined the route - starting from Kiev, heading west along the Pripyat River, the tributary of the Dnieper River, to the Bug River, the tributary of the Vistu River in Poland. Then along the Bug River, arrive along the Vistu River, and then arrive in the Danze area at the mouth of the Vistu River, board the merchant ship of the North Sea Kingdom, and transport it to the Jutland Peninsula first...
The reason for choosing this route is that it is very convenient to transport grain along the Vistu River, which can transport the grain upstream and all the way to the banks of the Bug River. As long as the food carried by immigrants when they set out in Kiev can be supported to the place close to the Bug River, a large amount of food has been prepared on the other side of the Bug River to maintain the need for half the way. Once they enter the Bug River basin, they will not have to worry about food...
In fact, Marin has a good route, which is to go up the main stream of the Dnieper River to Orsha, and then a distance northward to enter the Daogava River connecting Riga, which is also convenient to transport food. Moreover, the distance between the Dnieper River and the Daogava River is shorter than the distance between the Pripyat and the Bug River.
But Marin would not choose this route because it would pass through the hinterland of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and openly present the migrant army to the Lithuanians in the hinterland. It would be too exciting. If it is not good, the Lithuanians would restrict him from taking away the immigrants, so let's stop.
Chapter completed!