It is another golden autumn October. From mid to late September, autumn harvest started in East Friesland. Because potassium fertilizer, phosphorus fertilizer, etc. were used, the rye in East Friesland was a little earlier than other countries.
This year, the 18,000 young and strong men who were compensated by the Principal of Saxony to Marin and their families were sufficient to harvest. Therefore, the progress of the autumn harvest was still good.
Moreover, through last year's labor, the 18,000 young and strong man helped Malin reclaim 35,000 Yugram's arable land from the swamp, and planted rye in the spring. In addition, after the spring plowing, 10,000 Yugram's arable land was reclaimed. However, because there was no time to catch up with the spring plowing, this autumn harvest was naturally nothing.
Today, in the entire East Friesland State, a total of 120,000 Yugrams have been planted with grain arable land (not counting the 10,000 Yugrams newly reclaimed from the swamps this year). Among them, Marin's nobles and soldiers have a total of 35,000 Yugrams' arable land. Marin himself occupies 85,000 Yugrams' arable land...
This is the benefit of Marin's elimination of most of the original nobles of the East Friesland Kingdom. In that massacre, Marin killed most of the original Eastern Friesland nobles, and their land was naturally taken over by Marin. The land of hundreds of nobles was concentrated in Marin's hands. Now it was the serf era, and the land was basically in the hands of the nobles. Therefore, Marin suddenly owned most of the cultivated land in this small country. Although it was enfeoffed a lot, by transforming the swamp, Marin made up for the amount of land enfeoffed...
Because compound fertilizers mixed with manure, wood ash and fish meal were produced in the fertilizer factory and applied to the fields, the yield per mu of rye in East Friesland was very high, reaching a level of 500 pounds per mu. Even oats with lower yield per mu have reached a level of 200 pounds per mu.
Among them, in order to raise horses, Marin specially divided 5,000 Yugrams to grow oats. This autumn harvest, 5,000 Yugrams (equivalent to 60,000 acres), and a total of 12 million pounds of oats were harvested, which allowed thousands of horses in the country to eat oats with their belly open...
Needless to mention the 80,000 Yugram (960,000 acres) of rye, the average yield per mu is more than 500 pounds, and the total output reaches 480 million pounds. The 35,000 Yugram arable land of his subordinates also produced a total of 210 million pounds of rye. As usual, they took out half of it and asked Marin's Chamber of Commerce to help sell it...
This time, Marin didn't have to take food abroad. Because there was a drought in southern Germany this year, and grain production plummeted. Marin directly transferred the 100 million pounds of grain they purchased through the Ames and the Rhine River to the inland area, and then transported it to the south...
Because of the famine, the price of rye in the German region increased from 1 Finney per pound to 1.5 Finney per pound, and transported to the south is also very profitable. At least, Marin's nobles can earn 1 Finney per pound. Then, they earned a total of 100 million Finney, equivalent to 1.666 million gold coins...
Among them, Marin's brother Adler earned 100,000 Goulden gold coins. The rest were enfeoffed with 1,000 Yugram's subordinates, and they also earned about 50,000 gold coins respectively...
Now, every autumn harvest, the nobles of the East Friesland and the soldiers who were rewarded with farmland will fall into a carnival of wealth...
Because they obtained too much wealth from the arable land, the living standards of these nobles and local soldiers were directly improved by several levels.
Even though they are both barons and their fiefdoms are far less than those of those foreign barons, however, the barons under Marin's command have a great life.
So the nobles of the East Frieslander State collectively did one thing-that is, to expand the castle...
Yes, the castle of the nobles of this era is their face. When they have money, they naturally have to clean up their faces. The castle that Marin gave to Adler for free before, but his sister-in-law Liv doesn't like it now. So, Liv, who is usually stingy, directly stated that he wanted to expand a new castle that was five times the size of the old castle, with a total budget of 50,000 gold coins...
Other nobles, who were also virtuous, continued to expand castles. This also caused the price of stone in East Friesland to double after the autumn harvest...
Marin wanted to recommend cheap and practical reinforced concrete to them, but his subordinates did not trust such unprecedented building materials. Therefore, they would rather go to Hamburg and Bremen to buy finished stone at a high price than use cement...
In desperation, Marin had to use reinforced concrete for his new palace. Moreover, the expanded Orich wall also used cement and steel bars...
Because the anti-aircraft ability of reinforced concrete is stronger than that of stone fortresses, Marin did not build a bastion structure, and directly built the palace walls and the Orich walls according to the old style...
Then, shock-absorbing carriages have also become the standard for the nobles in the country...
However, because of improper protection or forgot to apply oil, these little nobles' shock-absorbing carriages often need to be replaced...
Without waterproof paint, the spring is still not durable...
Suddenly, Marin thought of the tin blocks he had accumulated from the UK... It seemed that the spring could hot-dip tin solution to form a pair of tin protective film. In this way, the spring would not easily rust. The steel of hot-dip tin solution is also called "tinplate"...
However, Marin thought that although tinplate is rust-proof, it will be rubbed off the tin protective film. Once the tin protective film is scratched, the iron inside will quickly oxidize and rust...
Therefore, the best solution is to give the spring hot-dip galvanizing solution to make it white iron sheet (galvanized iron sheet), not afraid of rust and corrosion, not afraid of rubbing...
But the problem is that Europeans have not discovered zinc yet. Even the Ming Dynasty has not discovered zinc yet. It seems that the existence of zinc will not be discovered until the late Ming Dynasty. It seems that it was during the Jiajing period, and there are still decades left before now...
In fact, zinc is easy to obtain. Generally speaking, zinc and lead often coexist. Therefore, the lead ore often contains zinc.
However, when smelting, it is always under a high temperature environment of thousands of degrees. Zinc has a bad property, that is, the boiling point is only 907 degrees. If it exceeds 907 degrees, zinc will turn into zinc steam and evaporate...
However, as long as a curved condenser is added to the top of the reduction furnace, the zinc steam will condense and form crude zinc. Then, it will melt and purify, forming a refined zinc ingot...
In other words, just add a condenser tube to the top of the furnace. However, for thousands of years, people have often smelted lead, but they just don’t find zinc…
As long as you find a lead ore, most of the lead ore contains zinc. At that time, you can obtain zinc by improving the reduction furnace...
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It's off topic. My subordinates sold 100 million pounds of rye, while Marin himself harvested 480 million pounds of rye. Moreover, this year's rye doesn't have to be consumed. Because the food harvested last year and the food harvested the previous year have not been eaten up yet...
So Marin thought about it again and again and decided to take out 200 million pounds of rye to sell it in Southern Europe...
Needless to say, the price of grain has always been high in Spain, and the price of rye has been stable at the level of 2 Finney per pound for a long time. Italy was originally a rich area that produces grain.
However, because of the Italian War, last year, the French and Naples were killed and killed, which seriously affected grain production in the Italian region and many local farmland were abandoned.
Therefore, this year, there is a serious shortage of food in Italy. If a large amount of food is not transferred from the outside, many refugees will inevitably starve to death.
So Marin decided to send ships or rent ships to transport the grain to Spain and Italy for 20 million pounds of grain. With the high grain prices in southern Europe, it could be sold for more than 3 million Ducat gold coins.
However, Spain is fine, but Italy may not be able to buy it after being robbed and destroyed by the French...
So Marin came up with a wonderful idea - to exchange food for women...
Italy has a large population and many women. Marin has tens of thousands of bachelors under him. These bastards now turn green when they see women... If it weren't for the strict laws in the East Friesland State, these women would probably have dared to drag women into the grass... After Marin publicly cut off the heads of more than a dozen random guys, this group of people became honest...
However, just suppressing this is not a solution. After all, they are normal young people and need women. As a ruler, it is indeed a bit inhumane if you don’t think of a way for others and kill people. But Marin has no choice. Society always needs order. You can’t let these bachelors do whatever they want just because they understand...
As a responsible ruler, in order to solve the problem of too many bachelors in China, Marin still thought of a solution...
Before, I saw Crimeans selling Eastern European hairy girls, so I planned to buy more. However, now, Marin suddenly discovered that there were many Italian girls due to war and famine...
Although it is unfair to Italian men to play Italian girls to give to their young men. However, Marin is the leader of the Eastern Frieslander country and does not collect taxes from Italians. So, I care about Italian (foreign) men? They don’t pay taxes for me... All the leaders with internationalist ideas are Dassabi...
So, Marin decided to start the "food for women" plan. Use excess food to exchange for beautiful Italian girls...
What? You said that food cannot be exchanged for beauty? I want to tell you that back then... three years - disaster... During this period, a bag of rice could definitely be exchanged for a beautiful village girl as her wife...
Not to mention rice, even sweet potatoes, carrots and other miscellaneous grains can be exchanged for beautiful wives...
Moreover, the rice at that time had to be handed over. Even if there was surplus grain in most families, they were all mixed grains such as sweet potatoes, carrots, etc....
If you have stored a lot of miscellaneous grains, then, congratulations, in that era, you would never be a bachelor. As long as you can carry a load of miscellaneous grains to propose marriage (you have to carry those families that lack food), no matter how beautiful they are, you can still be your wife...
By the same token, during the famine in Italy, as long as Marin's subordinates presented a sack of rye, those poor families would be willing to send their daughters...
Don’t think that doing this is cruel. In fact, it is a win-win situation. The family who sends his daughter (the girl may also have younger brothers and sisters) will survive the disaster because of this sack of rye. And the daughter has arrived at a family that can afford food for women. Although the husband may not be outstanding, at least she cannot starve to death and can survive...
Your daughter is excellent and beautiful? No problem, one sack of rye is not enough, then two sacks...
In short, in the famine years, there is no problem that a sack of rye cannot solve. If so, then two sacks...
A sack weighs only 100 pounds. Even if the food price in the disaster area is expensive, 2 Finneys per pound, and 100 pounds of rye is only 200 Finneys, equivalent to 3.33 gold coins. Even if it is two sacks of rye, it is only 6.66 gold coins. Damn, 6.66 gold coins can be exchanged for a beautiful village girl, and it is still a good family. It is much more cost-effective than buying from the Crimean Khanate.
There are 200 million pounds of rye, and there are 2 million sacks. If you use them all for women, even a beautiful girl who changes two sacks of rye can exchange for 1 million sacks of rye...
Of course, even if Marin wanted to do this, there were not so many girls changing him...
So Marin's plan was to sell most of the food to the Spanish and the rich Italians. Then, he took out a small portion of the food and went to the disaster area of ​​Italy (especially the war-torn Kingdom of Naples) to return 20,000 Italian girls. The total food needed was about 2 million to 4 million pounds, accounting for only a small part of the 200 million pounds of food.
The reason why we have to exchange thousands of girls for more return is actually to attract immigrants. In the inland German areas, it is normal for men to not afford to marry their wives in serf families with many boys.
With these extra thousands of girls, Marin could use them as bait to attract those who want to marry but have no money and tempt them to work for themselves. And he would be the leader to reward Italian beautiful village girls...
But as he thought about it, Marin suddenly slapped his head - he forgot the 10,000 new recruits in the Teutonic Kingdom. Those people are basically bachelors...
So Malin immediately changed the plan and increased the number of Italian beautiful village girls from 20,000 to 30,000...
As for the issue of unbalance between men and women in Italy, what does it matter to Marin? He only cares about the soldiers and people who helped him work hard. What does the foreigners have to do with him? Want a wife? Okay, join us and serve me first...
Chapter completed!