Marin continued to stay in Münster City to pass the time, but did not forget to remotely control the local area and the Principality of Schleswig. Especially in the Principality of Schleswig, Marin often communicated with Mikel, the prime minister of the Duchy of Schleswig and Woolf Esbrand, the chief of military affairs, to understand the situation there.
However, what surprised Marin was that his main force had gone south to Munster, so why did the other party not take this opportunity to attack the Principality of Schleswig? These days, there was no movement on the Danish border, which made Marin feel a little abnormal.
In fact, the Denmark King Hans had no confidence in his more than 10,000 troops. At the beginning, he had seen the combat effectiveness of Marin's army. After the city of Copenhagen was broken, the seven thousand defenders and many strong men in the city were defeated by Marin's army and retreated step by step. Therefore, King Hans no longer believed in the combat effectiveness of his country's army. In order to fight against Marin's army, King Hans chose to hire the most famous and powerful Swiss mercenaries in Europe to help him fight. At the same time, he also helped to train his own army. King Hans believed that by next spring, when the 20,000 new troops in Denmark were trained, he could fight with Marin and defeat him.
Marin didn't know what Hans was thinking, but he still strengthened the intelligence reconnaissance between the Duchy of Schleswig and Denmark. In the border area, a situation that made Marin laugh and cry was that on the Jutland Peninsula, a large number of Danish families whose daughters were stolen by Marin's soldiers secretly crossed the border and demanded to live in the Duchy of Schleswig.
It turned out that after the defeat of the Denmark King Hans, he planned to slept on firewood and taste gall, and compete with Marin. But it took a lot of money to support soldiers. Therefore, the Denmark King Hans strengthened the exploitation and oppression of domestic serfs. Some people who could not stand the oppression were robbed suddenly remembered that when Marin's subordinates snatched the Danish girls, they ordered the officers to issue an "invoice" to those families, and promised that if they did not live well in the future, they could come to the Principality of Schleswig for help.
Some people couldn't get through, so they secretly crossed the border with a try-and-seek mentality and came to the Principality of Schleswig to seek help. After hearing about it, Mikel Palace immediately searched for the 10,000 garrison soldiers in the territory based on their invoices, found the person written on the invoices, and notified them that your father-in-law (or brother-in-law) is here, come and entertain...
As for those whose daughters "married" to the mainland of East Friesland, Mikel temporarily placed them, but helped write letters and sent them to the mainland to find their relatives.
According to Malin's previous instructions, these people are considered to be their own Yue family and must not be neglected. If they are willing, they can be placed in the manor and become serfs.
Of course, the serfs and Danish serfs in the Principal of Schleswig were not the same as the same thing. Since the use of fertilizer last year, the grain output of the manors in the Principal of Schleswig has also increased sharply. After these elderly people were sent to some "Evangelical Manors" (manors specially for the resettlement of disabled soldiers and soldiers' families), the elderly only need to do some work within their ability (such as feeding pigs and herding sheep), and they can still have a meal of bread and fill their lives.
On the border between the Principality of Schleswig and Denmark, only the Principality of Schleswig is closely guarded, while on the border there are not many defenders on the border. Some people who have lived a good life in the "Evangelist Manor" naturally have to go back to pick up their families. Moreover, they have to tell their fellow villagers the good news.
So, next, the Duchy of Schleswig and the Denmark border formed a "father-in-law and mother-in-law smuggling fever"... The father-in-law and mother-in-law of the soldiers in the Marin Army chose to smuggle over because they couldn't survive and lived in the Everglades Manor. They didn't live a heavy life, but they could eat enough. Of course, Mikel welcomed the "father-in-law and mother-in-law" with their children the most. After all, they were young laborers.
As long as the son-in-law is in the 10,000 troops of the Principal of Schleswig, those families can be arranged to the "Entertainment Manor". As for the son-in-law who is in East Friesland, they need to wait until there is a response there before they can arrange to enter the Entertainment Manor. However, when they are arranged to enter the Entertainment Manor, Mikel will not let them starve to death. Every day, there will be "Kolle bread" mixed with grass bran. For these people, the treatment is already good enough. You must know that in Denmark, they are squeezed by the crazy Danish king Hans, and even bread may not be able to eat it.
After hearing about this "father-in-law and mother-in-law smuggling fever", Marin smiled for a long time. Then, he also notified the group of veterans who came to Munster with him that if they marry a Danish wife, they should be prepared to check the information at any time and place their father-in-law and mother-in-law into the "Evangelical Manor" as soon as possible so as to live a stable life.
The Everglade Manor is not just a full meal. When the people in the Everglades are sick, the official will reimburse the medical expenses, and will arrange for Morigen and Bartel's disciples to help the disabled soldiers and Everglades' families in the Everglades to see a doctor for free. Therefore, entering the Everglades Manor is equivalent to entering a nursing home. Of course, unlike the nursing home, the people in the Everglades need to do some work within their ability.
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After just talking to the veterans about their father-in-law and mother-in-law's smuggling, the guards came to report - Mr. Columbus is here...
Who is Little Columbus? Of course, it was Diego Columbus' eldest son. At the beginning of the year, Diego Columbus, with the piece of cotton found by his father, took the piece of cotton that Columbus found as an adjutant and participated in a voyage to look for cotton seeds in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.
This time the voyage is very simple, just search according to the coordinate map drawn by Columbus. Moreover, the leader is a few of Columbus' old assistants, who are very experienced and will never make any mistakes.
In this way, the fleet arrived smoothly at the Yucatan Peninsula in western Cuba.
Diego Columbus, who was eager to make contributions, landed with a large number of glass products and began to trade with local indigenous people. With the help of his father who knew Indian language, Diego had a friendly exchange with the local Indians. Under the temptation of beautiful glass products, the unknown Indians decisively took out cotton seeds and exchanged them with Diego.
Because it is a artificial crop, there are plenty of cotton seeds. Diego changed into a sack of cotton seeds and moved them back to the ship happily.
However, Diego was unwilling to make such a little contribution and ran to exchange for something else. Then he exchanged several bags of corn and a bag of sisal seeds. He even exchanged some cocoa fruit and cocoa fruit seeds.
In order to please Marin, Diego asked someone to use saltpeter to make ice and freeze cocoa fruits all the way, intending to bring them back for Marin to taste.
When Diego took cocoa to Marin with heavy weight, Marin recognized it at a glance:
“Cocoa fruit?”
In fact, Coco is the pronunciation of the Indians, transliterated, and the pronunciation of Marin is of course similar to that of the Indians.
Little Columbus Diego was shocked because, this thing had never appeared in Europe, how did Marin know?
After a brief moment of stunned silence, Diego immediately flattered and said that Marin's eyes were like torch. Marin ignored it, but smashed the shell of the cocoa fruit, picked it up and tasted it, and found that it really tasted like chocolate. It would be nice if it was promoted to plant and made into chocolate.
However, this plant can only be grown in the tropical region and is not suitable for growing in Europe.
But after all, this kind of food is optional. What Marin cares about the most is cotton. Diego quickly took out the sack of cotton seeds. Marin grabbed it and saw that it was exactly the same as the cotton seeds he had seen in his previous life.
Then Diego took out the sisal seeds and corn...
Marin's mood is very complicated when it comes to corn. Of course he knows the benefits of corn. In modern times, corn is one of the three major staple foods in the world.
However, Marin did not intend to introduce corn into Europe now. Why? He was afraid that corn would impact his food market. Similarly, Marin would never allow the introduction of potatoes to Europe. Otherwise, his wheat would not be sold.
So, Marin resolutely ordered people to destroy all the corn...
As for sisal, Marin did not know this seed. But after Diego's explanation, after learning about the appearance of sisal, Marin suddenly realized that it was sisal... Then, Marin was overjoyed...
You should know that sisal was a very good navigation cable material in later generations. sisal fibers are highly elastic, have strong tensile strength, and are corrosion-resistant. They can be soaked in sea water for a long time. At the same time, they are also very resistant to friction.
Therefore, in later generations, sisal was widely used to make warship cables, conveyor belts of machines, and fishing nets for marine fishing. Of course, it can also be used to make sacks and weave rainproof cloths. It can also be used to weave canvas. Canvas woven with sisal is very strong and rarely need to replace sails.
Therefore, sisal is a crop that is extremely conducive to the navigation of the sea. It can even be regarded as a treasure...
Chapter completed!