The plan for the division of the North and South was officially determined in the Bishop of Münster. However, for the sake of local stability, Marin's army did not withdraw, but continued to stay in the local area to deter all parties and avoid chaos.
In addition, Bishop Conrad was the time to recruit his own army. Since he obtained the right to use the 80,000 Yugram's farmland, Bishop Conrad knew that his good days had come. Therefore, he would not be stingy with money, but planned to recruit two thousand reliable German mercenaries to protect his safety.
As for Marin's army? Bishop Conrad is not stupid. If he lives for one more year, Marin will lose the harvest of the 80,000 Yugram land a year. Therefore, after the initial chaos, if the Bishop of Münster still relies on Marin's army, Marin may dislike him being in the way and find a way to make him die in advance...
Therefore, Bishop Conrad believed that he must have his own army to protect his own safety and avoid his life and death being in the hands of others. Therefore, after forcibly passing the land transfer bill, Bishop Conrad immediately entrusted his brother John to help him find a German mercenary of 2,000 people to protect his own safety.
When the situation stabilizes, Bishop Conrad will definitely not be happy that Marin's army will still stay in the South Münster area, otherwise he will feel uneasy.
Of course, his 2,000 troops are only enough to protect himself. Even if the 80 church knights are added, it is not enough to protect the security of the South Münster area. Therefore, Bishop Conrad and Marin had agreed long ago that Marin left 2,000 troops stationed in the South Münster area, but was stationed outside the city of Münster. If there is an invasion of foreign enemies, these 2,000 troops can temporarily hide in the city and participate in defense together. However, in peacetime, these 2,000 troops can only be stationed outside the city to act as a deterrent.
In the Northmünster area, Bishop Conrad fully authorized the new consul appointed by Marin - Old Cusen. In order to give Marin face, Bishop Conrad promoted Old Cusen's church rank to assistant bishop. Old Cusen's deputy, Patriarch Arnold, who served as Minister of Finance, was also promoted to auxiliary bishop.
Then, Old Kusen and Arnold took 180 priests and 2,000 troops provided by Marin to Clopenburg, the capital of the North Munster region, and began to take over local government affairs. As for military affairs, it had nothing to do with them. After all, the North Munster region was just next to the East Frieslander State, and Marin randomly divided the troops and solved the problem.
As for the Bishop of Osnabrück, Marin drew several civil servants from the country and promoted a group of priests who had previously been unsuccessful in the Bishop of Osnabrück to manage them together.
However, considering the terrain characteristics of the Bishops of Osnabrück, Marin decided to compress the religious forces of the Bishops of Osnabrück to the southern city of Osnabrück and the nearby areas. Most of the northern areas are under the jurisdiction of the Northmunster area to reclaim wasteland.
Osnabrück is a small bishop country. The domestic church power is not strong, so naturally there is no courage to confront Marin. Under the leadership of Bishop Conrad, the former boss, Marin happily divided most of the land in Bishop Conrad, leaving only one-third of the southern part for the church people to continue to torture. Similarly, Marin also divided the bishop of Osnabrück. However, one-third of the southern part of the bishop of Osnabrück was not handed over to Bishop Conrad for management, but allowed some of the people he sent to and the local church people to mansion. Two-thirds of the northern part were classified as the old priests, Kusen and Arnold.
However, Kusen and Arnold were also very clear that they were just a last resort for Marin's choice in a serious shortage of people. Therefore, they did not have the idea of ​​doing a big deal, but instead asked Marin for instructions everywhere and did not dare to make arbitrary claims.
Marin naturally would not be stingy with the cooperation between the two. So Marin directly allocated two manors to them as their source of interests.
Each of these two manors has a wheat field of 500 Yugrams. At first, the two were a little disappointed and thought it was too little. After all, according to the usual situation, the profits brought to them by the 500 Yugrams were only 50 pounds of rye per acre every year, while the 500 Yugrams were only 6,000 acres, and the income was only 300,000 pounds of rye. The market value was based on the bulk price of 0.8 per pound, and the total value was only 4,000 gold coins, which was inconsistent with their palace-level identity.
However, after Marin summoned them to spies, the two were shocked. Because Marin told them that in East Friesland, the income per mu of land was about 400 pounds (after cost) of rye, which was 8 times that of ordinary acres. In other words, 500 Yugram's estate could bring a profit of 32,000 gold coins. Such a large income could be bought for a large piece of territory, and it would be an income of one year.
However, Marin also asked them to swear that even their family members would not reveal this secret. Otherwise, the end would be that the whole family would be hunted down. Both of them signed the oath and understood that Marin was not a good person, so they would definitely do it. However, as long as they didn't say it, they could make a fortune safely. Although the profit field was only 500 Yugram, the income was equivalent to the 4,000 Yugram of others. If you say it out, no one believed it. You must know that even Bishop Conrad's profit field was only 10,000 Yugram. However, the real income was only equivalent to 1,250 Yugram of East Friesland.
Speaking of which, Marin now has absolute control over approximately 70,000 Yugram land in the North Münster region and 30,000 Yugram arable land on two-thirds of the northern bishop state of Osnabrück. However, for the North Münster region and the North Osnabrück region, which cover an area of ​​about 6,000 square kilometers, this is only one-quarter of the total area. That is to say, most of the land is not yet developed.
Moreover, most of the northern part of the North Münster region and the northern part of the Bishop of Osnabrück are mostly plains, with sufficient water resources, which are very suitable for reclaiming farming.
The only restrictive condition is the lack of local labor...
After all, before the era of mechanization came, land was cultivated by manpower. Without labor, enough land could not be cultivated. Therefore, feudal dynasties throughout the ages regarded population as an important indicator of whether a country was prosperous and strong. Without population, no amount of land would be useless.
Therefore, even if he obtained so much land, Marin would need to send people to the southern region to continue to recruit the excess labor force in those manors and make them his own serfs.
Of course, it is not difficult to recruit the excess population in these manors. With just one sentence "Enough bread", countless idle serfs will flock to you. If you add the sentence "Marry a Mao girl", these people will probably go crazy...
Chapter completed!