At the end of March, because I bought 20,000 new cows from Poland, and there were already many cattle and horses in China, the animal power in the territory of East Friesland was extremely surplus, and the use of curved plows, the spring plow ended early. At this time, the spring plowing in other European countries was only half underway.
Spring is the season for sowing, and at the same time, spring is also the most difficult season for famine areas. Although seeds are sown, it will take several months to grow into food. If vegetables are on the market in May and June, the famine will be alleviated. In early spring, it is the most difficult, and the food price at this time is also the most expensive.
In the inland areas of southern Germany, many young people were so hungry that they could not bear it. After Schwartz left, Kohler took over and set up offices to recruit victims in disaster areas such as Hessen and Baden.
The situation is better than expected, and many farmers are willing to immigrate. When choosing immigrants, Kohler naturally tends to those married young men and women. In this way, after they immigrated, Marin did not need to worry about their marriage. You should know that the early American immigrants, due to the severe lack of women, later led to the birth of gay men and even attacked cows... Marin knew this dark history, so he tried his best to immigrate in pairs...
However, for those married young men and women, the local serf owners will not let them go easily. Because those who can afford to get married are either the eldest son in the family or the expert in work, and are very appreciated by the owners of the manors. Therefore, the owners of the manors will not let them go.
However, those non-first sons of serf families are often not favored by the owners because they exceed the "population plan" of the manor. Moreover, if these people are left behind, the serf owners will have to bear their food, so how can they bear it?
For those manors with more young men, the extra serfs are definitely a burden. Therefore, serf owners tend to drive these people out of the manors, so that they can make their own living, so as to reduce their burdens. For this reason, serf owners are willing to give up their ownership and make them free people.
But becoming such a free people may not be a good thing. Leaving the manor means losing the security, and even black buns mixed with a lot of soil cannot be eaten. Therefore, many of these free people choose to be thieves and robbers, which become a danger to society. Of course, if you are lucky, you leave your hometown and find a job, but only a few such people are. Many young people who are honestly released from serfs as free people will even starve to death... And with the rise of the mercenary industry in Germany, many young people who cannot eat find that perhaps joining the army is a good choice... Although being a mercenary is in danger, before dying in the battle, you can at least eat a full meal every day. Moreover, you can not only eat a full meal, but also eat meat from time to time, and also buy wine and drink, so you don’t live too much...
Therefore, mercenaries became a very popular profession in the German region, especially in some very poor places or disaster-stricken areas. Otherwise, German mercenaries would not have risen and were still very popular until the beginning of the 19th century.
However, not every nobleman has the money to hire so many mercenaries. The market price of a mercenary is 3 Finney's daily salary. In a year, the salary alone costs 18.25 gold coins. Usually, the employer also needs to provide some food to support these mercenaries. In total, the expense of hiring a mercenary a year will cost at least 25 gold coins. If you support a 10,000 army, the annual cost will be no less than 250,000 gold coins. Of course, if you have enough food, it is a different matter. For example, Marin now has endless food to eat, so he can naturally save a lot of money.
With 250,000 gold coins a year, many dukes and earls with a capitulated state may not have so much tax in a year. Therefore, it is rare to support a prince who can afford 10,000 permanent troops.
However, the princes were not without countermeasures. Some cunning princes would pay some deposits when the war broke out and recruit mercenaries first. Then, they would promise that once they attacked the opponent's territory, they would allow these mercenaries to rob freely. In this way, they would save most of the commission. The mercenaries, if they were lucky, would gain wealth higher than the commission value through robbery in hostile countries. Many cuts in the clothes of early mercenaries were not fashionable at all, but temporary pockets used by mercenaries to hide treasures on their bodies.
However, relying on robbery to make profits requires a gamble on luck. If you win, you will naturally rob it casually. But if you lose, let alone robbery, your life may be lost.
Therefore, young people who want to be mercenaries are not fools. For those generals who are good at winning battles, they naturally rushed forward. Just like Schwartz came to recruit soldiers on behalf of Marin. When he heard that Marin, who was "invincible", was going to recruit soldiers, everyone naturally signed up enthusiastically. You asked the Duke of Saxony, who had just suffered a defeat, to try it... Well, I almost forgot that the Duke of Saxony is dead, and the Duke of Saxony is George, who is more capable...
Since it is difficult to obtain couples immigrants, Kohler had to accept the young bachelors who were too poor to marry a wife and planned to immigrate them to the Americas.
These young bachelors who are about to die of starvation are not picky. They go wherever they say they go, as long as they have enough bread, they will be...
In this way, in April, Kohler had already transported 2,000 young bachelors in a carriage to Port Emden...
Just so happened that the work of transporting 9,000 mercenaries to the Teutonic Kingdom was over. So, 10 newly purchased Kirk sailboats were also empty. In addition to the two 250-class armed merchant ships dedicated to Asiatico, Marin now has 12 idle ships in his hands, which can be used for immigration transportation.
According to the scale of a ship that can carry about one hundred people, these 12 ships can carry about one thousand people at a time. However, Malin considered that since they are immigrants, they must not only transport people. For example, more food should be transported. After all, the colony has been newly developed and there is no food supply. Before the food grows in the next season, immigrants need to eat spare food to survive.
Marin was not worried about immigrating to the Twin Islands of North America and Cape Breton Island. Because the fishery resources in these two places are very rich. Needless to say, the Twin Islands of North America, Nantucket (Americo Island) was originally an important whaling base in later generations. Since it is a whaling base, there must be many whales nearby. Where there are many whales, the fishery resources must be rich, otherwise it will not be able to raise whales with a huge appetite. Whether it is fishing or whaling, Marin now has no shortage of such talents.
Therefore, as long as you immigrate, you can send the 30 Friesian fishermen who have mastered whaling skills to Nantucket Island together. These fishermen only need to hunt a few larger whales, which is enough for the fishermen to eat whale meat for a long time, and can comfortably support until the food matures in the next season.
As for Cape Breton Island, there is no need to worry, sending some fishermen to accompany you can solve the problem. After all, Cape Breton Island is very close to Newfoundland Island. And where is Newfoundland Island? It is one of the four famous fishing grounds in later generations. In this era, there were not as many large trawlers fishing here repeatedly, and there were so many fish in the sea. As long as you send a few fishing boats, the people on Cape Breton Island will eat fish and be full of food...
Therefore, whether it is the Twin Islands of North America or Cape Breton Island, as long as it is sent to fishermen and fishing boats, the immigrants there will not have to worry about food and drink.
Only Grenada is more troublesome. It is not that there are no fish in the waters of Grenada and are not suitable for fishing, but because there are more warlike and cruel Caribbeans in the Caribbean.
In the Caribbean Sea, the Caribbeans ride huge canoes and are good at using spears and javelins. If fishermen go out to sea to catch fish, they will easily be surrounded and killed if they are targeted by the Caribbean canoe groups. With the urinary nature of the Caribbeans, none of the male fishermen caught by them will survive.
Therefore, fishing in the Caribbean Sea is very dangerous. The fishermen have no combat power, so they risk their lives to go out to sea to catch fish. Unlike North American waters, it is enough to solve the problem of food and clothing by hunting in forests on land, and there is no need to make a living on the sea. The most common Caribbean region is islands, where Caribbean canoes are rampant on the sea and unarmed fishermen go out to sea, which is very dangerous...
Moreover, even on land, Grenada needs a certain amount of defense. Because the Caribbeans had attacked Grenada before. This time it was not easy to immigrate. Not only did they need to reclaim land, but they also had to be on guard against the Caribbean attack...
To this end, among these 2,000 people, Marin selected 300 more brave people and specially established the Grenada Colonial Guard to protect Grenada from invasion. In order to train these 300 people, Marin also specially sent 10 experienced team leaders to accompany them to Grenada to serve as officers of this unit.
Not only that, Marin also specially allocated a ship of cement and bricks to the Grenada colony for use. After all, they needed to withstand the attacks of the Caribbeans and build a fortress that ensured safety. If stone was collected and polished into stone in the local area, it would take too long, and it would not be as fast as cement bricks.
In addition to carrying building materials such as cement and bricks, Marin also asked the immigration ship to carry a lot of food and other daily necessities. Of course, this is not enough...
Because, in order to reclaim wasteland in the colonies, plowing oxen and a large number of farm tools are needed. The farm tools are easy to handle, so just let the blacksmith shop build a batch of ships. But plowing oxen is very troublesome.
Not to mention anything else, the oxen that Marin bought from Poland were all scalpers that were used to being on land, and were all "land ducks". When Marin sent someone to load the scalpers on the ship, he found that most of the scalpers were seasick...
Marin was so amused that he had to put each cow on the ship and then selected 100 scalpers that were not seasick. But these scalpers were not honest and rushed on the ship, which was very dangerous. For safety reasons, Marin had to order the blacksmith to build 100 huge cages and put them on the deck to control the scalpers' mad behavior. At the same time, because it was an iron cage, the scalpers could use brooms to clean the cow dung through the cage every day, and pour it into the sea, so as not to smell bad on the ship and cause illness.
Thinking of the disease, Marin selected a few students who were not good at studying from the disciples of Mongolian doctor Bater, and followed the fleet to the colony to treat the people of the colony.
At the same time, Marin specially selected three people from the 20 priests who were good at fooling people who were taught by Taylor who stayed in the country, and went to Grenada, Twin Islands in North America and Cape Breton Island to build churches, help local people preach and brainwash them by the way, so as not to have the idea of ​​independence in the colonies...
After preparing everything, 12 ships carried 800 immigrants, 100 cattle, and a large amount of food and daily necessities. They divided into two groups and headed to Grenada, Twin Islands of North America and Cape Breton Island.
Although there are three colonies, the Twin Islands of North America and Cape Breton Island are all the way. The two islands are also close to each other. The boats we go to take the North Atlantic route, which is the road when Americo came back.
On Grenada, it was a single route, taking the route that Columbus had explored before. That is, it was to go south along the Canary cold current, arrive at the Canary Islands for a little supply, continue to go south, and then follow the equatorial compensation current and east wind, heading west to the windward islands.
Moreover, in the Canary Islands, Marin had long sent people to buy a lot of sugar cane seedlings there and bought a batch of Moorish slaves who were originally controlled by the Spanish who worked in the sugar cane garden.
After these Moorish slaves who know how to grow sugarcane will arrive in Grenada, with the help of immigrants, reclaim wasteland and plant the sugarcane seedlings. Then, Marin can wait for Grenada to become the source of sugar sugar...
In addition, Marin also asked Grenada immigrants and North American Twin Islands to bring a bag of soybeans and tried to grow them in the past. These soybeans were purchased by Columbus and Draka in India before. Grenada has a hot climate, similar to India, so there is naturally no problem growing soybeans. However, Marin, the North American Twin Islands, cannot guarantee it. After all, this is a soybean variety in India. It is suitable for tropical climates, but it may not be suitable for North American climate. But if the planting on North American Twin Islands is successful, it is a great surprise.
After all, North America has vast land and is very close to Europe. If the soybean production is in North America, it will be very convenient to transport it back to Europe. If the soybean production is in Grenada, the transportation time will be too long...
You should know that soybeans are the standard feed for war horses in modern cavalry. In modern cavalry, basically every war horse has a bag on its neck, containing 10 or 20 kilograms of fried soybeans. Whenever the war horses are tired of running, the cavalry will grab a handful of fried soybeans and replenish the war horses...
Marin was determined to establish a huge cavalry unit, so he naturally had to pay attention to the cultivation of war horse feed. Unfortunately, Europe had a high latitude and low summer temperatures. In addition, it was in the "Little Ice Age", so it was not suitable for growing soybeans (it was suitable for Southern Europe). Even in later generations, Britain and Germany did not grow soybeans, and were basically imported from the United States.
The latitude of the two islands in North America is about the same as that in Beijing and Tianjin, and is probably suitable for soybean cultivation. I just hope that Indian varieties of soybeans should be cold-resistant... In addition, there are also many oak trees on the island, which are very suitable for shipbuilding...
Cape Breton Island seems to be suitable for growing cold-resistant crops like rye, and Marin is a little unsure about soybeans. In fact, although Cape Breton Island is close to Harbin (the damn region alphabetic), the temperature in summer is not as high as Harbin because it is on the beach. In later generations, it may be suitable for growing soybeans, but because it is in the "Little Ice Age", the temperature is one or two degrees lower than normal. Therefore, Marin estimates that Cape Breton Island may not be suitable for growing soybeans at this time.
However, Cape Breton Island also has its advantages. First, it has coal and forest resources, which is very suitable for the development of papermaking. Secondly, its area is large enough, with a capacity of 10,000 square kilometers. You should know that the two islands in North America combined are only 500 square kilometers.
With such a large land area, Marin can raise sheep and horses on Cape Breton Island on a large scale. As long as the trees are cut off and a variety of alfalfa grasses are on the ground, large areas of grass suitable for grazing will appear.
Although Cape Breton Island is not high in summer, it is not low in winter due to the influence of the North Atlantic warm current. It will never be as minus dozens of degrees Celsius as the Northeast at the same latitude. It is scary if there is minus ten degrees Celsius. However, there is a lot of wood here, and the cost of building a livestock shed is also low.
The area of ​​East Friesland is too small, and there are not many places to raise horses. Therefore, Marin needs a horse farming site to raise enough horses for him to provide for cavalry. However, raising horses on land in North America is dangerous. If the Indians get horses, it is easy to lead to the terrifying Indian cavalry appearing in advance. Therefore, raising horses on islands separated from the mainland is a good choice. After all, the horses obtained by the Indians were lost by the Spanish. On Cape Breton Island, if the horses are lost, they are still on the island and will not swim and run to the mainland by themselves...
By the time the three American colonies develop, Grenada will provide sugar and spices; Cape Breton Island will provide paper and war horses; North American twin islands will provide soybeans and warships, and serve as a springboard for invasion of the North American continent...
Chapter completed!