Although the order to send 2,000 troops was issued, Malin understood that it was unlikely that 2,000 people would want to stop tens of thousands of hungry people without the protection of the castle. After all, coal mines had sufficient food, which would inevitably attract the attention and covetousness of hungry people everywhere.
So Malin prepared to recruit some locals as auxiliary soldiers to guard the coal mines and docks.
The coal mines in Newcastle are mainly concentrated near the Tyne River. What Marin needs to protect is mainly coal mines near the Tyne River, and the area from the coal transport terminal on the Tyne River. If 2,000 spearmen only guard the coal mine, there will be no problem. However, guarding the distance from the coal mine to the dock will be too much.
Moreover, Marin not only needs to use grain to hire local coal miners to help him dig coal, but also needs to protect the families of those coal miners.
Because Marin gave the coal miners food, they would definitely bring them to their families to eat. But the problem came. At this time, Newcastle was full of people with severe food shortages. Seeing that the women and children in the coal miners had food to eat, young and strong men would inevitably have the idea of ​​robbing them.
Therefore, Marin still needs manpower to help protect the families of coal miners. Otherwise, the safety of their families will not be guaranteed, so who will have the heart to dig coal for you?
Even the families of the recruited auxiliary soldiers need to be protected together. For this reason, Marin planned to build a camp on the banks of the Tyne using the military camp model to resettle the families of coal miners and auxiliary soldiers.
With the outside of the camp full of digging pits and the fences on the camp were full of wooden spoils, not to mention the hungry refugees, even the army could not easily break through.
As long as food is given and the safety of their families is protected, Marin believes that there are more people who are willing to dig coal for themselves and protect the safety of coal mines and terminals.
Even Marin doesn't have to pay a salary. As long as they ensure that those people and their families can have food every meal, they can hire enough people. After all, Marin's most lacking is food. And the few counties in northern England lack the most is food. It is difficult to use what they lack the most and stack the most urgent things to trade with it.
Even Marin planned to supply bread with pure rye to those Englishmen, but instead used the famous "Korel bread", that is, black bread mixed with 15% grass bran, to serve the Englishmen who served themselves. Even so, this was much better than those black baguettes mixed with a lot of soil and could be used as bricks to smash people.
As for adding wild vegetables? Stop teasing. At this time, Newcastle is a disaster area with severe food shortage. It is probably all the wild vegetables have been dug up by refugees. It is great to find wild vegetables...
Refugees are not much worse than locusts when they pass through the border. Although Marin has never experienced famine, he heard the old people talk about the famine in the last century in his previous life. In those days, let alone wild vegetables, the bark and leaves were almost eaten, and grassroots were often used for food.
In fact, that's pretty good. The worst famine was the huge famine that swept across North China at the end of the Ming Dynasty. It was a super natural disaster that swept half of China and destroyed a powerful dynasty.
In the late Ming Dynasty, although the Ming Dynasty was weak, the social order was still good. Moreover, the people lived a good life. Although the Qing Dynasty later tried hard to undermine the Ming Dynasty, according to the records of missionaries who came to China to preach in the late Ming Dynasty, the people's lives in the Ming Dynasty were still quite good at that time. At least, they were much better than the Europeans at that time. The Ming Dynasty was full of supplies, low prices, and stable society, which made some missionaries not even want to leave.
Of course, the places where those missionaries entered were the southeast coastal areas of Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangsu and Zhejiang. They were the richest places in the Ming Dynasty, and the northern region should not be that good. After all, the southeast region was a good place to mature twice a year. In the same period, most of the northern regions only mature once a year, and the output was much lower than that in the south.
The most important thing is the severely affected areas, which are two "Western" - Xishan and Xishan. The people in these two provinces are very tough. Let’s not talk about Xishan. The territory of the old Qin people is more brave, and it is common for them to be brave and fierce. If you have no way to survive, it is not a big deal to raise the flag to rebel.
And Xishan Province is not bad. There was a legend of "Yuebian Rangers" in ancient times. This "Bian" refers to Bingzhou, which is Xishan Province. Who is the Ranger? That is, he is a person who draws his sword to the other side whenever he has a disagreement. Is it a matter of calculating things? Is it matter?
It is normal for two provinces with such fierce folk customs to suffer large-scale famines and large-scale bandits to appear. It deserves the unluckyness of the Ming Dynasty, and the two Western countries were unable to provide assistance. Then, the people of Xishan forced the emperor to death...
Thinking of the bandits in Xishan, Ma Lin suddenly heard a strong Shaanxi-style song with "his eldest uncle and his second uncle are all his uncles, tall tables and short stools are all wood..." in his mind...
In fact, it was also the case that the Ming Dynasty was unlucky, because the Liaodong Jurchens rebelled, and the Ming Dynasty spent too much military expenditure in Liaodong. When the large-scale famine in Xishan and Xishan provinces were in trouble, not to mention using money and food to provide disaster relief, they could not even raise all military salaries. Chongzhen yelled to borrow money from the ministers in a low voice, but he did not raise millions of taels of military expenses. If he borrowed that military expense, perhaps the Ming Dynasty would have been able to hold on for a few more years...
As for the dynasty that was also a strong civil servant, the Song Dynasty was mainly due to its developed economy and business, which led to a abundant national finance. Where did the famine happen? No problem, come and send a few officers to recruit soldiers and recruit all the young and strong among the victims into the imperial guards!
The young and strong people of the disaster victims are gone. How can they rebel? Rely on the elderly and women and children? Take a shower and go to bed...
Therefore, because of the money, the Song Dynasty never caused major problems by the victims. But in the end, I encountered Mongolia, which was cheating, and GG...
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! And while civil officials are in power, the Ming Empire is very poor (mainly because there is no commercial tax levied). In addition, the Liaodong region spent a lot of money on the Qing Dynasty, which caused the country to lose money and encountered famine. It was a brave area like Guanzhong and Bingzhou. Then, it was not destroyed by the "Invincible Eight Banners" boasted by the Qing Dynasty in later generations, and was destroyed by a group of bandits from Xishan...
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"The Song Dynasty's method..." Ma Lin's eyes suddenly lit up...
Marin didn't care about England's life or death. Marin even hoped that England would be as chaotic as possible.
However, Marin was very concerned about the stability of the Newcastle region, because it was related to whether he could obtain a stable coal supply.
Although there are coal mines in Ruhr and Cape Breton Island. However, the large amount of coal in Ruhr will attract the attention of other princes and then find out their own secrets. Cape Breton Island is too far away, and it takes three or four months for a ship to go back and forth, so transportation is really inconvenient.
Only the coal from Newcastle, England, across the North Sea, is most suitable for the needs of the salt boiling base and cement plant on Baltrum Island. It is not only large in quantity, but also good confidentiality. After all, when the coal ship goes out of the sea, God knows where it will be transported? If you want to follow it, you have to ask whether the telescope in your hand of the captain Marin agrees to it or not...
The only problem is the safety of coal mines in Newcastle.
Now, Malin has money and food. Obviously, using the methods of the Song Dynasty to recruit the young and strong people from the disaster victims as mercenaries is the best way...
After being recruited as mercenaries, these young and strong Englishmen can not only be used to protect the safety of Newcastle coal mines and coal transport terminals. With more people, they can also be taken to Germany to fight wars. Even if they are not as good as German mercenaries, it is completely OK to be a cannon fodder soldier. If they are not as good as German mercenaries, it is completely OK to be a cannon fodder soldier. No matter how good it is, it is okay to train as a spear soldier.
Moreover, since Edward III promoted archery throughout England, it has become a fashion for the English people to practice archery. In order to give the people more time to practice archery, the English court has long banned people from playing football, just to avoid people's "losing their ambitions" and delaying their practice of archery.
Although not many people met the requirements of the king's longbowmen, there were many people in England who were good at archery. Therefore, Marin planned to recruit a group of young and strong people with good archery skills in England to form an archer army. The main function was to partially replace the musketeers on rainy days. After all, when the combs were rainy, they could not be used...
Chapter completed!