Just as Marin was hiding in the room, he was planning to kill all the great nobles in England, a knock suddenly came. The current secretary Machiavelli reported that Prince Zigmont, the prospective son-in-law of the Hofman family, the crown prince of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, led a huge team to the Grand Duchy of the North Sea. His intention seemed to be to sign a formal engagement with the Hoffman family and make a covenant.
The last time, the team sent by Alexander to Walms was just supporting Marin, which was not considered formal engagement. Now, Main has not been beaten to death by a group, but has gained a foothold. Alexander naturally feels that it is time to sign a formal engagement.
After all, Marin is just Anne's second brother. If you want to marry Anne, you must talk to Anne's parents, the old Hoffman and his wife, and make a marriage contract with the old Hoffman and his wife.
This time, the team led by Prince Sigmont was very large. In addition to the two thousand guards, there were thousands of attendants, driving 20,000 cows and 5,000 horses.
Prince Sigmont was a smart man and knew what Marin needed. Before, when he was in East Friesland, he had heard that Marin had advanced agricultural technology, advanced fertilizers, and a method of taming cattle on a large scale to cultivate the land.
Just so happened that the Crimean Khanate and Marin traded 10,000 cows and 5,000 horses to pass through Poland this year. So Prince Sigmunt simply added 10,000 cows to give Marin a gift. First, it was to confirm his marriage with Anne. Second, it was also considered to congratulate his second brother-in-law on becoming the Grand Duke of the Beihai... In addition, Prince Sigmunt also planned to form an alliance with Marin...
Finally, and most important point... that is - Prince Sigmont wants to take advantage of the autumn harvest to confirm whether the rye harvest in the manor under Marin's name is really that high...
After all, what Marin said is too fantasy. The yield per mu is four or five hundred pounds! Compared with the yield per mu of ordinary European fields, it is simply a myth.
So, taking this opportunity, Prince Sigmont decided to go to the fields to watch the harvest of the serfs in Marin, and weighed the weight of the grain produced per acre of land. (Note: Prince Sigmont last visited East Friesland and accepted the quantifiers of East Friesland acres and the statement of ‘acre yield’)
This time, Prince Sigmunt came here, and did not bring any gold, silver and treasures, nor did he bring any precious works of art. Because he knew that Marin was not interested, and the rest of the Hoffman family didn't like it very much. Therefore, in addition to a few exquisite jewelry that pleased his mother-in-law, Mrs. Mary and his future wife, Anne, Prince Sigmunt only brought 10,000 cows, and 10,000 cows and 5,000 Eastern European Mongolian horses brought along the way.
He knew that his second brother-in-law mastered advanced agricultural technology, and now he has obtained so much new land, so he definitely needs a large amount of oxen to reclaim the land. Therefore, bringing oxen is more popular with Marin than bringing gold, silver, treasures and artworks.
Sure enough, when Marin learned that 20,000 cows and 5,000 Eastern European Mongolian horses were coming, he was so happy. He was planning to vigorously develop the Jutland Peninsula, which was very short of livestock, especially even more awesome. So, these 20,000 cows really solved the urgent problem.
There are also those 5,000 Eastern European Mongolian horses, and Marin also needs those horses to build his future Cossack village, so it is naturally indispensable.
So, Alin personally took a group of people to warmly welcome Prince Sigmunt outside the East City Gate. Then, what made Prince Sigmunt a little embarrassed was that Marin went to see the Eastern European Mongolian horses... Moreover, Marin bent down to observe the PPs of those Eastern European Mongolian horses, which seemed very vulgar...
In fact, Marin observed whether the horses were castrated...
Many of the 1,000 war horses purchased from the Crimean Khanate last time were castrated and could not be bred as a breeding horse. Therefore, later Marin asked not to accept castrated horses, otherwise he would not pay...
Crimea is probably really short of money, so this time, Marin didn't see a castrated horse...
It is no wonder that Malin is so careful. He did not end until ancient China when the Central Plains dynasty traded tea and horses with the northern nomads. In order to be able to carry out such business for a long time and avoid the Central Plains dynasty breeding large amounts of horses themselves, those northern ethnic groups used war horses to exchange tea leaves, most of the castrated horses.
In this way, even if the Central Plains dynasty gets a good horse, it can only be used for one generation. When the war horses get old, they have to go to the grassland people to trade with each other. Otherwise, there will be no new good horses...
Marin was also worried that the Crimean Khanate was like the Mongols who traded tea and horses with the Ming Dynasty, and they were afraid that they would fool them with horses, so they specifically asked for uncastrated ones. Moreover, the reason was not to cultivate new Eastern European Mongolian horses, but to say that European knights were not used to riding horses... This reason was indeed tenable, and many European knights did not like to ride horses. Therefore, the Crimean Khanate did not doubt that they had it. Moreover, their area was also short of money, and Malin's territory was not bordered by the Crimean Khanate, and there was no conflict between the two sides. Therefore, they did not care about selling the uncastrated Eastern European Mongolian horses to Marin...
Prince Siegmont looked at Marin with a speechless look, looking at the horses with a bent over and staring at them, which was quite embarrassing. Fortunately, the casual Geoffrey Palace Palace is very good at treating things and entertaining Prince Siegmont well so that he will not be embarrassed.
In the evening, in order to entertain Prince Sigmont who came from afar, Marin held a grand dinner and a court dance at the palace, and signed a wedding letter in public to formally get engaged.
But the next day, Prince Sigmont also strangely rejected Marin's warm hospitality, saying that he would go to the manor under Marin to participate in the harvesting, and personally supervise the weighing, and observe the yield of rye per mu...
Marin knew that Prince Sigmont was a little skeptical about his words, so he simply asked a team of guards to accompany him to a farm not far outside Orich City, and asked the prince to go to the ground to participate in the harvesting, and helped him count the grain output per acre of land, so as to satisfy his curiosity...
In this way, the noble Prince Sigmont, the future Polish king and the Grand Duke of Lithuania, put on linen labor clothes, held a sickle, and joined the harvesting army in the manor rye field...
In the following days, Prince Sigmont participated in the rye harvest at several manors. Of course, after grinding blood blisters in his hands on the first day, His Highness did not participate in the harvest in person, but he was always supervising the harvest of serfs and personally weighing the weight of rye with several guards...
A few days later, he finally confirmed that the manor under Marin's name had indeed reached about 500 pounds per mu, which was very amazing...
Chapter completed!