In mid-March, it is a great time for spring plowing to start. In the Denmark, due to the high latitude, spring plowing has just begun. However, due to the war, spring plowing has been suspended in many places in the Principality of Holstein and Schleswig.
In this regard, neither Marin, Lubeck or Hamburg were willing to see it. Therefore, after taking down Riber City, Marin temporarily stationed with his army.
At the same time, Marin sent people to the estuary of the Riber River next to the city of Riber and built several long bridge piers to connect with the local area. The main reason was to allow the local area to provide the materials needed for the war.
After the army was stationed, Malin recruited a group of local people and ordered them to go to all parts of the Principality of Schleswig to inform those estates and immediately restore spring plowing. The army promised that it would not disturb them during the spring plowing.
The representatives of the two Hanseatic cities, Weizmann and Hermann, quickly reacted and sent a group of troops back to the Principal of Holstein. According to the principle of east-west division, they were in the eastern and western parts of the Principal of Holstein, respectively, urging locals to continue their spring plowing.
Because Marin used strict military discipline to restrain his soldiers, the two principalities suffered little damage despite the crossing of the army. Only some stubborn barons or knights' estates were attacked, and some young and strong people who participated in the resistance were killed.
However, most serfs did not participate in the resistance because of their timidity, so they naturally suffered no losses. At this time, it would be nothing to let them continue to plow spring.
In the era of chaos, a large number of civilians died not in the massacre. Instead, when a large army crossed the border, it was easy to rob grain. Even some chaotic soldiers would rob the seeds left by the farmers... The rations and seeds were robbed, and the farmers had to starve to death or rebel...
Marin deeply understood that whether it was the Principality of Schleswig or the Principality of Holstein, it would be the territory of himself and his allies in the future. If you want to prevent these two places from becoming in chaos, you must not rob the people's food. In addition, you must ensure the normal progress of spring plowing and autumn harvest.
Therefore, after taking down Liber City, Marin hired locals to ride horses to manors in various places, publicized policies to encourage spring farming, and posted notices that his army would not rob. Even when he captured several cities, those rewards were all paid by Marin himself. Of course, the money was also looted from the city's official banknote.
Marin knew that if nothing unexpected happened, Riber would become the border area between the Principality of Schleswig and Denmark he occupied. Therefore, this must be a front-line city.
To this end, Marin began to mobilize the city residents here, as well as his soldiers and civilians, and began to repair the city of Liber, preparing to use it as a fortress for a long time.
Marin gave the nobles who voluntarily surrendered in the city very generously, but temporarily deprived them of their military power to avoid them from recurring.
Nowadays, the nobles of the Principality of Schleswig who surrendered to Marin have reached thousands of people. These people are also a burden in Marin's hands. Marin needs to guard against them at all times, so he needs a large number of people.
Moreover, if they are allowed to return to their territory, it is equivalent to letting the tiger go back to the mountain. God knows whether these people will rebel on one day...
Therefore, Marin remembered a casino plan that came to mind when conquering the Bernard of Oldenburg. It was to build a casino and entertainment city similar to Las Vegas, specifically for the surrendered nobles and their descendants to eat, drink and have fun. As for their territory, Marin planned to send people to custody. Then, return the benefits they could have received before. As for the excess of high yields caused by using new fertilizers, it naturally belonged to Marin.
In addition, the territory of those little nobles who were killed because of their stubborn resistance was naturally confiscated by Marin. Then, part of it was taken out to reward brave soldiers who fought. The Principality of Schleswig, which occupied 9,200 square kilometers at once, Marin's land in his hands was nearly three times larger than the local area. Therefore, Marin now has enough land to reward soldiers.
At that time, as long as a few more fertilizer yards are built in the Principal of Schleswig, the local estate grain production will be fully increased. However, after leading the army into the Principal of Schleswig, Marin discovered a problem, that is, the Jutland Peninsula is vast and sparsely populated...
Yes, according to local aristocrats, the entire Kingdom of Denmark (including several islands such as Jutland Peninsula and Zeland Island, with 42,000 square kilometers, including the Danes in North Schleswig), was only 600,000 at this time. The Kingdom of Norway has a population of 240,000; Sweden has 550,000; Finland has 300,000...
In other words, the total population of Sweden and Finland is 850,000. Denmark and Norway have only 840,000, which is less than the areas under control of Old Sten Sturre. Therefore, Swedish people have the confidence to resist.
There are only 600,000 Danes on nearly 40,000 square kilometers of land. Moreover, the majority of the population must be located on the core area of ​​Denmark, the Island of Zeland. Therefore, the Jutland Peninsula, including the more than 3,900 square kilometers of North Schleswig, and the 25,400 square kilometers of land, has only 200,000 people...
You should know that in the later generations, a county where Marin lived, the population exceeded 800,000, and the area was only more than 1,000 square kilometers...
Therefore, the Jutland Peninsula was still vast and sparsely populated. In order to utilize the land, locals engaged in animal husbandry, and cattle and sheep raising are relatively developed, and many people raised horses. Only those engaged in rye and oat cultivation were about the same population, and most of them were farming on the fertile soil on the edge of the river.
After learning about this information from the surrendered Danish nobles, Marin was extremely coveted by the vast Jutland Peninsula. However, he also knew that Denmark was not something he could currently eat. This time, he finally found an excuse to attack Denmark and it was already too much to cut off the Principality of Sulsourige. If he wanted to cut off the Jutland Peninsula, which was much larger than the Principality of Sulsourige, not to mention that Denmark refused, others would object. When his own strength was not enough to fight against the whole of Germany alone, Marin could only temporarily endure it and suppress his ambition to annex Denmark.
However, since he had already made enemies with Denmark, Marin did not make the other party feel better. At present, it was when spring plowing began in the Denmark region. Marin allowed the Principality of Schleswig to successfully plow the spring plowing, but he might not be willing to also the Danes to successfully plow the spring plowing.
In addition, Marin needed many horses, and the horses in the Denmark were taller. For this reason, Marin planned to send cavalry to cross the northern border of the Duchy of Schleswig, go deep into the Jutland Peninsula, and grab horses everywhere...
The reason why we want to rob horses is not only to increase the number of horses for ourselves, but also to attack Danish agriculture. Like other parts of Europe, the Danes are popular at this time. Therefore, horse farming is the most important animal power of Danish farmers. As for cattle, the Danes obviously do not understand what a bull nose ring is, so they naturally cannot easily drive cattle to work. Therefore, the people who plow in the fields now are basically tall Nordic horses.
Marin couldn't bear to kill people, but if he didn't kill people, he would destroy Danish agriculture. Then, robbing the Danish horses was the best choice.
Moreover, the cavalry has strong power. After snatching away the horse, the cavalry can roar away by just putting on the reins, riding the horse while holding the snatched horse, which is very convenient.
According to the surrendered nobles, there were about 100,000 serfs on the Jutland Peninsula, and about tens of thousands of horses were taken. Not only that, several important horse farms on the Jutland Peninsula were also important sources of war horses in the army of Hans, the King of Denmark.
Hearing this, Malin was immediately excited. So, according to the guidance of the surrendered nobles, he planned to send all the cavalry to seize the horse farms belonging to the royal family and snatch thousands of horses inside. Then, he went to grab the horses used by the serfs to cultivate the land. With this, the grain production in the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark will inevitably be greatly reduced this year. At that time, even if Malin and the others withdraw, the serfs will cause trouble for the Danish King Hans because of hunger...
The 1,000 Lancers recruited from the Teutonic Kingdom. After hearing that there were several royal horse farms set up by the Danish King Hans on the Jutland Peninsula, they became excited without Marin's encouragement.
After all, it was the horse farm of the Danish king, not the horses used by those serfs. There must be many good horses suitable for war horses. For these cavalrymen, they are all horse lovers, so how could they miss it? Moreover, Marin also promised them to allow them to choose good horses from them and replace the horses they originally rode.
So, after obtaining a specific location from Marin, 1,000 lancers roared and headed to the Danish royal horse farms.
In addition, Marin also selected more than a thousand infantrymen with good riding skills, and asked them to step onto the cart-pulling horses and go to the manor on the halfway of Jutland to grab the horses...
Marin believed that after this horse-robbing operation, the spring plowing of the Danes on the Jutland Peninsula would be greatly affected. By autumn, famine will appear on the Jutland Peninsula is almost certain. At that time, the Denmark King Hans will definitely be in a state of anxiety. This is exactly what Marin hopes to see. Otherwise, if he is idle, the Denmark King Hans would not have been ready to take revenge on himself...
Chapter completed!