King of German Mercenaries

Because of the extensive use of fertilizers that promote crop growth, East Frisian crops mature a little earlier than crops in other countries.

Therefore, after September, the crops in East Friesland began to mature one after another and could be harvested. After resolving the affairs of Spain, Marin hurried back by boat, just to supervise the autumn harvest.

And, after the autumn harvest, the Saxon invasion may be coming. According to the news from Kohler, the Saxons are currently doing nothing militarily, but have been propagating that Marin's position is not right. It can be seen that the Duke of Saxony is indeed planning to do it after the autumn harvest, as Marin deduced.

This is also normal. Marin's main troops are all mercenaries, so they can naturally send troops during the autumn harvest. Because, those mercenaries are not burdened by land.

But the composition of the Saxon army was different, they were a feudal army. In the army of Saxony, many officers were fief knights. Whenever the autumn harvest time, they have to go back to their respective manor to supervise the autumn harvest. Even some poor knights have to go to the field to participate in the autumn harvest in person. Otherwise, there will be a shortage of labor.

Not only that, many soldiers in the Saxon army also need to go home to participate in the autumn harvest. These people need to go home to participate in the autumn harvest more than those nobles and knights, because they are the most important labor at home.

Although, the Duke of Saxony has a lot of business taxes. However, agriculture was also an important source of income for the feudal nobles. Therefore, it is impossible for the Duke of Saxony to attack Marin at the cost of giving up the autumn harvest.

Because he also knew that Marin was not weak and would be difficult to win in a short period of time. Therefore, Albrecht, Duke of Saxony, has long prepared for a long-term battle. And long-term combat, food is indispensable. Therefore, this made the Duke of Saxony even more unable to send troops before the autumn harvest. Only after the autumn harvest has obtained enough food, can there be capital and Marin to fight a protracted siege war.

Marin hurry up and finally made it back to East Friesland in early October. At this time, the autumn harvest in East Friesland and the Wadden Islands has already begun.

The autumn harvest really started under the auspices of Angela. With the support of the old Hoffmans and Mrs. Geoffrey, the shy Angela bravely stood up and, on behalf of Marin, presided over the ceremony of the beginning of the autumn harvest and announced the autumn harvest. start.

During this time period, all East Frisians who owned land, including Marin's soldiers, were amazed. Of course, this does not include veteran soldiers who previously owned land in the Wadden Islands.

What everyone is surprised about is the bumper harvest of rye this year, because anyone with a discerning eye can see that this year's rye ears are much larger than in previous years, and many of the wheat ears have bent the straw... The spikes are all straight up and not that heavy.

Before the harvest, everyone can predict that this year will definitely be a bumper harvest...

Of course, many of the nobility of East Frisian knew that a great war was coming. Therefore, for the early start of the autumn harvest in East Friesland this year, we are fully psychologically prepared. As soon as Angela gave the order, the various manors began to harvest wheat. Because everyone is worried that the Duke of Saxony's troops will call before the end of the autumn harvest. In that case, the wheat in the field will not be harvested in time, and may even be harvested by the Saxon army...

So, when Marin returned to East Friesland, the whole East Friesland counties were rushing to collect rye...

After not seeing him for a few months, Angela naturally misses Marin a lot, so she rushed over like a swallow in the forest...

Seeing Angela, Marin suddenly remembered that he seemed to have promised his father-in-law to find Ferris' mother and daughter, and almost forgot. So he called Kohler and asked him to arrange for someone to go to the Genoa countryside to find it.

After becoming a countess, Marin found that Angela had matured a lot. Moreover, the little girl who loves to play has started to like reading books. Moreover, reading is no longer a novel or something,

It's a kind of book about governing the country. Because Angela has realized that she is the spouse of a king of a country, and is no longer a carefree little girl. In Europe, nobles can only have one wife, so those ladies do not need to consider palace fights. There is only one mistress in the palace, who should I fight? Therefore, European ladies either indulge in court balls or something, or assist their husbands in managing their fiefs. And East Frisian lacks old-fashioned aristocrats (in fact, it was killed by Marin), and naturally there is no such thing as a court ball. So, Angela's way to pass the time is to read books and find ways to help with government affairs.

However, Angela's efforts did not make Marin happy. Because, Marin thought of Wu Zetian, Empress Lu and other representatives of the harem who were involved in politics. He doesn't like women in politics, and, although Angela is simple, she is the daughter of the old fox Julius II after all, and has the genes of struggle. If he is trained by Angela, when Julius II becomes the Pope, will he still have a place to speak? With the support of the Pope's father-in-law, Angela might be able to hold her own...

So, Marin decided to find something else to attract Angela's attention. And Angela is only 17 years old, the age of a girl who loves to play. Therefore, Marin decided to "invent" things such as mahjong and let Angela make money. He would rather Angela be obsessed with gambling than make her a female politician. After all, even if Angela is addicted to gambling, in East Frisian, no one dares to win a lot of Angela's money, and will not give her a chance to lose her family. Because, who dares to win more Angela's money, Marin must be making trouble for him in private... Even, those ladies who are busy trying to please Angela may deliberately shoot...

After returning, Marin hurriedly dealt with a lot of documents that had been backlogged before, the signatures that should be signed, the seals that should be stamped...

Then, with his guards, he rode to various places to inspect the autumn harvest work, and delivered some painless speeches, showing that he attached great importance to the autumn harvest.

As the harvesting of the fields was completed, the output of rye gradually came out. Because of the abundance of fertilizer, basically, the rye in the houses of the East Frisian nobility did not yield less than 400 pounds per mu. This was still the barren and poorly managed wheat fields. More, have reached the level of 500 pounds per mu.

Many nobles were so excited that this kind of output was basically three times as high as the previous one hundred pounds per mu. It can no longer be described as a bumper harvest, it can only be described as abnormal...

However, the men of the Marin faction privately instructed those nobles not to talk nonsense everywhere. Because, as long as they speak out, the secret of fertilizer may be coveted by other countries. Once the secret of fertilizer is leaked, and other people's per mu yields are so high, food prices may plummet, affecting everyone's interests...

When Marin said this, the nobles understood. Indeed, if only East Frisian has a bumper grain harvest, and other places remain the same, then food prices will not be affected. After all, East Friesland is a small country.

However, if other great powers knew this secret and used a lot of fertilizers, all yielding 500 pounds per mu, then the price of rye would probably drop to one-third of what it was before. Then, their harvest is meaningless. Therefore, in order to protect their own interests, these nobles will naturally not talk nonsense. As for those serfs, they couldn't leave the territory, where would they have the opportunity to go out and talk nonsense? Moreover, the population of East Frisian is not large, and the surplus boys from serf families are basically recruited by Marin to work, and there is no possibility of population exodus. Marin himself thinks that the population is not enough, where would anyone else come to East Friesland to recruit excess population?

For the sale of grain, Malin specially organized a chamber of commerce to purchase and export the grain of the nobles in a unified manner. In fact, in order to prepare for postwar recruitment, Marin basically did not export food. Because immigrants come, they themselves need to consume a lot of food.

Moreover, as long as he bought the grain of those nobles, he would not sell it to the surrounding areas casually. In this way, neighboring countries will not find out about the East Frisian grain harvest, which helps to keep secrets. Even if the grain can really be exported one day, Marin will not choose to sell it locally, but will choose to ship the grain to the UK or Spain for sale. Because the price of food in these two places is higher than that in Germany.

A large amount of food was transported into the city of Aurich. Marin even intends to expand the area of ​​Aurich City several times. However, now he has no time to build a new city. Therefore, when building the granary, Marin built a new city directly on the edge of the old city. The new city is surrounded by walls, and then it is full of granaries. In order to speed up the progress, Marin even directly built many adobe houses with relatively short construction time and relatively low cost in the new city to temporarily store food.

The counties of East Friesland have more than 80,000 Eugram arable land, and the total production of rye has reached 500 million pounds. Of these, most are produced on estates owned by Marin. As for the grain of the nobles, half of the food was kept at home, and the other half was sold to Marin's Chamber of Commerce. However, when Marin calculated, he was taken aback and found that it would cost more than 600,000 gold coins to acquire about 60 million pounds of grain from them...

Therefore, Marin decisively chose to pay 10% of the purchase price, and then cashed out the remaining 90% after the grain was sold. Everyone understands this. After all, the amount of food was too much, and it was really difficult for Marin to take out more than 600,000 gold coins at once. Because although Marin makes more money, he also spends more money. Therefore, there is not much cash in hand. Also, Columbus's spice ship came home, as everyone knows. However, it will take time for the spices to be sold. However, everyone is not worried that those spices will not be sold. With so many spices as a guarantee, no one worries that Marin won't be able to pay for the goods. Even many small nobles are willing to use spices to offset the price of food.

Then, Marin began to ask Kohler to send the "North Sea Chamber of Commerce" established earlier to contact the United Kingdom, and he planned to dump the 60 million pounds of rye to the United Kingdom. After all, British rye is half as expensive as in Germany. After Marin sold the acquired rye to the UK, he could not only pay off the remaining payment, but also make a fortune...