King of German Mercenaries

Looking at the March of the year 1500, the spring ploughing work is in full swing. Before that, those prisoners of war had been supervised in the two or three months before the spring ploughing, and they had opened up a new field of 3,000 Ugrams, which happened to be spring ploughing together with the old field.

Because of the participation of 18,000 Saxon serfs and 7,000 Saxon regular infantry prisoners of war, the spring ploughing was exceptionally fast. After all, that's 25,000 men.

Within three months, Marin also ordered several fertilizer processing plants to resume work urgently, and rushed out a batch of fertilizer blocks. Fortunately, the previously air-dried dung blocks were prepared enough. This time the fertilizer was processed very quickly and did not leave much odor. After all, those feces had been air-dried for more than half a year. Then, these fertilizers were also fertilized by Marin's 3,000 serf workers who were specially responsible for fertilizer manufacturing and application. No one else did.

However, because of this war, many people have made meritorious deeds. Therefore, Marin was very distressed to spread out the fief of 10,000 Eugram, which made him feel unnecessarily sad. You know, these fiefs will not pay taxes in the future.

However, when people have made military exploits, they cannot but reward them. Moreover, the victory this time was too brilliant, and it would be difficult for Marin to reward less. This time, Marin not only sealed the fields of 10,000 Eugram, but also raised the titles of Schwartz and Frenzberg to vice-baron. In addition, Stade, commander of the fourth phalanx, was also promoted from hereditary knight to baron; Steindorf, the commander of black knights, was also promoted to baron; responsible for destroying the pontoon of the Saxons and hitting the base of the high platform where the Duke of Saxony was with artillery De, also became a baron; there was also Sauer, whom Marin held in high regard, and Marin made a bunch of excuses to promote him to a baron...

Seeing that tens of thousands of Eugram's land was sealed out in just one planting season, Marin felt that it was not easy to be a monarch. In fact, Marin was reluctant to secede the land. However, East Frisian has just stabilized now, and he cannot be separated from his soldiers because of the land enfeoffment. Moreover, Marin already had enough labor to reclaim the swamp. The tens of thousands of Eugram's land that was encapsulated out can still be brought back. After all, the new land that was reclaimed was paid for by Marin himself, and it must still belong to him.

For spring ploughing, the happiest people besides Marin are those who have tasted the sweetness before. Last year's extraordinarily bumper harvest allowed them to enjoy the benefits. For example, in Schwartz and Frenzberg, the 1,000 Ugram arable land allocated last year has an average yield of 500 pounds of rye per mu, with a total output of 6 million pounds. After Marin helped them sell half of it, the direct income was 50,000 gold coins, which made them all happy...

You know, an ordinary baronial, although the total amount of arable land is more than theirs, but the yield per mu cannot increase, and the total income per year is only 10,000 gold coins, generally not more than 20,000. However, with Marlin's support, they used only 1,000 Eugram's arable land to create a profit of 50,000 gold coins. What's more, they still have a lot of food at home. Although, those serfs also needed a lot of food to support them, and the servants at home also needed to give a lot of food. However, it is definitely not half as much. That is to say, half of the food in the family can be left over in addition to what must be consumed. Days like this make them happy.

Now, the Schwartz family is living a good life pampered. And Frenzberg also tried to get his father to retire from the army and live in his fief to retire. Even the brothers of Frenzberg, except the eldest brother who stayed in his hometown to inherit the knighthood, everyone else came to follow him. After all, with an annual income of more than 50,000 gold coins, even some poor earls can't compare. What does it mean to support a few families?

They have all earned 50,000 gold coins, and Adler, who has twice as much land as them, naturally earns 100,000 gold coins a year...

However, Adler was more tragic. Although he received a huge profit of 100,000 gold coins, he was confiscated by his wife Liv.

As for himself, he could only receive one or two gold coins from Liv every day for "sweet money"...

Then, Liv herself, like the legendary dragon, hid in the room, covered the bed with gold coins, and rolled on the gold coins...

Even those knights who only have 100 Eugram fiefs, no one's annual income reaches about 5,000 gold coins, which makes those soldiers who have no fiefs extremely jealous. Of course, this also inspired their enthusiasm for meritorious deeds. Now, the morale of Marin's soldiers is extremely strong, and they are eager to have another big head like the Duke of Saxony to give them military exploits. As long as the fief is obtained, the whole family will immediately develop...

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And, last year and in the fall, Marin sent people to the border between Poland and Silesia to buy 10,000 cattle from the owner of a large Polish cattle herd (up to 50,000). The price of each cow is less than 10 gold coins, which is very cheap.

However, these cattle were driven back to East Frisian from Silesia, and Marin's men took a lot of thought. Moreover, it is still impossible to pass through the territory of the Saxon nobles, so as not to be detained by them.

It was not until the end of the year that Marin's men brought the tens of thousands of cattle back to East Frisian in batches. Fortunately, the spring ploughing was not delayed. After putting copper nose rings on those sturdy cows, these cows become farming cows after a little training...

Moreover, Marin's men also made an appointment with the big Polish businessmen who specialized in selling cattle - to buy another 20,000 cattle in the coming year. And this time, Marin didn't plan to wait until autumn, but sent someone to buy cattle right after the spring ploughing, even if the price was a little higher.

Because, in addition to the need for arable land in East Friesland, Marin also intends to get some cattle to go to Grenada to reclaim land and grow spices. The price of Polish cattle is not expensive, it is really beneficial without cost. Even if the arable land is not available, you can still get some cattle to kill and eat meat.

The 10,000 cattle and the original thousands of draught horses, and the newly added manpower, this time the spring ploughing was exceptionally fast. After all, in the past, only a few thousand draught horses were used to cultivate tens of thousands of Eugram's land, and each draught horse had to cultivate hundreds of acres of land on average. Therefore, it takes a long time, and it is even too late.

And this time, with a huge lineup of 10,000 cattle and thousands of horses, Marin only needs one-third of the previous amount of ploughing per animal, which has greatly accelerated the speed of spring ploughing. Originally it took more than a month of spring ploughing, but it was all done in half a month.

Originally, Marin planned to let all the prisoners of war participate in the spring ploughing. However, Marin later remembered that his curved plow and cow nose ring seemed to be secret techniques. Therefore, Marin left only those Saxon strongmen who had become his serfs to help in the spring farming. As for the 7,000 Saxon infantry who were to be lost in the future, in order not to let them see the curved plow and the bull nose ring, Marin sent them directly into the swamp to dig ditches and open ditches...

While they were digging trenches, Marin also organized carpenters to start building Dutch windmills. After all, even if the ditch is dug, the equipment needs to pump the stagnant water from the swamp pool and put it into the ditch for drainage.

In this era, there were no mechanical pumps, and manual pumping was too inefficient, and it consumed a lot of physical energy and food. Therefore, pumping water with a Dutch windmill that turns day and night is the most economical option. After all, no matter how big the swamp is, the windmill cannot stop pumping water day and night. One windmill is not enough, and Marin can get a few more. Anyway, these windmills can be disassembled and moved. After the water is pumped, this pool can be dismantled and moved to the edge of another pool to be erected again - after pumping, change the place...

When the swamp is completed, Marin will have more than 100,000 Eugrams of arable land, more than all the arable land of East Frisian Counties and Wadden Baronies combined...