The Rise of the European Emperor

When he was planning to build a paper mill and salt boiling center on Cape Breton Island, Marin found it really helpful to loot the 150 Kirk sailing ships that Denmark had been given. Whether it is transporting people or cargo, everything is not a problem in front of 15o Kirk sailboats.

However, the boat is not the problem, the sailor is the problem...

Mainly, 15o Kirk sailboats, each on board, requires 2o to 4o sailors. In this way, these 15o sailboats need at least the appearance of 5ooo sailors.

And the East Frisian country where Marin is located can only recruit 4ooo young fishermen. Moreover, these 4ooo people have been divided by 8 ships, 15 25o-class warships and 17 Karak sailboats, a total of 4o ships currently owned by Marin. The appearance of 2ooo people, including gunners. That is to say, for those captured Danish merchant ships, the sailor gap has reached about 3ooo.

Fortunately, most of the coastal areas of Oldenburg, which was newly won by Marin, as well as the Jever area, were mostly Frisian. Even the west coast of the Principality of Schleswig and the Ditmarschen region are mostly populated by Frisian fishermen.

Therefore, Marin intends to recruit young Frisian fishermen to serve as sailors in the Jever region, the coast of Oldenburg, and the west coast of the Duchy of Schleswig.

To this end, Marin invited 5 of the nicknames of the 13 University of Cologne college students who were recruited in the first batch of "Thirteen Taibao" recruited at the University of Cologne three years ago to discuss.

Then, with the help of these 5 college students, Marin created the famous Sailors First Act. In the future, this bill will provide Marin with a large number of sailors, so that a huge number of Marin's warships will roam all over the world, scaring those pirates to the point of shit...

The Act stipulates that the tax rate of ordinary fishermen is 30% of the tithe of the church, not including the tithe of the church.

However, if there are young people in the family who serve as sailors in the navy and serve on the merchant ships under Marin's name, the tax rate for the whole family during the service period is reduced to 2o. In addition, the salt needed for salted fish can be prepaid at home. If you die in battle,

The preferential policy will be extended for 1o to 2o years, depending on the age of the deceased.

In addition, the bank that Marin set up to support fishermen, that is, the bank that provides loans to poor fishermen to buy large fishing boats, has also changed its policy, and announced in the Sailors First Act that from now on, only young men in their families will serve in the navy. Services, or directly servicing families with merchant ships in Marin’s name, provide loans. Families without young men serving the Navy and Marin's merchant ships no longer benefited from the loan policy.

The promulgation of the Sailors First Act symbolized that Marin divided the fishermen into two categories: those who served Marin, and those who did not serve Marin.

Families of fishermen who serve Marin will enjoy various discounts, and they can also get loans to buy large fishing boats to increase their income. It is also important to prepend table salt for pickling salted fish, because without enough salt, you cannot pickle enough salted fish. That way, no matter how many fish you catch, if the salt is not enough, some fish will only rot.

Fishermen's families who do not serve Marin will become ordinary taxpayers. If you want to buy a big fishing boat, you can only rely on your own affordability. But the profit of selling salted fish is very low. If you want to save enough money to buy a new big fishing boat, God knows the year of the monkey and the month of the horse. The policy of borrowing money to buy fishing boats will not benefit them from now on. Moreover, they cannot advance salt for pickling salted fish, they can only pay for salt for pickling of salted fish. If you don't have enough money to buy enough salt, even if you catch too much fish, it's a waste. Because, there is no salt for pickling.

Henceforth, as time goes on, fishermen's families with sailors at home serving Marin will get better and better. There were no sailors in the family who served Marin, and although it was better than before Marin ruled, it was not much better.

The biggest difference between the two is the eligibility for a loan to buy a large fishing boat, and whether it is possible to pay for salt in advance. Only with bigger fishing boats will the harvest be bigger. The prepaid salt can allow fishermen to have enough salt to pickle salted fish. Otherwise, there is not enough salt, and even if you have a big fishing boat and catch a lot of fish, it is useless. Without enough salt, the extra fish can only rot and stink...

Although there is no forced recruitment of young and strong fishermen as sailors, but after the enactment of the Sailors First Act, it will use interests to force those families of young and strong fishermen to rush to serve the navy and Marin's fleet.

Moreover, the Sailors First Act was, in fact, aimed at the Frisian fishermen of the newly controlled Gever region, the coast of Oldenburg, and the west coast of Schleswig. As for Dittmarschen... well, because of Marin's capture last time, the two sides reached an agreement that Marin allowed them to govern themselves...

The total number of Frisian fishermen in these areas is estimated to reach about 40,000, which is a huge number. It shouldn't be a problem to recruit five or six thousand sailors among them...

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During the development and enactment of the Sailors First Act, Marin naturally consulted with Amerigo, who was helping Marin train captains at the Captain's School.

Amerigo has no opinion on the new bill, but has his own views on the 150 merchant ships seized from Denmark.

The ships were docked at the newly built wharf near Emden, and Amerigo went to see them. He believes that among the 15o ships, only the 6o Kirk sailboats with a displacement of more than 2oo tons have value for ocean voyages. Others with a displacement of less than 2oo tons are still a bit dangerous to sail in the Atlantic Ocean.

Moreover, with the current trade scale of Marin, even the 60 Kirk sailboats above 2oo tons may not be able to use all of them, not to mention the 90 Kirk sailboats less than 2oo tons...

Marlin was embarrassed...

He just wanted to use all the 150 captured ships, but he didn't think about the trade volume of the chamber of commerce under his name, whether he could use so many ships...

Even if there are 60 merchant ships of more than 2oo tons, the scale is very terrifying. Because, these 60 ships, the total volume of a full load will reach more than 7,000 tons... Does Marin have so much cargo to transport? the answer is negative……

As a result, Marin finally selected the 60 Kirk sailing ships of more than 2oo tons and set up a steamship company controlled by himself for trade transportation and troop transportation. Of course, it was also responsible for the transport between the native and the colonies.

As for those 9o boats with a displacement of less than 2oo tons...

"Otherwise, you can use them as fishermen's loans to buy big fishing boats in the big boat project and sell them to qualified fishermen?" Amerigo suggested.

A ship of one hundred and dozens of tons may be regarded as a small ship in ocean-going trade. However, in the eyes of those Frisian fishermen, it is definitely a big boat, and they are fully qualified to go fishing in the depths of the North Sea, not like now, most of the Frisian fishermen are still using small boats of more than ten tons. Fishing in the coastal waters... Even in later generations, fishing boats with a displacement of 100 or tens of tons cannot be considered small...

After thinking about it for a while, Marin finally made a decision:

"It's a good idea, so it's settled. Of these 90 boats, I plan to send 20 boats to Cape Breton Island and the Twin Islands, and send a group of fishermen over to participate in fishing. As for the other 70 boats, I will sell them at a discount. To those fishermen who meet the loan conditions to buy big boats!"

In this way, Marin decisively disposed of 90 "small boats" with a displacement of less than 2oo tons, and only kept 60 Kirk sailboats with a displacement of more than 2oo tons as the merchant ships of the newly established "Hoffmann Shipping Company". .

In this way, the problem of insufficient sailors that Marin was worried about was solved immediately. Because, two-thirds of the ships were cut down, and the remaining one-third of the ships, with the existing sailors, was completely enough, and just enough...

In fact, for these 6o Kirk sailboats above 2oo tons, Marin does not look down on them. Because, in his mind, the Galen ship with more than 5oo tons is the most suitable merchant ship. It's just that he doesn't have any Galen ships in his hands now. There are only a few ships that are still battleships.

Only when enough Galen ships are built will those Kirk sailboats be slowly replaced. It is also a very good way to deal with the eliminated Kirk sailboats cheaply to those qualified fishermen. In this way, it can also support the development of fisheries.

You know, this year, there are not many large fishing boats at sea, and fishery resources are also very rich. Moreover, in this era, because of the many rules of the Holy See, there are so many festivals in the year where meat is not allowed, and the sale of salted fish is also very marketable...

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