The Rise of the European Emperor

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() Pope Julius II felt embarrassed to see Marin's embarrassing performance. The other German princes, though despised, also "understood" Marin's humiliating performance.

why? Anyone who gets a site with a size of 20,000 to 30,000 square kilometers will be extremely happy. It's just that Marin was more embarrassed, so he smirked in public.

Seeing the contemptuous glances from the surrounding princes, Marin was not annoyed, but returned a friendly smile to everyone and said kindly:

"Sorry, I am making everyone laugh. I will not take the initiative to invade others, but I welcome others to invade me. Because, this way I can have a suitable excuse to expand the site. After all, no one will think that there is too much territory... "

"Others are welcome to invade me"——Marin's confident words made the princes feel a cool breeze... Nimad, this guy Marin did not take the initiative to attack others, but the more he was attacked, the bigger the territory... ...let's just leave him alone...

Frederick III is also angry - yes, why did I provoke this villain when I had nothing to do? If I didn't care about my sister's family affairs, I wouldn't have these huge losses at all. Not to mention ceding the land, I have to pay 1 million in indemnity... More importantly, Marin sacked Wittenberg once before. It is estimated that many wealthy families in Wittenberg have gone bankrupt... I don't know how long it will take to let Wittenberg go. Tenburg regained its former prosperity...

Joachim I also regretted it - why did I marry Denmark in the first place? Without marrying the Danish princess, the Electorate of Brandenburg would not have been involved in this war over Denmark, nor would Stendal, a prosperous city on the west bank of the Elbe, be lost...

King Hans of Denmark, at this time, it is estimated that he wants to die. What he lost was not one or two counties, but the equivalent of four principalities, and it was the territory of a larger principality. The Principality of Holstein, the Principality of Schleswig and the rest of Jutland, together, have an area of ​​almost 40,000 square kilometers. Moreover, this is considered to be the best climate area in Denmark.

Through these two tragically lost wars, Denmark lost all its territory on the European continent, leaving only a few islands such as Zealandia, and the northernmost kingdom in Europe, the Kingdom of Norway...

The kingdom of Norway is really big,

The mainland alone is more than 200,000 square kilometers. But, that's useless...

Most of the territory of the Kingdom of Norway is in the area north of 60 degrees north latitude. What is the concept of 60 degrees north latitude? Putting it in Asia at the same latitude, it is already an extremely cold place beyond the Xing'an Mountains to the north. The later ice city of Harbin is only about 45 degrees north latitude.

Of course, the winter in Norway is not as cold as the Northeast because of the warm North Atlantic Current. But don't worry about the high temperature here in summer. Only a small number of areas south of 60 degrees north latitude can still engage in special agriculture. For example, grow some hardy crops like potatoes.

As for grain, it is not impossible to grow. But the point is, the current grain varieties in Europe are very poor. The core problem is - the growth period is too long...

In Europe now, it is normal for rye to grow for more than half a year. Wheat varieties are even worse. They are planted in November in the first year, and harvested in October in the second year. It takes a whole year to grow...

This is not a problem in southern Europe at low latitudes, but in high latitudes like Norway, it will be fatal. The summer is originally short, and the spring and autumn are also mainly cold. If the wheat seeds that are planted in spring and harvested in summer in later generations, maybe they can still be planted reluctantly. But now this species with a particularly long growth period is not to be planted in Norway.

Moreover, although Norway also has an area of ​​tens of thousands of square kilometers south of 60 degrees north latitude. But what's special is that the terrain is mainly mountainous... If it is a plain, if the forest is chopped down and the grassland is freed, it may be possible to develop animal husbandry. After all, weeds and livestock do not necessarily need the high temperatures in summer. Sheep wool is so thick that it can still be topped. Moreover, although the Norwegian winter is long, it is really not too cold. However, the rugged mountains of Norway also shattered the idea of ​​large-scale development of animal husbandry.

Of course, another important bottleneck restricting the development of the Kingdom of Norway is the population problem...

Norway has an area of ​​more than 200,000 square kilometers, with a population of only 240,000. Calculated, equivalent to an average of one person per square kilometer. What is this concept? One square kilometer is equivalent to 1,500 mu of land - 1,500 mu of land per capita!

Of course, most of them are mountains, which is useless. But to tell the truth, the tens of thousands of square kilometers of land south of Norway's 60 degrees north latitude, as long as it is developed, still has a lot to do.

Marin remembers a number - the total amount of agricultural land in Norway was more than 10,000 square kilometers in later generations, of which pasture accounted for more than 6,300 square kilometers... These places should all be in the southernmost part of Norway, south of 60 degrees north latitude. within a square kilometer. After all, although there are many mountains, there are still places such as river valleys and coastal plains that can be used when crowded. If those places are really utilized, they can still feed hundreds of thousands of people (with the current backward agricultural and animal husbandry technology). But the problem is that farming and animal husbandry requires a large number of people...

Just thinking about things in Norway, suddenly the King of Denmark, Hans, came to him with a bitter face...

At this time, the emperor publicly announced that the order was over long ago, and the councilors could not refute, so they acquiesced. Moreover, the meeting has reached this point, and it is almost over. Next, it is time for the princes to talk and make good relations with each other.

Marin was a little puzzled about the Danish King Hans coming to him, but soon he knew the other party's intention - Hans did not want to take over the Danish nobles on the Jutland peninsula. Because, that's a heavy burden for Denmark...

You must know that the more than 20,000 square kilometers of northern Jutland peninsula that Denmark has newly ceded to Marin has a population of almost 250,000, and there are six to seven hundred nobles, all of whom are Danes.

If these six or seven hundred nobles were brought back to Zealand, they would have to rely on the Danish court for support if they lost their land. Because of the noble status, the cost is not low. This is too heavy a burden for the Kingdom of Denmark, which has been defeated twice in a row and ceded land for reparations...

So, what Hans meant was that he wanted Marin to take over the six or seven hundred Danish nobles and make them turn their allegiance to Marin...

But Marin shook his head again and again, why? This is a thunder, you can't pick it up!

For the 250,000 civilian Danes, Marin didn't feel anything. At most, use Huairou to slowly assimilate them. After all, those Danes are illiterate, and they promote German education by themselves. With financial subsidies, they can still win over them.

But the six or seven hundred Danish nobles were different. These noble families have a systematic cultural heritage - the cultural heritage of Danish...

This cultural heritage may not be visible now. But once nationalism rises, these Danish cultural heritages will become the fighting platform for the Danes to resist and the cultural backbone of the Danish nation.

Therefore, keeping these literate Danish nobles is definitely a mine for themselves and their descendants. Look at the terrible Scottish referendum and the Catalan referendum in later generations... Marin had long planned to assimilate all the Danes in Jutland into a German-speaking population, and naturally he was not happy for those nobles with cultural heritage to stay. Clearing them out is what Marin needs to do most.

"But Denmark can't afford them!" said King Hans mournfully. He is really helpless. Now that Denmark is so poor, and the maritime trade has been destroyed by the Hanseatic League, how can he have the money to support 600 or 700 aristocratic families?

"This... Your Majesty, you can send these 600 or 700 families to southern Norway to reclaim the land! As far as I know, although southern Norway has many mountains, there are also many uncultivated plains and valleys. These nobles should be able to be placed. Let's go..." Marin suggested.

"But Norway is not suitable for farming..." Hans said.

"Why do you need to farm? Can't you raise sheep? You can provide mutton, as well as sheepskin and wool! Six or seven hundred families go to chop down trees, free up plains and valleys, and they seem to be able to survive by raising sheep. Even, Your Majesty can also collect trade taxes on wool and sheepskins!" In order to get rid of this hot potato, Marin did not hesitate to give advice to his opponent King Hans.

"Yes, that's a good idea!" King Hans's eyes lit up.

In these days, the fief aristocracy did not pay taxes for farming, but raising sheep involved the trade of wool and sheepskin (parchment was very popular in Europe at this time). Once there is a deal, then the king has the power to collect taxes, not too much! As for cutting down trees to damage the environment? Paralyzed what the idiot said? This kind of bastards and deceitful people, quickly tie the stake to the stake and burn them to death...

But after a while, King Hans's eyes dimmed again, saying:

"However, after these large and small nobles left Jutland, without serfs, they couldn't chop down trees or raise sheep... Moreover, there were too few people in the Kingdom of Norway, and no one assigned them work... "

Hans was right. According to the agreement, Hans would take all the Danish nobles and their families from Jutland, but not the serfs. Without serfs, do you expect these nobles to engage in production? Just starve to death for you to see... Only those lower-level knight families who often participate in labor will not starve to death. Moreover, the Kingdom of Norway is already short of people, so it is difficult to send these six or seven hundred noble families to southern Norway to distribute serfs to them...

Hearing this, in order to get rid of those thunders, Marin gritted his teeth and decided to let blood once:

"Well, Your Majesty, I allow those noble families to bring 10 strong men with their families! Of course, it's better to follow the principle of voluntariness when taking people away!"

King Hans looked at Marin in amazement--is this guy so kind? However, he immediately accepted Marin's gift - which was good for him...

Of course Marin was not so kind. He did this to send away those "Gods of Plague", lest they leave any seeds of civilization and spirituality in Jutland. The rest of a bunch of uneducated serfs, is it not good to fool around? The big deal is to pay some money to let their children enter the school for free from primary school German... 100 years later, when those children who learn German grow up, who will remember Denmark? I remember that the nobles of the Danish team went to Norway to cut trees and raise sheep...

Although Marin will lose several thousand men and 20,000 to 30,000 people, he has no regrets. Because, this is "demining" Jutland in advance...

Unlike other German regions, Jutland is mostly Danes. It is very difficult to assimilate these Danes. Especially the cultured Danes, who are leaders in the eyes of the common people. Without them, the Danish culture will not end.

Don't you see, North China has been invaded by nomadic tribes several times, but it still survived tenaciously. Moreover, the aliens were assimilated. why? Because of those literati!

If the nomadic people kill all the literati and then teach the uneducated common people a foreign language, after a few generations, those people will be hustled. However, those nomads themselves have no culture, so they had to use those native Chinese literati, and the final result was that they were sinicized...

The literati do not die, and the culture does not perish. Because there are always literati reminding those people - we are xx people...

If Scots don't speak Scots, and Catalans don't speak Catalan, will they still have split thoughts?

Marin even believes that the existence of dialects is unnecessary...

Because the existence of dialects has caused regional differences and differences in the sense of identity. The existence of dialects not only creates difficulties in communication. Moreover, it will automatically use dialects to forcibly divide people into groups, causing cultural divisions.

Even, it will cause regional discrimination because of dialect. The most impressive thing about Marin in the previous life was when he met Aunt Shang Hai when he was in Shang Hai, and he seemed to be very arrogant in the question - "Ala Shanghai, where is Nong?". I heard that you are from other places, and there is contempt in your eyes...

If everyone speaks the same Mandarin, and there are no dialect and cultural differences, who can despise who?

The local accent is friendly, but it is easy to cause cultural differences and group differentiation, resulting in ideological divisions...

The simplest example is the descendants of Chinese immigrants living abroad. Many of them, because they can't speak Chinese, have become the legendary "banana people", with yellow skin and white heart... They speak fluent English, French, German... but they can't speak Chinese...

Although they have Chinese blood, you treat him as your own, but he treats you as a strange outsider. For example, the NBA star Jeremy Lin is sought after by many people, but he does not speak Chinese at all, and is a standard banana person. The Chinese spoken on the TV was extremely lame, and was learned on a temporary basis. If it weren't for the terrifying Chinese market in the NBA during Yao Ming's period, he might not be willing to learn Chinese. It is said that this is what the NBA League asked him to do, in order to keep the huge Chinese market. It is a pity that Jeremy Lin is not Yao Ming, so it is difficult to integrate into the Chinese circle, nor can he succeed Yao Ming and become the flagpole of the NBA in China. Except for some people who are easily fooled, most people don't buy him. Because he is a banana man who can't even speak Chinese...

So, let's expel all the literate Danes in Jutland, leave only the illiterate, illiterate, and teach them German... Then the Danes in Jutland will be Germanized...

Anyway, they'll be educated as Danes with a German "core". Of course, Germans and Danes are actually Germanic people, but they don't understand the language. The yellow people will become banana people with yellow skin and white heart because of the language change, not to mention the Danes who are of the same species? These Danes in Jutland would be assimilated into Germans as long as the German language prevailed. Just like the Xianbei people in those days, now you go to ask if the person with the surname Murong is a Xianbei person or a ****? Proper ****...