The Rise of the European Emperor

Before the Industrial Revolution began, the autumn harvest was so important that it was almost the lifeblood of a country's economy. A wrong autumn harvest can lead to famine and political instability. Therefore, for the autumn harvest, Marin sent most of his soldiers to participate in the autumn harvest. Only the tens of thousands of prisoners of war in South Münster did not participate in the autumn harvest. Because the importance of digging through the canal connecting the Rhine is not under the autumn harvest.

In this era of backward transportation, roads and rivers are also an important way for the expansion of power. In China in the 19th century, the British passed the Yangtze River, an important waterway, and used warships to reach into the Yangtze River Basin. The Russians, through the world-famous Trans-Siberian Railway, stretched their hands from far away Europe to the northeast.

It's just that the Trans-Siberian Railway opened to traffic too late. It only opened to traffic in 1916, and Tsarist Russia was finished in 1917. But this railway also brought convenience to the later Soviet Union. Therefore, in 1905, the Russian Maozi was defeated in the northeast, while the Soviet Union won the battle of Nomonhan. It is not to say that the Soviet army was more powerful in combat. In fact, the Soviet army suffered more casualties than the Japanese army. It's just that because of the Trans-Siberian Railway and the large number of Soviet people, they don't care about casualties. Therefore, the devil decisively chose to admit counsel. Moreover, later Stalin supported the establishment of Outer Mongolia, but was unwilling to return it to China, because Outer Mongolia was close to the Trans-Siberian Railway. As long as the Trans-Siberian Railway is cut off, the Soviet Union will completely lose control of the Far East. What is the outer Xing'anling? It has nothing to do with the Soviet Union. This is also the reason why later generations, the polar bear king Putin the Great, still attaches great importance to Outer Mongolia, and even sheds crocodile tears in Outer Mongolia...

If Huaxia really wants to seize the Outer Xing'an Mountains, it must first obtain Outer Mongolia, and it can cut off the Siberian Railway at any time... Of course, that is unlikely. Later generations are already in the era of nuclear weapons. If you want to grab so many territories, you have to eat nuclear bombs. Such an assumption is based on the premise of conventional warfare. If the factor of nuclear weapons aside, as long as China seizes Outer Mongolia and cuts off the Trans-Siberian Railway, Maozi will lose control of the Far East...

Far too far, the above paragraph only shows the importance of communication. If Marin wants to reach into the Ruhr area, he must get through the traffic line with the Ruhr area. And waterway transportation is the most suitable at present.

Although the Rhine River is an important river channel in Germany, it has a fatal flaw-the estuary is in the Netherlands...

As long as the Dutch blocked access to the sea, inland shipping would collapse. Therefore, in later generations, the Germans built a lot of canals, such as the Sino-German Canal, the Dortmund-Emes Canal... Of course, the Kiel Canal is indispensable... This pile of canals connects the northern German plains and connects them. The sea facilitates the transportation of important industrial strategic resources such as coal and iron ore. Moreover, even in later generations, the cost of canal transportation is still lower than that of railway transportation, and it is the preferred mode of transportation for bulk cheap goods.

The Münster Canal built by Marin is actually a simplified version of the Dortmund-Emes Canal in later generations. Mainly, the distance is shortened and the river channel is a little narrower. However, its role is similar, that is - connecting the Rhine and the Ems river, directly to the North Sea. The main function of the Sino-German Canal is to horizontally connect the Ems, Weser and Elbe rivers.

Form a three-dimensional waterway transportation network.

It can be said that as long as the Münster Canal is dug, Marin will be able to reach out to the Rhine and make Emden an outlet for Rhine merchant ships. As a result, it is difficult for Emden's economy not to take off.

It is in view of this that at such an important moment as the autumn harvest, Marin did not stop digging the Münster Canal. At most, the construction army should not affect the autumn harvest in the South Münster area.

Because he was busy with the autumn harvest, Marin's soldiers and soldiers did not have time to count and distribute the credits. Until the end of the autumn harvest, the issue of the statistics of military exploits and the final reward will be resumed.

Because of the autumn harvest, armed conflicts in various countries have been suspended. why? Although the armies of various countries are mainly mercenaries, they do not necessarily need to participate in the autumn harvest. However, the people who serve those mercenaries must participate in the autumn harvest. Otherwise, there will be insufficient labor. Delaying the autumn harvest is a big blow to any country. Only a commercial country like Venice does not pay much attention to the autumn harvest. Because the citizens of this country are basically businessmen, or sailors who serve the businessmen, and very few farmers.

The same goes for Lübeck and Hamburg, they are Hanseatic cities. It's just that after they got the Principality of Holstein in the last war, they only had a lot of farmland under their rule.

But what makes Marin speechless is that although Lübeck and Hamburg divided the Principality of Holstein, both cities focused on several cities in the Principality of Holstein. They made great efforts to develop several cities that were assigned to their respective hands into prosperous commercial cities. But for the vast rural areas, the two Hanseatic cities, are actually unnoticed. Anyway, manors in the countryside can’t collect taxes. The two Hanseatic cities of Lübeck and Hamburg simply let the rural manor owners engage in parliamentary autonomy, and don’t come to the idea of ​​​​the city...

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This autumn, it is not only the mainland that is doing the autumn harvest, but Marin's colonies in the Americas are actually doing the autumn harvest. Moreover, because of the low latitude, the fall harvest in the Americas is earlier than in mainland Europe. In particular, Grenada, because it is in the tropics, actually has an early autumn harvest. No, because Grenada is a tropical island, there is no concept of spring, summer, autumn and winter at all, and there is no concept of autumn harvest. People harvest when the time is up, regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter...

In fact, as early as spring, Grenada sent back a shipment of ginger and cane sugar, as well as a shipment of rice. However, at that time, Marin had already led his troops on an expedition, and he did not receive this "filial piety".

And just when the autumn harvest was taking place in the country, Grenada harvested another crop of ginger and sugarcane, and got a boatload of ginger and sugarcane to send back.

This time, Marin happened to receive this "filial piety" and was naturally very happy. You know, this year, because the Indian route has just opened, and the scale of cane sugar cultivation in Portugal and Spain is still small. Therefore, the price of ginger and sucrose is very high.

Moreover, ginger is actually a spice in this year, and the price is close to pepper. In the European market, ginger, although not as high as 10 shillings per pound as pepper, is also 89 shillings per pound (it was 2 shillings per pound in the early Middle Ages, but with the rise of prices and the rise of Turkey, the price increased. After Portugal opened the India route, it began to fall again). Even in the era of Elizabeth I, the Indian route has been opened for many years, ginger is still expensive, and ginger-flavored cakes are still the high-end food of the court at that time...

Originally, Marin didn't like the ginger and sucrose. Especially the sucrose, because there is no Chinese yellow mud method, it is darker than brown sugar. Therefore, Marin has no interest in those brown sugars (so you can call them, it seems that there were also brown sugars in history). However, I can't stand my child's love to eat it. Little Caesar ignored Marin's warnings and frequently stole brown sugar to eat, and even licked his sticky fingers after eating...

Marin was furious, dragged little Caesar over and beat him. He knows that sugar is bad for children's teeth. There is so much brown sugar at home, if this kid is allowed to steal sugar and eat it, it will definitely be bad for his teeth.

Moreover, as a big noble family, there is obviously honey at home, and this bear child has to steal the kind of brown sugar that is not of the highest grade.

However, what surprised Marin was that not only little Caesar liked brown sugar, but also noble children from other families. Even, those women also like to eat brown sugar. It seems that brown sugar is a high-end thing...

Marin finally came to his senses—he was used to seeing white sugar in later generations, and he didn't like this kind of brown sugar, but in this era, European natives like this kind of low-purity brown sugar, and treat it as a treasure...

The price of sucrose on the market now exceeds 3 shillings per pound. Until later Spain planted sugar cane on a large scale in the Americas, the price of sugar in England seemed to be 1 shilling 6 pence per pound. And the wholesale price for British merchants and Spaniards is 1 shilling per pound...

In other words, the whole boat of ginger and brown sugar are very high-end goods...

Before, Marin was worried about not having money to reward his soldiers. Rewarding them with war horses is no problem, but rewarding them with second-hand weapons and armor seems a bit inappropriate...

So, Marin decided to learn the methods of the New Year and the festivals of later generations, wrap the ginger and brown sugar in oil paper bags produced by Cape Breton Island, as a reward, match those second-hand weapons and armors, and send them to the soldiers as rewards...

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