The Rise of the European Emperor

Just when Marin was hiding in the room and darkly plotting to kill all the great nobles in England, there was a knock on the door. The current secretary, Machiavelli, reported that the prospective son-in-law of the Hoffman family, the crown prince of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Prince Sigismund, led a large team to the Grand Duchy of the North Sea. Its intention seems to be to sign a formal marriage contract with the Hoffman family and make a covenant.

The last time Archduke Alexander sent a team to Worms, it was just to support Marin, not a formal engagement. Now, Marin has not been beaten to death by the group, but has stood firm, and Archduke Alexander naturally feels that it is time to sign a formal marriage contract.

After all, Marin is just Annie's second brother. If you want to marry Anne, you must talk to Anne's parents, the old Hoffmans, and make a marriage contract with the old Hoffmans.

This time, the team led by Prince Sigismund was very large. In addition to 2,000 guard knights, there were also thousands of attendants, driving 20,000 cattle and 5,000 horses.

Prince Sigismund was a wise man, and he knew what Marin needed. Earlier, when he was in East Frisland, he had heard of Marin's advanced agricultural technology, advanced fertilizers, and a method of taming cattle on a large scale to cultivate the land.

Coincidentally, this year, 10,000 cattle and 5,000 horses for the Crimean Khanate and Marin trade through Poland. So, Prince Sigismund simply added another 10,000 cattle, which was a gift to Marin. As a result, it is to confirm the marriage of myself and Annie. Second, it can be regarded as congratulations to the second uncle to become the Grand Duke of Beihai... In addition, Prince Sigismund also intends to form an alliance with Marin...

Finally, and the most important point...that is-Prince Sigismund wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of the autumn harvest to confirm whether the rye harvest in the manor under the name of Malin was really that high...

After all, what Marin said was too mystical. Four or five hundred pounds per mu! Compared with ordinary fields in Europe, which yield more than 100 pounds per mu, it is simply a myth.

So, taking this opportunity, Prince Sigismund decided to go to the field to watch the serfs in Marin harvest, and weighed the weight of the grain produced by each acre of land. (Note: Prince Sigismund visited East Friesland last time and accepted the East Friesian mu quantifier and the term 'per mu yield')

This time, Prince Sigismund came over without any gold and silver treasures, nor those precious works of art. Because he knew—Marin wasn't interested, and the rest of the Hoffman family wasn't too interested. Therefore, in addition to a few exquisite jewelry to please his mother-in-law Mrs. Mary and his future wife Anne, Prince Sigismund only brought 10,000 cattle, as well as 10,000 cattle and 5,000 Eastern Europeans from the Crimean Khanate. Mongolian horse.

He knew that the second uncle mastered advanced agricultural technology, and now that he had obtained so much new land, he would definitely need a lot of cattle to reclaim the land. Therefore, bringing cattle is more popular with Marin than gold and silver treasures and works of art.

Sure enough, when Marin learned that 20,000 cows and 5,000 Eastern European Mongolian horses were coming, he was overjoyed. He is planning to vigorously develop Jutland, and there is a shortage of livestock, especially cattle. Therefore, the 20,000 cows really solved the urgent need.

There are also those 5,000 Eastern European Mongolian horses. Marin needs those horses to build his future Cossack village, of course.

Therefore, Alin personally took a ticket and went to the east gate to warmly welcome Prince Sigismund. Then, what made Prince Sigismund a little embarrassed was that Marin went to see those Eastern European Mongolian horses... Moreover, Marin bent down to observe the PP of those Eastern European Mongolian horses, which seemed very wretched... …

In fact, Marin was watching to see if the horses were castrated...

Of the 1,000 war horses purchased from the Crimean Khanate last time, many were castrated and could not be bred as a horse at all. So, later on, Marin demanded - don't accept castrated horses, or don't give money...

Crimea is probably really short of money, so, this time, Marin didn't see a castrated horse...

No wonder Marin is so careful,

He didn't know until that, in ancient China, when the Central Plains Dynasty held a tea-horse trade with the northern nomads, the northern nomads were cunning. In order to carry out this kind of business for a long time and avoid the Central Plains dynasty from breeding a large number of horses, when those northern peoples exchanged war horses for tea, most of them used gelding horses.

In this way, even if the Central Plains Dynasty got a good horse, it could only be used for one generation. When the war horses are old, they will have to go to the grassland people to exchange them in the market. Otherwise, there is no new good horse...

Marin was also worried that the Crimean Khanate would be like a chicken thief like the Mongolians who exchanged tea and horses with the Ming Dynasty. He was afraid that they would use gelding horses to fool them, so he especially asked to use uncastrated ones. Moreover, the reason is not to train new Eastern European Mongolian horses, but to say that European knights are not used to riding gelding horses... This reason is indeed tenable, and many European knights do not like riding gelding horses. Therefore, the Crimean Khanate also doubted him. Moreover, their area is also very short of money, and the territory of Marin is not bordered by the Crimean Khanate, so there is no conflict between the two sides. So, they don't care about selling uncastrated Eastern European Mongolian horses to Marin...

Prince Sigismund looked speechless as Marin bent down and stared at those horses, quite embarrassed. Fortunately, the casual Geoffrey's court appearance is very good, and he entertained Prince Sigismund so that he would not be embarrassed.

In the evening, in order to entertain Prince Sigismund who came from afar, Marin held a grand dinner and a court dance in the palace, and signed the marriage certificate in public to officially become engaged.

But on the second day, Prince Sigismund also rejected Marin's warm hospitality very strangely, saying that he would go to the manor under Marin's name to personally participate in the harvest, and personally supervise the weighing and observe the rye yield per mu...

Marin knew that Prince Sigismund was a little dubious about his words, so he simply let a team of guards accompany him, went to a farm not far from the city of Aurich, asked the prince to personally go down to the field to participate in the harvest, and help him count each The grain yield of an acre of land can satisfy its curiosity...

In this way, the noble Prince Sigismund, the future King of Poland and the Grand Duke of Lithuania, put on linen labor clothes, took a sickle, and joined the harvesting army of the rye fields of the estate. . . .

Prince Sigismund participated in the rye harvest of several estates in succession in the following days. Of course, after grinding the blood blisters in his hands on the first day, His Royal Highness did not participate in the harvesting in person, but he has been supervising the harvesting of the serfs, and went to the scales to weigh the rye with a few guards...

A few days later, he finally confirmed that the manor under the name of Marin had indeed reached about 500 pounds of rye per mu, which was amazing...

If Brother Second Uncle is willing to provide him with that magical fertilizer, then he can also make a fortune by farming... Prince Sigismund couldn't help but fall into YY...