King of Mercenaries Chapter 225

Published at 14th of June 2023 05:19:50 AM

Hunchun's work is in full swing. For the pre-industrial era, agriculture was the most fundamental event in a country. Therefore, no matter how much you value it, you can't be overstated.

Everything went well. Marin's collection of feces and plant ash went very smoothly. The people are extremely supportive of Lord Earl's efforts to help clear up the feces. Since Marin began to organize daily staff to clean up the city's feces, towns such as Orich and Emden have no longer smelly.

But the fish kills from the Wadden Islands are not enough. Because the fisheries of the Wadden Islands are so large, they also need to supply more than 10,000 cultivated land in Eugram on the islands. Originally, on the arable land of the Wadden Islands, it was absolutely enough to kill fish, and there were many more.

However, Marin suddenly added 60,000 Yougram's arable land, and his 10,000 Yougram's arable land also had to kill fish. Therefore, the gap suddenly became large.

In desperation, Marin had no choice but to set his sights on the coastal area of ​​East Frisian ...

After Marin had previously won East Frisian, priority was given to the agriculturally developed Lyle County area, as well as the Emden and Orich areas. Then, for the aristocracy inland, some cleanup was carried out.

However, for the coastal area, Marin's control is not enough. Exactly, there is a shortage of scraps for killing fish here, so Marin sent troops to inspect the coastal areas and the East Frisian Islands in the sea, statistics of fishermen's household registration, and organization to collect scraps of killing fish.

Such a statistic scared Marin. It turned out that more than 60,000 people in East Friesland had more than 20,000 people who were fishermen. It is indeed a maritime nation of Germany. There are so many people living at sea ...

Marin is overjoyed that so many people are fishermen. Because the more fishermen there are, the more sailors can choose.

He Ma Lin made a rough estimate. From these more than 20,000 fishermen, 2,000 sailors were drawn, and that can be done. However, for big sailing, 2000 sailors are not small, but they are not really large. However, this is better than nothing ...

The fishermen in East Frisian did not do well. Their burden is heavy. Similar to the fishermen in West Friesland, fishermen need to give 40% of their catch to the lord and 10% to the church. However, because the salt of the salted fish needs to be prepared by the fishermen themselves. Therefore, the salted fish they need to hand in actually accounts for 70% of their harvest.

If U Marin wants to solicit these fishermen for his own use, naturally he must first reclaim the lordship of the seaside. There are also many lords by the sea. These lords occupy a large area of ​​land, but the development is very small. The little lord here earns profits by reselling the salted fish handed in by fishermen. However, the profit from selling salted fish is very low, and the freight is still high. Therefore, these fishermen lords are actually very poor, far less wealthy than those agricultural lords. They are often called "salted fish lords", full of ridicule and ridicule.

So, after Marin took out 5000 acres of cultivated land, he replaced all the sovereignty of the seaside area.

Those salted fish lords, although they used a large area of ​​seaside territories, changed hundreds of Eugram's arable land, but the profit did not decrease. Because the income of cultivated land is not lower than the sale of salted fish. Because of the inconvenience of transportation, the cost of land transportation is too high, and the salt price is also very high, there is no profit in selling salted fish.

Umarin used only 5,000 Ugram's arable land and the same amount of other types of land, so he changed a lot of coastal lords' land.

I was actually stupid by these coastal lords. The area of ​​land they occupy can at least reclaim arable land of 20,000 to 30,000.

Of course, the reclamation of land in coastal areas requires huge investment. These poor saltwater fish lords couldn't afford the money.

Not to mention, for reclamation of coastal areas into farmland, irrigation canals need to be dug from some large rivers and connected to the coastal plain. The cost of excavating irrigation canals is quite high. Even if it was replaced by Edsard I, Earl of East Frisian, it might not be affordable. Only a local tyrant like Marin can afford the large-scale reclamation of wasteland and the funding of irrigation canals.

But huge investment is also worth it. Because Marin has the secret to increasing food production, and the price of food is so expensive. Therefore, no matter how much investment is made, the returns are also very high.

The only thing to consider is whether the fertilizer is sufficient. There is no shortage of manure and potassium fertilizer. As long as the population is sufficient, manure must be available every day. As for potassium fertilizer, because Marin has obtained a bitter salt mine rich in potassium salts, there is no problem. Only the scraps of killing fish depends on the scale of fishing.

After taking over the sovereignty of all fishing villages by the sea, Marlin began to modify the strategy. Because Yancheng's salt production is limited, Marin cannot temporarily reimburse some of the salt to the fishermen, nor can it provide cheap salt. Therefore, Marin can only temporarily sharpen 10% of the catch and hand it in, which will reduce the burden on fishermen. The original 40% of the catch was turned in and changed to 30%.

However, Marin demanded that these fishermen must hand over the usual scraps of killing fish, except for poisonous fish gall, as fertilizer. They usually eat the leftover fish bones of the fish, and they must collect and hand in the same ...

Finally, the fishermen usually return to fishing. They have the habit of sorting fish, discarding some unpalatable fish that cannot be sold, and throwing them into the sea.

But Marin banned them from doing so in the future. These fish that were to be discarded, Marin intends to collect them for fertilizer. These fish that were to be discarded are, in Marin's opinion, phosphate fertilizer! Sun dried fish, crushed into powder, mixed into dung, properly nourished farmland ...

It is true that more than 20,000 fishermen are not covered. Although the fishing boats here are not as abundant as the fishermen of the Wadden Islands supported by Marin, there are more fishermen here than in the Wadden Islands. So, there are more fish kills here than the Wadden Islands. As soon as Marin collected it, he found that there is no shortage of phosphate fertilizer this year ...

For the fact that East Frisian fishermen also lack fishing boats, Marin also intends to set up a bank to be responsible for low-interest loans to buy fishing boats for fishermen. Fishermen can get more fish with fishing boats. With more fish ~ www.novelhall.com ~ more fish kills can be produced. Marin can also get more natural phosphate fertilizer ... In short, this is a win-win situation ...

Even, Marin is not satisfied with the huge scale of more than 20,000 fishermen. Because the number of sailors that these fishermen can provide is also very limited.

Therefore, Marin plans to recruit more surplus serfs from the Mainland, choose good water-based, make them fishermen, and loan them to buy fishing boats. In this way, the scale of fishermen has expanded, and Marin has more choices in recruiting sailors.

You know, the sea is infinite. In this era, humans have not used machine-driven big fishing boats, and there are no large trawls driven by machines. Therefore, the fish in the sea have not been caught to the endangered level. Even the fishing ability of human beings is very, very weak in this era, and it has little impact on the sea.

Therefore, in this era, as long as you have enough fishermen and fishing boats, the fish in the North Sea fishing grounds can never be fished.

The more fish from the Erhai Lake, the more saltwater fish that the great lord of Marin received. And salted fish is food. With more food, naturally more people can be fed.

At the same time, the fishermen are fishing more, and there will be more fish scraps and sorted discarded fish. In this way, Marin's farmland can also get enough phosphate fertilizer ...

In short, vigorously developing fisheries can not only bring a large amount of salted fish as food, but also a large amount of natural phosphate fertilizer ... no matter how you calculate it, it is very cost-effective ...

Therefore, Marin definitely supports the development of fisheries. With the development of the fishery, his income will be more, and salty fish will be more. Salted fish is also food. With more salted fish, it can feed more people. In addition, fishing will bring more natural phosphate fertilizer, which is sufficient, and Marin 's arable land can produce more food ...

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