If you go back a few decades, most of the Dutch believe in the Calvinist era, and Marin would not want a single Dutchman. After all, this Calvinist, that is the professional rebel to cut the king.

But now it is different, Calvinism has not yet emerged, and the Dutch are still Catholics. Even, Calvin's unlucky boy has been killed by Marlin's order.

Yes, Calvin was killed by the Marlins! Last year, John was just a 4-year-old kid. Calvin, killed by a killer sent by Marin......

For this, Marin repented for several days. Because, murdering a child is really a bit of a subordinate. Therefore, Marin was uneasy for a long time. However, Marin knew very well in his heart that the emergence of Calvinism was not just the credit of Calvin alone, but the ultimate embodiment of the idea of opposition to the monarch in the Swiss region.

Calvin founded the Calvinists in rebellion only after absorbing the ideas of the locals in Switzerland who opposed the royal power of the Habsburgs.

So, even without Calvin, perhaps another person would have founded a new denomination in Switzerland that opposed the monarchy. In order to put an end to this problem, Marin found a way to support the Habsburgs to occupy Switzerland in order to control the fermentation of anti-imperial ideas in Switzerland.

Today, Basel, the city where Calvin lived in his early years in Switzerland, is under the control of the Habsburgs. After that, there was no room for anti-imperial ideology to survive here. As for Geneva, where Calvin lived during the later period, the Habsburgs really have no control over it. This is because Geneva is in the southwesternmost part of Switzerland, deep into the heart of France. Even Geneva is predominantly French and mainly French-speaking.

At the moment, Marin does not intend to offend France, so he is obviously capable of helping the Habsburgs occupy the entire territory of Switzerland, and Marin cannot make a move. Otherwise, he could have ushered in a joint siege by the German princes' alliance and France.

Therefore, Marin's future plan is to use the wars of religion to annex northern Germany, and then to take a look at the situation in Switzerland. If it was a Protestant conversion in western Switzerland, it would be under the banner of the Holy See to help suppress it. This is a different kind of righteousness from helping the Habsburgs. And if the Swiss did not practice religion, did not engage in professional rebellions such as Calvinism, there was no need for Marin to help the Habsburgs expand their territory.

To put it bluntly, Marin helped the Habsburgs occupy Switzerland, mainly to use the Habsburgs as executioners to suppress local Protestant ideas, not to help the Habsburgs grow their strength.

And this time to help Prince Philip come up with ideas, in fact, it is also to gain the large population of the Netherlands.

At this time, the people of the Netherlands had not yet converted to Calvinism and were still a group that could be co-opted. Moreover, it was ruled by the Habsburgs for decades and has long been integrated into the system of the Holy Roman Empire. Marin's North Sea Kingdom has always been friendly with the Habsburgs, and even the Dutch people are relatively friendly to the North Sea Kingdom. This is just like the good relations between China and Pakistan in later generations, and the people of the two countries are also friendly to each other.

Against this backdrop, it was not difficult for Marin to recruit Dutch people. Moreover, it is easy to convert them and educate them as their own obedient people.

You must know that in this era, as long as the European people can eat and dress warmly, they can be grateful to you, and you don't need to pay too much price.

In fact, the people of the North Sea Kingdom are now the envy of most of the people of the Holy Roman Empire who know about it. Because, the serfs of the Beihai country actually had soft black bread without dirt and stones to eat every day, and often they could eat salted fish. This treatment is simply envious of others.

You must know that in this era, most of the serfs in Germany were basically in a state of half-starvation and half-fullness. Many people can't eat bread, but can only eat a little bit of gruel mixed with rye, wild vegetables, grass roots, and other messy things. Bread, such a real food, was something that only serfs in wealthy areas could eat. Moreover, even if you eat bread, it is a black baguette that is as hard as a brick mixed with a lot of earth and stones, and you can't eat it without soaking in water......

And the serfs of the Beihai country are soft bread and salted fish, can they not be envied? Of course, this is known only to those in the know, but most serfs will not know. In particular, the vassal states of those princes who were hostile to Marin would often deliberately carry out counter-propaganda, describing the Beihai Kingdom as hell, and even slandering Marin's love of eating children's hearts......

Only the vassal states where Marin's allies such as the Habsburg family territory and the Lamarck family territory are located will have positive propaganda about the North Sea State, and the people there will know how happy the people of the North Sea Country are.

Of course, the people of the neighboring countries of the North Sea Country also know about it. After all, they see the facts with their eyes, and counter-propaganda is useless.

In addition, the people of Swabian in the south have a little understanding of the situation in the North Sea Kingdom. Because, the nobles of the Swabian League were on the part of the Habsburgs, and they would not discredit the North Sea State. The people there will also get more just news.

It's just that these countries that are friendly to the Beihai Country, Marin is not too embarrassed to start. Only in the Swabian area, because of the large population, Marin will attack. And the territory of the Habsburg family has never felt that the population is large before, and it is naturally inconvenient for Marin to start.

In the Netherlands, because of the friendly relations between the Habsburgs and the North Sea State, the locals obviously knew about the good life of the people of the North Sea State. If someone is sent to recruit the population, someone will definitely respond.

Of course, the premise is to recruit them to the mainland of the North Sea Country, and they will definitely be willing. But if they are recruited to the Americas...... Because of Marin's previous negative propaganda, they may not be willing.

But Marin doesn't care, because he'll send someone to deceive him......

First fooled and said that it was recruited locally, and the people were tricked, and then sent to the American colonies...... As long as you send enough soldiers and horses to escort you, you don't have to worry about problems......

The population of the Netherlands is more than a million, and the hundreds of thousands of textile workers in Flanders are counted, and it will be easy to move that, but there are hundreds of thousands of peasants left.

If you raise sheep, you can't use that many people. As mentioned earlier, a family farm of 100,000 acres in New Zealand, a family of seven can raise 28,000 sheep and 26,000 cattle. And a cow eats several times more than a sheep, so 100,000 acres of pasture can feed at least a hundred thousand sheep.

This is still less, according to the limit algorithm of later generations, one acre of pasture can raise up to 15 sheep. However, it is a professional, high-yielding forage grass and is generally fertilised. At present, the Netherlands obviously does not have such professional pastures. However, the Dutch region is close to the North Sea, mainly plains, the land is fertile, and the rain is abundant, even if it is ordinary pasture, it is still no problem to raise one or two sheep on an acre of land. And more than 70,000 square kilometers of land, if you really go all out to raise sheep, hundreds of millions of sheep can be raised. Of course, this is impossible. After all, it is impossible for the Netherlands to raise only sheep.

Even the United Kingdom, a big sheep farmer, currently has more than 10 million sheep. This is a reverse extrapolation of wool production, as the UK produces more than 50,000 bales (364 pounds each) of wool per year. A bale of wool often takes 260 sheep a year, so if you extrapolate the other way, there are probably more than 13 million sheep produced in the UK......

If it is calculated according to raising one sheep per mu of grassland, raising 13 million sheep only requires 8,666.6 square kilometers. Even if the efficiency is doubled, it will only be 17,333.2 square kilometers, and the Netherlands, to which the Habsburgs belong, can definitely afford it.

Of course, Marin would not kindly tell them this limit, but would try to exaggerate the amount of land needed to raise sheep, preferably half of the Netherlands. In this way, hundreds of thousands of Dutch peasants could be deprived of their land and forced to accept their own solicitations......

Although it costs 100,000 British sheep, Marin doesn't care. After all, in his eyes, population is the most important thing, people-oriented......

The Dutch people are also mainly Germanic people, and as long as they are well educated and fooled, they can completely absorb their own people......