It has been a long time since the Battle of Lübeck, and such a long time is enough to count the merits of the battle. After all, rewards and punishments must be strictly enforced.

In fact, the merits of the soldiers were counted after the autumn harvest. However, the land to be rewarded to them will have to wait for Marin's men to take over the lands of Bremen, West Frisland, and Jutland.

After all, Marin was not happy to divide up any more large areas of East Friesland proper. Then, it would be most appropriate to pick land as an incentive from newly received land in places like Jutland and Bremen.

In this war, in addition to Marin himself, Schwartz, Woolf, who had been the main commanders. Esbrand and others must be the group with the greatest achievements. In addition, Karn, who was responsible for leading the "Wolf Tooth Commando" into battle, and Saqqara, the commander of the newly rising English Legion, also had a lot of credit. And Captain Kidd and others also have a certain amount of credit.

In the end, after statistics, Schwartz was promoted to a third-class viscount because of his overall planning and the first place in military merit, that is, from the viscount. And Woolf. Esbrand, because the starting point is too low, although the battle achievements are great, can only be promoted to the first baron.

As for Kahn, although the credit is not as great as Schwartz's. However, he was responsible for protecting Marin's safety, as well as his own exploits in leading his troops into battle during the decisive battle. In addition, his starting point is similar to Schwartz, so he was promoted to a first-class baron.

As for Saqqara, because the starting point was too low before, even the nobles were not. So, despite the great merit, it was only possible to be promoted to the baron of the third rank, that is, from the baron. But even so, Saqqara was overjoyed. After all, he had been just a very ordinary Frisian soldier before. Although he secretly learned a little command talent from Marin, his background is very low after all.

Being promoted from a commoner to a knight can be regarded as a step to the sky, not to mention that Saqqara directly became a baron? Although it is the lowest third-class baron of the third class of barons set up by Marin, it is also a baron, isn't it?

As for the other soldiers, in addition to Captain Kidd, who was also promoted to Baron, there were also 5 outstanding phalanx captains such as Miller, Kelson, and Harold who were promoted to Baron.

In addition to this, soldiers who were promoted to hereditary knights and ordinary knights (including Nicholas. Cage), as many as 200 people, a huge lineup......

Of course, this also brings a big problem, that is, it needs a lot of land to divide ......

According to the criteria set by Marin, the viscount's fief was 6,000 yugram (12,000 acres) of arable land, the vice-viscount's fief was 5,000 yugram (10,000 acres), the viscount's fief was 4,000 yugram (8,000 acres), the baron's fief was 2,000 yugram (4,000 acres), the vice-baron's fief was 1,500 yugram (3,000 acres), and the baron's fief was 1,000 yugram (2,000 acres......

The above were for the middle and upper nobles, and as for the lower nobles, the fief of the hereditary knights was 300 yugram (600 acres) of arable land; The average knight is 100 yugram (200 acres) of arable land......

Find a reward standard, compared to other countries, it is much less. Of course, less here refers to the land area. For example, the fiefdom of the French knights reached 1,500 acres; German knights also tend to have about 1,000 acres; The English knights had only 600 acres...... Of course, the fiefdom area here does not refer to pure arable land. Sometimes, 500 acres of arable land for a fief of 1,500 acres is considered good......

Moreover, because Marin provided the nobles with high-yield fertilizer, although the land area of the nobles under Marin's command was not large, their income was higher than that of the nobles of other countries.

One viscount, one viscount, two barons, 6 barons and 200 knights, deducting the land that these people already owned (for example, Adler was made a viscount and had a fief of 6,000 yugrams, but he himself owned 2,000 yugrams, so Marin only needed to give him 4,000 yugrams), and Marin needed to give him a new 44,000 yugram (88,000 acres) of arable land. Fortunately, Marin has acquired a large area of new land, and there is enough land to divide it. Otherwise, by the Inner Partition of East Friesland alone, Marin would lose a lot of land. If you fight a few more battles, if you don't expand, Marin himself probably won't have much territory......

Fortunately, Marin was stingy and greatly lowered the standard of soil sealing. If, as the French did, an ordinary knight sealed 1,500 acres of land, it would be a big loss. You know, 1,500 acres is 750 yugrams. 200 knights, then 150,000 yugrams, not counting those barons and viscounts......

Marin feels pain when he thinks about it, 44,000 eugrams! Converted into acres, that's 1.008 million acres! You must know that the emperor of China rewards ministers, and generally rewards a few hundred acres of land. The heavy reward is only a thousand acres, at most a few thousand acres. Only the fief of the emperor's own son, the prince, can be counted in 10,000 acres. After all, people are princes.

But in Europe, the standards of fiefdom are too high. An ordinary knight would have a fief of 1,500 acres, equivalent to 9,000 acres. Such standards, even the ministers of the DPRK and the Central Committee, may not have so many......

Fortunately, Marin will develop the Americas on a large scale in the future. In that way, there will be no worries about having no land to be sealed for meritorious subordinates.

Also, considering that the size of these fiefdoms is too large. Moreover, there were too many people in the middle of the fiefdom, and after thinking about it, Ma Lin decided to adopt the remote collar system to deal with the people in those fiefdoms......

What is the remote collar system? It is to give the position, but not to the inauguration. In fact, it is only a method of giving treatment, and there is no real power.

For example, Li Zhi, Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, was once named the king of Jin and held the position of governor of the state. However, he himself did not go to the state to become the governor, but only enjoyed this treatment.

This situation, which was more common in the Tang Dynasty, was generally treated as a special treatment for princes.

The reason why Marin wanted to promote this treatment was actually not for the benefit of the fief, but for the people of the noble fiefdom......

Why? Because according to European tradition, the people in the fiefs of the nobility were the people of the nobility, but not the people of the king. Once the commoners of the noble fiefdom were made, the king had no right to appoint the commoners of the noble fiefdom. If you want those people to do the work for you, you have to go through the fiefdom nobles......

Marin will not tolerate this. Moreover, it also has a serious impact on the centralization of power.

Thus, Marin could allow the nobles to own large tracts of land and have huge profits, but not allow the people in their fiefdoms to be out of his control.

After thinking about it, Ma Lin remembered the remote collar system of the Tang Dynasty. The core of this system is that the princes and princes, although they enjoy high treatment, cannot manage the people of the fiefdom. That is, they are only responsible for obtaining the wealth gains of the fief, but they are not responsible for the management of the fief. The people of the fiefdom were still under the management of the imperial court......

In this way, those vassal kings, because of the lack of real power in their hands, will not be able to make waves. There was the Tang Dynasty, and there was no successful rebellion of the vassal kings. However, in the later period, those Jiedu envoys with foreign surnames became the cancer of the dynasty because they held the local military and political power at the same time.

The remote collar system that Marin intended to implement was to let his nobles only stay in the capital and wait for the output of the fiefdom to be sent to them to squander. However, those lands and estates were managed by the government. At the same time, those fiefdom people, when the farming is not working, Marin may requisition them to build water conservancy or something. In times of war, it is possible that troops will be recruited from them......

In this way, he, as a monarch, deserves his name......