That night, Marin woke up laughing several times in his sleep. When I woke up, I was still laughing......

You must know that the current Marin is really the world's No. 1 coal boss. He has already taken most of the Ruhr area, plus most of the coal mines in Britain, and he is now the number one coal boss in Europe......

How could Marin not know the importance of coal? In later generations, the coal reserves of the three top countries in China, the United States and Russia happened to be the top three in the world. Even in the 21st century, coal-powered steam turbines still account for 70% of China's electricity supply, and this is despite the construction of a large number of water conservancy projects, such as the Three Gorges Project, and the construction of nuclear power. It can be seen that the role of coal is too great, and it will not be outdated for hundreds of years.

In addition to asking for ownership of the coal mines in England and Scotland, Marin proposed the next day that the recruits should be chosen by his own men, not by Edward himself. Mainly, Marin was afraid that Edward would stuff a group of cowardly people into his army.

You must know that in the process of selecting troops, Marin's army has never looked only at courage, not physical fitness. Some strong men may be muscular, but they are cowards. Don't look at the usual muscles everywhere to show off your might, but as soon as you get to the battlefield, you are instigated to run away.

Therefore, when Marin selects troops, he never looks at the victory or defeat, but only who is braver. Of course, if both of them are brave and not afraid of injury, they will be admitted.

A soldier who fights a war needs to be brave, or a savage character. Thus, the civilized and wealthy Rome was destroyed by the barbaric Germanic peoples, and the civilized Song and Ming dynasties, were wiped out by the barbaric Yuan and Qing dynasties. Especially in the era of cold weapons, the soldiers are brutal, and the army will be stronger. When it comes to fighting, it doesn't matter if you are a civilized person or not, who is barbaric and who is powerful. Even the Manchu Qing Dynasty, known as the barbarians, had to send people to the white mountains and black waters to capture the more barbaric "Shengjurchen" as a death squad.

Of course, if all of them are barbarians, that will not work, it is easy to be calculated. And because of the backwardness of productivity, often the army cannot be scaled. But if there is a leader with brains in the barbarians, it will be terrible. For example, the barbaric Yuan Dynasty produced such powerful military strategists as Genghis Khan, and the Mongol iron cavalry swept across Eurasia. And the barbaric Jurchens appeared as a cunning leader like Nurhachi who had read the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and the Manchu Qing immediately rose. Although there was a lot of luck in the Manchu Qing Dynasty's entry into the customs, the Manchu Qing Dynasty's combat effectiveness at that time was indeed very strong. The brutal army, paired with a wise leader, suddenly increased in power.

Of course, this refers to the era of cold weapons. In the age of thermal weapons, barbarism did not work. During the Crimean War, the Russian Maozi launched a savage bayonet charge, and was beaten into a dog by the Mini rifles of the British and French forces.

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Before returning to England, Edward came to talk to Marlin again, mainly to ask Marlin how to manage the alien country of Scotland. After all, Marin has experience in this area. The Jutland Peninsula is now an alien region dominated by Danes. It is said that Jutland is developing quite well. So, Edward came to "learn from the scriptures".

Marin thought about it, but decided to tell Edward everything. For Scotland will also be under the rule of his son Caesar. Now, it would be great to let Edward lay the groundwork.

After Marin organized the language, he said:

"Your Majesty, if you want the Scots not to resist in the future, first of all, you must let the Scottish side not be all Scots."

"Can't it all be Scottish? You mean the immigrants to England come over? ”

"Yes, you should have emigrated some English and mixed with the Scottish. Then, some more Scots were emigrated to England. In this way, when the Scottish area is not all Scottish, it will be difficult for the other party to become independent. You see, the Scots want independence, and those who emigrated to the past in England can agree? ”

Edward nodded:

"That's true, but how can any Englishman be willing to emigrate to bitter Scotland?"

"This is easy, there should be a lot of poor people in England, right? There are even a lot of beggars or something. In short, the poor who had no property were sent to Scotland and given land. Even, set up banks, lend them money, and support them to establish themselves in Scotland. ”

Edward thought for a moment and said with a sad face:

"It's okay to send the poor of England to Scotland, and it's okay to give them land. The problem is, I don't have the money and I don't have a bank to lend to them...... Even, sending those poor people to Scotland for resettlement is a lot of money, and I may not be able to afford it......" Edward let out a long sigh.

Although Edward made a lot of money by confiscating the homes of the great English nobles, the money was to be used to feed the army and to pacify Scotland and the islands of Ireland. And the army is the most expensive to fight, and Edward really can't afford to spend extra money on economic construction.

"I'm still here......" Marin sighed and thought wistfully.

After a pause, Marin said:

"Your Majesty, I'll figure out a way to provide loans to immigrants. It just so happened that I knew Giovanni of the Medici family in Florence. Advance. Lorenzo. Morality. The bishop of the Medici and his allies. Through his connections, I was able to bring banks into Scotland to support English immigrants. ”

"You can't get too high an interest rate, otherwise, they won't be able to survive." Edward worried. If the wealth of those immigrants were all taken away by the banks, the gains would outweigh the losses.

Marin sneered:

"What do they have to lose? They are all poor people who have nothing, and if someone is willing to lend them money, God willing! ”

Ma Linxin said that if there was a bank in his previous life that was willing to lend money to himself without collateral, he could also make a fortune. Unfortunately, it didn't. Therefore, he can only develop after crossing over......

Scotland is the size of the country, and although most of it is mountainous, there are plenty of good places. Moreover, Scotland now has a population of only 500,000. Even if they are all farmers, there are 100,000 strong men, and according to the high standard that each strong man can cultivate 100 mu of land, they can only cultivate 10 million mu, equivalent to 6666.7 square kilometers. However, Scotland covers an area of 78,000 square kilometers, and even if the arable land area is only 10%, it has 7,800 square kilometers.

Moreover, many of Scotland's 500,000 people are pastoralists and fishermen. Moreover, the proportion of pastoralists is very high. Therefore, the development of the Scottish region is far from over. As long as the 200,000 poor immigrants from England pass, a few generations will pass, and Scotland will no longer be pure, and it will be difficult to have a unified national character. Another intermarriage will directly blur the national boundaries.

In addition, Marin's proposal included the immigration of some Scots to England, further reducing the proportion of indigenous people in the area, making rebellion and independence even more impossible.

As long as there is a large-scale displacement of the population, so that the ethnic groups in Scotland are no longer homogeneous, then the idea of local resistance will become weaker and weaker. And through large-scale intermarriage, the Scottish nation will be integrated into the more populous English, and eventually complete unification. Didn't the Hu people in the ancient north, such as the Xianbei people, disappear in northern China in this way? As long as the restrictions on marriage are lifted and intermarriage is encouraged, within a few generations, the ethnic groups with small populations will be digested by the ethnic groups with large populations. Then, everyone is their own person, and they are still a P?