Shortly after Marin returned to Aurich, the heads of the provinces sent reports of a bumper grain harvest. As Marin imagined, the provinces of East Friesland, Oldenburg, Schleswig, and North Münster, which were originally under his control, naturally enjoyed a bumper harvest because of their advanced agricultural technology and complete range of fertilizers.

The grain harvest in these four regions combined is as high as 2 billion pounds of rye. Among them, the output of the estates under Marin's command alone is as much as 1.3 billion pounds of grain. Even if food consumption is removed, Marin will have a net gain of more than 1 billion pounds of grain this year.

And if next year, the newly acquired estates in Bremen, Jutland and West Friesland also start to produce according to the new agricultural technology, and the total grain production will be even more frightening.

With so much grain, Marin didn't dare to sell it openly, and I have to say that it was a sadness. But this can't be helped, after all, if too much grain is sold, it is easy to be discovered the secret of high grain production.

However, fortunately, Marin discovered a good way to use the surplus grain to brew rye Erguotou in time, and found a good place for a large amount of surplus grain. Selling wine is not as eye-catching as selling grain, and Marin has also got a few chambers of commerce to buy grain everywhere, but no one doubts it. Marin even asked his subordinates to tell others in Germany that a lot of grain was produced abroad. Outside of Germany, it's a different story. Through this disguise, it is not clear that the grain used in Marin is actually home-grown......

However, there is also a big problem with this. That is – even if spirits are sold, the market is limited. Because, there are not many people who are addicted to spirits. Moreover, most of them are concentrated in cold Eastern Europe. In Western Europe, however, there are only a small number of people who are addicted to spirits.

But the problem is that although people in the cold regions of Eastern Europe are fond of spirits, they are poor there. Spirits, on the other hand, are expensive because they consume a lot of food. As a result, there were not many Eastern Europeans who could afford to buy spirits, as long as a few local aristocrats and wealthy merchants. As for ordinary people, even if they love spirits, they can't afford to drink it.

So, Marin is now starting to think about whether to limit the production of grain...... Otherwise, if there is too much grain, it will only be piled up there and moldy, and even if it is brewed, it will not be sold......

Fortunately, Marin suddenly remembered England, which had just passed through the war. Now, Northumberland is under the control of Marin. There are tens of thousands of refugees waiting for the rice to be put in the pot.

So, Marin ordered that tens of millions of pounds of rye be transported from the grain depot to relieve the refugees. Anyway, their eating and drinking, Marlin wrapped......

You must know that the total population of Northumberland, including the 60,000 refugees snatched from Henry Percy, is only 70,000 or 80,000. Even if he had a population of 80,000 and each person ate one pound of rye per day, he would only consume 80,000 pounds per day. Ten million pounds of rye is enough for them to eat for 125 days.

However, it suddenly occurred to Marin that it seemed that the level of agricultural development in Northumberland was very low. Now to develop Northumberland, it takes a lot of manpower and material resources, a lot of trees are cut down, and many irrigation ditches are dug...... And these activities will greatly consume people's physical strength and increase the consumption of food. Even, double the amount of food......

However, this is not a problem. For other nobles, doubling the amount of food is definitely going to kill them. Because, food is so expensive. But who is Marin? O Lord who has too much food to eat! As a result, Marin still ordered the refugees to be organized to reclaim a large area of land and dig ditches in Northumberland. And, for those English labourers who took part in digging ditches, Marin's promise was that the black bread tube was enough. Even, those who perform well will be rewarded with more bread and allowed those people to take back to their families to eat...... In this way, it has also found a good place for those grains......

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After counting the grain production of the four old provinces, it is the turn of the three new provinces to take over - West Friesland, Bremen and Jutland...... As for the province of South Münster (including the southern half of Osnabrück), it is still under the control of the Bishop Conrad, who was not in charge until his death......

As for the three provinces that can be managed, although the area is huge, the total output of the two cities is less than 100 million pounds...... Marin simply thought he had misheard. Because, this figure, not even one-twentieth of the other four provinces. However, these three new provinces are larger than the four old provinces. Jutland, in particular, is nearly 20,000 square kilometres...... But why is food production so low?

But the reports from the three provinces cleared up Marin's confusion - it turned out that it was all war. Jutland and West Friesland were greatly affected by the war. In both areas, the fields are barren and there is not enough labor to cultivate them. Only the province of Bremen, because it was replaced, did not have much impact on agriculture.

In the end, the result was that the three new provinces produced barely enough food for the locals. Even, because most of the food was concentrated in the hands of those nobles and Junker landlords, many serfs had to go hungry......

But this was not a problem, and Marin decided to take some old grain out of the warehouse, mix some grass chaff, and make economical Kohler bread to feed the starving serfs of the three new provinces. In this way, it can be regarded as earning a wave of popular support, which is conducive to the stability of the rule.

In addition, Marin plans to transport a shipment of grain to his territory on the island of Ireland, County Wicklow. Although the island of Ireland is backward, it has a large population.

Although after the war, the eastern part of the island of Ireland is sparsely populated. However, the island of Ireland is currently known as a backcountry in Europe. As long as there is enough bread, it will definitely attract a large number of displaced people.

You know, the island of Ireland is different from the rest of Europe. Because of the large number of indigenous forces, they attacked each other, which led to political instability on the island. In addition, on the island of Ireland, only some areas in the east and northeast with less rainfall are suitable for agriculture. In the western region, because it faces the Atlantic Ocean, precipitation is too frequent and excessive, resulting in much of the island being unsuitable for agriculture. As a result, sheep farming and fishing are prevalent on the island of Ireland, and the population is less sedentary. As long as Mallinken produces food, it is still convenient to attract some Irish herders and fishermen to relocate. You know, the Irish herders and fishermen are not as home-loving as the farmers. After all, herders and fishermen have no land, so they don't have much nostalgia for relocating, so they just pack up and leave. As a result, it is easier to recruit.

Only by recruiting enough people to develop Wicklow County, which covers an area of more than 2,000 square kilometers, can it proceed smoothly. Moreover, County Wicklow is located on the east coast of Ireland, right in the shaded part of the "Atlantic Rainwater Zone", and is an oil-less and suitable area for agriculture on the island of Ireland. It's also very good to develop.

Marin did not discriminate against the Irish, and although he had always preached the superiority of the Germanic race, in his heart he did not think so.

Although the Irish were Celts, not Germans, they were good subjects when they were well utilized. Of course, Marin intended to co-opt these Irish with grain. But at the same time, Irish children will be taught to speak English and German through free compulsory education. After three generations, the Irish spoke English or German, and were no different from the Germans. When the time comes, it will be easy to integrate into the big family.

As for why the Irish and the English could not pee in the same pot in the original history, Marin thinks that it is mainly due to language and customs. In addition, the influence of religion is also very strong - the English have converted to the Protestant Episcopal Church, and the Irish have also embraced Catholicism, so it is strange that the two races can merge......

The problem of language and customs was easy to solve for Marin – free and compulsory education, and mandatory use of English in the classroom. After several generations of education, the Irish, who were originally about the same-looking, were not much different from the Germanic English.

Historically, although the English ruled Ireland, they did not promote English education, so that the Irish continued to be illiterate and used the indigenous Irish language. Illiterate people prefer to preserve traditions, so that in a few hundred years, it will be difficult to integrate with the Irish.

Ma Lin has experienced the 21st century of China, in the 21st century of China, those ethnic minority compatriots who were originally very different from the Han people's customs, after receiving modern education, except for a special sect of people who have unique habits such as not eating pork, young people of other ethnic groups, whether in dress, speech and behavior, are no different from the Han people. Only those old ethnic minority compatriots who stay in the village, because they are not educated, have retained many traditional customs. Of course, people in later generations like to travel, and they like to see those customs that are different from the mainstream culture, so the state specially protects those minority cultures, especially the song and dance culture. Otherwise, after a few generations, they will all be assimilated. Even so, Marin firmly believes that as long as the descendants of those young people go out of the village in the mountains, or a few generations, no one will be able to see that they are young people...... Even in his previous life, Ma Lin himself was not very clear about the traditional culture of the Han nation......

As long as the phonetic transcription of the same pronunciation is unified through free and compulsory education, people's language and pronunciation will be unified. When people all speak the same accent, as long as they are people of the same skin color, it is easy to blend.

Just like the big cities in China in later generations, most of the fellows who confronted and even fought with outsiders were those who could not speak Mandarin. And people who speak Mandarin well like Marin don't feel much about regional differences at all when they work and with their colleagues......

Therefore, Marin plans to take advantage of the abundance of food in his hands and teach the children of the Irish to speak English with a London accent by providing free compulsory education. When they grow up, there will not be much of a gap between them and the English. Everyone speaks the same language, so it's easy to blend in......