Seeing Marin's humiliating performance, Pope Julius II felt ashamed. And the other German princes, although despised, also "understood" Marin's humiliating performance.

Why? Anyone who gets 20,000 or 30,000 square kilometers of land will be extremely happy. It's just that Marin is more embarrassed and smirks in public.

Seeing the contemptuous gazes from the surrounding princes, Marin was not annoyed, but smiled at everyone in a friendly manner, and said kindly:

"I'm sorry to make you smile. I don't take the initiative to invade others, but I welcome others to invade me. Because, then I can have a suitable excuse to expand my territory. After all, no one is too ...... to have too much territory."

"Others are welcome to invade me" - Marin's confident words made a cool breeze blow in the back of the princes' heads...... Nimade, Marin really hasn't taken the initiative to attack others, but the more he is attacked, the bigger his territory becomes...... Let's not mess with him......

Frederick III was also angry - yes, why did I provoke this villain in the first place? If you don't take care of my sister's family, I don't have these huge losses at the moment. Not to mention the land cut, there will be a compensation of 1 million...... What's more, Marin ransacked Wittenberg before, and it is estimated that many of Wittenberg's rich families are bankrupt...... I don't know how long it will take for Wittenburg to return to its former prosperity......

Joakim I also regretted it - why did I marry Denmark in the first place? Without marrying a Danish princess, the Electorate of Brandenburg would not have been involved in the war over Denmark, and Stendal, a prosperous city on the west bank of the Elbe, would not have been lost......

Hans, the king of Denmark, probably wanted to die at this time. What he lost was not the territory of one or two counties, but the territory equivalent to four principalities, and the territory of a larger principality. The Duchy of Holstein, the Duchy of Schleswig, and the rest of Jutland add up to almost 40,000 square kilometres. Moreover, this is the region with the best climate in Denmark.

Through these two lost wars, Denmark lost all territory on the European continent, leaving only a few islands such as Zealand, and the northernmost kingdom in Europe, the Kingdom of Norway......

The Kingdom of Norway is indeed very large, with more than 200,000 square kilometers in mainland China. But that's no use......

Most of the territory of the Kingdom of Norway is located north of the 60th parallel. What is the concept of 60 degrees north latitude? In Asia, which is at the same latitude, it is already an extremely cold place in the north of the Outer Khing'an Mountains. The ice city of Harbin in later generations was only about 45 degrees north latitude.

Of course, due to the warm currents of the North Atlantic, Norway does not have as cold winters as in the Northeast. But don't think about the summer heat. Only a small number of areas south of the 60th parallel can still engage in special agriculture. For example, grow hardy crops like potatoes.

As for cereals, it's not that they can't be grown. But the point is that the varieties of cereals in Europe are very poor at the moment. The core problem is that the growth period is too long......

In Europe now, rye grows for more than half a year, which is normal. Wheat varieties are even worse, planted in November of the first year, harvested in October of the second year, and grown for a whole year......

This is not a problem in the low-latitude southern part of Europe, but in a high-latitude place like Norway, it is a matter of death. Summers are short, but spring and autumn are also cold. If the kind of wheat seeds that were planted in spring and harvested in summer in later generations might still be barely planted. But now this kind of variety with a particularly long growing period is not to be cultivated in Norway.

Moreover, although Norway also has an area of tens of thousands of square kilometers south of the 60th parallel. It's a terrain...... If it were a plain, the forests would be cut down to make way for grassland, and animal husbandry might be developed. After all, weeds and livestock don't necessarily need the summer heat. The wool is so thick, it can still be topped. Moreover, although the Norwegian winters are long, they are really not too cold. However, the rugged mountainous terrain of Norway has also shattered the idea of large-scale development of animal husbandry.

Of course, another important bottleneck that constrained the development of the Kingdom of Norway was the population problem......

Norway has an area of more than 200,000 square kilometers, but it has a population of only 240,000. Calculated is equivalent to an average of one person per square kilometer. What is this concept? One square kilometer is equivalent to 1,500 acres of land - 1,500 acres per capita!

Of course, it's mostly mountainous, so it's useless. But to be honest, the tens of thousands of square kilometers of land south of the 60th parallel of Norway can still be done as long as it is well developed.

Marin remembers a figure - the total amount of agricultural land in Norway in later generations was more than 10,000 square kilometers, of which pasture land accounted for more than 6,300 square kilometers...... These places should be in the tens of thousands of square kilometers south of the 60th parallel in the southernmost part of Norway. After all, although there are many mountains, there are still places such as river valleys and coastal plains that can be exploited. If those places were really put to good use, hundreds of thousands of people could still be fed (with the current backward agricultural and animal husbandry technology). But the problem is that agriculture and animal husbandry require a large population......

Just as he was thinking about Norway, suddenly Hans, the king of Denmark, came to him with a bitter face......

At this time, the emperor publicly announced that the order had long been over, and the parliamentarians could not refute it, so they acquiesced. Moreover, the meeting has reached this point, and it is almost over. Next, it was time for the princes to talk about friendship and friendship.

Marin was a little puzzled by the Danish king Hans coming to him, but he soon knew what the other party was coming to - Hans did not want to take over the Danish nobles in Jutland. Because, that is a heavy burden for Denmark......

You must know that the more than 20,000 square kilometers of northern Jutland Peninsula, which Denmark newly ceded to Marin, has a population of almost 250,000 people, and there are also six or seven hundred nobles and nobles, all of whom are Danes.

If these six or seven hundred nobles are brought back to Zealand, they may have to rely on the Danish court for support after losing their land. Because it is an aristocratic status, the cost is not low. This was too much of a burden for the Kingdom of Denmark, which had been defeated twice in a row and had to pay reparations......

Therefore, Hans meant that he wanted Marin to take in these six or seven hundred Danish nobles and let them turn their allegiance to Marin......

But Marin shook his head again and again when he heard it, why? This is a thunder, you can't pick it up!

For the 250,000 civilian Danes, Marin didn't think there was anything. At most, slowly assimilate them by means of Huairou. After all, those Danish civilians are uneducated, and they can still win over them with financial subsidies to promote German education on their own.

But the six or seven hundred Danish nobles were different. These aristocratic families all have a systematic cultural heritage - the cultural inheritance of the Danish language......

This kind of cultural inheritance may not be visible now. But once nationalism rises, these Danish cultural inheritances will become the fighting program of the Danish resistance and the cultural backbone of the Danish nation.

Therefore, keeping these literate Danish aristocrats is definitely burying mines for themselves and their descendants. Look at the dreaded Scottish and Catalan referendums that followed...... Marin had long planned to assimilate all the Danes in Jutland into the German-speaking population, so he was naturally not happy to stay with the nobles with cultural heritage. Getting them out is what Marin needs to do the most.

"But Denmark can't afford to raise them!" King Hans said in a sad voice. He really can't help it, now that Denmark is poor as a dog, and the maritime trade has been destroyed by the Hanseatic League, how can he have the money to feed another six or seven hundred noble families?

"This ...... Your Majesty, you can send these six or seven hundred families to southern Norway to reclaim the wasteland! As far as I know, although southern Norway is mountainous, there are also many uncultivated plains and valleys. These nobles should be able to be accommodated...... "Marin suggested.

"But Norway is not a good place to farm...... Hans said.

"Why farm? Isn't it okay to raise sheep? Lamb can be served, as well as sheepskin and wool! Six or seven hundred families went to cut down trees, and to make way for plains and valleys, and it seemed that they could survive by raising sheep. Your Majesty can even collect trade taxes on wool and sheepskins! In order to get rid of this hot potato, Marin did not hesitate to give advice to his rival King Hans.

"yes, that's a good idea!" King Hans's eyes lit up.

In those days, the fiefdom nobility did not pay taxes on farming, but raising sheep involved the trade in wool and sheepskins (parchment was popular in Europe at this time). Once there is a deal, then the king has the power to collect taxes, which is not too beautiful! As for cutting down trees to destroy the environment? Paralyzing the brain-dead that said? Such gossiers will be burned at the stake quickly......

But after a while, King Hans's eyes darkened again, and he said:

"However, when these nobles left Jutland, they could not cut down trees or raise sheep without serfs...... Moreover, there are so few people in the Kingdom of Norway that there is no one to work for them......"

Hans was right, according to the agreement, Hans was to take all the Danish nobles and their families from Jutland, but he was not allowed to take the serfs. Without serfs, you count on these nobles to engage in production? Directly starved to death to show you...... Only those lower-class knight families who often participate in labor themselves will not starve to death. Moreover, the Kingdom of Norway is already short of people, and it is difficult to send these six or seven hundred nobles to southern Norway and want to give them some serfs......

Hearing this, Marin gritted his teeth in order to get rid of those thunders, and decided to let blood once:

"In this case, Your Majesty, I allow those nobles to bring 10 strong men with each family and the families of those strong men! Of course, it's best to take someone away on a voluntary basis! ”

King Hans looked at Marlin in amazement - this guy has such a good heart? However, he immediately accepted Marin's gift - which was a good ...... for him

Of course, Marin was not so kind, and he did this to send away those "plague gods", so that they would not leave any seeds of civilization and spirit in Jutland. There is a bunch of uneducated serfs left, and it's not easy to fool? It's a big deal to pay a little money to get their children into school for free and learn German from elementary school...... 100 years from now, when the children who learn German grow up, who will remember Denmark? I remember that the nobles of the Danish team went to Norway to cut trees and raise sheep......

Although Marin will lose thousands of strong men and 20,000 or 30,000 people, he has no regrets. Because, this is to "demine" Jutland in advance......

Unlike the rest of Germany, Jutland is mostly Danish. It is very difficult to assimilate these Danes. Especially those literate Danes, who are leaders in the eyes of the common people. With them, the Danish culture will not be broken.

You don't see, northern China was invaded by nomads several times, but it still stubbornly survived. Moreover, the alien race has been assimilated. Why? Because of those literati!

If the nomads kill all the literati and then teach the uneducated people a foreign language, after a few generations, those people will be humiliated. However, those nomads themselves had no culture, so they had to use those native Chinese literati, and the end result was that they were sinicized......

The literati do not die, and the culture does not die. Because there are always literati who remind those people that we are XX people......

If the Scots don't speak Scottish anymore, and the Catalans don't speak Catalan, will they still have the idea of splitting?

Marin even thinks that the existence of dialects is unnecessary......

Because the existence of dialects has caused regional differences and differences in identity. The existence of dialects not only creates difficulties in communication. Moreover, it will automatically use dialects to forcibly divide people into groups, causing cultural divisions.

Even, it will cause regional discrimination because of dialects. In his previous life, Ma Lin was most impressed by the fact that when he was in Shanghai, he met Aunt Shanghai, and asked him very arrogantly-"Ala, where is Nong?" ”。 When I heard that you were from out of town, my eyes showed contempt......

If everyone speaks the same Mandarin, without dialect differences and cultural differences, who can despise anyone?

The local pronunciation is cordial, but it is easy to cause cultural differences and group divisions, resulting in ideological divisions......

The simplest example is the descendants of Chinese immigrants living abroad. Many of them, because they can't speak Chinese, have become legendary "banana people", with yellow skin and white hearts...... They are fluent in English, French, German...... I just can't talk about it Chinese......

Even though they have Chinese ancestry, you treat him as your own, but he treats you as a strange outsider. For example, NBA star Jeremy Lin is sought after by many people, but he can't speak Chinese at all and is a standard banana man. The Chinese spoken on TV is extremely lame, and I learned it temporarily. If it weren't for the terrifying Chinese market of the NBA during Yao Ming's time, he might not have been willing to learn Chinese. It is said that this is also what the NBA league asked him to do, in order to keep the huge Chinese market. It's a pity that Jeremy Lin is not Yao Ming, it is difficult to integrate into the Chinese circle, and he cannot succeed Yao Ming and become the flagpole of the NBA in China. Except for some people who are easily fooled, most people don't buy him. Because, he is a banana man who can't even speak Chinese......

Therefore, it is better to expel all literate Danes from Jutland, leave only the illiterate ones, and teach them German...... Then the Danes on Jutland were Germanized......

Anyway, they will be educated to be Danes with a German "core". Of course, the Germans and the Danes were both Germanic in nature, but they didn't understand the language. Yellow people will still become yellow-skinned and white-hearted banana people because of language changes, let alone Danes of the same species? As long as the German language is well spoken, these Danes in Jutland will be assimilated into Germans. Just like the Xianbei people back then, now you go and ask whether the person surnamed Murong is a Xianbei person or a Han person? Proper Han Chinese......