In fact, despite knowing that accents are important, there is currently a lot of debate within the North Sea about which side of "Standard German" to pronounce.

It's easy to say English over there, just use the "London accent" in Mr. Zhao's mouth, and no one has any opinions. Even though there were changes in the pronunciation of Frisian and English for the Frisian people, the Frisians knew that they were "rednecks" and that it was more fashionable to adopt the "London sound" and also accepted the "London sound". As for the England side, people are even more fine. After all, it is the capital pronunciation, which is absolutely correct.

But the German side is super troublesome, and it is said that Marin is a native of the Ruhr area, so he should promote the German pronunciation of the Ruhr area. However, his capital was established in East Friesland. As a result, local officials, led by Prime Minister Jeffrey, opposed the use of the Ruhr German pronunciation, instead suggesting the local Low German pronunciation in East Friesland. There was even a time when Marin did adopt Low German as the standard pronunciation.

However, the situation changed again when the North Sea State annexed the Ruhr region and eight vassal states, including the Duchy of Lüneburg. Officials in the Ruhr region and the eight newly annexed vassal states objected to the use of Low German. Because, this is not a small difference from inland German.

Moreover, with the expansion of the North Sea Kingdom, the proportion of the population who speak Low German is also decreasing. Continued use of Low German as the standard German could easily lead to resentment among the landlocked Germans.

So, Marin, who was in a hurry, later adopted the original historical German practice of using the German pronunciation of Hanover in central Germany as the standard pronunciation.

In fact, Hannover, a city in the southeastern region of Lower Saxony, is located at the crossroads of the German-speaking and German-speaking interiors. The pronunciation of local German is understandable to speakers of Low German, and acceptable to speakers of High German.

Marin then adopted the Hannover dialect as the standard German pronunciation and reintroduced it in schools, as he had done historically.

Moreover, in order to correct the pronunciation problems of students in other regions, Marin also mobilized a large number of church members from the Hannover area to help students learn Hannover pronunciation.

But the locals of Hanover were full of confusion, because at this time, Hanover was just an ordinary small town, and it had not yet become the capital of Brunswick, but was a small country at all. They had no idea that their own dialect would become the standard German pronunciation.

Marin didn't bother to care what others thought, and in order to take the lead, he had to learn the standard Hanover pronunciation with Caesar every day. He was used to speaking Low German. Fortunately, his memory has become stronger after crossing over, and it is not difficult for him to learn new German pronunciations. Caesar, on the other hand, is in the most suitable teenage age for learning, and it is not difficult to change his pronunciation.

But most adult officials have a hard time changing their pronunciation. After all, it's hard for adults to change their accents. Even if Marin had figured out the standard German phonetic transcription, it would still be difficult to change the accent of an adult official. Especially for an old man like Jeffrey, it's hard to change his accent at all.

In this regard, Marin is not in a hurry. I really can't do it, just wait for the children in the school to grow up, and then seek a unified accent. You must know that the later New Huaxia was established in 49 years, and the "Xinhua Dictionary" was produced in more than five years. But it wasn't until the 21st century that Mandarin was popularized among the younger generation. For middle-aged and elderly people who can't speak Mandarin, the funny Chinese officials in later generations are also out of line. Even the speech of the founding ancestor on the city tower was pronounced with a strong Funan accent......

So, the promotion of standard German is a long process. If you want to teach children to learn standard German pronunciation, you must first have a teacher with standard pronunciation. To this end, Marin ordered that in the future, when recruiting students, the pronunciation standard will be used as the entry threshold.

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"Ten years of trees, a hundred years of people", if you want to unify the accent of the whole country, I am afraid it will take dozens or hundreds of years. Anyway, Marin felt that it would be difficult for him to see that day coming. However, he was pleased that the practice of adopting the Hanover dialect was widely accepted in the country. Even other vassal states began to adopt the standard pronunciation scheme customized by the Beihai Kingdom, and introduced the teaching materials of the Beihai Kingdom.

In this regard, Marin naturally raised his hands and feet in favor of it, and enthusiastically took the initiative to provide teaching materials. But the problem is, others don't buy it. Why? Because, in the basic textbooks of Beihai Kingdom, there is a lot of praise and deification of Marin. Other countries are naturally not willing to accept it.

Therefore, Marin had to have the textbook be deleted, and the praise of Marin himself was changed to the praise of the Germans and the greatness of Germany. Although the children of other vassal states could not be allowed to worship themselves, a seed of "German unification" was sown in their hearts. By the time the Beihai Kingdom sent troops to unify Little Germany, these children who had accepted the idea of "German unification" had almost grown up, and it was easier for them to accept the rule of the Beihai Kingdom.

Marin has been busy with education for a while, but the report of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's rabbi has given Marin a headache......

According to the rabbin's report, because Marin secretly transferred 10,000 Hungarian men from the silver mines in Goslar to train them as cavalry, this also led to the loss of 10,000 miners in the silver mines in Goslar, which seriously affected the production of silver mines. According to statistics, in the past two months, the silver output of mines has fallen by 20%, which makes the financial department very uneasy. After all, with so much less money, many things can't be done.

In addition to this, the rabbi also mentioned another problem - not only the silver mines in Goslar are short of miners, but also the sector that builds roads in the North Sea Kingdom is also seriously short of labor.

Although it is said that Marin set up an engineering team of seven or eight thousand people, which was specially used for road construction, which greatly facilitated the road construction in Beihai Kingdom. However, six or seven thousand laborers are really a drop in the bucket for road construction.

Marin could have recruited peasants to build roads and even dig rivers during the slack season. But the problem is that the main business of the serfs is still farming, and it is difficult to concentrate on building roads. Once it was time to farm, the serfs had to return to the estate. Then, a lot of the work had to be stopped. Moreover, the wait is a long time. After all, in this era when there is no agricultural machinery, it takes a long time to farm busy. Once you encounter a busy farm, it will be very delayed.

"Unless...... Unless there are specialized migrant workers? Ma Lin suddenly remembered the important group of people who built China in later generations - migrant workers.

Migrant workers are very inconspicuous and generally not highly educated. However, these people are also important. Why can Huhai and Beijing be built into a super metropolis? Isn't it because there are too many migrant workers pouring in?

Since the full promotion of agricultural machinery in the 21st century, rural areas no longer need so much labor to farm. With agricultural machinery, the countryside only needs the elderly and women to stay behind to take care of the fields. For spring plowing and autumn harvest, you only need to pay to hire agricultural machinery to work. The male laborers of the family have poured into the big cities and become migrant workers who work hard to earn money.

Shanghai alone has a population of 18 million, but there are millions of permanent migrant workers. And the people who work on the construction site are basically those migrant workers. It can be said that without those migrant workers, the infrastructure in the city will basically not work......

"That's right! The infrastructure of Beihai State cannot be carried out because of the lack of a large number of migrant workers! Ma Lin patted his head and finally realized why the infrastructure of Beihai State couldn't be built. Because, he forgot the overwhelming army of migrant workers who crowded the train station in later generations......