Chapter 351: The Thieves Group Plan

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It was convenient to recruit the English as mercenaries. Why? Because Frisian and English were communicative in those days.

Because, in these years, the Friesland region was relatively closed and had not yet been greatly influenced by the Netherlands and Germany. So, the Frisian language is still authentic. In later generations, Frisian was greatly influenced by Dutch and German, respectively, and became less and less like English, so that it was eventually unable to communicate with English.

Even the Anglo-Saxons, who had crossed the sea to the British Isles, lived on the North Sea, where the Frisians now live. And the Frisians are the part of the people who remained when the Anglo-Saxons crossed the sea. Therefore, it is not uncommon for the two sides to communicate with each other.

It just so happened that there were quite a few Frisians in the Marin army. As long as a large number of Frisian veterans are sent to serve as junior officers in the English mercenaries, they can not only get started quickly and train the English mercenaries, but also be quite conducive to controlling the entire army. After all, the orders of the Frisian officers, the English understood.

Moreover, once the English mercenaries were trained, Marlin could lend them to Earl Edward if necessary, to fight against Henry VII. That was, of course, when Count Edward had the upper hand. If Count Edward had the upper hand, Marin would not have sent an army to help.

It has to be said that Henry VII and his officials are still very capable. Faced with a menacing 300,000 refugees from the northern counties, Henry VII decisively ordered Richard to do so. Bol, with his army of 18,000, blocked the refugees in the central counties to prevent them from going south.

Although, after the influx of more than 300,000 refugees, the central counties will surely be finished, but it is better than the influx of refugees into London and the surrounding affluent counties. Once London and the surrounding counties were to be destroyed, England's national capital would be shaken.

Therefore, this trick of Henry VII and his ministers, "breaking the wrist of a strong man", is very effective.

But as a result, Marin's plan to use refugees to destroy the rich areas of London and southern England was frustrated. In this way, the existence of this group of refugees is dispensable. Of course, if you keep it, it can still have a huge impact on several counties in the middle of England. Although it could not shake the national foundation of England, it could also keep the English people busy for a long time.

It's just that the three or four counties in the central part of the country don't need hundreds of thousands of refugees. Tens of thousands of refugees were enough to turn those counties in the middle of England upside down.

Thinking that immigrants were being recruited in his territory, Marin suddenly had the idea of recruiting English as serfs......

Although, from a yeoman farmer to a serf, the social status declined. But in the case of the near future, these are heavy or? As long as Marin made sure that there was enough bread, the hungry people would be willing, even if it was to keep them as slaves. After all, in the face of life and death, what is that bit of status and dignity? Being alive is more important than anything else......

In this day and age, a large population is essential if you want to develop a place. After all, it takes a lot of people to cut down trees, a lot of people to clear land, and a lot of people to grow crops......

In short, before the advent of the machine age, population was everything. With the population, we can do this and that. Without the population, everything is free to talk about.

At the moment, Marin not only has large tracts of land in the country that need to be developed by a large number of people, but also large tracts of land in the Americas that need to be developed. Therefore, Marlin's demand for population is very large.

Under normal circumstances, Marin wants to organize the population to go to the Americas, which is more troublesome. After all, who would want to leave their homeland and venture to the Americas?

But in the case of abnormality, it is very easy to do. For example, the current abnormality......

The people of the counties in the north of England can't even guarantee food and survival, and they can still pick and choose?

At this time, as long as Marin advertised that "enough bread is enough", it would be absolutely easy to take a large number of people from these refugees to the American colonies......

Why were the British able to establish large colonies (13 states in North America) on the coast of North America in the original history? It is not that the British colonization methods are stronger than those of the French, but because the British have a large number of landless displaced people who can immigrate to North America because of the "enclosure movement".

Therefore, although the colonial methods were more moderate and advanced, because of the social stability in France, there were not many immigrants provided, and the French had to lose to the British in the colonization of North America.

Marin suddenly felt that it was a waste to let these 300,000 English refugees starve to death. It would be much better to take some of them to the American colonies than to watch them die......

For example, on the island of Grenada, there are only a few hundred colonists, and the sugar cane plantations and arable land that can be cultivated are only one or two thousand yugrams. Any more, and there won't be enough labor.

Originally, Marin planned to buy some old black or some woolly slaves to enrich the population of Grenada Island. However, seeing that there were so many refugees from the British who had nowhere to resettle, Marin suddenly had the idea of organizing a large number of immigrants from England to develop on the island of Grenada.

If you don't want more, just get 10,000 English refugees to go to Grenada Island, which can greatly accelerate the development of Grenada. Of course, it is Cuba that needs labor more. After all, the island of Grenada is only 344 square kilometers. The island of Cuba has 100,000 square kilometers......

By the way, the group of cubs on the island of Grenada are in a mood at this time. Why? For the sake of Mao Mei......

However, the Mao Mei imported from the Crimean Khanate before had already been divided among the domestic soldiers and people. People have military merits, so they can't help but give priority......

"That's right, Mao Mei!" Marin suddenly slapped his head......

"Why have I forgotten the girls of England......" said Marin with remorse.

In the case of the devastation in the northern counties of England, all the 300,000 refugees are without food. It doesn't matter if it's the elderly, children, young people or women......

So the problem is, if Marin doesn't interfere, most of those refugees will starve to death. Moreover, the old, weak, women and children are the first to starve to death. Because they are weak, they cannot stand hunger. Moreover, the competition for food cannot compete for those young men.

Whether England's old, weak, sick and disabled will starve to death, Marin does not care. But it would be a pity if the English girls starved to death......

There are more than 300,000 refugees, and there are at least tens of thousands of girls. It would be a pity to starve to death......

So, Marin made a decision in an instant - to send people to infiltrate the northern counties of England, lure the English girls who were dying of starvation with food, lure them over, get them to East Friesland, and distribute them to the bachelors in the country as wives. You can even send them to colonies such as Grenada Island to be wives for those colonists......

As for the opinion of young men in the counties of the north of England? They are all starving to death, and they still want wives? Those English girls are dead ends if they stay, and it is better to go away and marry a young man under Marin's rule. At the very least, you can have enough food and clothing, so that you don't starve to death......