The cold spell in January has passed, and the weather in February is gradually starting to warm up. Marin, on the other hand, sat in front of the window of the office, looking at the dead branches that spit out buds outside the window and were worried.

Why? It all started with the first census of the North Sea Country. Now, the land area of Beihai Country is quite large. The East Friesian Lamber and Jävre regions together have a total area of about 4,000 square kilometers, and Oldenburg is about 4,000 square kilometers. West Friesland is about 5,000 square kilometres, and north and south of Münster add up to 10,000 square kilometres. Osnabrück also has more than 2,200 square kilometers in the province of Bremen, about 5,800 or so. The combined counties of Schleswig and Dietmarshin are more than 10,000 square kilometers (Schleswig 9,200, Dietmarshin 1,400). The newly acquired Ruhr area also exceeds 4,000 square kilometres. Add to that the more than 20,000 square kilometers of Jutland......

All in all, the land area of Beihai Country has exceeded 65,000 square kilometers. Although 5,000 square kilometers in South Münster and 1,400 square kilometers in Dietmarchen County are not under their jurisdiction for the time being, the area under Marin's control is close to 50,000 square kilometers. Such an area is much larger than that of the Netherlands in later generations.

However, the population of Beihai Country, after the census, made Marin very disappointed......

According to official statistics, the figures are that East Friesland has a population of 350,000 and West Friesland has a population of 180,000 (previously there were more than 200,000, but after several wars, the population has dropped by tens of thousands). Oldenburg has only 80,000 people, and Bremen province has more points, 100,000. The Duchy of Schleswig has 150,000 people, and the huge province of Jutland has only 250,000 people. North Münster is also sparsely populated, with just over 50,000 people. Osnabrück has less than 20,000 people, and the North Münster region combined is about 70,000. The Ruhr region has a population of around 200,000, while the South Münster region, although it also has a population of more than 200,000, is not yet under the administration of Marin. Similarly, Dietmarshin's population of 20,000 is autonomous.

In this way, the population controlled by Marin is actually only 1.38 million. Of course, the land exchange in the Ruhr area is underway, and according to the contract, the nobles on the land will be replaced with 30,000 people, all of whom are their men and serfs. In other words, the population that Marin finally controls is about 1.35 million people.

This seems like a lot, because, in this era, the vassal states of Germany with a population of more than one million are probably only the Habsburg and Argiellonian domains (including Bohemia and Silesia, but the Kingdom of Hungary, with a population of up to 4 million, does not belong to the HRE and is not counted). The Habsburgs alone had a total population of about 950,000 in the Netherlands and hundreds of thousands in Austria. It was the Habsburgs' vast territory and large population that allowed them to gain an advantage in the competition for the throne. The other princes, on the other hand, needed to unite to suppress the Habsburgs.

And the appearance of Marin made the princes even more frightened - the Habsburgs were already very powerful, and there was another powerful North Sea State...... Therefore, they did not hesitate to unite and force the North Sea Kingdom and the Habsburgs to break up. Otherwise, Germany will definitely change......

This, of course, was compared to the small vassal states of the German region. If you compare it with the next generation, it's really nothing. In later generations, the Netherlands had a land area of 41,000 square kilometers and a population of 17 million. If it is compared with the Huaxia of later generations, it will be even more incomparable - a prefecture-level city in Ma Lin's hometown in his previous life, with an area of more than 6,000 square kilometers and a population of more than 5 million......

Of course, the Huaxia of later generations cannot be compared. The evil consequence of such a dense population is that each peasant family only cultivates a few acres of land, and the land is not enough.

But now for Marin, the problem is that there is not enough labor......

By the standards of the current German vassals, Marin is more powerful than any of the seven electors except the Kingdom of Bohemia.

However, Marlin is different. He has a huge American continent to colonize. So, 1.35 million people are nothing short of drizzle.

How to put it, the population of 1.35 million in the North Sea Country, even if you count the population of more than 200,000 people in the pre-ruled South Münster region and the county of Dietmarchen, is only more than 1.5 million. The total number of strong men is only three or four hundred thousand. This is still because Marin recruited young and strong serfs on a large scale, otherwise the proportion would be much lower.

According to the calculation that each strong man and his family members can cultivate a maximum of 100 mu of land, 400,000 strong men will cultivate a maximum of 40 million mu. And how big is 40 million acres? When converted, it is only 26,700 square kilometers, which is less than half of Beihai State. For North and South America, which covers a total area of 42 million square kilometers, it is simply a drizzle of drizzles.

With the strength of the Spanish Empire in history, the Spanish Empire, with a population of 8 million, could not take care of the development of the Americas, and could only control Mexico and Peru. And Marin, which has a smaller population, is not to mention.

In fact, for the whole of Europe, the most promising development of the Americas is actually France, with a population of more than 15 million. It is precisely because of this that Marin is very afraid of France, for fear that France will seize his own territory. Because, once the French poured into the Americas, Marin simply could not parry. At that time, the American surname virtue or surname law will not be something that Marin can control.

Therefore, for Marin, it is urgent to expand the size of the population. Otherwise, there would be no way to support colonization in the Americas.

You know, even Portugal, which is relatively weak among the big countries, has a population of 3 million......

However, the population of Germany as a whole is only 12 million. Even the entire Holy Roman Empire (including northern Italy) had a population of only 16 million. Marin wants to poach people from other vassal states, which seems unrealistic...... If it is not done well, it will lead to other vassal states uniting against him......

After all, Marin had so far brought in two or three hundred thousand people from various vassal states. If it is introduced again, it is estimated that other princes will also be in a hurry. After all, these people did not fall from the sky, but from other vassal states.

Now, in order to prevent Marin from fooling a large number of young people in their respective countries, many countries have set up checkpoints at their borders to strictly prohibit a large number of young adults from leaving the country. If discovered, arrest and repatriate immediately.

Therefore, even if Marin played the gold-lettered sign of "enough bread tubes, and also marry a daughter-in-law", he was very helpless in the face of official obstruction.

"It seems that there is only one trick to use......" Marin thought silently.

So he withdrew his gaze from the window and commanded his servant:

"Go get Kohler and call me!"

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