While preparing for the construction of the paper mill and salt boiling center on Cape Breton Island, Marin found that the sacking of the 150 Kirk galleons allocated by Denmark had really helped him. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoWhether it's transporting people or goods, everything is not a problem in front of 150 Kirk galleons.

However, ships are not a problem, sailors are......

Mainly, 150 Kirk galleons, each on board, required 20 to 40 sailors. In this way, these 150 sailing ships need at least 5,000 sailors.

And the East Friesian Lamber country, where Marin is located, can only recruit about 4,000 young fishermen. Moreover, these 4,000 people have been divided up by Marin's current 8 warships, 15 250-class warships and 17 Karak galleons, a total of 40 ships (including gunners). That is, now those captured Danish merchant ships, the shortage of sailors has reached about 3,000 people.

Fortunately, the coastal areas of Oldenburg, which Marin had newly captured, as well as the Jävre region, were mostly Frisians. Even the west coast of the Duchy of Schleswig and the region of Dietmarschen are mostly inhabited by Frisian fishermen.

Marin therefore intended to recruit young Frisian fishermen as sailors to control these merchant ships in the region of Jävre, along the coast of the Count of Oldenburg and on the west coast of the Duchy of Schleswig.

To this end, Marin recruited five people who remained in the capital of Aurich from the "Thirteen Taibao" (nicknames of the first 13 University of Cologne students) recruited at the University of Cologne three years ago.

Then, with the help of these 5 college students, Marin enacted the famous Sailor First Act. In the future, this bill provided Marin with a large number of sailors, so that a large number of Marin's warships roamed all over the continent, scaring those pirates to the core......

The Act provided for a tax rate of 30 per cent of the catch for ordinary fishermen (not counting church tithes) and that salt for salted fish salted into the tax could be reimbursed, but not in advance.

However, if there are young people in the family who serve in the navy as sailors and in the merchant ships under the name of Marin, the tax rate for the whole family is reduced to 20% during the service. In addition, the family can advance the salt needed to marinate the salted fish. In the event of a war death, the preferential policy will be extended for 10 to 20 years, depending on the age of the deceased.

In addition, the policy of the bank that Marin had set up to support fishermen, that is, the bank that provided loans to poor fishermen to buy large fishing boats, was also changed, and it was announced in the "Sailor First Act" that from now on, loans will only be provided to families whose families have young and strong families serving the navy, or who directly serve the merchant ships in Marin's name. Families who did not have young men to serve the navy and merchant ships in Marin no longer enjoyed the loan policy.

The enactment of the Sailors' First Act symbolizes Marin's division of fishermen into two types of people - those who serve Marin (including those who have served Marin) and those who do not.

Fishermen who serve Marin will enjoy a variety of incentives and can also take out loans to buy large fishing boats to increase their income. Salt can also be advanced for salting salted fish (this is important because without enough salt, you can't marinate enough salted fish.) In that case, no matter how much fish you catch, if you don't have enough salt, some of the fish will just rot).

Fishermen's families who do not serve Marin will become ordinary taxpayers. If you want to buy a big fishing boat, you can only rely on your own affordability. But the profit from selling salted fish is very low, and if you want to save enough money to buy a new big fishing boat, God knows the year of the monkey. And the policy of borrowing money to buy fishing boats will not benefit them in the future. Moreover, they could not advance salt for salted fish, so they had to pay for salt themselves for salting. If you don't have enough money to buy enough salt, even if you catch too much fish, it's a waste. Because, there is no salt for pickling.

From now on, over time, fishermen's families with sailors at home serving Marin will get better and better. And there were no sailors at home to serve Marin, and although it was better than before Marin was ruled, it was not much better.

The biggest difference between the two is the eligibility for a loan to buy a large fishing boat, and whether you can advance salt. Only with larger fishing boats will the harvest be greater. Salt advances allow fishermen to have enough salt to marinate salted fish. Otherwise, there is not enough salt, and even if you have a big fishing boat, it is useless to catch a lot of fish. If there is not enough salt, the extra fish will only rot and stink......

Although there is no forced conscription of young fishermen as sailors, the enactment of the Sailors First Act will use the benefits to force those fishermen families with young and strong families to rush to serve the navy and Marin's fleet.

Moreover, the Sailors First Act was in fact aimed at the fishermen of Friesland on the newly controlled region of Jävre, off the coast of the Count of Oldenburg and on the west coast of the Duchy of Schleswig. As for Dietmarshin...... Well, last time because Marin was captured, the two sides reached an agreement, and Marin allowed them to govern......

Combined, the total number of fishermen in Friesland is estimated to be around 40,000. It shouldn't be a problem to recruit five or six thousand sailors among them......

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During the development and enactment of the Sailors First Act, Marin naturally consulted with Amerigo, who was helping Marin train captains at the captain's school.

Amerigo has no opinion on the new bill, but he has his own opinion on the 150 merchant ships seized from Denmark.

The ships docked at the newly built pier near Emden, which Amerigo had visited. He believes that of the 150 ships, only the 60 Kirk galleons with a displacement of more than 200 tons have value for ocean voyages. Other displacements of less than 200 tons, sailing in the Atlantic, are still a bit dangerous.

Moreover, with the current scale of Marin's trade, even the 60 Kirk galleons of more than 200 tons may not be able to be used, let alone the 90 Kirk galleons of less than 200 tons......

Marin was suddenly embarrassed......

He thought about using all the 150 captured ships, but he didn't consider whether the trade volume of the Chamber of Commerce under his name could use so many ships......

Even if there are 60 merchant ships of more than 200 tons, the scale is very terrifying. Because, these 60 ships, the total capacity of a full load at one time, will reach more than 7,000 tons...... Does Marlin have so much to ship? The answer is no......

As a result, Marin finally selected the 60 Kirk galleons of more than 200 tons and formed a steamship company under his control to use them for trade and transportation, as well as to transport troops. Of course, it was also responsible for transportation between the mainland and the colonies.

As for the 90 small ships with a displacement of less than 200 tons......

"Or will you sell them to eligible fishermen as big fishing boats for the 'Fishermen Loan to Buy Big Boats' program?" Amerigo suggested.

A ship of a hundred and a few dozen tons, in the ocean trade, may be regarded as a small ship. However, in the eyes of those Frisian fishermen, they are definitely big boats, and they are fully qualified to go to the depths of the North Sea to fish, instead of most Frisian fishermen who are still fishing in small boats of more than ten tons inshore like now...... Even in later generations, fishing boats with a displacement of 100 tons could not be considered small......

After thinking about it, Marin finally clapped his head and said:

"Not bad idea, that's it. Of these 90 boats, I plan to send 20 to Cape Breton Island and the twin islands, and send a group of fishermen over to participate in the fishing. As for the other 70 boats, they were sold at a discount to fishermen who met the conditions for loans and took out loans to buy large boats! ”

In this way, Marin decisively disposed of 90 "small boats" with a displacement of less than 200 tons, and retained only 60 Kirk galleons with a displacement of more than 200 tons, as the merchant ships of the newly established "Hoffmann Shipping Company".

In this way, the problem of not having enough sailors that Marin was worried about was immediately solved. Because, two-thirds of the ships that have been cut off, and the remaining one-third, with the existing sailors, are completely sufficient, and just enough......

In fact, for these 60 Kirk sailing ships of more than 200 tons, Marin is not looking down. Because, in his mind, the kind of Galen ship of more than 500 tons is the most suitable merchant ship. It's just that he doesn't have any Galen ships in his hands right now. The few ships that are still battleships.

Only when enough Galen ships have been built can the Kirk galleons be replaced. And the Kirk sailboat, which has been eliminated, is also a very good way to deal with those eligible fishermen cheaply. In this way, it can also support the development of the fishing industry.

You must know that in this year, there are not many large fishing boats at sea, and fishery resources are also abundant. Moreover, in this era, because there are many rules of the Holy See, there are so many festivals in a year that are not allowed to eat meat, and salted fish is also very marketable......