Chapter 869: Autumn Harvest and Agricultural Adjustment (I)
Of course, it's not that Ma Lin has no discipline (although the festival is indeed a little less), but that Ma Lin really yearns for the chic of those heroes flying around in the sky in martial arts stories.
Although Ma Lin can also do martial arts, at best, it is Bruce Lee's level of martial arts, and it is even inferior, belonging to the category of human beings. And the martial arts of those heroes in martial arts already belong to the category of unscience. For example, those heroes often fly around in the sky, which completely does not conform to the rules of gravity. Moreover, the special one can still fly in the sky with a girl...... This made Marin envious to death......
Moreover, Li Xunhuan, played by Jiao Enjun back then, was indeed very chic. When encountering such a hero, it is human nature to hug his thighs to learn martial arts. Especially, a post-80s generation like Ma Lin who has watched martial arts movies since childhood. Basically, most post-80s boys have a martial arts dream in their hearts.
The late 90s was a very hot period for martial arts. At that time, the 95 version of "The Condor Heroes", the 96 version of "Smiling Proud Jianghu" and the 97 version of "Dragon Babu" were all very high-quality martial arts TV series. And the years of Ma Lin's last life were the bear child period, and he was super obsessed with martial arts. For this reason, Marin hung sandbags at home, and learned from others to practice iron sand in broken iron pots, and almost burned his hands...... Moreover, in order to practice the so-called light skills, Marin also tied sandbags to his legs to run......
Of course, in the end, Ma Lin didn't practice any internal skills, and he didn't be able to fly off the wall, but his fighting skills improved. After all, exercising makes you strong. When a person grows strong, let alone with his fists, it is a savage collision, and he can knock a thin person into the air without using his hands...... Of course, the premise is that the other party does not have a brick in his hand......
Far away, flying away in martial arts is obviously unrealistic. Therefore, Marlin needs a long time to prepare, and he has to smear the darts with poison, and he has to make the darts form a "dart rain" to ensure that he can kill Caesar without breastplate armor on a hot summer day. Borgia.
Fortunately, there is still plenty of time, after all, there are still a few months to recruit and train dart rain tactics between now and next summer.
Then, Marin needs to consult with his father-in-law, Julius II, to see if he agrees to postpone the move until next summer. However, Marin didn't think it was a big problem. Because, although Julius II hated Caesar more. Borgia, but he is also a calm politician who knows forbearance. So drag it out until next year to kill Caesar. Borgia, presumably he could still wait.
Kohler sent his own cronies to Rome, Italy, with a secret letter from Marin to the Pope. After the letter is delivered, Kohler's cronies will also be responsible for selecting people to form the "Assassin's Creed" killer organization in Italy.
In fact, the killer organization in Assassin's Creed is called the Brotherhood. However, the Brotherhood ID is not as popular as Assassin's Creed. Moreover, Marin also has his own bad tastes. Therefore, the name of the movie, which was originally used, was used by him for the killer organization.
But to put it bluntly, this killer organization called "Assassin's Creed" is actually just a façade. Wait until you kill Caesar. Borgia, this organization is useless. Therefore, Marin will not pay much attention to the operation of this organization. He even deliberately exposed some clues about the organization and fabricated misleading information in order to get himself and Pope Julius II out. Moreover, the personnel responsible for the formation of the "Assassin's Creed" organization will also be the peripheral personnel of the Italian distribution of the North Sea Chamber of Commerce. These people only know their upline, and they don't even know that they are serving the "Beihai Chamber of Commerce". In this way, even if this group is discovered and eliminated in the future, there will be no evidence left pointing to the North Sea Kingdom and Marin.
Moreover, Marin will also play a play with Julius II. That is, Julius II would have assassinated Caesar... Borgia had deliberately accused the Assassin's Creed organization and listed it as illegal, and would send officials of the Papal States to pursue it. As a result, no one believed that it had anything to do with Julius II.
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Just as Marin was busy plotting to assassinate Caesar. At the same time as the Borgia matter, the autumn harvest of the Grand Duchy of Beihai was also in full swing.
However, in the Grand Duchy of Beihai, the autumn harvest was not synchronized. The provinces of East Friesland, Oldenburg, Schleswig and North Münster were already under Marin's rule because of the introduction of new agricultural techniques and the application of phosphate fertilizers that encouraged crops to mature early. Therefore, the rye harvest in these old provinces is half a month earlier than the other provinces that were later incorporated into the Beihai Kingdom, and the end is also half a month earlier.
In mid-October, while the autumn harvest was still in full swing in several new provinces, like the rest of Europe, the four old provinces of East Friesland, Oldenburg, Schleswig and North Münster in the North Sea Kingdom had already finished their autumn harvest and entered the stage of drying and storing grain.
According to statistics, the grain output of these four old provinces has decreased slightly this year, not reaching the level of 2 billion pounds last year, but there are also 1.85 billion pounds. This is mainly due to the fact that this year's summer storms in Schleswig province have led to a widespread reduction in field yields.
But even so, the production of 1.85 billion pounds of grain can scare a bunch of people to death. Because according to the retail price of one fennig per pound of rye, the 1.85 billion pounds of rye are worth 1.85 billion fennig, equivalent to 30.833 million gold coins......
Of course, according to the old rules, it is impossible for Marin to sell all this grain. After all, he was also afraid of the secret of high grain yields leaking out.
Moreover, Marin has reached a secret agreement with his nobles to temporarily stop increasing arable land and avoid hoarding more grain......
In other words, in addition to the four old provinces of East Friesland, Oldenburg, Schleswig and North Münster, the other four new provinces – Bremen, West Friesland, Jutland and South Münster – as well as the newly arrived Ruhr region, will not be able to promote new agricultural technologies in Marin for the time being......
Why? In addition to worrying about the accident of producing too much food and not being able to sell it, preventing leaks is also an important reason.
After all, the current North Sea countries are not enough to single out all of Europe. But if the secret of the high grain yield of the Beihai country is leaked out, it is estimated that the whole of Europe will coerce the Beihai country to hand over the secret of the high grain yield.
The four old provinces of East Friesland, Oldenburg, Schleswig, and North Münster have done a very good job of secrecy. At the beginning, Marin also did a great job - most of the old nobles of East Friesland were basically killed, and the knights in North Münster were also taken away by the Bishop of Conrad, and the old nobles of Oldenburg and Schleswig were sent to Las Vegas......
Without these outsiders who may betray in the way, and the troops will be sent outside the manor to protect them during spring plowing and fertilization, the secret of Beihai Kingdom's high yield has not been leaked.
However, unlike the newly added provinces, as Marin matured politically, they no longer resorted to violence against the newly conquered areas, but instead resorted to a combination of co-optation and repression. In this way, the old nobles in some areas will not be able to clean up. In such a situation, the old nobles of the Beihai Kingdom were worried that those new nobles might not be reliable. If the secret of high grain yields is leaked, it will be over......
Therefore, during the spring ploughing this year, the old four provinces still adopted new agricultural technology and fertilizers. And the new provinces, but not using new agricultural technology.
West Friesland is an exception, however. Because the province of Marin was integrated, the original nobility of West Friesland and some Junker landlords were exchanged for the area near the Elbe in Bremen Province through land exchange.
Therefore, West Friesland is currently in good control of Marin. As a result, Marin and the North Sea nobility reached a secret agreement that the new agricultural technology would be implemented only in East Friesland, Oldenburg, Schleswig, North Münster, and the newly joined province of West Friesland. As for the other provinces, the old agricultural techniques are temporarily adopted and adjusted according to the situation......