It is the golden autumn of another year, and from mid to late September, the autumn harvest begins in East Friesland. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info because of the use of potash fertilizers, phosphate fertilizers, etc., resulting in the rye of East Friesian Lamber, which is a little earlier than other countries.

This year, because of the addition of 18,000 young men and their families paid by the Duchy of Saxony to Marin, the harvest is well manned. Therefore, the progress of the autumn harvest is still good.

Moreover, these 18,000 young people, through their labor last year, helped Marin reclaim 35,000 eugrams of arable land from the swamp, and planted rye during the spring watch. In addition, after spring ploughing, 10,000 yugram acres of arable land were newly cultivated. It's just that because I didn't have time to catch up with the spring ploughing, this autumn harvest is naturally nothing.

Today, there are 120,000 eugrams planted with grain in the entire East Friesian Lamber country (not counting the 10,000 new eugrams that have been reclaimed from the marshes this year). Among them, Marin's nobles and soldiers owned a total of 35,000 yugrams. Marin himself, on the other hand, has 85,000 yugrams......

This is the benefit of Marin who eliminated most of the original nobles of the East Friesian Lam Country, and in that massacre, Marin killed most of the original East Friesian nobles, and their land was naturally taken over by Marin. The land of hundreds of nobles was concentrated in the hands of Marin. And now it is the era of serfs, and the land is basically in the hands of the aristocracy. So, at once, Marin owned most of the arable land in this small country. Although a lot of fields were divided, by renovating the swamp, Marin was able to make up for the amount of fields that had been divided......

As a result of the production of compound fertilizer mixed with manure, plant ash and fishmeal at the fertilizer plant and applied to the field, East Friesland has a high rye yield of 500 pounds per acre. Even oats, which have lower yields per acre, have reached the level of 200 pounds per acre.

Among them, in order to raise horses, Marin specially allocated 5,000 eugram arable land for the cultivation of oats. This autumn harvest, 5,000 yugrams (equivalent to 60,000 acres), a total of 12 million pounds of oats were harvested, which can allow thousands of horses in the territory to eat oats with open bellies......

Needless to say, the 80,000 eugrams (960,000 acres) of rye yielded an average of more than 500 pounds per mu, with a total yield of 480 million pounds. The 35,000 yugram arable land produced 210 million pounds of rye. As usual, they took out half of it and asked Marin's Chamber of Commerce to help sell it......

This time, Marin didn't have to take the grain abroad. This year, there was a drought in southern Germany, and food production plummeted. Marin directly took the 100 million pounds of grain he bought from them through the Emes and the Rhine, into the interior, and then transferred it to the south......

Because of the famine, the price of rye in Germany rose from 1 phfennig per pound to 1.5 fennig per pound, and it was also very profitable to transport it to the south. At the very least, Marin's nobles could earn 1 pfennig per pound. Then, they earned a total of 100 million fennig, which is equivalent to 1.666 million gold coins......

Among them, Marin's brother Adler earned 100,000 Gulden gold coins. The rest of the subordinates who divided 1,000 eugrams also earned about 50,000 gold coins each......

Now, every autumn harvest, the nobles of the East Friesian Lambert and the soldiers who have been rewarded for arriving land fall into a carnival of wealth......

Because too much wealth was obtained from the cultivated land, the living standards of these nobles and native soldiers were directly improved by several grades.

Even if they are also barons, and the fief area is far less than those barons abroad. However, the barons under Marin have a lot of more than enough to live.

So, the nobles of the East Friesian Lamber did one thing collectively - that is, to expand the castle......

Yes, the nobility of this era, the castle is their face. If you have money, you naturally have to clean up your face. Before Marin gave Adler's castle for free, sister-in-law Liv now can't look at it. As a result, Liv, who is usually stingy, directly said that she would expand a new castle that was 5 times the size of the old castle, with a total budget of 50,000 gold coins......

The other nobles, one by one, also with virtue, vigorously expanded the castle. This also led to the fact that after the autumn harvest, the price of stone in East Friesland directly doubled......

Marin wanted to recommend cheap and practical reinforced concrete, but his subordinates didn't trust this kind of building material that they had never seen before. Therefore, they would rather pay a high price to buy finished stone in Hamburg and Bremen than use cement......

In desperation, Marin had no choice but to use reinforced concrete for his new palace. In addition, the enlarged city wall of Aurich was also made of cement and steel bar......

Because the reinforced concrete was more resistant to shelling than the stone fortress, Marin did not build a fortress structure, and directly built the royal palace wall and the Aurich city wall in the old style......

Then, the shock-absorbing carriage also became the standard configuration of the nobles in the territory......

It's just that, because of improper protection or forgetting to oil, these small nobles' shock-absorbing carriages often need to replace the springs......

Without waterproof paint, the springs are still not durable......

Suddenly, Marin thought of his backlog of tin imported from England...... It seems that the spring can be hot-dip tinned to form a tin protective film. In this way, the spring is less prone to rust. The hot-dip tinned steel is also known as "tinplate......

It's just that Marin thought that although the tinplate is rust-proof, the tin protective film will be rubbed off. Once the tin protective film is broken, the iron inside will quickly oxidize and corrode......

Therefore, the best solution is actually to hot-dip galvanized liquid for the spring, so that it becomes a white iron sheet (galvanized iron sheet), which is not afraid of rust and corrosion, and is not afraid of rubbing......

But the problem is that zinc has not yet been discovered in Europeans. Even, the people of the Ming Dynasty have not yet discovered zinc. It seems that the existence of zinc will not be discovered until the late Ming Dynasty. It seems to be the Jiajing period, and there are still decades before now......

In fact, zinc is very well obtained. In general, zinc and lead tend to coexist. Therefore, there is often a zinc component in lead ore.

It's just that when smelting, it is in a high temperature environment of thousands of degrees. Zinc has a bad property, that is, the boiling point is only 907 degrees. Above 907 degrees, zinc will be converted into zinc vapor and volatilized......

However, as long as a curved condenser tube is added to the top of the reduction furnace, the zinc vapor will condense down to form crude zinc. Then, it is melted and purified to form a refined zinc ingot......

That is, just add a condenser tube to the top of the stove. However, for thousands of years, people have often smelted lead, but zinc has not been found......

As long as you find a lead mine, most of the lead ore contains zinc. When the time comes, improve the reduction furnace and you will be able to obtain zinc......

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Off topic, his subordinates sold 100 million pounds of rye, and Marin himself harvested 480 million pounds of rye. Moreover, this year's rye does not have to be consumed. Because, the grain harvested last year and the harvest of the previous year have not yet been eaten......

So, Marin thought twice and decided to take out 200 million pounds of rye and sell it in southern Europe......

Needless to say, grain prices in Spain have always been expensive, with rye prices remaining stable at 2 pfennig per pound for a long time. The Italian region was originally a rich region rich in grain.

However, because of the Italian war, last year we saw the French and Naples fighting and dying, which seriously affected the food production in Italy, and many local farmlands were abandoned.

Therefore, this year, there is a serious shortage of food in Italy. If large quantities of food are not brought in from outside, many refugees will inevitably starve to death.

Therefore, Marin decided to send or charter a ship to ship the grain to Spain and Italy for sale. 200 million pounds of grain, with the high price of grain in southern Europe, can probably be sold for more than 3 million ducats.

It's just that Spain is okay, and the Italian region, after the looting and destruction of the French, may not be able to come up with so much money to buy ......

So, Marin came up with a brilliant idea - food for women......

Italy has a large population and a large number of women. And Marin's men have thousands of singles. These bastards now have green eyes when they see women...... If it weren't for the harsh laws of the East Friesian Lambeth, these women would probably dare to drag women into the grass casually...... It was only after Marin publicly chopped off the heads of a dozen messy guys that the group was honest......

However, just being so elastic is not a solution. After all, people are also normal young people, and they also need women. As a ruler, you don't think of ways for others, and you kill people, which is indeed a bit inhumane. But Marin can't help it, society always needs order. You can't let these fools go ahead just because they understand them......

As a responsible ruler, in order to solve the problem of too many singles in the country, Marin still thought of a way......

Before, I first saw Crimeans selling Eastern European Mao Mei, so I planned to buy more. However, now, Marin suddenly discovered that because of the war and famine, there are many Italian girls......

Although it is said that Marin went to engage Italian girls to give young men in his country, it was unfair to Italian men. However, Marin was the leader of the East Friesian Lamber, and he did not collect taxes from the Italians. So, an Italian (foreign) man I call him dead? They don't pay me taxes...... All the leaders who have an internationalist mind are the Great Sabi......

So, Marin decided to start the "food for women" plan. Exchange the surplus food for the beautiful Italian chick......

What the? You say that food can't be exchanged for beautiful women? I'm going to tell you, back then...... Three years - ...... disaster During this period, a bag of rice can be properly exchanged for a beautiful village girl as a wife......

Not to mention rice, even sweet potatoes, carrots and other grains can also be exchanged for beautiful wives......

Moreover, at that time, rice had to be handed in. Even if there is surplus grain in most households, it is sweet potatoes, carrots and other miscellaneous grains......

If, you have saved a lot of grains. Well, congratulations, in those days, you would never be a single. As long as you can pick a load of miscellaneous grains to come to the door to propose marriage (you have to pick those families who lack food), no matter how beautiful they look, they can also be exchanged for being a wife......

The same goes for the famine that broke out in Italy. As long as Marin's men offered a sack of rye, the poor families would be willing to send their daughters......

Don't think it's cruel, it's actually a win-win situation. The family (and perhaps the younger siblings) who sent the daughter will survive the disaster because of this sack of rye. And when the daughter arrives in a family that can afford to exchange food for a woman, although the husband may not be outstanding, at least she will not starve to death and can survive......

Your daughter is brilliant and beautiful? No problem, one sack of rye is not enough, then two sacks......

In short, in a famine year, there is no problem that cannot be solved by a sack of rye. If there is, then two sacks......

A sack weighs only 100 pounds, and even if the price of grain in the disaster area is expensive, there are 2 pfennigh a pound, and 100 pounds of rye is only worth 200 pfennig, which is equivalent to 3.33 gold coins. Even two sacks of rye are only worth 6.66 gold coins. What's more, 6.66 gold coins can be exchanged for a beautiful village girl, which is still a good family, which is much more cost-effective than buying it from the Crimean Khanate.

200 million pounds of rye, 2 million sacks. If you change all of them for women, even a beautiful girl with two sacks of rye can exchange them for 1 million......

Of course, even if Marin wanted to do this, there weren't so many girls who would change him for ......

So, Marin's intention was to sell most of this grain to the Spaniards and the wealthy in Italy. Then, take out a small amount of food and go to the disaster areas in Italy (especially the war-torn Kingdom of Naples) in exchange for 20,000 Italian girls. The total amount of food needed is about 2 million to 4 million pounds, a fraction of the 200 million pounds of food.

The reason why a few thousand more girls came back was actually to attract immigrants. In the interior of Germany, in those serf families with many boys, it is normal for men to not be able to afford to marry wives.

Marin has these extra thousands of girls, which can be used as bait to attract those who want to marry wives but have no money, and tempt them to work for themselves. As for himself, he is the master of the reward to the beautiful Italian village girl......

But thinking about it, Marin suddenly patted his head - he had forgotten about the 10,000 recruits in Teutonic State. Those people are basically singles......

As a result, Marin immediately changed his plan. The number of beautiful Italian villagers who exchanged food for food increased from 20,000 to 30,000......

As for the imbalance between men and women in the Italian region, what about Marin? He only cared about the soldiers and people who helped him die, what did the gringos have to do with him? Want a wife? Okay, join us and serve me first......

At the same time, Marin was in East Friesland and issued a decree prohibiting foreign marriage for women in the country. In order to balance the ratio of men and women in the country, Marin strictly forbade any family to marry their daughters outside of East Friesland until the country was balanced between men and women. If violated, the woman's parents, brothers and sisters, go directly to prison and be reduced to slavery (a lower existence than serfs, completely devoid of human rights). Even if the nobles want to marry foreign nobles and want to marry their daughters, they need to get special permission from Marin. Otherwise, the titles and fiefs of nobility were also stripped away, and the whole family was expelled from the country. The decree will come into force on the same day and will be officially declared to be in force after the disappearance of the domestic singles......