In the autumn of 1515, it was golden everywhere. Beihai country has welcomed another bumper harvest. This year, because of the appearance of the Prad plough cart, the columb, and the wheat samarium, the cultivated area of Beihai Country increased from 12 million mu to 15 million mu.

However, there was no increase in the tithes on cultivated land. Because, the Holy See had already confirmed with Marin that only tithes would be collected according to the standard of 12 million mu. Moreover, it is levied according to the standard of 150 pounds per acre, that is, the tithe of 15 pounds of rye per acre.

Of course, in the event of a natural disaster, it can also be reduced. In addition, only half of the tithes needed to be sent to Rome, and the other half was used by the North Sea Church.

In fact, even sending half of the tithes to Rome would be very scary. Because, 12 million mu of rye, 15 pounds per mu, a total of 180 million pounds, half of which is 90 million pounds!

According to the current food price in Germany, if one fennig is counted as one pound, it is 90 million fennig, which is equivalent to 1.5 million gold coins! This batch of grain is enough for 200,000 people to eat for a year! Moreover, it is the case that more than one pound of rye flour can be consumed every day (under normal circumstances, the brown bread eaten by ordinary people can contain half of the flour, which is considered high-grade.) The black stick bread eaten by ordinary farmers is more than half of the ingredients such as soil, stones, wood chips, and wild vegetables). According to the eating method of ordinary farmers, it is not a problem to feed 500,000 people with this grain!

The Papal States originally produced more than half of the food needed in the country, so the extra food was actually the financial revenue of the Holy See, at least hundreds of thousands of gold coins......

You know, tithes like Marin who honestly paid tithes to the Holy See are almost extinct in Europe. Those like France who dare to bully the Holy See not only do not send tithes to the Holy See, but also levy taxes on the French Church in turn, which can be described as a bull's fork to the extreme.

Powerful countries such as Spain and Great Britain, although not as bullish as France, often find all kinds of excuses and bribe the cardinals in charge of the dioceses of the two countries, and pay most of the tithes and pay only a symbolic ......

The only ones who paid the real tithes were probably the episcopal states of Germany. It's not that they want to, it's that the right to appoint bishoprics belongs to the Holy See, and those episcopal states dare not pay it. But even so, these episcopal states would be opportunistic and bribe the Roman cardinals in charge of tithing, deliberately cut the amount of tithes, and then privately divide the share of those tithes...... In the end, these episcopal states were able to send a quarter of their tithes to Rome, which was considered very honest......

It can't be helped, the atmosphere is like this, Marin can pay so many tithes, it is the first in Europe. As for Marin's request for a fixed amount of tithes, the people of the church knew that there was something wrong with it. However, everyone messed around, but Marin was the most honest. So, no one is going to look for Marin's stubble in this area at all. Whoever dares to find fault will be compared with him to pay more tithes...... As long as it is compared, even the big countries such as Britain, France and Spain cannot compare to Marin......

Therefore, even if Ma Linxin reclaimed 3 million acres of land and did not pay more tithes, no one made a fuss about it. Because, others have gone more than Marin has done. Does a murderer dare to report a thief? Can't! If you dare to do this, you will die first......

The extra 3 million acres of land, Ma Lin did not monopolize it, but gave one-third to the nobles under him. In other words, Marin monopolized 2 million mu, and his subordinates divided 1 million mu. Well, this is very much in line with the principle of sharing the spoils of the copycat bandits - the boss takes the lion's share, and the remaining younger brothers divide the ......

Martha Masters ...... Ahh After all, all the borderless lands in the country belong to her, the Grand Duke. He also needs to approve the new land reclamation.

In order to suppress food production and avoid too much food, Marin was also hundreds of years ahead of the curve, introducing the "Environmental Protection Law" to limit deforestation and protect water and soil. However, the reason for protecting the forest is very bad - it is to ensure the right of the nobles to hunt...... However, in this day and age, this broken reason actually holds up......

No way, this is an era of aristocracy, and the pleasure of the aristocratic lords is even more important than the life and death of the common people......

In fact, Marin did not completely restrict the increase of arable land, but deliberately suppressed the increase of arable land in the country. After all, he still has a huge America to cultivate, and if the land is reclaimed too much, no one will be willing to go to the Americas to reclaim the waste.

Therefore, Marin's attitude is very clear - the increase in local arable land must be approved, otherwise it will be confiscated. But the land of the American kingdom, Marlin encouraged the reclamation. Even, at the expense of various preferential conditions. For example, commoners who used to reclaim land can also become landlords. Of course, the premise is that taxes must be paid to the authorities. In addition to the tithes of the church, an additional 10 percent tax was paid on agriculture and 10 percent on national defense. Of course, if there is a male member in the family who joins the army, he will be exempted from national defense tax during the period of joining the army. If a man dies in battle, the tax holiday is extended for 18 years. In the past 18 years, the boy's newborn son has theoretically grown up. Of course, if they have no children, their families still enjoy this treatment. If there is a certain degree of military merit, then the degree of bereavement is even greater......

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What disappointed Ma Lin was that the people of this era were like the locals in the early years of Hudong in later generations, and they were brainless. In later generations, there was a famous joke - "I'd rather have a bed in Puxi than a room in Pudong". It's about the brainless Hudong locals, who would rather die in Puxi than go to Pudong to seek development......

Now, this situation has also appeared in the Beihai Kingdom - not to mention those commoners, even those nobles are not willing to go to the Americas to reclaim the wilderness.

For example, when the land was divided, many soldiers with military merits would rather ask for 200 acres of arable land in the homeland (equivalent to 100 yugrams, 1,200 acres) than 1,000 acres of arable land in the Americas when they were knighted.

You must know that in the homeland, the good land by the river has long been divided up by the great nobles. Only those ordinary cultivated lands that do not rely on rivers will be ownerless and divided. However, those brainless meritorious soldiers just like those thin lands, and refuse to ask for the fertile land along the rivers in the Americas. You must know that at present, the development of the Americas is low, and the land given by Mallincoln is all treasure land that is very convenient for irrigation along the river. If it were left to future generations, this kind of farm would cost tens of thousands of dollars a acre. 1,000 acres, worth tens of millions of dollars.

However, in this day and age, the land of America is just not worth much! In addition, in order to prevent other countries from competing for it, Marin deliberately portrayed the Americas as a terrifying "wild land", and no one was willing to put the fief in the Americas.

Only Kohler, Schwartz and other core high-level leaders of the North Sea countries understood how fertile and suitable for agriculture the Americas were. The mere fact that it is suitable for growing wheat will destroy the rye fields of the North Sea Country. You know, the price of wheat is several times higher than that of rye......

But Marin can't say it directly, mainly because he is afraid that some people will not be strict in their mouths and leak out. Therefore, at present, the land of the Americas can only be cheaper than those few guys. Fortunately, they are not outsiders either.

However, it is not enough to just give those henchmen, others always have to drink soup. So, Marin did everything possible to "sell" the lands of the Americas.

As a result, not only those low-level soldiers who were knighted for merit were not happy to ask for the land of the Americas, but even those middle-level officers who were awarded the title of barons were not willing to ask for good land five times the area of the Americas.

In desperation, in order to promote the development of the Americas, Marin finally made a decision - to give the land of the Americas to the meritorious soldiers......

Of course, not everyone sends, but the baron starts. For example, the land that a baron of the third rank received from the baron was 1,000 eugrams, or 2,000 acres. Marin was still canonized according to the old rules, but he would give another 2,000 acres of good land along the river in the Americas to the recipients.

These people may not be happy at first, but after knowing the truth and tasting the benefits, they are happy to ask for the land of the Americas. After all, that's farmland where wheat can be grown! You know, in this era, being able to eat white bread made of wheat flour is a symbol of status!

You know, even an ordinary knight with only 1,000 acres of riverside fiefdom in the Americas can eat wheat flour and white bread every day as long as he grows wheat. No way, the land of America is so good. Because the summer is hotter than in Europe, it is conducive to the accumulated temperature of wheat, so it is very suitable for wheat growth.

At the beginning of the 19th century, most people in European countries still mainly ate black bread as their staple food, and poor Germans ate potatoes every day for a living. At that time, when the United States was newly founded, the common people could generally eat white bread. There's no way, the family has a good land, so it's like that......

However, in the Beihai Kingdom in 1515, no one was willing to ask for a fief in the Americas, forcing Marin to rely on adding his head to give away the land in the Americas, what a......