In mid-March, it is a good time for spring ploughing to begin. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info Danish region, because of the high latitude, spring ploughing has just begun. However, due to the war, spring ploughing was suspended in many parts of the Duchy of Holstein and Schleswig.

Neither Marin, nor Lübeck, nor Hamburg want to see this. Therefore, after taking the city of Ribe, Marin temporarily stationed himself with a large army.

At the same time, Marin sent people to the mouth of the River Riber on the edge of the city of Riber, and built several long bridge piers for communication with the mainland. The main thing is to let the homeland provide the materials needed for the war.

After the army was stationed, Marin called up a group of locals and ordered them to go to all parts of the Duchy of Schleswig, to inform the estates, and to resume spring ploughing immediately, and the army promised not to interfere with them during the spring ploughing.

Weizmann and Hermann, the representatives of the two Hanseatic cities, also reacted quickly, and sent a group of men and horses back to the Duchy of Holstein, according to the principle of dividing east and west, in the east and west of the Duchy of Holstein, respectively, urging the locals to continue spring ploughing.

Because Marin disciplined his men with strict military discipline, the damage to the two principalities was minimal despite the large army crossing the border. Only a few recalcitrant barons or knights' estates were attacked, and some of the young men who participated in the rebellion were killed.

However, most of the serfs, because of their timidity, still did not participate in the resistance, and naturally did not suffer any losses. At this time, it is nothing to let them continue spring ploughing.

In the era of war and chaos, civilians died in large numbers, not in massacres. Rather, when a large army crosses the border, it is easy to grab food in columns. Even, some rebels will snatch the seeds left by the farmers...... Rations and seeds were robbed, and the peasants had no choice but to starve to death or rebel......

Marin deeply understood that both the Duchy of Schleswig and the Duchy of Holstein would henceforth be his own territory and that of his allies. If we want to prevent chaos in these two places, we must not rob the people of their food. In addition, it is necessary to ensure the normal progress of spring plowing and autumn harvest.

Therefore, after taking the city of Libe, Marin hired locals to ride horses to various estates, publicized policies to encourage spring ploughing, and posted notices that his army would not rob. Even, when he captured several cities before, those rewards were all paid by Marin himself. Of course, the money was also looted from the city's official treasury.

Marin knew that, if nothing else, Riber would later become the border area between the Duchy of Schleswig and Denmark, which he had occupied. Therefore, this is necessarily a frontline city.

To this end, Marin began to mobilize the city's inhabitants, as well as his own soldiers and people, and began to repair the city of Libe, preparing to use it as a fortress for a long time.

For the nobles in the city who voluntarily surrendered, Marin gave them very generous treatment, but temporarily deprived them of military rights to prevent them from repeating.

Today, the number of nobles of the Duchy of Schleswig who have surrendered to Marin has reached more than 1,000. These people are also a burden in Marin's hands, and Marin needs to be on guard against them at all times, so he needs a lot of manpower.

Moreover, if they are allowed to return to their own territory, it will be equivalent to letting the tiger return to the mountain, and God knows if these people will rebel one day......

So, Marin remembered a plan for a casino that came up with him when he conquered the Count of Oldenburg. That is to build a Las Vegas-like casino and entertainment city, where these surrendered nobles and their children and grandchildren can eat, drink, and be merry. As for their territory, Marin intends to send someone to hold it. Then, return to them the benefits they could have received before. As for the excess part of the high yield caused by the use of new fertilizers, it naturally belongs to Marlin.

In addition, those petty nobles who were killed because of stubborn resistance, their territories were naturally confiscated by Marin. Then, take out a part and use it to reward the brave soldiers. Occupying the 9,200 square kilometers of the Duchy of Schleswig at once, Marin suddenly had more land in his hands and nearly three times the size of the mainland. As a result, Marin now has enough land to reward his soldiers.

At that time, as long as a few more fertilizer farms were built in the Duchy of Schleswig, the local manor grain production could be properly increased. However, after Marin led a large army into the area of the Duchy of Schleswig, he found a problem, that is, Jutland was vast and sparsely populated......

Yes, according to the local nobility, the entire Danish kingdom proper, which includes several islands such as Jutland and Zealand, 42,000 square kilometers, including the Danes of Northern Schleswig), had a population of only 600,000 at this time. The Kingdom of Norway has a population of 240,000; Sweden has 550,000 people; There are 300,000 people in Finland......

That is, the total population of Sweden and Finland is 850,000 people. Denmark and Norway have a combined population of only 840,000, which is more than the old Sten. Sturre, they have even fewer areas of control. Therefore, the Swedes have the confidence to resist.

There are only 600,000 Danes in an area of more than 40,000 square kilometers. Moreover, the bulk of the population must be on the island of Zealand, the core area of Denmark. Thus, Jutland has a population of only 200,000 on the Jutland Peninsula, which covers more than 3,900 square kilometers of land in North Schleswig and 25,400 square kilometers......

You must know that in later generations, a county where Marin lived had a population of more than 800,000 and an area of just over 1,000 square kilometers......

Therefore, at this time, Jutland Peninsula was still vast and sparsely populated. In order to make use of the land, the local people are more engaged in animal husbandry, cattle and sheep raising are more developed, and many people raise horses. Rye and oat cultivation are only about the average size of the population, and most of them work on the fertile soil along the river.

After receiving this information from the surrendering Danish nobles, Marin coveted the vast Jutland Peninsula. However, he also knows that Denmark is not what he can eat at the moment. This time, he finally found an excuse to attack Denmark and cut off the Duchy of Schleswig, which was already very excessive. If you want to cede Jutland, which is much larger than the Duchy of Schleswig, not to mention that Denmark refuses, others will also oppose it. In the case that his own strength was not enough to single out all of Germany, Marin could only temporarily endure and suppress his ambition to annex Denmark.

However, since he and Denmark have made a feud, Marin has no reason to make the other party feel better. At the moment, it is the time for spring ploughing in Denmark, and Marin has allowed the Duchy of Schleswig to spring plough smoothly, but he may not want the Danes to do the same.

In addition, Marin needs a lot of horses, and the horses in the Danish region are relatively tall. To this end, Marin intended to send out cavalry to cross the northern border of the Duchy of Schleswig, deep into the Jutland region, and to grab horses everywhere......

The reason for grabbing horses is not only to increase the number of horses for oneself, but also to hit Danish agriculture. Danes, like the rest of Europe, horse farming was popular at this time. Therefore, pulling horses is the most important animal power for Danish farmers. As for the cow, the Danes obviously don't know what a cow nose ring is, and naturally they can't easily drive the ox to work. Therefore, now the spring ploughing in the field is basically a tall Nordic horse.

Marin couldn't bear to kill people, but if he didn't kill people, he would destroy Danish agriculture, so robbing the Danes' horses became the best choice.

Moreover, the cavalry has strong power, and after snatching the horse, the cavalry only needs to put on the reins, while riding the horse, while leading the snatched horse, they can roar away, which is very convenient.

According to the speculation of the surrendered aristocracy, there were about 100,000 serfs and tens of thousands of horses on Jutland. Not only that, but several important horse farms on Jutland were an important source of war horses in the army of the Danish king Hans.

Hearing this, Marin was immediately excited. So, according to the instructions of the surrendered nobles, he planned to send cavalry to seize the horse farms belonging to the royal family first, and robbed thousands of horses inside. Then, he went to grab the horses used by the serfs to plough the land. If this happens, the grain output in the Danish Jutland Peninsula will inevitably be greatly reduced this year. At that time, even if Marin and his army retreated, the serfs would cause trouble for Hans, the king of Denmark, because of hunger......

The 1,000 lancers recruited from the Teutonic kingdom began to get excited when they heard that there were several royal horse farms set up by King Hans of Denmark on Jutland.

After all, it was the Danish king's stable, not the serf's horse. There must be a lot of good horses in it that are suitable for being war horses. For these cavalrymen, they are all horse lovers, how can they miss it? Moreover, Marin promised them that they would be allowed to choose a good horse from among them to replace the horse they had ridden.

So, after getting the specific direction from Marin, the 1,000 lancers roared to the Danish royal horse farm.

In addition, Marin also selected more than 1,000 infantry with good riding skills, and asked them to also step on the horses pulling the carts, and go to the manor on the Jutland halfway road, and snatch the horses......

Marin believed that after this horse snatch, the spring ploughing of the Danes on Jutland would be greatly affected. By the autumn, famine in Jutland was almost certain. When the time comes, the Danish king Hans will definitely be in a state of flux. And that's exactly what Marin wants to see. Otherwise, if he was idle, King Hans of Denmark would not be prepared to take revenge on himself......

It's just that Marin has a kinship with the thought that many innocent Danish civilians will starve to death after the fall. But he quickly threw those thoughts out of his mind. If you want to participate in the game of supremacy, you can't have the slightest kindness of a woman. Any virgin, even if she crosses, is only suitable for being a peaceful idler. This kind of person, if he participates in the game of hegemony, will definitely die an ugly death. Marin didn't want to die, so he could only harden his heart and do a lot of cruel and vicious things. An emperor like Emperor Wu of Liang who believes in Buddhism and has the kindness of a woman only deserves to be killed and become a stepping stone for others. Even if a hero is like Xiang Yu, because of the kindness of a woman for a while, he was finally overturned by the shameless Liu Bang, and he became Liu Bang's stepping stone by the Wujiang River......