Chapter 270: Little Columbus

Marin continued to stay in Münster City to pass the time, but did not forget to remotely control the homeland and the Principality of Schleswig. Especially in the Principality of Schleswig, Marin often communicated with Mickel, the palace of the Principality of Schleswig, and military chief Woolf Esbrand, to understand the situation there.

However, what surprised Marin was that his main force went south to Münster, why the other party did not take this opportunity to attack the Principality of Schleswig. These days, there is no movement on the Danish border, which makes Marin feel a little abnormal.

In fact, the Danish King Hans had no confidence in his more than 10,000 troops. At first, he had seen the fighting power of Marin's army. After the city of Copenhagen broke down, the seven thousand defenders and many strong soldiers in the city were rushed to death by Marin's army, and they retreated. Therefore, King Hans no longer believed in the fighting power of his country's army. In order to fight against Marin's army, King Hans chose to hire the most famous and mercenary Swiss mercenaries in Europe to help him fight. At the same time, it also helps train its own army. King Hans believes that by the spring of next year, the Danish 20,000 new troops will be trained and they will be able to confront Marin and defeat them.

Marin did not know what Hans thought, but he still strengthened the intelligence reconnaissance of the Principality of Schleswig and Denmark. In the border area, a situation that made Marin cry and laugh was that on the Jutland peninsula, a large number of Danish family members whose daughters were robbed by Marin's soldiers secretly crossed the border and asked to live in the Principality of Schleswig.

It turned out that after the defeat of the Danish King Hans, he planned to fight back and fight against Marin. But a fight against Marin requires a lot of money to raise troops. Therefore, the Danish King Hans strengthened the exploitation and oppression of domestic serfs. Some of the daughters who could not bear the oppression were robbed suddenly remembered that when Marin ’s men were robbing the Danish girls, they had ordered the officer to issue an “invoice” to those people, and promised that if they had a bad life in the future, You can come to the Principality of Schleswig for help.

Some people couldn't get through, with the spirit of giving it a try, they secretly crossed the border and came to the Principality of Schleswig for help. After hearing about it, Mickel Palace immediately looked for the 10,000 garrison soldiers in the country based on their invoices, found the person written on the invoice, and notified them that your old man (or uncle) came, entertain ... …

As for those daughters who "married" to the East Frisian mainland, Mikel temporarily placed them, but helped write a letter and sent it to the local to find his relatives.

According to Marin's previous instructions, these people were regarded as their Yue family members, and they should not be neglected. If you want, you can be placed in a manor and become a serf.

Of course, the serf of the Principality of Schleswig and the Danish serf were totally different. Since the use of fertilizers last year, the production of food in the estate of the Principality of Schleswig has also skyrocketed. After these old people were sent to some "Rongjun Manor" (manorries dedicated to the placement of disabled soldiers and soldiers' families), the old people only need to do some work within their ability (such as feeding pigs and sheep, etc.), and they can still be mixed up. Bread's life, and full.

On the border between the principality of Schleswig and Denmark, only the principality of the principality of Schleswig is tightly guarded. On the other side of Denmark, there are not many defenders on the border. Some people who have lived a good life at "Rongjun Manor" will naturally have to go back to pick up their family. Moreover, the good news should be told to the fellow villagers.

So, next, the border between the Principality of Schleswig and Denmark formed a "fight of father-in-law". A large number of Malin army lieutenants' father-in-law, because they could not survive, chose to sneak in and live in the Rongjun manor. It doesn't work hard, but it can feed. Of course, Mickel most welcomes the "father-in-law" with his children. After all, that is a young labor force.

As long as the son-in-law is in the 10,000 army of the Principality of Schleswig, those families can be immediately placed in the "Rongjun Manor". As for the son-in-law in East Friesland, you need to wait until there is a response there before you can arrange to enter the Rongjun Manor. However, Miquel would not starve them to death when they were arranged into the Invalid Manor. Every day, there is a supply of "Kohler bread" doped with straw bran. For these people, the treatment is good enough. You know, in Denmark, they are squeezed by the crazy Danish King Hans, not even bread.

Hearing this "father and mother-in-law smuggling fever", Marin smiled for a long time. Then you, he also informed the group of veterans who came to Münster if they married a Danish daughter-in-law, be prepared to check the information at any time, and put their father-in-law and mother-in-law into the "Rongjun Manor" as soon as possible. A stable life.

Rongjun Manor is not just as simple as having a full meal. The people in the manor are sick, and the official will reimburse the cost of seeing a doctor, and will arrange for the disciples of Mozhigen and Battle to help the disabled soldiers and Rongjun family members to see the doctor for free . Therefore, entering the Rongjun Manor is equivalent to entering the nursing home. Of course, unlike nursing homes, the people in the manor need to do something they can.

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Just finished talking to the veterans about the smuggling of their father-in-law and mother-in-law.

Who is Columbus? Of course it was Columbus's eldest son Diego Columbus. At the beginning of the year, at the recommendation of his father, Diego Columbus took the cotton cloth that Columbus discovered and, as an adjutant, took a voyage to Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula in search of cotton seeds.

This voyage is very simple, just look for it according to the coordinate map drawn by Columbus. Moreover, the team led by some old Columbus assistants are very experienced and will never make mistakes.

In this way, the fleet reached the Yucatan Peninsula on the ancient Brazilian side smoothly.

Diego Columbus, who has made great contributions, brought a lot of glass products and landed and began trading with the local indigenous people. With the help of his father ’s assistant who knew Indian, Diego had a friendly exchange with the local Indians. Enticed by the beautiful glassware, the little Indians decisively took out cotton seeds and exchanged them with Diego.

Because the crops were artificially planted, the cotton seeds were abundant. Diego changed a sack of cotton seeds and moved back to the ship with joy.

However, Diego was not willing to make such a credit, and ran to exchange something else. Then he exchanged a few bags of corn and a bag of sisal seeds. Even, some cocoa fruit and cocoa fruit seeds were exchanged.

In order to please Marin, Diego made the use of saltpeter to make ice, freezing the cocoa fruit all the way, intending to bring it back to Marin to taste.

When Diego dedicated the cocoa fruit to Marin, Marin recognized it at a glance:

"Cocoa?"

In fact, Coco is the pronunciation of the Indians, transliterated, the pronunciation of Marin, of course, is similar to the pronunciation of the Indians.

Brother Columbus Diego was taken aback, because this thing has never appeared in Europe, how does Marin know?

After a short stupefaction, Diego immediately flattered and said Marin's eyes were as if torch. Malin ignored it, but smashed the shell of the cocoa fruit, picked it up and tasted it, and found that it tasted like chocolate. If you promote planting and make chocolate, it would be nice.

However, this plant can only be grown in the tropics and is not suitable for cultivation in Europe.

But after all, this kind of food is optional. Marin is most concerned about cotton. Diego quickly took out the sack of cotton seeds. Marin grabbed it and looked exactly like the cotton seeds he had seen in his previous life.

Then, Diego took out sisal seeds and corn ...

For corn ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ Marin's mood is very complicated. He certainly knows the benefits of corn. In modern times, corn is one of the three major staple foods in the world.

However, Marin does not intend to introduce corn to Europe now. Why? He was afraid that corn would impact his food market. Similarly, Marin will never allow the introduction of potatoes to Europe. Otherwise, his wheat will not be sold.

Therefore, Marin resolutely decided to destroy all the corn ...

As for sisal, Marin doesn't know this seed. But after Diego's explanation, after learning the shape of sisal, Marin suddenly realized that it was sisal ... Then, Marin was overjoyed ...

You know, sisal is in the future, but it is a very good nautical cable material. Sisal fiber has great elasticity, strong tensile force, and corrosion resistance, and can be soaked in seawater for a long time. At the same time, it is also very resistant to friction.

Therefore, in later generations, sisal was widely used in the manufacture of warship cables, conveyor belts for machines, and fishing nets for marine fishing. Of course, it can also be used to make sacks and woven rain cloth. Can also be used to weave canvas. Canvas woven with sisal is very strong and rarely needs to be replaced.

Therefore, sisal is a crop that is extremely conducive to large navigation. Even, it can be regarded as a baby ...

Diego discovered this kind of baby, and he would naturally be rewarded. In addition, he succeeded in obtaining a lot of cotton seeds, so Marin directly rewarded Diego with 10,000 gold coins. Then, he was promoted to deputy bodyguard and captain of the navy fleet, which was regarded as a resume of Comrade Columbus, which was coated with a layer of local gold ... 8)