Chapter 315: When the harvest has become a habit
The autumn harvest in East Friesland is still methodical and must be a bumper harvest. The Oldenburg and the Principality of Holstein, because of the new fertilizer processing plant, will also have a bumper harvest this year.
However, the amount of arable land in Oldenburg is only a little less than 60,000 Ugram, which is more than 20,000 Ugram less than the East Friesland that Marin had just taken over. Moreover, the former population of Oldenburg is more than East Friesland. At the beginning, East Friesland had only more than 60,000 people, while Oldenburg has more than 80,000 people.
In fact, this is not surprising. Why? Do n’t look at East Friesland. The land area is not as big as the Oldenburg, and the population is not as big as the Oldenburg. However, the water resources are very rich. In East Friesland, there are large swamps of rivers and lakes.
Oldenburg is different, although it is said that the Old Kingdom of Oldenburg is also near the estuary of the Weser River. However, the number of freshwater lakes in Oldenburg is far less than that of East Friesland.
In this era, European Germanic agricultural technology was backward, and farmland was often reclaimed along rivers or lakes. The reason for this is to facilitate irrigation. After all, the Germans did not understand the "advanced irrigation technology" of digging ditches and ditches, only knowing to use existing freshwater resources. In the case of Danshuihe Lake is not as good as East Friesland, the farmland area of Oldenburg is naturally not as much as East Friesland.
Therefore, only 60,000 Ugrams of arable land in Oldenburg are mostly on the Weser River or the Hangte River. As for other areas, it is mainly used for grazing or forests.
Of course, the northern coastal area of Oldenburg has also developed fisheries. As for the coastal fishermen, they are actually Frisians.
In view of the vast grassland and developed animal husbandry of Oldenburg, Marin also specially set up several horse farms on the grasslands of Oldenburg, specializing in breeding war horses. You know, in later generations, the Oldenburg horse is a famous horse.
Moreover, there are also more flocks in Oldenburg. However, most of its breeds are mutton sheep and few wool sheep. Wool sheep and meat sheep are different. Wool wool is very long and dense, while meat sheep is short and poor in wool and fat.
Marin intends to promote wool sheep on the grasslands of Oldenburg in the future. Because the economic value of mutton sheep is too low, mutton is mainly for civilians. Noble, it is popular to eat beef. If it is for civilians, then it will not be considered, in fact, pork can be. Or, Mao used the sheep to be old, and the old lamb that was killed was not unacceptable to the civilians. After all, some foods are good.
At the same time, if sheep are used for raising wool, it can also vigorously develop the wool textile industry, driving economic development and increasing taxes, which is more cost-effective than any sheep.
Of course, Marin will also instruct the relevant personnel to find ways to select and breed sheep for both wool and meat. It seems that later generations of German Merino sheep are such breeds.
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Let's talk about the Principality of Schleswig, the Principality of Schleswig is larger, with a total area of 9,200 square kilometers, which is larger than the total of East Frisian Lambert and Oldenburg. Moreover, there are many rivers and lakes. Therefore, in the Principality of Schleswig, there is a population of 150,000, and the area of arable land is also 100,000 Ugram, which is 1.2 million mu.
In fact, the Principality of Schleswig could have cultivated more cultivated land. Unfortunately, the Principality of Schleswig is surrounded by the sea on both sides, and coastal residents are more used to fishing. Moreover, the residents of the West Coast are mostly Frisian North Frisian.
In addition, the land of the Principality of Schleswig is a little barren, and without fertilizer technology, the yield per mu is very low. Therefore, here is also vigorously developed animal husbandry. Moreover, Marin is surprised that the dairy industry here is developing very well, and cheese is a local specialty. Moreover, the dairy industry is distributed mainly in the Danish settlement area in the northern Principality of Schleswig. As for the area where the Germans live in the south, agriculture is the mainstay, and sheep raising is the supplement.
However, in the dairy industry of the Principality of Schleswig, the production of dairy cows seems to be very ordinary, far inferior to the black-and-white Holstein cattle produced in the northern part of the Netherlands and the West Friesland in the northern Netherlands. Marin intends to find ways to introduce Holstein Holstein from the northern part of the Netherlands or West Friesland to the northern part of the Principality of Schleswig to obtain more milk and more cheese.
However, the original cheese is really unpalatable. Marin intends to find a group of engineers at the right time to study how to produce milk powder, so that babies across the country can drink delicious milk. With milk, everyone will grow taller in the future. Unlike today, there are not many civilians with a height of more than 1m7. It is a knight family, because of the high genetics and living standards, and the height is generally more than 1 meter 7. Even more than 1.8 meters. After all, the cavalier family belongs to the nobility, and the children have enough nutrition since childhood, plus the high genetic inheritance, it is strange that it is not high.
After occupying the Old Kingdom of Oldenburg and the Principality of Schleswig, Marin controlled the 130,000 Yugram of the 160,000 Yugram's cultivated land in these two countries through "trust". The remaining 30,000 Eugrams are mainly in the hands of Mickel ’s noble loyalty to Marin. After all, Marin did not kill those nobles, but retained a small number of people. The nobles retained, the family estate, are still under their control. Only the nobles eliminated will the manor be "custodial" by Marin.
Whether it is a managed estate or a noble manor who has invested in Marin, he has obtained fertilizer from the 20 fertilizer processing plants built by Marin last year.
With the nourishment of fertilizers, the 160,000 Ugrams of rye in these two countries have all increased significantly, with an average yield of more than 400 pounds per mu.
In fact, this is because the fertilizer processing plant took half of the urine to extract soil nitrate. If not for extracting soil nitrate, the nitrogen in the urine is applied as fertilizer to the field, and the average yield per mu of the two countries may exceed 500 pounds.
Of course, this is not without gain. Because a lot of urine is used to extract soil nitrate, 20 fertilizer processing plants extracted 200 tons of saltpeter last year. However, it has sacrificed the grain output of the two countries.
However, the average yield of 400 pounds per acre has terrified the nobles of the Principality of Schleswig and the Old Kingdom of Oldenburg. Of course, those nobles whose land was entrusted did not know. And those who know, have turned to Marin. Under Marlin's strict instructions, no secrets will be revealed. However, they were all stunned by this output.
It should be known that even before this, even fertile land, rye yields rarely exceeded 150 pounds per mu. Today, the yield per mu reaches 400 pounds, and they almost make them think that they are hallucinating. Then, it was ecstasy.
Because, their income from the land (deducting costs and rations for serfs) has increased from less than 50 pounds of rye per mu to 300 pounds, almost a 6-fold increase. This time, those noble families who had surrendered to Marin were all widened ...
Most of the former nobles who had managed the manor by Marin lived in the city. They did not know the autumn harvest, nor did they know that the grain output had skyrocketed.
Marin's income to them is still 50 pounds of rye per acre, which is similar to their original income. Therefore, their lives will not change much. Many of them have become regulars in Las Vegas casinos and women ’s branches. To be sure, after receiving the autumn harvest earnings paid to them by Marin, a group of people will definitely go to Las Vegas for a while. And this is basically the practice of the nobles. During the autumn harvest, many nobles will splurge because of the ample hands. It's like Marlin lived in a previous life. Many boys are more generous at the beginning of the month, and often have big hands. By the end of the month, you can only eat steamed buns ...
After paying 50 pounds of rye per mu of land for these nobles, the remaining 250 pounds of mu per mu naturally went into Marin ’s pockets.
Heidel also encountered the autumn harvest for the first time since he became the official of the Old Kingdom of Oldenburg, so despite knowing the secrets of fertilizers, Heidel could not restrain his excitement. To this end, he specially rushed to Aurich after the autumn harvest, when he came to the Marin Annunciation.
However, Marin felt little about Heidel's good news. On the edge of Marin, Jeffrey of East Frisian Palace was also somewhat numb. Borrowing Marin's words last year-"I am numb in the face of a bumper harvest" ...
A few days later, Mickel, the prime minister of the Principality of Schleswig, also came to Aurich with excitement to rejoice Marin. Marin also had no expression, and Jeffrey said to Mikel meaningfully:
"Sir Mikel, you will encounter such a bumper harvest every year in the future ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ Slowly, you get used to it ..."
Faced with Jeffrey's pretending words, Marin couldn't help but thumbs up:
"Yes, Prime Minister Mikel, you will gradually get used to this bumper harvest in the future!"
Mikel nodded blankly, then suddenly remembered-it seems that Marin has been the count of East Friesland for four or five years. Is it true that East Friesland has had such a good harvest every year in recent years?
Mikel raised his doubts, Jeffrey nodded and said:
"It is true, since Lord Marin took over East Friesland, from the fall of 1499, East Friesland has had such a bumper harvest every year. To be honest, I was as excited as you were. But, Years have passed, and every year, I have become numb ... "
Mikel was at a loss:
"Everyone is so harvested, will the price of rye plummet in the future?"
"Are you stupid? Only we have this advanced agricultural technology. Other people still have the low yield. How can the price of wheat plummet? I forgot to tell you that our food is generally sold to Spain and the United Kingdom Where the price is higher, the profit is higher. The grain of the Principality of Schleswig is stored first, and the adult will send the ship to ship it. "
Before leaving, Marin patted Mikel on the shoulder:
"Mickel, you are getting older, don't move and be excited, it will hurt your body. As for the harvest, it will be like this every year in the future, slowly, you will get used to it ..."
Although he said so, he really saw the country (not including North Münster and North Osnabruck for the time being, the autumn harvest there is late, and it is not over yet). When the total rye production exceeded 1.5 billion pounds, Marin still The blood was boiling. Next, I was worried about selling grain and building granaries ...
