Chapter 563: Grandpa
Just as Marin was hiding in the room, darkly planning to kill the great aristocrat in England, there was a knock on the door suddenly. The current secretary Machiavelli reported that the prospective son-in-law of the Hoffman family, the Prince of Siegmont, the crown prince of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, led a large team to the Grand Duchy of Beihai. The intention seemed to be to sign a formal marriage contract with the Hoffman family and make a covenant.
Last time, the team sent by Grand Duke Alexander went to Worms, only to support Marin, not to be officially engaged. Now, Marin was not beaten to death, but instead he had a firm foothold. Dagong Alexander naturally felt that it was time to sign a formal marriage contract.
After all, Marin is just Anne's second brother. If you want to marry Anne, you must talk to Anne ’s parents, the old Hoffman couple, and make a marriage contract with the old Hoffman couple.
This time, the team led by Prince Siegmont is very large. In addition to the 2,000 guard knights, there are thousands of servants, driving 20,000 cattle and 5,000 horses.
Prince Siegmont is a smart man, he knows what Marin needs. Earlier, when he was in East Friesland, he had heard that Marin had advanced agricultural technology, advanced fertilizers, and methods of taming cattle to cultivate land on a large scale.
As it happens, this year, 10,000 cattle and 5,000 horses used for trading between the Crimean Khanate and Marin transit Poland. So, Prince Siegmont simply added 10,000 cows and gave Marin a gift. In the end, it was a confirmation of the marriage between myself and Annie. Secondly, it is also congratulations on the second uncle to become the Grand Duke of Beihai ... In addition, Prince Siegmont also intends to form an alliance with Marin ...
Last but not least ... Prince Siegmont wanted to take advantage of the autumn harvest to confirm whether the harvest of rye was really so high in the manor named Marin ...
After all, Marin is too fantasy. Yield four to five hundred pounds per mu! Comparing the average yield of more than 100 pounds per mu in common fields in Europe, it is simply a myth.
Therefore, taking this opportunity, Prince Siegmont decided to go to the head of the field to watch the Malin's serfs harvest in person, and weighed the weight of the grain produced per acre. (Note: Prince Siegmont last visited East Friesland and accepted the quantifier of East Friesland acre and ‘mu yield’.)
This time, Prince Siegmont came and brought neither gold nor silver treasure nor those precious artworks. Because he knew—Marin was not interested, and the rest of the Huffman family did not like it. Therefore, in addition to a few exquisite jewelry that pleased the mother-in-law, Mrs. Mary, and her future wife, Anne, Siegmont brought only 10,000 cattle, and 10,000 cattle and 5,000 horses from the Crimean Khanate Mongolian horse.
He knows that his second uncle mastered advanced agricultural technology, and now that he has acquired so much new land, he will definitely need a lot of cattle to reclaim the land. Therefore, bringing gold and silver treasures and artworks is more popular with Marin than cattle.
Sure enough, when Marin learned that there were 20,000 cattle and 5,000 Eastern European Mongolian horses coming, he was not happy. He is planning to develop the Jutland Peninsula vigorously, and there is a shortage of livestock, especially cattle. Therefore, these 20,000 cows really relieved their urgent need.
There are also 5,000 Eastern European Mongolian horses. Marin is also in need of those horses to build his future Cossack village. Naturally, it is indispensable.
Therefore, Alin personally took a vote and went outside the East Gate to warmly welcome Prince Siegmont. Then, what made Prince Siegmont a little embarrassed was that Marin went to see those Eastern European Mongolian horses ... And, Marin bent down to observe the PP of those Eastern European Mongolian horses, which seemed very insignificant ... …
In fact, Marin observed whether those horses were castrated ...
Many of the 1,000 war horses purchased from the Crimean Khanate last time were castrated and could not be bred as a horse. So, later Marin demanded-don't accept the castrated horses, otherwise don't give money ...
Crimea is probably really short of money, so this time, Marin did not see the castrated horse ...
It's no wonder that Marin was so careful, but he was the only one who was cunning when the Central Plains dynasty was in a tea-horse exchange with the northern nomads in ancient China. In order to be able to carry out such a business for a long time and avoid breeding a large number of horses in the Central Plains dynasty, when the northern people used war horses for tea, most of them were castrated gelding horses.
In this way, the Central Plains dynasty made Liangma only one generation. When the horses are old, they have to find grassland people to exchange with each other. Otherwise, there is no new good horse ...
Marin was also worried that the Crimean Khanates were like chicken thieves like the Mongolians who had tea and horse exchanges with the Ming Dynasty. They were afraid that they would use pony horses to fool, so they specifically asked for the use of uncastrated. Moreover, the reason is not to train a new Eastern European Mongolian horse, but to say that-European knights are not used to riding gelding ... This reason does hold water, and many European knights do not like riding gelding. Therefore, the Crimean Khanate does not doubt him. Moreover, there is a shortage of money in their area, plus Marin ’s territory does not border the Crimean Khanate ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ There is no conflict between the two sides. Therefore, they don't care about selling the uncastrated Eastern European Mongolian horses to Marin ...
Prince Siegmont looked at him silently, watching Marin stooping and staring at those horse stocks, quite embarrassed. Fortunately, the casual Jeffrey Palace Prime Minister is very good at it and entertained Prince Siegmont well so that he would not be embarrassed.
In the evening, in order to entertain Prince Siegmont from afar, Marin held a grand dinner and court ball in the royal palace, and signed a marriage letter in public to formally get engaged.
But on the second day, Prince Ziegmont also very strangely rejected Marin's warm hospitality, saying that he would personally go to the manor under the name of Marin to participate in the harvest in person, and personally supervised the scale, to observe the yield of rye ...
Marin knew that Prince Siegmont was a little doubtful about his own words, so he simply accompanied a team of guards to accompany him, and went to a farm not far from Aurich, let the prince personally participate in the harvest, and helped him count each The grain output of acres can satisfy their curiosity ...
In this way, the honorable Prince Sigmund, the future King of Poland and the Grand Duke of Lithuania, put on linen labor clothes, took a sickle, and joined the harvesting army of the rye field of the manor ...
In the following days, Prince Siegmont prince participated in the rye harvesting of several estates. Of course, after grinding the bleeding bubbles in the hands on the first day, His Royal Highness did not personally participate in the harvest, but he has been supervising the serf harvest next to him, and went to the scales to weigh the rye with several guards ...
A few days later, he finally confirmed that the manor under the name of Marin, the rye production per mu did indeed reach about 500 pounds, which is very amazing ...
If Brother Uncle is willing to provide that kind of magical fertilizer to himself, then he can also make a fortune by farming ... Prince Siegmont can't help but fall into YY ...
