King of German Mercenaries

In autumn, the rye of more than 3,200 Eugrams on Texel is ripe. Leaving aside the 200 Eugrams of the church's land, the 1000 Eugrams under Marin's name and the 2000 Eugrams under the name of his subordinates all used curved ploughs for deep ploughing, and all manure was applied.

Not only that, Marin urged the serfs to go down to the ground to remove weeds by hand when they were free, so as not to harm the growth of rye.

Moreover, the sowing of rye on Texel Island was also hole-sown, not the sowing commonly used by European farmers in the Middle Ages. Spreading is really easy, but the seed is not evenly distributed and the sowing is shallow. Because the seeds sown by hand may sometimes get together, and sometimes some parts may be missed. If it is piled up, when the seedlings are growing, there will be a situation of grabbing fertilizer. As a result, none of the several seedlings in the pile will grow well. And where the seeds are not sown, it is easy to cause waste.

On the other hand, hole seeding is different. When sowing, the ranks have already been sorted out, leaving a suitable growth space for the seeds. Before sowing, Marin also instructed the serfs to use the salt water seed selection method to select fine seeds with full grains. At the same time, the depth of hole sowing is deeper than that of sowing, which is more conducive to seed development. Therefore, this seeding method has good effect and yield is also very good.

When the harvest began, Malin specially dispatched Kohler to sit in the town to count the output. As bales of wheat straw with ears of wheat were sent to the threshing floor, the serfs separated their hands and began to separate the grains.

Everyone has a clear division of labor. The women use iron sickles to cut down the wheat together with the stalks in the fields and place them in the fields neatly. The men, some of them went down to the ground and tied the straw with simple ropes woven from weeds. Let some of the strong ones carry the bundles of straw to the side of the road.

On the side of the road, there was a row of carriages parked. Some of the men were responsible for throwing bales of straw onto the carriage. Then the horse-drawn cart took the piles of straw to the threshing floor.

At the threshing floor, the straw attached to the ears of wheat is thrown down and piled up. So, another group of people started to untie the wheat straw, hold the straw part, put the wheat ear part on the stone and beat it, so that the wheat grain is separated from the husk and the straw.

After separation, because of the inclusion of a large number of shells. Using wooden tools, the farmers began to dig. In mature wheat ears, the husk and grain are not firmly attached. Under the agitation of external force, they squeeze each other, and soon the grain and the husk are separated.

Then, the farmers used tools to lift the mixture of grains and husks from the heights against the wind. The grain density is high and the weight is high. When going from top to bottom, it falls directly to the ground with a small deviation. The wheat shell is light and has a low density. When it is blown by the wind, it floats down the tuyere, and the deviation is large. After many blows, the husks and sundries were gradually separated, leaving only the grains...

Of course, this is not the end. After separating the grains and husks, the grains are spread out on the threshing floor and exposed to the sun until the grains are dry...

After a month of busy work, the wheat fields on the island were harvested and processed. At the same time, the soybeans of 200 Ugrams in Malin were basically harvested.

After the statistics of Kohler and others, the rye fields of Marin and his subordinates on the island of 2,800 Eugrams produced an average of 3,000 pounds of rye per Eugram, equivalent to 250 pounds of rye per acre...

250 pounds, which is only equivalent to 227 kilograms. For Marin, who is accustomed to yielding thousands of kilograms per mu in later generations, it is really low yield. But for the Europeans in the Middle Ages, it was incredibly productive...

Because, this year, European rye is generally about 150 pounds per mu. Only fertile Italy can exceed 200 pounds...

So, the whole island is boiling...

As for it? Each yog only produces 3,000 pounds, which is also called a bumper harvest? Marin was speechless. In modern times, more than one mu of land can produce so much, let alone 12 mu of land?

However, when Marin's subordinates heard Marin's words, they felt even more speechless...

Master,

You don't know much about agriculture. In our German region, the yield of rye per yog can reach 1,800 pounds, which is considered a bumper harvest. Now the production is up to 3000 pounds, and the production has increased by up to two-thirds. Can you not be happy? Kohler said speechlessly. The others around him agreed with Kohler's words and nodded vigorously together.

Cut, how happy you are with such a little achievement? It's really worthless. My teacher told me that in the East, it is common to produce 300 pounds per mu. In later generations, if his family's wheat yield per mu is less than 1,000 catties, the father and mother will feel very unlucky. Therefore, his vision is also very high.

Okay, boss, your teacher is awesome, and you're awesome too... Schwartz on the side was speechless.

The newly added Frenzberg has been in Sparta for a long time. His family is a knight family, and it is also led by a little knight, and there are hundreds of yog's arable land. He was shocked by the high yield of rye on the island. As for Marin's other younger brothers, because they are used to seeing the miracles Marin created, they are already somewhat immune. Only Frenzberg saw the Marcus Miracle for the first time, so he was so shocked that he was speechless.

Schwartz seemed to see Frenzberg's shock. He patted Frenzberg's shoulder and said meaningfully:

Okay, brother, don't be surprised. Our boss, it's the love that creates miracles. I've been with the boss for a long time, and we've seen more miracles than I've seen in the past twenty years combined...

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Marin is also very dissatisfied with the yield of oats. Because the yield of oats per mu is only 120 pounds, which is 108 pounds per mu. However, oat grass for oats is also a good feed. Although the seed harvest is low, it is not unacceptable. Moreover, the output of oat seeds is only three or four hundred catties in later generations, which is similar to soybeans.

200 yogurt, equivalent to 2,400 mu of land, yield 120 pounds per mu, and the total output is 288,000 pounds. At present, the price of European oats is very high, reaching 3 pfennig a pound, which is equivalent to the daily salary of a craftsman. And oatmeal is also very useful, because horses need to eat it regularly.

With over a thousand horses on Texel, the consumption of oats is naturally high. And Marin didn't plan to make money by selling oats, but planned to feed the horses. Even, because the 288,000 pounds of oats are too large, Marin plans to expand the number of horses and breed more war horses.

And these horses did not live up to Marin's expectations. In the spring, many stallions are lured by mares to commit original sins on the green pastures. By the fall, many mares' bellies have grown...

Marin counted more than 200 pregnant mares, and by early next year, more than 200 foals will be born. Marin is very happy, and has planned to hire high-level horse breeders to cultivate those foals from a young age, hoping that among them, a considerable number of war horses will be produced...

Under the strong suggestion of his subordinates, Marin organized a grand harvest celebration. All the subordinates, as well as the serfs, are celebrating the harvest.

You know, Marin's 800-gram rye field produces 2.4 million pounds of rye. The other soldiers, each with five yogurt fields, also produced an average of 15,000 pounds of rye.

15,000 pounds of rye, worth 15,000 pfennigs, equivalent to 93.75 marks, or 250 gp. It may be nothing to a big local tyrant like Marin, but for these poor mercenaries, it is definitely a huge sum of money. You know, they worked hard as soldiers, and their daily salary was only 2 pfennig, and after a year, their salary was only 12 gold coins. 250 gold coins, even if there is only a profit of 150 gold coins, for them, it is a super huge sum of money...

Of course, these lands were used in disguise as the fiefdoms of the 400 soldiers. Therefore, Marin no longer needs to pay them another salary. In this way, these 400 big-headed soldiers, some similar to the Tang Dynasty's government soldiers, were sealed off, brought their own weapons, mules and horses, and followed Shangguan to fight...

Not to mention those ordinary mercenaries, even Schwartz and Frenzberg, are also very jealous. Marin has promised to give Schwartz 100 Ugrams of land, and the serfs have already reclaimed the land and can only plant it in the spring of next year.

Even, in Frenzberg, Marin may have promised him 50 Eugrams of land. You know, 5 yogurt rye fields can make those mercenaries earn 250 gold per family (although the net income is only 150 gold, because costs, daily expenses, and tithes and other taxes have to be deducted), 100 Yogurt land, isn't it 5,000 gold coins per year? 50 yogurt, there are also 2500 gold coins... You know, a war horse is only worth 100 gold coins...

Schwartz and Frenzberg have already imagined the scene when they counted the gold coins and got cramps in their hands...

By the way, Schwartz, George (Frentsberg), you two remember, don't reveal our advanced agricultural technology to the outside world easily. Otherwise, everyone has learned it, and the yield will be high, and the price of wheat will rise. After a slump, we don't have so much income...

But, boss, what about my manor? asked Frenzberg.

Don't worry about it for now, the land you have on the island is enough for you to make a fortune. If you do well, I will give you another 50 yogurt land to see how well you do...

Boss, what if our agricultural technology is spied on by outsiders? There are many foreign businessmen on the island. Besides, we can't control the church on the island... Schwartz asked worriedly.

Don't care about the church, those priests, how do they know how to farm? Besides, they don't even bother to go to the fields, they just stay in the church. Farming is done by serfs, and they don't have anything to do with the priests. As for those Foreign merchants... Marin thought for a while, then said:

Well, in the future, those merchants from outside the island will only be allowed to stay in the port of Thorenche to trade, and they must be approved, and are not allowed to go deep inland. Thorunche is a port, there is no farmland nearby, and they can't see anything... …”

Good idea, I'll do it now... Schwartz, who is also the sheriff on the island, knows what to do...

In fact, Marin himself knew that applying manure and using oriental farm implements were not advanced techniques and could be easily learned by others. The Venetians kept the glass mirror secret so strictly, and in the end the secret was stolen by the French, and Marin didn't think the secret could be kept for a long time. However, it’s good to keep it secret for a long time, at least, let everyone make more money and improve the family’s economic situation first…

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