The Rise of the European Emperor

The language problem is a big problem, and it cannot be solved overnight. It will take several generations of efforts to achieve the effect.

Specifically, even if you promote English teaching for all and want to make English mainstream in Scotland, at least you have to wait until the old guys who can only speak Scots are dead. Then, the traditional older generation is gone, and the ideas of the new generation can take the mainstream.

For example, it is the issue of feudal superstition. Once, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the feudal superstitious worship of gods and Buddhas was strictly prohibited, and many temples were also destroyed.

However, after the movement, no one cared about it anymore. Everyone was only concerned about making money instead of suppressing feudal superstition. why? Because the old people from the old society are still alive...

However, with the popularization of science education and entering the 21st century, as those old people born in the old society passed away one after another, many young people now no longer pray to gods and worship Buddha. When the post-50s and post-60s who were in the turning point passed away one after another, and when the trendy-thinking post-70s and post-80s became dying old people, I am afraid that few people would pray to God and worship Buddha. At least, this is the case among the Han Chinese.

Of course, it does not mean that praying to God and worshiping Buddha is not good. In fact, most of the old people who pray to God and Buddha are very kind. Because they believe in karma and will not do bad things at will. Elderly people who have no faith tend to become shameless like old people like Pengci.

But old ideas are old ideas. Coupled with the vigorous promotion of science in national education, old ideas will eventually be abandoned by young people. When the old people are still around, they may go along with it against their will. But once those old people have passed away, there will not be many people who have grown up studying science since they were young, and will pray to gods and worship Buddha devoutly. Although such people still exist, the proportion is definitely very small.

Therefore, even if English education is promoted in Scotland, England will not be able to truly complete the annexation of Scotland until those old people who have a strong sense of identity with the original independent Kingdom of Scotland have passed away. And this process takes hundreds of years.

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After talking with Edward about the major event of assimilating Scotland, Marin will be busy with his own "little things"...

What "little things"? In fact, it is not small at all, it is the economic problem of Marin's newly acquired territory...

If Marin wants to make the Scottish Highlands his own military pool, he must first have more population in the Highlands. If there is no population, where will Marin conscript?

Therefore, what Marin needs to do is to let the highlanders find a way to survive first, and then have the opportunity to have more people...

Even, Marin plans to recruit immigrants from other places to live in the Scottish Highlands,

Then integrate into the local area, form a rough and tough highlander style, and eventually become your own source of soldiers...

However, the premise of all this is that those people must be allowed to live in the Scottish Highlands...

Only by being alive can Marin choose fighters from among them. If they were all starving to death, who would he turn to?

In addition, in addition to the northern highlands of Scotland, the southernmost border counties are also very important. This county is also a county dominated by mountains, which meets the requirements of the mountain people needed to reproduce Marin's conscription. Similarly, Marin also needs the local economy to develop. Otherwise, they wouldn't be able to support so many mountain people...

How to invigorate the local economy so that more people can survive?

In fact, the most important point is the food!

The ancients did not have too high requirements, in fact, they only needed to eat enough and wear warm clothes. As for other material requirements, I dare not expect extravagantly. As for spiritual needs, they don't even exist.

And how to solve the problem of food source for the mountain people in Highland County and Border County? Farming is impossible, because the Scottish hills are not suitable for farming. Moreover, the climate here is relatively cold.

However, some hilly areas are suitable for grazing. Moreover, the Scots are indeed mainly grazing at present. Then, in terms of food, they have to match the nomads. Like, Crimean Tatars or something.

Therefore, in the absence of food, the best source of food for the Scottish mountain people is probably cheese. Like the Mongols, including the Tatars, rely on cheese as their main food. Moreover, the nutrition is not low. People who didn't look at the nomads are quite strong?

However, the problem is that the Scottish Highlands and the southern border counties are mountainous, and there is no vast space suitable for grazing like the Mongolian prairie and the Eastern European prairie. Without enough pastures, there are not many cattle and sheep. There are not many cattle and sheep, and the milk source is insufficient, so it is difficult to feed many people...

"Then, since there are few pastures, we can only take the high-yield route!" Marin said to himself.

The so-called high-yield route is to use livestock breeds with high milk production. Under limited natural conditions, enough milk sources are obtained to make cheese as food.

First of all, Marin naturally thought of the famous Dutch black and white cows. This kind of cow has a high milk yield. Although the annual milk production is not as high as the 7,000 to 8,000 kilograms per year of the later breeds, it is still 3,000 to 4,000 kilograms per year.

However, the biggest problem now is that the number of black and white cows in Marin's hands is very small, and it is impossible to supply Scotland on a large scale. Moreover, it is indeed not cost-effective to send black-and-white cows to the bitter cold of Scotland, and even affect milk production. Even if it is sent there, it may not be suitable for the local climate.

"So, choose the milk produced by dairy goats as the main source of food?"

Marin suddenly remembered a love affair in his previous life that ended without a cause - at that time, he fell in love with a girl who loved dogs. There is an Erha at home, and the puppy needs to drink milk, but cannot drink milk, and has to drink goat milk. So Marin was instructed to find goat milk...

During that time, Marin checked some information, but he also knew about goat milk. Generally speaking, the sheep that mainly produce goat milk in later generations, if it is not the Saanen milk goat, can produce 600-1200 kg of milk per year. It can't be compared with black and white cows, but sheep also eat less.

However, it seems that goats are more adapted to the climate in warmer regions, and the breed of Saanen dairy goats may not necessarily exist now. In cold places like the Scottish Highlands, sheep are more suitable.

"Sheep? Dairy sheep? What breed should I use? What breed should I use..." Marin paced back and forth in the hall...

At this time, a Frisian guard who was in charge of guarding the gate suddenly couldn't help but interjected:

"Grand Duke, a kind of sheep in my hometown is very good at producing milk!"

Marin stopped suddenly and asked:

"Your hometown? Where is it?"

"It's in Norton on the North Sea! Our herdsmen often eat goat milk products as food, and sometimes they also eat fish. Our sheep are very good at producing milk, and can produce more than five or six hundred pounds of milk a year... ..."

"Five or six hundred pounds?" Marin lowered his head and calculated, feeling that it was quite a lot. You know, in this era, there are no professional breeding experts, and the annual milk production of five or six hundred pounds is already considered an excellent breed. Moreover, people in this era do not know how to feed professional feed such as alfalfa when raising cows and sheep, so the milk production is of course not high. It would definitely be better if Marin sent someone to specialize in breeding...

"Norton... East Frisian Norton... Fuck, is it the famous East Frisian raw sheep? A fighter among milk sheep?"