The Rise of the European Emperor

Chapter 1527 Farm Life in Beihai Country (Part 1)

Kloster is a small village in Leer County, East Frisian Province, North Sea. Because it is close to the Ems River, agriculture is developed here, and it is one of the richest rural areas in North Sea.

When the morning sun came down, this small village with only 300 people was already boiling. Right now is March when the busy farming season begins. Although the northern part of Germany is still a bit cold and the best planting period has not yet arrived, farming in the North Sea has already started.

The matter of plowing and loosening the soil can be done in advance. Of course, it can't be too long in advance. Otherwise, after a few rains, the land will harden again.

However, because oxen and horses are used to plow the land in this era, it is too late to plow the land at the moment of sowing. Therefore, in early spring and March, farmers took their oxen to the fields to plow and plow the soil.

There is no shortage of cattle in the North Sea country. Although some of the 10,000 cattle imported from the Crimean Khanate are killed for meat every year, most of them remain and are bred as farming cattle.

Marin's plan to kill the cow is very careful. First of all, he will not order the cow to be killed. Unless, the cow is old and barren. Alternatively, there are obvious defects that prevent healthy offspring from remaining. Therefore, every time cattle are imported, most of the cows will be kept and distributed to various villages.

As for the bulls, it was even worse. Marin will first select the strongest batch of bulls, and keep them as the most breeding bulls. In addition, bulls without horns will also be selected first as breeding cattle. As for the remaining bulls, Marin will also ask people to do a test, that is, whether they are obedient or not

First, Marin would put nose rings on the bulls. If there is fierce resistance when the nose ring is put on, it will be slaughtered on the spot. After putting on the nose ring, these cows will be pulled into the field to see if they listen to the greeting.

Those who listen to the greeting will naturally stay as cattle. If you don't listen to the greeting, Marin will let his subordinates make another choice. However, this time the selection process is a bit cruel. These bulls will all be castrated. The bullwhip will be dealt with uniformly and handed over to the nobles to make bullwhip soup tonic.

After castration, the bulls are locked up for a month. When the time comes, pull it out again and try to cultivate the land. If they are no longer irritable at this time and are willing to obey the command honestly, they will stay and assign them as cattle. Those who continue to resist can only be given a knife

After several layers of screening, the thornheads were all slaughtered, and the remaining bulls and cows, including the eunuchs, were basically honestly working cattle.

For example, the 50 cattle in Kloster Village include 35 cows, 6 bulls and 9 eunuch cattle. These 35 cows are not only responsible for dry goods, but also responsible for breeding offspring and giving birth to calves.

Of course, once a cow is pregnant with a calf, it is definitely not allowed to work. But what should we do if we encounter spring plowing? No, Franz, the estate steward in the village, is busy with this.

"Jeno, go and call some people who are good at driving cattle, and go with me to the cattle farm in Mormeland Town to borrow three cows. The three cows in the manor are pregnant and cannot go to the field. We have to go to the town The cattle farm temporarily borrowed three cows to cover it!"

The young man named Jie Nuo immediately ran away and called a few middle-aged farmers who were good at driving cattle. Then Franz boarded a carriage with several people and drove from the country road to the town of Moremeland.

It should be pointed out that since Marin started the live cattle trade with the Crimean Khanate, it has gradually replaced farm horses with cattle in East Frisia and other areas. Originally, horse farming and cattle farming were used in parallel in East Frisia, but horse farming was the mainstream. Because most of the farmland in Germany belongs to nobles and Junker landlords. These people have money and naturally advocate horse farming. Only a small number of poor small landowners will use cheap cattle for farming. This is mainly because, in the past, there were no nose rings for cattle, and it was difficult to tame cattle. Only a small number of obedient cattle can be used to cultivate land, and most cattle cannot be used. After Marin brought the cow nose ring technology, taming cattle became much easier, and cattle farming can naturally be vigorously promoted.

As for the former farm horses, most of them were taken up by Marin. The farm horses with excellent physical condition were arranged by Marin to go to the breeding center to continue to breed horses.

The bad horse is more sad, and was also arranged by Marin to go to the breeding center, but it was to breed with the donkey and breed another animal, the mule.

Of course, each manor usually retains two to three horses for pulling carts. For example, in the village of Kloster, there are three carriages in the village. One of them has a very novel purpose. It is the "school bus" for the children in the village. Its task is to send the children of the village to the only primary school in the town of Moremeland on school days. Send it off in the morning and pick it up in the evening. There is no way, there are few schools in Beihai country now, and a town of tens to hundreds of square kilometers generally has only one school.

The other two vehicles are usually used to send the villagers to the town to go to the market during the market time. Every 10 days in the town of Moremeland, a village market will be opened for the people of the whole town to purchase materials.

When there is no township market, it is mainly arranged by the management of the manor. For example, now that there is a shortage of cattle in the village, Steward Franz will take people to the cattle farm in the town to second a few cattle back.

This secondment system for farming cattle is also a novelty developed by Marin, mainly considering the problem that cows cannot cultivate land after pregnancy. Anyway, it doesn't cost much to set up a cattle farm in the town. After all, cows usually eat grass.

And between each village and the town, there are country roads. This kind of rural road is certainly not the rural cement road of later generations. After all, cement production is not high now. These rural roads are basically rural roads from the village to the town built by the villagers of each village organized by the officials of each township during the slack season. Although there is no cement, a lot of stones and pebbles from the river are scattered. After being rolled by oxen and stone rollers, it is usually very smooth. Unless, in the rainy season, it will be damaged by abundant rain and then deformed. But during the slack season, the town will send people to repair it, and use stone rollers to press it again, which is not a problem.

Franz took a few oxen driving skills, took advantage of the carriage, and quickly came to the cattle farm in the town. After going through the ranks and showing the manor's identity badge, Franz finally borrowed three cows. Then, let a few cattle drivers put the bridle on the cattle, and began to drive back along the country path.

When I returned to the village, it was just in time for noon, and the canteen in the village opened for dinner

Then, when Franz and his party entered the village, they saw a long queue outside the cafeteria in the middle of the village.

The village-run canteen is a major feature of the Beihai Manor, which is a bit like the collective farms of later generations, but it is different.

Although the farmers in Krost Village went to the cafeteria to queue up to receive food at noon, they were free to choose whether to stay in the cafeteria to eat.

Moreover, the cafeteria is only open at noon every day, not at night. However, when people line up at noon, they will take home the evening bread and salted fish.

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