The Rise of the European Emperor

In fact, it's not just the livestock industry that Marin is going to change to a "quantity first" route. Even in terms of population, Marin intends to follow a "number first" policy.

In the past, Marin paid great attention to Germanization and hoped that the nation would be relatively pure and single. Even if England were annexed, they were dominated by Germanic people.

However, in this way, the population growth rate is too slow. It took Malin more than ten years to introduce population to Beihai Kingdom, but it only took Beihai Kingdom's population to exceed 2 million.

Perhaps, in the German region with a total population of only 12 million, it can indeed be ranked in the forefront. However, Marin knows that this population is not enough to develop the mainland, let alone develop the huge America. Not to mention 2 million people, even 20 million people, thrown into the American continent, will not be able to turn the waves. In later generations, the old beauty was a corner with a population of more than 300 million, but the place still seemed very empty. why? People are good!

Although the land area of ​​Laomei is smaller than that of Huaxia, the land area that people can use is huge! The large plains and numerous large rivers in the central and eastern part of the family are very suitable for agriculture. Only the western Rocky Mountains area is difficult to develop and utilize due to topographical reasons. Moreover, there are very few deserts in Laomei, only a small amount of desert is close to the corner of Mexico in the southwest.

And what about Huaxia? Only the eastern coastal area is suitable for development. As for the vast western area... the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau accounts for more than a quarter. Then, the large area in the northwest is the desert and the Gobi Desert... Although the area is larger than that of Laomei, the area of ​​arable land is much less than that of Laomei, and it is not as good as India. Moreover, the old beauty family disdain to cultivate those barren land, only cultivate on fertile land. In China, many cultivated areas are obviously barren areas, and they are also forcibly reclaimed into farmland...

Therefore, let alone the entire Americas, even in the corners of the later generations of old America, Marin could not be reclaimed. It is even said that even the thirteen states colonies on the east coast that the United Kingdom reclaimed back then, Marin did not have enough manpower to reclaim. You know, when the United States was independent, the total population of the thirteen states was 3 million!

In this way, Beihai Kingdom still has a long way to go when it comes to population growth. How to break the game quickly? Add women!

Whether it's increasing livestock or population growth, the key to the game is women. The more women, the more births. If there are no women, no amount of men is useless. Because men don't get pregnant and have children...

Therefore, the best way is to introduce women from abroad. For example, Maomei or something... This is easy to get, as long as you give enough rye Erguotou, the Crimeans will definitely be willing to help go to Maozi to grab Maomei.

Also, the Indian woman...

There are not many Indians in the North American jungle, and they are not easy to mess with. Because they are good at hiding in the jungle. But the Aztec Empire in Mexico had a population of more than ten million. As long as one or two million women are snatched from Mexico and have children with North Sea men, the population can rapidly grow...

but,

It seems that the Aztecs on the Mexican side were particularly afraid of infectious diseases from the Old World, such as smallpox. Therefore, Marin had to have enough cattle ready before plundering the Aztec women. Then, deliberately infect the cows with smallpox, make cowpox, and plant them on Indian women. Otherwise, once those women are infected with smallpox, the mortality rate is very high...

So, cowpox or something, we must start secret research. However, it cannot be released all at once. After all, Marin was still thinking about fighting a biological war with smallpox. For example, sending people to spread smallpox in the city of Paris...

Or, at the next imperial meeting, spread smallpox directly among the princes and wipe out all the princes?

The idea was crazy, but Marin held it back. Because, if the princes in the Imperial Council were to be wiped out all of a sudden, the real beneficiary would not be Marin, but France. Because, Marin does not have the ability to annex Germany at once. And France, as long as it is willing to fully mobilize, can swallow a lot of German territory. Even, when the time comes, Poland can come to Germany to bite a large piece of meat. And Marin, when the time comes to annex North Germany at most. Then other regions will be cheaper for strong enemies like France and Poland. Even, Turkey may be cheaper in the south... By then, the situation will be very bad...

In order not to make wedding dresses for others, Marin could only suppress this crazy idea. However, before attacking the Aztec Empire and kidnapping Aztec women, the problem of cowpox must be resolved. Not only to solve technical problems, but also to solve quantitative problems. After all, every Aztec woman had to be vaccinated, otherwise she would die of smallpox...

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Marin was cranky in the office, making plans for the future. At the same time, in the Duchy of Württemberg in southern Germany, the Duke of Ulrich and his nobles were fighting for the inheritance left by the nobles who died...

In the past few months, under the guidance of Chapman Knight, who once served as an intelligence officer for Duke Ulrich of Württemberg, the "poor Conrad" peasant uprising army broke through five hundred in the Duchy of Württemberg. Many large and small estates. Among them, there are more than two hundred aristocratic manors alone, with a total of hundreds of them (some nobles have more than one manor).

Moreover, under the instigation of Wolfe, Chapman and others, the "Poor Conrad" rebel army led by Kasbal adopted the terrorist method of "killing all the nobles" against the nobles and their families.

As a result, hundreds of noble families in the Duchy of Württemberg suddenly died out, and there are no living people...

Then, the more than 200 noble manors left behind after they were killed became a sweet pastry, attracting crazy competition from the living nobles!

Not only did Duke Ulrich take the lead, but the other nobles were not far behind. After all, this is a rare opportunity to expand its strength.

Of course, Duke Ulrich's position was different from those of the nobles. Duke Ulrich's position is - since those noble families are extinct, then it is better to take back their titles and fiefs...

The so-called "recovery" is naturally owned by Duke Ulrich...

The nobles of the Principality of Württemberg are quitting this time - you can swallow all the benefits alone, shall we drink the northwest wind? Therefore, the living nobles of the Principality of Württemberg also joined the competition.

What are the names of these nobles? Blood relatives!

European nobles like to marry each other. Moreover, it is the noble families of the same status who frequently get married. Many of the murdered small and medium aristocratic families were married to many families of the same status in the Principality of Württemberg. There were even some murdered nobles who were married to noble families outside the Principality of Württemberg.

According to the rules, after a certain family has died out, the noble family from the side branch or marriage should inherit the title and fief...

The general rule is that if a daughter of an extinct family is married, the son of the daughter can inherit the title and fief of the grandfather's family (Salic Succession Law). If there is no daughter, then the brothers will inherit according to the ranking. If a brother dies, the children of the eldest brother's family will inherit...

Of course, in some countries, the Salic succession laws are stricter, and the inheritance order of brothers and nephews will be above daughters and sons-in-law. For example, the Kingdom of France, after the death of King Charles IV, should be succeeded by his nephew, King Edward III of England, according to relatives. But the French chose Philip VI, the cousin of Charles IV, to inherit the throne, which triggered the "Hundred Years War between England and France".

Therefore, the inheritance rights seem to have rules, but in fact, they can be manipulated. The main thing is to make different choices on whether to give priority to grandsons or nephews.

But this time Duke Ulrich's purpose is to annex the property of those dead nobles, so he does not want the relatives of those nobles to inherit the inheritance.

To this end, he announced that foreign in-laws of the dead nobles could not inherit the titles and property of the dead nobles. As for domestic relatives... Branches that have been separated are not allowed to inherit titles and property, only brothers and nephews who have not been separated are allowed to inherit...

But the problem is, if you don't split up your family and stay in the noble manor, in all likelihood, you will be killed. Even if Kasbah doesn't kill them, Wolf and Chapman will quietly kill them, so as not to leave disaster...

Therefore, what Duke Ulrich did in this way was actually making it clear that he wanted to annex the estates of the nobles who died and take back those titles...

However, the living nobles of the Principality of Württemberg are not vegetarians either. It is difficult for them to fight against Duke Ulrich alone, but when they join forces, Duke Ulrich will also give in by three points. Then, Duke Ulrich and the united Württemberg nobles fought fiercely for the inheritance of those nobles...