The Rise of the European Emperor

If you push back decades, most of the Dutch believed in the Calvinist era, and Marin would not want a single Dutchman. After all, this Calvin sect specialized in rebelling against the king.

But it is different now, Calvinism has not yet risen, and the Dutch are still Catholics. Even Calvin's unlucky boy had been ordered to be killed by Marin.

Yes, Calvin was killed by people sent by Marin! Last year, John Calvin, who was only a 4-year-old child, was killed by the killer sent by Marin...

For this matter, Marin repented for several days. Because, murdering a child is really a bit low. Therefore, Marin felt uneasy for a long time. However, Marin knew very well that the emergence of Calvinism was not just the credit of Calvin alone, but the ultimate manifestation of the anti-monarchy in Switzerland.

Calvin founded the Calvinist school of professional rebellion after absorbing the ideas of the local people against the imperial power of the Habsburg family in Switzerland.

So, even without Calvin, maybe someone else would have started a Protestant sect in Switzerland against the monarchy. In order to put an end to this problem, Marin found a way to support the Habsburg family to occupy Switzerland in order to control the fermentation of anti-imperial ideas in Switzerland.

Today, Calvin's early Swiss city of Basel is under the control of the Habsburg family. In the future, there will be no living space for anti-imperial thoughts here. As for Geneva, where Calvin lived during his later period of mastery, the Habsburg family really has no way of controlling it. Because Geneva is at the southwesternmost tip of Switzerland and has penetrated deep into the hinterland of France. Even the locals in Geneva are mainly French, and the main language is.

Right now, Marin doesn't intend to offend France, so even though he is capable of helping the Habsburg family occupy the entire territory of Switzerland, Marin can't make a move. Otherwise, he may usher in the joint siege of the German Princes Alliance and France.

Therefore, Marin's future plan is to first use the religious war to annex northern Germany, and then take a look at the situation in Switzerland. If Western Switzerland converts to Protestantism, they will use the banner of the Holy See to help suppress it. This is justified, and it is different in nature from helping the Habsburg family. And if the Swiss don't engage in religious beliefs or professional rebel sects such as Calvinism, Marin doesn't need to help the Habsburg family expand their territory.

To put it bluntly, Marin helped the Habsburg family to occupy Switzerland, mainly to use the Habsburg family as executioners to suppress local Protestant ideas, not to help the Habsburg family grow stronger.

And this time to help Prince Philip with an idea, in fact, it is also to obtain a large population in the Netherlands.

In this era, the people in the Netherlands had not yet converted to Calvinism, and they were still a group that could be wooed. Moreover, it has been ruled by the Habsburg family for decades and has long been integrated into the Holy Roman Empire system. Marin's North Sea State has always been on good terms with the Habsburg family,

Even the people of the Netherlands are more friendly to the North Sea country. This is like the good relationship between Huaxia and Pakistan Railway in later generations, and the people of the two countries are also friendly to each other.

Against this background, it is not difficult for Marin to recruit the Dutch. Moreover, it is also easy to transform them and educate them to become their own obedient citizens.

You know, in this era, as long as the common people in Europe can eat enough and wear warm clothes, they can be grateful to you without paying too much.

In fact, the people of Beihai State are now the envy of most informed people of the Holy Roman Empire. Because, the serfs in the North Sea country actually have soft black bread that does not contain dirt and stones every day, and they can often eat salted fish. This kind of treatment makes others envious.

You must know that in this era, most of the serfs in Germany were basically half-starved and half-fed. Many people can't eat bread, but can only eat a little gruel mixed with rye, wild vegetables, grass roots and other messy things. Bread, a solid food, was only available to serfs in wealthy areas. Moreover, even if the bread is eaten, it is the kind of black stick bread that is as hard as a brick mixed with a lot of mud and stones, and it cannot be eaten without soaking in water...

And the serfs in the Beihai Kingdom have soft bread and salted fish, can you not be enviable? Of course, only those in the know would know this, but most serfs would not know about it. In particular, the vassal states where the vassals who are hostile to Marin often deliberately carry out anti-propaganda, describing Beihai as hell, and even slandering Marin's love of eating children...

Only the territory of the Habsburg family, the vassal state where Marin's allies such as the territory of the Lamarck family are located, will have positive publicity for the North Sea State, and the people there will know how happy the people of the North Sea State are.

Of course, the people of the neighboring countries of Beihai also know about it. After all, their eyes can see the facts, and counter-propaganda is useless.

In addition, the people in the Swabian region in the south have a little understanding of the situation in Beihai. Because the nobles of the Swabian Alliance belong to the Habsburg family and will not discredit the North Sea country. The people there will also get fairer news.

It's just that Marin is not too embarrassed to start with these countries that are friendly to the North Sea country. Only in the Swabian area, because the population is too large, Marin will start. As for the territory of the Habsburg family, it had never been thought that it had a large population before, so it was naturally inconvenient for Marin to start.

As for the Netherlands, because of the friendly relationship between the Habsburg family and the North Sea country, the locals obviously know the good life of the people of the North Sea country. If someone is sent to recruit the population, someone will definitely respond.

Of course, the premise is that they are recruited to the mainland of Beihai, and they will definitely be willing to do so. But if they are recruited to America... because of Marin's previous negative propaganda, they may not be willing.

But Marin doesn't care, because he will send someone to cheat...

First of all, he said that he was recruiting from the local area, and if he was deceived, he would then send him to the American colonies... As long as he sent enough soldiers and horses to escort him, there would be no problems...

The Netherlands has a population of more than one million. The hundreds of thousands of textile workers in Flanders are fine. Those who can’t move, but there are hundreds of thousands of farmers left, so it’s easy to handle.

If you raise sheep, you can't use so many people. As I said before, a 100,000-acre family farm in New Zealand can raise 28,000 sheep and 26,000 cattle with a family of seven. The food intake of a cow is several times that of sheep, so a 100,000-acre pasture can feed at least hundreds of thousands of sheep.

This is still a small number. According to the limit algorithm of later generations, one mu of grass can raise up to 15 sheep. However, it is a professional high-yielding pasture grass, and chemical fertilizers are usually applied. But in the Netherlands right now, it is obvious that there is no such professional grassland. But the Netherlands is close to the North Sea, with plains, fertile land, and abundant rainfall. Even if it is ordinary pasture, it is no problem to raise one or two sheep per acre of land. On the land of more than 70,000 square kilometers, if you really try your best to raise sheep, hundreds of millions of sheep can be raised. Of course, this is impossible. After all, the Netherlands couldn't just raise sheep.

Even the United Kingdom, which is a big sheep-raising country, currently has more than 10 million sheep. This is inferred in reverse according to wool production, because the annual output of British wool is about 50,000 bales (364 pounds per bale). And a bale of wool usually needs 260 sheep to be produced a year, so, if inferred conversely, there are probably more than 13 million wool-producing sheep in the UK...

And if one sheep is raised per mu of grassland, 13 million sheep will only need 86,666 square kilometers. Even if the efficiency is doubled, it only needs 173,332 square kilometers. The Netherlands, which the Habsburg family belongs to, can definitely afford it.

Of course, Marin would not tell them this limit data kindly, but would try to exaggerate the place needed to raise sheep. It is best to let half of the Netherlands be used to raise sheep. In this way, hundreds of thousands of Dutch farmers will lose their land and have to accept their own solicitation...

Although 100,000 British sheep had to be paid, Marin didn't care. After all, in his eyes, population is the most important thing, people-oriented...

The Dutch are also mainly Germanic. As long as they are properly educated and fooled, they can be absorbed as their own people...

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