The Rise of the European Emperor

For Brazil, Marin's psychology is very complicated. It stands to reason that Brazil is a very good colony, and Marin should not give up.

However, that is when there is no better option, Brazil is the best colony. Now that Marin has North America, Brazil has become a tasteless piece of food, and it is a pity to discard it if it is tasteless...

The most important thing is that Marin doesn't have so many people to develop Brazil...and this is the main reason why Marin is unwilling to give up Brazil.

Developing North America, Marin feels that there is a serious lack of population. Where is there any surplus population to develop Brazil? Although Brazil is very good, it is too far away from the mainland and it is inconvenient to control.

Originally, in history, Portugal controlled Brazil because Portugal was really close to Brazil. But for the North Sea country located on the coast of the North Sea, Brazil is a distant place.

However, Marin also knows that if he gives up Brazil and leaves Brazil idle for a long time, Spain or Portugal will definitely covet it. Therefore, after much deliberation, he felt that Brazil could not be wasted.

Coincidentally, this time Marin intends to distinguish the civil and military officials of Beihai State, strengthen the authority of civil officials, and plans to recruit a large number of civilian-born students as civil officials. But in this way, the interests of the nobles were greatly violated.

Although the nobles of the North Sea Kingdom are different from other European countries and are the weakest noble class (mainly because Marin massacred and cleaned the old nobles when the country was founded), their strength should not be underestimated. In other countries where the nobility was not purged, the nobility united and the king made concessions.

Although the nobles of the North Sea Kingdom were not enough to fight against Marin because of Marin's early massacre. But Marin also saw that with the stabilization of the domestic situation, the strength of the nobles was also recovering and strengthening.

If they don't give enough benefits, even if these nobles compromise temporarily, they will definitely explode one day in the future. Therefore, Marin needs to make the nobles feel at ease and obedient. After hitting the stick, the dates must be given, and they must be given enough and sweet enough...

Then, Brazil, a place that Marin loves and hates, popped up...

Brazil is huge, there is no doubt about it. Brazil is very rich, it goes without saying. Of course, compared with Argentina, the best part of Brazil is actually the southeastern coastal area. Like the Amazon region, let’s not mention it.

But even in the southeast region, the size of the land is a bit scary-not to mention anything else, just the smallest state of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, that is, the state of Rio de Janeiro where the city of Rio de Janeiro is located. This smallest state in Brazil also has an area of ​​43,000 square meters kilometer!

What is the concept of 43,000 square kilometers? It is as big as the Kingdom of Denmark (the Kingdom of Denmark before it was divided by Marin), one of the European powers!

Just this place,

Marin can cut it into 10 pieces and distribute them to 10 nobles. The territory of more than 4,000 square kilometers per family is really not small...

The state of Sao Paulo has a larger area, covering 248,200 square kilometers, much larger than the British Isle, and can entrust a bunch of dukes and earls. It is not considered weak to use it to build a country alone. Of course, the premise is that you have enough population...

As for the Rio Grande do Sul state of 280,000 square kilometers, the Santa Catarina state of 95,000 square kilometers, and the Paraná state of nearly 200,000 square kilometers, although most of them are plateaus, they are definitely more than enough to reward their soldiers!

This adds up to more than 860,000 square kilometers of land, and the climate is not bad. How many soldiers are not enough to reward?

Use a bunch of beautiful looking wasteland to send off the soldiers, this business should not be too cost-effective! Of course, Marin will also reward them with some small manors in the local area, so as not to be too tight before their territory is developed...

This is the advantage of having a lot of land. In such a huge Brazil, if it is said to be used to reward people, it will be rewarded. Who can have such arrogance?

Moreover, if the fiefdoms of these generals are brought to Brazil, Portugal and Spain will not dare to covet them. Offending these generals is much more serious than offending civil servants. To grab the general's land, one must be mentally prepared to be crusaded...

Anyway, Schwartz, Kahn, Wagner, Steindorf and others were limped by Marin. When they heard that Marin planned to reward each of them with thousands of square kilometers of land with a good climate, their mouths were drooling.

Thousands of square kilometers! You know, the foundation of Marin's country is only 3,400 square kilometers. Marin promised to give each of them a territory of about 5,000 square kilometers, which made them beautiful...

Of course, they don't know geography and haven't been to Brazil. If they know that 5,000 square kilometers is just a small area in the huge Brazil, they will not be so excited.

However, for individuals, 5,000 square kilometers is really a lot. This is almost equivalent to the area of ​​a prefecture-level city in later generations. Think about it, a prefecture-level city belongs to your family... This is the real local tyrant...

These people are the core generals under Marin's command, so they will give so much. There are not so many other generals at the next level. The average general will be given one or two thousand square kilometers of land, which is about the same.

Moreover, this is not too small, equivalent to the size of a county. Putting it on the mainland of Germany, it is possible to establish a considerable vassal state. For example, the Principality of Cliff, it is a principality, but its area is only 1,800 square kilometers...

Of course, the Principality of Cliff is located on both sides of the Rhine River, and it is the most fertile agricultural land, which cannot be compared. And the land that Marin allocated to his generals must be matched with a lot of mountainous land. This is also what it should mean, after all, which monarch would easily entrust the good land that is full of fertile plains to others?

Such a good place as the Pampas grassland near the Rio de la Plata, the best in South America, was granted by Marin to his second son, William. The land of the better and better North America can only be left to the heir of Caesar. Marin was not very happy about the separation of the Earl of Philadelphia. But now that the North American colonies need Albert to manage, Marin doesn't say anything. But he planned to wait for Albert to retire and give him another fief. Of course, the territory will definitely be bigger, and the climate and resources will not be bad.

It's not that Marin is reluctant to part with the land in Philadelphia, but that Philadelphia's geographical location is too important and belongs to the core area of ​​the east coast of North America. There is a very independent country stuck in the middle, which is very troublesome to manage.

In the future, Marin intends to transfer Albert to Brazil, as the governor of Brazil, to govern the Brazilian colony. At the same time, in the southeast of Brazil, choose the largest and best fiefdom for Albert in exchange for the Earl of Philadelphia.

Moreover, Marin does not expect to receive any taxes in Brazil in the future. Because, those aristocratic territories will be autonomous dominions-except for military and diplomatic. And Albert, will become the chief executive of these autonomous dominions, responsible for helping to manage them. After all, the military nobles of the North Sea Kingdom could not go to Brazil to manage the territory separately.

And Albert has rich experience in colonial management. It is indeed a good choice for him to help manage and develop the Brazilian colony.

Of course, this is quite sad for Albert - he finally developed the North American colony, but was kicked by Marin to Brazil to continue the development of the wild land...

In this regard, Marin can only say sorry. Big deal, give more land as compensation. In addition, by that time, I will almost be a king, so I will give Albert a duke title at worst. As for the land, it is nothing to give him 10,000 square kilometers. After all, Brazil lacks everything except land. If it is the Amazon rainforest, Marin will give him a fief of 1 million square kilometers, as long as he has the ability to develop...

To put it bluntly, Marin just felt that it was a pity that Brazil did not develop, and was afraid of being missed by Spain and Portugal, so he used waste. Just right, to compensate the military nobles under him. At the same time, it can also be used to compensate his younger brother. That is to say, land is not valuable in this era, and the subordinates may still feel that it is a loss. But hundreds of years later, their descendants will thank Marin for his generosity.

You must know that the price of farms in later generations is generally several thousand dollars per hectare. Even if only 1,000 square kilometers of 5,000 square kilometers of land are developed into farms, there are still 100,000 hectares, worth at least several hundred million U.S. dollars. If there is a prosperous city, the land there is calculated by square meter, which is more valuable... Of course, the premise is that their descendants continue to own so much land...