The Rise of the European Emperor

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In the autumn of 1515, everything was golden. The whole country of Beihai welcomed another bumper harvest. This year, due to the appearance of Prader plow carts, columbine carts, and wheat samarium, the area of ​​cultivated land in Beihai increased from 12 million mu to 15 million mu.

However, the tithe tax on cultivated land has not increased at all. Because, the Holy See had confirmed with Marin a long time ago-only tithes were collected according to the standard of 12 million mu. Moreover, it is levied according to the standard of 150 pounds per acre, that is, a tithe tax of 15 pounds of rye per acre.

Of course, if there is a natural disaster, it can also be reduced. What's more, only half of the tithes need to be sent to Rome, and the other half will be used by the Church of the North Sea State.

In fact, sending even half of the tithe to Rome was pretty scary. Because, for 12 million mu of rye, 15 pounds per mu will be given away, a total of 180 million pounds, and half of it will be 90 million pounds!

According to the current grain prices in Germany, if one pfennig per pound is calculated, it is 90 million pfennigs, equivalent to 1.5 million gold coins! This batch of food is enough to feed 200,000 people for a year! Moreover, when more than one pound of rye flour can be consumed every day (under normal circumstances, the black bread eaten by ordinary people can contain half of the flour, which is considered high-end. The black stick bread eaten by ordinary farmers, soil, Stones, sawdust, wild vegetables, etc. are more than half of the ingredients). According to the eating method of ordinary farmers, it is not a problem to feed 500,000 people with these grains!

The food originally produced by the Papal State can meet most of the country's needs, so the extra food is actually the financial revenue of the Holy See, at least hundreds of thousands of gold coins...

You know, those who honestly pay tithes to the Holy See like Marin are almost extinct in Europe. People like France who dare to bully the Holy See, not only do not pay the Holy See a tithe, but also tax the French Church in reverse, which can be described as extreme.

And powerful countries such as Spain and the United Kingdom, although not as arrogant as France, often find various excuses and bribe the cardinals in charge of the dioceses of the two countries, and pay most of the tithes, only a symbolic amount...

The only ones that pay more tithes are the bishops of Germany. It's not that they are willing to do so, but that the investiture rights of the bishop states belong to the Holy See, and those bishop states dare not refuse to hand them over. But even so, these bishops will still be opportunistic, bribing the Roman cardinal who is responsible for collecting tithes, deliberately reducing the amount of tithes, and then dividing up those tithes in private... Finally, these bishops, Sending a quarter of the tax to Rome is considered very honest...

There is no way, the atmosphere is like this, Marin can pay so many tithes, which is the first in all of Europe. As for the amount of fixed tithes that Marin requested, the people in the church also knew that there was something tricky about it. However, everyone messed around, and Marin was the most honest. Therefore, no one will find fault with Marin in this regard.

Whoever dares to find fault, Marin will compare with him who pays more tithes... As long as the comparison is made, even big countries such as Britain, France and Spain cannot compare with Marin...

Therefore, even if Marin newly reclaimed 3 million mu of land and did not pay extra tithes, no one made a fuss about it. Because others have done more than Marin. Would a murderer dare to report a thief? dare not! If you dare to do this, you will die first...

Marin did not take the extra 3 million mu of land all by himself, but distributed one-third to his nobles. In other words, Marin monopolizes 2 million mu, and his subordinates divide up 1 million mu. Well, this is very in line with the principle of dividing the spoils of the bandits in the cottage - the boss gets the most, and the rest of the younger brothers will be divided...

Ma Da is the head of the family... Ah bah, the king of Ma is willing to give one-third to his subordinates, which is quite kind. After all, the land of no man in the country belongs to her grand duke. New land reclamation also requires his approval.

In order to suppress food production and avoid too much food, Marin was hundreds of years ahead and introduced the "Environmental Protection Law" to restrict deforestation to protect water and soil. However, the reason for protecting the forest is really stupid - it is to protect the hunting rights of the nobles... But, in this era, this reason is actually tenable...

There is no way, this is the era of the aristocracy, and the aristocrats enjoy themselves, even more important than the life and death of ordinary people...

In fact, Marin did not completely restrict the increase of cultivated land, but deliberately suppressed the increase of local cultivated land. After all, he still has a huge America to reclaim. If more local land is reclaimed, no one will go to America to reclaim wasteland.

Therefore, Marin's attitude is very clear-the increase of local cultivated land must be approved, otherwise it will be confiscated. But in the land of the Kingdom of America, Marin encouraged reclamation. Even, he did not hesitate to offer various preferential conditions. For example, commoners who reclaimed wasteland in the past can also become landlords. Of course, the premise is that you must pay taxes to the government. In addition to the church's tithe, an additional 10 percent each of the agricultural tax and the national defense tax must be paid. Of course, if a male in the family joins the army, the national defense tax will be exempted during the period of joining the army. If a man dies in battle, the defense tax exemption period will be extended for 18 years. In these 18 years, theoretically, the man's newborn son grew up. Of course, if there are no children, their family members still enjoy this treatment. If there is a certain amount of military merit, then the degree of compensation will be even greater...

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What disappointed Marin was that the people of this era, like the locals in the early years of Hudong in later generations, were dead-headed. In later generations, there is a famous joke - "I would rather have a bed in Puxi than a room in Pudong". It's about the hard-headed natives of Shanghai who would rather die poor in Puxi than go to Pudong to seek development...

Now, this situation has also appeared in the North Sea country - not to mention the common people, even the nobles are not willing to go to the Americas to reclaim wasteland.

For example, when enfeoffing land, many soldiers with military exploits would rather have 200 acres of arable land (equivalent to 100 Ugrams, 1,200 acres) than 1,000 acres of arable land in the Americas when they were enshrined as knights.

You know, in the mainland, the good land by the river has already been divided up by the big nobles. Only those ordinary farmlands that do not rely on the river will become unowned and be entrusted. However, those hard-headed and meritorious soldiers just like the thin land, and they don't want the fertile land along the river in America. You must know that the degree of development in the Americas is low at the moment, and the land given by Malinken is all precious land that is extremely convenient for irrigation along the river. If it is left to future generations, this kind of farm will cost tens of thousands of dollars per acre. 1,000 acres worth tens of millions of dollars.

However, in this era, the land in America is worthless! In addition, in order to prevent other countries from competing, Marin deliberately described America as a terrifying "wild land", and no one wants to put the fief in America.

Only Kohler, Schwartz, and other core leaders of the North Sea State understand how fertile and suitable for agriculture the Americas are. Just because it is suitable for growing wheat, the rye fields in the North Sea country are blown away. You know, the price of wheat is several times that of rye...

But Marin couldn't speak directly, mainly because he was afraid that some people would leak out if they were not strict with their mouths. Therefore, the land in America right now can only be cheaper for those guys. Fortunately, they are not outsiders.

However, it’s not enough to just give it to those confidantes, and others have to eat soup too. Therefore, Marin tried every means to "sell" the land of America.

As a result, not only the low-level officers and soldiers who were awarded knights for their merits were not willing to want the land of America, but even the middle-level officers who were awarded the title of baron were not willing to want good land five times the size of America.

In desperation, in order to promote the development of the Americas, Marin finally made a decision-to give the land of the Americas as a bonus to the meritorious soldiers...

Of course, not everyone sends, but the Baron starts. For example, the land that a third-level baron receives from the baron is 1,000 Ugram arable land, which is 2,000 acres. Marin is still canonized according to the old rules, but will give another 2,000 acres of good land along the river in the Americas to the recipient.

These people may not be happy at first, but after knowing the truth and tasting the benefits, they are willing to take the land of America. After all, that is arable land that can grow wheat! You know, in this era, being able to eat white bread made of wheat flour is a symbol of status!

You know, even ordinary knights with only 1,000 acres of American river fiefs can eat wheat flour and white bread every day as long as they grow wheat. No way, the American land is just that good. Because summer is hotter than in Europe, it is conducive to the accumulation of temperature in wheat, so it is very suitable for wheat growth.

At the beginning of the 19th century, most people in European countries mainly ate black bread as their staple food, and poor Germans even ate potatoes for a living. At that time, in the newly established United States, ordinary people could generally eat white bread. There is no way, the home has a good land, so it's just like this...

However, in the North Sea country in 1515, no one was willing to ask for the American lands, forcing Marin to rely on extra money to give away the American lands, what kind of shit...