The Rise of the European Emperor

Of course, the new provinces and the newly acquired Ruhr area would be very wasteful to leave them alone. Therefore, Marin intends to find other ways to make appropriate adjustments to the agriculture and animal husbandry in these new provinces.

Because the province of South Münster is still under the rule of Bishop Conrad, there is no need to adjust it for the time being. The West Frisian province was also included in the new agricultural plan because it was cleared. Therefore, at present, new agricultural technologies cannot be adopted, and adjustment is required, only the provinces of Jutland, Bremen and the newly acquired Ruhr area are left.

The Ruhr area is very large, including the area south of the Ruhr River in the former country of Mark, the area of ​​the entire area is about 4,000 square kilometers. To better manage this newly controlled region, Marin created the Ruhr Province. The capital of the Ruhr province is located in Bochum, Marin's hometown.

The original Baron of Bochum has gone to the Lower Geddes area with John II, Duke of Clifford, and has received a good compensation for the site. Then, after the Baron of Bochum left, the city of Bochum was naturally vacant and became Marin's new site. Moreover, it is a site with complete control.

Therefore, Marin simply set up the capital of the Ruhr area in the city of Bochum, and set up a barracks here to station 3,000 troops to protect the local security.

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Although it is temporarily impossible to implement new agricultural technologies in the provinces of Ruhr, Jutland and Bremen, it would be too wasteful to ignore them at all. Therefore, Marin decided to adjust and reform these three provinces to a certain extent to avoid waste of land.

For example, although it is not possible to promote a full range of new agricultural technologies, Marin still intends to release some benefits - such as promoting the use of cattle in these three provinces.

Today, Marin imports tens of thousands of cattle each year from the Crimean Khanate. Today, the number of Beihai cattle has reached tens of thousands. If you use it to kill and eat meat, it will be a waste of money. Therefore, Marin intends to divide these cattle to supply the farmland for each manor. With more livestock, the three new provinces can also cultivate more land.

The promotion of the use of cattle is mainly to promote the application of cattle nose rings. Most of the cattle, as long as they put on the nose ring, can basically cultivate the land honestly. But there are also more violent bulls, but after castration, most of them will be honest. If castration is not honest, then it deserves to be killed to eat meat...

Although many draw horses are now used for farming all over Europe, the high cost of rearing draw horses has resulted in a limited number. As a result, large areas of the Ruhr, Bremen and Jutland provinces are underdeveloped due to the lack of farm animals.

And Marin now has a surplus of about 20,000 cattle. If it is put into these areas, even if new agricultural technologies are not adopted, it will be no problem to cultivate one or two million more acres of arable land.

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Marin also intends to increase investment in animal husbandry. As it happens, these three new provinces cannot adopt new agricultural technologies for the time being, and it is better to focus on the development of animal husbandry.

In particular, Jutland Province in Jutland is the best region for the development of animal husbandry. With an area of ​​more than 20,000 square kilometers, Jutland is the largest province in the Grand Duchy of the North Sea.

Before, Marin had thought about vigorously developing agriculture in Jutland. However, it is actually more suitable for the development of animal husbandry. There is a large area of ​​land and many grasslands. Although the climate is not so warm, it can be used to develop animal husbandry, but there is no problem.

In particular, Marin previously used Merino sheep and British fine-wool sheep to create a new fine-wool sheep suitable for European and North American climates, the North Sea sheep.

At the beginning, Marin collected tens of thousands of ewes from the UK and sent them to the Laayoune grasslands in Western Sahara, where they were bred with the Merino rams Marin brought from Spain, and almost got 408 rams there. The X is dead.

Afterwards, 10,000 pregnant English ewes were brought back to East Friesland and gave birth to nearly 20,000 lambs.

Of course, it does not mean that these nearly 20,000 lambs are suitable for cultivation as new breeds. Because, Marin requires optimal breeding.

Therefore, the nearly 20,000 lambs were divided into more than 400 units according to the paternal line. Then, the department in charge of breeding will observe...

The purpose of the observation is to select the part of the lambs with the thinnest wool and the fastest growing...

After that, about 5,000 lambs were selected for secondary breeding...

The growth cycle of sheep is very short, and they are sexually mature within a year and can be bred again. Then, these selected lambs began to breed again, and then formed a new stable breed - the North Sea sheep...

The North Sea Sheep matures within a year, and can be pregnant twice a year, giving birth to about two cubs at a time. In this way, after three years, in addition to the first year being the growth period of these 5,000 breeding sheep, now the number of the 5,000 North Sea sheep has expanded to more than 20,000.

The sheared wool of these North Sea sheep is of high quality, only a little worse than the wool of the authentic Merino sheep, and much better than the British wool.

Marin was very excited and ordered that these North Sea sheep should not be killed casually. Of all the North Sea sheep, only rams don't need much. So, Marin allowed some underpowered rams to be eliminated. All other North Sea sheep should be preserved, and special attention should be paid to the breeding of sheep, and strive to expand the number of North Sea sheep as soon as possible. In the future, only Beihai sheep will be used for wool in Beihai Kingdom. The rest of the sheep will be culled.

Of course, this is only sheep for wool. For meat sheep, Marin also sent people to cultivate them. Among the crosses of Merino sheep and British sheep that were eliminated, Marin also sent people to select hundreds of lambs whose wool was not fine enough but grew rapidly and cultivated as a breed of mutton sheep. In this way, it can also meet the people's consumption demand for mutton to a certain extent. And this kind of mutton was named German Merino by Marin...

However, the number of German merino sheep is very small, only about 300 meet the requirements. After two years of breeding, it can only reach about 1,000.

However, this German Merino sheep, although the wool quality is not as good as the North Sea sheep, it is not much worse. After all, they also have Merino and English sheep blood. In this way, they can provide not only mutton, but also high-quality wool. At least, better quality than the current British wool.

Provides both lamb and good quality wool. Marin can believe that this kind of sheep will be the main breed of colonial expansion in the future. After all, the colonies were too sparsely populated for large-scale agricultural production. Therefore, sheep farming, which can be helped by sheepdogs, may be the pillar industry of the colony. And this German Merino sheep, which can not only provide the colonists with mutton, but also provide good quality wool, is definitely an existence against the sky...

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In addition to cultivating two sheep breeds, Marin recently used fake French silver coins made of cupronickel to buy large quantities of Charolais cattle from the Charolais region of France.

This original breed of Charolais has not yet reached the quality standards of later generations. For example, many Charolais cattle also have mighty horns. But later generations of Charolais cattle, for the safety of the cowboys, actually deliberately selectively bred hornless cattle. In this way, the cowboy does not have to worry about being killed by the horns of the mad cow when he sets the cow.

But in any case, it is said that these original breeds of Charolais cattle grow very fast, and are large and strong. Fast growth and strong physique are one of the most important indicators of a working cattle. With these two points, Charolais cattle are worth breeding.

Marin then ordered the organization of professionals to focus on training Charolais cattle. However, he made a special request - to find hornless Charolais cattle, carry out special breeding, and strive for the Charolais cattle that come out later, without horns. Otherwise, it's a big threat to cowboys...

For the cultivation of Charolais cattle, Marin also ordered - not allowed to slaughter casually. The only Charolais cattle that can be slaughtered are those bulls that have horns and are not strong enough. As for cows, not one of them can be missing...

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Marin believes that as long as the three major animal breeds, namely the North Sea sheep, the German Merino sheep and the Charolais cattle are cultivated, it will be difficult for the animal husbandry of the North Sea to be underdeveloped in the future. And the provinces of Ruhr, Bremen and Jutland, which cannot adopt new agricultural technologies...especially the vast Jutland province, will definitely have a lot to do in the future of animal husbandry...