The Rise of the European Emperor

The cold wave in January has passed, and the weather in February has gradually begun to warm up. Marin, on the other hand, was sitting in front of the office window, looking at the dead branches sprouting outside the window and worrying.

why? This starts with the first census of Beihai. Now, the land area of ​​Beihai Kingdom is quite large. The counties of East Friesland and the Jever region add up to about 4,000 square kilometers, and Oldenburg is also about 4,000 square kilometers. West Friesland has about 5,000 square kilometers, and the north and south of Münster add up to more than 10,000 square kilometers. Osnabrück also has more than 2,200 square kilometers, Bremen Province, about 5,800 or so. The combined counties of Schleswig and Dietmarschen are more than 10,000 square kilometers (Schleswig 9200, Dietmarschen 1400). The newly acquired Ruhr area also exceeds 4,000 square kilometers. Add to that the more than 20,000 square kilometers of Jutland...

After all, the land area of ​​Beihai Kingdom has exceeded 65,000 square kilometers. Although the 5,000 square kilometers of the South Münster area and the 1,400 square kilometers of Ditmarschen County are temporarily out of jurisdiction, the area under Marin's control is close to 50,000 square kilometers. Such an area is much larger than that of the Netherlands in later generations.

However, the population of Beihai Kingdom, according to the census, disappointed Marin very much...

After official statistics, the data obtained is that East Friesland has a population of 350,000, and West Friesland has a population of 180,000 (there were more than 200,000 before, but after several wars, the population has dropped sharply by tens of thousands). Oldenburg has only 80,000 people, and Bremen has more than 100,000 people. The Principality of Schleswig has 150,000 people, and the huge Jutland Province has only 250,000 people. North Münster is also sparsely populated, with only more than 50,000 people. Osnabrück has less than 20,000 people, and the North Münster area adds up to about 70,000 people. The population of the Ruhr area is about 200,000. As for the South Münster area, although there are more than 200,000 people, it has not yet been included in the management of Marin. Likewise, Dittmarschen, with a population of 20,000, is also autonomous.

In this way, the population controlled by Marin is actually only 1.38 million. Of course, the land replacement in the Ruhr area is in progress. According to the contract, the nobles on the land will be replaced, and 30,000 people will be taken away, which are all their subordinates and serfs. In other words, the population ultimately controlled by Marin is about 1.35 million people.

This seems a lot, because, in this era, Germany's vassal states with a population of more than one million, I am afraid that only the Habsburg family domain and the Agiellon family domain (including Bohemia and Silesia, but the population is as large as The 4 million kingdom of Hungary is not part of HRE and doesn't count). The Habsburg family is the territory of the Netherlands alone, with a total population of about 950,000, and Austria also has several hundred thousand. It is precisely because the Habsburg family has a vast territory and a large population that it can gain an advantage in the competition for the throne. And other princes, you need to unite to suppress the Habsburg family.

The appearance of Marin made the princes even more fearful - the Habsburg family was already very strong, and there was another powerful North Sea Kingdom... Therefore, they did not hesitate to unite and persecute the North Sea Kingdom and Habsburg. The Fort family broke up. Otherwise, Germany will definitely change...

Of course, this is compared to the small princely states in the German region. If you compare it with later generations, it's really nothing. The Netherlands of later generations, with a land area of ​​41,000 square kilometers, has a population of 17 million. If it is compared with Huaxia in later generations, it is even more incomparable - a prefecture-level city in the hometown of Malin's previous life, with an area of ​​more than 6,000 square kilometers and a population of more than 5 million...

Of course, the Huaxia of later generations cannot be compared. The result of such a dense population is that each farmer has only a few mu of land, and the land is not divided enough.

But now for Marin, the problem is that there is not enough labor...

According to the current standard of the German princely state, Marin's strength has surpassed any of the seven emperors except the Kingdom of Bohemia.

However, Marlin is different. He has a super-giant American continent that needs to be colonized. Therefore, the population of 1.35 million is simply a drizzle.

How to put it, Beihai Kingdom has a population of 1.35 million. Even if you count the more than 200,000 people in the unruled South Münster region and Dietmarschen County, it is only 1.5 million people. The strong men add up to three or four million. This was because Marin wanted to recruit young and strong serfs, otherwise the ratio would be much lower.

According to the calculation that each strong man and his family can cultivate a maximum of 100 mu of land, 400,000 strong men can cultivate a maximum of 40 million mu. And how big is 40 million mu? Converted down, it is only 26,700 square kilometers, which is less than half of Beihai Kingdom. For North and South America, with a total area of ​​up to 42 million square kilometers, it is simply drizzle within drizzle.

With the strength of the Spanish Empire in history, the Spanish Empire with a population of 8 million cannot take into account the development of the Americas, and can only control places such as Mexico and Peru. Not to mention Marin, which has a smaller population.

In fact, for the whole of Europe, the country with the greatest potential to develop the Americas is actually France, with a population of more than 15 million. It is precisely because of this that Marin is very afraid of France, for fear that France will steal its own territory. Because, once the French flooded into the Americas, Marin simply could not resist. At that time, whether America's surname is De or Fa will be out of Marin's control.

Therefore, for Marin, it is very urgent to expand the size of the population. Otherwise, there would be no way to support the colonial activities of the Americas.

You know, even Portugal, a relatively weak one among the big countries, has a population of 3 million...

However, the entire German region has a population of only 12 million. Even the entire Holy Roman Empire (including northern Italy) has a population of only 16 million. It seems unrealistic that Marin wants to poach people from other vassal states... If it doesn't work, it will lead to other vassal states uniting to crusade him...

After all, Marin has brought in 200,000 to 300,000 people from various vassal states so far. If we introduce it again, it is estimated that other princes will be in a hurry. After all, these populations did not fall from the sky, but came from other vassal states.

Now, in order to prevent Marin from fooling a large number of young adults in their respective countries, many countries have set up checkpoints at the borders, prohibiting large-scale young adults from leaving the country. Once found, immediately arrest and repatriate.

Therefore, even if Marin had the golden signboard of "I have enough bread, and I will marry my daughter-in-law," he would be very helpless in the face of official obstruction.

"It seems that I can only use that trick..." Marin thought silently.

So, he looked away from the window and instructed the servant:

"Go and call Kohler for me!"

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