Chapter 2080 A brilliant way of enclosing land
Prince Philip obviously thought so. He believed that Marin really gave him a lot of face this time. However, he did not expect that Beihai Country had a complete primary industrial park, which greatly reduced the manufacturing cost. Of course, Marin would not let Philip see it, but showed an expression of "I have invested a lot."
Moreover, Prince Philip would not know that Marin was about to lead a team to the Grand Principality of Moscow and was worried about the safety of the local area. Otherwise, he would not think that this was a favor, but that he would think that "I have made great efforts"!
Then, the two sides discussed "cordial" how to perform the effect of "Prince Philip spent a lot of money and Marin did not refuse after he moved ten times".
After more than a day of discussion, the two sides finally figured out the script - Prince Philip used "introduction of immigration" as a temptation, and at the same time, he publicly proposed that the North Sea Kingdom be upgraded to a kingdom and an electorate to attract Marin to provide weapons...
Although this performance has the effect of clearing Marin's suspicion, it can also show Prince Philip's superb ability to win over people. Therefore, although it is a performance to help Marin clear his suspicion, Prince Philip does not refuse to be used once, because this will show his "wisdom" and "superior skills". It can be said that it is a win-win situation.
Afterwards, shortly after Marin left Ghent, Prince Philip released a rumor, saying that he would elect the Great Duke of Beihai Marin to be promoted to King and Election of Emperor, just like the Bohemia Kingdom.
As soon as this remark came out, it immediately caused a sensation in Germany, including France. Then, it was all over...
The princes who opposed the Habsburg family eventually accounted for the majority. They expressed their opposition, believing that the Hoffman family was of a humble origin and being able to become a great duke was a miracle. Being a king was a bit too ridiculous.
Then, Prince Philip stood up publicly, saying that the Holy See had crowned Marin as king, and that he had already been qualified to be a king. Therefore, becoming the King of the North Sea is no longer a problem.
Then, the opposition said that it was just a king in the wilderness area, which was different from the king in the "civilized area" like Germany. Among them, Frederick III, the Elector of Saxony, had a sharp view. He believed that becoming the king in the wilderness area was just because Marin made contributions to the Holy See, and belonged to the Holy See. If you want to become a king in the German area, you need to make great contributions to the German area and get unanimous recognition and respect from all countries, you can become a king. The Elector is also...
This old guy is good at focusing on the key points, and his argument is reasonable and convincing. However, Philip did not really want to push Marin to become the king and the electorate. Therefore, he didn't care much about success or failure. However, the momentum must be made big.
As for a quarrel, you can’t win if you have reason. As long as your opponent pretends not to hear your reasons and insists on making trouble, you can’t do anything. Therefore, the court has set up a judge to avoid lawyers quarrels.
Therefore, like a quarrel, Philip kept proposing the argument that Marin was promoted to king, regardless of whether Frederick III's view was correct or not. Moreover, this guy was cheating and said that Frederick III deliberately retaliated and caused trouble because of his previous war, which made Frederick III so angry that he almost turned it over. This was obviously a slap in the face. Losing to Marin is a black history. Philip was just a slap in the face in public when he came up with something!
But Philip didn't know that Frederick III, the Elector of Saxony, had already made a major decision in his heart - the next emperor would definitely not choose Philip, a slut!
If Philip had known this news, he would have cried and fainted in the toilet. You know, he had always wanted to be the emperor! Fortunately, Maximilian I had planned to pave the way for his grandson, otherwise the Habsburg family would have cried and fainted in the toilet.
Of course, the Habsburg family did not lose. With Marin's support, they could annex the entire Switzerland and their strength increased greatly! If they could sell a few more estates on the Swiss territory, they could fill a lot of deficits. Moreover, the territory could be passed on to future generations, which is very cost-effective! In general, the Habsburg family would definitely not lose, but only Philip himself lost. Moreover, he only lost his reputation (emperor title), but not his profit.
However, this matter was limited to quarrels and had not yet escalated to the scope of fighting. Why? Because Philip was not an emperor, his status was the great lord of the Netherlands, and he was no different from other dukes. In fact, he was the only one who quarreled in the Habsburg family. Therefore, the princes were just angry but did not take action. Because Philip was just talking and did not take action.
While they were quarreling, Prince Philip quietly summoned most of the Dutch lords (except the opposition) on the grounds of holding a banquet and discussed with them the matter of enclosing land.
Before, Philip had actually discussed this with them. Although everyone was moved, they were full of worry and feared that something would go wrong.
But this time, after Philip offered 20 gold coins for each household, everyone was moved...
You can take up land and get money! The previous hesitation was wiped out. After all, what are some risks in front of money?
In fact, this phenomenon occurred in the history of the British land enclosure movement. The nobles deceived the poor self-cultivated farmers and said that they could make a fortune by going to America. Then they deceived the poor self-cultivated farmers to sell their property and land at a low price to exchange for ship tickets and transported them to the American colonies. Then they threw the whole family there and ignored them. In this way, the nobles seized the land of the self-cultivated farmers at a very low price.
Next, the nobles who were originally timid and hesitant began a big and open land enclosure. Of course, they were not blindly doing it, but specifically picked the farmers who had debts and bought all the IOUs of their creditors. Then, they used the IOUs to grab the land.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! In this era, who has not owed some debts? If you don’t owe debts, you will not be called poor people. Ordinary people may send gangsters who “left green dragon and right white tiger” to beat and intimidate. At most, they will evade the property of the debtor’s family. Those who have the confidence and backing can rob their daughters or something.
But if the creditors were replaced by nobles, it would be different. The European legal system in this era was not sound, and the nobles basically represented the law in their territory. Perhaps they could not kill people and rob things at will, but with excuses, they would have no problem depriving the property of the debtors. Starting from the IOU is an excellent excuse to deprive the farmland property of their own farmland.
After learning about the operation methods of Philip and the Dutch nobles, Marin felt that it was a bit low-level. So he wrote a secret letter to Philip himself, introducing him to the methods that the British later played - fooling poor self-cultivated farmers to sell their land at a low price to the Beihai Kingdom...
To this end, Marin specially selected a group of disciples and disciples of Bishop Taylor who spoke Dutch and spoke to help them fool them. In this way, the Dutch nobles who used the advanced methods of land enclosure movement were not limited to the crude method of robbing land by IOU. After all, the nobles were also shameless people.
Therefore, the following Dutland encirclement movement changed its style and turned into a large-scale fraud scene. Moreover, this was not entirely a fraud.
In order to be more convincing, under the advice and funding of Marin, the nobles of the Netherlands also specially invited some poor representatives to go to the manor under the name of Marin, Beihai Kingdom to visit the lives of the serfs. Anyway, the Beihai Kingdom and the Netherlands are bordering the Netherlands, and it is also very convenient to organize people to go to the manor in Marin, in the western border area of Beihai Kingdom.
In these Martres manors, the poor self-cultivated farmers in the Netherlands who can only eat soil (the bread is mixed with soil, so it is called eating soil) have witnessed the ordinary farmers in Beihai Country. They eat black bread without soil every meal, and they are full! Good labor performance can also reward delicious foods such as Thuringia sausage or sauerkraut salted fish (sauerkraut is kimchi made from cabbage, and salted fish are all sea fish caught in the Beihai fishery). Moreover, every week, everyone has the opportunity to receive salted fish. During the festival, some meat can be distributed, such as sausages, cured meat, etc....
In addition, all children have the opportunity to go to school and don’t have money. The food for children in school is even more nutritious than what ordinary people eat. It is said that Malin, the Grand Duke of Beihai, hopes that all children in Beihai, can grow taller and stronger...
As for dressing, it seems that the serfs in the manor under Marin’s name are given away, and they don’t have any money. They are also divided into winter and summer clothes and spring and autumn clothes, two sets of each type are easy to change.
Even if you are sick, the farm can pay you to help him go to the church and hospital in the town for treatment...
"This is a heavenly day!" The poor Dutch self-cultivated farmer was shocked.
In fact, the manor under the name of Malin, Beihai Kingdom, is somewhat similar to the collective farms in later generations. The only difference between them and collective farms is probably that the food is not absolutely equal, but rather rewards people with good labor performance according to their performance. At the same time, the lazy people are punished.
People in this era are short of oil and water, and they are greedy for meat and fish. In the face of food temptation, everyone is very enthusiastic about labor. In addition, there is also a system of last-place punishment. Those who perform poorly and fish in fish will deduct the weekly fish subsidy, and they will be criticized publicly to make them embarrassed.
Those who stumble for a long time will even be deducted half of their share of bread and will go hungry. Of course, this situation is rare. Why? Because serfs in this era are half-slaves and dare not do anything randomly. However, members in later generations are masters, have high status, and dare to challenge their superiors. However, stumble for this era has no status at all. If you really want to stumble for a fish, you will be beaten. Therefore, there is basically no public fishing. Occasionally, there may be no fishing for a long time, unless you live impatiently.
With the cooperation of this incentive and punishment system, the farm under the name of Malin, Beihai Kingdom, is very energetic. Everyone loves to work, and everyone is afraid of being criticized and deducted from food.
Such a life is almost a paradise in the eyes of ordinary people in other countries in the same era. Because, in this era, ordinary farmers in European countries usually eat inferior bread mixed with soil, wood chips, stones, leaves and wild vegetables. The flour content is less than half, and the bread is so hard that it can be used as a brick to smash people...
Even such black buns cannot be eaten every day by most people. Half hunger and half full is the norm for European farmers in this era. As for clothes, housing and medical care, they are also incomparable to ordinary farmers in other countries. Because the clothes in this era are very expensive and are priced according to shillings. Normal poor peasants should be torn and dirty. The serfs of the Ma Farm in Beihai Kingdom all wore work clothes made of uniform coarse wool and looked very energetic. Moreover, everyone was clean (every farm has a bathhouse).
In terms of medical care, poor peasants in other countries can only bear to bear or wait for death when they get sick. The serfs from the Ma Family Farm will be sent to the church in the town by carriages to find priests who know medical skills to treat their illnesses, and the farm pays for it...
Such a happy life quickly destroyed the psychological defense of the visitors. After returning, these poor self-cultivated farmers in the Netherlands who were in debt or had no food to eat, quickly packed up, sold their property and land, and rushed to the Beihai Kingdom under the organization of the nobles. Of course, there were also a few who refused to leave, but some of the nobles had the means to deal with them...
Chapter completed!