Chapter 2032: Poison Scheme and Immigration Route

Sure enough, within two days, Simon received Marlin's bloody letter from a flying pigeon—this unlucky pigeon was the only one who arrived alive, but was also attacked by a peregrine falcon, injured, and the letter was stained red with blood. Words blurred. After reading Marin's letter, Simon scratched his head a little - I'm good at fighting, but what about recruiting farmers? Lead troops to arrest people? Then, he went to ask his little wife, Princess Anna of the Lamarck family. Princess Anna... Oh no, it should be called Countess Anna. Anna thought for a while, but she didn't have any idea, so she suggested that Simon throw the blame, and then asked Marin what to do... Simon really did this, sending out a group of carrier pigeons, and added food to the falcons along the way, but Marin also received it letter. "You brat, ask me this kind of question too..." Marin was speechless, but thinking of his brother's impressive IQ... Forget it, I'll give you some guidance... After a brief discussion between Marin and his subordinates, it was decided The method of recruiting Ukrainian farmers-both soft and hard, coercion and temptation! The so-called soft and hard, coercion and temptation are naturally persecuting while using benefits to attract those Ukrainian farmers. For this reason, Marin even came up with a not-so-smart poisonous plan-feeding thieves! The so-called raising thieves means to let Simon deliberately and secretly raise a group of thieves, let these thieves go to ransack those Ukrainian villages, rob the Ukrainian farmers of all their food and property, and even rob them of their winter fur. Go (fur is cheap on the grasslands) and let them have nowhere to go. Then, Simon sent someone to lend a helping hand to take in the Ukrainian farmers in that unlucky village, provide them with food, board and lodging, and "recommend" them to settle in Beihai State on the grounds that they couldn't support them... This is a combination After the punch, the Ukrainian farmer who was already desperate had no other choice. Either starve to death, or be killed by Simon as a bandit. Or, accept the conditions and immigrate to Beihai... However, Marin is worried that Simon, a rough man, is not strict in doing things. If it was known that he was secretly supporting bandits to rob farmers, he would be ruined. Therefore, Marin asked Kohler to select a few elite members from the spies, and after learning the local language from the Cossacks, they went to the Eastern European prairie to use spirits to attract Cossacks, pull up a team of Cossack bandits, and professionally ransack Ukrainian villages. Just grab things, don't kill people. Then, the Ukrainian farmers who were forced to have nowhere to go had no choice but to accept Simon's recruitment. Of course, Simon had to put on a show and send troops to chase it down. But Marin will let Simon arrange for his men to notify the gang established by the spy gate in advance, so that they can just escape. In this way, Simon made an effort. It's not that he doesn't work hard, but that the bandits are too cunning... In this way, no one will accuse him of colluding with bandits... This kind of routine is not considered clever in later generations, but in this era of Europe, it is definitely the top and most vicious. And the most effective strategy. As long as this strategy is implemented well, there will be no worries about recruiting Ukrainian farmers. If it doesn't work, Marin can even spend money to hire Crimeans to do this. After all, in the original history, the Crimeans were willing to attack their ally, the Grand Duchy of Moscow, for 15,000 gold coins. As long as you give me money, I really don't have to worry about them not being willing to help. But the problem is, by doing so, Simon may gain a reputation for incompetence. After all, it would be a failure if there are thieves and bandits that are not dealt with. So, after thinking about it, Marin decided to let Simon stop recruiting Cossack cavalry easily. And modify the recruitment principle-someone has invaded the Ukrainian country, and then recruit them. As for the 2,000-strong Flying Wing Knights, Marin decided to send 1,000 people to Beihai to help train the Husbands belonging to Beihai. These flying wing knights were all trained by Ukrainian hussars officers. After training for a long time, they have solid basic skills. When they come to Beihai, they can also help train many hussars. In this way, Simon usually only has a standing force of 1,000 flying wing knights. It is understandable that the Ukrainian prairie cannot be protected. If the standing force is still 2,000 flying wing knights and at least two or three thousand Cossack cavalry, the looting of the village will definitely fall on him to solve it. From now on, Simon only needs to manage his fief of 10,000 square kilometers around Kyiv.

When he leaves the fief, he doesn't care about it, which is in line with his status as a lord... As for Simon's energy, he has nowhere to vent? This is simple, Marin decided to let Simon play football games in Kyiv. Since he is full of energy, he can play the game himself...Marin doesn't believe it, he comes to a 90-minute game every day, this guy still has the energy to toss...Except for Simon to recruit Ukrainian farmers, Marin I also have to think about how to bring farmers back to the country after they are recruited. At the beginning, Marin planned to use the route of livestock trade with the Crimeans. It goes straight from the Ukrainian prairie to the northwest, then passes through the Kingdom of Poland, then enters the northeastern region of Germany, enters the coastal Pomerania region, and then goes all the way west, passing through Mecklenburg to the territory of the North Sea. But the problem is that animals are different from people. Animals can be maintained by grazing all the way, and lose a little fat at most. If it is a person, it is impossible to eat grass along the way, but to eat food. Using the Mongolian method, people walk with the mare, drink mare's milk while walking, or eat cheese processed from mare's milk, which is also a way. But the problem is that hundreds of thousands of people have migrated, and there are not so many postpartum mares that provide mare milk! With tens of thousands of people, the Crimea side may be able to gather lactating mares to provide mare milk along the way, no matter how many, it will not be able to gather. Therefore, large-scale migration of people still needs to provide food along the way. Then, the supply of food along the way is a big problem. It is certainly possible to take the livestock transportation route, but the cost of grain transportation is too high. In this era, the amount of goods transported by horse-drawn carriages was small, but the consumption was huge. The horses that pull the carts eat at least a few pounds or even more than 10 pounds of grain every day. According to the standards of the French cavalry, the horses have to be fed 48 kilograms (1058 pounds) of barley or oats every day! Although the draft horses that pull carts are not as expensive as war horses, they consume no less food than war horses when doing heavy work to pull carts. Therefore, the cost of transporting grain on land is extremely high! If it’s okay for a few days, if it’s transported for a few months, the cost... 10 pounds of grain per day, 300 pounds per month, for a few months...but ordinary horse-drawn carts can only pull more than one ton... Therefore, transporting grain by land , the cost is really high. In particular, food prices in Europe are still extremely expensive in this era. Therefore, it is possible to reduce the transportation cost as much as possible. Since then, transporting food by water is the best choice! Marin checked the map and finally determined the route-starting from Kyiv, along the Pripyat River, a tributary of the Dnieper River, all the way west, and arriving at the Bug River, a tributary of the Vistula River in Poland. Then follow the Bug River to the banks of the Vistula River, and then to the Danzig area at the mouth of the Vistula River, board a merchant ship from the North Sea State, and transport it to the Jutland Peninsula... The reason for choosing this route is that Because it is very convenient to ship grain along the Vistula River, the grain can be transported upstream to the banks of the Bug River. As long as the food carried by the immigrants when they set off in Kyiv can be supported to a place close to the Bug River, a large amount of food has already been prepared on the Bug River to maintain the needs of the immigrants halfway. Once you enter the Bug River Basin, you don’t have to worry about food... In fact, Marin still has a good route to choose from, which is to go up the river along the main stream of the Dnieper River, arrive at Orsha, and then go north for a certain distance , into the Daugava River connected to Riga, and the transportation of grain is also very convenient. Moreover, the distance between the Dnieper and the Daugava is shorter than the distance between the Pripyat and the Bug. But Marin would not choose this route, because this route would pass through the hinterland of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and it would be too exciting to openly show the immigrant army to the Lithuanians in the hinterland. If one is not good, the Lithuanians will restrict him from taking away immigrants, so the food will stop. So, play it safe and go south, avoiding the Lithuanian heartland. At the very least, don't let the Lithuanians, the core ethnic group of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, see the big emigration procession. As for the Poles who are their co-owners, they don't care how many people Lithuania has lost... These days, Ukraine is still Lithuania, not Poland...

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