Chapter 1354 Redistribution of benefits
In this era, there were not many professional banks in Deutsche region. Even if the nobles borrowed, they mainly borrowed money from Hanseatic merchants who had a lot of spare money. The professional banks that made profits by attracting deposits and lending were very few in Deutsches. At this time, only in Italy would there be some early banks similar to later banks.
Therefore, most of the money earned by the nobles is basically hidden at home. Many old noble families basically set up secret rooms to hide their money.
Therefore, in this era, house searching was a very good way to make money, one by one, one by one. Of course, it also requires a little technical content. For example, you need to know how to find the secret rooms of old noble families. People in this era have never read books, and even watched movies, so they naturally don’t understand those methods. Marin later saw many movies, such as torches as secret rooms, behind the bookcase is a secret room, and behind the pit is a secret room... Under his teachings, plus the experience of chasing houses in Siena last time, this time, the private possessions of those noble families were unable to escape the search. It can be said that the descendants of those noble families have basically no future...
Contrary to those nobles whose houses were searched, Marin was really "full" this time...
The precious property such as gold, silver, jewelry, gold, silver and coins alone is worth millions of gold. Including those food, livestock, and other goods, the total value may reach about 1.8 million gold coins!
This is because the more than 100 old nobles had put out a lot of money and food in order to form a private army of 7,000 nobles. In addition, the more valuable war horses and weapons and armor in the families of these rebellious old nobles were seized on the battlefield. If they were seized at home together, they would definitely reach more than 2 million gold coins...
The huge profits of the house search made Marin extremely excited. However, it also scared the fifty or sixty old nobles who did not rebel. Because they were worried that Marin would be addicted to raiding their house, they also raided their house business together.
Of course, their worries were unnecessary. Although Marin did have the urge to search their family together, he finally held back. Because these fifty or sixty old nobles were the benchmark that Marin needed to set and a demonstration of Marin's good deeds and not resisting. Therefore, even if these families were rich, Marin would not touch them. He even tried every means to protect their interests.
Therefore, after the large-scale house search of the rebellious noble family, Marin held a banquet and invited the heads of fifty or sixty old nobles who did not participate in the rebellion to appease them with a pleasant look.
At the banquet, Marin announced in public that all aristocrats who abide by laws will be protected by the laws of the North Sea Kingdom. Then, Marin also gave certain rewards to the aristocrats who took the lead in opposing the rebellion based on the news he had learned before.
Of course, this kind of reward is not a material reward, but a channel reward. For example, give some business and agricultural products management channels of the confiscated old aristocratic families to those companies. Marin looked down on these channels. If he ignored them, he would be divided up by these surviving aristocratic families in the future. It would be better to use them as favors and reward those nobles who stood on their side.
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In addition, Marin also made a major adjustment to the fiefs of Bremen Province. The specific approach was to change the fiefs of the surviving fiefs and 60 old noble families from the previous slightly scattered to gather together...
Originally, there were about 160 old nobles in Bremen. Their fiefs were distributed throughout Bremen. Because there were too many families, Marin was a little difficult to monitor.
Moreover, after banning hundreds of old noble families who participated in the rebellion, many manors in Bremen were empty.
Just so happened that this opportunity, Marin reintegrated the fiefs of the remaining fifties and sixty nobles, and gathered them together from dispersion. In this way, it was convenient for him to manage himself and monitor...
Yes, surveillance! These people are not their own. If Marin suffered a loss this time, he would naturally be prepared. It can be said that if Marin had not set up a trap in advance this time and the Third Legion successfully crossed the river through the river with a boat from Hamburg, Marin might have suffered a lot this time.
In fact, Marin had already suffered huge losses. In order to prevent the eight-nation princes from knowing the real grain output of the North Sea, Marin burned the rye field in tens of thousands of Yugrams in Oldenburg Province. The economic losses caused were estimated to be several million, which exceeded the losses of the old nobles of Bremen Province this time.
Of course, this cannot be entirely blamed on the rebellion of these old nobles. After all, it was indeed too late to go in time before. But the rebellion of those old nobles did catch Marin off guard and had to burn most of the rye fields in Oldenburg Province...
Also, the remaining fifty or sixty nobles are not all supporters of Marin. Most of the families are actually because they are timid and afraid of failure, rather than supporting Marin. According to investigations by Marin, there are actually less than 10 of these fifty or sixty old nobles who have not rebelled and truly supported Marin...
No wonder, Marin never treats them as his own people, so they can't blame them for not treating Marin as his own people. Moreover, as many old Bremen who participated in the rebellion said, Marin did not provide fertilizer to their estates, so that they could make a lot of money. How could they not resent? These dozens of companies did not participate in the rebellion, which was considered good...
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So, taking advantage of this reshuffle, Marin simply gathered them all together. In the future, Kohler's spies would not have to be dispersed to various places to monitor, but only centralized monitoring would be enough, which would be much more convenient.
Of course, Marin would not let these old noble families who did not participate in the rebellion suffer. For example, when choosing a new fiefdom, Marin tried to move them all to the west bank of the Elbe River.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! The cultivated land by the river was very precious in ancient times. After all, there were no modern water diversion canals and machine pumps in ancient times, so it was difficult to diversion and irrigate. The cultivated land by the river could be easily irrigated by water trucks, which is an absolute top-notch fertile land. Marin distributing these land to them is worthy of them.
As for the fiefs of the hundreds of nobles who were vacant, Malin thought about it and decided to use it to accommodate the princes and nobles of the eight captured vassal states.
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In order to appease these fifty or sixty old nobles who did not participate in the rebellion, Marin decided to provide them with some fertilizer in the future...
Of course, the fertilizer Marin provided them with was definitely not the local fertilizer, but the weakened version of compound fertilizer...
For example, the volcanic ash used by fooling the French...
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Yes, Marin intends to provide these unrebelieved old aristocrats with weakened versions of volcanic ash fertilizer. Anyway, Marin now has several Italian volcanoes, constantly mining volcanic ash. Although it is used to fool France, there is no place to consume it. So, give these unrebeled old aristocrats to serve as fertilizer.
Although these volcanic ash fertilizers cannot keep up with the compound fertilizers that Malin has made, they are also effective. In addition, since the "secret" of volcanic ash fertilizer has been leaked, Malin does not intend to cover it up, so it is better to show it to outsiders generously...
Of course, Marin, the core areas such as East Friesland, West Friesland, Oldenburg, etc., definitely did not want to display it. Then, the manors of these old nobles by the Elbe River have become the best display area. Mainly, these manors are on the Elbe River, and it is difficult to keep them confidential. At that time, Marin considered this situation and did not trust the old nobles of Anche, so he did not provide them with fertilizer.
Now, in order to fool the French people's needs, and in addition to the fact that they really need to give these unrebellious nobles some sweetness, Marin simply planned to give the volcanic ash transported back to the manors of these old nobles as weakened versions of fertilizer...
Chapter completed!