Chapter 1659: Food and conspiracy
Really speaking, in fact, before Marin flirted with Prince Philip to engage in rodeo sports and raise sheep in the Netherlands, he was also looking for food for sale. The Dutch are no longer farming, and food will naturally depend on imports. The Beihai Kingdom and the Habsburg family have always had a good relationship, and Marin will definitely be preferred for imported grain.
At that time, the Dutch would concentrate on raising sheep and weaving woolen fabrics, and food problems would naturally be handed over to Marin. This is also one of the contents of the agreement reached between Prince Philip and Marin. After all, the area of the Netherlands has given up farming, but there must always be a source of food. No matter how encircled in the Netherlands, the hundreds of thousands of textile workers are a fixed source of food imports. Even in the countryside, a small number of farmers need to keep sheep. Therefore, the Netherlands must be a big grain market. When the time comes, Chen Liang will not worry about selling. Moreover, the Netherlands, which specializes in selling woolen textiles, certainly has enough cash to buy food. After all, the textiles can be exchanged for money directly. But in addition to those big profits, the hard money transferred by the weavers is still mostly used to buy food.
The economy is a very complicated thing. At that time, Marin relied on advanced agricultural technology to lead East Frisian to rise rapidly and possess sufficient capital.
However, when East Frisian Lambert expanded to become a North Sea country that was ten or twenty times larger, Marin was surprised to find that too much food was not a good thing. When a limit is exceeded, other countries do not have enough money to buy food ...
In the current North Sea country, food production accounts for almost half of the German region, but the population accounts for only one sixth of the German region. It is not that no one lacks food, but that people who lack food have no money, and those who have money do not lack food. Therefore, most of the grain had to be hoarded in the granary.
Another thing is that Marin feels nothing about hoarding his own food, but the nobles in Beihai refuse to. They have to change to money to maintain their noble life ...
The nobles of the North Sea country, except for the old nobles who were concentrated in Bremen, most of the other nobles were basically new nobles who later followed Marin for their military merits. To put it simply ... it is an upstart!
These upstarts in the aristocracy are most concerned about the face. Probably because of low self-esteem, he pays special attention to rules and appearance, and cares more than the old nobles.
Moreover, Marin allocated a lot of land to them, and also to fertilizers, making the food output of each family very high. However, because of the rules set by Marin, in order not to expose the secrets of the North Sea food, the nobles' grain must be handed over to the Marin Beihai Chamber of Commerce for sale.
The problem is here. These nobles are unwilling to lose money. They all hope that their surplus grain will be sold early and get money soon. Therefore, the annual grain sales season is when Marin has a headache. You said, if you have tens of millions of pounds, it's easy to say that there are always big customers in Spain and Italy. However, it is hundreds of millions of pounds in the first place. With such a large volume, it is very difficult to find buyers who want to take the order ...
But Marin had to help them find a way, otherwise, if the officers were centrifuged, the problem would be bigger. Therefore, every fall, Marin was too busy to help his men sell food.
Fortunately, there is probably no need to worry about food sales this year-the spies will report it. This year, the Netherlands and the northeast of France and the northeast of the country are suffering from severe rains due to the autumn harvest. As such, the food gap must be large.
Needless to say, the Netherlands can sell a lot of food for Marin for millions of people. As for France, the problem is a bit more complicated ...
According to information, France has a large number of people affected by the disaster, with one or two million people, about 1.8 million people. It stands to reason that this is a good time to sell grain. But the spy in Paris sent back the message that Louis XII had planned to use the surplus military food originally prepared to enter Switzerland as relief food, and to release food in disaster areas northeast of the road and northeast of the east ...
Then, Marin became entangled-if he took the opportunity to sell grain, he would naturally make a lot of money. But if these French victims are not short of food, then Louis XII will use the extra food as military food to enter Switzerland and drive out the Habsburg family ...
So, thinking about it, Marin has suspended plans to sell food to the disaster-stricken areas of France. Because he needed Louis XII to smash the extra grain into the disaster area, leaving the Habsburgs with a chance. After all, if the Habsburg family loses Switzerland, God knows whether Switzerland will rise to a professional Calvinist who kills the king ...
What's more, the extra food from Louis XII was used to help 1.8 million victims, it seems that the gap is very large ...
Marin intends to wait for Louis XII to run out of food, and then go to the bottom of his own and plunder the local ... population ...
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In addition, Marin also intends to use this famine to instigate right and wrong and encourage those French victims to launch a rebellion ...
Therefore, Marin began to consciously train a group of spoken spies and officers to teach them how to fight guerrillas. Once the victims in the French stricken area cut off food again, they ran to confuse the local victims to launch an uprising, and then went to the unaffected areas to plunder the food ...
This is a very vicious method. Originally, there were only 1.8 million victims in the affected areas. However, after a rebellion was launched in the disaster area, the rebel army would enter the area that was not affected by the disaster and plunder food. Then, let the unaffected areas have more refugees. These newly added refugees were not affected by the disaster themselves. However, when the rebels robbed them of their food, these people had no choice but to passively become victims ...
Just like the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the real disasters were mainly in some areas of northern Shaanxi and Jin provinces. However, the army of rebels led by Li Zicheng, like locusts, wandered all over the country, turning many unaffected areas into new disaster areas. After the army locusts crossed the border, the food was taken away by the so-called "rebel army". People want to survive, they can only mix with them, or they will starve to death ...
Moreover, after these so-called "rebels" robbed the people of their food, they did not know how to cherish them, but opened their belly and ate and drank, often eating and supporting. It is not like ordinary people at all.
Therefore, the stolen food is destined to be insufficient. What should I do if I haven't eaten? Continue to the next place to grab food chanting ... Then, the "rebel" team is like snowballing, the scale is getting bigger and bigger, and more and more food is needed. Then, wherever they passed by, the food was swept away and reduced to new disaster areas ...
The reason why Marin trains the spies is that they hope they can launch an uprising. Www.wuxiaspot.com ~ uses the tactics of squadrons to harm France and place a heavy blow on the French economy, making it unable to crush the Quartet.
However, in the northeastern region of France and the northerly region of the east, close to Paris, if Louis XII sent tens of thousands of knights to suppress it, all the raiders would have to be finished. Therefore, this matter needs careful planning.
However, news from Spain seems that Gonzalo will attack the Kingdom of Naples after the autumn harvest. At that time, once Gonzalo gained some advantages, there must be a large number of French troops going south to reinforce the Italian battlefield.
At this time, there is an opportunity. At that time, riots were launched again with a higher success rate. After all, the main knight army went south against Spain, and there was no domestic army to suppress the peasant uprising.
Moreover, there is relief food, it is estimated that the 1.8 million victims will not go to despair in a while. But the next autumn harvest will be next autumn, and the time is still very long. It is the most difficult time when the green and yellow are missed every spring. Looking at the autumn harvest, but without food, it is difficult to sustain the autumn harvest ...
Therefore, in the autumn and winter of this year, Marin did not intend to send people to launch, but prepared to wait until next spring, when the French were even more caught off guard ...
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