Chapter 1670: Louis 12 is coming to buy food?
Naples at this time said that it was a war, but the fighting situation was extremely strange. The two sides did not take the initiative to engage, but acted independently. After the Spanish army took control of Mount Vesuvius, they began to dig trenches and build fortifications, as if they were the one being attacked.
On the French side, the French have always liked to use plate armoured knights to launch cluster charges. However, the army currently guarding Naples is dominated by infantry, and its field capability is not strong. Therefore, coach Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, did not have the confidence to take the initiative. Count Charles, in a similar way to smuggling, hired the fishing boat of the Papal State to use the night to help transport food, but brought a lot of military food to the city of Naples. Among them, many military grains were simply purchased from the Papal State at high prices.
As Count Charles thought, there are indeed many French bishops in the Holy See, as well as many pro-French bishops. Under the French money offensive, these bishops opened the door for the French army.
As for Pope Julius II, although he knew the situation, he chose to pretend not to know. The reason for this is not that Julius II was afraid of France, but that Julius II did not want to see the French defeat easily.
Marin had written to discuss the situation in Naples with him long ago. With the return of Gonzalo, it was difficult for the French to get a bargain from the Spanish. As for the Papal State, neither France nor Spain is a good thing, and Julius II could not have beaten both sides. Therefore, in the current situation of the French army in an unfavorable situation, Julius II simply pretended not to know, and let his bishop collude with the French. Of course, it is possible to sell grain, but the price must rise a little. Taking advantage of this opportunity, it is good to be able to blackmail more from the French.
But in any case, the Spanish now have the upper hand. Because Gonzalo ’s army occupied Vesuvius, which was very important to the French. In this way, the source of volcanic ash in France is cut off ...
Louis XII was very anxious and frowned when he made a villain with Queen Anne recently. Due to natural disasters and the looting of most of the grain in the Principality of Milan, the Kingdom of France has lost the ability to attack this year. Even the domestic food for disaster relief has many gaps.
After spending a lot of money to bribe the Cardinal in Rome, as suggested by Count Charlie, and spending a lot of money to buy food from the Papal State at a high price, the money in the treasury of the Kingdom of France was spent like water. And it's not enough.
In desperation, Louis XII could only send an envoy to Venice to request a loan again.
But are the Venetian merchants compatible? Although they hope to see the Spanish unlucky, they will not miss any opportunity to make money.
So, while demanding a higher loan interest rate, the Venetians also asked the French to provide Venetian merchants with Lyon-made silk, Burgundy wine and shipbuilding wood at a lower supply price.
In the absence of authentic Ming Dynasty silk, the native silk produced in Lyon is a very popular product and the first choice for many European nobles to make clothes. There is no shortage of market for this stuff, only shortage of goods.
Before, the French held it and sold it at a high price. Whoever gives more money, sell it to whom. But now the Venetians are taking advantage of the French's difficulties and propose to wrap the silk produced in Lyon at a lower purchase price. Although Louis XII was dissatisfied, for the sake of national security, he accepted the Venetian conditions with courage.
As for Burgundy wine, needless to say, before the rise of brands such as Lafite in Bordeaux, it has always been synonymous with Europe's top wine. This stuff doesn't worry about selling at all. As long as there are nobles in Europe pursuing extravagant life, this thing will not worry about selling.
As for the wood, it is mainly the old, old oak trees in the mountain forests of south-central France. These are all good shipbuilding materials, and are also needed by Venice, a large nautical country.
Venice is a small country with scarce resources. Their shipyards basically rely on imports for the wood they need. At present, there are about thousands of merchant ships sailing in the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean in Venice, even as far as the Black Sea. Most of the wood needed for these ships is imported. In France, in addition to the high degree of development in the plains and the low number of trees, the plateau and hilly areas in the central and southern regions are still rich in tree resources.
Do n’t look at France ’s large population, but nearly 500,000 square kilometers of land (not including Alsace and Lorraine, and Franche Comté, and part of the kingdoms of Nice, Savoy, and Navarre), 1500 There are not many people. You know, in Marin's previous life, there were more than 20 million people in a Shanghai market with a land area of just over 6,000 square kilometers. In the later generations, only 130,000 square kilometers of England, there are more than 55 million people.
But it is also a later generation, with 550,000 square kilometers of France, the geographical conditions are much better than England, the agriculture is more developed, but the population is only more than 66 million people. In other words, in more than 500 years, the French population has grown from 15 million to more than 66 million, only more than four times that of 500 years ago. In England, it has grown from less than 3 million people to more than 55 million people, which is 18 times more than 500 years ago ... And the German enemy, Germany, has grown from 10 million people to more than 82 million people, 500 years ago. More than 8 times ...
How to say, after hundreds of years, the population growth rate of France is probably counted down in Europe. During the 1800 Napoleonic Wars, France already had a population of 29 million. At that time, Germany had a population of only 18 million, about 10 million fewer than France. But in the past two hundred years, the population of Germany has increased to more than 82 million, and France has more than doubled, more than 66 million, which is less than 22 million ...
In the previous life, someone made an interesting statement that the French have slowed population growth since the 19th century when romance began. Everyone is busy finding love, and no one is willing to give birth ...
Later, China also, after modern people began to indulge in love, fertility rate also fell sharply. On the contrary, there is no love. I only know that the African black, who thinks with his lower body, starts to explode. Like Arabs who don't care about love, the population is also skyrocketing.
In the same way, in ancient China without love at all, because of the pursuit of the traditional culture of "children and grand halls", the population increased rapidly.
After giving up traditional culture and beginning to pursue love, the population growth rate of modern China has plummeted. This is not the most terrible. If the same-sex marriage is passed, the negative population growth can be foreseen ...
For example, in the Netherlands, which was the first to adopt same-sex marriage, the fertility rate is already very low. After all, there is no way for the same **** to have children. Later, the population growth of the Netherlands was entirely dependent on immigration. If there is no immigration, we can completely see the population decline.
But immigration brings many problems, such as Germany, it will soon become Deutsche Stein ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ The same is true in France, and it also brings a lot of terrorist attacks ...
For Marin, who is desperate for population growth, any factor that prevents population growth is unforgivable. Therefore, Marin intends to prohibit the promotion of love in Beihai and even to prohibit homosexuality that cannot be created. Only in this way can we ensure sufficient population growth in the North Sea in the future to meet the needs of the huge population needed to develop the Americas ...
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After borrowing money from the Venetians, Louis XII naturally planned to buy food for disaster relief. However, looking at the whole of Europe, Louis XII was surprised to find that-it seems that he can only buy food from the North Sea country. Because in this era, only Beihai had so much surplus grain. In other countries, food will barely meet domestic needs, and there is no food left at all.
Louis XII had no choice but to send the messenger with a lot of money to come to Beihai to find Marin to buy food. But after seeing the messenger, Marin's nose was almost crooked-many of the coins brought by this goods were French fake silver coins that Marlin used to fake nickel white. Are you stupid to receive the money?
But just bluntly refusing, and then hit Louis XII in the face. Malin thought about it, and finally thought of a pretext—because he did not trust the quality of French silver coins, so the North Sea country only accepted high-quality gold coins generally accepted in Europe, such as Ducat gold coins, Florin gold coins, and Goulden coins ...
After receiving Marin's reply, Louis XII was very angry. However, he has nothing to say. Because, the French are really not good at casting silver coins. Fortunately, many of the Venetian loans are Ducat gold coins minted in Venice. So, Louis XII had no choice but to take out a batch of Ducat gold coins to buy food from Marin.
Seeing real gold and silver, Malin was immediately tempted ...
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