Chapter 369: The French
With enough ships, you need enough sailors. Fortunately, Marin was well-prepared. During his time on Texel Island, he opened a sailor school and hired old Portuguese sailors as teachers to teach young Frisian fishermen how to become a qualified sailor.
Today, Marin's site is much more than the sailor school on Texel Island. Now, in the seaside area, Marin has established 20 sailor schools. Almost all the young Frisian fishermen are in the fishing season and have been trained as sailors of ocean-going ships.
Therefore, even if you buy 100 ships, Marin is not short of sailors. As long as you go to the fishing village by the sea, you can attract a large number of sailors. Then, with the captain and first officer trained in the captain's school, you can sail ... Of course, you have to arrange a few old sailors to take the lead, so that inexperienced sailors will not make mistakes ...
The Frisians are the only nautical group in the German region (except the Netherlands), and the only dependence of Germany on maritime navigation. It is a pity that the Germans in the later generations do not respect the Frisians, and often regard the East Frisians as stupid representatives, and also arrange various jokes about them. Therefore, the Germans of later generations did not make good use of the Frisian people who are good at big sailing, and they also tried to integrate them into the dry duck group, and then the Germans became less and less sailing. By the time Wei Er wanted to sail, the Britons had an absolute advantage.
Marin, by coincidence, had half the lineage of the Inland Hans (German) and half the lineage of the Frisian nobility. Therefore, the Frisians have a natural sense of closeness to Marin, the only great aristocrat with half the Frisian descent (the dead ghost Edsad I, but killed by Marin).
Moreover, Marin, who values great navigation, is also very friendly and helpful to Frisians. Even loans were issued to allow Frisians to buy fishing boats and nets. Of course, the only requirement is that the younger Frisians should be sailors for Marin's boat.
The Frisians are not exclusive of being a sailor for Marin. Although, to use Marin as a sailor on a warship, there may be a life threatening. However, in the past, when fishing at sea, when there was no money to buy a big ship, driving a boat to go fishing in the sea was not less dangerous than naval warfare. Therefore, those fishermen who dare to go fishing in the sea are not afraid of death, and many are bold. At least, the Frisian fishermen are more courageous than the serfs ...
After Marin had written a letter specifically arranging the purchase of the ship and the selection of sailors, he sent a quick horse and sent it back to East Friesland. Then, he stretched out comfortably and called the servant to help him cook Pot Earl Milk Tea ...
However, looking at the **** brick, Marin felt distressed again. Why? Such a black brick, even for the price of a good horse, is really ridiculous. This is still the price of Lithuania. When shipped to East Friesland, the price has risen to the price of a black brick for two horses ...
Therefore, Marin actually felt that the cost of drinking this inferior black brick tea seemed to be no lower than that of eating truffles ...
However, Marin knew that this kind of black tea brick was the most inferior tea in the Daming Empire. It was not even fried, but was steamed and pressed into bricks.
Therefore, Marin is increasingly looking forward to trade with Daming. Even drinking black tea, it must be Anhua black tea. Like the moldy black bricks in front of my eyes, thrown to China, it is estimated that ordinary people are not happy to drink ...
However, Marin doesn't like drinking coffee. When drinking milk alone, it feels like a child who hasn't been weaned ... So, drink some inferior milk tea ... Of course, this inferior quality is tea, not milk ...
While Marin was happily planning to drink inferior milk tea, he saw Julius II come in angrily and took a big sip from Marin's milk tea cup. Marin is full of black thread-he just blew the milk tea cold, and he hasn't even spoken yet ...
"Juliano, what's wrong? How can you be so atmospheric? You are the Pope, who dares not to give such a face?" Marin was very curious about Lao Zhang's gaffe. You know, Lao Zhang is a pope and an old fox, and gaffes are very rare.
"It's not a **** Venetian. It's arrogant to dare to be rude in front of the old man. I'm very upset now, and I want to call on European powers to beat Venice!" Julius II said angrily.
"Don't, there's nothing wrong with fighting in Venice, if the French are brought in, it will be in trouble."
"The French did not withdraw from Italy ..." Julius II mumbled.
Indeed, although France was defeated by the Spaniards, and lost the principality of Milan. However, it also controls most of the Principality of Savoy (mainly the Piedmont region, which is the rich area with Turin as the core), as well as the original core area of the Republic of Genoa-Liguria.
All in all, the Principality of Savoy and the Republic of Genoa are very unlucky. Originally, they fell to France and wanted to hug their thighs. Unexpectedly, he held a mace ...
The French were okay when Charles VIII was in power, and counted as allies with the two countries. But after the ambitious Louis XII ascended the throne, in the second year of the throne (1499 ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~) he directly annexed the Piedmont region, the core of the Principality of Savoy, leaving only the Principality of Savoy Savoy and Nice became small countries. Originally, Savoy was from a large Italian state ...
The Republic of Genoa is also unlucky-Louis XII took a fancy to the Ligurian region where the Republic of Genoa is located. Then, Louis XII took advantage of the opportunity of the Principality of Milan and gave Corsica, which originally belonged to the Principality of Milan, to the Republic of Genoa ...
Do n’t think this is a good thing. Louis XII used the remote island of Corsica to exchange the homeland of the Republic of Genoa, Liguria ...
The Ligurian region is home to the Republic of Genoa and belongs to the prosperous area. Corsica, in this era, is just a backward island with incomplete development. Even in later generations, it is still a backcountry in France.
Although it is said that Corsica has more than 8,600 square kilometers, while Liguria has only more than 5,400 square kilometers, this is not the case. This move of Louis XII is equivalent to taking the Qinghai-Tibet of later generations in exchange for Shanghai. Anyway, it is equivalent to exchange gold ingots with copper nuggets ...
The Genoese wanted to refuse, but they couldn't beat France. Therefore, the ruling class and wealthy merchants in Genoa had to run to Corsica in embarrassment, and became the island owner ...
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In other words, the French still have large territories in Italy, and they are more important territories-Liguria and Piedmont. In any case, the French will be involved in Italian affairs.
In fact, Louis XII is currently rejuvenating and accumulating energy, and is busy with things in England, so I have no time to manage things in Italy. By the time the French had recovered, Louis XII would definitely go to Italy. In short, for the Italians, the French are just like ghosts ...
