Chapter 502: Plans to **** shipping talent

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Sure enough, Hamburg is very supportive of Marin's military operations. After all, the Hamburgers also resented the actions of the former Elector of Saxony, Frederick III, who wanted to destroy Lübeck and Hamburg.

Hamburg, as the deputy leader of the Hanseatic League, is actually not very happy with the Saxony business district of the second echelon of the Hanseatic League. The Hanseatic cities of other business districts will give Lubeck and Hamburg two main faces. The Saxony business district, because it is under the covert control of the Wetting family, doesn't take Lubeck and Hamburg seriously. After all, the most noble electorate behind them, naturally, will not take Lubeck and a group of Hansa businessmen in Hamburg as their eyes.

Therefore, the Hamburgers also very much hope that Marin will hit the Saxon electorate in this military operation, and it is best to destroy the business there. In this way, the Saxons are honest. Otherwise, as the second-largest Hansa commercial district, the Saxony always wanted to compete with Lubeck and Hamburg in the Wende commercial district to grab the position of the boss ...

As the deputy leader of the Hanseatic League, Hamburg's influence on the German mainland is stronger than that of Lübeck. why? Lübeck was able to become the most powerful ally because Lübeck was close to the Baltic Sea and had a huge share of cheap goods in Eastern Europe and the Baltic salt trade. Selling salt in the Baltic Sea, and selling cheap Baltic commodities such as wood, fur, grain, wine, grass ash, beeswax, livestock, etc ...

Because it monopolized the profitable Baltic Sea salt trade and the supply of cheap Eastern European goods, Lübeck became the most powerful city in the Hanseatic League.

Hamburg is different from Lübeck. Their trade tends to become a middleman in Germany. By shipping herring in the North Sea region, mineral salts in the Lüneburg region, and cheap Eastern European goods from Lübeck, they are shipped by shipping. The developed Elbe and related rivers spread to many parts of northern Germany.

Therefore, Lubeck's basic plate is the Baltic Sea, and Hamburg's basic plate is the Elbe and the North Sea. Even the Elbe is more important to Hamburg than the North Sea.

As a result, there are many inland merchant ships owned by Hamburg. Even the total number of merchant ships is not less than that of Lübeck. However, the tonnage of inland commercial ships cannot be compared with sea ships.

Moreover, the profits of Hamburg ’s commercial activities did not monopolize the salt trade in the Baltic region and control the cheap goods in Eastern Europe. Speaking of commercial scale, Hamburg is no smaller than Lübeck. It was only after the profit was lower that he became the second child of the Hanseatic League under Lübeck.

Of course, Hamburg controls trade in the lower section of the Elbe, but in the middle reaches, it is the site of the Saxony business district. This time Marin's march into the Saxon constituency, the Hamburgers also hoped that Marin could harm the interests of the Saxony Hansa businessmen as much as possible, so as to withdraw some of the trade share on the Elbe and let the Hamburg businessmen take up.

Therefore, the Hamburgers proposed that inland vessels could be provided free of charge to help Marin transport vessels. However, after winning Wittenberg, the riverside wharves of Wittenberg, as well as the ships on the wharves, must be given to Hamburg.

The Elbe was not Marin's sphere of influence, and Marin would not refuse to give it. Therefore, Marin directly agreed to the request of the Hamburgers, and said that when signing the armistice agreement, he will strive to allow Hamburg merchants to obtain the right to operate normally in the Saxony business district. In addition, Marin will not only help the merchants of Hamburg capture the merchant ships along the river in the electoral country of Saxony, but also help them take away the sailors of the electoral country of Saxony and send them to Hamburg. The boat is gone, and the skilled sailor is gone, but it takes a long time to train. This move will definitely affect the shipping industry in the electoral country of Saxony within a few years.

After receiving this reply from Marin, Heisenberg and other Hamburg MPs jumped with joy. Hamburg had only thought of plundering the inland merchant ships of the electoral country of Saxony, but did not expect to abduct the captains and sailors of the inland merchant ships of Saxony. If there is no merchant ship, as long as there is money, they can be hired. But without sailors, it is difficult. After all, skilled inland navigation sailors are treasures everywhere, and will not be taken away casually.

Moreover, in this era, the sailors are still under the strict control of their employers and have no right to jump and leave. If there were really no sailors, the Saxons could only be nurtured slowly by themselves, unlike the later generations, which could be dug as long as they spent money.

After all, although the status of sailors in this era is higher than that of serfs, they are only treated like servants, and they have no ability to decide their own destiny. As long as the employer disagrees, others want to dig people, don't even think about it.

Sailor sailors are actually better. Because, sailing in the sea, sailing is relatively easy to control. After all, the sea is so wide that the direction of the sailboat is easy to control.

The inland navigation of sailboats is much more complicated. The requirements for sailors are also higher. Because the inland river is narrow, and sailing ships want to move forward, they often need to do "z" sports. However, the inland river channel is not wide. When doing this kind of exercise, it is necessary to control the sails to prevent the boat from hitting the river bank or even stranding on the river beach. Therefore, it is more difficult to control inland sailing than to control sailing at sea. When encountering some too narrow rivers, the boat will also lower the sails, instead paddling forward to avoid the boat stranding.

Therefore, skilled sailors on inland sailing ships are even rarer than sailors. Marin's proposal to take away the merchant ships of the Saxon electorate is a heavy blow to the inland trade of the Saxon electorate, and is directed at the core, which is very deadly.

For Hamburg, this not only hit the inland trade competitors on the Elbe, but also seized the opportunity of the competitors to reduce their trade share and seize more markets.

Therefore, the Hamburg Parliament directly decided to suspend inland trade on the Elbe and pull all inland merchant ships to be used to ship the Marin army.

In addition, Hamburg will send two thousand soldiers to the south. The task of these two thousand Hamburg troops is to take the sailors of the inland merchant ships of the electorate of Saxony, including those skilled captains and first officers, as much as possible to grab back to Hamburg to weaken the competitors ...

Marin also had to do it himself by the Hamburgers ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ In this way, the Hamburgers can also help themselves to share the hatred of some Saxons. Although the Hansa merchants of Saxony Merchant Shipping did not rely solely on inland shipping. However, the cost of inland shipping is low, much lower than that of land shipping, and the volume of cargo is large. It is definitely the preferred method of shipping for Hansa merchants in the Saxony business district. The Hamburgers robbed Saxony's inland shipping talents, which will definitely make the trade of Saxony's electorate greatly affected within a few years. After all, what made Frederick III uncomfortable, Marin was very interested in seeing after all.

Although it is said that the Saxony business district is not only the Hansa businessman in the electoral country of Saxony, but also the Hansa businessman in the Principality of Saxony. However, when the "Leipzig Treaty" was split up, Ernst was selected first, and he definitely chose the lower Elbe (compared to the Principality of Saxony), which is more suitable for inland trade. Therefore, the commercial activities on the electoral side of Saxony are more prosperous.

Moreover, because he did not provide enough support to Duke George before, but he sent out the main force of the country to help Denmark fight, Frederick III and George actually have a great gap.

This time, after the Hamburgers grabbed the shipping talents of the electoral country of Saxony, it is estimated that Duke George would not be too supportive of the shipping business of the electoral country of Saxony. Because, the two sides have become distracted.

Not only that, Marin also intends to further provoke the two branches of the Wetting family. For example, Marin intends to-call on the Imperial Parliament to strip the electorate from Frederick III to George ...

Although, this appeal is almost the same as not being said. However, it will plant gaps and cracks between the two branches of the Wetting family. Originally, there was a gap between the two branches because of Danish things, and with the further provocation of Marin, it is estimated that the two sides will be more centrifugal ...