The Rise of the European Emperor

Marin's estimate was not wrong. When he sent someone to tell the handsome king Philip the news that the French secretly used the merchant ship in Amsterdam to transport French goods, Philip was really furious.

For Philip, he hated France more than his father, Maximilian I. why? Because Maximilian I was not the ruler of the Netherlands. The real ruler of the Netherlands was Philip, who also inherited the Duchy of Burgundy from his grandfather Charles the Bold. Therefore, France took most of the territory of the Principality of Burgundy (Burgundy region), and the direct victim was Philip. Philip's resentment towards France was much greater than that of his father Maximilian I.

Philip was never a good-natured man, and narrow-minded. When Spain sent a fleet to the Netherlands to pick up his sister Margaret of Austria back to Castile to marry Prince Juan, Philip did not know what offended him. As a result, the cargo directly left the Spanish fleet that came to the Netherlands to welcome their relatives there for several months without any supplies. As a result, many Spanish sailors starved to death.

Also, this guy is ruthless. His father Maximilian I missed him, he never went to Innsbruck to visit his father, but Maximilian I rushed to Ghent to see him in person. As for the story of his wife "Crazy Juana", it is even more famous all over the world, because he went crazy.

Of course, because of Marin's intervention, Prince Juan did not die, and Juana did not inherit the throne of Castile. The Juana couple did not return to Spain to fight for the throne. Then Philip did not die of illness in Spain in 1506 either. Today, Philip is alive and kicking. The reason why Juana went crazy is inseparable from Philip's death. Philip is not dead, and Juana is certainly not crazy. However, because Philip was hooking up and looking for lovers outside, although Juana was not crazy, she was depressed. Therefore, Juana is not a crazy girl now, but a depressed patient.

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How can a ruthless and bad-tempered ruler tolerate businessmen under his rule colluding with the enemy? So, after Philip received the news, he sent someone to confirm it, and then directly sent troops to surround the dozen or so maritime merchant families in Amsterdam...

Next, of course, the house was stolen. That's not to mention, all the main men of these dozens of families were hanged in the name of "collaborating with the enemy country".

It happened so suddenly that before everyone could react, Philip had already raised the butcher knife. By the time some members of the Dutch Parliament who were in collusion with these maritime merchants raised objections, the main men of the dozen or so maritime merchant families had all died on the gallows.

Then, in the port of Amsterdam, all the ships belonging to these dozen or so maritime merchants were seized. And on the ship, French sailors and French goods were indeed found, and the Dutch MPs who gave way to those maritime merchants had nothing to say.

What made Philip extremely happy was that this time he ransacked his home, and he actually obtained property worth 500,000 gold coins. This is not counted, because the 30 shipyards and more than 70 merchant ships under the names of more than a dozen maritime merchants have not yet been auctioned...

And Marin's people have been waiting for this wave of auctions for a long time...

Marin has no plans to transfer all these shipyards and merchant ships at once, because if they do so, it may cause the paralysis of Amsterdam shipping and attract Philip's attention.

Therefore, Marin's countermeasure is to use the North Sea Chamber of Commerce spies arranged in the Netherlands in the early years, in the name of Dutch businessmen, to divide into multiple groups, and eat up these shipyards and merchant ships.

In the end, after fierce auction bidding, the spies under Marin took all 30 shipyards into their hands. As for the 70 merchant ships, only 50 were obtained, and there were more than 20 ships, which were taken away by several big noble families in the Netherlands. The spies of the North Sea Chamber of Commerce had nothing to do with the intervention of the great nobles. After all, these great aristocrats don't reason with you at all, they simply use their power to oppress others, which makes people very helpless.

But this has little effect. There are more than 20 merchant ships in the district,

It's not enough to let the Dutch voyage rise. If the trade share of popular routes such as the Baltic Sea trade route cannot be seized, it will be difficult for the Dutch maritime trade to rise.

Today, the Hanseatic League has not yet declined, and still controls the majority of maritime trade in the North Sea and Baltic Sea regions. It is very difficult for Dutch businessmen to get a share of the pie. And to help the French... the corpses on the gallows in Ghent Square are still hanging and have not been removed...

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But it is not enough to just buy all the shipyards and most of the merchant ships in Amsterdam. What if there are new shipyards? Therefore, Marin intends to cut off the Dutch ability to build ships from the source.

For example, the wood for the Dutch shipbuilding comes mainly from the forests of Norway and southern Sweden. For this reason, Marin intends to find a way to monopolize those timbers. Now, Norway and southern Sweden are controlled by Denmark. But there is an agreement between Denmark and Lübeck and Hamburg-Denmark is not allowed to develop a navy. Therefore, those shipbuilding timbers are not used in Denmark.

As for Marin, the wood is actually useless. Why? Marin is now sitting on a large tract of virgin forest on the North American continent. Is there a shortage of wood? Obviously there is no shortage...

But if he doesn't buy timber from Norway and southern Sweden, someone else will, like the Dutch...

Therefore, Marin decided - must help the Danes find a market for wood, but must not sell it to the Dutch...

For example, Marin can sell the Danish timber to the Hanseatic League. After all, the Hanseatic League had more ships and needed more timber. After all, due to damage from shipworms, seagoing ships have to be overhauled every time they sail, such as replacing the planks on the bottom of the ship.

In addition, Marin himself will find a way to eat some oak from forests in Norway and southern Sweden for shipbuilding. Although this is wasteful, it at least prevents the Dutch from buying timber to build ships.

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These were to cut off from outside the supply of timber for the Dutch built ships, but this was not enough. Because, if the Dutch really wanted to build ships, they could not only import oak and other shipbuilding timber from Norway and southern Sweden. At most, the cost of importing wood from there is relatively low.

Not to mention anything else, the Netherlands itself has a lot of oak. Although the quantity is small and the price is still high, there is no problem at all in building hundreds of large ships. Moreover, the Dutch can also import timber from Germany on the upper Rhine. Even, wood can be imported from France. As long as they want to build ships, it is not enough to cut off the timber supply from Norway and Sweden.

But how can the Dutch not have the idea of ​​building a ship? After thinking hard, Marin finally came up with a solution - to help the Dutch with some crooked talent...

What does it mean to have a crooked talent? It is to lead the Dutch to go astray and no longer pursue shipbuilding for great voyages...

The specific approach is to encourage the Dutch to use wood to do something else. For example, making furniture, and wooden crafts... In addition, wood can also be used to build houses and firewood...

In short, Marin's purpose is to let the Dutch use the limited wood for other purposes. The Netherlands is short of wood, and then actively uses wood to make furniture and wooden crafts. If you want to build a boat... you need to have enough wood...

For this reason, Marin plans to spend huge sums of money to build a group of furniture factories in Amsterdam, the shipbuilding center of the Netherlands, specializing in the manufacture of various furniture.

In order to make Dutch furniture sell well, Marin planned to go out in person and draw many popular furniture patterns in later generations according to his memory. Then, guide the furniture factory in Amsterdam to manufacture it. With the perfect furniture styles ready-made in later generations as a reference, it is difficult for the furniture making industry in Amsterdam to become popular...

When Amsterdam became the European furniture manufacturing center, a large amount of wood was naturally consumed in furniture manufacturing. Then, Marin is investing in a number of wood carving and other wooden handicraft workshops to help consume the little wood in the Netherlands...

When the time comes, the Dutch want to build a ship, but they will find no wood. Because the wood has been bought up by furniture factories and wooden handicraft workshops...

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Several years later, before his death, Marin suddenly discovered to his surprise that Holland, which was supposed to be the "Sea Coachman", turned into the "Kingdom of Furniture" because of his random help and talents. Dutch furniture was sold all over Europe and brought huge taxes to the Habsburg family...

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