The Rise of the European Emperor

In addition to planning to set up multiple furniture factories and wooden handicraft workshops in the Netherlands, Marin suddenly remembered that he seemed to be short of oak barrels...

Europe in this era is an era when wooden barrels dominate. In Europe at the moment, everything is bottled. It doesn't matter if you use oak barrels to store wine and beer, but gunpowder is also stored in barrels, otherwise why is it called a gunpowder barrel? The bacon is also packed in barrels, the sugar is also packed in barrels, and the flour is also packed in barrels. Even table salt and stinky salted fish are packed in barrels... This is really an era of barrels...

This is actually a helpless thing. In this era, there is a shortage of linen in Europe, let alone weaving sacks, and even weaving clothes is not enough. As for the animal skin pocket, don't even think about it, that is more expensive. Marin's act of packing sucrose in oiled paper bags cannot be imitated by other European countries. Because, now European man-made paper still uses Cai Lun's papermaking technique of rags and fishing nets. European cloth is expensive, poor people are reluctant to throw away cloth, and always mend and continue to wear it. Therefore, it is difficult to find raw materials, which leads to the high price of paper in Europe. For other European countries, it is definitely a luxury to use oiled paper as packaging. Not to mention, the oil used to soak oiled paper is also very scarce...

Therefore, in this era, the demand for European wooden barrels is very large, even greater than that of furniture. When Marin realized this, he immediately made up his mind—be sure to invest and build several barrel factories in the Netherlands, specializing in the manufacture of oak barrels. On the one hand, it consumes the limited oak resources in the Netherlands; on the other hand, it can also meet the huge demand of the market...

Therefore, the Netherlands, whose talents were distorted by Marin, later became not only known as the "Kingdom of Home Furnishings", but also the "Kingdom of Wooden Barrels", supplying high-quality oak barrels to the whole of Europe... and the barrel manufacturing industry has also become one of the pillar industries of the Netherlands. One...then you're walking down the street in Amsterdam, during rush hour, and throwing a brick at the crowd can easily hit a cooper...

But the wood in the Netherlands alone is obviously not enough to make furniture and hooped oak barrels. Therefore, Marin finally organized the transportation of oak purchased from the forests of Norway and southern Sweden to the Netherlands for those furniture factories to make furniture and coopers to hoop barrels. However, in order to prevent the Dutch from using oak for shipbuilding, Marin stipulated that all timber shipped into the Netherlands must be short timber. Long logs, which can be used for shipbuilding, are not allowed to flow into Holland...

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This is not enough. In order to completely cut off the future of the Dutch people's great voyage, the big devil Marin also sent fishing boats to fish in the waters near the Netherlands, and competed with the Dutch fishermen for herring resources.

Moreover, Marin also introduced a fish-slicing knife that the Dutch are proud of to scrape off the herring intestines, process the caught herring, put salt on it, market it in Europe, and compete with Dutch fishermen.

Although everyone's fish are the same, they are caught from the North Sea. But salt is different...

The Netherlands does not produce salt, mainly due to the lack of firewood for cooking salt. Dutch fishermen had to import sea salt from England or low-quality mineral salt from Germany if they wanted to pickle herring.

And Marin himself is a salt tycoon, and he has a lot of salt in his hands. In order to crush the Dutch fishermen in the competition, Marin did not hesitate to lower the price of salt so that his own Frisian fishermen could sell salted fish at a lower price for the purpose of dumping.

Marin's move was very ruthless. The quality of the salted fish on both sides was similar, and the price of salted fish from Frisian fishermen in the North Sea country was lower, and any fool would know who to buy. The Dutch fishermen can't lower the price at will, because the cost of buying salt is very high. If the price is reduced, it may be difficult to recover the cost. Then, the Dutch fishing industry slowly began to decline. More Dutch fishermen gave up fishing, entered the city, worked in woolen mills, furniture factories and barrel workshops, and became workers... With the decrease of fishermen, the source of sailors for the Dutch was also less, and the great voyage became more and more important. I can't figure it out...

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Marin spent too much time calculating the unlucky Dutch. The Dutch didn't know that the big devil Marin used all kinds of means to kill the Netherlands' signs of becoming a great seafaring empire. This made the Netherlands mediocre in the following hundreds of years of European history, and its sense of existence was as weak as that of the declining Denmark...

If the Dutch knew it was Marin's fault,

Maybe they will attack Marin angrily, wishing to scrape out Marin's intestines with a fish knife...

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As time went by, it was mid-to-late September. And because of the application of phosphorus fertilizers, the crops in the East Frisian, West Frisian, and Oldenburg provinces of the North Sea State, which have used new agricultural techniques and the "three fertilizers", have matured and matured earlier. The autumn harvest has begun.

However, in the face of the golden autumn harvest, Ma Linque couldn't care about the autumn harvest. Because, he was going south to Italy and prepared to attack the Republic of Siena in advance.

As the old saying goes, "Know yourself and the enemy, and you will never be imperiled in a hundred battles." In order to successfully defeat Siena, Marin naturally needs to go there early and make adequate preparations, so as not to fail due to insufficient preparation after the launch.

Failure is a trivial matter, the key is not to cause too much loss to the army. Most of Marin's fighters are now experienced veterans. They are very valuable, and they are incomparable to those temporary conscripts who are used as cannon fodder. If a large number of professional veterans are lost, Marin will probably cry and faint in the toilet.

Therefore, Marin planned to take advantage of the autumn harvest season to go south early, and first quietly went to the Siena area to observe the terrain. After the official start of the fight, you will be more confident.

In addition, in order to prevent the desperate situation of running out of ammunition and food, Marin also plans to buy some houses outside Siena and hide some food in the houses. In this way, even if the mountain infantry in the attacking Beihai State ran out of food, they could use the food stored in advance for a while until the Fourth Army arrived with their supplies and food...

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And just when Marin was about to leave, Gustavo, the chief instructor of the crash course for young officers, suddenly found Marin and asked to take his students south to Italy to join the war...

Speaking of which, over the past few years, Marin almost forgot the crash course for young officers that was established at the beginning. Because, in order to hone the teenagers who participated in the crash course for young officers, Marin specially put the location of this officer class in Denburg, the capital of Texel Island, the "Land of Dragons" where he started.

Where is Texel? That is the westernmost part of the West Frisian Islands, and it is almost connected to the northern end of the Dutch province of the Netherlands to which the Habsburg family belongs.

Because it was too far away from the mainland, and Gustavo was not very good at drilling camps, Marin almost forgot that he had a crash course for young officers on Texel...

This crash course for young officers was established in 1502, and it has been almost 6 years now. When the class was first established, Malin specially selected 200 smart and brave 16-year-old teenagers, and compiled a simplified infantry training program for them, compressing the vocabulary to 800 professional military terms (mainly those teenagers are illiterate) , in that era, it was difficult to find someone who was not illiterate).

Originally, Marin planned to let the students of the crash course for the young officer crash course, and then incorporated into the army. But later, Marin changed his mind. While teaching the basic military knowledge to the students in the crash course for young officers, he also taught them literacy and arithmetic in a serious manner, intending to train them as regular officers.

The learning cycle of cultural knowledge is long, and after a long time, Marin almost forgot about the teenagers in the juvenile officer class.

Until now, Gustavo and the teenagers in the officer class felt that they had almost learned their cultural knowledge and almost reached the level of elementary school graduation, so they came to Marin. At this time, after 6 years, the students in the youth class were already in their twenties and thirties, and it was a good time to go to the battlefield.

Just in time, Gustavo heard that Marin was quietly mobilizing troops recently. So, he started looking for news...

Gustavo was also an officer who followed Marin very early, and he had a good military quality. Otherwise, Marin would not arrange to manage the crash course for young officers. Even, Gustavo's status in the East Frisian Army was relatively high at the beginning, and there were many relatives and friends in the army.

It's just that this guy is not good at drilling, and he devoted himself to training those 200 teenagers, which made Marin almost forget him. Fortunately, his old relationship is still there. After inquiring, he learned that the Beihai Kingdom is transporting troops to Italy, and it is obvious that there is a big move. So, he simply went to Marin directly and asked to bring his young reserve officers to join the battle...

"Letting those teenagers participate in the war... is it reliable?" Marin hesitated, this is a cruel war, it seems too risky to let those children who have never been on the battlefield go...

"My Grand Duke, please allow me to correct your opinion. They are no longer children, but young people aged 22 or 23. After all, the students of the 'Crash Course for Young Officers' have been studying for 6 years!"

"It's been 6 years!" Marin sighed infinitely. All the teenagers who were selected at the beginning have grown into young people.

Originally, Marin still planned to reject Gustavo's request. However, he suddenly remembered the "Whampoa Student Army" in the history of his previous life. It seems that the student army of the Whampoa Military Academy performed very well in the war to put down the merchant group and Chen Jiongming's rebellion for the first time. I just don't know, can my 200 young reserve officers grow up and shine like the Whampoa student army?

Marin is full of expectations for this. You must know that these young reserve officers are different from those in the army. Those officers in the Marin Army now certainly stand out from the brutal fighting on the battlefield. However, these people are generally relatively vulgar, and many officers can't even understand military orders, and they need orderlies to convey military orders verbally, which makes Marin very helpless. Moreover, if they are asked to read and write, they will not be able to read.

Therefore, Marin is looking forward to this group of young trainee officers who are educated and have been trained for several years. So, he learned from Jiang Guangtou's practice in the past, organized the graduates of these officer classes into a teaching group, organized independently, and followed him. Of course, it wasn't for them to charge forward. After all, it was the first battle, and Marin only asked them to learn a lot from him. Then, find an opportunity to let them see blood, so as to accelerate their growth... ()

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