The Rise of the European Emperor

In fact, letting Lübeck and Hamburg take the lead in spraying the representatives of Bremen was discussed in advance by Marin and the two Hanseatic cities. The representative of Bremen came to Oldenburg full of anger. If the negotiation started directly, it would be difficult for the other party to calm down.

Therefore, Marin first let Lübeck and Hamburg go out, seized Bremen's violation of the alliance law, and frustrated the opponent's spirit. Then, go out on your own...

Sure enough, after Lübeck and Hamburg silenced the representatives of Bremen, Marin appeared with a smiling and kind face:

"What's the matter? My lords? Didn't the conversation go well?"

Then, he turned his attention to Hector, the Great Speaker of Bremen, and said:

"Master Hector, you Bremen stabbed you in the back when the North Sea country was in danger. If I didn't do anything to you, it would be difficult to explain to the country. Therefore, Bremen will definitely be eliminated. However, in Lübeck and For the sake of the two Great Speakers of Hamburg, I can allow you to leave with all your wealth. Anyway, you are all businessmen, so there shouldn’t be any plot of ‘difficult to leave your homeland’, right? Isn’t it just a matter of doing business in another place? Hamburg and Lu Baker is also the two most prosperous commercial cities in Germany, if you go there to do business, don’t you still make money?”

Hector snorted coldly and said:

"You said lightly, leaving with all the property? Those gold and silver treasures and goods can naturally be taken away easily. But, what about our real estate and real estate? Those account for a very high proportion, and they cannot be taken away. If If we move away in this way, the lost real estate wealth will be a lot of money!"

Speaking of this, several other representatives of Bremen also nodded one after another—this is the core reason why the Hanseatic merchants in Bremen refused to leave easily...

For a businessman, although the proportion of real estate is much smaller than that of land-based landlords, it still occupies a considerable proportion. Most businessmen have money, and most of them will build luxury houses. This is also very common in China. For example, the super-rich Yangzhou salt merchants built luxurious gardens such as Ge Garden and He Garden in Yangzhou City for their own enjoyment. Although Shanxi merchants were more stingy, they also built many mansions similar to the Qiao Family Courtyard.

On the European side, those Hanseatic merchants are similar. After those big Hanseatic merchants got rich, they also built many mansions. Of course, their mansions are mainly villas made of stone.

In Europe at the moment, the rich generally live in large and beautiful houses built of stone. The poor generally live in simple wooden houses. Even, living in a grass shed.

People in later generations may think that the more expensive the wood, the cheaper the stone...

But in this day and age,

Europe is full of forests, and wood is cheaper. As for stone, the cost is much higher than that of wood because it takes mason's labor to polish and process. Moreover, building a house with polished stones is much more difficult than building a house with wood, and the natural cost is more expensive.

Of course, the middle class between the rich and the poor likes to build houses with bricks and wood. But bricks are not as strong as wood, and their colors are not as good as stones.

Therefore, in European cities, generally only the churches and the residences of the rich adopt all-stone structures; the houses of the middle class are more mixed, with stone, brick, and wood. But more often, the three are mixed... As for the poor, they live in simple wooden houses...

Also, it needs to be pointed out that the houses of the rich are not just built with stones. On the outside of the house, rich people try to hire carving craftsmen to carve many stone carvings on it to make the house look more artistic. And this is also costly. And these stone houses full of stone carvings are still standing after hundreds of years, and have become famous cultural relics in Europe...

Therefore, these Hanse merchants are also very unwilling to give up the artistic houses full of stone carvings that spent a lot of money to build. After all, these houses cannot be taken away...

...

This time, Marin finally understood why these profit-seeking Bremen businessmen were unwilling to relocate. It's not that it's hard to leave the homeland, but it's that I can't bear to abandon those stone mansions that cost a lot of money...

After knowing the scruples in the hearts of these Hanse merchants, it will be easy to handle. After thinking about it, Marin asked:

"What if I paid for your house?"

Hector and several Bremen MPs were stunned for a moment...

"You want to buy my house? My house cost 5,000 Gulden gold coins to build..." Hector said.

"5000 gold coins?" Marin's eyelids jumped. Then, he remembered something and asked:

"How much is the value of your house in Bremen?"

Hector thought for a while and said:

"In addition to large buildings such as churches and city halls, there are about dozens of luxury houses of the same level as my house..."

Marin suddenly took a breath - the house of a family is worth 5,000 gold coins, isn't dozens of houses worth two to three hundred thousand gold coins? No wonder they refused to leave. It turns out that the house is so valuable... You know, he only spent 10,000 gold coins to build a castle for Adler. These 5,000 gold coins are equivalent to the cost of half a castle...

Moreover, this is only the residence of the top group of Hanseatic merchants in Bremen. If you count the residences of those middle-class Hanseatic merchants... the demolition fee seems a bit high...

According to estimates by Hector and others, the total construction cost of the residences of Hanseatic merchants in the entire city of Bremen is estimated to exceed 1 million gold coins...

Marin suddenly didn't want to talk...

If he bought all the real estate of the Hanseatic merchants in Bremen at that price... that's a lot of money...

It's not that Marin can't afford the money, but if he does, he will be caught in the palm of his hand. After all, he just won 8 vassal states, which is the time when money is needed everywhere. At this time, spending millions of gold coins to buy real estate in Bremen...

Marin set his sights on Hamburg Speaker Bernard and Lübeck Speaker Heinrich-old iron, do you also offer something?

As a result, the two directly avoided Marin's gaze. Obviously, they are not willing to pay to share this huge expenditure. It's not that they can't afford the money, but that their council is responsible to the citizens. Spend so much money to buy a house in Bremen...the parliament will definitely not be judged...

This is just the residences of the Hanseatic merchants in Bremen. If the residences of the citizens of Bremen are included, the total value of the property in the entire city of Bremen is estimated to be two to three million...

Marin, who was full of confidence and wanted to spend money to solve it, suddenly felt guilty...

"What the hell, the landlord's house has no food left! Spend millions of gold coins to buy these people's second-hand houses? Am I crazy?" Marin had ten thousand mud horses whizzing by in his heart-he really didn't expect that these Hansa Merchant properties are so expensive...