The Rise of the European Emperor

The request for help was forwarded, and Edward first asked his men to release the pigeons back to London. Then, let the left-behind officials in London find the head of the North Sea Chamber of Commerce in London, and ask them to use the Beihai Chamber of Commerce's special contact pigeon to send it back to the North Sea country.

After all, Edward didn't have any homing pigeons familiar with the North Sea route. For the carrier pigeon, it is best to take the carrier pigeon away from its original hometown, and then let it fly back, so as to ensure that the carrier pigeon can accurately find its destination. Just like John Rafi received Marin's instructions in Naples, using the pigeons originally set up by Marin's intelligence department in Naples. Otherwise, it will be difficult to reach the designated position, and it is possible to fly wrongly.

The communication of the carrier pigeon was still very fast. In less than two days, Marin received a letter from Edward for help. On the issue of conquering Ireland, Marin and Edward have the same interests. So, Marin agreed without thinking. However, soon the second letter from Flying Pigeon arrived, and it was from Adler.

Adler also came to ask for help, but he mentioned a problem, that is, the Cossacks' inability to adapt to the humid climate on the island of Ireland.

The Cossack cavalry came from the dry continental climate of the Eastern European prairie and had long been accustomed to the dry inland climate. When Adler first came to Wicklow County with 500 Cossacks, many Cossacks and even the Eastern European Mongolian horses of the Cossacks were not acclimatized. Fortunately, Marin equipped Adler with a medical team, and they were all disciples of Mozhigen and Battelle. These doctors then cured both the sick Cossacks and the war horses.

Adler told Marin that most of the 500 Cossacks were considered good, because they had lived on the Jutland Peninsula for a while before. The climate of the Jutland peninsula is exactly between Ukraine and Ireland, which can be regarded as a semi-humid climate. Therefore, most people are not sick. The sick ones were basically the new Cossacks who had not lived in the Jutland peninsula for a long time.

Therefore, before sending Cossack reinforcements, Adler suggested that it is best to choose ones that are more adaptable to humid climates...

Marin took Adler's suggestion seriously. Therefore, he called in Jurgen, the head of the Cossack cavalry regiment, and ordered him to select 2,000 people who were more adaptable to the humid climate, especially those who had not been sick due to acclimatization after coming to the North Sea.

Then, Jurgen selected 500 German Cossacks and 1,500 Ukrainian Cossacks for Marin...

After picking a good man, Marin also asked the officer in charge of the horses to select 4,000 horses adapted to the wet weather in the rainy season for him based on his memory, so as to prevent people from getting sick because of acclimatization, and the horses get sick first. If there is no horse, the Cossack cavalry is not as strong as the infantry, and may even be weaker. After all, it is difficult for infantry with sabers to beat infantry who are accustomed to using spears.

Next, Marin conducted special training for the 2000 Cossacks, including their horses-rain training!

Of course, because it hasn't rained recently, Marin directly used a simple sprayer (that is, a straw sprayer with two pipes at right angles) to simulate water mist, and then sprayed it on those Cossacks and horses, and kept them for a while. time.

After many days of adaptation tests, a small number of Cossacks and horses failed to adapt and were replaced after falling ill. About 10 days later, 2,000 rain-adapted horses and 4,000 Eastern European Mongolian horses (ancestors of the Don horse) were selected and shipped to Ireland.

I believe that with these 2,000 Cossacks to help out, and Adler himself has 500 Cossacks and 2,500 Cossacks, he can definitely beat the shit out of the Irish native light cavalry.

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After sending Cossack reinforcements, several lords in the Breisgau area in the south also sent people to urge them. It turned out that they couldn't wait to trade the 3,000 rebel serf prisoners of war and their families. After all, it is really difficult for the lords to make money in the Breisgau area with a lot of people and little land. It is rare that a "fool" like Marin is willing to pay for the rebels, and they can't wait for it.

Moreover, I am afraid that Marin will go back on his word.

You know, Marin is a super "taken advantage" who intends to pay 103,500 gold coins. What is the concept of more than 100,000 gold coins? It is also difficult for an ordinary duchy to reach 50,000 gold coins in annual fiscal revenue. Unless, it is a rich duchy that is by the sea or a big river and is very suitable for trade. In principalities that only farm, there are very few whose annual income exceeds 50,000 gold coins.

Unfortunately, the Breisgau area is a standard agricultural area. Moreover, it is still a poor agricultural area with many mountains and little land. Freiburg, the only commercial city in the territory, was redeemed by the citizens for their autonomy. The commercial taxes in the city have nothing to do with the local farming lords.

Moreover, I don't know why, in this era, the northern part of Germany, which does not lack plain land, is generally sparsely populated. However, the southern part of Germany, which has more mountains and less land, has a very concentrated population. Especially the Duchy of Württemberg, a poor country dominated by mountains and forests, has a population of hundreds of thousands. The northern regions, such as the original East Frisia and Oldenburg, are equivalent to about a quarter of Württemberg's area, but the population is only tens of thousands. Moreover, these two areas are mainly plains!

As a result, the population distribution was severely unbalanced, leading to overpopulation in southern Germany. At the same time, the northern regions of Germany lacked population.

With overpopulation, people will naturally find another way out. Therefore, most of the German mercenaries came from southern Germany. Because, only there is a surplus population to be mercenaries. In the northern region, the serfs couldn't grow the land, so how could they have the leisure to serve as soldiers? Besides, being a soldier is life-threatening...

It stands to reason that at this time, if there are northern lords who come to the south to recruit surplus people and take them to the north to farm, they can quickly develop the country. For example, Marin did this, which led to the rapid economic development of the North Sea country.

However, according to Marin's observations, it seems that the indigenous northern nobles of this era seldom do this. After investigation, I discovered the crux of the problem—everyone is poor!

Because of poverty, many northern princes did not even have the money and food to send people to the south to recruit people. Even, they owed a lot of debts to the Hanseatic merchants, so naturally no money was wasted on recruiting people.

However, in some vassal states with well-developed commerce, those vassals have no interest in developing agriculture-since doing business is so profitable, do I still have a field of hair?

For example, in the previous Brunswick-Lüneburg Principality, people had mines at home, and there were very popular salt mines. They could make a lot of money by selling salt, and they didn't care about the benefits of farming at all. Therefore, within the territory of such a large principality, there is actually a Lüneburg grassland with an area of ​​7,000 to 8,000 square kilometers, which is larger than many principalities. Moreover, the grassland is there, and I don't even bother to do grazing...

Therefore, in the vassal states that lacked people in the north of Germany, the farming vassals were too poor to recruit people in the south, and the rich business lords looked down on the benefits of farming. As a result, the population in southern Germany continued to increase, and the population in the north continued to be short, which could not be reconciled...

Originally, there was a Marin, and it was conditional to balance the population of the North and South German regions. It is a pity that Marin became the horse of Emperor Maximilian I as soon as he appeared on the stage, and was hostile by most of the southern German princes. Moreover, Marin went to southern Germany in the early stage to recruit mercenaries. In order to prevent Marin's unrestrained military expansion, most of the southern princes began to restrict Marin's recruitment of people in the southern German region.

In this regard, Marin was also very helpless. Without the hostility of those princes, he could recruit millions of people from southern Germany in minutes!

However, this cooperation with the lords of Breischgau and the Principality of Württemberg made Marin see another possibility-since it is not feasible to recruit those princes who are not beneficial, why not try to spend money Where is the buyer?

Marin is well aware of the virtues of those princes in this era-one is poorer than the other, but greedy one by one!

As long as you grasp their greedy characteristics and lure them with money, if you don't believe that they are unwilling to let themselves recruit people. What is the difference in political stance? In front of so many gold coins that can kill people, these princes who are short of money have to kneel...

But first, Marin wants to set an example for those greedy princes. When someone really earns gold coins by sending people to Marin, Marin believes that someone will be tempted next.

Therefore, Marin arranged for Kohler to bring a large amount of money and food, and under the escort of the army, he went south to Breisgau to fulfill the buyer's contract...

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