The Rise of the European Emperor

It was also the luck of Maximilian I. After Louis XII returned to Paris, he has been busy making a villain with Queen Anne, who has become an aunt, hoping to give birth to a prince to unite England. Therefore, during this period of time, I didn't have time to pay attention to things in Switzerland. Otherwise, the Habsburg family probably wouldn't even have time to react.

You must know that Spain does not have the strength to join hands with the Habsburg family at the moment, and Marin's over half centaur is also tied down on the island of Britain and Ireland. At this time, if France concentrates its energy, whether it is to go to Switzerland to join forces with the Swiss to eliminate the main force of the Habsburg family, or take the opportunity to annex the Netherlands, it is a great opportunity.

Unfortunately, these are not important. For Louis XII, giving birth to a son is probably the most important thing. If you can use your son to unite England, the century-old enemy, it is estimated that the whole of France will celebrate.

In addition, the swing training method of Marin's sailor competition in Emden, which showed his strength, was indeed spread to France.

Now, while Louis XII is busy making villains, he is ordering to pick out master fighters from the army, and use the oversized swing to train the balance ability at sea.

The French had no shortage of ships, they just cut down some oak trees to build them. Moreover, even if French oaks were not enough to build ships, the French could still buy warships from the Portuguese.

Because, the Portuguese are not stupid. Although on the Indian issue, the Portuguese united with the Spaniards to deal with the Venetians and Arabs. However, the Portuguese always understood that Spain was their real life and death enemy.

Therefore, the Portuguese would not mind selling some warships to France and adding some congestion to Spain. This is diplomacy, the enemy of the enemy, a wonderful object of union.

Of course, it is impossible for the Portuguese to go bankrupt to support the French. Because, if the Spaniards were really overthrown by the French, the Portuguese would not be spared either. So, the Portuguese will sell warships to France, but not many.

Louis XII also knew that it was basically delusional to want to surpass Britain or Spain in naval strength. But Louis XII couldn't help but want to reserve some sailors to prepare for a war with England in the future.

Because, Louis XII was also prepared to have no sons before the end of 1515. At that time, Louis XII plans to come hard. Regardless of whether it is successful or not, it is a test. What if it succeeds?

Therefore, outside of Paris, there are now a lot of French warriors hanging on a large swing to connect with the sailor's scimitar. And this news has also aroused unanimous concerns from England and the North Sea country.

But Marin really doesn't like the French navy, even if you have good PK skills on the deck, what's the use? I built dozens of gunboats, all with heavy artillery, and sank all the warships that the French had managed to get together, and let all the warriors carefully trained by the French go to the sea to feed the fish...

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In that case, the North Sea country and France will really die forever. Therefore, Marin hoped that the medicine offered by John Capote would kill Louis XII sooner. In this way, it will not be so troublesome.

After all, if Louis XII died, Francois I would marry Princess Claude, but he would not dare to rob Marin for his daughter-in-law. Unless, he doesn't want to be King of France anymore.

However, it is really not easy to kill Louis XII. Louis XII is not something like Conrad, Bishop of Münster, who cannot be moved lightly. Bishop Conrad Marin sent someone to do him without any pressure. Anyway, Bishop Conrad is just an unlucky guy who has been abandoned by the church long ago, and has even been deprived of the title of prince. Get rid of it quietly without causing much repercussions.

But Louis XII is different, he is the monarch of the most powerful country in Europe, and a boss who has attracted worldwide attention. Not to mention, Marin has no ability to assassinate easily. Even if the assassination is successful, if it is found out, Marin will never be able to take it around. Because, if this matter is exposed, Marin will definitely become a street mouse all over Europe, everyone shouts and beats him, and even the Pope's father-in-law can't save him.

Therefore, Marin could only expect that Louis XII's body would collapse and die on a woman's belly as in the original history, and he did not dare to send someone to assassinate him easily.

As for things in Switzerland, while Louis XII and the queen made villains, while training sailors on land, he did not forget to find fault with Maximilian I. After all, the two are old rivals.

It is a bit difficult to send the French army directly, and France also lacks a reason to do it. Therefore, Louis XII thought of using Gudendorff's 16,000 German mercenaries to complete this matter.

Guttendorf is also in a dilemma now, because he doesn't want to turn against the Habsburg family. The reason for this is that he himself was born in a declining nobleman in the Swabian region, and he still has the title of baron on his head. However, all the ancestral fiefdoms were destroyed. As a last resort, I went to work as a mercenary. Moreover, before that, most of Gudendorff's mercenaries also served the nobles and the Habsburg family in the Swabian region. Even fighting for the Spaniards was a business introduced by the Habsburg family. Now, let him turn around and deal with the Habsburgs, and Guttendorf is in a dilemma.

But the problem is that when he signed the employment agreement with Louis XII, Gudendorff just insisted on refusing to fight with Spain, his original employer, but he didn't say that he refused to fight with the Habsburg family. The French took advantage of this and forced him to attack the remnants of the Duchy of Milan in the Müstair Valley, and then the Graubünden region...

Traditional Germans are dead-brained, and Guttendorf is such a person. It's true that he doesn't want to be an enemy of the Habsburg family, but in the employment agreement, the Habsburg family is not included in the non-hostile objects! So, now Gudendorf is very conflicted.

And his contradiction caused the 16,000 German mercenaries not to attack the Mistel Valley immediately, and also gave Marin and others a chance to prepare.

In order to keep the Mistel Valley, the traffic artery connecting northern Italy to Switzerland, Marin also spent a lot of money, even taking out the reinforced concrete...

You know, even in Beihai, there are not many reinforced concrete. This is because although cement is worthless, steel bars are hard to come by!

There are only two small iron-making blast furnaces in Beihai. Although they can produce enough guns to make steel bars, they are still insufficient. After all, if a large project is to be built, a large amount of steel bars will be needed.

Now the production of steel bars is all manual. The thicker straight strips are easy to make, just cast them. However, thinner wire rods are very difficult to process, requiring craftsmen to make them manually, and the cost is very high.

Therefore, in the North Sea country, only a few important towns and fortresses such as Aurich use reinforced concrete. In other places, there is no such thing.

Even when building water conservancy projects in the future, Marin does not plan to use steel bars, but plans to use bamboo-reinforced concrete made of bamboo. Only a few fortresses with strategic value will use reinforced concrete, a material that can resist shelling.

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However, because of Gudendorf's hesitation, Marin's spies also had time to investigate Gudendorf's background information. When Marin got Guddendorff's information, looked at it, and suddenly smiled...

"Maybe, this person can be bought..." Marin thought.

Then, he did the same. He sent someone to fly a pigeon to pass a letter to the emperor, proposing a proposal to bribe Guttendorf...