The Rise of the European Emperor

To be honest, in fact, Marin had fooled Prince Philip into raising sheep in the Netherlands before, and he was also looking for a market for food. The Dutch stopped farming, so they had to rely on imports for food. The North Sea State and the Habsburg family have always had a good relationship, and Marin must be the first choice for imported food.

At that time, the Dutch will concentrate on raising sheep and weaving woolen fabrics, and the food problem will naturally be handed over to Marin to solve. And this is also one of the contents of the agreement reached between Prince Philip and Marin. After all, this area of ​​the Netherlands gave up farming, but there must always be a source of food. And no matter how much land is enclosed in the Netherlands, the hundreds of thousands of textile workers are a fixed source of food imports. And even in the countryside, a small number of farmers are needed to keep their sheep. Therefore, the Netherlands must be a big market for grain. At that time, Chen Liang will not have to worry about selling. Moreover, the Netherlands, which specializes in selling wool textiles, must have enough cash to buy food. After all, textiles can be sold directly in exchange for money. But apart from those big profits, most of the hard-earned money transferred by the weavers is still used to buy food.

The economy is a very complicated thing. At that time, Marin relied on advanced agricultural technology to lead East Frisia to rise rapidly and possessed sufficient capital.

However, when the Counties of East Frisia expanded and expanded into a North Sea country that was more than ten or twenty times larger, Marin was shocked to find that too much food was not a good thing. When a limit is exceeded, other countries will not have enough money to buy food...

In the current North Sea country, the food production accounts for almost half of the German region, but the population only accounts for one-sixth of the German region. It's not that no one is short of food, but that those who are short of food have no money, and those who have money are not short of food. Therefore, most of the grain had to be stored in the granary.

What's more, Marin thought it was okay to hoard food by himself, but the nobles in Beihai Kingdom refused. They want to exchange it for money to maintain their noble life...

The nobles of the North Sea Kingdom, except for those old nobles who were concentrated and moved to Bremen Province, most of the other nobles were basically upstarts who later followed Marin because of his military exploits. To put it simply...the upstart!

These upstarts in the aristocratic world are most concerned about face. Probably because of low self-esteem, he pays special attention to rules and ostentation, even more than the old nobles.

Moreover, Marin allocated a lot of land to them, and also distributed fertilizers, which made each family's food production very high. But because of the rules set by Marin at the beginning, in order not to reveal the secret of the large amount of grain in the Beihai country, the grain of the nobles must be handed over to Marin's Beihai Chamber of Commerce for unified sales.

Here is the problem, these nobles are masters who are unwilling to suffer losses, and they all hope to sell their surplus grain as soon as possible and get money as soon as possible. Therefore, the season of selling grain every year is a time for Marin to have a headache. You said, if you have tens of millions of pounds, it's easy to say, there will always be big customers in Spain and Italy who can eat it. However, it is hundreds of millions of pounds at first, and it is very difficult to find a buyer for such a large volume...

But Marin had to help them find a way,

Otherwise, if the officers are divorced, then the problem will be serious. Therefore, every autumn, Marin was overwhelmed with how to help his subordinates sell grain.

Fortunately, there is probably no need to worry about food sales this year. The spies report that this year the Netherlands, northeastern France, and the northern part of the east will suffer from serious food shortages this year due to severe autumn harvest rains. In this way, the food gap is bound to be huge.

Needless to say, the Netherlands has millions of people, and Marin's food can be sold a lot. As for France, the problem is a bit more complicated...

According to intelligence, there are a large number of people affected by the disaster in France, one to two million people, and the specific number is about 1.8 million. It stands to reason that this is a good time to sell grain. But the spies in Paris sent back news that Louis XII had planned to use the surplus military rations originally prepared to march into Switzerland as disaster relief food, and sent food to the disaster areas in the northeast and north east...

Then, Marin fell into a tangle-if he took the opportunity to sell food, he would naturally make a lot of money. But if these French disaster victims are not short of food, then Louis XII will use the extra food as military rations, march into Switzerland, and drive away the army of the Habsburg family...

Therefore, after thinking about it, Marin still suspended the plan to sell grain to the disaster-stricken areas in France. Because he needed Louis XII to smash the excess grain into the disaster area, leaving opportunities for the Habsburg family. After all, if the Habsburg family loses Switzerland, God knows if there will be another Calvinist who specializes in killing kings in Switzerland...

Moreover, the extra food from Louis XII was used to relieve the 1.8 million disaster victims, and there seems to be a huge gap...

Marin plans to wait for Louis XII to spend all the food, and then go to buy the bottom and plunder the local...population...

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In addition, Marin also intends to use this famine to sow discord and encourage those French victims to rebel...

Therefore, Marin began to consciously train a group of spies and officers who could speak, teaching them how to fight guerrillas. Once the victims in the disaster-stricken areas of France ran out of food again, they ran to confuse the local victims to launch an uprising, and then went to places that were not affected by the disaster to plunder food...

This is a vicious approach. Originally, there were only 1.8 million victims in the affected area. However, after launching a rebellion in the disaster area, this rebel army will rush into areas that were not originally affected by the disaster to plunder food. Then, there were many more refugees in the areas that were not affected by the disaster. These newly added refugees were not affected by the disaster themselves. However, when the rebels robbed them of all their food, these people had no choice but to become disaster victims passively...

Just like in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the real disasters were mainly in northern Shaanxi and some areas in Shanxi Province. However, the army of rogues led by Li Zicheng, like locusts, swarmed all over the place, turning many good places that were not affected by the disaster into new disaster areas. After the army of locusts crossed the border, the food was robbed by the so-called "rebels". If the common people want to survive, they can only hang out with them, otherwise they will starve to death...

Moreover, after these so-called "rebels" robbed the people of food, they didn't know how to cherish it. Instead, they ate and drank with their stomachs open, and they could often eat and drink. It's not like ordinary people who will plan carefully.

Therefore, these looted food is destined to be not enough to eat. What should I do if I have nothing to eat? Continue to the next place to grab food... Then, the "rebel army" team snowballed, and the scale became larger and more food was needed. Then, wherever they crossed the border, the food was wiped out and became a new disaster area...

The reason why Marin trained those spies was to hope that they could launch an uprising and use the tactics of bandits to harm the French region, severely hit the French economy, and make them lose the ability to crush the Quartet.

However, in the northeastern part of France and the northern part of the east, close to Paris, if Louis XII dispatched tens of thousands of knights to suppress it, all the bandits would be finished. So, it needs to be well planned.

But from the news from Spain, it seems that Gonzalo will launch an attack on the Kingdom of Naples after the autumn harvest. At that time, once Gonzalo gains some advantages, there will definitely be a large number of French troops going south to reinforce the Italian battlefield.

This time, is the opportunity. Initiating a riot at that time will have a higher success rate. After all, the main army of knights went south to fight against Spain, and there was no army in the country to suppress the peasant uprising.

Moreover, with relief food, it is estimated that the 1.8 million victims will not be desperate for a while. But the next autumn harvest will not be until next autumn, and the time is still very long. Every year after spring, when the green leaves are not picked up, it is the most difficult time. It seems that the autumn harvest is about to be harvested, but it is difficult to last until the autumn harvest without food...

Therefore, in the autumn and winter of this year, Marin does not intend to send anyone to start, but is going to wait until next spring to start, when the French will be even more caught off guard...

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