The Rise of the European Emperor

In his heart, Marin had a fierce ideological struggle. Seeing the gold coins, Marin wanted to earn them. Moreover, the price offered by Louis XII was 1.2 pfennig per pound, which was 20% higher than the grain price in Germany. However, thinking of the plan to take the opportunity to recruit people from France, Marin was shaken again...

He knew very well that if Louis XII was allowed to get enough food to quell the natural disaster, the number of people he could recruit would be limited. After all, who would want to easily change their living environment if they could survive? In the agricultural era, not only Chinese people loved their homes, but Europeans did as well. Only after entering the 19th century and the beginning of the industrial age, did the world's population migrate on a large scale.

For example, in the United States, in the nearly two hundred years of the 17th and 18th centuries, there were only two to three million people in thirteen North American states. But after entering the 19th century, with the advent of the industrial age, the scale of world population migration has increased. By the mid-to-late 19th century, millions of immigrants were immigrating each year.

Therefore, in this era, it is very difficult to get French farmers, especially yeoman, to leave their land. Unless, it is really impossible to live.

Obviously, as long as Marin sells grain to Louis XII, even if Louis XII cooks some thin porridge mixed with a bunch of sundries... As long as he can survive after eating, most farmers will not be willing to leave their homes of……

Gradually, Marin was more inclined not to sell food to Louis XII...

But the plan couldn't keep up with the changes. A group of nobles in the North Sea heard that Louis XII was willing to buy food with real money, and they found Marin one after another, wanting to sell food.

In Beihai State, although Marin monopolizes half of the country's arable land, the other half is also in the hands of various nobles and many lieutenant soldiers. Marin's food backlog cannot be sold, and the food in the homes of the nobles of the North Sea cannot be sold.

Many aristocrats of the Beihai Kingdom had a large backlog of old grain. The most serious thing is that after this year's bumper harvest, the granaries of many Beihai nobles' homes can't hold new grain.

Although it is known that France and the North Sea country are not very good at dealing with it, the desire to deal with the backlog of grain has prompted many people to find Marin and ask to sell grain.

At this time, Marin was in distress. The idea of ​​​​taking advantage of the natural disaster in France to recruit French farmers could only be done but not said. Otherwise, Marin would become a thorn in Louis XII's side. If he couldn't explain clearly to the nobles under him, he couldn't stop them from selling grain...

After thinking about it, Marin finally gave a reluctant reason-Louis XII bought food, in addition to helping the disaster area, he actually wanted to use it as military food to invade the Swiss area occupied by the emperor...

This reason is barely valid. After all, Marin started his business by the emperor. And the Germans, even if they are unhappy with the emperor, they can't watch the French bully the emperor. In particular, many of the lieutenant soldiers of the Marin Army were recruited from the mountainous areas of the princely states in southern Germany that were close to the emperor.

The nobles of the Beihai Kingdom felt that it made sense, so they discussed it together for a long time. But half a day later, they proposed a compromise plan to Marin-selling food that was barely enough for the victims in the disaster-stricken areas in northeastern France, so that a batch of food could be sold in exchange for cash. At the same time, it can also prevent the French from using excess food for military purposes...

Although Marin was not very happy in his heart, he couldn't say clearly that he had taken a fancy to the French disaster victims. In desperation, he had no choice but to agree with the nobles to sell to France enough food for millions of disaster victims for several months. After conversion, according to the low standard of drinking gruel every day, it was agreed to sell 30 million pounds of grain to France. According to the standard of 1.2 Finneys per pound, it is worth 36 million Finneys and 600,000 gold coins.

Louis XII is too little, why is it so little? He really wanted to take the opportunity to purchase a batch of military rations. However, Marin tried his best to stop it, so that Louis XII could only buy so much.

In order to appease the nobles under his command, Marin even gave up his share of grain sales and gave all the benefits to his subordinates. But in private, Marin asked Kohler to quietly record the names of the nobles who danced the most in a small notebook...

Marin believes that these nobles who danced the most,

Suspected of liaison with France. Taking a step back, even if there is no fornication in France, it is not very reliable to see money so openly. After all, many people know that the relationship between the North Sea State and France is not good. Is it a problem to actively sell grain to the French for disaster relief?

As a result, Kohler sent someone to investigate in private, and they really found out the problem—the two nobles who were the most popular were indeed hooking up with the French. Of course, instead of taking refuge in the French, he accepted bribes from the French and spoke for the French.

Marin immediately crossed these two people in his small notebook. Of course, it is not suitable to deal with them now. Moreover, their crimes are not considered serious crimes in this day and age. However, Marin always has a way to clean them up. In the future, just find an excuse. Fortunately, these two are civilian officials, not military generals. Otherwise, Marin would be too nervous to fall asleep.

In fact, in this era, it is normal for nobles to be bought by other countries. Most of the nobles in this era are greedy, as long as they are bribed, and if the matter is not serious, they will accept it.

But Marin is from China, and Chinese people pay attention to "either left or right, good or evil", and sometimes they are very serious about standing in line. That's why Marin was so angry. But in this era, there are actually a lot of nobles colluding with foreign countries. For many European nobles during this period, the eldest son served the king, and the second son may serve the king's mortal enemy, the monarch. These aristocrats are the same as the ancient Chinese families, the interests of the family are paramount, and they don't care what kind of monarch you are.

Only the generals that Marin later promoted from the civilians were educated loyally by Marin from the beginning that "one minister does not serve two masters", so they did not have the habit of double-faced and three-handed. And the two nobles who were bought were actually old nobles from the vassal states occupied by Marin who later defected to Marin. They still maintain the old habit of betting on multiple sides. Seeing that France is powerful, although they have not taken refuge in the past, they will not draw a clear line with France.

Marin was also very helpless about the old habit of betting on multiple sides of the traditional European nobles. He can't use this reason to deal with those nobles, and it is true that the Beihai Kingdom has not openly turned against France. It is not an enemy country, and there is no way to judge them guilty...

To change the concept of the nobles, Marin can only count on the next generation. Therefore, Marin ordered to reform the teaching methods of noble schools, change the noble schools to boarding system, and no longer allow boarding.

At the same time, Marin ordered the teachers and instructors in those schools to make great efforts to educate those noble children in the loyalty education of "one minister does not serve two masters". Five days out of seven, they are at school and have more contact with their parents. In this way, there is sufficient time to reverse the thinking of those noble children.

If you have worked so hard to educate them, but you can't turn them around, and you still maintain the bad habit of double-faced and three-handed, don't blame Marin for giving up on them. After all, no monarch wants his subjects to be double-faced...

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