The Rise of the European Emperor

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The Rise of the European Emperor Chapter 1806: French Landless Peasants

In Marin's view, those old fishermen who bought boats with loans would basically not lose money. But it is hard to say for those farmers who lost their land to buy boats with loans. Although Marin will provide them with training services, they can learn fishing skills, but it is difficult for them to master the ability to find fishing areas. This ability is often the decades of experience of veteran fishermen.

Therefore, many landless peasants who borrowed money to buy boats were actually prone to bankruptcy in the end. Then, the family had to send a strong man to serve in Marin's Royal Navy in order to pay off the debt. Then, they will be sent to places with harsh climates such as tropical rainforest areas to stay for many years.

Some people may ask - why make it so complicated? Isn't it okay to directly recruit landless peasants to join the navy? It's possible, but it's a bit of a hassle.

First of all, people are not necessarily willing to join the Royal Navy. Moreover, since they were recruited, they certainly could not be randomly assigned to serve in areas with harsh climates. Just like Marin arranged for young Frisian fishermen in the country to serve in tropical regions, they often had to pay salaries much higher than those in other regions. Otherwise, no one will go. This is similar to going to serve as soldiers in frontier areas such as Tibet and Xinjiang in later generations. If high welfare is not given, no one will go. Even if it is forced to go, people will not accept it. If you really want to fight a war, your morale will be low and you will easily lose the battle.

Therefore, Marin would rather set up a trap, let some people who have no fishing talent owe money, and then send them to areas with harsh climates as sailors. People who are in debt like this dare not have any opinions. This era is not the era of "the one who owes money is the uncle" of later generations, because the law does not protect people, especially debtors. Therefore, sailors who owe money can only honestly go to areas with harsh climates to serve as soldiers, and use half of their salary to pay off their debts.

In addition, when they first borrowed money to buy a boat to go fishing, they also exercised their ability to survive at sea. Among them, the adaptability of staying at sea for a long time is also one of them.

A landman who has never been in the sea at all, who hastily boarded a ship as a sailor, and has been at sea for a few months, might be depressed and go crazy in the middle of the sea. However, those fishermen who have been fishing at sea for several years have no such worries at all and are very adaptable. In particular, when it comes to fishing for survival, they are highly motivated and are the quickest to adapt to long-term sea life.

Even if those land-lost farmers who don't have the talent to find fishing spots eventually go bankrupt, they will have to wait at least a year or two later. At that time, after a long-term fishing life at sea, they had already adapted to the life of staying at sea for a long time. Moreover, he is no stranger to the manipulation of wooden boats. There is no need for an adaptation period for such a person to be recruited into the navy, just teach them the skills of naval warfare. As for sea adaptation and sailing control, when people were fishing, they laid a very solid foundation...

Right now, Marin's positioning for the English and Germans is very clear-the Germans are mainly responsible for farming and land warfare (except for the Frisians),

The Frisians among the English and Germans are mainly responsible for fishing, trade and naval warfare...

The two major ethnic groups have a clear division of labor and will jointly form the most solid foundation for the future empire. Even the landless farmers in England, Marin intends to train sailors and fishermen... On the German side, the only exception is the Frisians who have a fishing tradition. Others mainly hang around on land.

Of course, the Dutch are also Marin's current default source of nautical personnel. The Dutch have a tradition of fishing, and now Prince Philip is encroaching on land under the bewitching of Marin. In the future, many Dutch people will definitely lose their land. At that time, Marin also plans to use the same tactic to deal with them - first provide unsecured loans to let them buy fishing boats, if they succeed, they will make money for Marin, and if they fail, they will sell themselves to Marin as a sailor in a place where they have been suffering for 20 years... …

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In fact, the Dutch spoken by the current Dutch is very close to German, and it is obviously different from German in later generations.

In this era, the Dutch region still belonged to the Holy Roman Empire, which was equivalent to a vassal of the German region. The Dutch are also a branch of the Germanic people, so Dutch can communicate with German in this era.

Of course, this is about the Netherlands, not the Netherlands. Including the entire Netherlands region, the southern Belgian region is greatly influenced by France, and the local language is somewhat closer to French, which is a bit different from German.

The real difference between Dutch and German is that after the seven provinces of the northern Netherlands became independent from Spain, many residents of the southern Netherlands (Belgium) moved to the seven northern provinces because they did not like being ruled by Spain. Later generations of Dutch had a great influence. Then, Dutch became less and less like German. In later generations, Dutch and German have become difficult to communicate.

But in this era, people in most parts of the Netherlands, except for people in the border area with France, the language used by the people of the Netherlands in most other parts of the country, and Low German can communicate smoothly.

Therefore, Marin's acceptance of the Dutch will not cause any problems. Because the Dutch region does not yet have an independent ideology and national consciousness, it is only a part of the Holy Roman Empire.

In addition, the Habsburg family who ruled the Netherlands has always been friendly with Marin, which has led to the Dutch people always being close to the North Sea State, and their impression of Marin is not bad. Even the people of the Netherlands are more friendly to Marin than the people of those princely states in southern Germany. Because some princely states in southern Germany deliberately discredited Marin in their propaganda, which made many southern Germans have a bad impression of Marin. On the contrary, the Dutch, under the influence of the Habsburg family, have a better impression of Marin.

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However, the current group of people gave Marin a headache...

Who are they? French!

Yes, since last year's autumn harvest, Marin colluded with the nobles in northeastern France to adopt the method of usury + steaming the seeds loaned to farmers. This year's autumn harvest, as expected, most farmers did not harvest enough to pay off their debts during the autumn harvest. Grain, then, had to sell the land to the local nobles who lent them usury...

These nobles gobbled up a lot of land and wanted to convert the local peasants back into their serfs. However, through this usury incident, the local peasants have become afraid of these unscrupulous local nobles and dare not trust them anymore. As a result, some French farmers who lost their land chose to leave their hometowns to make a living elsewhere...

At this time, the spies under Marin who had been lurking for a long time appeared in good time in front of the French farmers who wanted to leave their hometown...

"Come with us, and swear in the name of God, as long as you are willing to become serfs of our lord, you will be able to eat bread and give clothes every day in the future. Moreover, we can swear that the lord will never force you to be your serfs." Unwilling things. At that time, as long as the land is cultivated well, the family will be able to live well..."

Marin's spies swear and swear in front of the farmers in northeastern France who have lost their land and recruit them. In order to win the trust of those French peasants who intend to leave their hometown, the spies are even willing to swear in the name of God, and even hold the "Bible" to swear...

In Europe in this age, no one dares to lie in the name of God and the Bible. Therefore, many French farmers chose to believe them. Moreover, these spies did not lie. If you really want to become a serf of Marin, your life will definitely be top-notch among European farmers.

However, the problem facing Marin right now is how to bring a large number of French farmers back to Beihai...

You must know that it is easy to recruit these French farmers whose land has been annexed by others, but if they are in large numbers, they will have a huge impact if they want to bring them back to the North Sea country. Because, the total number of them is already tens of thousands...

The French are not fools. If there are hundreds or thousands of people, as long as they are removed in batches, they will not be noticeable. However, the migration of tens of thousands of people can be noticed by anyone who is not a fool. Therefore, what Marin needs to solve now is how to get these tens of thousands of French farmers back to the country without angering the French. Moreover, these tens of thousands of people are only the first batch. Because there are estimated to be 200,000 to 300,000 French landless farmers who left their homes this time. If we recruit again, it is estimated that there will be more people. But the first batch of tens of thousands of people is enough for Marin to have a headache, and recruiting again will probably anger France...

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