The Rise of the European Emperor

Before the meeting adjourned, Manuel I repeatedly emphasized that the content of the meeting should be kept secret. In particular, the North Sea country used Spain to attack Lisbon, lest Marin really adopt this method.

However, everyone present did not expect that the content of this internal meeting would be sent to Marin's case two days later...

People in this era can't imagine how perverted Beihai's intelligence network is. Perhaps, in some irrelevant countries and regions, the intelligence network of the North Sea State is not developed and perfect enough. But in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, which Marin attaches great importance to, the North Sea State has long woven a very powerful intelligence network.

Perhaps, those great nobles who attended the meeting that day could indeed keep their mouths shut. However, it wasn't just the king and the nobles who were present at that time, but also the maids who served and the palace guards.

And the royal palace in Lisbon has long been infiltrated by the spies of the North Sea State and is riddled with holes. The spies of the North Sea Kingdom, using various methods such as coercion and lure, have already won over many maids and guards of the Lisbon Royal Palace.

It should be pointed out that European royal palaces are generally very small, so compared with ancient Chinese palaces, they are often more open. Because, the palace is too small to form a society by itself.

Therefore, the maids and guards in European royal palaces often have their own residences outside the palace.

In addition, there are two types of European court ladies. One is the maid, that is, the high-ranking maid who accompanied the queen and princess. Strictly speaking, they are not slaves, but descendants of nobles who came to serve the royal family before marriage.

Before the era of Louis XIV, the maids serving in European courts were often unmarried aristocratic women, whose status was equivalent to that of female officials in ancient Chinese courts. They are relatively free in the palace and can enter and leave the palace at will. Except for shift time, they can go home.

The other kind of maid is a maid who was born as a commoner or even a slave. These maids do the dirtiest and most tiring work, and they have no status, let alone leave the palace casually, unless the poor holiday comes. But in ancient times, there were very few holidays, only major festivals.

For these two kinds of court ladies with different status, the spies of Beihai State have all recruited them. Those noble ladies and maids who can freely enter and leave the palace are naturally the key targets. Because, they can take the information out of the palace in time.

However, in comparison, those maids who cannot leave the palace at will are the most likely to have access to confidential information. Because, when nobles talk about confidential matters, they tend to clear the room. Many maids are unable to listen to the confidentiality. But maids can, because they often serve in the palace for a long time and will not leave the palace easily, so they are naturally more trustworthy.

Therefore, after the Beihai spies recruited maids and maids who were willing to serve them by various means, they created a channel for information transmission - the maids trusted by the royal family eavesdropped on confidential information. Then, the eavesdropping maid passed the information to the maid who was free to enter and leave the palace, and brought it to the North Sea spy behind her.

Of course, they didn't know that their employer was a spy from the North Sea country, but they thought it was some Portuguese local nobles who wanted to pry into the privacy of the court. The spies of the North Sea State are very generous. Every time they pass on useful information, they will grab a lot of gold coins. Even those court maids from noble families cannot resist this kind of money offensive, let alone those from poor families. the lowly maid. The maidservants serving the spies of the North Sea country secretly saved thousands of gold coins every year, which is equivalent to more than three million in later generations. Even those maids with low status can get hundreds of gold coins every year,

Family life changed completely.

European aristocratic girls need a generous dowry when they get married. But the noble families who sent their daughters to the palace as maids, except for the big families who specially sent their daughters to inquire about the news in the palace, most of them were noble families with poor economic conditions. Otherwise, it would be nice for my daughter to be a carefree young lady at home, why bother to serve others and suffer? The richness of the dowry of a noble girl will directly determine the girl's future status in her husband's family. In this regard, the ancient East and the West are similar. But in ancient Europe, because of backward agriculture, many land nobles were poor. Some poor aristocratic families, in order to save their daughter's dowry, would even send their daughters to a monastery as a nun to avoid the huge cost of marrying their daughters. Therefore, many aristocratic girls, in order to marry a good man, would secretly embezzle and save dowries for themselves when they served as noble maids.

Therefore, under such a powerful money offensive, it is not surprising that the daughters of poor nobles who need to accumulate dowry fall. As for those maids, the spies of the North Sea State took advantage of their few opportunities to go home and visit their relatives every year, and they could knock them out by flashing gold coins in front of their eyes...

As for the palace guards, they are a bit harder to win over than those maids and maids. After all, when these guards enter the palace to serve, they often come here for their future, and they usually value their future more than money. Especially the eldest sons of some nobles who have the right to inherit, it is very difficult to win over.

But there are also some noble children who are not heirs, who spend a lot of money, and some are even addicted to gambling, which requires a lot of money. Therefore, there were also some guards who were recruited to help the Beihai country inquire about information.

In this secret meeting, there were maids + maids, as well as the "reliable" guards present. At the same time, the information was passed on to Marin.

Looking at the information in his hand, Marin's face was uncertain. Unexpectedly, the Portuguese could come up with the wicked idea of ​​using the merchant ships of the North Sea country to attract the firepower of the fort.

And this also reminded Marin - only deploying artillery on both sides, it seems that the enemy ship in the middle will indeed be missed.

"It's no wonder that later generations pay attention to 'crossfire'. It turns out that it is to prevent dead ends in firepower!"

Obviously, the practice of arranging the forts on the left and right has a dead angle of firepower, that is, the middle part. Just as Bebeto De Leo said, the North Sea State, with one fort each, can only attack the entry and exit of a small number of warships, as well as the ships on the left and right sides of a large-scale fleet. For the warships that are covered in the middle, the firepower cannot be covered.

Therefore, it is best to arrange the fort in a triangular arrangement in the shape of "pin", which can ensure that the enemy fleet has no dead angle to avoid shelling.

But it is too late to modify the layout of the fort now, and the mouth of the Ems River is too wide, which is not conducive to the layout of the "pin"-shaped fort. Therefore, Marin plans to use stones to build one or two long bridge piers that can go deep into the middle of the river. This kind of stone is built on the top of the long bridge pier, and then builds the fort. In this way, it can form an echo with the turrets on the left and right sides, and attack the blind spots of the enemy fleet.

However, it is too late to do so right now. If you want to frighten Portugal, you can only take other measures. for example……

Marin decided to contact Spain, conduct a fleet visit in La Coruña, a port city on the northwestern coast of Spain, and conduct a joint military exercise with the local Spanish army for landing and attacking fortifications...

A Coruña is located on the northwestern coast of Spain, very close to the north of Portugal. Marin chose to conduct visits and joint military exercises here, which was clearly a demonstration to Portugal.

In order to achieve the demonstration effect, Marin decided to dispatch 5,000 infantry this time, in the name of the "Marine Corps", to participate in this army visit and joint military exercise in La Coruña...

This kind of routine, the old beauty of the later generations is very proficient in using it. If there is any movement in Beibang, Lao Mei will conduct a joint military exercise with Nanbang to frighten Beibang.

Marin is going to use this joint military exercise to tell Portugal - I know the routine of attacking Portugal through Spain, don't mess with me...

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However, if Spain agrees to cooperate with him in this play, Marin estimates that the price to be paid is not small...

Although Spain has a good relationship with Marin, it will not allow the army of the North Sea country to come in and out easily, and even engage in joint military exercises with you. Unless, Marin is willing to exchange a lot of benefits...

Marin thought for a while, and it seems that Kong Tai shipped back a batch of porcelain and silk, worth three to four hundred thousand gold coins...

"Forget it, let's share the profits of this batch of porcelain and silk with the Spaniards this time..."

Marin intends to use the agency rights of the Iberian Peninsula and Italy for this batch of porcelain and silk as a condition to let Spain cooperate with him in this play. If it is handed over to the Spaniards for exclusive sale, it is estimated that 20 to 30% of the profits will fall into the hands of the Spaniards, worth tens of thousands of gold coins.

But it was worth it compared to avoiding war with Portugal. After all, Marin is preparing to fight France right now, and it is really impossible to provoke two powerful enemies at the same time. What's more, the silk and porcelain business is also hateful, so it's also a good choice to get an accomplice to share the firepower. Anyway, I still take the big head...

Moreover, if the Spaniards agree to this military visit and joint military exercise, it will be a deterrent to Portugal-look, Spain is still on the side of the North Sea...

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