The Rise of the European Emperor

"The Rise of the European Emperor ()"!

After discussing with Marin, the emperor quietly returned to the guard of honor, joined Prince Charlie near the city of Ghent, and then entered the city to meet his son Philip.

After hearing the deal between his father and Marin, Prince Philip was a little surprised:

"Father, how many immigrants does Marin want? He has negotiated a big contract with me before, and he continues to ask you for people. Does he have a place to settle so many people?"

The emperor thought for a while and said:

"Beihai is mostly in the plains, so so many people should be able to accommodate them. Moreover, even if they cannot be accommodated in the mainland, he can still be resettled in the barbaric continent."

"However, I heard that there are many ferocious beasts and vicious cannibals on the wild continent. Also, the terrible syphilis!" Prince Philip said.

Maximilian I chuckled and said:

"Do you believe what he said? I always feel that Marin is not telling the truth. However, the environment there must not be very good."

"But I heard that he invented the method of using a wall to stop cannibals, and circled a large area, the area is no less than two provinces (provinces in Europe, generally two to three thousand square kilometers), but he will think of a way Yes. Of course, it was because of his intelligence that he grew from a wandering knight to what he is today."

Prince Philip thought for a while:

"Using the method of enclosing the land with a wall is also a way, somewhat similar to Hadrian's Great Wall in England. However, if you want to expand inland, the cost of building a wall is amazing... Tsk tsk, most people can't afford it... "

The emperor shook his head:

"That's something that can't be helped. Marin was born in a humble background and was crowded out and hostile by the princes. It is difficult for him to make a difference in Germany, so he has no choice but to go to the barbaric continent to develop."

In this era, Europeans generally looked down on places other than mainland Europe, East Asia and India, and did not have the concept of developing colonies. Even Spain in the original history, after occupying the Americas, did not have the concept of developing the Americas, and only knew about prospecting and mining. Moreover, only interested in gold and silver. Of course, there is also sugar cane.

Therefore, North America, which was the most suitable for farming at that time, was wasted by Spain and left there. North America was not developed until English colonists came to America.

Moreover, England's development of America is purely coincidental. Because of the land enclosure movement in England, a large number of landless farmers appeared.

In the 16th century, hundreds of thousands of landless farmers could still be digested by various workshops. But after the 17th century, the scale of landless farmers was too large. If you can't digest it, you can easily cause trouble if you keep it. Therefore, it is encouraged to send immigrants to North America to cultivate wasteland.

And those farmers who lost their land were veterans of farming. When they went to North America, they naturally opened up farms, and then slowly developed. Because they were forced to immigrate to America after being persecuted, and there are many vicious criminals, the immigrants from the thirteen North American states do not have a high degree of belonging and loyalty to England. Later, at the behest of France, they rebelled...

In other words, Europeans in this era are actually very stupid, and they haven't paid much attention to land. But the group of people who are brave enough to take risks and go to sea to work hard have a strong business concept, and they only care about gold and silver mines, not farming.

Therefore, after Marin got the Wild Continent, although everyone was jealous, they didn't react too much. Even farming, no one has much feeling.

Of course, if Marin develops a large-scale gold and silver mine at this time, these people must have red eyes, and they may find fault. Therefore, Marin has been suppressing and has not developed gold and silver in Mexico and Peru. Even if it is developed, it is done quietly.

Under such circumstances, even a wise man like Maximilian I of this era failed to see the great value of America, but felt something was wrong instinctively.

As for France, their eyes are on Italy and Germany at this time, and they don't care about anything else at all. Moreover, France's biggest wish is to become the hegemon of the European continent. Then, snatch Shinra's crown...

Spain and Portugal were drawn away by India's trade interests. Denmark was crippled by Marin and the Hanseatic League, and England had just ended its civil strife...

Therefore, Marin has no opponent coveting America for the time being. But his headache is - there is really a shortage of people!

Not to mention the Americas, even the mainland lacks population! You must know that the land area of ​​the Beihai country has exceeded 100,000 square kilometers, which is about the same as that of England. Moreover, plains occupy most of it. However, there were only 12 million mu of arable land in the country before, which was equivalent to 8,000 square kilometers, which was less than one-tenth of the country's land area.

Of course, because of the popularization and use of Prader plow trucks, columbine trucks and wheat samarium, Beihai has reclaimed 10 million mu of new arable land, and it is estimated that more will be reclaimed next year. But the biggest problem is still the lack of young and strong labor!

After all, based on the calculation of 100 mu of arable land for each young and strong, 22 million mu would require 220,000 young and strong! But this is an ideal situation. In fact, the average young and strong can cultivate 50 mu of land. If you really need to cultivate 100 mu of land, those who are physically strong will be fine, but those with average health will be exhausted to death.

That's why Marin wanted more immigrants, the more the better. According to his plan, of the more than 100,000 square kilometers of land in Beihai, 40,000 square kilometers must be reclaimed no matter what. This conversion is 60 million mu! According to the non-extreme algorithm that each young man cultivates 50 mu of land, it would take 1.2 million young men.

But Beihai country now has a population of just over 2 million, of which there are more than 500,000 young and middle-aged. Moreover, many young and middle-aged people have to serve as soldiers, officials, sailors, fishermen, or herdsmen. There are only more than 300,000 young and strong people who can really cultivate the land, which is far behind the old nose!

That's why Marin came up with the idea of ​​the Grand Duchy of Moscow, intending to rob hundreds of thousands of people back to alleviate the plight of the lack of farmers.

But now, Marin suddenly discovered that there seemed to be a new source of population...

He reckoned that for money, the emperor and his son would at least bring him tens of thousands of households. And one family spent 30 gold coins... Marin suddenly felt that the money bag was a bit empty...

In this way, by then, Marin is estimated to have spent more than one million gold coins!

Although the Beihai country has sufficient currency, the brass coins issued within the Beihai country are probably not easy to use. After all, at this time, no other German states accepted copper coins. Throughout Europe, Spain, Portugal and some Italian states, as well as the North Sea State, really promoted the use of copper coins. Other countries would rather mix most of the copper in silver coins than use pure copper coins.

However, once the gold and silver worth one million and hundreds of thousands of gold coins are paid to the emperor and his son, there will be a money shortage in Beihai. After all, bulk trade is inseparable from gold and silver. Copper coins are only used in private small-scale trade, and large-scale trade must be gold and silver transactions.

Once the North Sea country loses a large amount of gold and silver currency, merchants in the market will be forced to use a large amount of copper coins when engaging in wholesale trade. When trading, counting money takes a long time. It is conceivable that millions of trades are all traded with one-yuan coins... It is estimated that the number of steel coins on both sides of the trade will collapse...

"Are you really going to 'borrow' some gold and silver from the Aztec Empire and the Inca Empire in America?" Marin was very distressed.

During the meeting of the internal ministers, Marin expressed his concerns. Then, he looked at Kohler. After all, Kohler usually has a lot of ideas. But Kohler did the same, but Steindorf, the brash man, gave a solution:

"Your Majesty, you are short of gold and silver, go and grab it!"

"Grab?" Marin was stunned.

"Yes, aren't you going to attack the Grand Duchy of Moscow? I don't believe there are hundreds of thousands of gulden of gold and silver in Moscow. In addition, the city of Novgorod under Moscow's control was once a commercial city, and there must be no shortage of gold and silver. As long as To conquer these two major cities, there are still gold and silver worth hundreds of thousands of Gulden coins!" Steindorf said carelessly. This guy used to be a bandit before, and later became a mercenary. Therefore, he has a lot of bandit spirit.

"It seems to make sense!" Marin's eyes lit up immediately.

It is impossible for the emperor and his son to send tens of thousands of households at once, and the transportation is inconvenient these days. It may take several months or even a year to organize the resettlement of thousands of households, let alone tens of thousands of households. Therefore, the emperor and his son will never trade more than 10,000 households at the beginning. And 10,000 households only have 300,000 gold coins, so the impact on the Beihai market is not too great. After more than a year, Marin will be able to send troops to Moscow.

At that time, grabbing gold and silver worth hundreds of thousands of gold coins will greatly alleviate the crisis. In the meantime, Marin can also sell some grain, liquor, sugar and other materials in exchange for hundreds of thousands of gold coins in gold and silver. Then, the problem is roughly solved...

However, Marin's previous plan was only to defeat the army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow in the wild and make it decline. But now, in order to obtain gold and silver, it is not necessary to change the plan, at least the two cities of Moscow and Novgorod must be broken.

The siege warfare is very cruel, and there are often situations where the siege cannot be conquered for months or even years. Therefore, Marin had to prepare in advance:

"Kohler, send spies to Moscow City and Novgorod City. Within a year, a tunnel leading to the city must be dug!"

If tunnels are dug during wartime, people can monitor them with water tanks or something. But when there is no war, who pays so much attention to the underground? Within a year, as long as it is hidden when the soil is dumped, no one will notice it at all.

Moreover, the tunnel that Marin asked to dig was not mandatory to dig a tunnel into the city. Instead, just dig under the city walls. At that time, it will be no problem to bury a pile of gunpowder barrels at the base of the city wall and blow up the city wall.

And the tunnel does not lead into the city, and the defenders in the city usually don't bother to check whether there is a tunnel outside the city. Moreover, during the war, the defenders were also very helpless for this kind of tunnel that did not enter the city. After all, the tunnel leads into the city, and the entrance of the tunnel can still be guarded to prevent people from entering. If people don't come in, they can't defend...

Usually, you can send troops out of the city to destroy the tunnels outside the city. But if you don't fight at ordinary times, who the fuck would bother to find out if there is any authentic way? Unless, you are accidentally discovered by the defenders. But the spies of the North Sea country are all well-trained and will not make such low-level mistakes.

In addition, in European cities of this era, except for a few water cities such as Venice, city walls generally like to be built on steep hillsides, and do not pay attention to moats. Therefore, it is more convenient to dig tunnels. Unlike Aurich, the capital of the North Sea country, there are moats all around. If you want to dig a tunnel, first taste the power of the moat water...

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