To be honest, Marin had actually fooled Prince Philip to carry out land enclosure and raise sheep in the Netherlands, and was also looking for sales for food. The Netherlands stopped farming, so naturally they had to rely on imports. The Beihai Kingdom and the Habsburg family have always had a good relationship, so Marin's first choice for imported food.
At that time, the Netherlands will concentrate on raising sheep and textile wool wool, so the food problem will naturally be left to Marin to solve it. This is also one of the agreement reached by Prince Philip and Marin. After all, the Netherlands area gave up farming, but there must be a source of food. No matter how much land is enclosed in the Netherlands, the hundreds of thousands of textile workers are fixed sources of grain imports. Even in the countryside, a small number of farmers need to leave sheep. Therefore, the Netherlands must be a large grain market. At that time, there will be no need to worry about sales of old grains. Moreover, the Netherlands, which specializes in selling wool textiles, will definitely have enough cash to buy food. After all, textiles can be sold directly for money. But in addition to the big profits, most of the hard money transferred by the textile workers still have to be used to buy food.
The economy is a very complicated thing. Back then, Marin led East Friesland to rise rapidly and had enough capital with advanced agricultural technology.
However, when the Eastern Frieslander Kingdom expanded and expanded into the North Sea Kingdom that had grown by more than ten or twenty times, Marin was shocked to find that too much food was not a good thing. When it exceeded one limit, other countries would not have enough money to buy food...
At present, the North Sea country accounts for almost half of the German region, but the population accounts for only one-sixth of the German region. It is not that no one is short of food, but that those who are short of food have no money, and those who are rich do not lack food. Therefore, most of the food has to be stored in the granary.
Also, Malin felt that it was nothing to hoard food himself, but the nobles of Beihai refused. They wanted to exchange it for money to maintain their own aristocratic life...
The nobles of the Beihai Kingdom, except for the old nobles who were concentrated to Bremen Province, were basically the upstarts who later became famous for their military achievements. Simply put, they were nouveau riche!
These nouveau riche in the aristocratic world pay the most attention to face. Perhaps because of their inferiority complex, they pay special attention to rules and pomp, and care more about them than old aristocrats.
Moreover, Malin distributed a lot of land to them and fertilizer, which made each family's grain production very high. However, because of the rules set by Malin at that time, in order not to expose many secrets of the Beihai country's grain, the nobles' grain must be handed over to the Beihai Chamber of Commerce in Malin for sale.
The problem is here. These nobles are unwilling to suffer losses. They all hope that their surplus grain will be sold early and get money early. Therefore, every year, the grain sales season is a headache for Marin. You say, if you have tens of millions of pounds, it is easy to say, and there will always be big customers in Spain and Italy that can eat it. However, at first, there are hundreds of millions of pounds. With such a large size, it is difficult to find buyers who want to take over...
But Malin had to help them find a solution, otherwise, if the officers were disinterested, the problem would be big. Therefore, every autumn, Malin was busy with the help of his subordinates selling grain.
Fortunately, there is probably no need to worry about food sales this year - my spies report that this year, the Netherlands and northeastern France and the northeastern eastern region are suffering from severe autumn harvest rainfall, so there will be a serious shortage of food this year. In this way, the food shortage will inevitably be very large.
Needless to say, the Netherlands has a lot of food in Marin that has a population of millions. As for France, the problem is a bit complicated...
According to information, France has a large number of people affected by disasters, with one or two million people, which is about 1.8 million. Logically, this is a good time to sell food. But the Paris spy sent back the news that Louis XII had planned to use the excess military rations originally planned to enter Switzerland as disaster relief food, and to release food in the disaster areas in the northeast and northeastern 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 victims were not short of food, then Louis XII would use the originally extra food as military rations to march into Switzerland and drive away the Habsburg family's army...
So, after thinking about it, Marin suspended his plan to sell food to the disaster area of ​​France. Because he needed Louis XII to smash the extra grain into the disaster area, leaving a chance for the Habsburg family. After all, if the Habsburg family lost Switzerland, God knows whether another Calvinist who specializes in killing the king will rise in Switzerland...
Moreover, the little extra grain that Louis XII was used to provide relief to 1.8 million victims seemed to have a very large gap...
Marin planned to wait until Louis XII spent all his food, and then go to buy the bottom and plunder the local population...
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In addition, Marin also plans to use this famine to provoke right and wrong and incite the French victims to launch a rebellion...
Therefore, Marin began to consciously train a group of French-speaking spies and officers to teach them how to fight guerrillas. Once the victims in the disaster-stricken areas of France were out of food again, they would go to deceive the local victims and launch an uprising, and then go to the unaffected places to plunder food...
This is a very vicious method. Originally, there were only 1.8 million victims in the affected area. However, after the rebellion was launched in the affected area, the rebels would enter the originally unaffected areas to plunder food. Then, many more refugees were added to the unaffected areas. These newly added refugees were not affected by the disaster. However, when the rebels robbed all their food, these people had no choice but to passively become victims...
Just like in the late Ming Dynasty, the real disaster was mainly some areas of northern Shaanxi and Shanxi Province. However, the bandit army led by Li Zicheng wandered around like locusts, causing disasters to become new disaster areas. After the locusts passed through the border, the food was snatched away by the so-called "rebels". If the people wanted to survive, they could only hang out with them, otherwise they would starve to death...
Moreover, after these so-called "rebels" robbed all the food of the people, they did not know how to cherish it. Instead, they opened their stomachs and ate and drank, and often could eat and eat. They were not as calculating as ordinary people.
Therefore, the robbed food is destined to be insufficient to eat. What should I do if I have no food? Continue to go to the next place to grab food... Then, the "rebel army" team is snowballing, growing in scale, and needs more and more food. Then, wherever they pass by, the food is swept away and becomes a new disaster area...
The reason why Marin trained those spies was that he hoped that they could launch an uprising, use the tactics of bandits to harm the French local area, severely attack the French economy, and make them lose the ability to crush the world.
However, in the northeastern region of France and the northeastern part of the east, close to Paris, if Louis XII dispatched tens of thousands of knights to suppress it, all bandits would be ruined. Therefore, this matter needs to be planned carefully.
But the news from Spain seemed that Gonzalo would launch an attack on the Kingdom of Naples after the autumn harvest. At that time, once Gonzalo gains some advantages, a large number of French troops will definitely go south to reinforce the Italian battlefield.
At this time, there is an opportunity. At that time, the success rate will be higher. After all, the main knight army went south to fight against Spain, and the country lacked troops to suppress the peasant uprising army.
Moreover, with disaster relief grain, it is estimated that the 1.8 million victims will not reach a desperate situation for a while. But the next autumn harvest will be until next autumn, and it will be very long. Every spring, when the green and yellow are not in progress, it is the most difficult time. The autumn harvest is about to be about to be about, but without food, it is difficult to last until the autumn harvest...
Chapter completed!