In his heart, Marin fought fiercely. Seeing the gold coins, Marin wanted to make money. Moreover, Louis XII offered a price of 1.2 per pound, which was 20% higher than the German food price. However, when he thought of taking the opportunity to recruit people from France, Marin felt shaken again...
He knew very well that if Louis XII was allowed to obtain enough food and calm the natural disasters, the population he could recruit would be limited. After all, who would be willing to easily change his living environment if he could survive? In the agricultural era, not only Chinese people were home-loving, but Europeans were the same. Only after entering the 19th century and the industrial era began, did the world's population migrate on a large scale.
For example, in the United States, in nearly two hundred years of the 17th and 18th centuries, the thirteen North American states only had two or three million people. But after the 19th century, with the advent of the industrial age, the world's population migration scale became larger and larger. By the mid-to-late 19th century, the number of immigrants each year was several million.
Therefore, in this era, it is very difficult to get French farmers, especially self-cultivated farmers, to leave their land. Unless they really can't survive.
Obviously, Marin only sells grain to Louis XII. Even if Louis XII cooks some very thin porridge, mixed with a bunch of debris... As long as he eats it, he will survive, most farmers will not be willing to leave their homes...
Gradually, Marin was more inclined to not sell grain to Louis XII...
But the plan could not keep up with the changes. A group of nobles in the Beihai Kingdom heard that Louis XII was willing to buy food with real money and silver, so they all found Marin and wanted to sell food.
In Beihai Kingdom, although Malin alone occupies half of the arable land in the country, his other half is also in the hands of various nobles and many soldiers in the army. Malin's grain cannot be sold in a backlog, and the grain from the nobles in Beihai Kingdom's families cannot be sold in a backlog.
Many noble families in Beihai have accumulated a large amount of old grain. The most serious thing is that after this year's bumper harvest, many noble families in Beihai cannot put down new grain.
Although we knew that France and the North Sea were not going to deal with each other, our desire to deal with the backlog of food still prompted many people to find Marin and ask for the sale of food.
Marin was in a difficult mood at this time. He could only do and not say the idea of ​​using French natural disasters to recruit French farmers. Otherwise, Marin would become a thorn in Louis XII's eyes. He could not explain it clearly to his nobles, so he could not stop them from selling food...
After thinking about it, Marin finally gave a reluctant reason - Louis XII bought grain, in addition to providing relief to the disaster area, in fact, he wanted to use it as military rations to invade the Swiss area occupied by the emperor...
This reason is barely valid. After all, Marin started his business with the emperor. Even if the Germans were unhappy with the emperor, they could not watch the French bully the emperor. In particular, many of the soldiers in the Marin army recruited from the mountainous areas of the vassal states close to the emperor in southern Germany.
The nobles of the North Sea Kingdom thought it made sense, so they discussed it together for a long time. But after half a day, they proposed a compromise plan to Marin - selling the food that was barely enough for the victims of the disaster area in northeastern France, so that a batch of food could be sold in exchange for cash. At the same time, it could also prevent the French from using the excess food for military purposes...
Although Marlin was not very happy, he couldn't say that he had a crush on the French victims. In desperation, he had to agree to the nobles who sold food that millions of victims could eat for several months to France. According to the low standard of drinking porridge every day, he agreed to sell 30 million pounds of grain to France. According to the standard of 1.2 per pound of Finney, it was worth 36 million Finney and 600,000 gold coins.
Louis XII was a little bit too little, why did he think it was too little? He really wanted to take the opportunity to purchase a batch of military rations. However, Marin tried his best to stop Louis XII, so that he could only buy these.
In order to appease his nobles, Marin even gave up his share of food and gave all the benefits to his subordinates. But in private, Marin asked Kohler to quietly write down the names of the nobles who jumped the most in their notebooks...
Marin believes that these nobles who danced the most were suspected of having an affair with France. To put it another way, even if they did not have an affair with France, it would not be reliable to be so jealous of money. After all, the relationship between the Beihai Kingdom and France is not good, which many people know. Is there any problem with selling grain so actively to the French to relieve disasters?
As a result, Kohler sent someone to investigate in private and found out the problem - there were two nobles who were the most popular, who did have sex with the French. Of course, they did not defect to the French, but accepted bribes from the French and spoke to the French.
Marin immediately crossed the two people on his small notebook. Of course, it is not suitable to deal with them at the moment. Moreover, their crimes are not serious in this era. However, Marin always has a way to deal with them. In the future, find an excuse. Fortunately, these two people are civil servants, not military generals. Otherwise, Marin would be nervously unable to sleep.
In fact, in this era, it was normal for aristocrats to be bribed by other countries. Most of the nobles in this era were greedy. As long as they were bribed and if things were not big, they would accept it.
But Marin comes from China. Chinese people pay attention to "either left or right, neither good or evil", and sometimes they are very serious about taking sides. Therefore, Marin is so angry. But in this era, there were actually many nobles who colluded with foreign countries. During this period, many European nobles, whose eldest son served the king, and their second son may serve the king's mortal enemy, the monarch. These nobles, like the ancient Chinese families, had family interests first, so they did not care about what monarch or not.
Only those generals who were later promoted from the common people were educated by Marin from the beginning with the loyal education of Marin's "one minister is not a two-legged master" and did not have the habit of being two-faced. The two bought nobles were actually the old nobles of the vassal states occupied by Marin who later defected to Marin. They still maintained the old habit of betting on multiple sides. Seeing that France was powerful, although they did not surrender, they would not draw a clear line with France.
Marin was also very helpless about the old habit of making bets by traditional European aristocrats. He could not deal with those nobles for this reason. Moreover, the Beihai Kingdom has not publicly turned against France now. It is not an enemy country, so they cannot be convicted of them...
If he wanted to change the concept of the nobles, Marin could only count on the next generation. So Marin ordered the reform of the teaching methods of aristocratic schools, and the comprehensive change of aristocratic schools to boarding systems, and no longer allowed to stay.
At the same time, Malin ordered the teachers and instructors in the school to make great efforts to educate the children of the nobles to "one minister but not two masters". 7 days a week, they stay in the school for 5 days, which is more contact with their parents. In this way, they have enough time to reverse the thinking of the children of the nobles.
Chapter completed!