Why did Caesar and Margaret have so many twists and turns in the marriage between them? The problem lies in the Treaty of Nantes signed by Edward, Marin and Louis XII.
In order to gain the support of France and Marin's North Sea Kingdom, Edward signed a tripartite treaty with Louis XII and Marin at the port of Nantes in France in exchange for France and the North Sea Kingdom to send troops to help him seize the throne.
But the problem is that Edward at that time was not a British monarch, but a nobleman in exile. The ministers of England could completely refute the debts he signed.
In addition, because it is a secret agreement, only three parties are present, and no representatives from other countries are notarized. This has become a problem - without third-party notarization, it is difficult to get recognition from other countries.
Of course, if Edward insisted on the validity of this contract, there would be no problem. But the problem is that Edward's attitude was a bit ambiguous and his position was not so firm. Therefore, the English minister would come out to cause trouble.
In fact, Marin is now fully capable of using force to force England to accept the contract. Anyway, this contract was not fabricated by him, and many people know its existence.
But the problem is that if Marin forces England to publicly admit it now, it will expose its ambition to annex England. At that time, it will have to face France in advance. Once France and the German princes join forces, Marin, who is not prepared, may be beaten to GG.
Therefore, Marin is now suffering and can’t tell the truth, so he can only deal with this problem in secret.
In addition, Marin also felt Edward's small actions in recent years. Perhaps because he was worried that the two legions of the North Sea Kingdom would threaten his rule, Edward formed two legions of ten thousand people directly under the royal family, including 7,000 longbow soldiers.
But these two legions have never had a good combat power. Knowing the war to conquer Ireland, these 20,000 people took turns to fight and practiced their combat power through actual combat. Of course, Edward did not know that because of the lack of strict management and daily training of the Beihai Army, his two 10,000 legions had combat power only in the old army of this era, and the gap between them and the Beihai Army of the new army was still quite good.
Some things are not visible at ordinary times. For example, the training frequency of the Beihai Army is very high and they do training at any time. Although the energy consumption is very large and adding meals requires a lot of food, this is very useful for maintaining combat effectiveness.
Although Edward's two 10,000-man legions also learned the training mode of the recruits of the two corpses of the Beihai Kingdom, because they were both appointed old officers, they did not strictly control military discipline and daily training.
These things usually seem to be trivial, but when they come to the battlefield, they can distinguish between the superiority and the inferiority. However, Edward and his old officers did not understand and thought that the combat effectiveness of the army was comparable to that of the two North Sea Legions.
In addition, the slackness of daily training in daily life is not only the problem of officer management, but also the cost issue.
You should know that frequent training and armed off-road activities will consume a lot of physical energy. At this time, you need to eat more often. Moreover, it is a high-energy meat-eating meal. Otherwise, the human body will collapse.
This is the same as when farmers feed eggs and essence during the plowing oxen, so as not to be able to bear it. After a lot of exercise, you must replenish it. Otherwise, the body will suffer losses. Of course, except for those who lose weight.
In order to maintain the usual exercise and armed off-road exercise, the Beihai National Military Camp often uses large pots of braised pork or braised mutton (there are more mutton in England, and the mutton is cheap). In addition, they often eat some high-protein meat such as salted fish.
However, these all require a lot of costs. What's more, 20,000 people have to eat them. Therefore, eating them like this is very expensive.
Malin is a local tyrant and does not lack those in his hands, so he naturally has the conditions to raise soldiers like this. Therefore, the soldiers of Beihai Kingdom are usually very nutritious, have a large amount of training, and have very good physical fitness.
But England is a traditional agricultural country, and the British royal family's fiscal revenue also relies on the wool and textile industry, and the income is not high.
How much fiscal revenue is England? It is about 120,000 pounds per year! Most of them are obtained from the wool industry and tariffs. The income belonging to the royal territory is only about 40,000 pounds, accounting for only one-third.
Of course, for England, the annual fiscal revenue of £120,000 is no less. After all, that is equivalent to 480,000 Goulden gold coins.
It seems that this is much less than France's 1.2 million gold coins every year, but it depends on national strength. France's population is 15 million, and the annual fiscal revenue is only 1.2 million. England only has 3 million people, and the population of Scotland and Ireland is only 3.75 million. If it can have 480,000 gold coins per year, the fiscal situation is definitely much better than France. After all, England's talents are more than one-fifth of France's population, but its fiscal revenue accounts for more than one-third of France.
This is mainly because of the great development of England's wool-textile industry, which has brought a lot of surplus benefits to the British royal family. If we only rely on the income of 40,000 pounds per year in the royal territory, England would not dare to call itself a great power.
It is precisely with the annual fiscal revenue of 400,000 or 500,000 gold coins that England has the ability to dispatch large-scale troops to fight hegemony with people, and can barely occupy a place among European countries.
But England and France don’t know that Marin is the most low-key super tycoon in Europe…
If all the wheat produced in the Americas can be sold, including the annual surplus of hundreds of millions of rye and the miscellaneous trade, Marin's annual fiscal revenue will definitely exceed tens of millions of gold coins.
But the problem is that the European market is not that big and there are not so many coins, and most of Marin's grain cannot be sold. In desperation, Marin could only use excess grain to make wine, and even use it to raise pigs.
Therefore, most people cannot see his fiscal revenue. The fiscal revenue displayed on the surface is only more than one million gold coins. These are calculated through foreign trade activities and those who are interested. And they cannot see the food reserved by Marin in the North Sea and America warehouses.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Moreover, many of the more than one million gold coins on the surface are used to support tens of thousands of troops. Therefore, on the surface, Marin's financial surplus is not much.
In fact, the annual fiscal revenue of Beihai Kingdom is not counted, but the food that cannot be sold is estimated to be three to four million gold coins. However, Marin's ruling philosophy is different from the monarchs of this era. Therefore, his income is high and his expenses are also very large.
For example, Malin promoted digging rivers and building roads in Beihai Kingdom and engaged in infrastructure construction. The monarchs of this era would never "waste money" to do this. They only knew how to collect taxes, and it was absolutely impossible for them to spend money for the people.
The European monarchs in this era generally had very low ruling levels and were still in a very primitive era of feudal monarchs. They were similar to the Spring and Autumn Period of China, and far inferior to the feudal dynasty of China.
Although the feudal dynasties in ancient China had high fiscal revenue, they also spent a lot of money every year to build water conservancy, lay and maintain official roads, and improve station systems. These conventional things cost a lot of money every year. However, the construction and maintenance of these inconspicuous infrastructures are the guarantee of a country's economic prosperity.
But in this era, European monarchs did not spend money on those things. They only knew how to collect taxes and then squander themselves. Of course, they still paid for the road they walked on. As for the roads they took, they did not spend money to repair them.
The most serious thing is the German region. Because of the division and division, lords from all over the country have their own jurisdiction and short-sighted eyes, and are unwilling to pay for the construction of roads, bridges and other infrastructure. It is rare that a lord built a bridge, but it was a matter of collecting road taxes to set up a card...
Therefore, it has been difficult for the German region to develop. However, unified countries such as England and France have gradually taken measures like spending money to maintain official roads and opening station systems. After all, unified countries manage various places and require smooth transportation and information.
However, due to the influence of fiscal revenue, countries like Britain and France that are concentrated in royal powers are unable to invest in infrastructure. It is already very difficult to maintain several main roads and station systems. As for the others, they can only be short of money.
For example, the problem of the military's usual training is that because they are unable to provide enough meat to the army, they can only helplessly cancel daily training and armed off-road training. It's not that they don't want to, but that they can't afford it.
Moreover, those traditional officers also despised this kind of physical training in their daily life, thinking that as long as the soldiers have rich experience, it is not very important to eat meat or not. Even if there is a difference, it is not very big...
Edward obviously realized that the two 10,000-man legions of Marin placed in England had threatened his rule. Therefore, taking advantage of the opportunity to conquer Ireland, Edward used the excuse that "Ireland had just been taken down. In order to prevent the locals from rebounding, a large army was needed." Then, he ordered 5,000 troops from the Fourth and Fifth Legions to be dispatched to Dublin as a control and deterrent to the Ireland Island...
In this way, the two North Sea Legions left in England only had a total of 10,000 people. Moreover, the remaining 5,000 people of the Fourth Legion were stationed in Newcastle, in the northernmost part of England. The remaining 5,000 people of the Fifth Legion were further away, and were stationed in Edinburgh, and there was almost no threat to London...
Then, Edward felt that the North Sea army had only 10,000 left on the British Isle, and was still far from London, and its influence on London was greatly reduced.
After that, London began to make all kinds of troubles. Obviously, after Edward transferred half of the Beihai Army, he felt that the time was almost done, so he started to make small moves.
However, according to the spy lurking in the London Palace, Edward is not sure whether he can give birth to a prince, so he has not yet made up his mind to interfere in the marriage of Princess Margaret, and is still just making trouble. After all, if he gives birth to a prince, it would be meaningless to marry who Princess Margaret will marry. However, if he is sure that he cannot have another son, Edward may make other plans.
The main reason is that marriage with Caesar, the heir of the North Sea Kingdom, does not seem to be of any benefit to England. Perhaps, it will drag England into the quagmire of the internal German hegemony.
Chapter completed!