In fact, in addition to Ukrainian farmers, they can be transported to the North Sea Kingdom by water, and even the serfs from the Grand Principal of Moscow can be transported to the North Sea Kingdom by water.
Specifically, go west along the Novgorod region and enter the Daogava River basin that flows from Riga into the Baltic Sea, go to the sea from Riga, and take a boat to the Jutland Peninsula.
But when the problem is, once the Grand Duchy of Moscow and Lithuania starts war, the Teutonic people will take the opportunity to re-annex the Livonian region. As the capital of the Knights of Livonia, Riga naturally flies in war. Passing there, it is inevitable that they will encounter dangers and challenges.
Marin is not afraid of fighting, but is afraid that if time goes on, immigrants will starve to death because they cannot get food in time. Therefore, this route is not good.
After thinking about it for a while, Marin came to the map and selected the southern bank of the Neva River estuary, which is currently affiliated to the Novgorod region, as an immigration exit. This place, in later generations, was called St. Petersburg.
The place of St. Petersburg is at the mouth of the Neva River, and the Neva River goes inland, connecting the huge Lake Ladoga, and Lake Ladoga is connected to the Volhov River directly to the city of Novgorod.
If it is not the winter freezing period, ships from the North Sea Kingdom can enter Lake Ladoga through the Neva River, then enter the Volkhov River, and go directly to Novgorod. They can even go upstream and continue to move south. In this way, food transportation will be more convenient.
If the population walks along this waterway and does not have to worry about food, you can walk smoothly to St. Petersburg at the mouth of the sea and then board the ship.
However, the city was not built until 1703. After all, Peter the Great was not born in 1672. At present, this is an ordinary estuary and there is no important port.
Mainly, it is too close to Sweden and belongs to the border area. Later, Tsarist Russia moved its capital from Moscow to St. Petersburg, for the sake of capital security, but it annexed the Finnish region, which originally belonged to the Swedish kingdom. Therefore, the current St. Petersburg region is basically a place close to the border area and is of little value.
The Grand Principal of Moscow is currently committed to annexing the surrounding neighbors. It has not yet discovered the strategic significance of this place, so naturally there is no idea of ​​building a port. Russia's real enlightenment actually has to wait until Peter I travels around Western European countries before it will begin to change and pay attention to the ocean. The Grand Principal of Moscow is a ruthless country bumpkin on the land, relying solely on the number of people to fight against people.
However, because it was too poor, although the Grand Duchy of Moscow was large in population, there were too few weapons and armors used to arm soldiers. Therefore, in general, tens of thousands of people could only be dispatched. Once more than 100,000, there would be a serious shortage of weapons and armor. Just like when Ivan III led an army of 200,000 to confront the Ugra River in 1480, why did Ivan III be so many people still fear the 50,000 people of Aheima Khan? In addition to the many cavalry of the Golden Horde, most of the troops in the Grand Duchy of Moscow did not have weapons, which is also an important reason. At least tens of thousands of Moscow militias recruited were not serious weapons, but farm tools such as pitchforks and hoes. Moreover, a considerable number of them were not even iron tools, just simple wooden pitchforks and wooden ploughs.
At that time, the Moscow army was actually only 10,000 or 20,000 people. The 30,000 to 40,000 soldiers and horses pieced together by the lords from other places were considered to have some combat power, although they were also miscellaneous soldiers. The others were all farmers who came to make up for their courage...
Can they fight with a pitchfork and a wooden hoe? At most, they can hurt people. Of course, if the other party does not have armor, they will have some damage ability.
However, if they are equipped with real weapons and armor and trained, it will be terrifying. Think about it, even if each person gives a spear and stabs each person, the lethality will be very considerable. As for armor, there is no shortage of fur on the ground of Eastern Europe. If you just sew it, it will be a simple inferior leather armor.
Just like this time the Teutonics helped them purchase weapons and armor, and the Muslim soldiers ordered the Muslim soldiers in Moscow, which was actually the most iron-saving spearhead. When transported back, they would just find a stick and put it on. As for the armor, the Teutonics only helped to order the armor used by officers and main forces, and most of them were chain mail that was relatively iron-saving. As for the recruitment soldiers composed of Minzhuang, they were inferior armor sewn with fur! They would be knocked down if they didn't bring it, and they thought they were unlucky if they died...
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But then again, the military personnel of the Grand Duchy of Moscow are not of good quality, and Lithuania is also not good. When parallel goods are facing parallel goods, they are naturally more powerful... Unfortunately, the Grand Duchy of Moscow has a large population. People can dispatch 200,000 troops in confrontation with the Golden Horde, and they can naturally dispatch so many people to attack Lithuania. As long as there are enough weapons, it is no problem to attack Lithuania.
Moreover, Vasily III was not a mediocre person. According to information learned by intelligence personnel, Vasily III was preparing to attack the Smolensk region, and on the other hand, he recruited a large number of farmers to build defense lines in the southern region to block the Crimean Khanate, which might send troops.
He had no money to build a city wall to block the Crimean cavalry, but he asked the Moscow serfs to dig ditches in the area south of Ryazan...
Of course, he digged a trench instead of digging irrigation canals, but diverting water into the trench to prevent the Crimean cavalry from heading north smoothly. Vasily III had heard of Marin's feat of using three trenches to block the Saxon knights. Therefore, he also asked people to dig many tunnels and ditches in the southern border areas, and even set up many horse pits to block or delay the Tatar cavalry.
He wanted to learn from Marin to spread caltrops in front of the formation, but that thing made of iron is too expensive and he can't afford it...
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Kohler's subordinates estimated that the Grand Duchy of Moscow can currently gather up to 100,000 sets of weapon armor (there is no armor for recruiting militias). Although half of them are worn out, the weapon armor is weapon armor. If the Teutonic Kingdom can help buy another 50,000 sets, the Grand Duchy of Moscow can guarantee that the 100,000 troops will be equipped with weapons and armor. Then, 50,000 people can have inferior weapons. In this way, they can arm the 150,000 army. Then, 50,000 farmers with their own forks and hoes... Beating Lithuania is like playing...
But then again, Marin is not afraid of such a miscellaneous army. He knew very well that as long as he could defeat the most powerful people in the front, the army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow would easily be defeated.
Therefore, he looked forward to the Moscow people launching a war as soon as possible, defeating Lithuania, and then defeating them himself...
In order to facilitate transportation of the plundered population, it is necessary to obtain a stable population export port in the Grand Principal of Moscow. For example, St. Petersburg...
Of course, there is no St. Petersburg yet, but Marin can build one...
After defeating the Grand Duchy of Moscow, Marin planned to let the Grand Duchy of Moscow ced the only narrow sea estuary of St. Petersburg to himself. Then, he built a city here for the export of Russian serfs... Well, a labor export port...
As for the name of the port town, Marin has decided to call it Petersburg...
As for why it is called Petersburg? It is not to commemorate the unharmed Peter the Great, but because Marin's cousin is called Peter...
Peter's cousin is the son of Uncle Yule, about the same age as Simon. Now, Marin has arranged for him to become a baron lord of the North Sea Kingdom. But because he has no credit, he is only a third-class baron.
Chapter completed!