After thinking about it, Marin decided that for the uncooperative ordinary ship owners, they would follow the previous plan, while building their ships on the sea, while sending bandits to move their family's wealth... until their navigation business could not continue...
As for the noble ship owners, Marin was not active, but could use normal business wars to suppress them. For example, sending ships to compete with them. Deliberately lowering freight costs to squeeze them out...
But considering the good relationship between the Beihai Kingdom and the Habsburg family, Marin could not do it in the name of the Beihai Kingdom. Therefore, Marin thought of a solution - under the name of the Hanseatic merchant...
The rise of maritime trade in the Netherlands was accompanied by the suppression of the Hanseatic League. In history, the reason why the Netherlands was able to rise in the 16th century was because the Kingdom of Denmark defeated the Hanseatic League in the conflict, causing the Hanseatic League to lose the strength and deterrence of the North Sea overlord. In addition, the bluefish production area turned to the North Sea, giving the Netherlands the opportunity to challenge the Hanseatic League.
But at present, the Hanseatic League is at its peak. Denmark, which should have fought with the Hanseatic League, was destroyed by Marin and the Hanseatic League. Therefore, the Hanseatic League has a stable trade status in the North Sea and has a strong ability to suppress the Dutch maritime trade.
As for why the Hanseatic League allowed the North Sea to trade maritime? This is also a helpless matter. The Hanseatic League needs the support of Marin's land forces, so it can only allow Marin to develop maritime trade.
Moreover, the trade of Beihai Kingdom is very special. He mainly engages in trade in a small number of fields such as grain, salt, wine, spices and oriental specialties. Although the profit is high, the scale is not very large. Moreover, there are not many places that overlap with the Hanseatic League. The biggest conflict point is salt trade. However, Marin occupied the Lüneburg Salt Mine and became a supplier of the Hanseatic League merchants. The Hanseatic League naturally could only bear it.
However, there is no need to be polite about the Dutch sea traders. Not to mention the little Dutch nobles, Prince Philip, the owner of the Netherlands, Prince Philip, and the Hanseatic League, you don’t care much. As long as you don’t attack Prince Philip’s merchant ships and normal commercial suppression, Prince Philip will be helpless. Why? The Hanseatic League has many seats in the Imperial Parliament, and the Habsburg family dare not offend them too much. If they anger them, dozens of city representatives of the Hanseatic League will unite the anti-Habsburg nobles to fight against the emperor together... As long as Prince Philip is not stupid, he will not easily break up with the Hanseatic League...
Therefore, it is really reasonable and makes people feel bad when Marin went to the Netherlands to operate shipping and suppress the Netherlands merchant ships under the name of Hanseatic merchants...
To this end, while purchasing the Dutch merchant ships that could be acquired, Marin began to make arrangements for ordinary Dutch ship owners and nobles who did not sell ships.
Then, Marin acquired hundreds of sea boats from the Netherlands. At the same time, he hired most of the captains to leave. As for the captain who refused to leave, Marin had to arrange for Kohler to punish them...
Afterwards, Marin asked Kohler to arrange some spies lurking in the Hanseatic city to take some ships into the Netherlands in the name of the ship owners and start competing with the ship owners in the Netherlands. Their method is very simple, which is to arrange spies to keep a close eye on the ship owners. As long as they may take certain orders, they will immediately make trouble and grab the orders at a price lower than the market price. If these ship owners want to regain the order and continue to lower the price, there will be basically no profit...
As long as you persist in this process, sooner or later, the noble owners who refuse to sell the ship will be unable to continue to operate. Then, they are forced to change careers. But this is not overnight, and it will probably take several years.
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However, even if the Dutland's maritime transportation industry was squeezed out, it would not be able to obtain sufficient ships for Marin to transport immigrants within one year.
In this regard, Marin had to make two plans - on the one hand, he began to consider letting some immigrants go on land. Although it took a long time, it was better than waiting foolishly. As for the high cost of transporting food on land, Marin had to admit it.
On the other hand, there is at least one year left, Marin decided to build a ship!
At present, the transport ships that Marin can use, including those bought by the Netherlands, are only more than 200, which is too far from the demand for 2,500.
Therefore, Marin immediately issued an order to the shipyard of the Beihai Kingdom - to stop the manufacturing of all warships and fishing boats and make every effort to build merchant ships. Of course, the Dover ships made for England will not be affected.
Moreover, in order to take care of the fishery, some newly built merchant ships will make some changes to make them suitable for fishing and become dual-purpose ships that can be used for commercial and fishing. In other words, they can be used for ocean fishing.
In addition, the shipyards far away on Long Island, New York also had to issue orders to suspend the manufacturing of large warships and instead make every effort to build 250-class merchant ships. In the Americas, there is no limit to the red oak used for shipbuilding. Moreover, the red oak that can be used for shipbuilding can be piled up like mountains after drying. It is just that changing the specifications of shipbuilding is not difficult.
After long-term training, thousands of shipbuilding craftsmen brought back from Damingbao Shipyard have now adapted to the manufacture of European keel sailboats. Thousands of people started together, hundreds of people in groups, and dozens of merchant ships can be made at the same time. According to the efficiency of the Beihai Kingdom's division of labor and cooperation shipbuilding method, dozens of merchant ships can be produced in three or four months. More than three wheels can be built a year, at least one hundred or even 200 ships can be built.
But that's not enough!
There are only more than 400 ships in the 200 ships, and the distance between 2,500 ships is still far away...
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What should I do? Marin thought about it and could only go to Spain and Portugal to purchase ships first. The sailor captain doesn't need yours, but it's still OK to buy yours. Although the Carac sailboats and Caravel sailboats in Spain and Portugal are Atlantic ships and are not suitable for the Baltic Sea half-inland sea. However, they can be used even if they can barely make do.
Venetian galleys don’t consider why? Because galleys require too many sailors!
Generally, a Carac sailboat, like a ship with a capacity of more than 100 tons in Columbus's exploration of America, can be controlled by only 40 sailors. But if it is a sailboat, like a Calais ship, it has 150 oars, and at least 150 oars. In addition to the captain and sailors who control the sails... How can the boat be filled with the boat and also a ghost immigrant?
Therefore, Marin can only consider buying Carac sailboats and Caravel sailboats. But the same problem is that Spain and Portugal are not the same, and it is impossible to sell all the boats to you. Therefore, Marin estimated that if you can buy 200 ships, it would be a big deal.
In addition, he also plans to order 200 ships from the shipyards of both countries and strive to deliver them in one year... In this way, half of the ship demand will be met.
But Marin felt that it was not enough, so he planned to build a new shipyard to build a ship!
However, it is easy to solve the problem of shipbuilding wood, but it is difficult for shipbuilding craftsmen to work on it. It takes at least two or three years to train a qualified shipbuilding craftsman. This is still a genius, an ordinary apprentice, and even 7 years.
After thinking about it, Marin finally thought about the source of shipbuilders - the Netherlands and England...
As mentioned earlier, more than a dozen shipyards in Amsterdam were purchased by Marin and converted into furniture factories. However, those skilled shipbuilders are still there, but they are just converted to furniture.
There are more than a dozen shipyards, each with hundreds of shipbuilding craftsmen. Together, one or two thousand people are fine.
What Marin needed to do was to take all these shipbuilders to build ships. As long as there was wood, these shipbuilders could resume work at any time. As for the issue of abolishing Dutch shipbuilding, there was no rush to build the ship first and then build furniture.
In England, there are many shipyards. The country's shipbuilding craftsmen are at least tens of thousands. As long as Marin is willing to pay, he will pay a high price. It should be fine to ask them to provide 300 boats within a year.
With this calculation, it can solve thousands of ships. As for the gap between four or five hundred ships, Marin has no choice. At worst, he can take another trip. Or, the remaining batch will change to land...
However, in this way, the money spent is very amazing. Marin felt that he was going to be poor again. Thousands of ships, even if each ship had 1,000 gold coins, would have to be millions of gold coins! And buying at a premium and speeding up shipbuilding would be a few hundred percent more expensive. One million or hundreds of thousands of gold coins could not be eliminated, and the total price might exceed 2 million.
Although Beihai Country uses discounted grain, 2 million gold coins are a little bit. But the problem is that these grains must be hidden and cannot be cashed out. Moreover, even if it wants to cash out, there may not be so much currency to buy from the outside world. The shortage of gold and silver has always troubled Europe before the development of gold and silver in the Americas. In addition, the grain stored in Beihai Country is also intended to be used to support those immigrants...
So, if you are so short of money, do you have to make some money to spend? For example, go to the Aztec Empire to grab some gold and silver?
Chapter completed!