It can be said that Marin was extremely troubled to send troops to the Grand Duchy of Moscow. Moreover, he was filled with uneasiness. The reason for his uneasiness was that he was afraid that after he sent troops, the German princes and France would stab the German princes and France in the back and attack the Beihai Kingdom.
Therefore, when planning to attack the Grand Duchy of Moscow, Marin must also arrange the rear base to avoid fire in the backyard. As for defense, several generals under Marin are still competent. Schwartz, Stadder and Steindorf will sit in the country, command the domestic army, and guard against the enemy's attack. Marin's request for him was to defend the Friesland area in the core of the local area. As for newly acquired areas such as the Ruhr area and the Lüneburg area, they can give up temporarily. Anyway, as long as they come back, they can still get it back.
But the problem is that if you can avoid being attacked, that is the best ending. Otherwise, it will be difficult to rebuild the country by man-made disasters. The most feared thing is that the population is plundered or even killed by the enemy, which is the most terrible thing.
You should know that Marin tried his best to send troops to the Grand Duchy of Moscow, and what he sought was the population. If the local area was attacked and the population was slaughtered, that would be a real disaster. It might even cause Marin to suffer huge losses.
Therefore, we must be prepared to attack Moscow, and we must also be prepared to avoid attacks on the local area.
However, how can we avoid being attacked by the enemy after sending troops? It seems that we can't scare people by relying on force. Because Marin was too horrible before, she was not intimidating. But she was too arrogant and might die faster. Because others would fight together...
Others don't know that Marin at least knew that the devastated princes who were sent to Bremen must be unwilling to accept it. When they leave their homeland and go to Eastern Europe, they have a high chance of causing trouble, either rebel or escape.
Therefore, Marin made up his mind that once he left the local area, he would send a group of soldiers to take care of the people directly. He would not arrest him, but would temporarily put them under house arrest and not allow them to have any contact with the outside world. In other words, it would be equivalent to house arrest during wartime and restrict them from going out. When they came back, the ban would be lifted.
In addition to these princes, the generals under their command who were originally capable of combat and commanding will be temporarily under surveillance. Marin would ask them to give them two pallets, one pallet filled with gold to express comfort; the other pallet placed a bloody noose... that is, they would give them the choice, either cooperate to get money or die...
In addition, Marin will add another condition - after that, each prince's annual salary will increase by 1 million pounds of rye!
This is a means of comfort and also a means of clearing the warehouse of grain. You should know that the 12 million mu of rye field in Beihai Country now produces up to billions of pounds of rye every year. The 6 million mu of rye field under Marin's name alone produces about 2.4 billion pounds of rye per year. Even if it costs a lot of rye to be accepted this time, it is still enough. After all, Marin has stopped making wine with rye.
Since there is a lot of rye surplus, in addition to feeding immigrants, there must be channels for consumption. And Marin is reluctant to give money to the surrendered princes directly. Because the Beihai Kingdom itself lacks gold and silver.
However, the Beihai Kingdom does not lack food. Therefore, it is better to simply not reward money, but instead reward food. This will save a lot of money and be considered sincere. After all, 1 million pounds of wheat is equivalent to 1 million Finney. It can also be converted into gold coins, and there are 16,700 gold coins. The 8 princes, each of which is 1 million pounds, is only 8 million pounds. Compared with the annual output of 2.4 billion pounds of fields under Marin's name, it is not worth mentioning. Including their former generals, these people's rewards are lower, and they can increase to more than 10 million pounds of grain. Compared with 2.4 billion pounds, more than 10 million is really nothing, less than one percent. When the colonies in North America open up more grain fields, it will be even more despair.
However, this is just the situation in the North Sea. In other countries, the salary of 1 million pounds of rye is simply scary. You know, in this day, many German priests may not have a year of fiscal revenue of 50,000 gold. 1 million pounds of rye, worth 16,700 gold, is equivalent to one-third of the annual fiscal revenue of a priest.
However, it cannot be compared like this. Why? An independent principality has an annual fiscal revenue of 50,000 gold coins, but it also costs a lot of money. First of all, it will cost half of it to support so many troops and officials. Only a small part of it actually falls into the hands of the duke himself. Therefore, in this era, many vassal states tried to reduce the standing army as much as possible in order to save expenses. When they were about to fight, they directly asked the mercenary group to fight for them.
Now, these princes who surrendered to Marin do not have a country and do not need to pay a lot of salary and food expenses for the army and officials. They now only need to bear the expenses of servants and guards in the mansions and their own family expenses. This amount of expenses is very limited. Therefore, most of the treatment Marin now gives them can be used on themselves.
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It seemed that he was inspired, Marin decided to treat the surrendered princes and their nobles in the future, and no longer give them money directly, but food and supplies. In this way, he would not have to worry about sending people to exchange coins for them.
Of course, if these nobles were willing to accept the brass coins circulated by the Beihai Kingdom, they could also give them money. However, most of these nobles were very conservative and refused to accept copper coins, but they were only willing to accept gold and silver. However, both gold and silver were short of gold and silver, so they would pay them for the discount in the future.
For example, in addition to giving food directly, Marin can also give them salt. Convert it to them according to the market price. These nobles have a large family and the demand for salt is not small. And when they calculate it to them according to the market price, they skip the middlemen and give all their profits to their own salt cooking farm.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! In addition, if there is too much sugar produced in Cuba in the future, they can also be directly treated as rewards and encouraged to eat more sugar. As for whether they will get diabetes... Marimony is reluctant...
There are also milk powder, tea, and tobacco, which are standard for the nobles. Not to mention these surrendered nobles, even Marin and his new nobles also consume these things on a daily basis. Not to mention, the Earl Milk Tea that was originally created is a big number of consumption of milk powder (or milk), tea and sugar.
These things are all Marin's industries. According to convention, they are generally wholesale to merchants from all over the country, and then sold by middlemen everywhere. These old nobles who were encircled in the Bremen area also bought these goods from middlemen. Many middlemen are even from the chamber of commerce under the names of these old nobles. Marin directly sent goods to these old nobles, which actually exploited the profits of some of the old nobles' families.
However, these old nobles also have a certain network of relationships in other German countries. Even if they give goods to them, they will make a lot of profits based on the market price of the Beihai Kingdom.
Because most German vassal states resisted Marin and the emperor's faction, the chambers of commerce under Marin's name were actually subject to various restrictions in various vassal states. Many times, the chambers of commerce under Marin had to change their faces and pretend to be chambers of commerce in other countries in order to get the opportunity to trade normally in the vassal states.
But when it comes to problems, no matter ancient and modern, no matter Chinese and Western, collusion between officials and merchants is common. Without the protection of the nobles, the chamber of commerce under Malin was often suppressed and harassed, and spent a lot of money in vain.
And these former princes and old nobles who were defeated by Marin and encircled in Bremen, although they were very miserable in politics, they were raised by Marin as pigs. However, when they walked out of the Beihai Kingdom and in the various princes, they were even better than Marin...
There is no way, they are old nobles, their bloodlines are "noble" and their relationship network is complicated. For the same commodity, the chamber of commerce under Marin has to pay 10 gold coins in the various vassal states. The chamber of commerce of these old nobles only needs to pay two or three gold coins, up to 5 gold coins...
Therefore, Marin simply calculated the goods to these old nobles at the market price and asked their chambers of commerce to sell them to various vassal states. Although they did not give a wholesale price, they would not make less money than if they sent people to sell them.
Of course, the goods Marin provided them only had the amount of their treatment, and would not be given more. Otherwise, it would be bad if these guys made too much money and had the capital to fight against themselves.
In other words, Marin distributed the treatment he originally gave them into goods, saving the trouble of selling money. The value of the goods given to them is not greater than the treatment he promised to give them. Even if they can make some profit, it will not be too exaggerated.
In this way, Marin cleared some goods, and the old nobles could make more money, which was considered happy for both sides. Moreover, these old nobles took the goods to the vassal states for gold and silver, and brought them back to the Beihai state, which increased the total amount of money in the Beihai state. After all, these old nobles could not leave the Beihai state, and their money would still be spent on the Beihai state. This calculation would have a double benefit to Marin and Beihai state - saving trouble and increasing the amount of precious metals...
The only trouble is probably because the old nobles would use the opportunity to send caravans to leave Beihai Kingdom to make connections and even secretly rebellion. But Marin doesn't have to worry, because he had already arranged for Kohler to send spies to monitor those people continuously. Even in the chambers of commerce of the old nobles, spies from Beihai Kingdom were mixed in. As long as those people had any abnormal movements, the spies would send back the information as soon as possible to facilitate Marin to send troops to suppress them.
Chapter completed!