"The price?" Marin frowned. After a while, he said to Prince Philip seriously:
"I hope that the Habsburgs can take over Switzerland and attract the attention of the German princes and French people. In this way, the pressure on the North Sea will be greatly reduced. Your Highness, this is what I really think!"
Marin did not hide it, but said it openly.
Prince Philip nodded in agreement after hearing this. But he asked again:
"But why do our Habsburg family share the pressure for you? Give me a reason..."
Marin shook his head and smiled:
"Your Highness, this does not require a reason. Seizing the land of Switzerland is the wish of the leaders of the Habsburg family in history. Without me, you would have planned to do this. Just like now, your army is still in Switzerland. My joining is just to let you gain greater control."
Speaking of this, Prince Philip nodded and agreed:
"You are right. Taking Switzerland is indeed the goal of our Habsburg family. However, even our Habsburg family will find it difficult to fight against the joint pressure from France and the princes alone."
Obviously, Prince Philip wants to retreat to advance, so he will have more benefits...
When Malin saw that this was okay, he treated me as a kid? So he stood up and said goodbye...
Prince Philip immediately lost his temper. After all, Marin was right. Without Marin, they wanted to annex Switzerland.
"Okay, Marin, tell me, how should I cooperate with you? But, I really have no money now!"
The huge army in Switzerland also consumed the financial resources of the Habsburg family. Prince Philip was fine, but Emperor Maximilian I was even more miserable, and he was already in debt. If it were half aristocrats, it would have been enough to go bankrupt N times. In history, Maximilian I died of illness in 1519 on the way to hide from debt.
I am not worried about what the creditors do to him, but after all, it is the emperor, so I have to save face. I am surrounded by creditors every day and feel very embarrassed. Therefore, the emperors in history would run around at an age in the name of "inspecting various places", in fact, in order to avoid the creditors. As a result, they died of illness halfway through the road.
At present, because of the large amount of money invested in the Swiss battlefield, the emperor at this time owed more debts than in the same period in history. If he had been owed a lot of debts in history, the emperor now basically owed a lot of debts...
However, the emperor also found a solution - because of Marin's inspiration, His Majesty the Emperor thought of a way to sell the newly acquired Swiss land as a manor and fief, and wholesale low-level titles and territorial fiefs, and obtained a lot of funds.
But the problem is that although many people are rich, they are not sure that the Habsburg family can defend the Swiss region. Therefore, most of the rich are actually waiting and watching, and only a few people are taking action.
If the Habsburg family can really take over all Switzerland and give customers confidence, the funds obtained from selling Swiss land will be extremely abundant, at least allowing the Habsburg family to pay off most of their debts. This is definitely super good news for the Habsburg family, whose debt amount is already in millions of gold coins.
As the indisputable heir to the Habsburg family, Prince Philip obviously also knew the importance of taking over the entire Switzerland to the family. Therefore, he could not bargain with Marin. However, he really had no money now...
Marin nodded. He knew very well the poor financial situation of the Habsburg family. However, he was not for the sake of money.
"So, Your Highness, have you mentioned the 'enclosing sheep' to you before? Do you still remember?"
Of course, Philip remembers that, in the Netherlands, he and some great nobles have already begun to enclose lands. But so far, the land they enclose is mainly public land. And those public lands belong to him, the Lord of the Netherlands. The public land has not been enclosed yet, so naturally it has not yet developed to the stage of "sheep eating people".
What Marin wants is to let Prince Philip accelerate the process, start annexing the land of poor peasants as soon as possible, and drive the peasants out of their land. Then, let Marin recruit these landless peasants.
"It's not good, it's a bad reputation..."
Prince Philip was a little hesitant. As the heir to the Habsburg family, although he was greedy and not very smart, he also knew that his reputation should not be too bad.
"You didn't let you go to the scene in person, so you could let the nobles in greedy places take action... Just tell them that you can get me a farmer and I will give them 30 gold coins. Or, pay it with materials of equal value."
"Then..." Prince Philip's eyes suddenly lit up.
Marin saw what he wanted to say, gave him a look of peace of mind and said:
"Don't worry, Your Highness. Even if you didn't do it yourself, those nobles will send people to me, and I will still convert them into benefits and compensate you for the price of the weapon. Moreover, I will give you 30 gold coins per household, and you can give them 20 gold coins."
This is equivalent to letting Philip take one-third of the benefits. Moreover, he doesn't have to do it himself. If he gets 10,000 households, he can get 100,000 gold coins.
...
In the end, the result of Marin and Philip's discussion was that the nobles took action and drove the farmers out of their land. Philip then pretended to be good people and introduced them to Marin, saying that they were looking for a way out. Then, Marin rewarded Philip again - selling weapons to him...
However, the export price of weapons is based on the market price, which is the case on the surface. In fact, Marin only charges a discount price...
But this discount price is actually not very discounted, because its discount is to compare the market price...
For example, when using clockwork to fire a musket, with the manufacturing cost of other countries, each clockwork to fire a musket alone costs at least 10 gold coins. Among them, the cost of a clockwork steel wheel alone costs at least 5 gold coins, or even 10 gold coins.
Why? Because their clockwork steel wheels are made by relying on top craftsmen to slowly beat an iron rod with a hammer. Iron rods are generally pig iron rods, which contain more impurities. By repeated heating and pounding, the impurities in the iron rods will be slowly beaten and squeezed out to form steel bars. Then, they are made into iron bar-shaped clockwork steel wheels.
But the problem is that because of the low smelting technology in this era, the pig iron rods that beat into clockwork steel wheels often have too many impurities, especially the content of sulfur and phosphorus may often exceed the standard.
Therefore, the yield rate of pounding iron rods into clockwork steel wheels is relatively low. It is not only very time-consuming, but also if the sulfur and phosphorus content of the iron rod exceeds the standard, it may also break, resulting in a waste of effort. This is like forging heavy artillery, with a high waste rate.
This leads to the cost of a clockwork steel wheel, at least 5 gold coins per, or even 10 gold coins. Moreover, you must be a master at the level of a craftsman to make it and the output cannot keep up.
The price of a musket is often around 15 shillings to 20 shillings, which is three or four gold coins. You can add a clockwork steel wheel, and each cost at least 10 gold coins. The market price is 15 to 20 gold coins, which is very expensive.
In particular, the clockwork steel wheel is still a consumable because it is not rust-proof and needs to be replaced after a while. Therefore, the army of ordinary countries cannot afford it. Only a few officers will be equipped with one. As for the soldiers, it is better to use ordinary mesh guns that cost three or four gold coins. There is no way, the cost is shattered. Of course, it is also excellent if the musketeers can buy one for their own use...
But Beihai Country is different, because Malin created quicklime slag and the technology to remove sulfur and phosphorus from the iron, which led to Beihai Country's steel technology being ahead of the times at the beginning. Later, simple carbon spring steel was created. Later, anti-rust nickel was added...
Therefore, the cost of manufacturing steel wheels in Beihai Kingdom is very low. The average cost of each steel wheel is only 1 shilling, and no more than 1 gold coin is allowed. Moreover, it does not require master craftsmen to forge them personally. As long as a general qualified blacksmith is trained, it can be manufactured. The workmanship is also an important reason why the cost of Beihai Kingdom is so low. After all, master craftsmen have such high salaries, at least one or two shillings a day, or even a few shillings. For ordinary blacksmiths, three or five fenis a day, less than half a shilling. The labor cost,
It is completely different. Moreover, steel bars made of stainless spring steel are more time-saving than pig iron rods made by other craftsmen. Because ordinary craftsmen in Beihai Country only need to beat and bend the spring steel bars into clockwork rolls, and then temper. Other countries need to repeatedly beat an iron rod, hammer most of the impurities in the iron rods, then beat and bend them into clockwork rolls, and then temper them. This is very time-consuming and requires the high-paying craftsmen to take action personally.
In this way, the cost of making a clockwork firer in Beihai Country is absolutely no more than 5 gold coins per unit, or even less than three gold coins. At the lowest, it can reach more than 1 gold coin.
Chapter completed!