With enough boats, there are also enough sailors. Fortunately, Marin was well prepared before, and while on Texel, he opened a sailor school and hired veteran Portuguese sailors to serve as teachers to teach young Friesian fishermen how to become qualified sailors.
Today, Marin's territory is far more than the sailor's school on Texel Island. Now, in the seaside area, Marin has established 20 sailor schools. Almost all the young and strong Friesian fishermen are trained as ocean sailors during the fishing moratorium.
Therefore, even if you buy 100 ships, Marin is not short of sailors. Just go to the seaside fishing village and you can attract a large number of sailors. Then, with the captain and first mate trained by the captain's school, you can sail far... Of course, you have to arrange a few old sailors as leaders to avoid the inexperienced sailors making mistakes...
The Friesians were the only sailing group in the German region (except the Netherlands) and the only dependence on Germany's large-scale sailing. Unfortunately, the Germans in later generations disrespected the Friesians, often regarded the East Friesians as stupid representatives, and even arranged various jokes to joke about them. Therefore, the Germans in later generations did not make good use of the Friesians, a group that was good at sailing, and tried every means to integrate them into the landslide group. Then, the Germans became less and less able to navigate. By the time Virgil wanted to sail, the British had already gained an absolute advantage.
Marin, coincidentally, this body has half the blood of Hans (German) and half the blood of Friesian nobles. Therefore, the Friesians have a natural sense of closeness to Marin, the only great nobleman with half the blood of Friesian (Edsad I, the deceased ghost, was also considered, but was killed by Marin).
Moreover, Marin, who attaches great importance to the sailing, is also very friendly to the Friesians and helps them in various ways. He even issued loans to allow the Friesians to buy fishing boats and fishing nets. Of course, the only requirement is that the young Friesians must serve as sailors for Marin's boat.
The Friesians actually did not reject Marin's sailor. Although it might be life-threatening for Marin's sailor. However, in the past, when fishing at sea and having no money to buy a large boat, the danger was not lower than that of naval battles. Therefore, those fishermen who dared to go out to sea fishing were not afraid of death, and many were brave. At least, the Friesian fishermen were much more courageous than those serfs...
After Marin wrote a letter to arrange the specific arrangements for buying a boat and choosing a sailor, he sent someone to send it back to East Friesland. Then, he stretched comfortably and called the servant to help him cook a pot of Earl's milk tea...
However, looking at the big black brick, Marin felt a little distressed. Why? Such a black brick actually costs a good horse, which is really a scam. This is still the price in Lithuania. When transported to East Friesland, the price has risen to a sky-high price of one black brick for two horses...
So, Marin actually felt that the price of drinking this inferior black brick tea seems to be no less than eating truffles...
But Malin knew that this kind of black tea brick was the worst quality tea in the Ming Empire. He had never even fried it, so he steamed it and pressed it into a brick.
Therefore, Malin is more and more looking forward to trade with the Ming Dynasty. Even if he drinks black tea, he must be Anhua black tea. If a black brick like the moldy appearance is thrown into China, it is estimated that ordinary people will not be happy to drink it...
However, Malin doesn't like drinking coffee. If you drink milk alone, you feel like a child who has not been weaned... So, let's drink some inferior milk tea... Of course, this inferior quality refers to tea, not milk...
Just when Marin was happily planning to drink inferior milk tea, he saw Julius II coming in angrily, snatched Marin's milk tea cup and took a big sip. Marin was covered in black - he just blew the milk tea cold, but he hadn't even put it in...
"Juliano, what's wrong? Why are you so arrogant? You are the pope, who dares to be so disrespectful?" Marin was very curious about his father-in-law's loss of composure. You should know that as the pope and the old fox, the loss of composure is very rare.
"I'm not a damn Venetian. I dare to be rude in front of me. I'm so arrogant. I'm very upset now and I want to call on the European powers to beat Venice together!" Julius II said with anger on his face.
"No, it's nothing to beat Venice in a group. If you get involved in the French, it will be a big trouble."
"The French did not withdraw from Italy..." Julius II murmured.
Indeed, although France was defeated by the Spaniards and lost the Principality of Milan, it also controlled most of the Principality of Savoy (mainly the Piedmont region, which was the prosperous region with Turin as its core), as well as the Liguria region, the former core area of ​​the Republic of Genea.
Speaking of which, the Principality of Savoy and the Republic of Genea were very unlucky. Originally, they turned to France to want to hug their thighs. Unexpectedly, they hugged a mace...
The French were fine when Charles VIII was reigning, and they were allies with the two countries. However, after the ambitious Louis XII ascended the throne, in the second year of the ascension (1499), they directly annexed the Piedmont area, the core of the Principal of Savoy, leaving only Savoy and Nice, the Principal of Savoy, which became a small country. Originally, Savoy was a great Italian state...
The Republic of Genea was also unlucky - Louis XII fell in love with the Ligurian region where the Republic of Genea was located. Then, Louis XII took advantage of the opportunity to seize the Principality of Milan and gave Corsica, which originally belonged to the Principality of Milan, to the Republic of Genea...
Don't think this is a good thing. Louis XII used the remote Corsica island to exchange for the Liguria region, the native of the Republic of Geneva...
The Ligurian region is the homeland of the Republic of Geneva and belongs to a prosperous area. Corsica was just a backward island with incomplete development in this era. Even in later generations, it was a remote countryside in France.
Although Corsica has more than 8,600 square kilometers and Liguria region has only more than 5,400 square kilometers, the account is not settled in this way. Louis XII's move is equivalent to exchanging Shanghai for later Qinghai. Anyway, it is equivalent to exchanging gold ingots with Geneva with copper blocks...
The Genes wanted to refuse, but they couldn't beat France. Therefore, the ruling class and wealthy businessmen of Genes had to run to Corsica in a panic and become the island owner...
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In other words, the French still have a large territory in Italy, and they are relatively important territories - Liguria and Piedmont. In any case, the French will participate in Italian affairs.
Chapter completed!