Sure enough, Hamburg supported Marin's military operations very much. After all, the Hamburgers were also very resentful of the previous acts of Frederick III of Saxony's election to destroy Lübeck and Hamburg.
As the deputy leader of the Hanseatic League, Hamburg is actually not very happy with the Saxony business district, which is the second tier of the Hanseatic League. Hanseatic cities in other business districts will give face to the two leaders Lubeck and Hamburg. However, because the Saxony business district is under the secret control of the Weting family, it does not take Lubeck and Hamburg seriously. After all, the most noble electorate behind them, so naturally they will not take Lubeck and a group of Hanseatic businessmen in Hamburg seriously.
Therefore, the Hamburgers also hoped that Marin could severely damage the Saxony Electorate in this military operation, and it would be better to destroy the business there. In this way, the Saxony people would be honest. Otherwise, the Saxony people, who are the second largest Hanseatic business district, always want to compete with Lubeck and Hamburg in the Wende business district to seize the position of the boss...
As the deputy leader of the Hanseatic League, Hamburg has a stronger influence on the mainland of Germany than Lübeck. Why? The reason why Lübeck was able to become the most powerful leader is that Lübeck is close to the Baltic Sea and holds a huge share of the cheap goods in Eastern Europe and the Baltic salt trade. Selling salt in the Baltic Sea and selling cheap Baltic goods, such as wood, fur, grain, wine, wood ash, beeswax, livestock, etc.
Because it monopolized the profitable salt trade in the Baltic region and the supply of cheap Eastern European goods, Lübeck became the most powerful city in the Hanseatic League.
Unlike Lubeck, their trade tends to become German middlemen, spreading the grazing fish in the North Sea, the mineral salt in the Lüneburg area, and the cheap Eastern European goods brought by Lubeck to many areas in northern Germany through the developed Elbe River and related rivers.
Therefore, Lübeck's basic plate is the Baltic Sea, while the basic plate of hamburger is the Elbe River and the North Sea. Even the importance of the Elbe River to hamburger is even greater than that of the North Sea.
Therefore, Hamburg has many inland merchant ships. In fact, the total number of merchant ships is not less than that of Lubeck. However, the tonnage of inland merchant ships cannot be compared with that of sea ships.
Moreover, the profits of hamburger's commercial activities were not as profitable as monopolizing salt trade in the Baltic region and controlling cheap goods in Eastern Europe. In terms of business scale, hamburger was no smaller than Lübeck. However, the profit was a little lower, and he became the second in the Hanseatic League.
Of course, Hamburg controlled the trade in the lower reaches of the Elbe River, but the midstream area was the territory of the Saxony business district. This time Marin entered the Saxony Election State, and the Hamburgers also hoped that Marin could harm the interests of the Saxony Hanseatic merchants as much as possible, so as to withdraw some of the trade share on the Elbe River and allow the Hamburg merchants to occupy it.
Therefore, the Hamburgers proposed that river boats could be provided for free to transport ships to Marin. However, after capturing Vittenburg, all the river docks and ships on the docks in Vittenburg were given to Hamburg.
The Elbe River was not Marin's sphere of influence, so Marin naturally would not refuse to give it to him. Therefore, Marin directly agreed to the Hamburgers' request and stated that when signing the armistice agreement, he would strive to allow Hamburgers to gain the power to operate normally in the Saxony business district. In addition, Marin would not only help Hamburgers capture the merchants along the river from the Saxony Electoral State, but also help them take away the sailors of the Saxony Electoral State and give them to Hamburg. The ship can be bought when it is gone, but the skilled sailors will take a long time to train them. This move will definitely affect the shipping industry of the Saxony Electoral State within several years.
After receiving Marin's reply, Heisenberg and other Hamburg members jumped up with joy. Hamburg had only thought about plundering the inland merchant ships of the Saxony Electoral State, but he didn't expect to kidnap the captain and sailors of the inland merchant ships in Saxony. If the merchant ships were gone, they could hire them as long as they had money. But without sailors, it would be difficult. After all, skilled inland shipping sailors were treasures everywhere and would not be poached by anyone.
Moreover, in this era, sailors were strictly controlled by their employers and had no right to change jobs or leave casually. If there were no sailors, the Saxons could only cultivate themselves slowly, unlike later generations, who could dig up with just spending money.
After all, although the sailors of this era have higher status than serfs, they are only treated similarly to servants and have no ability to determine their own destiny. As long as the employer disagrees, others want to poach people, don't even think about it.
Sailors who sail in the sea are actually better. Because, sailing on the sea is relatively easy to control the sailboat. After all, the sea is so wide that the direction of the sailboat is easy to control.
The sailing of sailboats is much more complicated. The requirements for sailors are also higher. Because the inland river is narrow, and if sailboats want to move forward, they often need to do "Z" movements. However, the inland river channel is not wide. When doing this exercise, you need to control the sails to prevent the ship from hitting the river bank or even stranding on the river beach. Therefore, it is more difficult to control the inland sailboats than to control the sailboats at sea. When encountering some river channels that are too narrow, the ship will lower the sails and instead row to advance to avoid the ship being stranded.
Therefore, the skilled sailors of inland sailing are even more rare than sailors. Marin proposed to rob the merchant sailors of the Saxony Electoral State, which was equivalent to a heavy blow to the inland trade of the Saxony Electoral State, and it was directly aimed at the core, which was very fatal.
For Hamburg, this not only hits the inland trade competitors on the Elbe River, but also takes advantage of the opportunity when the opponent reduces its trade share to seize more markets.
Therefore, the Hamburg Parliament made a direct decision to suspend the inland trade on the Elbe River and to bring all inland merchant ships to ship the army in Marin.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! In addition, Hamburg will also send two thousand troops south. The task of these two thousand Hamburg troops is to take back Hamburg as much as possible in the inland merchant ships of the Saxony Electoral State, including those skilled captains and first mates, back to Hamburg as much as possible to weaken its competitors...
Marin was also happy that the Hamburgers would do it themselves, so that the Hamburgers could also share some of the hatred values ​​of the Saxonians. Although the Hanseatic merchants of Saxon merchants did not rely solely on inland shipping. However, the cost of inland shipping is low, much lower than onshore shipping, and the cargo volume is large, which is definitely the preferred method of shipping for Hanseatic merchants in the Saxon business district. The Hamburgers snatched the inland shipping talents from Saxon, which would definitely affect the trade of the Saxon electorate within a few years. Marin was very happy to see what made Frederick III uncomfortable.
Although there are not only Hanseatic merchants from the Saxony Electoral State, but also Hanseatic merchants from the Saxony Principal State. However, when the Leipzig Treaty was split, Ernst's branch was chosen first, and it must have chosen the lower reaches of the Elbe River (relative to the Saxony Principal State) area that is more suitable for inland trade. Therefore, the commercial activities in the Saxony Electoral State were more prosperous.
Moreover, because they did not provide enough support to Duke George before, they dispatched the main force of the country to help Denmark fight, and Frederick III and George actually had a great gap.
This time, after the Hamburgers robbed all the shipping talents of the Saxony Electoral State, it is estimated that Duke George would not support the shipping business of the Saxony Electoral State State. Because the two sides were already in harmony.
Not only that, Marin also intends to further provoke two branches of the Weting family. For example, Marin intends to call on the Imperial Parliament to deprive the title of Elector from Frederick III and hand over to George...
Chapter completed!