For Marin, the biggest threat is France. France is the first centralized country in western Europe. Since the gradual completion of centralization in the late 15th century, France has always been one of the best countries in Western Europe.
France will only be beaten when the Holy Roman Empire and the Spanish Empire are unified due to the Habsburg family. Unfortunately, the strongest alliance in Europe was broken up because of the struggle for power and profit. Since this alliance was broken up by the Habsburg family itself, Europe has no country that can suppress France.
When Louis XIV arrived, the whole of Europe was trembling under the iron hooves of France. Therefore, Louis XIV was awarded the title of "King of the Sun".
Therefore, the more centralized a country, the stronger its combat effectiveness it can exert. Because national resources can be well mobilized and utilized by the central government.
Whether it is the Bourbon dynasty of Louis XIV, the Napoleon Empire that later swept across Europe, the Russian Tsarist Empire, and the German Empire that later almost fought against the world alone, they all have an important feature - that is, centralization...
Only centralized countries can use the greatest resources and exert the strongest power of the country. Some people may say that Britain is very strong, but in fact, the British army has never been stronger. Britain only relied on the huge interests of maritime trade to spawn a huge navy. But that's all. The army is not profitable, and the UK is not centralized enough. Therefore, the British army has never been a rival to France and Germany. Even if it is a war, Britain can only act as a messenger and provide military expenditure to the Russians, Prussia and Austria, so that they can act as a vanguard. If it weren't for the blockade of the English Channel and the powerful navy formed by Britain due to maritime trade, Britain would have been ravaged by Napoleon and Hitler at least twice.
The Polish and Lithuanian Commonwealth looks strong enough, right? It has such a large area, with millions of square kilometers and tens of millions of people. At the beginning, it beat the Russians. But why did it decline later? It was not because of internal friction? The Polish king did not have much power at all, and it was not much better than Emperor Shenluo. Therefore, such a strong country, because its resources cannot be integrated, was eventually suppressed by the dictatorial and backward and barbaric Russians. The three countries that divided Poland - the Russians, Prussia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, were all centralized countries.
France has now initially completed centralization, and it is only one national tax system that can fly. It is precisely because taxes cannot be collected nationwide that even if the King of France can summon more than 100,000 troops, it will not be able to support it. Otherwise, France would have gone to heaven long ago...
It is precisely because of this that Marin did not vigorously promote any comprehensive taxation system in China, but instead tried hard to gather the fields and develop colonies to obtain sufficient fiscal revenue.
If Marin dared to promote comprehensive taxation, with strong military strength, the domestic problem would not be a problem. Foreign problems would be great. If the French learn from Marin and impose land tax and capitol tax across the country, they would have an astonishing fiscal revenue. With money and France's population is so large, it would be difficult for France to not fly. At that time, Germany might be fully invaded by France. Or Italy would fall into the hands of France.
It is precisely because of this concern that Marin did not promote comprehensive taxation. Otherwise, if you learn it for France, it would be a disaster. Moreover, by selling grain and salt, developing colonies, and Marin would open trade with the Ming Dynasty in the future, Marin's fiscal revenue was very sufficient and there was no need for national taxation.
Europeans have a bad habit, which is that they have strong imitation ability. Moreover, they are shameless. Although later Europeans pretend to behave and accused the serious situation of copycats in China, in fact, Germany was just a complete copycat of the British in the industrial revolution.
In the 19th century, German goods represented garbage and low-end, and only British goods represented high-end. Germans relied on counterfeit British goods, first built up the industry and then strived for excellence, which achieved later German manufacturing. But at the beginning, Germans also shamelessly copied British goods. Even industrial products produced in Germany would deliberately put English labels to fool customers. Otherwise, they would not be sold...
When it comes to shamelessness, the French are not vague. Back then, the Venetian invented a glass mirror, and one mirror sold for 150,000 francs, shocking the whole world. Because it was exclusive technology, the Venetians made a fortune.
In order to keep it a secret, the Venetians moved all the craftsmen who knew how to make glass mirrors to Murano Island, so as not to foreigners to get in touch with those craftsmen and steal the secrets of glass mirrors.
But the French are better at it - they indirectly bribed the craftsmen by finding the families of craftsmen who know the technology of glass manufacturing, and obtained the technology of making glass mirrors. Then, the secret of the Venetian glass mirror was stolen by the French, and the price of glass mirrors also dropped sharply.
This was also the mistake of the Venetians - they moved the craftsmen to Murano Island, but did not move their families there. Craftsmen are not prisoners, they always have to go home for important festivals such as Christmas and New Year, right? As long as they bribe the craftsmen's family and then pass through their families, wouldn't they deal with those craftsmen?
Therefore, after this lesson, the secret military-industrial units in China in later generations built factories in the mountains, but they built complete infrastructure and took over all their families... Those military-industrial bases are basically an independent small town... In this case, how do you buy the employees of those military-industrial units? Before entering the town, they were shot dead by the guards...
Later, although many units moved out, the ones that were led were factories with very low confidentiality levels, such as those that produce guns and ammunition. However, those factories that produce nuclear weapons were still rooted in the mountains and deserts and would never move to big cities...
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The French are good at learning, or in other words, the entire European country is good at learning. As long as you have new technologies, others will try their best to learn.
For example, Marin's Spanish phalanx proved to be very effective after several wars. As a result, many European countries now learn from Marin and form large-scale musket teams. However, due to the shortage of saltpeter, the scale of musket teams in various countries is limited.
For example, France only formed a team of 4,000 musketeers due to the shortage of saltpeter. After all, the French did not have channels to buy saltpeter from India like Marin. They now have no set up a silt officer, and there are not many sources of saltpeter. Moreover, France has a large-scale artillery, with the French military's bronze guns of as many as 100. Therefore, although France is large, saltpeter is not enough.
However, Marin heard that Louis XII seemed to have realized the problem of insufficient saltpeter after forming a musket team, and planned to establish the position of collecting silt officer, collecting a large amount of soil and salt in France.
Of course, even so, it is useless. Therefore, in later generations, the French also went to India and established a French Indian colony in Pondicherry, India. From 1674 to 1954, one of the meanings of its existence was to buy saltpeter from India. Otherwise, France would not have the ability to line up and shoot so many musketeers in the war. Just looking for it from the cesspoolon's artillery is definitely not enough to consume...
Marin was worried that the French would send ships to India in advance, so he helped Edward to seize England this time and also cheated the French. As long as all the French merchant ships were cut off, the French would not be able to slow down for a long time. At least, it would be difficult to make any achievements on the voyage.
As long as the French do not have enough saltpeter sources, it will be difficult for the French to form a huge team of musketeers. Without enough firepower, the French are not that scary.
In the future, after Marin annexed England, the French would inevitably be angry and embarrassed. Because their efforts made Marin's wedding dress. How could France, the number one in Europe, endure such a thing? Therefore, after the annexed England, Marin and France will have a battle, not at sea, but on land. Because the French army is their strength.
As long as you cross the Netherlands, the French army can attack the land of East Friesland. Therefore, Marin needs to prepare in advance to suppress France's ability to navigate and obtain saltpeter from overseas. When the land war broke out between the two countries, France would be unable to defeat Marin's army because it lacked enough firepower. Marin could rely on the sufficient advantages of saltpeter, have unlimited fire power, and rely on this to defeat the French army.
Not only that, Marin even planned to unite the Spanish and the Habsburgs to weaken France and even dismember France. For example, after defeating the French army, he joined forces with Spain and Austria to march into France and force France to cede territory for peace.
In the end, Marin's plan was to occupy the land on the south coast of the English Channel in northern France. Spain and Austria occupied the land on the Mediterranean coast in southern France, including the important port of Marseille. In this way, France's nautical potential can be further weakened and it will be forced into a land country. Marin achieved the goal of completely controlling the north and south sides of the English Channel, and the safety of its merchant ships leaving the Atlantic Ocean will be even higher.
Also, if we can defeat France, it is best to let the dukes and earls of France become separatist forces with armed forces again, just like the vassal states of Germany.
In that case, France will become the second Holy Roman Empire, and the French king will lose control of the country. Just like before France began to centralize power, the French king could only control the surrounding areas of Paris, and the government could not leave the surrounding areas of Paris... By then, France's threat will be further reduced...
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