Marin was actually very unwilling to give up the Spice Islands to Spain to seize them. After all, the Spice Islands were the cornerstone of the rise of the Dutch Empire. The most important cornerstones of the later colonial empires of the Dutch were the Spice Islands and Java.
The Spice Islands provided important profits to the early Dutch empire, while Java provided a large amount of food to the Dutch colonial empire. Later, cash crops such as sucrose and rubber were provided. Without the success of the colonial spice Islands, the early Dutch empire might not have risen so quickly.
Therefore, Marin was actually reluctant to give the Spice Islands to Spain. However, no matter how reluctant he was, he had no choice. After all, Marin could not eat the Spice Islands now. Because of his weak strength, he could only adopt the mode of making a fortune in silence. If he dared to make a high profile, he would be robbed every minute.
Marin began to envy Juan III. The two were of the same age but very different from each other. When Marin came here, his identity was still a wandering knight who was driven out of the house and almost starved to death. As for Juan, his parents were both kings and sons of two kings, and they were the pride of heaven. Once they were born, they were destined to inherit the huge Kingdom of Castile and Aragon. Of course, the premise was that he did not die.
As the most legal heir to the two powerful countries, Juan III was born to become the king. Moreover, the two countries he wanted to inherit were very powerful countries.
If Marin traveled to Juan III, it would be amazing. He could directly drive Wushuang to occupy the whole world. However, Marin traveled through time, just a poor knight. It would be a miracle for outsiders to earn the current huge business. But it would be too early to try Wushuang. At least, Marin's current strength is not enough to compete with Portugal and Spain for hegemony on the sea.
Therefore, even though Marin knew that the Spice Islands were profitable, he still had to send them out in order to divert the Spaniards' attention.
Of course, if it is good to send out the Spice Islands, then it would be less beautiful to incite Spain to send troops to attack Morocco.
It is true that with the Spanish formation taught by Marin and famous players like Gonzalo, Spain will not worry about not being able to conquer Morocco.
However, after conquering Morocco, the Spanish began to fall...
What country is Morocco? Allah teaches the country! That is a life-threatening existence for faith!
Perhaps, in the age of hot weapons, the fanatical beliefs of Allah were useless. However, in this era when the scimitar cavalry was still fierce, the believers of Allah were not easy to mess with.
What's more, Spain's purpose is not only to occupy Morocco, but also to transform the locals into Christians. This is amazing. Do you make the believers of Allah give up their faith? People are not afraid of death, but are they afraid that you will force them to change their faith?
Therefore, even if we can conquer Morocco in the early stage, and when we later change the sect, the Spaniards will have a good understanding of what the fanaticism of Allah and fearlessness are...
In the scientific age, people dare to die with others, and in this era when science has not yet emerged, religious fanaticism is even more common. Not to mention Allah's teachings, in this era, even Christians have many fanatics.
Therefore, in the subsequent conversion action, the two sides will surely have a large-scale bloody conflict. That was the time when Spain was in a mess.
In later generations, as powerful as the United States, they will be deeply trapped in the quagmire of Vietnam War, and the Soviet Union will also fail to Afghanistan. Therefore, even if Spain is rich under the influence of Marin, it will be deeply trapped in the wave of Moroccan resistance. At that time, in order to suppress the Moroccan resistance, Spain's fiscal expenditure will definitely be astronomical...
Anyway, Spain is determined to suffer this secret loss. Moreover, even if it suffers, they will still be grateful to Marin. Why? Because in the long run, as long as the entire territory of Morocco is controlled, Spain's territory is nearly twice as much.
Even if it is not peaceful in the short term, if Morocco is successfully Christianized by Spain in decades or even hundreds of years, it will definitely be a great benefit. Even if the colonial era ends, Morocco can be regarded as the native of Spain. Because Morocco and Spain are only separated by a narrow strait, it is easy to assimilate into an inherent territory.
Moreover, Morocco is the region with the best climate in North Africa. In the region north of the Atlas Mountains, affected by Atlantic water vapor and northern cold air, there is a lot of precipitation here. It can be said that Morocco is the place with the most precipitation in North Africa. If it weren't for the Nile River in Egypt, Morocco would be the most suitable for living and civilized development in North Africa.
Not only that, the climate in the Moroccan region is similar to that in Spain. The Spanish immigrated to Morocco and would not be inconvenient. Moreover, it was separated by a narrow Strait of Gibraltar, which was very convenient to control.
Therefore, in the long run, occupying Morocco and Christianizing the local area is absolutely in line with Spain's strategic interests.
In history, the reason why Spain did not occupy Morocco was because when Spain was at its most powerful time, it controlled the huge American colonies, which led to Spain's attention being focused on the Americas.
Moreover, the Habsburg family, who ruled Spain at that time, were very keen on getting involved in the European competition in Germany, and fought with the Dutch... In the end, they became weaker and weaker in these boring disputes and consumption. When they were unable to compete for Europe, they found that it was not necessarily so easy to conquer Morocco...
In modern times, Spain's national strength had recovered and wanted to annex Morocco again, but the French jumped out and snatched Morocco. Faced with France, which was much stronger than itself, the Spanish could only swallow their anger and were forced to treat the barren land of Western Sahara as a colony...
In short, the Spanish missed a great opportunity to turn Morocco on the other side of the sea into its own province by various accidents. Otherwise, the land area of ​​Spain in later generations could be increased by more than 440,000 square kilometers.
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Nowadays, with the help of Marin, the Spaniards easily obtained the spice trade project, a quick-for-money project, and accumulated a lot of capital. In the era of mercenaries, Spain obviously had enough strength to destroy Morocco.
As long as it can occupy Morocco and then slowly cleanse and massacre, I believe that in hundreds of years, Morocco will definitely turn the Constantinople area into the Istanbul area just like Turkey occupied Constantinople. As long as Morocco is Christianized, there will be no resistance.
Moreover, Marin also gave Juan III a strategy to permanently control Morocco - to win over the Berbers and expel the Arabs...
Arabs have stronger awareness of independence and are more difficult to deal with. With Arabs here, the Spaniards would not be able to rule Morocco peacefully.
In fact, the Arabs were also outsiders. The real natives in the local area were the Berbers. They invaded this area during the expansion of the Arab Empire and ruled the area for seven or eight hundred years. The Berbers, during the Byzantine Empire, and even in the Christian area, of course, were Greek Orthodox. After the Arab Empire annexed it, the locals converted to Allah's religion.
Anyway, the Berbers and the black indigenous people of India were originally the owners of the land, but after being conquered, they became servants, but they were not as miserable as the Black Indians.
Therefore, the Berbers are used to being ruled, so it is not difficult to let them convert. However, if the Arabs convert to the sect, they will never end up dead. However, now the Arabs in Morocco are almost half (even most of them in later generations). Even if they want to massacre, they cannot kill millions... If they really want to do that, how different is it to the devil?
Therefore, the best way to deal with them is to expel them. The reason is also very simple - aren't you Arabs? Go back to your Arabian Peninsula! Anyway, just drive eastward. Just drive away from Morocco, no matter where they are making trouble.
As long as the fiercest Arabs are driven away, the remaining Berbers will be much easier to deal with.
However, this process may take decades to complete. After all, the Arabs will never sit still and wait for death. Moreover, they are reluctant to leave Morocco, return to the corner of the Arabian Peninsula, and go back to eat sand?
Therefore, during this period, there will inevitably be many life-and-death battles between the two sides...
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When the Spaniards and Moroccan Arabs competed with life and death, Marin could take the opportunity to develop their strength and strengthen themselves. When the Spaniards completely annexed Morocco and wanted to expand outward, they would find that - Oh, Marin's empire is no longer something they can compete with...
Chapter completed!