King of Mercenaries Chapter 74

Published at 14th of June 2023 05:28:48 AM

馋 Because of the huge profits of the great voyage, Marin definitely does not want to miss the new era of great voyage.

Alas, he also saw that there were only 200 fishermen in his territory, of which only 30 were young. Sailors of a boat are incapable of making a big voyage. You know, there are 39 sailors on Columbus's flagship "Santa Maria".

Moreover, it is impossible for Marin to recruit the young and strong among the fishermen to be sailors. Otherwise, the old and weak fishermen will be hungry. Because the main force of fishing is exactly those young.

Marin thought about it and finally decided to recruit Frisian fishermen, enrich the territory, and increase the sailor reserve ...

She Malin checked the information and found that the aristocratic exploitation of fishermen was heavy this year. Generally speaking, coastal lords will require fishermen to hand in more than 40% of their catch. Among them, some are fresh marine fish. The rest are marinated salted fish.

The problem is here. These years, salted fish has been salted with a lot of salt. The fishermen themselves are poor, and they have to pay money to buy expensive salted salted fish for the lord. All in all, the cost they handed over to the lord reached as much as 60% of the catch. Plus 10% of the catch that needs to be handed over to the church. Therefore, only about 30% of the fishermen's harvest is left, so life is very difficult.

If Ma Lin wants to recruit fishermen, he must relax the conditions, otherwise it will not be attractive. So Marin thought about it and decided to charge only 30% of the fishermen's harvest. And, you can come to him to reimburse 30% of the salt needed for the salted fish ...

In this way, what the fishermen need to pay, including the church's tithing tax, only costs about 40% of the harvest, which is nearly half the confession. Naturally, the fishermen will have a better life.

Moreover, as a big local tyrant, Marin decided to set up a special bank to deal with fishermen professionally, provide them with low-interest loans, encourage fishermen to collectively raise funds, and buy larger fishing boats. For example, a ship of one hundred and several tens of tons like Columbus's flagship "Santa Maria" is absolutely enough to fish in the North Sea.

Uh ...

In fact, there are many fishermen who can be recruited along the North Sea coast. For example, in the Netherlands, there are many Dutch fishermen available for recruitment.

But there is a problem. Those Dutch fishermen served the Netherlands under the control of the emperor. Recruiting those Dutch fishermen actually meant digging the corner of the emperor. Marin needed the support of the emperor, so he could not be ill with the emperor.

那些 The Frisian fishermen are different. The Frisians now mainly live in the Frisian aristocratic republics (including the later Dutch provinces of Friesland and Groningen), as well as the East Frisian country of Madame Mary.

Neither of these forces is strong. Moreover, although the Frisians belonged to the West Germans, they were excluded from the mainstream Germanic society.

In other words, the Germans and the Dutch, in fact, both reject the Frisians. In later generations of Germany, there are still many ridiculous jokes that ridicule Frisian people.

Moreover, the Empire does not recognize either the Frisian Aristocratic Republic or the East Frisian Land. These two countries were regarded by the empire as "barbaric" barbarians.

Marin read European history in his lifetime, knowing that around 1500, Maximilian I would give the Frisian aristocratic republic to the Duke of Saxony in 1492 to help suppress the rebellion in the Netherlands Flanders to Albrecht, Duke of Saxony Seth.

As for the East Frisian Land, also around 1515, the emperor sent a combined army of 24 lords to conquer, but was defeated (the East Frisian army is quite strong) ...

That is to say, the two small states of the Friesland Noble Republic and East Friesland were rejected by everyone in Europe. Marin recruits Frisian people without much problem.

The Frisian aristocratic republic, facing the sea across Texel, is not a united and centralized country in itself, but an alliance of many noble territories. Such a country, even if Marin offends them, it is difficult for them to make a military retaliation decision. Because, to start a war, their aristocratic parliament had to quarrel for a long time. When they're done arguing, the other party will already be ready ...

Moreover, the fighting power of the Frisian aristocratic republic is not as good as that of the Eastern Frisian Land. Although, it is about twice the size of East Friesland. However, the military forces are relatively scattered, belonging to multiple noble forces, and their command is not unified. After the Emperor's approval, the Duke of Saxony, Albrecht, did not take much to capture the Frisian aristocratic republic. But the emperor sent troops to attack East Frisian, but failed.

So Marin is not afraid of the hostility of the Frisian aristocratic republic. And, within a few years, the republic will be perished by the Duke of Saxony. What Marin has to do is to recruit enough Frisian fishermen to prepare for his great maritime career before the Duke of Saxony takes over the Frisian Noble Republic ... or ~ www.novelhall.com ~ while the Duke of Saxony is not Well, start cutting off in advance and take control of this small country ... If there is a conflict, Marin feels better. In this way, Marin had an excuse to attack the Frisian aristocratic republic ...

As a result, Marin quietly sent people to the coastal fishing village of the Friesland Noble Republic to carry out publicity and mobilize Frisian fishermen to move to Texel Island.

条件 As for the conditions, naturally it is greatly reduced taxes and loans to buy big ships ...

Uh ...

However, although the conditions provided by Marin were good, the Germans sent by Marin could not gain the trust of the Frisian fishermen.

Marin thought about it and, with good treatment, hired 20 Frisian fishermen on Texel Island to persuade the fishermen along the coast of the Frisian Noble Republic.

Sure enough, using these people to persuade the effect is much better. Many Frisian fishermen believed, and dragged their homes, drove small fishing boats, and came to Texel Island.

Marlin warmly welcomed the Frisian fishermen and arranged for them to build cheap and practical adobe houses. Later, they helped refurbish the fishermen's wharf in Tholencher and Oderschild to allow more fishing boats to dock.

After the death, Marin once again hired people who could move among the newly relocated Frisian fishermen, allowing them to sneak back and persuade more people.

人 These people were originally residents of the Frisian Aristocratic Republic. They were persuaded to make the Frisian fishermen sent by Bitsel Island more convincing.

As a result, more Frisian fishermen were said to have moved their homes and drove by boat ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Welcome the book readers to read, the latest, fastest and most popular serial works are here ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Please read for mobile users.

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