Chapter 803： Kohler's layout

At the same time that the scouts of the North Sea State carefully pulled out the guards of the Principality of Geddes, they went to the Geddes region. Members of Beihai ’s "ambassadors" are also plotting ...

In fact, many of the so-called "ambassadors" of the Grand Duchy of the North Sea are all spies under Kohler. The leading "civil officials" are all spies. Since Marin set up a spy school, he has trained several batches of spies for a total of three or four hundred people. Except for the first batch of spies who graduated hurriedly due to the war with the Bossa Allied Forces, several other batches were trained to be allowed to graduate. Moreover, the first batch of graduated spies later returned to school to make up classes, making up for many of the shortcomings caused by the hasty graduation.

Today, in addition to more than 20 people who died or were disabled due to failed missions (spying is a dangerous occupation with a high casualty rate), the rest are gradually growing up.

The Lower Geddes region is very prosperous. In this era, the core of the economy was agriculture. And if the agriculture is prosperous, it will form a large-scale manor. Then, on the basis of the manor, market towns will automatically appear again. And if there are more market towns, there will be cities ...

The Lower Geddes region on the lower Rhine is obviously very prosperous, with a total of Dusburg, Doetinchem, Hronlo, Lochem, Elburg, Hardwijk, Hattem, Wagening Twelve cities including Gen, Hunter, Masbomer, Tyre, Zaltbömer, etc.

You know, the 12 cities are very enviable for the nobles of this era. Because, having a city means having taxes ...

In this age when agricultural taxes and poll taxes cannot be levied, business taxes and road taxes are the lifeblood of the lords. And business mainly takes place in urban areas, so the more nobles under the rule of the city, the more commercial tax can be levied and the richer it is. The Principality of Geddes alone has 12 important cities in the Lower Geddes region. It can be seen that the commercial tax must have been collected a lot, otherwise, there was no confidence to compete with the Principality of Saxony for West Friesland. Counting the six cities of Geddes, Gelden, Eklenz, Goch, Niustedt, Venlo, and Stralen, there are 18 cities in the entire Principality of Geddes. Therefore, the Principality of Geddes can develop within a short period of time after reinstatement and become a powerful nation again.

In addition, the Lower Geddes region controls the estuary of the Rhine, and the Principality of Geddes can set up a barge in the downstream section near the estuary of the Rhine to collect tolls, which is also a considerable asset.

The reason why John II, Duke of Cliff, replaced the Geddes region with Kenmarkmark was not only the 12 cities over there, it was also one of the important reasons that it could stop the Rhine estuary from collecting vessel tolls. Before the steam engine was developed, coal was not sold before the coal ball furnace was invented. But the fertility and prosperity of the Rhine Estuary Delta and the convenience of tax collection at the Rhine Estuary are superior to coal in the Ruhr region of Markberg in this era.

The fragmentation of the German region is very detrimental to the history of economic development. In the later generations, that is, the early period of the unification of Prussia in the 19th century, it started with the establishment of the German Customs Union. Because, before this, the same goods were transported from northern Germany to the south, passing many countries on land, and they were charged many times. The same is true for waterways. If you want to enter the Rhine, you must first be levied a toll by the Zeeland of Austrian Netherlands, and then you must be taxed in the Lower Geddes region. Next is the Principality of Cliff, then the Archdiocese of Cologne and the Principality of Berg ... That is to say, the goods will be taxed 5 times when they are transported from the mouth of the Rhine to the city of Cologne ... ...... As a result, the transportation cost will be much higher, the price will naturally come up, and it will seriously affect the economic development of the German region ...

The Lower Geddes region, which is blocked near the estuary of the Rhine, is an unavoidable Kaner for shipping in the Rhine. If you want to go here and back and forth twice, you will be taxed twice.

It is for this reason that Marin was cruelly digging the canal connecting the Lipper and Ames. Otherwise, even if Marin obtained the Ruhr area of ​​Markberg, the coal would have to be taxed four or five times if it was to be transported to East Friesland, which is not cost-effective. And after digging this canal by oneself, there is no need to pay taxes for the transportation of coal ...

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There are 12 cities in the Lower Geddes region, and Marin's plan is to make a quick decision, and take advantage of the other princes to get these 12 cities before they react. Therefore, this needs to be able to quickly break through the enemy's defense line.

However, European cities are all built with stone walls and easy to defend. If it is played in the normal way, even if Schwartz brings more than 20,000 troops, even if most of the army of the Principality of Gedsi is concentrated in the upper Gedsi region, he wants to win all 12 cities in the Gedsi region. It also takes a long time.

Therefore, before leaving, Marin discussed with Kohler a tricky way—in the name of taking over the Lower Geddes region, he sent “diplomatic missions” to these 12 cities and assumed a posture to take over.

Moreover, because Charles II, Duke of Geddes, had promised to cede the Lower Geddes to Marin. Therefore, it is reasonable and reasonable for the Marin delegation to take over in the past, and there is no doubt about it.

The only thing the Principality of Geddes did not expect was that these "delegates" had high fighting power. Except that the leading "civilian representatives" were disguised as spies graduated from a spy school ~ www.novelhall.com ~ The rest were special combatants disguised as ordinary followers or guards. Even those spies were trained by brutal agents, and their combat effectiveness was not weak.

The mission of these "delegates" is to rush to seize and open the city gate after Schwarz's army arrived, suddenly attacked the enemy's side, and greet Schwartz's army into the city ...

After all, the 20,000-strong army led by Schwartz this time was all dressed in the clothes of the Principality of the Principality of the Cliff, and carried the flag of the Principality of the Principality of the Cliff. Therefore, a small number of defenders of the Principality of Geddes in the city would not have thought that the Beihai diplomatic team who had planned to "come over" under the Geddes region would attack them from behind ... Opening, Schwarz's army occupying the area of ​​Geddes will become fast and quick, and let other German princes have no time to react. By the time they responded, the entire Lower Geddes region had been eaten by the Beihai Kingdom. As a result, even other German princes reacted late. With those letters as evidence, the other princes are not good to say anything ...

To achieve this goal, Kohler sent 12 "diplomatic teams" to 12 cities in the Geddes region. Then, each team has almost sixty or seventy people. Now that the Principality of Geddes has gathered most of the army into the Upper Geddes region, the defense in the Lower Geddes region is unavoidably negligent. In this way, it is relatively simple to arrange sixty or seventy people as internal responders in the city, seize the city gate and put the army in ...