Chapter 1039： Arrival of the Mountain Infantry

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Meeting with Giovanni Di Lorenzo de Medici is naturally very pleasant, but the effect of the feedback is not satisfactory. Because, Marin learned that the Medici family does have an intelligence system in Siena, but it is not strong enough. It ’s okay to provide information, but it ’s not enough to help open the gate.

This is mainly because, after losing control of Florence in 1494, the Medici family lacked funds and it was difficult to maintain a large intelligence agency in Siena. Therefore, the Medici family later withdrew most of the intelligence personnel from Siena, and only retained a small number of personnel who spied on the intelligence to save money.

Although the Republic of Florence was captured by the Papal State, the Medici family received a lot of property returned by the Holy See. The current focus of the Medici family is to restore control of Florence, and for the time being it is impossible to ignore the restoration of intelligence forces in Siena.

But in any case, Giovanni Di Lorenzo de Medici was still very happy to hand over the information collected over the years to Siena to Marin. Moreover, through this exchange, Giovanni Di Lorenzo de Medici was excited to learn that the Holy See was about to start with Siena. For the Medici family that has always stood in the position of Florence and is hostile to Siena, this is definitely a very good thing. In addition, Giovanni Di Lorenzo de Medici has already begun planning, and when he wins Siena, he will start annexing Siena's banking industry and expand the control of the Medici family in the financial industry And the right to speak.

All along, because of the geographical advantage of being close to Rome, the two major financial centers of Florence and Siena struggled to fight for Rome's financial market.

Why is it so hard to fight? For the powerful savings ability of the city of Rome! What is the city of Rome? That's the European religious center with many bishops. In this era, it was the most corrupt era of Catholicism. The Cardinals in Rome, one by one, were rich and belonged to the top quality depositors in Europe. For those bankers, this is definitely an ancestor ...

Therefore, in order to compete for customers in Rome, the financial circles of Florence and Siena almost did not cut each other. As for the financial circles of Venice and Genoa, because they are far from the city of Rome, they are not as competitive as the bankers of Florence and Siena. Of course, banks in both places also have business in Rome. For example, those bishops from Venice and Genoa prefer to deposit their money in their home banks. Even the Fugel family in Germany had business in the city of Rome. After all, Rome also has some bishops from Germany who are old customers of the Fugel family. But in general, the most powerful groups in Rome's financial industry are from Florence and Siena.

The reason why the Papal State sent troops to Florence and Siena did not have the intention to control the banking power of these two places. Because, as long as you control these two places, if the treasury of the Pope has no money, you can easily borrow enough funds from these bankers. Especially during the war, the role of bankers is more important.

If it were not because of Marin's persuasion, and that he was old, and he didn't know which day he would see God, Julius II was reluctant to return control of the Florence banking industry to the Medici family. Of course, there is another very important reason-during the battle between the Rovere family and the Borgia family, the males of the lineage died almost, and the adult males who did not support the scene survived. Otherwise, Julius II will definitely give priority to the descendants of the family.

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After receiving important military information from Siena from Giovanni Di Lorenzo de Medici, Marin copied it and sent it to Julius II, so that it would be convenient for the Pope Make targeted deployments. Then, he copied another copy and sent it to the Italian branch of the North Sea Chamber of Commerce, so that they could further explore based on this information to obtain more detailed information to facilitate future operations.

At this time, suddenly the spy of the Beihai Chamber of Commerce sent a secret report-15,000 soldiers and a large number of supplies in the Beihai country have landed in the small fishing village on the west coast of the Papal State ...

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This small fishing village was nowhere else. It was the small fishing village called Dolomia, 20 kilometers northwest of the Roman city where the army was concealed by Julius II when he returned to Rome as Pope. The topography of the small fishing village Dolomia is very special, because, in addition to facing the sea, the other three sides are all mountains. To the outside of the village, there is only a small valley in the north. As long as the wooden door of Gukou was closed, Dolomia was cut off from the outside world.

Moreover, this fishing village harbour resembling a small valley is recessed into the land. A mountain on the north side can even block the view of the sea from the fishing village harbour, which is very conducive to hiding ships. Passing the nearby coast from the sea, if you don't pay attention, you can't see the situation in the small fishing port.

The last time he helped Julius II fight for the position of the Pope, the army of the North Sea State quietly landed and hid from here. This time, the army of Beihai still chose to land and hide here.

In order to facilitate the hiding of Marin's army, Julius II had already sent someone to buy the entire small fishing village. Then, they also sent people to build a number of long bridge docks to facilitate the landing and boarding of Marin ’s army ~ www.novelhall.com ~ As for the fishing villages along the coast of Grosseto Province in the Republic of Siena, there is no Doral Mia fishing village such a hidden environment. Moreover, there is no need to be too hidden. Because once the war starts, it doesn't matter if it is exposed or not. Marin's army needs time to hide, that is, before the outbreak of war. After the official outbreak, there is no need to hide.

The reason to hide whereabouts before the outbreak of war was to fear that Siena's defenders made targeted arrangements. If the other side arranged soldiers on the mountain road from Grosseto to Siena, Marin's army would be difficult to pass. There is a word that well describes the difficult nature of some mountain roads-"One man is a pass, and the ten thousand is not open" ... If the other party arranges soldiers and horses in some passes, even if Marin can win these passes, it will be fatal of……

Therefore, before the outbreak of war, Marin did not want the other party to find traces of his own soldiers and horses. Moreover, the war started with the Habsburg family army. Their attacks on the east side will attract most of the Siena Republic's army to guard important gateways on the east side. In this way, no one pays much attention to the mountain roads and pass in the west, but it is convenient for Marin's army to enter Siena.

Marin's 15,000 mountain infantry, after arriving in the small fishing village of Dolomia, also began to adapt to the local climate. At the same time, a wading landing exercise was carried out in the fishing village harbor ...