Chapter 1273： Continue to counsel

Maximilian I was not unprepared. For example, in the protest book, Frederick III said "the first attack by Frenzberg", he has a different view.

Because, before that, the coalition of princes besieged Basel first. Where is Basel City? It was previously occupied by the Habsburgs. The coalition of princes besieged Basel in pursuit of Christopher I, Earl of Baden.

Therefore, Maximilian I can conclude from this that the coalition of princes first advanced the troops of Frensberg, and then Frensberg organized the counterattack. Because the defenders of Basel are also under the jurisdiction of Frensberg.

As long as one bite is the first move of the coalition princes, then the ambush in Franzberg is not "first to provoke". In this way, Maximilian I can reasonably argue with the princes.

However, there is also a problem here-that is the political attribution of Basel ...

The Habsburg family's army did occupy Basel a few years ago, but the problem is that in the Imperial Parliament, the princes have refused to explicitly recognize the Habsburg family's legal rule over Switzerland.

So far, at the Imperial Parliament, the princes have only admitted that Hawsburg ’s ancestral home, Hawks in Aargau, belongs to the Habsburg family. As for other places, even outside the Eagle Fort territory of Aargau (the surrounding mountains and valleys including Eagle Fort), the princes refused to admit that it was the legal territory of the Habsburg family ... As for the Eagle The fort, because it was the birthplace of the Habsburg family and the surname, was not recognized by the princes. In other parts of Switzerland, everyone is unwilling to admit that it is the territory of the Habsburg family ...

Therefore, Frederick III and others can completely refute the emperor's remarks on the grounds that "Basel is not the legal territory of the Habsburg family".

In fact, Frederick III and others did so. He had already negotiated with the princes-the Habsburg family army that had bitten the city of Basel was an aggressor, and the enemy who sheltered the princes, Christopher I, Earl of Baden ... In this way, their siege of Basel was not legal. , At least not illegal ...

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While the Habsburg family and the princes of the anti-Habsburg camp all fought and prepared for a big fight, the coalition forces of the seven princes in the Beihai Kingdom were also attacking the city and sweeping the entire North Münster area. ...

The area of ​​North Münster is as high as four or five thousand square kilometers, which is equivalent to a prefecture-level city in later China. Here is the cultivated land under the name of Marin alone, there are a total of 70,000 Yougram, that is, 840,000 acres of cultivated land, divided into thousands of large and small manors. In addition, there are four small cities of Vechta, Cloppenburg, Papenburg and Meppen, as well as more than twenty small towns ...

These cities and towns have been very wealthy over the years due to high yields of food. Although most of the grain produced was taken away by Marin, the remaining part also made the towns and people of North Münster live very well. At least, there is no shortage of food and drink here ...

During this time, the Seven-Power Allied Forces were busy looting these towns in North Münster, and the harvest was huge ...

Although Marin had already prepared, he sent people to transfer most of the property in North Munster. However, the property and food left behind shocked the seven princes ...

In this era, most of the land in Europe was less than a hundred pounds per mu. Then, excluding the serf rations and manor expenditures, the manor would finally be able to make a surplus of 50 pounds of rye per acre.

The land in the North Münster area of ​​Marin, because of the use of relatively complete "three fertilizers" and soil pesticides, the yield per mu reached more than 500 pounds.

Then, generous Marin left a hundred pounds per acre of "retained rations" for local estates and towns, and allowed them to circulate in the estates and nearby towns, but he took away 400 pounds per acre of "profits".

In this way, Marin is equivalent to leaving the entire amount of the former manor acre. Therefore, the food in North Münster is very rich, and various manor houses, towns, and granaries are filled with food. This is equivalent to that the yield per mu in North Münster is almost the same as before. However, the owner of the estate did not take away the income, leaving it to the local level ...

Therefore, when the coalition forces of the Seven Kingdoms came to grab food, a lot of food was piled up in the warehouse in each manor. The bread the serfs usually eat made ordinary soldiers of the Allied Forces of the Seven Kingdoms jealous-the serfs were eating "Kohler bread" mixed with some straw bran, which was relatively soft ...

At the same time, the bread eaten by the seven-nation coalition soldiers is the legendary black loaf ... that is, bread mixed with a lot of impurities such as soil, stones, wood chips and wild vegetables ...

This kind of black loaf is very hard and can be used as a brick. The amount of rye flour in it will never exceed half. Therefore, it is very cheap and durable. The miserable princes of the Seven Kingdoms used it as a ration for ordinary soldiers and strong people.

During the meal, the quartermaster will give each soldier a small "brick" black loaf. But don't want to eat it directly, you must first boil hot water and soak the black loaf bread before you can eat it. Otherwise, if you bite the bread directly, your teeth will collapse ...

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Therefore, the ordinary soldiers of the seven-nation coalition who used to eat black loaves of bread (the officers eat high-grade rye bread), after seeing the serfs in the manor, they could actually get the soft "Kohler bread" as food. , Extremely jealous. Then, the bakery of each manor (equivalent to the collective canteen of later China, which collectively made "Kohler bread" and distributed it to serfs) was looted by the soldiers of the coalition of the Seven Nations.

The soldiers of the Seven-Power Allied Forces snatched the soft "Kohler bread", and then threw the black loaf from the quartermaster to the serfs who should have eaten the "Kohler bread", and destroyed their name " Equivalent exchange "...

But the serfs wanted to cry without tears-the "Kohler bread" we eat, can the rye flour content be 70%? Half of your "black sticks" are flour, which is not bad ...

But after switching to a hard "black loaf", the adults who have suffered hardly don't care, but the children in the manor are not happy anymore, they are crying and refusing to eat this hard black brick loaf ...

Fortunately, it is summer now, and there are many wild vegetables outside. The serfs who had been robbed of food could go out and dig some wild vegetables to feed their hunger. You know, the soldiers of the coalition forces of the Seven Nations not only robbed the "Kohler bread" in stock, but also robbed most of the food in the warehouse, leaving only a little food at the bottom of the warehouse.

This is because the seven princes dreamed of taking over these sites in the future, so they did not want to starve the serfs. Otherwise, no one will help them grow the land even if they get the site. Otherwise, no food will be left.

Moreover, these days, the soldiers of the Allied Forces of the Seven Kingdoms spent most of their time transporting food back to China. Otherwise, the entire North Münster area has long been wiped out.

In desperation, the serfs in the North Münster area had to go out to dig wild vegetables and eat porridge with a little food left. Otherwise, this day cannot be passed ...

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After the North Münster area was looted ~ www.novelhall.com ~ The local people all miss the Huffman family's rule. I didn't think it was good because I was used to it. Now that the soldiers of the seven princes have robbed most of the food, they only reacted-they used to have a heavenly life ...

Then, many people in the North Münster area prayed at home-Grand Duke Marin, you better return alive from abroad! May God bless you! Come back quickly and clean up the villains who stole our rations! Otherwise, everyone can't survive ...

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In fact, Marin, who has not yet made his head, also knows what kind of days the people in North Münster have had. But now he can't show his head.

Only after he had sold miserably in the Imperial Parliament and made a gamble with the princes of the Seven Kingdoms, he could pretend to "return" and then "definitely fight" with the coalition forces of the Seven Kingdoms.

Therefore, even if he learned of the tragedy of the people in North Münster through the spy of Kohler, he could only help ...

"Ah, continue to counsel! Wait until the July Imperial Parliament's annual regular meeting is over to rescue you ..." Marin sighed after reading the information.