Chapter 1309： Inadvertently saved the Habsburg family

Marin was probably too excited, jumping and jumping on the boat. As a result, because the ship was intentionally damaged and the repair was not too strong, the board on the sideboard was dropped directly. Then, the sideboard began to flood ...

Marin was terrified. Fortunately, he didn't just bring a boat back home. Although the boat he was riding on was finished, there were still three broken ships on the side, and the five ships sent by Kidd released the lifeboats one after another, and the "Norden" which leaked Marin and others from the sideboard. He was rescued. When he returned to Emden Harbor, Marin was still feeling palpitations-he was almost off ...

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Just as Marin rushed back to the mainland, a lot of big things happened in central Europe. One of them is that the Habsburg family and the coalition of princes hit the dog brain ...

When Frederick III hired "cancelled" mercenaries from the church princes, he encountered great trouble-about two-fifths of the mercenaries were cut off by the Habsburg family ...

Because of Kohler ’s insignificant suggestion, plus the church princes ’unwillingness to open their faces with the emperor. So, this allowed Maximilian I to find a loophole-before the mercenaries had left the church princes, and the coalition of princes had not contacted the mercenaries who had terminated the contract, Maximilian I sent Manpower, secretly contacted those mercenaries ...

The results vary greatly-mercenaries from southern Germany seem to have a good impression of the Habsburg family. Therefore, many German mercenaries from the southern region were hired by the Habsburg family at a higher price.

On the contrary, those German mercenaries from central and northern Germany are hostile to the Habsburg family because of the malicious propaganda of the local princes. Therefore, even if the emperor sent lobbyists to lobby the mercenary leaders, most of them were rejected. For those mercenaries who were brainwashed and hostile to the Habsburgs since they were young, the Habsburgs would not do more money ...

But in any case, Maximilian I still robbed seven or eight thousand German mercenaries from the total of about 20,000 mercenaries. On the other hand, the coalition forces of the princes robbed about 12,000 people.

After receiving the news, Frederick III and others became popular. You know, these 20,000 people were originally their dishes, but the emperor "stealed" ...

The final result is that the strength of Frensberg has increased by another 8,000 to 35,000. The coalition of princes is slightly more, about 37,000 people.

It seems that the coalition of princes seems to have superior strength. However, in fact, it is not so calculated strength. After all, the original "Swiss Legion" of Frensberg has a relatively strong combat effectiveness, which can be worth as much as 20,000 or 30,000 princely coalition forces. As for the mercenaries hired later, everyone's level is almost the same. After all, they are all hired mercenaries, and their levels are not much different.

Therefore, in total, the more princely coalition forces have worse combat effectiveness ...

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However, at present, not only the Habsburg family army and the princely coalition forces are in the Swiss region. In front of Frensberg, there is also a "Swiss Resistance Army" consisting of more than 20,000 French troops and Swiss mountain militias.

Therefore, if the overall strength is calculated, the coalition of princes has the upper hand ...

Of course, Frenzberg is not stupid. Since it does not prevail, there is no need to take the initiative to attack. After all, hiding in a sturdy city and relying on the defense of the city walls can offset many of the differences in strength.

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At this time, the contest between the two sides mainly depends on how determined the French are. If France is willing to invest in blood, he will be able to beat up the French elite, and the Habsburgs will not be able to eat it. If the French refused to contribute, then the princely coalition forces were in danger ...

In fact, Louis XII did think of using the power of the whole country to bet on this war. Then, take the opportunity to beat the army of the Habsburg family in one fell swoop. As long as the Habsburg family's army is maimed, it will be easier for the French to plot the remaining Franche Comté area of ​​the Principality of Burgundy. Even, you can take advantage of the opportunity to seek prosperity in the Netherlands ...

Originally, Louis XII had already planned to take a gamble, preparing to unite with the German princely coalition forces, and ruthlessly engage in the Habsburg family.

But unexpectedly, Baron John Lafy brought the secret of high food production in the North Sea, and suddenly distracted Louis XII's attention ...

After all, the newly-raised Baron John of Rafi is right-if the problem of huge consumption of cavalry money and food is solved, then the French knight's iron hoof can travel all over Western Europe ...

Therefore, during this time, Louis XII suspended the plan of the explosives to participate in the Swiss competition, but began to send people to verify whether volcanic ash is really an excellent agricultural fertilizer ...

For this reason, Louis XII specially sent someone to Italy to follow John Rafi to buy the mountains near Mount Vesuvius. Under the name of archaeology, he began to excavate the ash covering Pompeii. Then, someone was quietly sent to ship the volcanic ash that was dug back to France.

Originally, Louis XII intended to use this batch of volcanic ash as a fertilizer for growing crops next spring. In this way, you can fully verify the authenticity of what John Rafi said.

However, John Rafi suddenly suggested that instead of waiting until next year, why not try it now?

As for how to test? This is simple, get a glass greenhouse to cultivate flowers ...

Glass is not uncommon in Western Europe, and John has also been to the North Sea country, and has seen the glass greenhouse planted with herbs and **** built by Marin.

So, he sent someone in the garden of the Royal Palace in Paris to make a glass greenhouse ...

However, unlike Marin's glasshouse in Beihai, because there is no large flat glass rolled (Beihai is naturally made under the advice of Marin), building a glasshouse here is very complicated and requires a lot of pruning A small wooden frame is used to inlay small pieces of glass for light transmission.

Therefore, the greenhouse in the Royal Palace in Paris looks awkward. Because it is a greenhouse where small windows are put together.

Of course, it is still September, the temperature is not low, and the glass greenhouse has not been used. Therefore, John Rafi can experiment slowly.

He found two groups of roses for cultivation experiment. The two groups of roses use the same seeds. After the seeds germinate, they start to be managed separately.

One group let the garden gardeners manage and cultivate them in the traditional way. As for the other group, the garden gardeners mainly took care of it. Lidang soil. The other group of gardeners used only ordinary soil as a foundation.

John smiled. As a spy, he had learned a lot. For example, when planting flowers, he listened to Marin's personal points. For example, the soil in the flower pot cannot be made too hard and hardened soil. Because this will make the root of the flower poorly permeable.

So ~ www.novelhall.com ~ The soil in the basin should be fluffy. The volcanic ash that stirs the river mud must have a low degree of compaction. Unlike the soil that another group of gardeners dug directly from the ground, it was too close, but it was not suitable for growing flowers.

In the later generations, Marin had heard of it. Many people deliberately put small stones into the pots to allow the roots of the flowers to breathe, so that the soil can be more fluffy. But Marin knew that this was not very scientific, and fluffing the soil did not necessarily require stones. For example, John let people mix dry volcanic ash with phosphorus-containing river mud. Then, some dead weed roots (fibers) were also deliberately placed in the pots to make the soil less compacted.

Volcanic ash is indeed fertile, and John's fluffy subsoil is more suitable for growing flowers. Then, in the group that John was in charge of, the roses grew much better than the other group.

Louis XII is not blind, and naturally understands that volcanic ash is indeed fertilizer. So, his heart once again ignited the ambition to annex Italy ...

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Coincidentally, at this time Elector Frederick III of Saxony sent an envoy to ask France to send a large army to participate in the Swiss battle. But Louis XII was full of brains at this time annexing Italy and monopolizing volcanic ash that could be used as fertilizer. Therefore, he declined the invitation of the coalition of princes. At the same time, I began to make every effort to prepare for the invasion of Italy ...

In this way, under the circumstance of yin and yang, Marin's inferiority unexpectedly saved his emperor and his Habsburg family ...

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