Chapter 1386： Starvation or negotiation

Why did Lubeck and Hamburg (mainly Hamburg) covet the Bremen Hansa merchants? At first, Marin thought it was mainly because of the wealth of the Bremen Hansa merchants. After all, business activities in this era were taxable. But after Marlin understood it in detail, he realized that the reason why Hamburg coveted the Bremen Hansa merchants desperately wanted to solicit the past, not for wealth and taxation.

Of course, wealth and taxes are some of the reasons. The real reason is-the business channels of the Bremen ...

Both cities are important Hanseatic cities along the northwestern coast of Germany, and they are both big brothers. Both sides are full of competition. However, the advantages of the two are different. The basic dish of Hamburg is mainly in the German region, including the inland Elbe. For example, in the Saxony region of the Elbe (including the electorate of Saxony and the Principality of Saxony) and the Archbishop of Magdeburg, the import and export of commodities must go to Hamburg. Therefore, the northwestern coast of Germany and the Elbe river basin belong to the basic plate of Hamburg.

Unlike Bremen, their basic set, in addition to the Weser River Basin and parts of the northwestern coast of Germany, also includes England and the Netherlands. Even the overseas market in England and the Netherlands has no less interest than local interests.

The main power of the Hanseatic League in London and Antwerp is the Hanseatic businessman in Bremen. Although Hamburg has its own presence in the London and Antwerp stores, it is far inferior to Bremen. Mainly, Bremen has taken overseas as the main development direction. Therefore, in overseas markets in London and Antwerp, Bremen is respected.

As a result, the three major players of the Hanseatic League-Lübeck, Hamburg and Bremen, Lübeck's basic dish is the Baltic region; Bremen's basic dish is mainly based in England and the Netherlands, and its interests exceed local interests; And Hamburg, although it is the deputy leader of the Hanseatic League, also has power in the Baltic Sea, England and the Netherlands, but all rank second ... Only Hamburg ’s strength in the local area, relying on the trade rights of the Elbe River Basin, barely suppressed Live in Bremen and become the second strongest in the Hanseatic League.

This time, Marin wanted to move to Bremen, and the most exciting was Hamburg. Because Hamburgers really want Bremen ’s interests in England and the Netherlands ...

That is to say, whoever annexed the Bremen Hansa merchants, then the original business channels of the city of Bremen in England and Antwerp in the Netherlands will belong to them.

If Hamburg robbed the Hanseatic merchants of Bremen who controlled the business channels of England and the Netherlands, it can be said that Hamburg's strength in the North Sea region will increase greatly. Maybe it will rely on these channels to overtake Lübeck.

The Lubeck people obviously knew this too, so they did not agree at first. However, in order to achieve its goal, Hamburg did not hesitate to share these benefits with Lübeck, so that Lübeck finally agreed to swallow Bremen together. In addition, Lübeck was unwilling to offend Malin for Bremen. After all, Bremen died on his own initiative and was hostile to the North Sea country.

But Marin knew that the Hamburger ’s proposal was actually trapped. Although Hamburg offered to divide the Bremen Hansa businessman equally, the Bremen Hansa businessman was not a goods, they would have their own choice ...

After all, the core interests of the Bremen Hansa merchants are in the North Sea, while Lübeck's core interests are in the Baltic Sea. If Lübeck and Hamburg are recruiting Bremen merchants at the same time, then the Bremen merchants will definitely choose Hamburg out of interest. After all, Hamburg is also a port of the North Sea. And if you surrender to Lübeck, where is the ship moored? Baltic Sea? In that case, it is not convenient to go to England and the Netherlands ...

But Lübeck is not without benefits. After all, as long as there are businessmen willing to go, they will inevitably bring a lot of capital. How important is capital? It can be understood by seeing the post-professional officials of the future China for the investors. Not to mention, the tax revenue generated by business activities every year is in vain.

This year, Europe has no agricultural taxes, only commercial taxes and import and export duties. For wealthy Hansa merchants, import and export trade is a basic activity. Fooling about a Hansa businessman who went to Lübeck to live and do business, the annual tax revenue would definitely increase a lot.

In order to let Lubeck support the North Sea country to swallow Bremen, the Hamburg side also proposed conditions that the Lubeck side could not refuse-no matter what the Bremen businessmen ’s intention is, as long as Hamburg recruits half of the Bremen businessmen, it will immediately accept hand. Then, encourage the remaining Bremen Hansa merchants to Lubeck ...

In the face of the wealth and taxes brought by half of the Lubeck businessmen, Lubeck finally agreed ...

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In fact, for the business channels of England and the Netherlands controlled by the Bremen merchants, Marin was also quite greedy and thought of leaving those Hansa merchants.

However, after thinking over and over again, Marin gave up soliciting those people. Why? Because these Hansa merchants have too much political influence over Bremen.

In Bremen, these Hanseatic merchants are not only local rich people, but also political leaders. They shouted and there were many responders in Bremen.

If Marin wanted to keep these people, then in Bremen City, whoever is the final word is not necessarily. Even if these people dare not understand opposition to Marin, it is very easy to secretly encourage Bremen citizens to confront Marin.

Don't underestimate the civic class of this era. The early revolution and the like were all created by the civic class. King Louis XVI of France was also sent to the guillotine by the citizens.

Of course, the citizen class is stupid, they are often bewitched and rhythmic. However, if all those capable of bewitching them and the merchants of the Bremen Hansa with rhythm are driven away, these citizens will also be headless. After all, although the citizen class is the main force of the revolution, it is by no means the head of the revolution.

Therefore, in order to maintain the long-term stability of Bremen City, Marin had to endure the business channels of those Bremen merchants and let them be recruited by Hamburg and Lübeck.

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In fact, Marin itself is very difficult to attract those Bremen businessmen. Because, the two sides have already formed hatred ...

At the beginning, after the establishment of the Beihai Chamber of Commerce, Marin began to mainly deal with food and salt, but it had nothing to do with the Bremen merchants. But with the expansion of the Beihai Kingdom, the conflict between Marin and the Bremen merchants intensified.

This is mainly because, in order to keep domestic agricultural technology confidential, Marin prohibits foreign merchants from entering and leaving the North Sea. However, the original princely states of the North Sea were originally the commercial sphere of influence of the Bremen Hansa merchants. Marin's prohibition on foreign merchants entering and leaving is equivalent to breaking the wealth of many Bremen merchants. It is strange that those Bremen merchants can get along with Marin peacefully, such as killing their parents and killing their parents.

The Beihai Kingdom is not a small vassal kingdom. With an area of ​​tens of thousands of square kilometers, it is ranked in the forefront of Germany. Previously, most of these territories were the commercial sphere of influence of Bremen Hansa merchants.

After Marin took control of these areas, he not only expelled Bremen merchants belonging to "foreign merchants", but also established the Beihai Chamber of Commerce to compete with the Bremen. Even if the North Sea Chamber of Commerce monopolized the trade of the North Sea countries, it could even extend its tentacles to London and establish a branch no less than that of the Hanseatic League. If it weren't for the fight, the Bremen merchants would have given Malin a black hand. Therefore, it is not surprising that they saw the princes of the Eight Kingdoms after seeing the opportunity.

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After the blockade of the Weser River by Marin, although Bremen's commercial activities were hit hard. However, out of hostility and hatred towards Marin, the Bremen did not succumb. Marin repeatedly sent people to contact the Bremen businessmen, but they were rejected by them. Many Bremen merchants are even cruel-even if they do not do business, they will never let Bremen out.

As for the merchant ships can not access the Weser River? The Bremen merchants decided that the big deal would not return the Weser River ...

As for the merchant ships trapped in Weser, they would rather discard them. Then, in addition, purchase ships from the outside world to run sea routes. After all, a boat is expensive for ordinary people, but it is not a big problem for those Bremen businessmen.

Therefore, even if the Weser River was blocked, Marin's early contact with the Bremen merchants was unsuccessful. Even with this, Hamburg's contact with the Bremen Hansa businessman was not smooth.

Even the aggressive Bremen Hansa merchants uttered the banner of "Would rather not do business than never give up Bremen City".

Seeing this banner, Marin was so angry. So, he decided to take a more advanced method-off grain ...

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Indeed, although the merchant ship cannot go to sea to do business, the Bremen can change ships and avoid the Marlin blockade. The basic set of Bremen merchants is mainly in Antwerp in England and the Netherlands. As long as he does not return to the home port of Bremen, Marin can't take them.

However, in such a big city as Bremen, do people in the city always have to eat?

But Bremen City has a population of nearly 20,000, and the daily consumption of food and vegetables is an astronomical figure. However, Bremen is a purely commercial city with no farmland at all. Therefore, the food of Bremen City needs to be brought in from elsewhere. The largest food supplier is naturally the North Sea country.

Even if the food is not provided by the North Sea country, the grain must be passed through the North Sea country if it is transported into Bremen.

Therefore, Marin decided to cut off the traffic route of Bremen ...

The method is also simple-block the waterway from Bremen to the city ...

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For this reason ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Marin suddenly announced that he would "strengthen the infrastructure construction near Bremen City". So he ordered the waterway upstream of the city of Bremen to be blocked for dredging. At the same time, the land road around Bremen City was also completely blocked by the North Sea Army. The reason is to build roads ...

This time, Bremen City was unlucky ...

In the past, relying on the Weser River, even if the North Sea country did not sell food to Bremen, Bremen could still transport food from other countries through the Weser River.

Even if Marin blocked the Weser estuary, the Bremen can also transport food from Hessen and Thuringia on the upper Weser River through the Weser River.

However, once Marin blocked the upper course of the Weser River, the city of Bremen suddenly panicked. Because, this means that Bremen has no access to food ...

"Starve to death or negotiate, choose for yourself!" Marin gave an ultimatum ...