Chapter 1393： New Canal Project

Not all small Hansa merchants are willing to leave Bremen, because some small Hansa merchants rely on the city of Bremen to do business. After leaving Bremen, they completely lost their original business channels. Even, it is alive.

After all, there are no developed transportation channels this year. The cost of moving a family is very high. Travel expenses alone are scary. If the family is thinner, the Hansa small merchants will become ordinary citizens' households once they are relocated. Rather than staying like this, it would be better to stay as an ordinary rich household.

Therefore, in the city of Bremen, there were dozens of very weak Hansa merchants who chose to stay. Of course, they are not fighting against Marin, but intend to surrender to Marin.

"What, do you want to surrender to me?" Marin looked at the representative of the small Hansa businessman, also called Simon, with a surprised face.

Simon, a small Hansa businessman, said bitterly:

"Yes, Grand Duke. We are all Hansa small merchants in the bottom of Bremen City. Speaking of them, they are no better than grocery store owners. Moreover, our previous commercial channels are all local, if we leave Laime, do n’t know how to survive. So, we intend to be loyal to the Duke, and we have a way to live ... "

Marin nodded clearly, but then Feng Feng said:

"It's not impossible to keep you, but I have to tell you with regret-Bremen City is afraid that it won't let you stay ..."

"Why?" Simon the businessman didn't understand.

Marin explained patiently ...

It turned out that in addition to coveting Bremen's boatmen and sailors who are good at inland navigation, Marlin also coveted the city of Bremen. After all, an important business center in Emden alone is not enough. If you want to develop the economy of the North Sea, you must have at least a number of economic centers in order to make the economy of the North Sea. Instead of Bremen, it is obviously a very good economic center.

According to the geographical location of the city of Bremen, it can not only radiate the two provinces of Oldenburg and Bremen, but also affect the area of ​​the Principality of Lüneburg just started in the south.

Moreover, along the Weser River, it can be traced back to Hessen and Thuringia. If it is well-managed, it will definitely play a leading role and drive the economic development of the entire Weser River Basin.

In fact, in ancient times, rivers were an important means of transportation. After all, in ancient times, land transportation mainly relied on horse-drawn carriages, and the cost was too high. By switching to shipping, the cost can be saved a lot.

Even in later generations, the Yangtze River Basin and the Yellow River Basin are the two most important settlement areas in China. Especially the Yangtze River, which is the aorta of the Chinese economy in later generations. If it were not for the huge geographical advantage at the mouth of the Yangtze River, Dashang Hai could become the leader of the Chinese economy? Similarly, Guangzhou is also a leading area in the Pearl River Basin.

Obviously, if you compare a river to a dragon, Hamburg is the "leader" of the Elbe. Emden is the "leader" of the Ames. As for Bremen, it is the "faucet" of the Weser ...

Bremen itself has developed very well and played an important economic role in the Weser River Basin. Although most of the Hanseatic merchants of Bremen had left, Marin would not abandon Bremen. Because he needed Bremen as the "leader" to drive the economic development of the entire Weser River Basin.

Therefore, even if the Greater Hansa merchants of Bremen City were withdrawn, Marin would allow the Beihai Chamber of Commerce to send a large number of staff and carry a lot of capital to re-run the business of Bremen City.

Exactly, he also needs some skilled veterans as a pioneer to open up the situation. Therefore, Marin agreed to the effectiveness of these dozens of weak Hansa merchants, intending to incorporate them into the Beihai Chamber of Commerce as a pioneer in developing Bremen.

Of course, the necessary review is necessary. For those with great reputation in Bremen, Marin will never leave them. Because such people are in Bremen, it is easy to incite ordinary citizens, boatmen and sailors. But that kind of people were mainly Hanseatic merchants, and basically all were gone. Therefore, there is no problem with Marin absorbing a small number of Hansa merchants.

Moreover, after joining the Beihai Chamber of Commerce, they can't help but want to do anything in the future. If you find that they are growing in Bremen, you will be transferred from Bremen. The Beihai State is so big that arranging several businessmen is a breeze.

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In fact, what Marin wants to do now is to excavate the famous "Sino-German Canal" in later generations. Once the "Sino-German Canal" is opened, its role is no less than that of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

The Sino-German Canal is an east-west canal that connects the Rhine, Ames, Weser and Elbe rivers. It is a very important transportation channel for bulk materials such as coal and iron in later generations in Germany. It can walk more than 1,000 tons. Cargo ships have considerable transport capacity.

In the era when cars were not popularized, once the Sino-German Canal was dug, the transportation in the northern part of Germany could be revitalized immediately, which would greatly promote and stimulate economic development.

But Marin also knows that it is almost impossible to dig the Sino-German Canal now. Mainly-the Sino-German Canal is too long ...

The Sino-German Canal is 321 kilometers long and spans almost half of northern Germany. Its length is about 130 kilometers longer than the Suez Canal.

It took 12 years for the Suez Canal to kill 120,000 Egyptians. The Sino-German Canal project is much larger, and God knows how much it will cost.

Originally, the Sino-German Canal was built between 1905 and 1930, and it was renovated for 25 years. Moreover, it was already in the 20th century, and it had entered the era of internal combustion engines, using a lot of construction machinery. At the mechanical level at that time, it had been repaired for 25 years, but Malin did not feel that he had the strength to repair the Sino-German Canal. Perhaps, after finishing the Sino-German Canal, I almost burped ...

Therefore, Marin had to give up the grand plan to build the Sino-German Canal.

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However, although the full version of the Sino-German Canal cannot be repaired, the castrated version of the canal can be repaired. For example, the Münster Canal built by Marin is a castrated version of an important inland waterway connecting the Ames and the Rhine.

Although in terms of width and water depth, the Münster Canal is completely incomparable to the canals of later generations. However, it can at least sail. Although it can't reach the standard of the ships that sailed on thousands of tons in later generations, it can barely walk small and medium-sized cargo ships within 100 tons.

According to professional estimates, this Münster canal is the most economical to run a paddle sailboat with a displacement of 50 tons. A paddle sailboat with a displacement of 50 tons has a cargo capacity of more than 30 tons. This cargo capacity is already equivalent to the level of three or four Yellow River heavy trucks.

Although the speed is incomparable with the truck, but its load capacity is large. Moreover, for inland water transportation, there is no need to burn oil, just hire a few paddlers. If it is not possible, you can learn from the Turks and buy a few strong Mao Grandpas as paddle slaves. In this way, the inland water transport will be engaged.

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The so-called "castrated version of the Sino-German Canal" in the Marin plan is actually to replace the Sino-German Canal with the Munster Canal to connect the Rhine and the Ames.

In addition, Marin will dig a small canal, connecting the Weser River and the Ames River. And Marlin has long thought about the location of this canal ...

When fighting against the coalition forces of the Eight Kingdoms before, Marin's army passed two rivers in Oldenburg-Leda and Hangt.

Among them, the Leda River is a branch of the Ames River. It originated in the northern border area of ​​the northern border of Old Münster in the southern border of Oldenburg. After flowing into the province of Oldenburg from south to north, it suddenly turned to the northwest and into the Ames River. It should be pointed out that the confluence of the Leda and Ems rivers is the most agriculturally developed county town of Lyle County in the south of East Friesland. At the beginning, Marin defeated Albrecht, the old Duke of Saxony, just outside the city of Lyle on the banks of the Leda ...

The Hunter River is located in the southeast of Oldenburg province, with the origin in the Principality of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and further south of the Bishop of Minden. Subsequently, the river flows northwards, passes through the Principality of Brunswick-Lüneburg ~ www.novelhall.com ~ and flows into the province of Oldenburg. After arriving near the city of Oldenburg, the river suddenly turned northeast and flowed into the Weser River. The city of Oldenburg is located on the north bank of the bend of the Hunter River.

Marin ’s plan was to dig through the Leda and Hangt rivers, and connect the two large rivers through the two tributaries of the Ames and Weser to achieve the purpose of inland navigation.

Although the Leda and Hangt Rivers are not big rivers, Marin is not a big canal. The castrated version of the small canal, which connects the tributaries of the Ames River and the Weser River, can fully achieve the purpose of launching small-scale inland navigation.

Once the Weser River and the Ames River are connected together, and the Minster Canal previously dug out, Marin is also equivalent to connecting the three golden waterways of the Weser River, the Ames River and the Rhine River. In this way, the effect of promoting the economic development of Beihai is definitely a bump.

And, most importantly, if you dig west from the bend of the Hunt River south of Oldenburg, as long as you dig 10 kilometers away, you can connect the two tributaries of the Hunt River and Leda River. Its engineering volume is much smaller than the Munster Canal.

As for the labor force digging the river? What are the prisoners of war of the coalition forces of the Eight Kingdoms? Marin never wastes the labor force of prisoners of war ...