Chapter 1442： Refuse to send troops and deal with Chen Liang

In recent times, the mercenaries in Italy seem to have good luck. Because, they often receive employment contracts, and their lives have fallen. Although it is said that the more than 20,000 people hired by the French were rather unlucky and regarded as cannon fodder. However, as a mercenary who lives for money, this is really normal.

And now, a group of Italian mercenaries have received employment contracts ...

This time it was Spain that provided the contract, and the risk of the contract seems to be small-it is just to guard several important cities in Morocco.

If defending the city on the European side, it may be more difficult. After all, European countries have artillery, and the danger of siege is great. It is easier to keep the city in Morocco. Moroccans, let alone artillery, have insufficient normal siege equipment. For example, the Ladder, Moroccans cannot build a ladder with a secondary ladder, only a ladder with only one main ladder. This kind of ladder, the rolling wood and the stone are easy to deal with.

Therefore, the Vatas dynasty has been unable to break through European castles such as Ceuta and Melilla by the sea for so many years. This, as a well-informed mercenary, must have heard of it. Therefore, the Italian mercenaries are very happy to win this order.

For example, just a few months after returning from the North Sea country, Pargani received a big list-he will lead 4000 Italian mercenaries to guard the ancient city of Fez in Morocco for more than half a year ...

Pargani was also a lucky man, and originally, his reputation was not great. However, this time he was deceived by Marin as the leader of Oldenburg. As a result, under the stimulation of the supplies in Oldenburg city, a powerful energy erupted, and he resisted tens of thousands of enemy troops for a long time before he could not help but fail. Then, he fell to the title of "good at defending the city". This time when the Spaniard wanted to transfer the Moroccan garrison to replace the Italian, he thought of him.

Pargani was very happy. Although he failed to defend Oldenburg, he only received part of his salary. However, there was not much danger in guarding Fez this time. The Vatas dynasty was already defeated by the army of Gonzalo de Cordoba, leaving only some remaining forces. If fighting in the wild, Pargani may be a little afraid of the opponent's cavalry. However, in the battle of defending the city, the group of scimitar cavalry opposite is the weak chicken ...

This is the weakness of nomads-good at fighting in the wild, not good at siege. Therefore, the general nomadic people can only attack and disturb the farming people, and cannot completely overcome them. Only the Mongols, who had received the return artillery from the Central Plains Technology and the Arabs, could sweep the world. There are also Manchus, and after acquiring the Hongyi Cannon technology, they have the ability to conquer the city.

The remnants of the Vatas dynasty in Morocco obviously do not have these technologies. Therefore, in the face of the coastal Spanish and Portuguese fortresses, they have no choice.

Therefore, for these Italian mercenaries, this trip is relatively easy, and there is no danger. After the Spanish handed in the employment contract, about 15,000 Italian mercenaries signed the contract and began to board the ship to Morocco, replacing the 20,000 Spanish troops originally stationed there.

The other passers-by took the whip from the land quickly, concealed their identity and passed through southern France to the German region. Then, split up and go to all parts of Germany to hire the old German mercenaries who just ended the princes' contracts.

However, after hearing about the need to face 60,000 French troops and more than 20,000 Italian mercenaries, many German mercenaries were somewhat hesitant. But in the end, nearly 20,000 people signed a contract, willing to help the Spaniards. Among them, the Austrians helped to do a lot of work. Although the Habsburgs had no money and no force to help, they could still use the only prestige to help.

In addition, the Spaniards sent a group of men and women to the north and came to Aurich to see Marin, hoping to hire the Beihai team against the French army.

How can Marin agree? He was the one who flicked the French to Italy. He did it just to let Spain and France consume each other. How can they blend in themselves? Then you can't achieve the purpose of consuming both countries at the same time ...

Therefore, Marin refused to send troops to help Spain in the name of "too close to France on land, afraid of being retaliated by France."

However, in order not to get too rigid with Spain, Marin agreed to use a CIF price of 1 fenny per pound to provide Spain with a large amount of rye.

The so-called CIF price is the price that includes freight. Shipping costs are more expensive this year, so Deutsche Rye, which costs 1 fenny per pound, is shipped to Spain, where grain prices are high. Generally, the wholesale price starts from 1.3 to 1.5 fenny. Marin gave this CIF price, which is definitely very friendly. Moreover, the volume is large ...

Because of the war, the autumn harvest of Beihai last year was actually greatly affected. For example, the corn fields in the province of Oldenburg were burned out.

Fortunately, in the past few years, the North Sea has accumulated a lot of Chenliang. Therefore, Marin also has the conditions to use a batch of Chen Liang as a personal affection. Anyway, Beihai is not short of food ...

After receiving Marin's reply, Ferdinand II and Juan III were a bit disappointed that Marin did not send troops, but they can understand. Because, as a European country, there are not many countries that dare to offend France.

Marin explained in his reply that he had a bad relationship with the German princes and was worried about the joint crusade by the princes. If it offends France again, it is easy to be jointly targeted and may perish ...

This explanation is reasonable. Ferdinand II and Juan III have nothing to say. Anyway, Marin is willing to provide a lot of cheap military food.

Spain now has to use tens of thousands of troops ~ www.novelhall.com ~ and it is necessary to strengthen the food of the Italian mercenaries stationed in Morocco. However, there are many mountains in the Iberian Peninsula in Spain, which are not rich in food. Therefore, at this time, Spain did have some food shortages.

Plus, the Kingdom of Naples was originally an important grain-producing region in Spain. Today, being occupied by the French, Spain is also somewhat caught off guard. The most important thing is-the granary of Naples is in the city of Naples. Now surrounded by the French, there is no way to rescue the food ...

Today in Spain, there are two main grain-producing areas-one is the "Golden Basin" of Sicily, which mainly produces Duran wheat making pasta, which is the most valuable site. And the other is the Kingdom of Naples. However, the main product of the Kingdom of Naples is barley, and there is also Duran wheat, but it is not the main variety. However, in terms of production, the Kingdom of Naples produced more barley. Unfortunately, the largest granary in the city of Naples was surrounded by tens of thousands of French troops ...

So, now Spain is also listening to food shortages, tens of thousands of troops plus tens of thousands of civilians, but the food, but one boat by boat consumption. Fortunately, Marin gave a friendly price of 1 fenny per pound, which made Spain feel a lot.

But they did not know that Marin only cleared part of Chen Liang's warehouse. Not only can you cash out a lot of money, but you can also sell your love to the Spanish ...