Chapter 1735： Usury group

It is very time-consuming to pull back and forth between countries. It is not that England has decided to send people, and it can directly cross the Calais Strait to do things. It has to wait for the reply from France.

Of course, Robinson must have no problem going to Calais. This is because Baron Marquez, a good friend of Baron Robinson, is currently in France, and is courteously received by the French court. As long as Marquez helps speak, indicating that Robinson is "his own", it is not a problem to allow him to enter Calais.

The only problem is probably the landing of the army ...

After all, that was the landing of 20,000 troops! The Strait of Calais is indeed very narrow, less than 30 kilometers away. However, the landing of the army is very troublesome. If you use the commercial terminal in the port of Calais, you can only land a few hundred people at a time. It is estimated that it will take a few days for the 20,000 troops to land. Moreover, the premise is that the French do not block.

But because it was a raid, it required 20,000 British troops to quickly land and encircle the Calais fortress, and capture the fortress before the French sent out reinforcements. Therefore, the landing speed is very important.

So, these days, Edward's soldiers are training and landing. However, with practice, the major problem of insufficient berths at the port of Calais cannot be changed.

Marin wanted to recommend the "sea beach landing" method applied by the North Sea State to allow the army to land on the water. However, the spring water was a bit cold, and I was afraid that the English soldiers were not used to it.

Fortunately, of the 20,000 troops, 5,000 soldiers from the North Sea are all used to landing in wading. Many of them participated in the wading landing in Edinburgh, Scotland a few years ago. Moreover, most of them equipped with wading landing artifact-long leather boots.

Long leather boots are not afraid of the tide, and the beach on the beach is not as easy to sink like the mud of the swamp. Therefore, wearing these shoes is very convenient for landing.

This is done after imitating the rain boots of later generations, but the tube is longer. Moreover, the materials of the two are also different. Rain boots of later generations are all rubber products, and the cost is low. But in this era, Marin's Cuban rubber plantation production is still very small. Things are rare, but rubber is obviously more precious this year! Therefore, it is better to use leather as the material for leather boots! In this way, these 5,000 people were equipped with the first batch of leather boots from Beihai, mostly made of animal leather exchanged from North American Indians.

In addition, since it is a "landing for beach", there must be a boat that can directly rush to the beach. Rubber boats are not available, they can only be made of wood. But the normal wooden dinghy seems inconvenient to be stacked on the boat, and there are at most two or three dinghy on a big boat.

So, Malin thought about it, might as well engage in a raft ...

In fact, bamboo rafts are better and buoyancy is greater. After all, bamboo is hollow. But bamboo is not produced in Europe, so only rafts can be used.

The buoyancy of a raft is not as good as a bamboo raft. However, it is easy to manufacture, and it can be piled up on the ship deck to facilitate the needs of the soldiers to rush to the beach and land. Thus, simple, low-cost rafts have become the most important tool for soldiers on most ships to land on the beach. These days, British soldiers are practicing how to use rafts to paddle from the boat to the beach and rush to land.

As long as the rafts are ready for landing and landing, most of the soldiers can be sent ashore in one night without delaying the time of the raid. In this way, even if the Chinese sent reinforcements from Paris, it was too late to support Calais ...

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While the British were busy negotiating with the French, the spring cultivation in the two countries was not over. At this time, most of the spring cultivation in the two countries has come to an end. That is, the land tillage is basically over, and now it has entered the stage of sowing.

But these two countries do not have the Aquilegia imported from the Ming Dynasty by Malin, and sowing can only be done manually. It is the cooperation of men and women. The male farmer is responsible for digging a small hole in the field, while the woman is responsible for sprinkling the seed into the hole. Then, the small hole in which the seed is buried is filled with mud. Afterwards, I stepped on it gently with my feet. Of course, you can't step on it too much, otherwise, the seeds can't break through the imprisonment of the land and sprout. This is also technical work, the land is too close and the seeds are difficult to germinate. The land is too loose to affect the rooting of the seeds. Of course, a mature farmer can solve a problem with a single kick without thinking so much. This is an experience problem ...

But the sowing efficiency is very low. Only one or two acres of land can be planted per day, generally no more than 3 acres, which is half an acre.

Of course, there is another option, which is to sow directly-after the plough is finished, the seeds are directly sown in the ground. Then, use a wooden pickaxe to simply crush and turn the soil that was ploughed by the plow head. After crushing the soil, pick the soil and cover the scattered seeds ...

But this spreading effect is not very good, especially, the randomness is great. In some places, the seeds are sprinkled too much, in others, the seeds are not sowed. Moreover, multiple seeds get together to germinate, which will result in competition for nutrients. Then, no one grows a few crops ...

Therefore, Europeans now prefer the on-demand technology of cooperation between men and women. Although slower, the effect is much better than the unparalleled spreading. In terms of yield, sowing is sometimes less than 100 pounds per mu. And on-demand, basically exceeded 100 acres of mu production ...

At this critical moment of sowing this spring, a group of nobles from the Burgundy region are gathering in the castle's banquet hall in the castle of a large manor near the original capital of the Principality of Burgundy, Dijon.

Of course, they are not holding a banquet, they are holding a secret meeting ...

The owner of this castle is Paul Lizalazu, a Viscount of Burgundy. Originally, the Lizarazu family was mixed with the bold Charlie, but after the death of the bold Charles, Louis XI took the opportunity to annex the Principality of Burgundy, and the Lizarazu family was not good, so they turned to surrender The French royal family.

However, after all, it is a wall of grass. The Lizarazu family never regarded the French royal family as a monarch who must be loyal, but because they could not resist the power of France. In the eyes of Paul Lizarazu, it is clear that the interests of the family are more important ...

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And this secret meeting ~ www.novelhall.com ~ is also very interesting-this is a private gathering of loan-sharking nobles in Burgundy ...

Ever since he came up with a method of profiting to pit French farmers, Marin secretly sent a large number of spies and entered the French disaster area secretly, contacting the local French nobles secretly, confusing them to make a profitable loan to the victims in order to achieve The purpose of finally depriving farmers of cultivated land and property.

The Burgundy region has only been in the French court for decades, and it has not completely turned to France. After all, the daring Charlie had been seeking to establish the Kingdom of Burgundy alone, and the internal propaganda had always been de-Frenchized. And Paul Lizarazu, who came from that era, is naturally not as loyal to France. Similarly, many nobles in Burgundy do not have a strong sense of belonging to France.

Marin's spy entered Burgundy, and Paul Lizalazu saw the huge benefits, so he was the first to stand up and respond accordingly. Then, all the nobles who responded formed a group headed by Viscount Paul Lizalazu, which specifically targeted the victims of the Burgundy region and issued loan sharks. And this group is called by Marin as a "usury group".

And this secret meeting of the loan shark group is to discuss how to work on the seeds loaned to farmers ...