Chapter 1898： Edward's little moves

Why are there so many twists and turns in the marriage between Caesar and Margaret? The problem still lies with the Treaty of Nantes signed by Edward, Marin and Louis XII.

At the beginning, in order to gain the support of France and Marin's North Sea State, Edward had signed a tripartite treaty with Louis XII and Marin at the Port of Nantes, France, before he had entered England. .

The problem is that Edward at the time was not a British monarch, but an aristocrat in exile. With the treaty he signed, the ministers of England were completely resigned.

In addition, because it was a secret contract, only the three parties were present, and no representatives from other countries were notarized. This becomes a problem-without third-party notarization, it is difficult to be recognized by other countries.

Of course, if Edward insists on the validity of this contract, there is no problem. The problem is that Edward's attitude is also somewhat ambiguous and his position is not so firm. Therefore, only the Minister of England will jump out and engage in things.

In fact, Marin is now fully capable of using force to force England to accept contracts up and down. Anyway, this contract was not fabricated by him, and many people know its existence.

But the problem is that if Marin is now forcing England to admit publicly, it is equivalent to exposing the ambition to annex England. At that time, it is necessary to match up with France in advance. Once the alliance between France and the German princes, the insufficiently prepared Marin may be beaten GG.

Therefore, Marin can't tell the truth now and can only deal with this kind of problem in secret.

In addition, Marin also felt Edward's small moves in recent years. Probably worried that the two regiments of the North Sea Kingdom threatened his rule, Edward had formed two regiments of 10,000 people directly under the royal family, including 7,000 long archers.

However, the fighting power of these two legions has not been good, knowing the war to conquer the island of Ireland, these 20,000 people took turns in battle, and through actual combat, the fighting power was trained. Of course, Edward did not know that because of the lack of strict management and daily training of the Beihai army, the combat strength of his 20,000-strong army can only be counted in the old army of this era. Still not small.

Some things are usually not visible. For example, the military training frequency of the North Sea country is very high, so you can practice it every time. Although it consumes a lot of energy, a lot of food is needed to add meals, but this is very useful for maintaining combat effectiveness.

Although Edward's two 10,000 legionaries have also studied the recruit training models of the two corps in the North Sea, they are not old officers because they are appointed, and they are not strict in military discipline and daily training.

These things usually seem like trivial things, but on the battlefield, you can tell the difference. However, Edward and his old officers did not understand that he thought he had fought an Irish conquest, and the fighting capacity of the army was comparable to that of the two North Sea Corps.

In addition, the slackness of daily training in peacetime, in addition to the problem of officer management level, also has cost issues.

It should be known that physical exercise is often exhausted by hauling and armed cross-country. At this time, you need to add meals frequently. Moreover, it is a high-energy meat meal. Otherwise, the human body will collapse.

This is the same reason that the farmers are also feeding eggs and concentrate during the farming period, so as to prevent the cattle from eating too much. After a large amount of exercise, you must make up. Otherwise, there will be losses to the body. Of course, except for people who lose weight.

In order to maintain the usual large amount of exercise and armed cross-country, the North Sea military barracks often serve braised pork or braised lamb in a large pot (more sheep in England, cheaper lamb). No matter how bad, you will often eat high-protein meats such as salted fish.

However, these require a lot of cost. What's more, 20,000 people have to eat. Therefore, it is really expensive to eat this way.

Marin is a local tyrant, there is no shortage of those in his hand, and he can naturally raise soldiers in such a condition. Therefore, the soldiers of the North Sea country usually have sufficient nutrition, large amounts of training, and very good physical fitness.

But England is a traditional agricultural country, and the British royal family's financial income also depends on the wool textile industry, and the income is not high.

What is the revenue of England? About 120,000 pounds a year! Among them, most of them are obtained from the wool industry and tariffs. The income belonging to the royal domain is only about 40,000 pounds, accounting for only one third.

Of course, for England, the annual revenue of 120,000 pounds is not too small. After all, it was equivalent to 480,000 Gouldon gold coins.

It seems that this is much less than the 1.2 million gold coins in France every year, but it depends on the comparison of national strength. With a population of 15 million in France, the annual fiscal revenue is only 1.2 million. The population of England is only 3 million, and the population of Scotland and Ireland is only 3.75 million. With an annual revenue of 480,000 gold coins, the financial situation is definitely much better than that of France. After all, talent in England is more than one-fifth of the French population, but fiscal revenue accounts for more than one-third of France.

This is mainly the great development of the wool industry in England, which has brought a lot of surplus income to the British royal family. If the royal family ’s income is only 40,000 pounds per year, England will not dare to claim to be a big country.

It is with the annual revenue of 400,000 to 500,000 gold coins that England is able to dispatch large-scale military forces and people to fight for hegemony, barely occupying a place among European countries.

But neither England nor France knew that Marin was the lowest-key super tycoon in Europe ...

If you can sell all the wheat produced in the Americas, the annual surplus of hundreds of millions of pounds of rye in the country, as well as the trade and other miscellaneous things, the annual financial income of Marin is absolutely more than 1,000 Ten thousand gold coins.

But the problem is that the European market is not that big and there are not so many coins, and most of Marin ’s food cannot be sold. In desperation, Marin can only make wine with excess grain, and even used to raise pigs.

Therefore, his financial income cannot be seen by most people. The financial revenue displayed on the bright side is only more than one million gold coins. These are all calculated by intentional people through foreign trade activities. The food that Marin reserves in the warehouses of the North Sea and the Americas is invisible to them.

Moreover, many of the more than one million gold coins are used to feed tens of thousands of troops. Therefore, on the bright side, Marin's fiscal surplus is not much.

In fact, Beihai ’s annual financial income is not counted as food that cannot be sold, and it is estimated to be 3 or 4 million gold coins. However, Marin's ruling philosophy is different from that of the monarchs of this era. Therefore, his income is high, and his expenses are equally large.

For example, Marin promoted digging rivers and repairing roads in the Beihai Kingdom, and made great efforts in infrastructure construction. This kind of thing, the monarch of this era will definitely not "wasting money" to do it. They only know taxation and want them to spend money for the common people, that is absolutely impossible.

The ruling level of European monarchs in this era is generally extremely low, and it is still in a very primitive monarchy era, which is similar to the Chinese Spring and Autumn Period, and is far less than the Chinese feudal dynasty.

Although ancient Chinese feudal dynasties had high financial revenues, they also spent huge sums every year to construct water conservancy, lay and maintain official roads, and improve the post system. These conventional things consume a lot of money every year. However, the construction and maintenance of these humble infrastructures are the guarantee of a country's economic prosperity.

But in this era, European monarchs did not spend money on those, they only knew about collecting taxes, and then squandered themselves. Of course, they walked the avenues themselves, and they still paid for repairs. As for the path people take, they won't spend money to repair it.

The most serious one is the German region. Because of segregation and segregation, the lords of each region have their own eyes and are short-sighted. They are unwilling to pay for the construction of roads, bridges and other infrastructure. It is rare that a lord repaired a bridge, but in the end, it was specifically to collect tolls for setting up cards ...

Therefore, the economy in the German region has been difficult to develop. It was a unified country like England and France that gradually appeared to spend money to maintain officialdom and set up a post system. After all, the unified nation manages all regions and requires smooth traffic and information.

However, due to the influence of fiscal revenue, a country with a concentration of kings such as Britain and France is also unable to invest in infrastructure, and it has been difficult to maintain several arterial roads and post systems. As for the rest, I can only blame shyness.

For example, the military ’s usual training problem, because they are unable to provide the army with enough meat, they can only help but cancel daily training and armed cross-country training. Not wanting, but can't afford it.

Moreover, the traditional military officers also despised this usual physical training and felt that as long as the soldiers have rich experience, it is not very important to eat meat or not. Even if there is a difference, it is not very big ...

Edward was also clearly aware of the threat of Marin ’s 20,000 army in England to his rule. Therefore, taking the opportunity of conquering Ireland, Edward excuses that “Ireland has just won. In order to prevent the local people from rebounding, they need to be resident. Army "... Then, he ordered the deployment of 5,000 troops from the Fourth Army and the Fifth Army, permanently stationed in Dublin, as a control and deterrent to the island of Ireland ...

In this way, there are only 10,000 people left in the two North Sea Army regiments in England. Moreover, the remaining 5,000 of the Fourth Army are stationed in Newcastle, on the northernmost side of England. The remaining 5,000 of the Fifth Legion are farther away ~ www.novelhall.com ~ is based in Edinburgh, and there is almost no threat to London ...

Then, Edward felt that the army of the North Sea State had only 10,000 people left on the British Isles, still far away from London, and its influence on London was greatly reduced.

Only afterwards did various moths come out in London. Obviously, after evacuating half of the Beihai army, Edward felt that the timing was almost the same and began to make small moves.

However, according to the spy lurking in the Royal Palace of London, Edward is still not sure whether he can give birth to a prince. Therefore, he has not yet made up his mind to interfere in the marriage of Princess Margaret, and it is still just making trouble. After all, it does n’t make much sense to whom Princess Margaret marries if a prince is born. However, if it is determined that there is no way to regenerate his son, Edward may make another plan.

Mainly, the marriage with Caesar, the heir to the North Sea, does not seem to be good for England. Maybe, it will drag England into the mire of German internal warfare.

Therefore, from the perspective of the English people, Edward's choice is actually no problem. However, he didn't know that his opponent Marin was a passer-by, with a high rank. These small movements of him, nothing in front of Marin ...