Chapter 2019： What a big deal!

Between countries, the word profit should take the lead. The reason why Teutonic Republic regained control of Livonia was because of Moscow's huge market.

In recent years, although in the process of cooperation with Marin, the Teutonic Knights have completely controlled the salt trade of the Teutonic country, and can also export coarse wool from Eastern Europe to Marin. However, these profits are still a bit lower than the excessive profits of the salt trade in Livonia. After all, Livonia is the main salt import channel for the Principality of Moscow with a population of tens of millions. Even if you can't trade the salt in the hands, salt taxation alone can make Livonians rich.

And what about Teutonic? It is now more than 300,000 people, only one third of the population in its heyday. Its land area has shrunk from 150,000 to 60,000 square kilometers to more than 30,000 square kilometers.

The most depressing thing is that the territory of the Teutonic Kingdom is still surrounded by Lithuania, and is separated from the Duchy of Moscow with the same interests. Obviously, Lithuanians will not allow Teutons to do business in their country, especially the highly profitable salt trade. At most, some very low-profit businesses will agree with them.

The Livonia Federation, north of the Teutonic Kingdom, is connected to the Pskov Republic and can be connected to the Grand Duchy of Moscow. The salt trade of the Grand Duchy of Moscow is also imported through the two countries.

Although the Grand Duchy of Moscow conquered the Novgorod Republic, it obtained the narrow estuary on the east side of the Gulf of Finland, that is, the place of St. Petersburg. However, the Moscow people have no contacts in Western Europe. If you want to import salt, you can only rely on the merchants of the Hanseatic League. Moscow merchants want their merchant ships to go out to buy salt, and I am afraid they will be united by the merchants of the Hanseatic League to "do it" at sea. Therefore, even if the Moscow people have a small estuary, salt imports still rely on the Hanseatic League. The main salt import process is-first the Hansa merchants in the German region will transport the salt to the Livonia region, then the Hansa merchants in the Livonia region will be transported to Pskov, and then to the territory of the Grand Duchy of Moscow ...

It is worth mentioning that the salt transported by Hansa merchants to Livonia is mainly from the salt purchased from the "salt capital" of Lüneburg. And now, the salt mines of Lüneburg have been controlled by Marin, who owns more than half of the shares. Therefore, the salt trade of the Grand Duchy of Moscow also includes Marin's interests.

It's just that the Hanse merchants' prices for goods in Lüneburg are lower, just the price of salt in the German region. And they transported the salt to Livonia, the profit at least doubled.

The reason why Marin supports Teutonic action against Livonia this time, in addition to the relationship between Uncle Yule, there are also Teutons promised to allow Marin ’s merchant ships to transport salt sold to Moscow to Livonia in the future Reason.

In this way, the profits from the transport of salt from Lüneburg to Livonia will be multiplied by Marin. As for turning things over with the original salt-carrying merchants, Teutonic stated that they would do it and not allow Malin to be a wicked person. After all, the Marin and Hanseatic alliances are allies.

It is for this reason that Marin did not hesitate to provide artillery to the Teutonic State to support their attack on Livonia. After all, this is good for him.

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On the other side, Moscowians also know the importance of the Pskov Republic. Therefore, the Moscow people used force and economy to force Pskov to submit to him as early as Ivan III. Even, when Vasily III was a prince, the nominal fief was Pskov.

At present, there are a large number of pro-Moscow nobles within Pskov. If there is a fight, Mrs. Psco must suppress the internal pro-Moscow factions before they can fight the Moscow army. Of course, in general, in order to ensure independence, most of Pskov's nobles are closer to Lithuania. Because Lithuania is relatively weak and will not seek to annex Pskov.

Of course, Pskov's attribution has nothing to do with Teutonic power. However, the affairs of the Livonia Federation are closely related to the Teutonic State. After all, Livonia was subordinate to the Teutonic State a few decades ago. Today, they are independent, but they are bigger and richer than the original sovereign.

Fortunately, there are many forces in the Livonia Federation, and the interests are dispersed into the hands of local churches, nobles, businessmen, and Teutonic knights. Compared with the Teutonic State, although the total trade volume of the Livonia Federation is large, the financial resources are dispersed into the hands of different forces, but it is not as good as the Teutonic State can be used intensively.

In addition, since the Cavaliers lost control of Livonia in 1435, the wandering knights of Germany, France and other Western European countries have been less willing to go to the Livonia region, and more choose to go to the knighthood The higher Teutonic state.

This is very important, because it means that Teutonic can get more powerful wandering knights. The wandering knights going to the Livonia Federation are more doing business. After all, there are more business opportunities over there.

In this way, the Teutonic Kingdom has the confidence to gather more knights for national warfare. In the Federal District of Livonia, fewer knights can gather. Moreover, they are not at one with the Federation of Livonia. After all, the members of the Livonia Knights must have felt uncomfortable from being the controller of the region to one of the controllers. You know, before 1435, although the Livonia Knights were subordinate to the Teutonic State, they needed to pay taxes to the Teutonic Knights. However, at that time, it was the knights of the Livonia Knights who controlled the Livonia area. The Teutonic State does not send people to manage things, it only needs to receive enough taxes.

The protagonists, nobles and businessmen, as well as the civic class who rose up against the Teutonic Kingdom and deprived the Livonia Knights of absolute control over the Livonia region happened to be Lithuanians.

Therefore, even if the Teutonic Kingdom smashes pots and sells iron this time, it must help the Moscow people purchase enough armor to allow the Moscow people to defeat the background of the "rebels" who rebelled against the Knights in the Livonia region. In this way, the Teutonic troops sent troops to recapture Livonia without any interference.

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However, 50,000 sets of weapons and armor are really expensive. If you purchase knight-level equipment, a set of Gothic plate armor will require dozens of gold coins. A knight sword also requires several gold coins. If you buy 50,000 sets in this way, it is estimated that you need more than two million gold coins. The Teutonic surplus in these years is not that much.

So, after thinking over and over again, Lev gave up the idea of ​​buying 50,000 sets of knightly weapon armor for the Moscow, and instead purchased the armor of ordinary soldiers. Specifically, ordinary leather armor, ordinary spears that use less iron, and ordinary iron knives and crossbows. In this way, a set, but a dozen gold coins. 50,000 sets, no more than 1 million gold coins.

In fact, the reason why the Teutonic Kingdom chose to purchase weapons and armor from Marin in addition to the high quality of the North Sea weapon and armor is that they originally planned to pay Marin on credit and only pay part of the money Pay after the war is over. After all, if the Grand Duchy of Moscow annexed the wealthy Pskov Republic, it would be looted, and there would be no money to pay the rest.

But Marin knew their plans and refused to sell weapons to the Moscow people. Therefore, Lev is helpless and can only reduce the level of weapon armor.

Fortunately, even with ordinary iron knives, spears and crossbows, the craftsmanship in Germany is higher than in Eastern Europe. The Moscow army used it, not badly. At least, not worse than the Lithuanian army. Moreover, the Moscow army has a quantitative advantage. This extra army equipped with good-quality weapons and armor is definitely a crush for the Lithuania with only tens of thousands of soldiers and horses.

If singled out, the current strength of the Grand Duchy of Moscow is enough to beat Lithuania to the north. But Lithuania has the support of the Kingdom of Poland, and the two countries can only work together to withstand the pressure of the Moscow people.

But now, under the influence of Marin, the Poles brought out the Polish wing cavalry in advance, which made the strength of the two sides unbalanced.

At present, Siegmont I has established a 5,000-person Polish wing cavalry, and is still a standing army. In addition to participating in the crackdown on the Hungarian peasant uprising, this army later transferred to the Lithuanian border and beat the Moscow once, and easily ate up a thousand-strong Moscow cavalry, which surprised Vasily III.

Therefore, the reason why the Moscow people asked the Teutonic State to help purchase 50,000 sets of weapon armor is actually to fight against the Polish wing cavalry.

Among them, there are 5000 sets of leather armor, chain mail and sabers for cavalry. Another 45,000 sets are used by infantry, including 5000 crossbowmen ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Vassily III's plan is to use 5000 light horses, 5000 crossbowmen and 40,000 spearmen to fight 5000 Poland Wing cavalry. After all, the wing cavalry only wore half-hull armor, the horses had no armor, and the protection was not good. Vasily III did not seek to defeat the Polish Wing Cavalry, as long as these 50,000 people could resist the impact of the Polish Wing Cavalry. Among them, the existence of 5000 crossbowmen is dedicated to the war horses used to shoot wing cavalry.

Even in order to fight against the Polish heavy cavalry, the Teutonic State secretly sent several Swiss mercenary officers originally employed in the Teutonic State to Moscow to help train the Moscow militia. Of course, it is impossible to train Moscow farmers to be brave Swiss mercenaries. The main task of these Swiss mercenary officers is to teach the Moscow militia how to counter the impact of cavalry. After all, Swiss mercenaries started by defeating plate armoured knights. Although the Polish wing cavalry has a slender lance rather than a knight lance, it is still too short in front of a Swiss spear that is five or six meters long. If used properly, the spearman can also resist the impact of the Polish wing cavalry.

But when Lev traveled to the southern German cities of Nuremberg, Frankfurt and other handicraft cities to sweep the weapons and armor, suddenly an explosive news came from the west-the French had made a big deal ...

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