Chapter 2066： The use and defense of the old nobles

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It can be said that Marin was extremely troubled in sending troops to the Grand Duchy of Moscow. Moreover, his heart is full of anxiety. The reason for the anxiety was that after they sent troops, the German princes and France would stabbed them in the back and attacked the mainland of North Sea.

Therefore, when planning to attack the Grand Duchy of Moscow, Marin must also arrange the rear area to avoid fire in the backyard. As for defense, several generals under Marin are still competent. Several veterans such as Schwartz, Stade and Steindorf will sit in the country, command the domestic army, and guard against enemy attacks. Marin's request for him is to defend the Frisian region, the core of the mainland. As for the newly acquired areas such as the Ruhr area and Lüneburg area, they can be temporarily abandoned. Anyway, as long as you come back, you can get it back.

But the problem is that if you can avoid being attacked, that's the best outcome. Otherwise, the country will be destroyed and reconstruction will be difficult. The most fearful thing is that the population is taken captive or even killed by the enemy. This is the most terrifying thing.

You know, Marin went all out to send troops to the Grand Duchy of Moscow, looking for population. If the mainland is attacked and the population is slaughtered and robbed, that is the real disaster. It may even make Marin a huge loss.

Therefore, we must be prepared to attack Moscow as well as to avoid attacks on the mainland.

However, how to avoid the enemy's sneak attack on the mainland after sending troops? Relying on force does not seem to scare people. Because Marin was too aggressive before and lacked deterrence. But too arrogant, may die faster. Because other people will fight in groups...

Others don't know, Marin knows at least that the princes who were sent to Bremen province by him must be unwilling. When they leave their homeland and go to Eastern Europe, they have a high chance of making trouble. Or rebel, or run away.

Therefore, Marin made up his mind-once he left the mainland, he would send a group of soldiers to take care of these people directly. They are not arrested, but they are temporarily under house arrest, and they are not allowed to have any contact with the outside world. In other words, it is equivalent to wartime house arrest, restricting them from going out. After returning, the ban will be lifted.

In addition to these princes, their former generals with combat and command capabilities will also be temporarily monitored. Marin would ask someone to give them two trays, one filled with gold to express comfort; on the other tray, put a **** noose...that is to give them two choices, or cooperate to get money, Or die...

In addition, Marin will add a condition-afterwards, the annual salary of each prince will increase by 1 million pounds of rye!

This is a means of comfort, and at the same time, it is also a means of food clearance. You know, the 12 million acres of rye fields in the North Sea now produce billions of pounds of rye every year. The 6 million acres of rye field under Marin's name alone can produce around 2.4 billion pounds of rye per year. Even if it takes a lot of rye to accept hundreds of thousands of immigrants this time, it is still enough. After all, Marin stopped making wine with rye.

Since there is a lot of surplus rye, in addition to food for immigrants, there must be channels for consumption. Marlin was reluctant to give money directly to the princes who surrendered. Because the North Sea country itself lacks gold and silver.

However, the North Sea country does not lack food. Therefore, instead of rewarding money, they rewarded food instead. In this way, it can save a lot of money, and it is also very sincere. After all, 1 million pounds of wheat is equivalent to 1 million pfennigs, and converted into gold coins, there are 1.67 million gold coins. Eight princes, each with 1 million pounds, only 8 million pounds. This is nothing compared to the annual output of 2.4 billion pounds of fields under Marin's name. Counting their former generals, these people rewarded them with a lower standard, up to 10 million pounds of food at the most. Compared with 2.4 billion, more than 10 million is really nothing, not even one percent. When the colony in North America opens up more grain fields, it will be a drop in the bucket.

However, this is only the situation in the North Sea country. In other countries, the salary of 1 million pounds of rye is simply scary. You know, this year, in many German Principalities, the annual fiscal revenue may not be 50,000 gold coins. One million pounds of rye, worth 1.67 million gold coins, is worth one-third of a Principality’s annual fiscal revenue.

However, it cannot be compared like this. why? An independent principality has an annual revenue of 50,000 gold coins, but it also spends more money. First of all, feeding so many troops and officials will cost more than half of it. Only a small part really fell into the hands of the duke himself. Therefore, in this era, many vassal states are trying to reduce their standing army as much as possible in order to save expenditure. There is going to be a war, and directly ask the mercenary group to fight for them.

But now, these princes who surrendered to Marin had no country and did not need to pay a lot of salary and food expenses for the army and officials. They only need to bear the expenses of servants and guards in the mansion and the expenses of their own family members. This kind of overhead is very limited. Therefore, most of the treatment that Marin now gives them can be used on themselves.

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As if inspired by it, Marin decided to give the surrendered princes and their nobles the treatment in the future, instead of directly giving money, but food and supplies. In this way, I don't have to bother to send people to exchange coins for them.

Of course, if these nobles are willing to accept the brass coins circulating in the North Sea country, they can also give money. However, most of these nobles are very conservative and refuse to accept copper coins, only gold and silver. But the gold, silver and marlins themselves are lacking, so in the future, they will be discounted for food and goods.

For example, in addition to directly giving food, Marin can also give them salt. Converted to them according to the market price, these nobles have many people in their families, and the demand for salt is not small. And calculated to them according to the market price, and skipped the middlemen, and gave all the profits to their own salt cooking plants.

In addition, in the future, Cuba will produce more cane sugar, which can also be directly used as a treatment to reward them and encourage them to eat more sugar. As for whether you will get diabetes...Marim is eager...

There are also milk powder, tea, tobacco, all standard equipment for the nobles. Not to mention the nobles who surrendered, it was Marin and his own new nobles, who also consumed these things on a daily basis. Among other things, the Earl Grey milk tea that was originally made is a huge figure for the consumption of powdered milk (or milk), tea and cane sugar.

These things are all Marlin's properties. According to the usual practice, they are generally wholesaled to merchants everywhere, and then sold to various places by middlemen. These old nobles who were trapped in the Bremen area also bought these goods from middlemen. Even many middlemen are themselves members of the chamber of commerce under the name of these old nobles. Marin sent goods directly to these old nobles, which actually exploited the profits of some of the old nobles’ chambers of commerce.

However, these veteran aristocrats also have a certain network of relationships in other German states. The goods are given to them, even if they are obtained from other princes at the market price of the North Sea country, there is still a lot of profit.

Because most of the German vassal states resisted Marin and the emperor faction, the chambers of commerce under Marin's name were in fact subject to various restrictions in each princely state. In many cases, the chambers of commerce under Ma Lin had to change their faces and pretend to be chambers of commerce in other countries in order to get the opportunity to trade in the princely countries.

But when it comes to problems, both ancient and modern, Chinese and Western, collusion between officials and businessmen is common. Without the protection of the nobles, the Chamber of Commerce under Ma Lin was often suppressed and made things difficult, and spent a lot of money unfairly.

And these former princes and veteran aristocrats who were defeated by Marin and circled in Bremen, even though they got mixed up politically, they were raised by Marin as pigs. However, outside the North Sea country, in the vassal countries, they are more mixed than Marin...

No way, they are veteran nobles, their bloodlines are "noble", and their network of relationships is also intricate. For the same commodity, Ma Lin’s chambers of commerce have to pay 10 gold coins in business taxes (and bribes) in each princely country. These old aristocratic chambers of commerce only need to pay two or three gold coins, up to 5 gold coins... …

Therefore, Marin simply calculated the goods directly to these old nobles at market prices, and asked their chambers of commerce to go to the various princes to sell them to Don’t think that they did not give the wholesale price, but they sold it out and made a profit. It must be no less than sending someone to sell it.

Of course, the goods Marlin provided to them were only the amount included in their treatment, and would not give them more. Otherwise, if these guys make more money and have the capital to fight against themselves, that would be bad.

In other words, Marin converted the treatment originally given to them into goods, saving the trouble of exchanging money for sales. And the value of the goods given to them does not exceed the treatment promised before. Even if they can make some profits, it will not be too exaggerated.

In this way, Marin cleared some of the goods, and the old nobles can make more money, which is also happy for both parties. Moreover, these old nobles took the goods to the vassal country to exchange it for gold and silver, and then brought it back to the North Sea country, which is considered to increase the total amount of money in the North Sea country. After all, these old nobles cannot leave Beihai Country, and their money still has to be spent in Beihai Country. With this calculation, there is a double benefit for Marin and Beihai Country-saving trouble and increasing the amount of precious metal currency...

The only trouble is probably the fear that the old nobles will use the opportunity of sending caravans to leave the North Sea country and engage in connection. Even, secretly rebelling or something. But Marin need not worry, because he had arranged for Kohler to send spies to monitor those people uninterruptedly. Even in the chambers of commerce of those old nobles, there were spies from the North Sea country in them. As long as there is any change in the group, the spies will send back the information as soon as possible, so that Marin can send troops to suppress it.

Of course, to change the treatment of those old nobles into physical goods will definitely be implemented after Marin's expedition to the Grand Duchy of Moscow. Otherwise, let them now send caravans to various princes to go around randomly, wouldn't they give them the opportunity to collude with those princes?

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