King of German Mercenaries

底 By the end of April 1496, agricultural activities on Texel Island had basically stopped, spring ploughing had basically ended, and only sporadic land had been reclaimed. But even if the land is cleared, it is not in the planting season. Therefore, the reclamation of new land does not matter.

发展 After developing salt cooking and revolutionizing agriculture, Marin planned to visit the two fishing ports of Tholencher and Odershilde to see how the fishery development in Texel Island is going.

Umarin attaches great importance to fisheries, not to say that he attaches importance to fisheries production. Instead, Marin pays special attention to the young fishermen who have grown up in fishing activities-these are the best sailors to prepare ...

As a sailor, in addition to manipulating sails, he also has to adapt to long-term life at sea. Sailors often do not land a few months on ocean-going ships. I can't stand being a person who is used to living on land. It is only these days that the children of the fishermen who fish on the sea every day are very adaptable to long-term sea life and are less likely to get sick during long-distance voyages.

Seeing that the era of big sailing has begun, Marin said that he didn't want to share a piece of it, it was absolutely deceiving. Spain and Portugal have not yet formed a climate at this time. They joined earlier and can rise to the top.

You have to know that it is not difficult to conquer the New World and to open routes to India. The Spaniards conquered the Aztec Empire in Mexico with fewer than 1,000 people. And Pizarro conquered Peru with only 180 people ...

Perhaps, Pizarro did not have the good luck Marin who had the Incan king, but with thousands of people, Marin could easily do it. In addition, Marin has studied in previous lives that the success of Cortes and Pizarro is greatly attributed to the knights and muskets.

Plated Knights, swept into **** dumps by muskets in Europe. But in the presence of the American Indians, they are very good.

The Incas have never seen a horse and do n’t know what a cavalry is. The Aztecs themselves died, spreading the myth of "white god". Coupled with cavalry and muskets scared the Indians. Therefore, conquering this group of uncivilized Indians is still easy and pleasant.

The key is that people in this era do not know the depth of the Indians. Cortez's attack on the Aztec empire was purely greedy, and he did not expect to succeed. Pizarro is even a gambler, but in the end he won ...

Marlin doesn't need gambling, he knows the weaknesses of the Indians. At that time, as long as a group of knights are dispatched, the group of Indians is crushed and captured. You know, Pisaro just broke down the thousands of troops brought by the Inca King by relying only on dozens of plate cavalry. Obviously, the Incas were frightened and crushed by cavalry, not really defeated ...

Therefore, Marin has no shortage of information and knows that there are many opportunities ahead. But first, he had to have a boat, and a skilled, faithful sailor.

Although Marlin can hire sailors from other countries, he does not intend to do so. Because hiring sailors from other countries is vulnerable to leaks. If other powerful nations knew that they had sent hundreds of people, they had conquered a wealthy nation and would not send a large army to grab business?

So early colonialists had better use trusted sailors and soldiers. In the later period, he became stronger and was not afraid of the puppets of other countries, and there was no problem in recruiting sailors from other countries.

What credible sailor is more reliable than the fishermen he manages? The family is begging for life under their own hands, who dares to betray at will? Dare to betray, the whole family is hanged ...

关心 In consideration of the source of the sailors, Marin took his men and "kindly condolences" to the fishermen in the two fishing villages of Tholencher and Odeshilde ...

The two fishing villages are very small, with only one hundred people in each village. The two villages add up to about 200 people. And the available young fishermen, no more than 30 people ...

Malin is pleased that many of these fishermen are Frisian. There are many Frisian people along the Dutch coast, and many are engaged in fishing. In both villages, more than half of the fishermen are Frisian. Frisians all speak Frisian, and Marin happens to know it. Therefore, it is more convenient to communicate with fishermen than with the townspeople and farmers on the original island. Marin couldn't understand the language of the Dutch on the island, and often took the island priest as a translator. The priests spoke German and Latin. Otherwise, Marin could not communicate with the local Dutch.

Using fluent Frisian, which was learned from Mrs. Mary (in fact, it is similar to English, of course, medieval English, not modern English learned by Marin), Marin and the fishermen had a cordial conversation ...

"Aben (a Frisian fisherman), do you usually fish hard?" Marin asked affectionately on the shoulder of a young bald fisherman who resembled Robben.

The next year, only 20 years old, but his hair was lost, Abben said shyly:

"Return to Baron, it's hard to go fishing, but you can't go without it, you will be hungry ..."

"How many fish can I play at that time?"

"Every time I go out to sea, I come back and sort, and I have hundreds of pounds of fish ..."

"Sorting?"

"Just leave the edible fish and throw away the inedible fish ... not all fish in the sea can eat, some are poisonous ..."

Marlin nodded, which is like puffer fish, which is a poisonous fish that cannot be eaten.

"There are other fish, although they are not poisonous, but they are hard to eat. No one will buy them ..."

"Oh ... by the way, why do you only harvest a few hundred pounds for each fishing trip? As far as I know, if you go down the net and exclude the uneatable fish you want to sort out, at least one or two hundred pounds? Do you hit two or three net fish a day? "

"Hehe, Lord, it's not that we can't fish more, or that we don't want to fish more. It's ..."

"What is it? Listen to ..."

"We don't have enough salt!" The young Abben touched his bald head and sighed ...

"Salt?" Speaking of salt, Marin laughed. However, he suddenly remembered that the salt produced by his salt cooking base was basically sold to the Wiggins Chamber of Commerce, and only part of it was reserved for himself and the army. It seems that he did not prepare the residents of the island ... Thinking of this, Marin smiled awkwardly ...

"Yes, salt! Lord Baron, salt is expensive now. One quart of salt costs five or six shillings. We fishermen are very poor. Where can I buy much salt? It ’s useless even with a lot of fish. Because, no With enough salt to marinate, those extra fish will rot and smell ... "

"Selling salted fish also makes money? Why not buy more salt with the money you make?" Because of the fast of the Catholic Church, Europeans are not allowed to eat meat for many hours. Therefore, salted fish became an important food during fasting.

"Master Bart, the profit of salted fish is very low. Don't look at the price of salted fish is not low. However, because of the high salt price, the cost of salted fish is also high. In addition to the transportation cost of salted fish, so salty fish is sold Fish won't make much money at all. But if the salt price drops by one or two shillings, our profit will still be ok. "

也就是说 "That is to say, if the salt price drops to 4 shillings, your profits will increase a lot?"

"Yes, if the salt price drops to 4 shillings, all fishermen will have a better life!"

"Let ’s do this ~ www.readwn.com ~ I set up a new salt cooking base, I asked them to expand their production, and I will retail you sea salt at the price of 4 shillings per quart, should you be much better?"

当然 "Of course, thank you Lord Lord! However, the benefits will not be realized in a short time. Because, we can not afford too much money to buy salt for the time being." Bald Abben said honestly.

"It's okay, I can lend you salt, you sell salted fish, and then return the equivalent coins!"

谢谢 "Thank you Lord Lord!" Abben quickly bent down and thanked him.

别 "Don't be thankful, by the way, is there any problem with your fishing boat?"

"Yes, adults, many poor fishermen can't afford fishing boats. Even those who can afford fishing boats, like ours, can only use small boats to fish in shallow waters like the Wadden Sea where the waves are less severe. If there are big boats , We can go to the big fishing ground in the North Sea. There, a big ship goes once, and you can get back a full store of fish ... "

"Full position?" Marin also looked forward to ...

"Yes, there are more fish in the North Sea fishing grounds than in the Wadden Sea, but the wind and waves are relatively large and large ships are needed ..."

"Okay, I can set up a loan to lend to you. You can join several companies to buy a medium-sized fishing boat and go fishing at sea! What's the point of hundreds of pounds of fish? To fish, go to the sea once, just You have to go home! "

"Thank you very much, sir!" Aben and other Frisian fishermen thanked them.

"Don't be polite!" Marin responded modestly, but was thinking-4 shillings to sell you a quart of salt to you, I am not losing, the profit is still great. Moreover, it does not support the development of fishermen. Where does the sailor reserve come from ~ www.readwn.com ~ Welcome the book readers to read, the latest, fastest, and most popular serial works are at ~ www.readwn.com ~ Mobile users please read .