With enough ships, there are also enough sailors. Fortunately, Marin was well prepared, and during his time on the island of Texel, he opened a sailor's school and hired veteran Portuguese sailors to teach young Frisian fishermen how to become a qualified sailor.

Today, Marin's territory is much more than the sailor's school on the island of Texel. Now, in the seaside area, 20 sailors' schools have been established in Marin. Almost all of the young and able-bodied Frisian fishermen are trained as sailors on ocean-going vessels during the off-season.

So, even if you buy 100 boats, Marin has no shortage of sailors, and you can recruit a large number of sailors just by going to a seaside fishing village. Then, with the captain and first mate trained by the captain's school, you can sail away...... Of course, a few veteran sailors had to be the leaders, so that the inexperienced sailors would not make mistakes......

The Frisians were the only seafaring people in Germany (outside the Netherlands) and the only ones on which Germany relied for great voyages. It is a pity that later generations of Germans were very disrespectful to the Frisians, often treating the East Frisians as stupid representatives, and making up all kinds of jokes to laugh at them. Therefore, later generations of Germany did not make good use of the Frisian people, who were good at seafaring, and tried every means to integrate them into the landlubber group, and then, the Germans became less and less able to sail. By the time Wei Er wanted to sail, the British had already had an absolute advantage.

And Marin, as it happens, this body has half Hans (German) blood and half Frisian aristocracy. Therefore, the Frisians have a natural affinity for Marin, the only great nobleman with half Frisian blood (the dead ghost Edessard I was also counted, but was killed by Marin).

Moreover, Marin, who attaches great importance to the Great Voyage, is also very friendly to the Frisian people, and all kinds of help. Loans were even granted to Frisians to buy fishing boats and nets. The only requirement, of course, was that the young men of the Frisians should serve as sailors for Marin's ship.

The Frisians were not averse to being a sailor for Marin. Although, if you give Marin a sailor on a warship, your life may be in danger. However, in the past, when there was no money to buy a large boat, driving a small boat out to sea to fish was no less dangerous than naval warfare. Therefore, those fishermen who dare to go out to sea to fish are not afraid of death, and there are many who are bold. At least, the Frisian fishermen were much more daring than the serfs......

Marin had written a letter detailing the purchase of a ship and the selection of sailors, and sent him back to East Friesland, where he stretched out and called his servant to make him a pot of Earl Grey......

However, looking at the big black brick, Marin felt a little distressed. Why? It's too deceptive for such a black brick to ask for the price of a good horse. This is still the price on the Lithuanian side, and when it is shipped to East Friesland, the price has risen to the sky-high price of one black brick for two horses......

Therefore, Marin actually felt that the price of drinking this inferior black brick tea seemed to be no lower than eating truffles......

But Ma Lin knew that this kind of black tea brick, in the Ming Empire, was the worst quality tea, and it was not even fried, and it was directly steamed and pressed into bricks.

Therefore, Marin is looking forward to trade with Daming more and more. Even if you drink black tea, it has to be Anhua black tea. If you throw a moldy-looking black brick like this in front of you to Huaxia, it is estimated that ordinary people are not happy to drink it......

However, Marin doesn't like to drink coffee, and when he drinks milk alone, he feels like an unweaned child...... So, let's drink some low-quality milk tea...... Of course, this inferior quality is talking about tea, not milk......

Just as Marin was happily about to drink inferior milk tea, he saw Julius II come in angrily, snatched Marin's milk tea cup and took a big sip. Marin is full of black lines - he just blew the milk tea cold, and he hasn't eaten it yet......

"Juliano, what's wrong? How can it be so atmospheric? You're the Pope, who would dare to lose face like that? "For the gaffe of the old man, Marin is very curious. You must know that the old man is a pope and an old fox, and the situation of gaffes is very rare.

"It's not a damn Venetian who dares to be rude in front of the old man, it's really arrogant. I'm very upset now, and I would like to call on the European powers to fight Venice en masse! Julius II said with an angry face.

"Don't, it's nothing to beat Venice in a group, if you provoke the French, it will be a big problem."

"The French have not withdrawn from Italy again......" muttered Julius II.

Indeed, France was defeated by the Spaniards and lost the Duchy of Milan. However, it also controlled most of the Duchy of Savoy (mainly Piedmont, the rich region with Turin as its core), as well as Liguria, the former core of the Republic of Genoa.

Speaking of which, the Duchy of Savoy and the Republic of Genoa were very unlucky. Originally, they fell to France because they wanted to hug their thighs. Unexpectedly, he hugged a mace......

The French were fine during the reign of Charles VIII, and were allies with the two countries. However, after the ambitious Louis XII ascended the throne, in the second year of his reign (1499), he directly annexed the Piedmont region, the core of the Duchy of Savoy, leaving the Duchy of Savoy with only two parts, Savoy and Nice, becoming a small country. Originally, Savoy was a great Italian state......

The Republic of Genoa was also unlucky – Louis XII had his eye on Liguria, where the Republic of Genoa was located. Louis XII then took advantage of the seizure of the Duchy of Milan and gave Corsica, which had belonged to the Duchy of Milan, to the Republic of Genoa......

Don't think it's a good thing, Louis XII traded the remote island of Corsica for the mainland of the Republic of Genoa, Liguria......

Liguria is the territory of the Republic of Genoa and is a prosperous region. And Corsica, in this era, was just an incompletely developed and backward island. Even in later generations, it was a poor French countryside.

Although Corsica has more than 8,600 square kilometers, while Liguria has just over 5,400 square kilometers, this is not the case. Louis XII's move is equivalent to exchanging Qinghai-Tibet in later generations for Shanghai. Anyway, it's equivalent to exchanging copper nuggets for gold ingots with Genoa......

The Genoese wanted to refuse, but they couldn't beat the French. Therefore, the ruling class and wealthy merchants of Genoa had no choice but to flee to Corsica in embarrassment and become the owners of the island......

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In other words, the French still have a large territory in Italy, and it is a relatively important territory - Liguria and Piedmont. In any case, in Italian affairs, there will be French involvement.

In fact, Louis XII was recuperating at the moment, and he was busy with England, so he didn't have time to worry about things here in Italy for the time being. When the French recovered, Louis XII would certainly have marched south to Italy. In short, for the Italians, the French are simply haunted...... [.]