Chapter 60: Let's make excuses together

After the signing of the unequal treaty, Marin issued an order "with grief and indignation" on his face, ordering the 2,000 men and horses originally stationed in the Jävre area to pack up, withdraw from Jävre, and hand over Jävre to the Earl of Oldenburg. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

It's just that before leaving, Marin deliberately let his soldiers go and emptied Yevre's good things, as if he would not come back in the future. In response to this, the Earl of Oldenburg came to take over the troops of the territory and reacted back to the matter. But John V, Count of Oldenburg, didn't care much. Because, this is a normal reaction. It would have been noticeable if Marin had ordered Autumn to do nothing when he had ordered his troops to withdraw from Jävre. Because, this land is not yours anymore, and you haven't committed any crimes in the autumn, do you still expect to fight back in the future?

Therefore, Marin's behavior of allowing his subordinates to loot local property is the most normal reaction. Although it is a pity, John V did not care. Because, with such a large territory, it is well managed, what is the little property that was robbed?

And Lübeck and Hamburg, on their part, were also very happy after receiving Marin's letter. Marin and the Danes had a falling out, so there was no need to find an excuse to send troops. And the two Hanseatic cities are also currently thinking about what excuse to use to send troops......

Previously, the two families had planned to use Denmark's increase in the toll tax on the Øresund as an excuse to declare war on Denmark. However, this excuse is somewhat far-fetched. Because, in the final analysis, Denmark's tax increase is a trade dispute, and it is not to the point of war.

Now, the excuse sent by Marin is quite good. The burning of his own ship by the Danish Navy is definitely a malicious provocation......

Of course, the burning of merchant ships is not enough to start a war. However, when the two excuses are combined, it is barely enough......

After receiving Marin's hint, the two Hanseatic cities sent representatives to strongly protest the Danish navy's burning of two merchant ships, and demanded an apology from King Hans of Denmark.

Moreover, the bad Lübeck and the Hamburg representatives, after some deliberation, came up with an excuse for their lack of morality, saying that their burnt merchant ships were filled with pepper and other spices......

Marin had sent a ship to India to buy back a large amount of spices, and the Hanseatic League knew about it, and Denmark knew about it. Marin even engaged in the wholesale of spices in Emden in order to attract merchants to trade. Therefore, it was logical that the merchant ships of Lübeck and Hamburg came to Emden to buy spices.

However, when a merchant ship is burned and loaded with spices, its value is very different. The two cities claimed that their burned ships were loaded with spices worth more than 30,000 gold coins. Therefore, Denmark is required to compensate for the damages......

This kind of nonsense and blackmail, the arrogant Danes naturally refused to pay attention to it and directly rejected it......

Although refused, Lübeck and Hamburg secretly had fun......

These two representatives who had a whimsical move were also rewarded and promoted after they returned. After all, being burned a ship and being burned a merchant ship full of spices are two completely different concepts. The value of the goods was more than 30,000 gold coins, and some poor earls could not afford to pay for it. Denmark also spent a lot of money because of the suppression of Sweden, where is it willing to pay so much money to two Hanseatic cities?

In this way, it will give the two cities more excuses......

The "protection fee" imposed on merchant ships passing through the Øresund is an excuse, and now the burning of a shipload full of spices is another good excuse. Combined, it is not surprising that two excuses are waged into war.

You know, in the early Middle Ages, because productivity was extremely low, two lords could fight for a box of bees. Although it is now the 16th century, there is no shame in pulling out a knife for a little honey. But it's not uncommon to dry a boatload of spices.

Marin heard about the excuses that the representatives of the two cities came up with, and he wanted to give them a thumbs up. It's really, so beautifully done! Even more beautiful is that the arrogant Danish king Hans refused the demand of the two cities for two ships of spices, and it is no wonder that the two cities started a war......

Marin was now anxious to go to Lübeck and sit down with the representatives of Lübeck, Hamburg, and Sweden to negotiate the sending of troops.

Before we can do that, however, there is one thing that needs to be done - and that is the need to assist Sweden......

Because the autumn harvest had already begun, after Denmark mobilized a fleet to besiege the port of Emden, these 100 warships did not return to the Swedish coast to continue to participate in the blockade, but went to Denmark proper, the Duchy of Holstein and the Duchy of Schleswig to transport grain.

Denmark is a country with many islands, and with the exception of Jutland and the two principalities, most of the exchanges between other regions require the use of ships. Even its capital, Copenhagen, is located on the island of Zealand, not on the mainland. And the grain production on Zealand is obviously not enough to sustain it. Therefore, Copenhagen needs to mobilize food from other regions.

Denmark even needed a lot of ships to transport grain to the southern part of Sweden to supply the army. Since Sweden declared independence, the Danish army invaded southern Sweden and occupied many places. These places, where agricultural production has come to a halt because of the war, also need food. Therefore, the task of transporting grain during the autumn harvest period is very heavy.

As a result, the blockade of the fleet on the coast of Sweden will be much weaker than usual. This period is also the best time to support Sweden by sea.

Therefore, Marin also sent two merchant ships, loaded with food and weapons and armor, to the Swedish coast to support Sweden. The Swedes, with enough food and armour, were able to hold out for a longer period of time and inflict greater damage on the Danes.

Lübeck and Hamburg also intended to take the opportunity to provide financial and material support to Sweden. Only Sweden dragged down a large number of Danish troops in Denmark, and the other three of them joined forces and stabbed them in the back, so that they could have a greater certainty......

Moreover, during this time, the East Friesian Lamb Kingdom of Marin itself will also have an autumn harvest and harvest wheat all over the ground. Only after the autumn harvest will there be time to free up your hands and compete with Denmark......

For this reason, Marin drove all his young and strong laborers off the field to harvest grain together and strive to put the grain into the warehouse as soon as possible. Even, most of the soldiers in the army needed to take turns to go to the field to help the serfs harvest grain in order to increase the longitude of the autumn harvest.

Seeing that the big guys in the field were bending over and struggling to harvest with a sickle, Marin was a little helpless. The efficiency of manual harvesting is too slow, and a skilled hand can only harvest two acres of land in a day. Therefore, everyone can only use manpower to pile and harvest together. Not only is it slow, but it is also easy to have back pain. Marin would love to come up with a harvester instead of manpower, so that people wouldn't have to work so hard.

However, the harvester was so complicated that he couldn't handle it with the internal combustion engine alone. He has no problem drawing a steam engine, and the principle is simple, but the internal combustion engine is a little more complicated. It's not that Marin hasn't learned the schematic diagram of the internal combustion engine, but there are some things in it that he really can't figure out......

For example, the spark plug in the machine, modern people go to the store to buy one, it is very easy, but in ancient times, I didn't understand how to get it at all...... That kind of alloy spark plug, you can't kill Marlin...... There are also rubber oil transfer hoses, as well as rubber belts for transmission...... It's not something Marlin can do anyway...... Even if it is a stupid and crude benzene steam engine, Marin only knows the principle, and if he wants to build it, he has to rely on Ada and them to help......

Therefore, whether it is sowing or harvesting, it can only rely on manpower, which is time-consuming and inefficient...... In order to speed up, Marin even sent most of the 10,000 troops to the fields to help the serfs......

Most of these young men who are mercenaries are also from rural hardships, and they are no strangers to doing farm work. After all, this is an agrarian society, and most people live in the countryside, so they are no strangers to doing farm work. The lads went to work in the fields without any discomfort......