and Giovanni. Advance. Lorenzo. Morality. The Medici meeting was naturally pleasant, but the feedback was not as good as it could have been. Because, Marin learned that the Medici did have an intelligence system in Siena City, but they were not strong enough. It's okay to provide information, but it's not okay to help open the city gates.

This was mainly due to the fact that, after losing control of Florence in 1494, the Medici family had been unable to maintain a large intelligence agency in Siena. Therefore, the Medici family later withdrew most of the intelligence personnel from Siena, and only a small number of intelligence spies were retained in order to save money.

Although the Republic of Florence fell to the Papal States, the Medici received a lot of inheritance from the Holy See. However, the Medici family's current focus is on regaining control of Florence, so they have no time to pay attention to the restoration of Siena's intelligence power for the time being.

But anyway, Giovanni. Advance. Lorenzo. Morality. The Medici still readily handed over all the information about Siena that they had collected over the years to Marin. And, through this exchange, Giovanni. Advance. Lorenzo. Morality. The Medici were thrilled to learn that the Holy See was about to make a move against Siena. For the Medici family, who had always sided with Florence and were hostile to Siena, this was definitely a very happy thing. In addition, Giovanni. Advance. Lorenzo. Morality. The Medici had already begun to plan, and when they took Siena, they would begin to annex Siena's banking industry and expand the Medici family's control and voice in the financial industry.

For a long time, because of the geographical advantage of being close to Rome, the two major financial centers of Florence and Siena have been fighting for Rome's financial market.

Why is there so much fighting? For the great savings of the city of Rome! What is the city of Rome? It was the center of European religion with so many bishops. And in this era, which was the most corrupt age of Catholicism, the cardinals of Rome, one by one, were richer than the other, and belonged to the top quality savers in Europe. For those bankers, this is definitely an ancestor......

Therefore, the Florentine financial circles and the Sienese financial circles, in order to compete for Rome's customers, almost did not use knives to cut each other. As for the financial circles of Venice and Genoa, because they are far from the city of Rome, they are not as competitive as the bankers of Florence and Siena. Of course, the banks in both places also have operations in Rome. Bishops from Venice and Genoa, for example, preferred to keep their money in their home banks. Even the Fugger family of Germany had a business in the city of Rome. After all, the city of Rome also had some bishops from Germany, who were old customers of the Fugger family. But in general, the strongest groups in the financial sector in the city of Rome came from Florence and Siena.

The reason why the Papal States sent troops to Florence and Siena was not because they did not intend to control the banking forces in these two places. For, once in control of these two places, if the Papal treasury ran out of money, it would be easy to borrow enough money from these bankers. Especially in times of war, the role of bankers is even more important.

If it weren't for Marin's persuasion and the fact that he was too old to know when he would see God, Julius II would not have been willing to return control of the Florentine banking industry to the Medici family. Of course, there is another very important reason - in the process of fighting between the Rovere family and the Borgia family back then, the male of the direct line almost died, and the adult male who did not support the scene survived. Otherwise, Julius II would certainly have given preference to the descendants of his family.

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Marin from Giovanni. Advance. Lorenzo. Morality. The Medici obtained important military information about Siena and copied it to Julius II so that the Papal States could make targeted arrangements. He then copied another copy and sent it to the Italian branch of the North Sea Chamber of Commerce, where they could make further inquiries based on this information in order to obtain more detailed information for future operations.

At this time, suddenly the spies of the Beihai Chamber of Commerce sent a secret report that 15,000 soldiers and a large number of supplies from the Beihai Kingdom had landed in a small fishing village on the west coast of the Papal State......

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This small fishing village is none other than the small fishing village called Doromia, 20 kilometers northwest of the city where Marin sent troops to escort Julius II back to Rome as pope. The topography of the small fishing village of Doromia is very special because it is surrounded by mountains on three sides, except in the direction of the sea. The only way to the outside of the village is a small valley mouth to the north. As long as the wooden door at Taniguchi was closed, Doromia was cut off from the outside world.

In addition, this fishing village harbor, which resembles a small valley, is recessed into the land, and there is a mountain to the north that can even block the view of the fishing village harbor from the sea, which is very conducive to hiding ships. If you pass by the nearby coast from the sea, you won't be able to see the situation in the small fishing port if you don't pay attention.

Last time, he helped Julius II fight for the Pope, and the army of the North Sea Kingdom quietly landed and hid from here. This time, the army of the Beihai Kingdom still chose to land and hide here.

And in order to facilitate the hiding of Marin's army, Julius II had already sent someone to buy the entire small fishing village. Then, a number of long bridge piers were also built to facilitate the landing and embarkation of Marin's army.

As for the fishing villages on the coast of the province of Grosseto in the Republic of Siena, there is no such secluded environment as the fishing villages of Doromia. And it doesn't need to be too hidden. Because, once the war starts, it doesn't matter if it's exposed or not. And Marin's army needs to hide for a while, that is, before the outbreak of war. After the official outbreak, there is no need to hide.

The reason why they wanted to hide their whereabouts before the outbreak of war was that they were afraid that the defenders of Siena would make targeted arrangements. If the other side placed troops and horses on the mountain road from Grosseto to Siena, it would be difficult for Marin's army to pass. There is a word that describes the difficulty of some mountain roads very well - "one man is the pass, ten thousand people are not open...... If the other party deploys troops and horses in some passes, even if Marin can capture these passes, he will suffer heavy casualties......

Therefore, before the outbreak of war, Marin did not want the other side to discover the traces of his own soldiers and horses. Moreover, the war was initially led by the armies of the Habsburgs. Their attack in the east would attract most of the army of the Republic of Siena to the east to defend the important passes. In this way, the mountain roads and passes to the west were not taken seriously, but it was convenient for Marin's army to march into Siena.

Marin's 15,000 mountain infantry, after arriving in the small fishing village of Doromia, also began to adapt to the local climate. At the same time, a wading landing exercise was also carried out in the harbor of the fishing village......