Why did Caesar and little Margaret's marriage have so many twists and turns? Again, the problem lies in the Treaty of Nantes, signed by Edward, Marin and Louis XII.

Originally, in order to gain the support of France and Marin's North Sea State, Edward concluded a tripartite treaty with Louis XII and Marin in the port of Nantes, France, before he entered England, in exchange for France and the North Sea Kingdom sending troops to help him seize the throne.

But the problem was that Edward at that time was not an English monarch, but an exiled nobleman. The ministers of England could have relied on the treaties he signed.

In addition, because it was a secret agreement, only the three bigwigs were present, and no representatives of other countries were present for notarization. This becomes the problem - without a third-party notarization, it is difficult to get recognition from other countries.

Of course, if Edward insisted on the validity of the contract, there would be no problem. But the problem is that Edward's attitude is also a little ambiguous, and his position is not so firm. That's why the English minister jumped out to do something.

In fact, Marin was now fully capable of using force to force England to accept the contract. Anyway, this contract is not made up by him, and many people know that it exists.

But the problem is that if Marin were to force England to admit it now, he would be exposing his ambition to annex England. When the time comes, it will be necessary to confront France in advance. Once the alliance of French and German princes joins forces, Marin, who is not prepared, will probably be beaten GG.

Therefore, Marin is also suffering now, and can only deal with this kind of problem secretly.

In addition, Marin also sensed Edward's small movements in recent years. Probably fearing that the two legions of the North Sea Kingdom threatened his rule, Edward formed two legions of 10,000 men directly under the royal family early on, including 7,000 longbowmen.

But the combat effectiveness of these two legions has not been good, knowing the war to conquer the island of Ireland, these 20,000 people took turns to fight, and through actual combat, they trained their combat effectiveness. Of course, Edward didn't know that because of the lack of strict management and daily training of the Beihai Army, his 20,000-strong army could only be regarded as okay in the old army of this era, and the gap between it and the Beihai Army of the new army was still not small.

There are some things that you can't usually see. For example, the training frequency of the Beihai army is very high, and it conducts training at every turn. Although the energy consumption is very large, and a lot of food is needed for additional meals, this is very useful for maintaining combat effectiveness.

Edward's 20,000-strong legions, although they also learned the recruit training model of the two legions in Beihai State, were not strict about military discipline and daily training because they were all old officers who were appointed.

These things usually seem to be trivial, but when they come to the battlefield, they can be distinguished. However, Edward and his old officers did not understand, thinking that after a war of conquest of Ireland, the combat effectiveness of the army was comparable to that of two North Sea Legions.

In addition, the laxity in daily training in peacetime is not only a problem of the management level of officers, but also a cost problem.

You must know that often engaging in pulling exercises and armed off-road is extremely physically demanding. At this time, it is necessary to add meals frequently. Moreover, it is a high-energy meat meal. Otherwise, the human body will collapse.

This is the same reason that during the ploughing of the cattle, the farmers will also feed eggs and concentrate, so as not to overwhelm the cattle. After a large amount of exercise, it must be replenished. Otherwise, there will be a loss to the body. Except, of course, for those who are losing weight.

In order to maintain the usual large amount of exercise and armed cross-country, the Beihai military camp often served a large pot of braised pork, or braised mutton (England has more sheep, and mutton is cheaper). No matter how bad it is, I will often eat some high-protein meat such as salted fish.

However, these come at a significant cost. What's more, 20,000 people will have to eat. Therefore, it is very expensive to eat it this way.

Ma Lin is a local tyrant, and there is no shortage of those in his hands, so he naturally has the conditions to raise soldiers like this. Therefore, the soldiers of the Beihai Kingdom are usually very well nourished, have a lot of training, and have very good physical fitness.

But England is a traditional agricultural country, and the British royal family's financial income also depends on the wool industry, and the income is not high.

How much does England have in its revenue? That's about £120,000 a year! Most of them are derived from the wool industry and tariffs. The income belonging to the royal domain is only about 40,000 pounds, which is only one-third.

Of course, £120,000 a year is not a small amount for England. After all, that's the equivalent of 480,000 Gulden gold coins.

It seems that this is a lot less than France's 1.2 million gold coins per year, but it depends on the comparison of national strength. France has a population of 15 million and an annual revenue of only 1.2 million. England has a population of 3 million, and with the populations of Scotland and Ireland, it is only 3.75 million. With an annual revenue of 480,000 gold coins, the financial situation is definitely much better than that of France. After all, England is just over one-fifth of France's population, but it accounts for more than one-third of France's revenue.

This was mainly due to the great development of the wool industry in England, which brought a lot of surplus income to the British royal family. With only 40,000 pounds a year from the Crown's domain, England would not dare to call itself a great power.

It was with an annual revenue of four or five hundred thousand gold coins that England was able to send a large number of troops to fight wars for hegemony, and barely be able to occupy a place among the European countries.

But neither England nor France knew that Marin was the most low-key super-tycoon in Europe......

If all the wheat produced in the Americas can be sold, including the annual surplus of hundreds of millions of pounds of rye in the country, as well as the miscellaneous trade and so on, the total value of Marin's annual financial income will definitely exceed 10 million gold coins.

But the problem is that the European market is not that big, and there are not so many coins, and most of Marin's grain cannot be sold. In desperation, Marin could only use the surplus grain to make wine, and even used it to raise pigs.

Therefore, his financial income is not visible to ordinary people. On the bright side, the financial income is only more than one million gold coins. These are all calculated through foreign trade activities. And the grain that Marin has stored in the warehouses of the North Sea Kingdom and the Americas, they cannot see.

Moreover, many of the more than one million gold coins on the surface were used to feed tens of thousands of troops. So, on the bright side, Marin's fiscal surplus is not much.

In fact, the annual financial income of the Beihai Kingdom, not counting the grain that cannot be sold, is estimated to be three or four million gold coins. However, Marin's governing philosophy was different from that of the monarchs of this era. So, his income is high, and his expenses are also huge.

For example, Marin carried out the digging of rivers and roads in Beihai Country, and engaged in infrastructure construction. This kind of thing, the monarch of this era will never "waste money" to do it. They only know how to collect taxes, and if they want them to spend money for the people, they can't do it.

The European monarchs of this era generally had a very low level of governance, and they were still in a very primitive feudal era, which was similar to the Spring and Autumn Period of China, and far inferior to the feudal dynasties of China.

Although the feudal dynasty in ancient China had high financial revenues, it also spent huge sums of money every year to build water conservancy, lay and maintain official roads, and improve the post station system. These routine things cost a lot of money every year. However, the construction and maintenance of these humble infrastructures is a guarantee of a country's economic prosperity.

But in this era, the monarchs of Europe did not spend money on that, they only knew how to collect taxes and squander them themselves. Of course, they still paid to repair the avenue they walked on their own. As for the road taken by the common people, they will not spend money to help repair it.

The most serious is the German region, because of the division of the territory, the local lords are in charge of their own affairs, short-sighted, and they are not willing to pay for the construction of roads and bridges and other infrastructure. It's rare for a lord to build a bridge, but it turns out that it is especially for the purpose of setting up a card to collect road tax......

As a result, it has been difficult for the German region to develop economically. However, in large unified countries such as England and France, there were gradually measures such as spending money to maintain official roads and opening a post station system. After all, the management of a unified country requires the smooth flow of transportation and information.

However, due to the impact of fiscal revenues, countries with centralized royal power such as Britain and France could not afford to invest in infrastructure, and it was already difficult to maintain a few arterial roads and post station systems. As for the rest, I can only blame the shyness.

For example, because the army is unable to provide enough meat for the army, they have no choice but to cancel their daily training and armed cross-country training. It's not that I don't want to, but I can't afford it.

Moreover, those traditional officers also despised this kind of physical training in peacetime, feeling that as long as the soldiers have rich experience, it is not very important to eat meat or not to eat meat in peacetime. Even if there is a difference, it is not very big......

Edward was also apparently aware of the threat to his rule from Marin's 20,000-strong army placed in England, so he took advantage of the conquest of Ireland by using the excuse that "Ireland has just been taken, and in order to prevent the natives from rebounding, a permanent army is needed...... He then ordered 5,000 men from the Fourth and Fifth Legions to be stationed in Dublin as a control and deterrent to the island of Ireland......

In this way, the two North Sea Legions remaining in England mainland only had a total of 10,000 men. Moreover, the remaining 5,000 men of the Fourth Army were stationed in Newcastle, in the northernmost part of England. And the remaining 5,000 men of the Fifth Army were further away, based in Edinburgh, and the threat to London was almost ......

Then, Edward felt that the army of the North Sea Kingdom was only 10,000 men left on the island of Britain, and it was still far from London, and its influence on London was greatly reduced.

It was only then that all kinds of moths began to emerge in London. Obviously, after Edward transferred half of the North Sea Army, he felt that the time was almost up, and began to make small moves.

However, according to the spies lurking in the London royal palace, Edward is not sure whether he can give birth to a prince, so he has not yet made up his mind to interfere with Princess Margaret's marriage, and he is still just making trouble. After all, if a prince is born, it doesn't matter much who Princess Margaret marries to. However, if it is determined that he will not be able to have another son, Edward may make other plans.

Mainly, the marriage with Caesar, the heir of the North Sea Kingdom, does not seem to be good for England. Perhaps it would drag England into the quagmire of a war for hegemony within Germany.

Therefore, from the perspective of the English, Edward's choice is actually no problem. It's just that he doesn't know that his opponent Marin is a traverser and has a very high rank. These small actions of his were not hidden in front of Marin at all......