Jacob. Fugger was no stranger, when Maximilian I mortgaged the Tyrolean silver mines to him, he had studied mining and smelting technology for a long time, and was familiar with the production process of silver mines.

After Marin explained to him the benefits of blast furnaces, rail minecarts and high-manganese steel mills, he knew that with these three technologies, the Tyrolean silver mine could be increased by a fraction of its efficiency. So, he accepted Marin's love. Therefore, with a wave of his hand, he directly agreed to lend Marin 500,000 gold coins without interest. Then, it didn't take Marin to transport the money to the Duchy of Württemberg, directly offsetting the 400,000 gold coins owed to him by Duke Ulrich of Württemberg. As for the other 100,000, it will need to be transported to Stuttgart by Marin. And in order to provide convenience for Marin, he paid all the gold coins, so as not to have too many silver coins and make it difficult for Marin to transport.

Marin also reciprocated by offering the Fugger family enough high-manganese steel mills and blower belts. These two things are not available in any other country in Europe. Not to mention high-manganese steel, other countries don't know how this came out. Marin spoke directly to Jacob. Fugger bragged about it, saying that it was a steel mill made of extraterrestrial meteoric iron, which was very wear-resistant, and it sounded very powerful. Jacob. Fugger didn't understand metal anyway, so he could only let Marin brag. Moreover, he doesn't need to understand, as long as what Marin gives meets the requirements. As for not meeting the requirements? At that time, it will not be the first to sell silver to Marinbei......

As for the transmission belt, it is made of sisal fiber. Now, the sisal fiber in Cuba has begun to be mass-produced. Marin's fleet, cables, and even the main veins of the sails began to use sisal fibers. It is also trivial to separate a little sisal fiber to make a transmission belt. The transmission belt made of sisal fiber is also wear-resistant. If you use ordinary flax rope, the turbine is spinning, and the transmission belt may be worn off. In this case, things will be delayed. The wear resistance of sisal is very suitable for the long-term movement of the transmission belt and the characteristics of not easy to wear.

With an IOU of 400,000 gold coins from the Fugger family and 100,000 gold coins, Marin led his men to Stuttgart, the capital of the Duchy of Württemberg in the west.

And after Marin entered the territory of the Duchy of Württemberg with 800 cavalry, he found that the situation here had begun to become tense......

The time has entered May, and the spring ploughing in the Duchy of Württemberg is basically over. At this time, Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg, felt that the time was ripe to turn against the rebellious peasants......

However, as preparations were still ongoing, Duke Ulrich was currently placing troops (including the thousands of mercenaries that Marin had lent him) around his domain, as well as around the nobles loyal to him, so that he and his die-hard loyalists would not be harmed by the peasant uprising.

However, the confrontation in the negotiations has already begun. Duke Ulrich already had the intention of tearing up the original promise, but because the preparations were not completed, he had not finally announced that he would tear up the promise. And Casbal, the leader of the Württemberg peasant uprising group "Poor Conrad", also sensed danger. He had already begun to gather the backbone of the "Poor Conrad" organization to gather in his blacksmith shop to secretly forge swords for the uprising. Casbal himself was a swordsmith, and when the uprising needed a sword, he took the backbone of the organization and began to use the night to forge swords in the basement to prepare for the uprising.

Even, when Marin entered Stuttgart with 100,000 gold coins, he was targeted by the spies of the "Poor Conrad" organization.

It's just that the "poor Conrad" is just an amateur peasant organization, and the spies in it are not very good, and they can't get close to Marin's team. As soon as they tried to get closer, Marin's scouts began to draw their swords...... In the end, the other party was scared away......

And when Marin entered Stuttgart, he also deliberately covered his face, and asked his subordinates to cover all the signs of the North Sea Country, so as not to frighten the "poor Conrad" organization. After all, the army of the North Sea State is too prestigious. If the people of the "Poor Conrad" organization had known that the North Sea Kingdom was behind the Duke of Ulrich, they would not have dared to start an uprising. When the time comes, where will Marin get the population to go to the Americas?

Therefore, Marin deliberately concealed his identity. Even the thousands of men and horses who had come to the aid of Duke Ulrich before had taken off their military uniforms and hidden their flags to avoid scaring the "poor Conrad".

Upon learning of Marin's visit, and bringing IOUs and gold coins worth 500,000 Gurdon coins, Duke Ulrich of Württemberg was very happy and prepared a feast to entertain Marin. However, Marin refused.

The reason is very simple, once the Duke of Ulrich entertained Marin with a feast, then the news of Marin's arrival in the North Sea Country could not be hidden. If you knew that a powerful prince with tens of thousands of troops stood behind the Duke of Ulrich, those peasants would dare to rebel?

The Duke of Ulrich also felt that it made sense, so he secretly entertained Marin. At the same time, a gag order was issued for those in the royal palace of Stuttgart.

The Duke of Ulrich is probably the most indebted prince in Germany now, and Emperor Maximilian I should have been in debt of more than one million, which is poorer than him. However, the emperor mortgaged a lot of copper and silver mines, resulting in only a few hundred thousand yuan in arrears. Anyway, he didn't plan to take those mines back. So, in terms of debt, Maximilian I, the poor emperor, was not as much as the Duke of Ulrich. In terms of the amount of debt, the Duke of Ulrich can rank first in Germany.

That's why he was happy about Marin's arrival. Because, if the cooperation with Marin is successful, his million-dollar debt can be repaid at one time. There may even be surpluses......

During the banquet, Marin saw that there was no one around (if there were people, he would never speak nonsense, so as not to leave people with a handle), and began to give advice to the Duke of Ulrich:

"Once the riot (uprising) has begun, you can send out an army to drive the rioting peasants to other people's territory as much as possible, preferably in a crowded area......

"In addition, they sent men to mingle with the peasants who were in rebellion, and deliberately gave advice to their chiefs to coerce as many peasants as they could in passing areas. If you have the chance, you can also borrow their hands to get rid of some nobles who don't stop talking to you. As long as those nobles are killed, you can also use the excuse to reclaim their territory and expand your territory. In addition, the money and grain stolen by the rioting peasants are also counted as your spoils......"

Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg, nodded again and again, and his eyes lit up with gold:

"Good! Good! Good! Haha, I'm going to get rich this time......"

"Black eats black" has always been a good way to make a fortune, of course, provided that you have a good appetite and have that strength. Otherwise, it is easy to die. And the Duke of Ulrich, as the monarch of the Duchy of Württemberg, obviously had the ability to annex the assets of the nobility in the territory. The premise is that those nobles have to die......

No matter what kind of aristocracy they are, no matter how poor they are, they just don't have enough cash. Generally speaking, the biggest asset of an aristocratic family is land and various fixed assets. There are still three catties of nails in the rotten ship, not to mention the aristocratic family that has been inherited for hundreds of years? As soon as the master and heir died, the Duke of Ulrich had an excuse to reclaim his fiefdom and estate. Of course, including various other fixed assets. If you put it up for auction, you can get a lot of money......

What the? There were guards and screes in those noble estates? This is simple, Marin's opinion is - let the Duke of Ulrich recruit his guards and attendants, including the militia recruited in wartime, to those nobles who do not deal with them in the name of "guarding against civil unrest". However, they were not requisitioned, and only one or two attendants were left for them......

In this way, when the peasant rebel army attacked these people's estates, it was difficult for them to resist the attack of the peasant army because they had no soldiers in their hands. Then the Duke of Ulrich sent the men to infiltrate the peasant army, and then tricked the peasant army into killing the nobles, including their heirs. In this way, the nobleman is gone. When the time comes, the Duke of Ulrich will be happy and easy to swallow his family property......

This kind of immoral idea of killing people with a knife made the Duke of Ulrich directly listen to it. In order to get enough money, the Duke of Ulrich also fought hard. After Marin left, he immediately arranged a few henchmen, disguised themselves, and infiltrated the "poor Conrad" organization, planning to wait for the peasant army to launch an uprising, and then take the opportunity to trick the peasants into killing some nobles who did not deal with the duke...... If the peasants weren't happy, they wouldn't mind killing the nobles who didn't deal with the duke. Anyway, after they mixed into the peasant army, they were "rioting peasants". In the end, it was the peasant army that took the blame......