But in fact, the Ming Dynasty was on the mainland, and there was no need to use the port on Taiwan Island at all. This principle, in fact, is directed against Portugal.

However, this principle of "wartime neutrality" sounds so reasonable that you can't find a flaw, and it's really shameless......

Of course, Marin can't be blamed for doing this. Because, nominally, Dongfan Island is now the territory of the Ming Dynasty. If you really want to dock the Portuguese warships for repair or replenishment, for the Ming Dynasty, this is no different from "collaborating with the enemy". So, Marin is not afraid of Portuguese accusations either.

Besides, Marin and the Portuguese were already at odds, and everyone knew it. It's just that on the surface, everyone still follows the rules.

If enough sailors could be recruited from England and enough ships could be built by North American shipyards, Marin would want to compete with the Portuguese at sea.

However, Marin will certainly not be the first to find fault. Because, now there is a France eyeing the sidelines, Marin does not want to be distracted by Portugal at the moment. When the French threat is resolved, it is also good to fight Portugal and seize another South African gold source......

At this time, France, which was feared by Marin, was also making an earth-shattering event - 360,000 victims surrounded the city of Paris......

Instigated by the spies of the North Sea Kingdom, more than 300,000 victims of last year's disaster in the northeastern and eastern border areas of the Kingdom of France, who were not able to pay usury, lost their dependence for survival after losing their land.

Among them, many peasants chose to compromise and agreed to re-establish themselves as serfs for the French aristocracy who had been lending usury. But there were also many French peasants who had passed the free life and were unwilling to become serfs for the nobles who lent money.

Of course, this is not just because these peasants like freedom, but because they have seen through the faces of the usurers who have designed to frame them. How can a person who has already suffered a loss again believe in the unscrupulous aristocrats who give them usury and repay them with steamed seeds?

In other words, these French peasants who refused to be serfs were not completely unwilling to be serfs, but they did not dare to be serfs for those unscrupulous pit aristocrats. Who knows what other methods those unscrupulous nobles will use to torture them in the future? If you have already suffered a loss, you must try to avoid being fooled again. Only some peasants with a very cowardly and timid character chose to be serfs for those nobles who were pitiful.

The remaining about 360,000 peasants who were pitted, instigated by the spies of the Beihai State, quietly left their hometowns in batches in the name of "going to other places to beg for a living", so as to avoid being intercepted by those unscrupulous nobles with troops.

Then, these people were "broken into pieces" and gradually concentrated outside Paris......

King François I of France and his ministers were taken aback, thinking that these peasants were going to rebel and were ready to mobilize troops to suppress them.

But what they didn't expect was that these victims gathered outside Paris did not behave unruly. None of these victims entered the city, but camped outside the city like an army. Then, a group of leaders were selected to enter the city in the name of "petitioning" to ask His Majesty the King for relief......

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When he heard that the victims had not come to rebel, but had stayed outside the city in good manner, the young François I was at first very happy, thinking that the quality of the French had become very high under his rule. For this reason, he was secretly refreshed.

But when the "old charlatan" of Count Durte told him about his worries, François I's face finally changed......

360,000 victims! Even if each victim consumes only 0.1 pounds of food per day, he or she would still consume 36,000 pounds of food a day. And now it is the end of the year, and it will take at least 10 months to wait for the autumn harvest in October of the following year. Even if only 36,000 pounds of food are consumed a day (which is actually more than that), 10.8 million pounds of food will be needed for 10 months and 300 days. According to the price of 1.2 pfennig of rye in France, 10.8 million pounds of grain must be consumed, worth 216,000 gold coins......

In a normal year, this cost would not have been too much for the powerful Kingdom of France.

The problem is that France has just fought in the Kingdom of Naples in Italy and Spain, spending a lot of money on grain. Then, because of the smallpox outbreak in the south, the economic collapse of the economically prosperous southern coast caused the collapse of the economy, and the Paris court also put a lot of money on the prevention and isolation of smallpox patients in the south......

All in all, the Kingdom of France has already seriously overspent on expenses this year, where is the money and food to support these victims?

If it was an old king who had been in power for many years, such as Louis XII, he would probably be ready to drive out these plaguers, and even plan to slaughter a group.

But the problem is that François I only came to the throne at the beginning of the year, and his prestige is seriously lacking. Moreover, he has never been a prince, and his foundation in the court is extremely weak. His wife, Queen Claude, had no prestige or ability to help him in this matter.

Of course, if these 360,000 victims had chosen to rebel in the first place, François I would have been able to mobilize the whole country to suppress and massacre them, even if his prestige was insufficient. After all, he is on the side of the reasonable and is not afraid of accusations.

What made François I want to vomit blood was that these victims were extremely well-behaved, just gathered outside Paris, neither rebelling nor disturbing the people, but just sent representatives into the city to ask François I to release grain for relief......

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In the face of such an honest and well-behaved victim, François I was really helpless. The other party's request is very reasonable, and there is no trace of problem. Moreover, when describing the crimes of the black-hearted nobles in the northeast and eastern disaster areas, they are also very cautious in their words, and there are no inappropriate words hostile to the entire aristocratic class, but only to say that "some unscrupulous nobles" are trapping the people, which is simply impossible to find fault......

"Why don't we, Your Majesty, send someone to instigate the victims to start a rebellion? As long as they start a rebellion, we can take care of them. At worst, we can drive them away...... "Count Durt suggested.

François I, who had no gods, naturally adopted it, and then sent a lot of professional agents to infiltrate the refugee camps outside Paris to induce the victims to rebel......

But what those professional court agents didn't expect was that the refugee camp outside the city was too orderly. Under the management of the spies of the North Sea State, these refugee camps were well distributed like military camps, and each camp was also assigned a prestigious administrator to avoid chaos in the refugee camps. In addition, the victims of the disaster also lived in clusters according to their places of origin, and did not live indiscriminately. Therefore, most of the refugees in the camp know each other. Strangers blend in, and naturally pierce the eyes......

Then, not long after these court spies infiltrated, they were screened out with the help of the victims by the conscientious managers of the camp districts, and mobilized the victims to expel them.

Now François I and his cronies were dumbfounded - Nima, is this still a disaster? Actually more than the enemy army shipwrecked infiltration?