Sure enough, Hamburg was very supportive of Marin's military operation. After all, the Hamburgers also held a grudge against Frederick III, the Elector of Saxony, who wanted to destroy Lübeck and Hamburg.

Hamburg, as the deputy leader of the Hanseatic League, is actually not very happy with the Saxon business district in the second echelon of the Hanseatic League. The Hanseatic cities in other business districts will more or less give face to the two alliance leaders of Lübeck and Hamburg. The Saxon business district, on the other hand, is under the covert control of the Wettin family, and does not take Lübeck and Hamburg very seriously. After all, behind the family is the most honorable Elector, and naturally he will not take Lübeck and a group of Hanseatic merchants in Hamburg seriously.

Therefore, the people of Hamburg also hoped that Marin would be able to inflict heavy damage on the Electoral State of Saxony in this military campaign, and it would be better to destroy the commerce there. In this way, the Saxons are honest. Otherwise, as the second largest Hanseatic business district, the Saxon people always want to compete for the position of the boss with Lübeck and Hamburg in the Wende business district......

As the vice-leader of the Hanseatic League, Hamburg had more influence in the German interior than Lübeck. Why? Lübeck was able to become the most powerful alliance because of its proximity to the Baltic Sea and its control of cheap goods from Eastern Europe and a huge share of the Baltic salt trade. Salt was sold in the Baltics, as well as cheap Baltic commodities such as timber, furs, grain, wine, plant ash, beeswax, livestock, etc......

Because of its monopoly on the lucrative salt trade in the Baltic Sea region and the supply of cheap Eastern European goods, Lübeck became the most powerful city in the Hanseatic League.

Unlike Lübeck, Hamburg tended to be a middleman for Germany, spreading the herring from the North Sea, the mineral salt from Lüneburg, and the cheap goods from Eastern Europe from Lübeck to many parts of northern Germany through the well-developed Elbe and related rivers.

So, Lübeck's basic plate is the Baltic Sea, while Hamburg's basic plate is the Elbe River and the North Sea. The Elbe is even more important to Hamburg than the North Sea.

As a result, Hamburg has a lot of inland merchant ships. Even, the total number of merchant ships was no less than that of Lübeck. It's just that the tonnage of inland river merchant ships cannot be compared with sea ships.

Moreover, Hamburg did not make as much profit from its commercial activities as it did from monopolizing the salt trade in the Baltic Sea region and controlling cheap goods from Eastern Europe. When it comes to business scale, Hamburg is no smaller than Lübeck. It was only when the profit was a little lower that he succumbed to Lübeck and became the second leader of the Hanseatic League.

Of course, Hamburg controlled trade in the lower reaches of the Elbe, but the middle reaches were the territory of the Saxon business district. This time Marin marched into the Electoral State of Saxony, and the Hamburgers also hoped that Marin would harm the interests of the Saxon and Hanseatic merchants as much as possible, so that they could withdraw some of the trade shares on the Elbe and let the Hamburg merchants take possession.

Therefore, the people of Hamburg proposed that river boats could be provided free of charge to help transport ships in Marin. However, after the defeat of Wittenberg, the wharves along the river in Wittenberg, as well as the boats on the wharves, were to be given to Hamburg.

The Elbe was not Marin's sphere of influence in the first place, and Marin naturally would not refuse to give it. Therefore, Marin directly agreed to the demands of the Hamburgers, and said that when the armistice was signed, he would try to give the Hamburg merchants the right to operate normally in the Saxon business district. In addition, Marin would not only help the Hamburg merchants capture the merchant ships along the rivers of the Electorate of Saxony, but also help them take the sailors of the Electorate of Saxony and send them to Hamburg. Boats can be bought when they are gone, and skilled sailors are gone, but it takes a long time to train. This move will definitely affect the shipping industry of the Electorate of Saxony for several years.

After receiving Marin's reply, Heisenberg and the other Hamburg parliamentarians jumped for joy. Hamburg had only thought of plundering the river merchant ships of the Electorate of Saxony, but it did not even think of kidnapping the captains and sailors of the river merchant ships of Saxony. If there is no merchant ship, as long as you have money, you can hire it. But without sailors, it would be difficult. After all, a skilled inland waterway sailor is a treasure everywhere and will not be poached casually.

Moreover, in this era, sailors were still very tightly controlled by their employers, and they did not have the right to change jobs and leave at will. If there were really no sailors, the Saxons would have to cultivate themselves slowly, unlike later generations, who could dig for money.

After all, the sailors of this era, although their status was higher than that of serfs, were only treated like servants, and they were not capable of deciding their own fate at all. As long as the employer does not agree, others want to poach people, don't even think about it.

Seafaring sailors, in fact, are better. Because, when sailing on the sea, the control of the sailboat is still relatively easy. After all, the sea is so wide that the direction of the sailboat is easy to control.

Inland navigation on the other hand is much more complicated. The requirements for sailors are also higher. Because the river is narrow, and the sailboat wants to move forward, it often needs to do a "Z" movement. However, the inland river channel is not wide, and when doing this kind of exercise, it is necessary to control the sails to avoid the boat hitting the river bank or even running aground on the river beach. Therefore, it is more difficult to control a river sailing ship than to control a sailing ship at sea. In some narrow rivers, the boat will lower its sails and paddle forward instead to avoid the boat running aground.

Therefore, a skilled sailor on a river sailing ship is even rarer than a sailor at sea. Marin proposed to rob the merchant sailors of the Electorate of Saxony was tantamount to a heavy blow to the inland trade of the Electorate of Saxony, and it went straight to the core, which was very deadly.

In the case of Hamburg, this not only dealt a blow to its rivals on the Elbe, but also took advantage of the fact that their rivals were reducing their share of trade to seize more markets.

As a result, the Hamburg parliament made a direct decision to suspend the inland trade on the Elbe and bring in all the river merchant ships to be used to transport the army of Marin.

In addition, Hamburg will also send 2,000 soldiers to the south. The task of the 2,000 Hamburg army was to take as many of the sailors of the Electorate of Saxony as possible, including the skilled captains and first mates, back to Hamburg in order to weaken the rivals......

Marin is also happy to get the Hamburgers to do it themselves, so that the Hamburgers can also help themselves share some of the Saxon's hatred points. Although the Hanseatic merchants of the Saxon merchant navy did not rely only on inland shipping. However, inland waterway shipping is cheap, much lower than land shipping, and has a large cargo volume, which is definitely the preferred mode of transportation for Hanseatic merchants in the Saxon business district. The Hamburgers robbed Saxony of Saxony's inland waterway talents, which would definitely affect the trade of the Electorate of Saxony for a few years. What made Frederick III uncomfortable, Marlin was happy to see after all.

Although it is said that in the Saxon business district, there are not only Hanseatic merchants in the electorate of Saxony, but also Hanseatic merchants in the Duchy of Saxony. However, when the Treaty of Leipzig was divided, Ernst chose the lower Elbe (as opposed to the Duchy of Saxony) as a region more suitable for inland trade. As a result, commercial activity in the Electorate of Saxony was much more prosperous.

Moreover, because he did not provide enough support to Duke George before, but sent the main troops of the whole country to help Denmark fight, Frederick III and George actually had a big estrangement.

This time, after the Hamburgers stole the shipping talent of the Electorate of Saxony, it is estimated that Duke George will not be too supportive of the shipping industry of the Electorate of Saxony. Because, the two sides have already been separated.

Not only that, but Marin also intends to further provoke the two branches of the Wettin family. Marin, for example, intends to appeal to the Imperial Diet to strip the title of Elector from Frederick III and hand it over to George......

Although, this appeal is almost the same as not being said. However, it will plant a rift and rift between the two branches of the Wettin family. Originally, there was a gap between the two branches because of the Danish matter, and with Marin's further provocation, it is estimated that the two sides will be more centrifugal......