In fact, the representatives of Lübeck and Hamburg who would be the first to squirt Bremen were agreed in advance between Marin and the two Hanseatic cities. Bremen's representatives had come to Oldenburg with a lot of anger, and it would have been difficult for the other side to calm down if they had started negotiations directly.

Therefore, Marin let Lübeck and Hamburg out first, and seized Bremen for violating the law of the alliance, and frustrated the opponent's spirit. Then, go out on your own......

Sure enough, after Lübeck and Hamburg had dumbfounded the Bremen delegates, Marin appeared with a smiling, kind face:

"What's wrong? Two adults? Unpleasant to talk about? ”

Then he turned his gaze to Hector, the speaker of the Bremen Parliament, and said:

"Lord Hector, you Bremen stabbed you in the back when the Beihai Kingdom was in danger, if I don't do it to you, it will be difficult to explain it to the country. So, Bremen will definitely be exterminated. But, for the sake of the two Speakers of Lübeck and Hamburg, I will allow you to leave with all your possessions. Anyway, you're all businessmen, so there shouldn't be any 'homeland' plot, right? Isn't it just a different place to do business? Hamburg and Lübeck are also two of the most prosperous commercial cities in Germany, where do you go to do business and don't you still make money? ”

Hector snorted coldly and said:

"You said lightly, leaving with all your possessions? Naturally, those gold and silver treasures and goods could easily be taken away. But what about our properties and estates? Those make up a high percentage of them, and they can't be taken with them. If we move out like this, the loss of real estate wealth will be a lot of money! ”

At this point, several other Bremen representatives also nodded their heads - this is the core reason why the Hanseatic merchants of Bremen are not willing to leave easily......

For a businessman, although the proportion of immovable property is much smaller than that of those who are mainly landowners, it also occupies a considerable proportion. When ordinary businessmen have money, most of them will build mansions. This is also very common in China, for example, the super wealthy Yangzhou salt merchants built a garden, He Garden and other luxurious gardens in Yangzhou City for their own enjoyment. Although the Jin merchants cut the door, they also built a lot of mansions similar to the Qiao family's compound.

On the European side, the Hanseatic merchants were similar. When the Hanseatic merchants became rich, they also built many mansions. Of course, their mansions are mainly stone villas.

In Europe today, the average wealthy live in large, beautiful houses made of stone. The poor, on the other hand, generally live in simple wooden houses. Even, it is living in a straw hut.

Maybe people in later generations think that how expensive the wood is, the cheaper the stone......

But in this era, Europe is full of forests, and wood is cheaper. Stone, because it consumes the labor of stonemasons to polish and process, the cost is much higher than that of wood. Moreover, it is much more difficult to build a house with polished stones than to build a house with wood, and the natural cost is more expensive.

Of course, the middle class, between the rich and the poor, preferred to build houses with bricks and wood. But bricks are less solid than wood, and the color is not as beautiful as stone.

Thus, in European cities, only churches and houses of the wealthy were generally constructed entirely of stone; Middle-class houses were more miscellaneous, with stone, brick, and wood. But more often than not, it's a mix of the three...... As for the poor, they live in simple wooden houses......

In addition, it is important to note that the houses of the rich are not just made of stone. On the exterior of the house, the rich people will also hire carvers to carve a lot of stone carvings on it, making the house look more artistic. And this, the cost is also very high. And these stone houses, full of stone carvings, are still standing hundreds of years later, and have become famous cultural relics in Europe......

Therefore, these Hanseatic merchants were also very unhappy to abandon the artistic houses full of stone carvings that they had spent a lot of money on. After all, you can't take these houses with you......

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At this point, Marin finally understood why these mercenary Bremen merchants were not happy to relocate. It's not that it's hard to leave the homeland, but it's that I am reluctant to abandon those stone mansions that cost a lot of money in vain......

Knowing the scruples of these Hanseatic merchants, it was easy to do. Marin thought for a moment and asked:

"What if I pay for your home?"

Hector and several Bremen parliamentarians were stunned......

"You want to buy my home? My house, which took 5,000 Gulden gold coins to build......" Hector said.

"5,000 gold?" Marlin's eyelids jumped. Then, remembering something, he asked:

"How much more is your house worth in Bremen?"

Hector thought for a moment and said:

"In addition to large buildings such as churches and town halls, there are about dozens of mansions of the same level as my house......"

Ma Lin suddenly gasped - a house is worth 5,000 gold coins, and isn't dozens of houses worth two or three hundred thousand gold coins? No wonder they refused to leave, it turns out that the house is so valuable...... You know, he built a castle for Adler, but it only cost 10,000 gold coins. These 5,000 gold coins are equivalent to the cost of half a castle......

And that's just the home of some of Bremen's top Hanseatic merchants. If you count the residences of those mid-range Hanseatic merchants...... This demolition fee seems to be a bit high......

According to the estimates of Hector and others, the total cost of the houses of the Hanseatic merchants in the entire city of Bremen is estimated to be more than 1 million gold coins......

Marin suddenly didn't want to speak......

If he bought all the real estate of the Hanseatic merchants in Bremen at this price...... That's a lot of money......

It's not that Marin can't afford to pay this money, but if he does, he will be overstretched. After all, he had just taken 8 vassal states, and it was the time when money was needed everywhere. At this time, it costs millions of gold coins to buy property in Bremen......

Marin set his sights on Bernard, the Speaker of the Hamburg Speaker, and Heinrich, the Speaker of the Lübeck Speaker.

As a result, the two directly avoided Marin's gaze. Obviously, they are not happy to pay for this huge expense. It's not that they can't afford it, it's that their council is accountable to the citizens. Spend so much money to buy a house in Bremen...... The parliament is ironclad and undecided......

And that's just the houses of the Hanseatic merchants of Bremen, and if you count the houses of the citizens of Bremen, the total value of real estate in the whole city of Bremen is estimated to be two or three million......

Marin, who was originally full of confidence and wanted to spend money to solve it, suddenly felt empty......

"Damn, the landlord's family has no surplus grain! Spend millions of gold coins to buy these people's second-hand houses? Am I crazy? Marin had 10,000 grass and mud horses whizzing past him - he really didn't expect the property of these Hanseatic merchants to be so expensive......