If you really want to talk about it, in fact, Marin fooled Prince Philip to engage in enclosure sports and sheep breeding in the Netherlands, and he was also looking for a market for food. The Dutch people no longer farm, so they naturally have to rely on imports for food. The North Sea Kingdom and the Habsburgs have always had a good relationship, and Marin must be preferred for imported grain.

When the time came, the Dutch people would concentrate on raising sheep and weaving wool, and the food problem would naturally be solved by Marin. And this is also one of the contents of the agreement reached between Prince Philip and Marin. After all, farming is abandoned, but there is always a source of food. No matter how much land is enclosed in the Netherlands, the hundreds of thousands of textile workers are a regular source of food imports. And even in the countryside, a small number of farmers need to stay and graze sheep. Therefore, the Netherlands must be a large food market. When the time comes, the old grain will not be sold. Moreover, the Netherlands, which specializes in wool textiles, certainly have enough cash to buy food. After all, textiles can be sold in exchange for money. But in addition to the big profits, most of the hard-earned money transferred by the weavers still has to be used to buy food.

The economy is a very complex matter, and at that time, Marin relied on advanced agricultural technology to lead the rapid rise of East Friesland and had enough capital.

However, when the East Friesian Lamber Kingdom expanded to the North Sea Kingdom, which was ten or twenty times larger, Marin was stunned to find that too much food was not a good thing. When a limit is exceeded, other countries will not have enough money to buy food......

At present, the North Sea countries account for almost half of Germany's grain production, but only one-sixth of Germany's population. It's not that no one lacks food, it's that those who lack food have no money, and those who have money don't lack food. Therefore, most of the grain had to be hoarded in the granary.

What's more, Marin himself hoarded food and felt that it was nothing, but those nobles in the Beihai Kingdom refused. They want to exchange it for money to maintain their aristocratic life......

The nobles of the Beihai Kingdom, except for the old nobles who were concentrated in Bremen Province, most of the other nobles were basically upstarts who followed Marin later because of their military exploits. In a nutshell...... It's the nouveau riche!

These nouveau riche in the aristocratic world are the most face-conscious. Probably because of low self-esteem, he pays special attention to rules and pomp, and cares more than the old aristocrats.

Moreover, Marin gave them a lot of land and fertilizer, so that each family had a high grain yield. But because of the rules set by Marin at the beginning, in order not to expose a lot of secrets of Beihai Grain, the grain of the nobles must be handed over to Marin's Beihai Chamber of Commerce for unified sales.

Here's the problem, these nobles are all lords who refuse to suffer, and they all hope that their surplus grain will be sold as soon as possible and they will get the money as soon as possible. Therefore, the season of selling grain every year is a time when Marin has a headache. You say, if you're tens of millions of pounds, that's easy to say, there are always big customers in Spain and Italy who can eat it. However, it is hundreds of millions of pounds, and with such a large volume, it is very difficult to find buyers who want to take over......

But Marin can't help them find a way, otherwise, if the officer is separated, it will be a big problem. Therefore, every autumn, Marin has to be busy with how to help his subordinates sell grain.

Fortunately, there is probably no need to worry about grain sales this year - my spies have reported that this year, the Netherlands and the northeastern and north-eastern regions of France will be severely short of food this year due to the severe autumn harvest rains. In this way, the food gap is bound to be very large.

Needless to say, with a population of millions in the Netherlands, Marin's grain can be sold a lot. As for the French side, the problem is a bit more complicated......

According to intelligence, there are a large number of people affected by the disaster in France, one or two million, and the specific number is about 1.8 million. It stands to reason that this is a good time to sell grain. However, the spies in Paris sent back the news that Louis XII had planned to use the surplus military rations that had been intended to be used for the invasion of Switzerland as relief food, and to go to the north-east and north-east to release food......

Then, Marin fell into a tangle - if he took the opportunity to sell grain, he would naturally make a lot of money. But if these French victims were not short of food, then Louis XII would use the surplus food as military rations and march into Switzerland to drive out the Habsburg army......

So, after thinking about it, Marin still suspended the plan to sell grain to the disaster areas in France. Because he needed Louis XII to smash the extra grain into the disaster area, leaving a chance for the Habsburgs. After all, if the Habsburgs lost Switzerland, God knows if Switzerland would have another Calvinist who specializes in killing kings......

Moreover, the extra amount of food that Louis XII had was used to help 1.8 million victims, which seems to be a very large shortage......

Marin planned to wait for Louis XII to run out of grain, and then go to the bottom and plunder the local ...... Population......

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In addition, Marin also planned to use the famine to sow discord and encourage the French victims to rebel......

Therefore, Marin began to consciously train a group of French-speaking spies and officers, teaching them how to fight guerrillas. Once the victims in the disaster areas of France ran out of food again, they went to induce the local victims to start an uprising, and then went to the places where there was no disaster to plunder the food......

This is a very vicious approach, since there were only 1.8 million people in the affected area. However, when a rebellion is launched in the affected area, the rebel army will enter the unaffected areas to loot food. Then, in the areas that were not affected by the disaster, there were many more refugees. These new refugees themselves have not been affected. However, when the rebels ran out of food, these people had no choice but to passively become victims......

Just like in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the real disasters were mainly in northern Shaanxi and some areas of Jin Province. However, the army of rogues led by Li Zicheng roamed around like locusts, and turned many good places that had not been affected by disasters into new disaster areas. After the army of locusts crossed the border, the grain was robbed by the so-called "rebel army". If the people want to live, they can only mingle with them, or they will starve to death......

Moreover, after these so-called "rebels" robbed the people of their food, they did not know how to cherish it, but ate and drank with their bellies open, and they were often able to eat and hold on. It's not like ordinary people at all, they will be careful with their calculations.

Therefore, these looted grains are destined to be insufficient. What should I do if I don't have anything to eat? Continue to the next place to grab food...... Then, like a snowball, the "rebels" grew in size and needed more and more food. Then, wherever they crossed, the food was swept away and became a new disaster area......

The reason why Marin trained those spies was to hope that they would launch an uprising, use the tactics of rogue gangsters, plague the French region, deal a heavy blow to the French economy, and make it lose the ability to crush the Quartet.

However, in the northeastern part of France and the north-east of France, near Paris, if Louis XII sent tens of thousands of knights to suppress it, all the rogue would be finished. So, this needs to be well planned.

But news from the Spanish side suggests that Gonzalo will attack the Kingdom of Naples after the autumn harvest. At that time, once Gonzalo gained some advantage, a large number of French troops would surely go south to reinforce the Italian battlefield.

At this time, it is an opportunity. At that time, the success rate of launching a riot is higher. After all, the main knightly army went south against Spain, and there was no army in the country to suppress the peasant rebellion.

Moreover, with disaster relief food, it is estimated that the 1.8 million victims will not be in a desperate situation for a while. But the next autumn harvest will not be until next autumn, and it will be a long time. Every year after spring, when there is no greenery, it is the hardest time. Seeing that the autumn harvest is coming, it is difficult to survive the autumn harvest without food......

Therefore, in the autumn and winter of this year, Marin did not plan to send people to launch, but was ready to wait until next spring to do so, when the French were even more caught off guard......