Inside, Marin engaged in a fierce ideological struggle. Seeing the gold coins, Marin wanted to earn them. Moreover, Louis XII offered a price of 1.2 pfennig per pound, which was 20% higher than the price of German grain. However, thinking of the plan to take advantage of the opportunity to recruit the population from France, Marin's heart was shaken again......

He knew very well that if Louis XII was given enough food to quell the natural disaster, he would be limited in the number of people he could recruit. After all, who wants to change their living environment easily if they can survive? In the agricultural era, not only the Chinese loved their families, but also the Europeans. It was only in the 19th century, after the beginning of the industrial age, that there was a massive migration of the world's population.

For example, in the United States, in the 17th and 18th centuries, there were only two or three million people in the thirteen states of North America. However, in the 19th century, with the advent of the industrial age, the world's population migration became larger and larger. By the mid-to-late 19th century, there were millions of immigrants each year.

So, in this day and age, it was very difficult to get the French peasants, especially the yeoman farmers, off their land. Unless, I really can't live.

Obviously, Marin only had to sell grain to Louis XII, and Louis XII would cook even a very thin porridge with a bunch of miscellaneous things...... As long as they can survive after eating, most farmers will not be willing to leave their homes......

Gradually, Marin became more inclined not to sell grain to Louis XII......

But the plan could not keep up with the change, and a bunch of nobles in the North Sea Kingdom heard that Louis XII was willing to buy grain with real money, and they approached Marin one after another, wanting to sell it.

In Beihai Kingdom, although Marin alone occupied half of the country's arable land, the other half was also in the hands of various nobles and many soldiers in the army. Marin's backlog of grain can't be sold, and the backlog of grain in the homes of those nobles of the Beihai Kingdom can't be sold.

Many nobles of the Beihai Kingdom have a large backlog of old grain. The most serious thing is that after this year's bumper harvest, the granaries of many nobles of the Beihai Kingdom can no longer hold new grain.

Although they knew that France and the North Sea countries did not deal with each other, the desire to deal with the backlog of grain prompted many people to find Marin and ask to sell it.

Marin had a bitter word in his heart at this time, and the idea of using the natural disaster in France to take the opportunity to recruit French peasants could only be done but not said. Otherwise, Marin would have been a thorn in the side of Louis XII. If he can't explain it to his nobles, he can't stop them from selling grain......

After thinking about it, Marin finally gave a reluctant reason - Louis XII bought grain, in addition to providing relief to the disaster area, in fact, he wanted to use it as military food to invade the Swiss area occupied by the emperor......

This reason is barely valid, after all, Marin started with the emperor. And the Germans, even if they are unhappy with the emperor, cannot watch the French bully the emperor. In particular, many of the lieutenant officers and men of the Marin army were recruited from the mountainous regions of southern Germany that were close to the emperor.

The nobles of the Beihai Kingdom felt that it made sense, so they discussed it together for a long time. But half a day later, they offered Marin a compromise – to sell barely enough food to meet the needs of the victims in the northeastern part of France, so that they could sell a batch of grain in exchange for cash. At the same time, it also prevents the French from using surplus food for military purposes......

Although Marin was not very happy in his heart, he could not say that he had a crush on the French victims. In desperation, he agreed to allow the nobles to sell enough food to France to feed millions of victims for several months. In this way, according to the low standard of drinking gruel per day, it was agreed to sell 30 million pounds of grain to France. According to the standard of 1.2 pfennig per pound, it is worth 36 million pfennig, which is worth 600,000 gold coins.

Louis XII is a little too little, why is it too little? He really wanted to take the opportunity to purchase a batch of military rations. However, Marin tried desperately to prevent Louis XII from buying only so much.

In order to appease his nobles, Marin even gave up his share of grain sales and gave all the benefits to his subordinates. But privately, Marin asked Kohler to quietly memorize the names of the nobles who danced the most happily in a small notebook......

Marin believes that these nobles who dance the most happily are suspected of fornicating with France. Taking a step back, even if there is no fornication with France, it is not very reliable to see the money so openly. After all, the North Sea Kingdom and France do not have a good relationship, this is something that many people know. Is there a problem with selling grain to the French so aggressively for disaster relief?

As a result, Kohler privately sent someone to investigate, and he really found out that there was a problem - there were two nobles who were the most pleasant, and they did hook up with the French. Of course, it was not that he took refuge in the French, but that he took bribes from the French and spoke for the French.

Marin suddenly crossed the two men in his little notebook, of course, it was not suitable to deal with them at the moment. Moreover, their crime is not a big crime in this day and age. However, Marin always had a way to clean them up. In the future, find an excuse. Fortunately, these two men were civilian officials, not army generals. Otherwise, Marin would be nervous and unable to sleep.

In fact, in this era, it is actually normal for nobles to be bought by other countries. Most of the nobles of this era were greedy, as long as they bribed it, plus if it was not a big deal, they would accept it.

But Ma Lin is from China, and the Chinese people pay attention to "either left or right, either good or evil", and sometimes they are very serious about taking sides. That's why Marin is so angry. But in this era, there are actually a lot of aristocrats who collude with foreign countries. In many European aristocrats of this period, the eldest son served the king, and the second son probably served the king's sworn enemy. These nobles are the same as the ancient Chinese families, the interests of the family are paramount, so they don't care what kind of monarch you are or not.

Only those generals who were later promoted by Marin from among the commoners were educated by Marin's loyalty of "one minister and two masters" from the beginning, so they did not have the habit of double-facedness. And the two bought nobles were actually the old nobles of the vassal states occupied by Marin who later took refuge in Marin. They still maintain the old habit of betting in many ways, and when they see that France is powerful, although they have not taken refuge in the past, they will not draw a line with France.

For the old habit of multi-betting of the traditional European aristocracy, Marin is also very helpless. He couldn't use this reason to deal with those nobles, and it was true that the Beihai Kingdom had not openly turned against France now. It is not an enemy country, and it is impossible to convict them at all......

If he wants to change the perception of the aristocracy, Marin can only count on the next generation. As a result, Marin ordered to reform the teaching methods of aristocratic schools, completely change aristocratic schools to boarding systems, and no longer allow boarding schools.

At the same time, Marin ordered the teachers and instructors in those schools to make great efforts to educate the children of the nobility in the loyalty of "one minister does not do two masters". They spend 5 days out of 7 days a week in school and have more contact with their parents than they do with their parents. In this way, there will be plenty of time to change the thinking of those noble children.

If they work so education, they can't be reversed, and they still maintain the bad habit of double-facedness, don't blame Marin for giving up on them. After all, no monarch wants his courtiers to be double-stabbed......