It is a matter of territorial sovereignty, and it has been a major matter from ancient times to the present. Therefore, the money to be spent this time is by no means a matter of thousands www.biquge.info of gold coins or tens of thousands of gold coins. If you want to settle this matter, you have to ask for a sea of money.

Not to mention the Archbishop of Cologne, who has a great appetite, the metropolitan and diocesan bishops of the Archbishopric of Cologne, who have the right to speak, also need bribes. Because of this, they need to vote.

In addition, the Bishopric of Münster itself needs to spend money on it. The best result was the peaceful occupation of the Bishopric of Münster. Marin is not afraid of war, but if it can be avoided, it is the best.

Therefore, there are too many people who need to be bought this time, and the money needed is also a big number, estimated to be hundreds of thousands of gold coins.

However, Marin doesn't have much cash in hand right now. Although, just by boiling salt every year, Marin has a profit of three or four hundred thousand gold coins. Even, he signed a large order with Lithuania for 500,000 gold coins per year.

However, the super large salt order signed with Lithuania has not yet been fulfilled. The most shameful thing is that Grand Duke Alexander actually demanded that the salt be sold out to settle the payment. Although it is said that there is a contract, Grand Duke Alexander, as a great nobleman, will not default on the debt. However, the 500,000 gold coins will not be settled until the second half of next year......

As for the millions worth of goods and coins stolen from Denmark, some of them were used to reward the soldiers. Most of the rest was used for the construction of the Duchy of Schleswig and the Count of Oldenburg. The rest was also used by Marin to bribe the princes of all walks of life to gain recognition.

In other words, now Marin doesn't have so much cash in his hands. Probably, there is only 100,000 gold coins in cash......

This money is obviously not enough for bribes. Therefore, after Marin and his knights rushed back to Aurich without stopping, they immediately began to arrange the sale of grain......

Yes, sell grain!

Previously, Marin had stockpiled a lot of food to meet the needs. Mainly, Marin intended to massively solicit immigrants to the Duchy of Schleswig and the Count of Oldenburg after gaining recognition.

In addition, the acquisition of the vast Bishopric of Münster would require a large number of immigrants in order to fully exploit these places. Marin has never sold much food, in fact, it is intended to be used to feed hundreds of thousands of immigrants.

Yes, hundreds of thousands of immigrants......

The total population of the three vassal states controlled by Marin is currently only 380,000. However, the total area has reached 17,100 square kilometers.

What is the concept of such a large area? Later, Israel controlled an area of only 25,000 square kilometers, but its population was as high as 8.5 million......

That, of course, was the population of the industrial age. It's the age of agriculture, and the population density is certainly not that great. However, the 17,100 square kilometers of land controlled by Marin are mostly plain areas, and there are no mountainous areas, only some hilly areas, and there are not many.

In these plains, feeding a million people is not a problem at all. In other words, Marin's goal is to make the total population in his control area exceed one million.

Moreover, there are actually a lot of "surplus people" in Germany now because of the low agricultural production in other regions. What Marin had to do was to recruit those "surplus" Germans into his own territory, farm for himself, and serve for himself to fight......

Considering the food consumption of millions of people, Marin has not sold much grain in recent years, resulting in too much grain stored in the granary. If it is taken out publicly, it is estimated that it will scare the princes of various countries to death.

Right now, Marin's granary is estimated to be stacked with about 1 billion pounds of rye. With so much rye, even if a million people ate it openly, each person ate one pound a day, it would take three years. However, now under Marin, there is not a population of 1 million, only 380,000.

And according to the general situation, an extra year or two of grain in the granary is actually completely sufficient. And that's without considering exchanges with foreign countries. If you are considering buying grain from a foreign country, it is no problem if the granary does not stock grain.

Since the grain reserves in the granary are enough for the whole people to eat for seven or eight years, and a million people cannot be recruited in a short time. Therefore, Marin made a decision - to sell grain to raise money......

As for how much to sell, Marin thought about it and planned to sell 100 million pounds of rye......

In North Germany, the price of a pound of rye was 1 pfennig. If it is shipped in large quantities, the selling price is only 0.7 to 0.8 pfennig. Because, to leave enough profit for the seller, it is also necessary to deduct the transportation costs, etc.

However, Marin did not think of selling rye in Germany. Because, the prices here are a bit low. His plan was to sell it in England, France, and Spain, where food prices were higher.

Now, Marin has a shipping company of 60 stolen Kirk galleons, and the capacity is sufficient. Marlin is perfectly capable of selling the 100 million pounds of last year's aged rye that he intends to sell to countries that are selling high prices.

In the UK, the price of a pound of rye is 1.5 pfennig. The low point on the French side is because the French agriculture is developed, but it also has 1.2 pfennig per pound. As for Spain, it's even higher, up to 2 pfennig per pound. Even, in Italy, because of the war, the price of grain at this time was not much lower than that of Western Tooth Extraction.

Marin then intended to sell mainly rye to England and Spain. Moreover, the main place of sale is Spain - who says that the price of grain is the highest there......

So, Marin called Amerigo, the general manager of the "Hoffmann Shipping Company", and asked him to take charge of the grain sales.

However, Amerigo refused:

"My lord, although I am a shipping company, I am not the actual manager. I usually teach mainly at the captain's school, and the shipping company is mainly supervised by my deputy, Chesani......"

"Chesani? Who's that? Marin was a little confused.

Amerigo rubbed his hands in embarrassment:

"That's my cousin, who came from a seafaring family in Genoa, and still has some ability."

In fact, America is developed on its own, and does not forget to bring up its relatives. Although, Amerigo also has siblings. However, there are not many who are keen on sailing. Cousin Chesani, on the other hand, was keen on sailing. As a result, Amerigo appointed him as the deputy manager of the shipping company and put him in charge. This time, Marin asked, and Amerigo simply recommended him to Marin.

"Your cousin? Won't it be a mistake? Marin frowned, worried that the client would mess things up.

"Nothing will be wrong, my cousin, who once captained a ship in Genea. Later, when I made a name for myself here, I called him over to help me. ”

"Well, I'll just trust you. Well done, there are rewards. If you don't do it well, you will be punished. ”

In this way, the rye, quietly transported from the huge granary north of the city of Aurich under the command of America's cousin Chesani, was loaded into ships in batches and shipped to Spain and England, among other places. However, instead of using the name of East Friesland, the names of several chambers of commerce registered in several countries were used. In this way, people will not know that the grain is produced in East Friesland......