The Rise of the European Emperor

Just as all parties were gearing up to prepare for the war, His Majesty the Emperor sent the third batch of 10,000 Austrian immigrants. In this way, the number of Austrian immigrants in the North Sea country has reached 30,000 households, a total of more than 120,000 people. And His Majesty the Emperor also received 900,000 gold coins with satisfaction.

After the money is taken back, His Majesty the Emperor will definitely prepare to go to war to take the entire territory of Switzerland. At that time, the balance will be broken, and wars will be everywhere in Western Europe.

Of course, Marin definitely hopes that His Majesty the Emperor will be more aggressive. In this way, the attractiveness of the French and the princes will be transferred. But His Majesty the Emperor seemed not in a hurry to send troops, but planned to send troops again during the autumn harvest. According to the news inquired by the Austrian spies, it seems that His Majesty the Emperor believes that all countries are busy with the autumn harvest, and even the knight master will participate in the harvest to avoid rainy weather. At that time, even if France and the princes were ready to intervene when troops were sent, it would be too late to react. After all, it is unlikely that the two countries will send troops if they are not busy finishing the autumn harvest. You can't cause people in your own country to starve to death in order to rescue the Swiss.

Likewise, the Swiss Resistance Army must have been underprepared at that time. After all, the resistance army is all mountain people in Switzerland, and they also want to harvest in autumn. Although there are more mountains in Switzerland and less arable land, this makes the arable land even more precious. At that time, the Swiss Resistance Army may not have time to assemble.

Marin agrees with His Majesty's view of the emperor. Hitting the enemy by surprise has always been a good means of attack. This is the reason for the blitzkrieg. And if you send troops during the slack period, your own side is well prepared, but the enemy is also well prepared, and there is no advantage. It's better to catch the opponent by surprise when the enemy separates to go to the autumn harvest, so as to achieve better results.

The arrival of more than 120,000 Austrian immigrants has made the North Sea country busy. Marin held meetings every day to divide the 120,000 people into residential areas and reclamation areas.

Originally, Marin planned to break up these people and fill them into various manors. But after discovering that the emperor had sent a spy last time, Marin became more careful. Of these 30,000 households, apart from the thousands of households assigned to various manors in the early stage, there are about 24,000 households left. Marin plans to gather them first and send them to various places to dig ditches and open ditches to reclaim wasteland. At the same time, the spies of the North Sea State were mixed in and the Austrian spies were screened out.

Although because of the ally relationship and the emperor's face, Marin would not attack those Austrian spies. However, proper monitoring and "reasonable" arrangements are still necessary. Allies belong to allies, but the core secrets cannot be known to Austria.

Austria has a great potential for war. It has a population of several million and has a strong potential for war. If it weren't for the bad finances, His Majesty the Emperor, who is sitting on a righteous name, would really be able to unify Germany.

Just like Charles V in the original history, after having the gold and silver support from Spain and America, he immediately beat France to deter the German princes. In the end, the powerful France had to form an alliance with Ottoman Turkey, the mortal enemy of Christians, to barely protect itself. And intriguingly,

France openly colluded with heretics, and the Holy See chose to remain silent. Obviously, the pope is also afraid of the rich Habsburg dynasty... If he had colluded with heretics at another time, he would definitely be excommunicated and expelled from the church.

Later, Spain and Austria separated, and the whole of Europe was relieved...

In fact, if Marin and Maximilian I join forces now, Western Europe will basically be invincible. The combination of the alliance of princes and France is not as good as the combination of the North Sea State and Austria.

why? The North Sea State not only has strong combat effectiveness, but also has the most scarce resources in Austria-money and food. Therefore, the combination of the two is definitely a strong combination of 1 plus 1 greater than 2. But Marin didn't choose to do this, why? It's still making trouble for righteousness.

Austria has the righteous title of the throne. If the two countries join forces to flatten Germany and divide the spoils in the end, there will be problems. People have the righteous title of the throne, so they must ask for the big head. In the end, Marin was probably making a wedding dress for Austria. Therefore, Marin would rather hang on than form an alliance with Austria.

Marin has been waiting, waiting for Austria to come to him. In this way, he will have the opportunity to claim the Byzantine throne purchased by His Majesty the Emperor. As for the Habsburg family and the French royal family arbitrated by the Holy See, whoever can ban Constantinople and be crowned in the Sophia Cathedral will belong to the throne. This is very difficult for Austria and France, but it is not particularly difficult for Marin. . After all, Constantinople is by the sea, so it is not difficult to launch a landing operation, raid into the city, and leave after being crowned in the Sophia Cathedral.

In fact, Marin had already prepared. He had sent spies into Constantinople looking for opportunities to dig tunnels. At that time, once the landing operation is launched and the army besieges the city, the internal response will help quickly break through the city.

Because there is no need to worry about this matter, the spies have a lot of time to dig tunnels. Even if one foot is dug a day, it will be enough to dig several tunnels in a few years.

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At the meeting discussing how to resettle Austrian immigrants, the third general of the North Sea State (behind Schwarz and Kahn) Stade suddenly put forward a point of view-since Marin is going to send troops to Eastern Europe and is still worried about the security of the country, why not Temporarily resettled 30,000 households of Austrian immigrants in the core area of ​​the mainland. At the same time, basic military training was provided to 35,000 strong men among the 30,000 Austrian immigrants.

The intention is that after Marin sent troops to Eastern Europe, because of the emptiness of the rear defense, it might as well send the 35,000 trained men to various important cities in the country to assist in defending the city.

Although these immigrants are ordinary farmers, after training, they may be far inferior to regular army soldiers in field combat. However, it is no problem to use it to help defend the city. After all, with the cover of the city wall, the gap between combat power and fighting will will be smoothed out.

Moreover, Stade believes that these Austrian immigrants are trustworthy. Although there may be spies of the emperor among them, Austria will never be hostile to the North Sea State. Even those spies will fight for the North Sea State when the North Sea State is attacked by the princes and the French. Without him, France and the alliance of princes were also enemies of Austria. In this regard, the interests of both parties are consistent.

In addition, through military training, it is also more conducive to identifying Austrian spies. why? Because most of the spies in this era came from the army, similar to the "Tan Ma" in the ancient Chinese "Tan Ma Lai Bao", that is, scouts.

Therefore, spies must have a certain foundation of military skills. Unlike ordinary farmers, it is difficult to distinguish between left and right.

Once the military training starts, it is easy to distinguish the professionals from the uneducated farmers in details. Those who can't distinguish between left and right, and take a long time to adapt to the orders of the army, are basically impossible to be spies. And those who adapt quickly and perform well are more likely to be spies. Coupled with the previous method of eye recognition, it is easier to distinguish Austrian spies.

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After listening to Stade's suggestion, Marin felt very reasonable, and others also thought it was good. After all, training these 35,000 strong men into militias is indeed very beneficial to the defense of various important cities in Beihai State.

As for arranging to reclaim wasteland or something, there is actually no need to rush. Because the North Sea country is not short of food at present. A lot of rye is piled up in the granary, almost moldy. Fortunately, Marin promoted table statistics and gave priority to consumption of old wheat. Otherwise, a lot of food would really go bad.

Only when hundreds of thousands of the population of the Grand Duchy of Moscow were brought back, there might be a certain food crisis in the North Sea country. But Marin has arranged for 300,000 Taino people to grow sweet potatoes in the Earl of Philadelphia. By then, sweet potatoes will be paired with old grains and fish from Newfoundland fishing grounds, so there should be no food shortage.

Therefore, there is no need to rush to reclaim wasteland. On the contrary, Stade said that his defense after leaving the country is more important than reclamation. In this way, the 35,000 Austrian farmers who originally planned to farm were dragged to the training ground with a confused face, and started the basic training of distinguishing between left and right...