Continental Warriors Yoo Ma

"Well..." Ma Youfu said after thinking for a while, "We can't delay another twelve days. Tomorrow, the whole army must start on time according to the plan. When the gunpowder is distributed from the general logistics warehouse, the infantry musketeers are given priority, followed by mortars companies, and then cavalry and infantry companies. If there are any leftovers, they will be distributed among the Burgundians."

Bernard was listening carefully to Ma Youfu's instructions when he suddenly heard the sound of sucking.

Just as he was feeling strange, he suddenly heard Ma Youfu's urging, and hurriedly leaned over and said, "I'm sorry, my lord, maybe I've been too busy these two days, so I'm hallucinating."

"Then you can take a break to ensure your health, San Dezi."

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Bernard has fully adapted to the nickname "San Dezi" that Ma Youfu gave himself. He would protest before, but now he can deal with it calmly.

According to Ma Youfu (Hu) introduced (pushed), "San Dezi" is a word pronounced entirely in Chinese, which is an abbreviation of Bernard's full name.In Eastern culture, adding a "zi" after the name is a kind of pet name that expresses closeness.For example, Xiaolizi, Xiaoguizi, Aiko, Yingzi, etc...

As a result, Bernard readily accepted his nickname while gaining a better understanding of Eastern culture.

This is also an expression of the master's closeness to himself, isn't it?

"Don't worry, Lord Duke. It's just that the army has gathered recently, so there are more temporary things to deal with. After you lead the army to set off, I will be free." Bernard smiled and asked again, "By the way, Your Excellency, you said that the supply of gunpowder will be given priority to the French firearms troops, will the Duke of Burgundy be dissatisfied with this?"

"Don't worry. After the failure of Sidi Bel Abbes last time, Philip has now restrained his arrogance a lot, and he can listen to other people's suggestions. I will talk to him, and he will understand. We To go south through the Atlas Mountains, the bulky and inefficient Burgundian artillery was a liability, serving no purpose other than to increase the logistical burden."

Ma Youfu didn't even plan to bring all his direct artillery, let alone the Burgundian artillery.

Except for a part of the artillery that is responsible for the defense of Annabana, the rest of the redundant artillery will be temporarily converted into a supply unit to support the logistics transfer work in the mountainous area.

"Okay, I see." Bernard nodded.

He seemed to hear the sucking sound with moisture again.Moreover, the expression of the Duke who was sitting behind the desk seemed to have moved subtly.

Thinking that he still has a lot of things to do, Bernard finally put this strange situation behind him, took his leave and left.

When there was only one person in the study, no, it should be two people, a pretty face with winking eyes protruded from under the desk.

At the corner of her mouth, there was still a bit of viscous unknown liquid remaining.

Ma Youfu reached out to pinch her blushing and hot pointed ears, and said angrily, "Next time I won't play such a dangerous game with you again."

Sensitive parts were pinched, Vera's delicate body trembled first, and then she panted and slid into the man's arms, just like a weak and boneless beauty snake.

She let herself be rubbed by the man, and the voice squeezed out of her throat was wet, moist, coquettish and coquettish: "Dear Duke, why are you getting busier and the women around you are getting more and more busy?" How much? In order to win your favor, of course I can only seize every opportunity."

The dissolute nature of the dark elves is truly terrifying!

Of course, Ma Youfu didn't hate it either.

"You came from Tangier originally to report on the promotion of sugar cane planting. In addition, the matter in Italy has almost come to an end. I think you will be very happy to know that the Medici family has lost money in this financial turmoil. How much. But in this situation, we can't talk about business..."

"How do you know if you don't try it? If you get used to it, you may be able to work and have fun at the same time in the future. Wouldn't this double the efficiency of time utilization?"

This little goblin is just talking nonsense!

Ma Youfu gave Vera a blank look, and launched a new round of offensive with both words and actions.

The girl's body is like the highest-grade tiramisu, fragrant, sweet, slippery, greasy, and soft, and the tactile sensations of different parts are also layered.

While accepting the man's pampering, Vera really did what she said, and began to focus on two tasks, chatting about business.

"There are [-] acres of sugar cane cultivation outside Tangier, and all of them have been reclaimed. Mr. Rashid's construction team has also built supporting water conservancy facilities. Margaret said, Sugarcane cultivation requires a lot of water, so we must pay attention to it. Just as winter is coming, the reservoir can store a lot of water.”

The coastal area of ​​the Maghreb has a Mediterranean climate, and the coming winter will be humid and rainy, so the built cistern is just right for it.Supplemented by the irrigation canal that diverts water from the river to the farmland, it can perfectly solve the water problem of the sugarcane field in the spring of the coming year.

"In addition, according to your regulations, [-] acres of farmland has been opened up in a valley in the mountains southeast of Tangier. After spring, wheat can be planted."

Although the valley in the mountains is flat, it was originally dry and water-scarce, which was not suitable for agricultural production.But now, because of the abundant water source given by the holy mountain to the Maghreb region, an unnamed small river has appeared here, flowing southward and converging with the Mhalhal River.

With a water source and a layer of high-quality Ukrainian black soil brought back from Eastern Europe via the Black Sea route, this valley has the conditions for growing crops.

Although Ma Youfu called the policy of promoting sugarcane planting "changing wheat into sugarcane", he will not let all suitable areas in the Maghreb region plant sugarcane and then produce food like the Ming officials in a certain TV series. completely dependent on imports.

In this era, whether it is the transportation and logistics conditions or the government's overall planning and control capabilities, it is far from being comparable to that of later generations, and it is impossible to play the kind of regionalized and specialized agricultural production.

If something goes wrong, food security in the Maghreb region will face great challenges, followed by turmoil, chaos, and war.

Therefore, Ma Youfu made a rigid rule that for every acre of land converted to sugar cane, a new acre of food crops must be reclaimed to ensure that the food production in the Maghreb region will not cause problems.Even with the influx of a large number of immigrants in the future, this ratio will be further increased, reaching the ratio of replanting one mu of sugarcane and recultivating two or two and a half mu of fields.

After reporting on the sugarcane planting, Vera asked about the situation in Italy.

Since Giovanni resolutely rejected Mayouf's kind advice at the bankers meeting in Genoa, Vera also changed her attitude towards this uncle.

Seeing that the Medici family in Florence suffered bad luck in the financial turmoil became her second expectation.

As for the first thing she was looking forward to, she was twisting her waist and doing it enthusiastically.

Through the St. George's Bank in the open, and Valentina's intelligence team provided by Valentina in the dark, Ma Youfu successfully blew up the first financial storm in history in most of Italy and a small part of South Germany.

The final result is also very good.

The Bank of St. George lent a total of 40 Genovino gold coins, with an average mortgage rate of 40%.In other words, the high-quality fixed assets with an original price of 100 million Genovino can be recovered in the end.

The largest shareholders of the Bank of St. George are the North France Trading Company, the South France Trading Company, and the Assembly of the Republic of Genoa.And Ma Youfu has absolute dominant power in these three organizations.

Ma Youfu roughly estimated that this wave of financial turmoil had increased his personal assets by at least 50 Genavinos.

Such a huge amount of wealth, not to mention the poor King Henry VI of England, or the King Charles VII of France who holds the rich land of Western Europe, would be crying.

"Dear Duke, I originally thought that you only possessed military and political talents that are beyond the reach of ordinary people. I didn't expect that in terms of economy, I, who grew up in a bank since I was a child, are far inferior to you. I feel, You can even be my teacher now." Wei La lay on Ma Youfu's body, panting delicately.

Ma Youfu enjoyed the aftertaste after the first round, stroking the dark elf girl's back that was as smooth as silk and still trembling slightly, and said, "Then let me teach you an economics lesson. Let me ask you a question first." , Classmate Vera. Apart from the high-quality fixed assets that St. George Bank earned from bargain hunting, what have we really gained from the Italian financial turmoil?"

"I...I don't know." The girl bit her lip, unable to concentrate on thinking under the interference of the man's hands.

"Let me give you a hint." Ma Youfu stopped what he was doing, "Where did the Italian money end up?"

After thinking carefully for a long time, Vera said: "Those speculators who lost their fortunes naturally used their funds to buy jihadi bonds in various Italian banks. Except for San Giorgio Bank, almost all Italian banks are also losers in this financial turmoil." Almost all of their reserves and the funds raised from the sale of jihad bonds were used to issue jihadist loans. However, the crusaders who participated in the war with these loans did not have much money on hand, and most of them either died or became Muslims. Captives of the Helans...

I see!The weapons and equipment of the crusaders who loaned them, the rations, and the travel expenses to the Maghreb were all paid for by jihadi loans.Therefore, all the funds of speculators and banks actually flowed to agriculture and handicrafts! "

"The general situation is like this, but the specific situation is very different in different regions." Ma Youfu touched the girl's head encouragingly and began to explain.

In this financial turmoil, the first to make money was undoubtedly the workshop owners and landowners in various regions of Italy.By offering a wide variety of products to lending crusaders, they've made a fortune.If these people are satisfied with this and continue to honestly rely on industry to make money, then they must be the big winners who have the last laugh.

However, when this group of wealthy property owners have money in hand, they will definitely continue to look for more profitable and easier ways to make money, so it is inevitable that they will participate in the speculative activities of speculating on jihadi bonds.In the end, nine out of ten will lose all their money.

But outside of Italy, it's a different story.

The Eastern Crusaders, who had been frantically expanding their numbers because of jihad loans, had a huge demand for supplies.Even Italian regions with well-developed handicrafts cannot be satisfied.

After all, it is not yet the era of great industry, where machines can mass-produce all kinds of materials with a bang.

As big as weapons and armor, as small as boot belts, they all need the workers in the workshop to make them one by one with their hands.

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The production capacity in Italy is not enough, and the materials needed by the Eastern Crusade must naturally be entrusted to the surrounding areas for production.Mill owners in Provence, South France, and South Germany, as well as grain merchants and landowners in Naples, Sicily, Hungary, and the Balkans, all made a fortune from it.

Even the Rouen workshop owners in the far north, as well as the grain merchants in Normandy, have received many orders from Italy.

However, some of these businessmen who made money, such as businessmen from South Germany, where the financial industry is also developed, lost all their profits in the subsequent financial turmoil.

On the whole, the funds from Italy eventually flowed to several countries in the French cultural circle, as well as the countries of the Seven Holy Churches in the Balkans, and southern Italy.

Among them, the French cultural circle has absorbed the most funds because of its largest volume.And because there are not many Italian banks that have opened branches in France, and compared to those jihadi bonds, the wealthy people in France have two major French trading companies in the north and the south, as well as the newly established Vitruvius Construction Company, and the African Trading Company. All high-quality companies can invest.

On the one hand is the unreliable so-called jihadist bonds created by cunning Italian bankers.On one side is the Duke of Bar, who has created many business miracles and is known as the spokesperson of Hermosa, the god of wealth. It is self-evident how the rich people in France choose.

Although Ma Youfu did not earn the money directly, the substantial increase in the assets of various companies also indirectly enhanced his strength.

In addition, the influx of money into France alone has greatly promoted the economy.

At the end of the Middle Ages, Europe gradually got rid of the sequelae left by the Black Death.The population is slowly recovering, productivity is constantly developing, and the commodity economy is becoming more and more prosperous.

This has led to a significant increase in the demand for currency in society.

However, the original precious metal deposits in Europe have been gradually exhausted.Moreover, the wealthy Europeans who demanded more and more luxury goods had to import a lot of high-end goods such as silk, spices, sugar, and jewelry from the Mulholland people every year, resulting in a large outflow of gold and silver.

Signs of deflation have begun to appear in Western Europe.

Before the popularization of banknotes, in the era when precious metals such as gold and silver were used as currency, deflation was inevitable and a cyclical economic situation.

After deflation occurs, the value of the currency in people's hands, that is, gold and silver, will become higher and higher, and various commodities will become cheaper and cheaper.

At this time, the circulation of gold and silver as currency will continue to decrease, and its own commodity attributes will instead become higher and higher.

This has led to the fact that the money will continue to appreciate if it is kept in the hand, but it will lose money if it is spent to buy things.

After the deflation occurred in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the landlords and rich people would rather hide their silver in the ground than buy land and properties. This is the logic.

Everyone holds money in their hands. If there is less currency in the market, economic activities will naturally decrease, economic growth will slow down or even stagnate, and may eventually lead to economic collapse.

The demise of the Ming Dynasty was inseparable from severe deflation.

Historically, the deflationary situation faced by Europe in the mid-fifteenth century was not much better than that in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

But the Europeans are really the darlings chosen by fate.First, in the 15s, Venice discovered new silver mines in the Balkans, which temporarily eased deflation in Europe.Then came the Age of Geographical Discovery, and the gold and silver from the Americas, like black jade intermittent ointment, gave Europe a new lease of life.

At that time, the headache for Europeans was not deflation, but the price revolution caused by inflation.

After a large amount of gold and silver from Italy flowed into France, it could greatly alleviate the domestic deflation situation and promote the development of the commodity economy.

Of course, this is only a temporary solution, not a permanent cure.

However, with the victory of the Crusades, the precious metals snatched from the Mulhollands can also play the same role.In addition, the silver mines in the Anti Atlas Mountains and the Little Atlas Mountains in southern Morocco can also provide Mayouf with at least 30 tons of silver every year.

Calculated based on 1.5 grams of silver per penny, this is 2000 million silver pennies, more than 3000 pounds, and a considerable income of 15 livres!

In this way, until the discovery of precious metal deposits in America, there should be no deflation in France.

On the contrary, Italy, after experiencing the financial turmoil and a large outflow of money, is likely to experience deflation.At that time, Ma Youfu, who has a lot of cash in his hand, can continue to use gold dollars to attack, buy and buy all the way, and constantly strengthen his influence on the Italian region.

Who would have thought that Italy, which has always been known as the most advanced and richest region in Europe, would one day be so poor that it would be bought by outsiders?

After listening to Mayoufu's explanation, Vera's eyes lit up, wishing to let the man in front of her hit her hard a few hundred times.

Originally, Ma Youfu said that the Medici family lost about 100 million florins in this financial turmoil, but she didn't think it was enough.Now after Ma Youfu's analysis, she knows that the "good days" are still to come.

Although she does not regard the Medici family as an enemy, she does not have a good impression of the three fathers and sons in Florence who regard themselves as the backbone of the family and always unconsciously reveal arrogance and contempt when dealing with them.

Although on the surface the two parties get along fairly well and have a lot of contacts, in Vera's heart she longs for the other party to be deflated.This time she was able to cause the other party to suffer such a heavy loss, and she was almost too late to be happy.

In some respects, the dark elf girl with a small mind even began to imagine the scene of her arrival in Florence and the return of the Dragon King.

"Your Excellency, the economics class is over, what should you continue to teach me next?" Vera, who was in a good mood, had spring in her eyes overflowing.

She found that Ma Youfu was energetic again, so she smiled charmingly and sank down again.

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After more than an hour, with today's full "teaching results", Vera left the study with her legs between her legs and twisted.