Vol 7 Chapter 188: Uncle Nephew

In the spring of Augsburg, the warm bright sunshine is scattered on the building of mostly gray stones with cool colors in the spring, which makes this city that was always covered with a gloomy atmosphere a little bit angry.
The wild flowers blooming on the vast fields outside the city are colorful and fragrant, and on the farther fields, the green wheat fields rise and fall like waves under the touch of the spring breeze.
Jacob Fugur stood on a tall stone and looked away.
The lush farmland in the distance seems to be in a good mood. Speaking of spring, it always makes people feel happy. Probably because of the vitality of the recovery of everything, even this season, even the bears will become cheerful and happy everywhere.
The river on the outskirts of Augsburg gurgled, and the clear river washed the pebbles on the bank very cleanly. Jacob Fugur wrapped in a thick robe, but stood barefoot with leather boots in his hands On the shore, a curly hound jumped on the stone he stood before, and looked down at him from the top.
Jacob Fugel looked at the hound and smiled.
This curly hound used to be his watchdog in the Augsburg mansion. When the Fugger house was swept out of the house, many watchdogs disappeared, but when they moved back to the mansion, they saw The curly hound still faithfully guarded the dusty and empty house.
Since then, this curly hound has become a partner beside Jacob Fugur, he even allowed it to sleep in his bedroom, and always carried this loyal dog when he went out.
The Curled Hound suddenly barked several times into the distance, and Jacob Fugur looked up and saw a man riding a horse along the path along the river to him.
Closer, he recognized his nephew, Adam, as a promising child in the family. Jacob was more optimistic about this nephew than his two brothers.
Jacob Fugur's vision is still very accurate. If nothing changes, Adam Fugurian will become the head of the Fugur family in the future and take this family to the most glorious peak, although the future The decline of the Fugger family is undoubtedly because of him, but Adam Fugall Jr. is indeed a very capable person.
This can be seen from the fact that he replaced his father and two uncles, participated in the harvest battle against the devaluation of the French Ladia gold coin on behalf of the Fugger family, and won a big victory. Adam Fugal is like him. The uncle said "the person who really dares to take risks with gold".
"Uncle." Adam Fugal jumped from the horse immediately. He stepped on the pebble with a deep foot and came to the shore. He saw his uncle soaked in the river with his boots in his hands. After a while, I took off my boots and stepped into the water.
"Why are you doing this?" Jacob asked interestingly. "I want to calm myself down like this, but what you need now is enthusiasm."
"Uncle, have you heard of the news from Vienna?" Little Adam's feet alternated back and forth in the icy river and asked a little tremblingly. "It seems that this time there might be a big move."
"This palace phase has already told me," Jacob glanced at his nephew's feet shrunk in the water. "Our palace phase adults are still correct in their judgment of the emperor, but they are Speaking of which, after all, 2000 Florin ’s funding is not a small sum. "
"The Kotszach family is worth the money," little Adam finally couldn't take it anymore. He ran to the shore and sat down, rubbing his frozen feet constantly. "What does Gong Xiang say, uncle?"
Jacob also went ashore. He also sat down and wiped his wet feet with a dry cloth, then boarded his boots and stood up with the help of his nephew. He jumped hard and beat twice.
"I heard that this can cool the blood, although it's a bit uncomfortable, at least it's better to bleed it," Jacob walked to the shore with the help of his nephew. He greeted like a curly hound lying on the stone and basking in the sun. Then the two of them walked around the city of Oaksburg slowly, one dog and one horse.
Since the signing of the "Milan Contract" by the trade union with the mourning country, Kotschah has been dismissed by the furious Maximian, but Kotschah did not return to Vienna but went directly to Augsburg.
The Fugal family warmly received the palace minister who was ousted and ousted. This may seem superfluous to others. After all, with the angry attitude of Maximilian at that time, Kotzach had a chance to make a comeback. It is probably very slim. It seems that such a useless bureaucracy is useless except for the support of his territory.
However, the people of the Fugger family do n’t seem to think so. They prepared a small, but very comfortable house for Kotzach. The magnificent decoration and decoration in it are no less than that of the Kotzach family in Austrian territory. Residential.
And more than that, the Fugur family generously bears all the expenses of the servants in the Kotschah family, which includes seven or eight strong male servants and about the same number of female servants, as well as cooks, grooms and Hunting people.
In addition, the Fulgor family generously gave Kotschach a good soil arable land, which allowed the former palace minister to rely entirely on the harvest in his land to support a family.
This generous move was in exchange for Kotzach ’s promise to stay in Augsburg, and then the former Miyazaki became the
life adviser
of the Fugur family.
And his only job is to judge the actions of Maximian.
Kotzach, who was the left and right hand of the Maximian court, was too familiar with the emperor. At the same time, his familiarity with the Vienna court was difficult for others to compare, so he was able to choose from those true The rumors screened the closest answer to the truth, and at the same time, from the words and deeds about the emperor, he could perceive the real intention of Maximian.
For this reason, the Fugger family will give an additional bonus of 2000 florins to Kotzach every year. This money is not counted in the previous pile of gifts at all.
The return on huge investment is also very rich. The Fugger family is not only rapidly recovering from the previous losses, but also developing in a direction that has never been touched before.
The relationship between the Fugal family and the trade union is a bit subtle. They did not belong to the trade union, but joined as a collaborator.
This was originally proposed by Alexander.
Alexander did n’t want the Fugger family to be his own brother or a vassal. When he sent someone to find Jacob, he promised that this was a cooperation between the two parties. He would not deliberately restrict the Fugger family to do for his own benefit. As for the relationship between them, Alexander directly set the clear tone of cooperation.
It was this more sensible suggestion that made Jacob Fugel see the mature side of the young man.
Obviously Alexander knew what kind of relationship he should keep with. People like Skop and Nomelo would use pure interests to make them surrender in front of him, and with the Fugur family, he used gold He Wealth allows both parties to look at the past and imagine the future calmly.
"Uncle, will the emperor send troops?" Little Adam asked cautiously. Although he also had his own ideas, he wanted to listen to his uncle's judgment.
"You should ask if the emperor's sending troops would do him any good?" Jacob smiled and pointed at his nephew. He got on the carriage with the help of little Adam, and then stroked the hair of the hirsute hovering under him. To the little Adam who was slowly pacing with him on the horse-drawn carriage and said, "It is clear that the emperor will bargain with the King of Aragon on this matter, so whether he sends troops depends on the price given by Ferdinand."
"So what do you think, I mean that Kotzach thinks the emperor will pay for the troops?" Adam asked with interest.
"Milan." Jacob spit out the word.
A smile appeared on Adam ’s face immediately. Although he was in his 30s, he looked like a child at this time:
Yeah, Milan. But do you think the honorable Cardinal will allow this to happen? "
Hearing Adam ’s doubts, Jacob glanced out of the car through the car window to his nephew outside. The sun was shining brightly, and Adam looked full of spirit.
"If I let you go to Rome, I hope you don't let me down."
The smile on Adam ’s face was thicker. He touched his beard and looked down at Jacob Fugel: "Uncle, we have many friends in Rome. I think they will be willing to help me."
"Be careful, the emperor also has a lot of people in Rome. You know that we are undoubtedly enemies against the emperor. Although there are many people behind us, they will not take the initiative to become the emperor. Target. "
"Those people," little Adam said with a slight lip, he looked at the city of Augsburg, and then immediately bent over and leaned close to the carriage and whispered, "Uncle, do you think the German princes will one day be open Against that emperor's rule? "
"It's hard to say," Jacob leaned against the car door, also lowering his voice. What they are talking about is obviously some secrets that are not humane, so that even in this wilderness, the uncle and nephew are careful. "Everything See if the Duke of Rome Thesia can win this war. If he can really win, maybe we will see a completely different Europe. "
The uncle's words made Little Adam feel a little excited. He knew what Jacob's words were referring to. When he thought of the action of the Duke of Rome Theseia may affect or even affect the entire Europa continent, he couldn't help but feel the young man from the bottom of his heart. There was a trace of awe in the Duke of.
The Fugger family never let their destiny depend entirely on others. This is the valuable experience that Jacob Fugger has learned from many years of business. So when Alexander proposed to them cooperation, Jacob He agreed without much hesitation.
They returned to Augsburg after a long absence, re-entered their own house, and then began to penetrate into the territory of the German princes by virtue of their close relationship with the trade union.
However, at that time, the Fugals considered to get rid of Maximian ’s influence as much as possible, because they knew that the trade union and Maximian were in conflict, or even if the relationship eased in the future, if they continued to depend on the emperor, once there was Whatever happens, the Fugger family may not be the target of revenge by the emperor.
In fact, the Fugger family in history finally became the victim of the emperor Charles V of the Holy Empire because he valued and attached to the monarch.
After helping Charles V spend the money to buy the title of Emperor, the Fugger family who reached the peak of inevitability also inevitably became the emperor's cash box, and the failure to invest in Charles V time and time again, let Fu The Er family was in trouble, and the family was finally wiped out in the European wave stirred up by themselves.
It was Adam Fugal Jr. who caused this situation.
But now, due to the complicated relationship with Alexander's trade union, the Fugur family has gradually embarked on a completely different path.
They became the "man behind" the German princes. The princes, big and small, benefited more or less from them, which allowed them to quickly recover their injured bones and bones. At the same time, they secretly helped those who did not The tamed princes constantly confronted the emperor of Vienna.
And with the help of the huge vein of the trade union, from the North Sea to the Mediterranean, from Oslo to Constantinople, the Fugur family also extended their tentacles to various parts of Europe.
"Uncle, why did the Duke only propose to cooperate with us?" Little Adam suddenly asked as if he was curious. When he saw the profound meaning from his uncle, little Adam gave out if he understood "Oh "With a cry,
"Everything that the Duke did was purposeful," Jacob said slowly, looking at his nephew. "He knows that working with us is more convenient than simply letting us do things for him ~ EbookFREE.me ~ He even offered to suggest that we should have a good relationship with those princes, and now it seems that all this is his plan. "
"You think he had thought of how to deal with the emperor's intervention at that time?" Little Adam asked curiously.
"I do n’t know if he thought of this, but it seems that everything is moving in that direction now, do n’t you know, now we have put too much energy and money into those princes, and now for us This is a rare opportunity for the emperor to win if he wins in war, but if he fails ... "
"Our opportunity is here?" Little Adam's face flashed with excitement. "Uncle, this time I started to look forward to Rome."
"Go to Rome, and then assure the Cardinal Master that we will go all out to help his son become the Duke of Milan," Jacob Fugor told his nephew. "Old Rovere should be very troubled now. The sending of troops will definitely support him in capturing Milan, which is not a good thing for the old Rovere. At this time, he needs someone to help him against the emperor, so let us cheer him up. "
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