King of Mercenaries Chapter 289

Published at 14th of June 2023 05:15:57 AM

When Marin sent people to search in West Friesland, the undecided Duke of Saxony had fled to the Principality of Luneburg with the wrong relationship with the Principality of Saxony.

The Principality of Luneburg is Germany's famous salt-producing land. Luneburg is a city built on top of the large salt mines. As the second largest business district of the Hanseatic League, Saxony naturally attaches great importance to Luneburg, a salt-producing country. Because, in the Middle Ages, salt was a very important high-value commodity.

After arriving in the Principality of Luneburg, the Duke of Saxony quickly sent his men to detour to Groningen in order to inform George of his retreat. However, I did not expect that when he sent people to the territory of West Friesland, there was unfavorable news that George was captured and West Friesland was occupied by Marin. The Duke of Saxony was terrified when he heard about it. He was mentally prepared for the defeat of the army. However, the capture of his eldest son made him very difficult. Because his eldest son is the legal heir of the Principality of Saxony. The capture of the eldest son not only severely hits the reputation of the Duchy of Saxony, but also makes the Duke of Saxony have to pay a very high price to redeem it.

At this point, the Duke of Saxony had no courage to send someone to peace with Marin. Because, he knew that Marin would definitely open his mouth. However, it would not work without talking, and most of his army was captured by Marin. If not redeemed, the Duchy of Saxony would not have enough troops to protect itself. What is more serious is that if he does not redeem his men, no one will fight for him in the future. Especially for those knights, the conscripts are gone, and they can go to the countryside farms and grab them casually. But knights are different. Even trainee knights without a title are also reserved for nobility and cannot be casually caught. Moreover, these people are free and they have the right to choose to serve other nobles. Only those nobles who had accepted the duke of the Saxony were obliged to fight for the Duke of Saxony. But if the Duke of Saxony does not redeem them when they are captured, the aristocracy under him has a reason to launch a rebellion ...

马 Marin is very happy these days. Since winning, Marin has returned to Aurich. The army under his command was not idle. During the war, 15,000 Saxon people who stayed in Leda Henan, Marin arranged for 2,000 people to pursue, and arrested 10,000 people back. As for the remaining 5,000, they ran away. In this regard, Marin is helpless. Had he not been in a hurry to arrest George and the entire army to cross the river to chase it, it would not have left 5000 people.

However, it was a big surprise to get back 10,000 people. You know, all of the patriarchs levied by the Duke of Saxony are all strong men, all with strength. As it happens, Marin needs a lot of labor to dig trenches in the country.

Originally, the entire East Frisian, but only more than 20,000 strong, now suddenly added 10,000 Saxon people strong, Marin was pleasantly surprised.

Moreover, many of the 20,000 strongest people in East Frisian have their own jobs. For example, bakers make bread for the people of the country every day, masons build houses for people in need every day, carpenters and blacksmiths also create various utensils for people every day, fishermen go fishing every day ... In short, everyone has Do your own thing. Only those serfs had enough time to solicit to dig trenches. Marin estimated that those serfs were young and had about 10,000 people. Moreover, even these serfs did not have the time to dig trenches when they were idle. Otherwise, agricultural production will be delayed.

But the captured 10,000 Saxons are different. They are prisoners of war. It is not excessive for Marin to detain them for several years. Moreover, Marin only needs to provide them with food, and they do not need to pay wages. Because they are prisoners of war, and have the same status as slaves.

In the Middle Ages, after obtaining prisoners of war, only those knights and nobles above them would receive preferential treatment and wait for the other party to redeem them with money. As for the conscripts, the kinder aristocrats who abandon them for wasting food will directly put them back. The more aristocratic aristocracy, in order to crack down on the mobilization ability of the other party and fear of wasting food, will even kill a large number of civilian prisoners of conscription. In this way, in the next war, there will be much fewer infantry recruited by the opponent. At the same time, there is no need to waste a lot of food to support these captives. Moreover, many people did this, and even few people accused them of this approach. Because, in this era, the lives of civilians were very humble. They died, and no one cared.

It is not merciful to marry such civilians as prisoners like Marin, but it is not vicious ...

Before the rampant, the 15,000 Saxons were strong and the reason why many people desperately fled and 5,000 people ran away was because of fear of being killed. Because, in order to save food, it is not uncommon to kill civilian prisoners who cannot exchange for ransom. Even those strong people have heard many similar tragedies. Therefore, when seeing Marin's army crossing the river to catch people, in order to survive, many of the Saxon peoples stepped on the firewheel like a foot and ran away madly, running away as many as 5,000 people ...

Moreover, not only these 10,000 Saxons, Marin also captured 1980 Saxony knights (including those lent to the Duke of Saxony by the Saxony Electors) and 15,000 infantry (including 4,000 regular Saxon infantry led by George). Of those 1980 knights, Marin must have been redeemed by the Duke of Saxony. As for the 15,000 infantry captives, Marin felt that the Duke of Saxony would probably redeem 7,000 of them. As for the other eight thousand conscripts, the Duke of Saxony may not have money to redeem. Because just redeeming George and the 1980 Cavaliers would drain the Duke of Saxony's money. As for the 7,000 regular infantry, it is the guarantee of the territorial security of the Principality of Saxony and West Friesland. Therefore, even if the Duke of Saxony borrowed money, he would find a way to redeem those knights and regular infantry. As for those conscripts and minions, Marin doesn't think the Duke of Saxony has the money to redeem ...

Because of the 1980 knights alone, each person is close to one million gold coins based on 500 gold coins. Coupled with the high value of George and the 7000 infantry ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Marin is sure that he will make a fortune this time ...

As for the 10,000 minions and the 8,000 conscripts, the Duke of Saxony does not care if Redeeming Marin is not redeemed. Anyway, Marin will not feel that the Duke of Saxony has so much money to redeem these unimportant civilians. And if the Duke of Saxony does not redeem these people, Marin will be happy. In this way, he will have enough manpower to dig trenches and ditch to transform the swamps in East Frisian. 18,000 strong men dig trenches and open channels all day long. Marin estimates that the swamps in the country can be transformed in two to three years.

Uh ...

When Henry I, Duke of Luneburg, came to negotiate with Marin on behalf of the Duke of Saxony, Marin really opened his mouth ...

Marin proposed that Prince George made a price of 300,000 gold coins (who called him just a prince, and if he captured the Duke of Saxony, Marin would directly price 1 million), and each knight discounted 500 gold coins. In this way, the total price of Prince George and 1980 knights reached 1.29 million gold coins. As for the 7,000 regular infantry soldiers, Marin is kind and offers 50 gold coins. But because of too many people, the total price also reached 350,000 gold coins. As for the 8,000 conscripts and 10,000 minions, Marin did not ask for it, nor did Henry the Duke of Luneburg. It seems that both sides forgot about them ...

In addition, Marin did not offer any price for the 2,600 war horses and more than 4,000 horses captured by Marin. Because he didn't plan to return ...

This is the case with Luo Rao. The total price offered by Marin is also very scary. The total asking price of Prince George, the Saxony Knights and the regular infantry reached 1.64 million gold coins ...

This is nothing, the most important thing is that Marin proposed-asking the Duke of Saxony to cede Friesland ...

And this is the real lion's mouth ...

Chapter end