King of Mercenaries Chapter 290

Published at 14th of June 2023 05:15:55 AM

For Marin's asking price, Henry the Duke of Luneburg felt nothing. However, Marin proposed that the Duke of Saxony cede Friesland, and that was a big deal.

In the Middle Ages, it was not unusual for the nobles to be captured. Moreover, it is normal to demand ransom. However, asking for cessation of land is relatively rare. Because nobles look "expensive" only when they have land. How expensive is land without or without land?

Of course, it's not that nothing happened without ceding the land. However, that half happened when power vs. power. And the medieval nobles valued order the most. As a new nobleman, Marin had to cede such a large area of ​​the Principality of Saxony as soon as possible, making Henry the Duke of Luneburg instinctively uncomfortable.

Because the Principality of Luneburg is not far from the East Frisian Land. There is only one Bishop of Münster or the Old Town of Oldenburg in the middle. If Marin annexes Friesland this time, and next time annexes the Bishop of Münster or the Oldenburg State, then Luneburg may be annexed next ...

As a result, Henry the Duke of Luneburg was uncomfortable ...

Then, Duke Henry returned to Luneburg on the grounds that he could not be the master, and informed the waiting Duke of Saxony, and suggested that the Duke of Saxony, together with other nobles, put pressure on Marin ...

The purpose of 压 pressure is not to not pay money, but to ask Marin to dispel the idea of ​​conquering West Frisian. Her Majesty's combat effectiveness is already there. Powers like the Principality of Saxony can't beat him. If Marin opened up an expansion, maybe the next expansion madman would appear.

Saxony couldn't hold Marin, neither did Luneburg. Therefore, the Duke of Saxony began to send his men to the nephew Saxony for the election of the emperor and the other six elections for help. Even, the Duke of Saxony personally rushed to Innsbruck to ask Emperor Maximilian I who had returned to Austria for help, hoping that the emperor would come forward and speak with ...

Around the new year, the seven electors of the Holy Roman Empire successively received help from the Duke of Saxony. Except that the King of Bohemia Wladyslaw II showed no interest, the other six electors showed an expansion tendency towards Marin. , Showing vigilance.

Most importantly, Marin was on the surface an important thug of Emperor Maximilian I. As a result, they are reluctant to see Marin possess more territory.

Therefore, all the other six electors except the King of Bohemia, in the name of mediation, demanded that Marin give up his territorial claim to West Friesland. However, out of the gloomy mood of seeing the Saxons unlucky, in addition to the Saxony electors, the other five electors expressed no objection to Marin's ransom demand.

Based on the principle that Marin could not demand the cessation of West Frisian, under the witness of the representatives of the six elections, Marin and the Duke of Saxony began negotiations in the northern city of Münster near the East Frisian city of Papenburg ...

In this regard, Marin expressed great depression. He had intended to take over Severisland completely. However, the six election presidents suddenly put pressure on him, which forced him to accept their "suggestions" ...

There is no reason for him. If he is one of these six election princes, Marin will not be afraid. Now, after defeating the 24,000 troops of the Principality of Saxony, Marin is in the limelight for a while, and his morale is particularly strong, and it seems to have confidence. At this time, Marin was not afraid to run into any vassal state, even if he was an emperor.

However, Marin had to persuade when the six election presidents joined forces. As a sudden emergence of a large nobleman, what Marin wants at this stage is not to expand rapidly, but to urgently need to be recognized by all parties. After all, his rise was too short and his foundation was weak. In addition, newly-emergent people are vulnerable to the combined suppression of the old school forces. This applies not only to the vassals for hegemony, but also to the workplace of future generations. Some new employees are too quick to rise, and they are also vulnerable to the boycott and suppression of old employees. By the same token, Marin, the "new employee" in the aristocratic world, is rising too fast, and it is inevitable that he will be hostile and jealous of those who are in the aristocracy. In desperation, Marin decided to hide his strengths and lay the groundwork before laying the groundwork.

I must know that any electorate can gather 20,000 troops. It is not difficult for the six major election princes to gather hundreds of thousands of troops. This number has already exceeded the total population of East Friesland, and Marin can no longer say that with 10,000, he can fight more than 100,000 troops. Unless, all his men use advanced weapons that are hundreds of years ahead of this era ...

目前 But at present, Marin's army can only say that it is one step ahead of the times, and it is not a problem that 10,000 people fight each other. If you want to fight more than 100,000, don't dream about it ... So, Marin decisively gave up territorial requirements and began to bargain with Saxons in other aspects ...

For Marin's other types of demands, the representatives of the other five electors except the Saxony electors were very supportive. Because the electors are not so harmonious. If the seven presidential elections were so united, perhaps the Habsburgs would have been jointly killed by them. There is also a lot of mischief among the electors.

For example, the Saxony business district, as the second largest business district of the Hanseatic League, has greatly benefited the Saxony electorate and the Duke of Saxony. Their respective financial revenues far exceed those of other electors. This inevitably caused the jealousy of other electors.

Alas, they secretly encouraged Malindo to weaken the Duke of Saxony. Anyway, as long as Marin doesn't want to expand, they are still willing to support Marin where he bit a big piece of meat from the Principality of Saxony. After all, East Frisian of Marin, plus the Wadden Islands, is only three thousand and several hundred square kilometers, but it is only a county (European county, generally two or three thousand square kilometers in size). .

Even for the failure of the Duke of Saxony in this expansion, the five electors were very gloating. Therefore, as long as Marin does not touch the red line of territory, the representatives of the other five electors expressed their support ...

虽然 The Prince of Saxony, although dissatisfied with the ransom price of Prince George and the Cavaliers, acknowledged it. You know, of the 1,280 knights captured by Marin, he borrowed from Saxony's electorate. Needless to say, these people must be redeemed.

Then, on the ransom of the regular infantry, the two sides began a fierce bargain. In fact, the asking price of a Marlin 50 gold coin for an infantry soldier is not high. However, the Saxons were captured too many people this time, and they have exceeded the ability of the Duke of Saxons.

If, according to Marin's asking price, the Principality of Saxony would sell iron, and would not be able to make that much money. After all, that was 1.64 million gold coins. The fiscal revenue of the Principality of Saxony for one year is only about 300,000 gold coins. Moreover, the money is not saved, but it will cost more than half. The rest of each year is up to tens of thousands of gold coins. Right now, the Principality of Saxony can take out a maximum of five or six hundred thousand gold coins. Most of the rest can't even come out.

Marin thought about it, the Principality of Saxony really couldn't afford that much money. But Marin didn't want to suffer. In the end, Marin proposed a "population to offset gold coins" program ...

Marin proposed that since the Saxons could not afford so much money, the population could be used to offset the money. For example, the 8,000 recruits and 10,000 people who were captured by the Saxons, Marin planned to turn them into serfs in his name ...

Of course, Guangguang doesn't want men. These young people, of course, are good laborers, but men alone cannot have children. This is not conducive to the future population growth of East Friesland.

Therefore, Marin asked the Duke of Saxony to send all the 18,000 young and old families to East Friesland. In exchange, Marin was willing to waive Saxony's compensation of 500,000 gold coins-anyway, Saxons can't afford to pay so much ...

布 Albrecht, Duke of Saxony, although he is not willing to lose so many strong men, but he can not afford so much money. For this reason, after considering it, he still accepted Marin's "population offsetting gold coins" plan. However, there was a big difference between the two parties in terms of the number of gold coins that the population could meet ...

According to Marin's plan, in addition to sending the 18,000 young family to East Friesland, the Duke of Saxony will also pay a huge ransom of 1.14 million Gulden gold coins. The Duke of Saxony thought it was still too high. You know, his treasury currently has only five hundred thousand gold coins. He is not the King of France. Even if he is rich, he is only the Duke of a Duchy. Therefore, it is already the limit to take out more than 500,000 gold coins. More than that, the Duke of Saxony is about to borrow.

Alas, borrowing is not so good. These years, those loans to the nobles have annual interest rates as high as 10% to 15%. If you borrow a loan of 1 million gold coins, the annual interest alone will be as high as 100,000 to 150,000 gold coins. This is almost half of Saxony's annual income. If so much money is borrowed, the Principality of Saxony may go bankrupt.

Therefore, Albrecht, Duke of Saxony, certainly hoped that the more gold coins the strong men could pay, the better. As for the population, the Duchy of Saxony is one of the most prosperous vassal states in Germany. At present, there are more than 800,000 people in the Principality of Saxony, plus more than 200,000 in West Friesland, and there are millions of people. Therefore, the loss of tens of thousands of people is still affordable. Moreover, in the Principality of Saxony, the population is too large because of Chengping's long history. After all, the food production of this era is there ...

期间 During the rest of the negotiations, Albrechtil, Duke of Saxony lowered his face, whisperingly begging the representatives of the other five electors to ask for their help.

At the moment, the representatives of the several presidential elections are actually contradictory. On the one hand, they are happy to see the joke of the Duke of Saxony. On the other hand, they don't want Marin, the Maximilian I's "running dog", to be too proud ...

In the end, they chose a small number of Duke of Saxony ...

Then, with the help of representatives from several elections, the Duke of Saxony finally won a "discount"-he only needed to send the 18,000 people's family, and the cash paid was reduced from 1.14 million to 1 million ...

With a loan of 500,000 gold coins, the Duke of Saxony can still bear his teeth. However, the Duchy of Saxony has been in debt for many years, but it will not go bankrupt. After all, the bustling business of the Principality of Saxony is there.

In fact, several other election princes are also happy to see Marin jokes. Because 18,000 strong men, including their families, have a total of 50,000 to 60,000 people.

With 2.5 million to 60,000 people, they have the same number of mouths. The influx of these people into East Frisian Land was just an astronomical figure for food consumption alone. Even if Marin gets 1 million gold coins, it is estimated that most of them are spent on feeding those immigrants ...

Furthermore, several election princes also have a lot of information about the East Frisian State ~ www.novelhall.com ~ They agree that East Frisian cannot support so many people. Because there are too many marshes in East Frisian, suitable for arable land, can not support so many people ... Eventually, these populations may even bring down the East Frisian Land-this is what they would like to see ...

However, what they don't know is that Marin can feed on tens of thousands more because he has mastered advanced agricultural technology. You should know that during the autumn harvest, Marin resells the grain of other nobles he bought, and his grain is basically unchanged. The reason why it does not move is to wait for the consumption of immigrants. But the total output of 500 million pounds of rye is enough to feed hundreds of thousands of people for a year ... Unexpectedly, the Duke of Saxony has been embarrassed before he started immigration 18,000 young men were sent, and they were also responsible for sending their families-this time, Marin will not have to worry about immigration ...

When signing the final treaty, what happened to Marin's special request-those young people without wives, the Duke of Saxony must be responsible for sending an additional young female serf to match those young marriages ... after all, that 18,000 Young and strong, if there are thousands of bachelors, it will be very problematic for them to find a wife. Therefore, Marin pushed directly to the Duke of Saxony. Even many soldiers under Marin were still bachelors. The insignificant Marin directly asked the Duke of Saxony to solve the problem together-who is Saxon's most populous ... And Marin also pointed out that a young lady with a large yellow flower must be required, otherwise he refused to "receive the goods "--This is also to prevent the Duke of Saxony from taking the infertile old woman to the credit ...

Finally, Marin still talked-if you don't send enough women, your son shouldn't go back and sit in my jail ...

Chapter end