King of German Mercenaries

After the impassioned speech, Marin temporarily went backstage to drink a glass of water and breathed a sigh of relief. At the same time, let the audience below the stage digest the content of their speech.

What Marin didn't know was that some of the audience in the audience today were bards. The profession of these people is to tell stories, tell stories, and attract audiences in exchange for rewards. Marin's own story is too legendary and inspirational. Therefore, these bards secretly wrote down the stories Marin told, and planned to use them for their future speeches and storytelling. You know, in their line of work, the story also needs to be constantly updated. Those knight legends they usually tell, everyone has heard badly. Now, a legendary version of a real-life story is in front of them. If they don't use it, they are simply sorry for their profession...

Later, when these bards were wandering in Germany, they spread the story of Marin and caused a huge sensation...

Years later, the haystack behind the monastery in the small town called Kassel, where Marin once slept, became a holy place in the hearts of all wandering knights in Germany. Because, the great king of mercenaries, Marin, was here, blessed by God, and finally rose up.

Therefore, many wandering knights went to the haystacks behind Cashel Abbey to spend the night. For nothing else, just to find that illusory opportunity, I hope that like Marin, I can also be given wisdom by God to become a great military strategist, and it is best to have a good life as a king...

And Cashel Abbey, also smelling business opportunities, copied 19 or 20 haystacks where Marin slept, lined up behind the monastery, and opened them together. One shilling per haystack for a night's sleep...  

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Not to mention the gossip, after Marin had enough rest, he immediately presided over the award ceremony to reward the meritorious soldiers who helped him capture East Frisian before.

However, the first reward he gave was not any meritorious soldier, but Adler who signed the document and renounced the right of inheritance.

Strictly speaking, although Adler did not have any military exploits, he voluntarily gave up the right of inheritance, which made Marin have the meaning of sending troops. Otherwise, Marin would have no legal standing at all.

Everyone understands this. Because, in the Middle Ages in Europe, until modern times, they were very orthodox, even stricter than in ancient China.

In Huaxia, because Chen Sheng and Wu Guang got up and shouted the famous phrase "The princes and generals have a seed", so the replacement of the Huaxia dynasty depends entirely on strength.

Unlike Europe, Europe has never had a successful serf uprising. Therefore, in Europe, there will be annexation wars between nobles, but it is rare that a civilian rises up to become a prince.

Therefore, in Europe, the concept of aristocratic blood is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. If people without noble blood want to be kings, there is a great chance that they will be beaten to death in groups.

Therefore, European thrones are often obtained through inheritance and marriage. Of course, emperors, popes and kings are also qualified to canonize someone as a prince. However, this situation is relatively rare, because it takes a lot of territory to make others a duke or earl. Under normal circumstances, emperors, popes and kings are reluctant to give up.

The canonization of Adler was negotiated before. Therefore, without any hesitation, Marin issued an order directly, conferring the title of Baron Adler for the sake of coming, with a fief of 5,000 Eugram, just outside the county seat of Lyle. Among them, 2,000 Eugrams are cultivated land, and they are all very fertile cultivated land. The other 3000 Eugrams consist of meadows, woods and lakes.

Such fiefs, in terms of cultivated land area, may not be many. However, considering that they are all good fertile fields, Adler's fief is still quite good.

Adler stepped forward cheerfully, intending to kneel down, swear allegiance to Marin by touching the Bible, and receive the paperwork. But Marin stopped him and announced in public,

Adler could take the oath without kneeling, and he was allowed to take the oath standing. This is a special favor, limited to Adler's generation, and his descendants will not be able to enjoy this privilege. Moreover, no matter what the occasion is in the future, Adler does not need to kneel to Marin. This is mainly because Marin's soul belongs to China after all. The eldest brother is like a father, and in his previous life, Marin was often taken care of by his elder brother. Even if he had crossed over, he believed that there was no reason for the elder brother to kneel to the younger brother. Coupled with Adler's willingness to give up his inheritance rights, Marin gave Adler this privilege, which is valid for life.

Adler was grateful for Marin's courtesy, so he stood sincerely and swore allegiance to Marin. After the allegiance ended, Marin announced that he would pay for Adler to build a castle in his fief outside Lyle County.

This is also an extremely generous treatment, because it takes a lot of money to build a castle. Even building an ordinary castle would cost tens of thousands of gold coins, and would require an ordinary baron to accumulate for many years.

Once the castle is built, it's time for Adler to go to Lyle. Nearby, Adler's wife, Liv, was beaming with joy. Although, before she was dissatisfied with Marin snatching Adler's inheritance. However, after listening to Marin's miraculous story just now, she also understood that Marin's adventures and magical skills were not something her husband Adler could possess.

She was already satisfied with getting 2,000 Eugram's fertile farmland. As for the other 3,000 yogg's meadows, woods and lakes, it was purely a surprise.

The biggest surprise was the castle, which cost thousands or even 10,000 or 20,000 gold coins. Can save, don't be too cool.

And, what makes Liv most happy is that old Hoffman and Mrs. Mary will live in Aurich with their brother-in-law and sister-in-law. Well, that castle in Lyle County was her Liv's hostess, not Lady Mary.

And with Adler's obedience to Liv's character, when it comes to Lyle, Liv is still not the queen of the baronies? Liv's heart is so beautiful that she doesn't have to pretend to be a lady and a good daughter-in-law in front of her in-laws...

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Next, it's time to reward the soldiers who attacked East Frisian for meritorious deeds...

Kahn was the first to open the gate of Emden because he charged ahead, while Schwartz and Franzberg were tied for first place because of their exploits against Aurich and Lehr.

For these three, Marin canonized them as barons, and rewarded each with 2000 Eugram land, half of which was cultivated land.

What's up with the baron? This matter was learned by Marin and later generations of Britain. From the Baron appeared in 1611, it was a new title of "invented" by King James I of England in order to raise funds. It was used to accumulate wealth and could be purchased.

British barons are more of an honorary status, without substantial fiefs, but can be hereditary titles. But Marin took out the title of baron more than a hundred years earlier. However, Marin's baron is a fief.

Moreover, Marin not only established a baron, but also established a title such as a deputy baron. The specific rank is - a baron is higher than a vice-baron, and a vice-baron is higher than a sub-baron.

In other words, Marin divided a baron into three ranks. Moreover, the standards for each level are also set. For example, the baron's fief standard is 2000 Eugram arable land; the deputy baron's fief standard is 1500 Eugram arable land; and the baron's fief standard is 1000 Eugram arable land.

In addition, Marin also added viscounts that are not common in Germany, which are also divided into viscounts, deputy viscounts and third-ranked viscounts...

The reason for this setting is mainly to facilitate the reward of subordinate generals. If, according to the custom in the German region, there are only earls and barons, and after this battle, Schwartz and Frenzberg will be named barons, and next time they make a contribution, should they be named earls? But Marin himself is the count...

Therefore, Marin thought about it, and established a sixth-level noble title below the earl. Moreover, Marin also imitated some regions, setting up hereditary knights and knights. Hereditary knights and hereditary knights have higher status than non-hereditary knights and knights, but they also belong to low-level nobles, and are distinguished from high-level nobles such as barons by castration.

The reason why Marin set up hereditary knights and hereditary knights is actually to reward those brave soldiers. Officers can award baron titles, but brave soldiers can't also be named barons, right?

Therefore, Marin simply made the class of knights into two classes - hereditary knights, three-generation knights and ordinary knights...

In this way, when Marin rewards soldiers, there is a lot of leeway...

"Soldier, you are very brave in battle, aren't you? Well, I will make you an ordinary knight!"

"What? You cut down the opponent's officer? You deserve more credit, right? Well, I'll make you a three-generation knight!"

"Ah? You killed the opponent's general? Okay! I made you a hereditary knight, and the descendants are all nobles! Are you satisfied now?"

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That is to say, in the country of Marin, in order to reward the soldiers, a total of 6 high-level titles of viscount, vice-viscount, sub-viscount, baron, vice-baron and sub-baron, and three lower-level titles of hereditary knight, three-generation knight and knight were established. . At the same time, in order to reward the civil servants, three low-level titles of hereditary knights, three generations of knights and ordinary knights were also established.

All in all, the more titles, the easier it is to reward subordinates, and the greater the room for advancement. However, not all titles have corresponding fiefs.

A knight is not given a fief, and a knight may not have it either. Only with enough military exploits will a knight be assigned a corresponding fief.

Even a high-ranking title may not necessarily have a fief. Marin stipulated that all high-level titles, only titles acquired by military exploits, would be matched with corresponding fiefs. Moreover, if the military exploits are not large enough, they may not necessarily obtain the corresponding fiefs.

High-ranking titles, in addition to being exchanged for military exploits, can also be conferred to civil servants. However, civil officials were conferred high-ranking titles, not corresponding fiefs.

And the titles conferred to civil servants will be preceded by a decoration - "of the court"...

For example, barons, corresponding civil servants can be appointed court baron, court vice-baron and court sub-baron. However, as long as the word "palace" is added, it represents an unresponsive fief, but it can be hereditary, or you can buy land yourself. But it is not a fief, it is to pay the normal tax.

Through the newly established 6 levels of high-level titles and 3 levels of low-level titles, Marin fully met the rewarding needs of the soldiers, and used the simple division method of "seat and eat fruit" to give all meritorious soldiers and soldiers. corresponding titles and lands.

However, because of the small land area of ​​East Frisian counties, Marin is relatively stingy on the fief. But not to the soldiers and soldiers of the fief, Marin generally gave a lot of money compensation to let them buy the land by themselves. However, the land purchased by the soldiers themselves will have to pay taxes in the future. In this way, Marin did his best to avoid the loss of future taxes. Because, every time Marin seals out a piece of territory, it means that this piece of land will not be taxed in the future. Therefore, Marin was preoccupied with the issue of fiefs, and would rather give cash than give fiefs easily...

The high-ranking titles were all conferred by Marin personally, and there were only a few people. In addition to Adler, Kahn, Schwartz, and Franzberg, Marin made Kohler a court baron and Geoffrey a court baron.

But in order to compensate Kohler, Marin privately gave Kohler a fief of 1,000 Eugrams, but not publicly...

As for the awards for low-level soldiers, Marin left it to Schwartz and Frenzberg to award them. And he himself went to be lazy. By the way, let's play with Angela, who just arrived from Den Burg...