King of German Mercenaries

When Marin sent people to raid West Friesland, the frightened Duke of Saxony had already fled to the Duchy of Lüneburg, which had a wrong relationship with the Duchy of Saxony.

The Duchy of Lüneburg is a famous salt producing area in Germany, and the city of Lüneburg is built on the big salt mine. As the second largest business district of the Hanseatic League, Saxony naturally attaches great importance to Lüneburg, a major salt-producing country. Because, in the Middle Ages, salt was a very important bulk high-value commodity.

After arriving in the Principality of Lüneburg, the Duke of Saxony hurriedly sent his men to detour to Groningen, wanting to inform George to retreat. However, he did not expect that when the people he sent arrived in West Frisland, there was bad news that George was captured and West Frisland was occupied by Marin. When the Duke of Saxony found out, he was terrified. He was mentally prepared for the defeat of the army. However, the capture of his eldest son made him very embarrassed. Because his eldest son is the legal heir of the duchy of Saxony. The capture of the eldest son will not only deal a serious blow to the reputation of the Duchy of Saxony, but also make the Duke of Saxony have to pay a very high price to redeem it.

At this time, the Duke of Saxony had no courage to send and talk with Marin. Because, he knew that Marin would definitely open his mouth. Not to talk about it, though, most of his army was captured by Marin. Without redemption, the Duchy of Saxony would not have enough troops to protect itself. More seriously, if he doesn't redeem his subordinates, no one will be willing to fight for him in the future. Especially those knights, the levies are gone, and they can go to the country farms to catch them casually. But knights are different. Even apprentice knights without titles are reserved nobles and cannot be caught casually. Moreover, these people are free, and they have the right to choose to serve other nobles. Only those nobles who accepted the fiefs of the dukes of Saxony were obliged to fight for the dukes of Saxony. But if the Duke of Saxony does not redeem them while they are captured, all his nobles have reason to rebel...

Marin has been very happy these days. Since winning, Marin has returned to Aurich. And his army was not idle. During the war, the 15,000 Saxon civilians who stayed in the Leda Henan, Marin lined up 2,000 people to pursue them, and arrested 10,000 people and returned. As for the remaining 5,000 people, they ran away. In this regard, Marlin is also helpless. If he hadn't been in a hurry to capture George and the whole army would have crossed the river to chase after him, they wouldn't have lost 5,000 people.

However, being able to capture 10,000 strong people is not a small surprise. You must know that these people who were recruited by the Duke of Saxony are all strong men, and they all have a lot of strength. As it happens, Marin needs a lot of labor to dig trenches in China.

Originally, the entire East Frisian, only more than 20,000 strong men, and now suddenly add 10,000 Saxon strong people, so Marin was very surprised.

Moreover, many of the 20,000 strong men in East Friesland 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 build all kinds of utensils for people every day, fishermen go out to sea every day to fish... In short, everyone has Do your own thing. Only those serfs had the time to recruit and dig ditches. Marin estimated that there were about 10,000 young serfs. Moreover, even these serfs could only dig ditches when the farming season was slack. Otherwise, agricultural production will be delayed.

But the 10,000 Saxons captured were different. They were prisoners of war, and it was not too much for Marin to detain them for a few years. Even, Marin only needs to provide them with food, and does not need to pay wages. Because they are prisoners of war, and they are similar to slaves.

In the Middle Ages, after obtaining prisoners of war, only those knights and nobles above knights would receive preferential treatment and wait for the other party to take money to redeem them. As for those conscripts, the more merciful nobles disliked them wasting food and would put them back directly. And the vicious nobles, in order to attack the opponent's mobilization ability,

And the fear of wasting food, and even killing a large number of levies captives of civilian origin. In this way, in the next war, the opponent will be able to recruit much less infantry. At the same time, he does not need to waste a lot of food to feed these captives. Moreover, there are many people who do this, and no one even accuses them of this practice. Because, in this era, the lives of civilians are very low, and no one cares when they die.

It's not very kind, but it's definitely not malicious...

Before, the 15,000 people in Saxony were strong, and the reason why many people fled desperately, and 5,000 people escaped, was because they were afraid of being killed. Because, in order to save food, it is not uncommon to kill civilian captives who cannot be exchanged for ransom. Even those strong people have heard of many similar tragedies. Therefore, when they saw Marin's army crossing the river to arrest people, in order to survive, many Saxon people stepped on a hot wheel and fled frantically, escaping as many as 5,000 people in one breath...

Moreover, not only the 10,000 Saxons were strong, but Marin also captured 1,980 Saxon knights (including those lent by the Elector of Saxony to the Duke of Saxony) and 15,000 infantry (including 4,000 regular Saxon infantry led by George). Those 1980 knights, Marin must have waited for the Duke of Saxony to redeem them. 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 levies, the Duke of Saxony may not have the money to redeem them. Because just redeeming George and the 1980 knights would drain the Duke of Saxony's pocketbook. As for the 7,000 regular infantry, it is the guarantee of the territorial security of the Duchy of Saxony and West Frisian. Therefore, even if the Duke of Saxony borrows money, he will find a way to redeem those knights and regular infantry. As for those conscripts and civilians, Marin doesn't think the Duke of Saxony has money to redeem...

Because, the 1980 knights alone, each counted as 500 gold coins, would be close to one million gold coins. Coupled with the high value of George and the 7,000 infantry, Marin is sure that he will make a fortune this time...

As for the 10,000 civilians and the 8,000 levies the Duke of Saxony redeemed Marin or not, he didn't care. Anyway, Marin wouldn't think that the Duke of Saxony had 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 would have enough men to dig ditches and ditches and transform the swamps of East Frisian territory. With 18,000 strong men working all day long to dig ditches and open ditches, Marin estimates that the marshes in the territory can be renovated within two or three years.

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

Marin proposed that Prince George should be valued at 300,000 gold coins (who said he was just a prince, if he captured the Duke of Saxony himself, Marin would directly ask for 1 million gold coins), and each knight would be discounted by 500 gold coins. In this way, the total price of Prince George and 1980 knights has reached 1.29 million gold coins. As for the 7,000 regular infantry, Marin was kind and offered 50 gold coins each. But because there are too many people, the total price has reached 350,000 gold coins. As for the 8,000 levies and 10,000 civilians, Marin did not ask for a price, nor did Duke Henry of Lüneburg. It was as if both parties had forgotten about them...

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

Rao is so, the total price offered by Marin is also very scary. Prince George, Saxon knights and those regular infantry, the total asking price reached 1.64 million gold coins...

These are nothing, the most important thing is that Marin proposed - asked the Duke of Saxony to cede Friesland...

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