The Rise of the European Emperor

Marin's spies and scouts had been quietly watching the situation in the battle between the Allied Saxons and Geddes. Even, some distance away from the battlefield, there were long-term scout cavalry under Sauer, who took turns observing with binoculars.

On the night the battle was decided, the scouts got the news that the allied forces of Saxony had been defeated...

Then, early the next morning, East Frisian's powerful intelligence machine was activated, and two signal troopers rode their horses along the hotel system run by the North Sea Chamber of Commerce along the way. Every once in a while, the signal troopers would change horses at the inn with the Beihai Chamber of Commerce logo and continue to run wildly.

The hotel communication system was inspired by the games that Marin played in his previous life. In the game, the hotel is a very important place. Generally speaking, the lobby on the first floor of the hotel is a tavern and a visit. At the back of the first floor is the kitchen.

There is a basement below the kitchen, which is a storage room for various wine barrels and grains. The second floor of the hotel is a place to rest, with multiple guest rooms.

In addition, on the side of the hotel, there are stables, which are specially used to park guests' mounts. Of course, in the game, there are usually flying spots next to hotels.

However, in the real world, there are no flying mounts for riding, so you still have to ride on horses.

Therefore, the area of ​​the stables is very large, even no less than the hotel lobby. Moreover, in the stables, there are two or three spare horses prepared all year round. These two or three spare horses were used for communication to Marin's men.

After all, Marin can't use other countries' communication systems. Therefore, relying on an inconspicuous public facility such as a hotel, and stocking up on rotating mounts to deliver emergency messages, became Marin's best choice.

In order to prevent the hotel from being targeted by others, it will affect the communication system. Marin didn't even provide the hotel with a Chinese chef, lest those hotels be too famous and be targeted by the local nobles.

Therefore, the chain hotels of Beihai Chamber of Commerce are no better than other hotels of the same era in terms of food and drinks. To say the difference, that is, the food of Beihai chain hotels is relatively clean, and there is no expired and spoiled things. In addition, the bed linen in the room is also changed frequently and looks relatively clean. Other than that, there are no other features.

After all, the hotel used to pass the message is a strategic communication channel and cannot be too high-profile and attracting attention.

In addition, the owner of the hotel is usually a spy under Kohler. They stand in front of the counter in the lobby on the first floor to serve customers. At the same time, the conversation of the guests in the hall was also eavesdropped in order to obtain useful information and pass it back to East Frisian.

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However, the investment cost of building such a hotel system is very high. Moreover, the profit of ordinary hotels is meager, and the cost cannot be recovered in the early stage.

Therefore, even a local tyrant like Marin has only opened a "North Sea Chamber of Commerce Hotel Chain" system from East Friesland to Rome. As for other places, it is definitely necessary to establish such a system. However, it takes time and investment. In addition, it is also necessary to cultivate relevant spy talents.

It can be said that chain hotels are the best source of information in this era. why? Because the lobby on the first floor of the hotel has the function of a pub!

Where is the tavern? That's where people drink and brag. A lot of information is revealed when people inadvertently brag.

Moreover, people who have been drinking have a very poor sense of confidentiality, and their voices are often very loud. It is easy to shout out some useful information in a loud voice.

Therefore, the shopkeepers in the lobby of the Beihai hotel chain that Marin asked Kohler to set up were all spies, who specially eavesdropped on the bragging news of the guests, and then pretended to settle accounts on the counter and record the news.

In order to conceal, the counters of the shopkeepers are often semi-closed and have baffles to prevent guests from seeing the shopkeepers recording information.

However, this also created a problem - that is, the shopkeeper must be literate...

This is a bit difficult. In this day and age, people who can read can often find good jobs. Who will be a spy for you? so,

Kohler also spent a lot of thought to win over a group of literate people to play such a role. Therefore, at present, Marin can only open one line from East Friesland to Rome. If you want to open other lines, the biggest problem is not investment, but the spy shopkeeper who lacks literacy...

Moreover, it is easier to inquire about news in the hotel tavern than the ordinary pure tavern. why? Because many of the guests of the hotel tavern are hotel guests. These residents, who travel from south to north, know more news and information, and are more knowledgeable than the locals. Their conversations are also more informative and valuable than those of ordinary tavern guests.

The guests in ordinary taverns often talk about short stories and new things from local parents. And the guests of the hotel and tavern are more businessmen, and there are also many official business people. The topics these people talk about are all over the world, there are rumors everywhere, and the amount of information is larger and more valuable.

When Marin came up with the idea of ​​building a chain of hotels, he couldn't help but like it. In particular, the idea of ​​a hotel and pub is simply a no-brainer.

Under normal circumstances, in this era, hotels and taverns were mostly separated. Many hotels are simple bungalows without a second floor. Then, an inn is an inn and can only be used for sleeping. If guests want to drink, they have to go to the pub, which is very inconvenient.

Of course, in this era, some hotels have opened taverns on the first floor, but not many. Only those big hotels with strong capital, with floors or large yards, can do this. However, no one has ever combined an inn and a tavern, and added spies to inquire about intelligence. Moreover, using the hotel system to act as a post station and provide transfer horses, the effect is also quite good.

Because the hotel chain's intelligence system and inn system are too good, both Marin and Kohler believe that it should be expanded and spread throughout Europe to facilitate intelligence collection.

However, something happened recently, that is, in the Archbishopric of Cologne, when the shopkeeper of a hotel was recording information in a semi-closed counter, he was accidentally seen, causing a great disturbance.

Although the sharp-eyed man was later assassinated, Kohler saw a huge risk. The main risk is that once the shopkeeper of an inn is caught, the entire inn system may be exposed.

So, Kohler passed the question to Marin through the inn and inn system, asking for guidance.

After thinking about it for a long time, Marin felt that it was really silly to use a chain hotel. In this way, once an accident occurs in a certain hotel, the entire Beihai chain hotel chain will be taken away.

Therefore, Marin made a decision - not to use the name of the hotel chain in the future to avoid bad luck together. However, those inns, although they no longer use a unified name, will use a unified code and sign. In this way, it is also convenient to identify with the communication soldier who transmits the message, and it is convenient to change the mount. As for what password? Marin decided to use the Iron Cross or the later German tricolor flag. In addition, every hotel under Malin's command will hang a huge sign on the top, and in inconspicuous places on the sign, there will be small signs of iron crosses or tricolor flags for the signal soldiers to identify.

In this way, even if the shopkeeper of a certain hotel is exposed because of a spy problem, it will not involve other hotels. Because everyone is not from the same family...

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Through the developed hotel information post system, Marin quickly received information from West Frisian. After seeing the news of George's defeat, Marin stood up, found Julius II and said:

"I should go home!"

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