King of German Mercenaries

Marin originally wanted to leave Vienna early and go home. However, the emperor kept Marin for publicity, and cooperated with the emperor to "engage in activities" and be a "model".

Whenever foreign envoys and representatives of principalities and counties came to Vienna, the Emperor brought Marin to them. Then, the emperor would "kindly" introduce Marin, the "young hero of the empire", to the guests. As for Marin, he had to stand up and bow to pay homage at this time, with a fake smile on his face, and put up a few cool poses for the guests to watch...

Then, people would watch Marin like a monkey, and make comments from time to time. There are also many people who question Marin's military exploits, because Marin's body is too thin. In the eyes of some nobles who advocate force, Marin who defeated 8,000 French knights must at least be a muscular man with a height of 2 meters. Who knows, only after seeing Marin himself, did he know that the other party was just a 1.75 meter tall (he grew taller) and a slightly thin boy...

Then, the emperor would tell the guests what Marin had fooled him. Marin, on the other hand, stood aside and posed, cooperating with the emperor's speech...

After being an unpaid "model" for the emperor for a month, Marin was allowed to leave Vienna with his men. With a look of grief and indignation, Malin came to the station of the subordinates in the west of the city and ordered everyone to leave.

"Boss, what's the matter?" Schwartz ran over and asked strangely. The name "boss" is because Marin has watched a lot of Hong Kong movies in his previous life and felt that being the boss is very imposing. Moreover, he didn't like the title "adult" very much, so he simply asked Schwartz and others to call him the boss in private. As for the attendants such as Kahn and Kohler, they continued to call him Young Master.

"It's nothing, your boss, I'm exhausted these days. I pose with the emperor every day, like a puppet..." Malin said angrily.

"Boss, don't be dissatisfied. Being able to accompany the emperor, I don't know how many people in the entire empire envy you..." Schwartz rolled his eyes. If the emperor is willing to take him out to show off, he can't wait. It's really people-to-people, maddening people. However, who is the boss of Marin? As for why they were able to ambush the French in the first place, he still doesn't understand.

Of course, if he wanted to understand, he would be a ghost. Who knew that Marin was a transmigrator?

Marin's number one dogleg Kohler quickly came over to report the situation - the extra horses in his hand were shot in the Austrian region. The Austrian region is the most prosperous region in the German region. Although there are far less rich people than Venice, it is definitely stronger than those aristocratic territories in the north. Because Austria is also a wealthy region with developed agriculture. In areas with developed agriculture, there is also a great demand for draw horses. Therefore, Kohler lowered the price in Austria, and it was easy to sell all the extra 1,000 draught horses.

Then, in Kohler's hands, there are still 200 stallions, 800 mares, and 30 war horses that Marin recovered from the emperor, a total of 1030 horses.

When Marin accompanied the emperor on the "show", Schwartz and others also taught the 400 people under him to learn to ride horses. When we rushed back to Austria from Italy, we had to walk with us because we had to move with the large army. Now that Marin has taken everyone out of the main force, he can naturally drive on horseback. Moreover, 400 people have 1,030 horses, so everyone can ride one and two horses, and they can also speed up the road.

"Brothers, let's go! When I get to my territory, I will allocate some land to each of them, so that your family can become a self-employed farmer. Moreover, if you don't have a wife, I will find a way for you!"

"Thank you boss, thank you boss!" Everyone cheered.

Those who came out to be mercenaries had poor family conditions. Many people, just some manors, were driven out by the serf owners because they were overpopulated. Many people were born into serf families and had no land of their own at all. When they went back, they had nothing to rely on, so they might as well follow Marin. At least, Marin is now a baron,

can afford them. Most of the people who left the team before were peasant families with relatively free identities. Unlike many of the people who remained, many of them were still serfs. If they go back, the serf owners will continue to enslave them as soon as they are happy. Maybe, the 100 gold coins will also be taken away.

And following Malin, Malin clearly wanted to lift them up and make them free people, could they be unhappy? Freedmen in Europe are very greedy. Don't you see, the many revolutions in France were all initiated by the free citizens of Paris? Who has heard of the Serf Revolution? Although there is, it is not a climate at all. Because serfs were used to being slaves and lacked the desire and self-confidence to fight. And the free people are very confident in themselves, as long as there are many people, they dare to fight against the monarch...

Then, Marin found someone to ghostwrite them (these people are basically illiterate), help them write letters from home, and tell their families to prepare for immigration. If it's all right, when Marlin settles down on Texel, someone will be sent to pick them up. If there is a problem, such as the original serf owner not letting people go, Marin will use official channels, or even pay a little compensation, to get the families of the soldiers.

The reason why Marin didn't let these soldiers go home to pick them up was, on the one hand, for fear that they would never return; on the other hand, Kohler still had more than 300,000 gold coins to escort. If the people run away and the army comes to steal the money, he can't resist.

Besides, Marin doesn't know what's going on on Texel right now. If you pick up people rashly, but there is no place to settle down, that's not good.

Of course, when Marin was promoting, he naturally used the last reason. Also, the reason is reasonable...

After unifying everyone's thoughts, Marin took everyone, one person, two horses or three horses, and rushed to the Hoffmann Manor on the Ruhr River...

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On the way, Marin and an Italian chamber of commerce who had previously been commissioned in Venice met in Cologne. During this trip to Italy, Marin seized a total of 7,000 sets of plate armor (Charles VIII finally took off the plate armor in order to facilitate his escape) and 5,000 sets of horse armor (not counting the 2,000 war horses that were captured). on the body). In the end, he turned in only 6,000 sets of plate armor (including to the Venetians) and 4,000 sets of horse armor. For the remaining 1,000 sets of plate armor and 1,000 sets of horse armor, he commissioned a reputable Italian chamber of commerce to send them to Cologne.

As for the reason for this, it was because the plate armor and horse armor were huge, which were embezzled by Marin and could not be seen by the emperor. As for gold coins, because of their small size, a bullock cart is enough to hold them, so they are not so conspicuous and can be carried around. Besides, he was at ease to escort the armor to others, and he also did not feel at ease to entrust hundreds of thousands of gold coins to be escorted by others. What if the escort people are black and greedy for those gold coins?

After paying a large amount of the final payment, Marin took the group, holding several large carts of plate armor and horse armor, and set out for Bochum...

Medieval news is lagging behind, and Marin's heroic deeds are currently only widely circulated in Austria, Swabia and Burgundy. In other regions, the nobles did not help with propaganda, so news spread more slowly than in the above three regions.

When Marin was in Austria, he would meet some fans on the march. But outside of Austria, except for those guarding soldiers who came to interrogate nervously, the others simply ignored Marin's group.

When they arrived in the Rhine and Ruhr rivers, most people didn't know about Marin's deeds at all, and only regarded him as a passer-by. This makes Marin, who has received much attention in Austria, a little disappointed. Of course, this is not without merit. At least, he was no longer worried about people watching while he was on the march. When they were in Austria, many people saw the black cross and white vests that their team wore and knew that they were the "Black Crusade" that defeated the French king.

So much so that when Marin arrived, he simply asked everyone to take off their black cross vests, so as not to be surrounded by people watching the monkeys...

But in northern Germany, his fame has yet to pass. So, they put on black cross white vests again...

When they arrived in Bochum, the old Hoffmann and Adler, who had received letters from home in advance, had already brought 10 attendants and waited at the main intersection...

Marin went home this time, and it was completely different from the last time he went home. Last time, Marin went home after failing the application, and the old Hoffman could still handle him.

However, when he came back this time, Marin had become a baron of the empire, and he was still a baron with a dominion. His status was very different from that of the apprentice knight. Even old Hoffman had to take Marin seriously.

Europe is not like the East at the same time, which emphasizes filial piety. In medieval Europe, titles were everything. Even as Marin's father, Sr. Hoffman had to respect Marin, who had been promoted to baron. Because, Marin's title is higher than him...

Of course, as a father, old Hoffman does not need to salute Marin, but he can no longer beat and scold Marin, who is a baron...

When Marin appeared near the intersection with 400 people and thousands of horses, Marin's cheap brother Adler showed a strong look of envy in his eyes...

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