King of German Mercenaries

In Cologne, Marin met Wright, the manager he had dealt with, again.

"Good day, Lord Baron, what can I do for you?" The Wiggins Chamber of Commerce is a member of the Hanseatic League, and Cologne is also an important business center of the Hanseatic League. Therefore, the news here is much better than that of Mark Earl. Therefore, the news of Marin's knighthood was easily spread here. As the director of the Wiggins Chamber of Commerce, Wright naturally knew Marin's identity.

However, Wright expressed disbelief that the boy who bribed him back then turned into a baron of the empire and spread heroic deeds within the empire.

"I'm here to hire ships. I heard that there are many free transport ships in the Wiggins Chamber of Commerce?"

"Yeah, the economic situation is not very good now, and there are wars all over Europe, which have affected the business of our chamber of commerce."

"The war is on the Italian side. How can it have anything to do with you?" Marin was surprised.

"My lord, Italy is not the only war in Europe. For example, our Hanseatic League has conflicts with Denmark from time to time. In England, because of the 'War of the Roses', our business has also been affected. Also, the great nobles of northern Germany , and there are frequent frictions between them. In short, there are wars in Europe..."

Marin was silent. In a divided Germany, it was not uncommon for nobles to attack and annex each other. Of course, no one dared to provoke the Hanseatic League lightly. Because, whoever dares to fight with the Hanseatic League, the Hanseatic League will block the commercial activities of this noble territory. Moreover, many aristocrats were in poor economic conditions and needed to borrow money from the Hanseatic League.

The German region is also considered to be in full swing, because Maximilian I of the Habsburg family is about to rise, but the German princes strongly resist the rise of the Habsburg family, and even seek to deprive the Habsburg family of the monopoly of the throne Qualification, back to the era of the princes electing the emperor.

However, the German princes were scattered and not very united. The rise of Maximilian I relied on mercenaries, and he had the strength to clean up these princes. It is a pity that the ambitious Maximilian I encountered two powerful enemies of Hungary and France, and he had no time to take care of him. Therefore, the balance in Germany can still be maintained, otherwise, wars would have started long ago.

"I'm looking for you this time, hoping that your chamber of commerce's transport ship will help me transport a group of serfs..."

"Lord Baron's territory is short of population?"

"Yes, the area of ​​Texel Island is not small, but the population is too small, only 800 people. Therefore, I recruited 500 serfs and took them to Texel Island for land development."

"Lord Baron is very bold. It takes a lot of money to raise so many people." Wright's meaning was very vague, but he was actually questioning Marin's ability to pay. He was also afraid that after Marin let the Wiggins Chamber of Commerce ship the people, he would not pay his bills, or he would be in arrears for ten thousand years.

"Don't worry, I'm in Italy and have made a fortune..."

"Hey..." Wright understood in seconds. In his opinion, Marin estimated that he robbed a lot of property in Italy. In fact, Marin didn't rob civilians much, only a few businesses. His wealth came mainly from selling trophies and captives to the Venetians.

"Okay, let's sign an agreement and pay the 30% deposit first." Wright is a businessman, and he attaches great importance to contracts.

"Well, no problem. By the way, Manager Wright, I want to ask, you Wiggins Chamber of Commerce, do you do salt business?"

"Salt business?" Wright was stunned, but immediately reacted.

"The salt business is done, but it's not very big. The salt of our chamber of commerce mainly comes from the salt mines in Lüneburg. However, the salt mines in Lüneburg are controlled by some big salt merchants, and we can't really get involved. Every year, we only get a few thousand quarts of salt from the Lüneburg Salt Mine. Also, that salt is quite bitter and not very tasty. In general, the trade in salt is the Wiggins Chamber of Commerce one of the business

But due to supply reasons, it has been unable to get up. "

"Haven't thought about importing sea salt from the UK?"

"Sea salt? It's a good idea. However, sea salt in the UK is in short supply, and the Wiggins Chamber of Commerce has no channels in the UK, so they can't get the salt there," Wright said honestly.

"What if I give you a large supply of sea salt?"

"You have sea salt?" Wright asked in surprise. But he thought about it, isn't Texel an island, what's so strange about producing sea salt? But isn't there a shortage of fuel in the Netherlands? Otherwise, there will be no import of salt from the opposite UK.

"Not yet, but soon."

"As far as I know, there is a shortage of firewood in the Netherlands..."

"What do we do at Hoffman Manor?" Marin asked rhetorically.

"Selling coal... oh, I see. The last time you hired a boat was to transport coal to cook salt!" Wright suddenly realized.

"Well, you know it's good. Then, are you interested in representing the sea salt of our Texel Island? I heard that you are in charge of selling coal in Cologne. Would you like to add a salt business?"

"That... I have to ask my brother-in-law..." Wright said cautiously.

"Privately pays you 3 pfennigs per quart of salt!"

"Deal!" Wright stood up immediately. This fellow is the most greedy. Hearing the rebate, he immediately agreed. Anyway, the business is not his, but the rebate is his.

As the brother-in-law of the owner of the Wiggins Chamber of Commerce, he still has great power in the Chamber of Commerce. The big boss of the chamber of commerce lives in Hamburg, and the main business is also in Hamburg. The business in Cologne is all Wright's final decision.

Soon, Marin and Wright signed an agreement that the Wiggins Chamber of Commerce would buy sea salt in bulk from Texel Island at wholesale prices of 3 shillings and 6 pfennigs per quarter. This price cannot be considered high, because the price of salt in the German inland area is much higher than that of the coast, reaching five or six shillings per quarter, or even more (mainly depends on the distance between the area and the salt production area).

The two then signed a private secret agreement that stipulated that for every quarter of salt, Wright actually paid Marin three shillings and three pfennigs. The extra 3 Finneys naturally went into Wright's pocket...

As for availability, Marin has yet to confirm. Because, this requires the actual production to know the specific output. However, neither Marin nor Wright are worried about sales.

Because the Wiggins Chamber of Commerce has a wide range of contacts and channels in the Rhine business circle, it can easily ship goods. And salt, in the Middle Ages, was also a very scarce material. Because, in the Middle Ages, there were no means of refrigeration such as refrigerators. Many meats must be cured with salt in order to be preserved. In addition, coupled with the daily needs of the people themselves are very large. Therefore, salt is still not worrying about selling. In particular, sea salt of better quality than Lüneburg mine...

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