King of German Mercenaries

The message transmission in the Middle Ages was very slow, because it was a backward era in which "traffic basically depended on walking, communication basically depended on roaring, and heating basically depended on shaking".

After a few months, the "famous name" that Marin laid on the Italian battlefield spread to the northern region of the Holy Roman Empire. At this time, Marin finally became the number one "big star" in the empire...

The princes in the northern part of the Shinra Empire were basically the emperor's opponents. Naturally, these princes would not cooperate with the emperor's propaganda. Because, to publicize Marin, it means to publicize "the benefits of serving the emperor". Such propaganda is equivalent to pushing the young warriors to the emperor. As the representatives of the Reichstag in Vienna saw, many young Austrians and Swabians, following Marin's example, joined the Emperor's army, or sought to join. And this is what the local princes who are anti-emperor do not want to see. Therefore, although these princes did not expressly oppose the propaganda of Marin, they secretly stumbled, but they were indispensable.

Therefore, it took a few months for Marin's reputation to spread throughout the Holy Roman Empire and cause a boom...

"What a powerful knight, he was only 17 years old and he was able to make such military exploits, and he was even named a baron!" Some young wandering knights instantly regarded Marin as their idol in their hearts.

Because Marin and their origins are too similar, very "grounded", easy to resonate with them. Marin's deeds sound very inspiring. For those struggling young wandering knights, hope is slim. But Marin's deeds brought them a reference - why didn't I learn Marin?

They didn't know that the reason why Marin was able to achieve such brilliant results was based on the fact that he was a transmigrator. The last time he defeated the French, he clearly used the powerful advantage of "asymmetric information" to bully the fleeing Charles VIII.

If confronted, can Marin's 1,100 recruits be compared with the French knights who have practiced martial arts for more than ten years?

However, it doesn't matter, people always like to ignore their weaknesses and focus on their strengths. Even if you have no strengths, you can think of unwarranted strengths for yourself (this is the origin of narcissists).

Therefore, no one cares that Marin won by chance. And when the emperor was promoting, he did not specifically say that Marin succeeded in the sneak attack, but said that the two armies "just met".

Therefore, young people feel that - I work for the emperor, even if I am not as lucky as Marin, I can't be a baron, I can still be a formally titled imperial knight...

And this is exactly what the cunning Maximilian I hoped to see. In the Holy Roman Empire, the Habsburg family has relatively prestige only in Austria (Burgundy has relatively low prestige because it has just taken over), and in other places, due to the malicious anti-propaganda of the princes, the reputation is not very good.

Therefore, the number of German soldiers willing to serve the royal family is relatively small. Marin was born in the Earl of Mark. Although John II, Earl of Mark was not against the emperor, his relationship with the emperor was definitely not good. Because, the emperor has always been committed to imitating France, intending to collect a daily tax throughout the empire, so as to supply the central needs of the empire.

However, the idea of ​​Maximilian I was opposed by almost all independent lords. Because the emperor's general taxation throughout the empire is equivalent to moving their purse. Moreover, the emperor's wealth and strength have grown stronger. What should we do to wipe out these princes?

Marin was born in an area not controlled by the royal family, and was a hapless wandering knight. Such a person is very representative.

Because, in the entire empire, there are countless knight families. And often a knight family will not have only one boy. Therefore, there are many wandering knights.

Under the counter-propaganda of those princes, many wandering knights never thought of serving the emperor. Because, in the private propaganda of the local princes, the emperor was described as a greedy, miserly bad guy.

It is said that if you work for the emperor, you cannot get paid because the emperor is very poor (this is not completely nonsense). Moreover, the emperor is reluctant to grant the title of noble to those who serve him...

Therefore, many wandering knights from local vassal ruled areas would rather lose their jobs and work as part-time workers than serve the "greedy and stingy" emperor.

However, the appearance of Marin suddenly overturned the malicious propaganda of the princes, and made many wandering knights realize that serving the emperor also has a future.

Most of those wandering knights didn't believe it after hearing about Marin's deeds, because Marin's deeds were too "legendary". However, many wandering knights near the country of Mark just rode to the Hoffmann Manor in Bochum to verify the authenticity of the news with the old Hoffman.

As the newly promoted "Baron's father", old Hoffman naturally swears that these are true, and with the honor of God and knight, swears to be responsible for every word he speaks...

Then, many wandering knights learned that the news they heard was completely true and confirmed. Then, the verified news spread across the empire. Everyone finally believed that the emperor did not lie...

So, the Marlin was on fire, and the young wandering knights were excited...

Then, many young knights who were confident that they would not lose to Marin, with dreams, rushed to Vienna one after another, begging the emperor to take them in...

The emperor is obviously "painful and happy". He is currently busy asking the French for ransom. How can he have time to pay attention to these young people?

Moreover, if the ransom is not recovered, he has no money to feed so many people. In addition to this time period, it is temporarily a truce period, and there is no need to recruit people. Therefore, among the many wandering knights gathered in Vienna, only a few outstanding ones were absorbed by the emperor.

Most of the remaining people are helpless to stay in Vienna...

And many wandering knights who have been wandering for a long time are accustomed to doing some "heroic" behavior of robbing houses, which makes the law and order in Vienna a lot worse.

But the emperor did not dare to suppress these wandering knights, because if he used violence to send these wandering knights, he might make his reputation built by propaganda Marin throughout the empire worse.

Because, these "suppressed" wandering knights will definitely speak ill of him when they go back. The knights in the Middle Ages basically held the right to speak in the bottom society, and their credibility was high...

Therefore, Maximilian I can only try to appease those irascible wandering knights, write some empty checks, and try to coax them back...

But on the other hand, the emperor was secretly delighted that so many wandering knights came to defect to him...

Therefore, the emperor is currently "painful and happy"...

And the "big star" Marin, who was vigorously promoted by the emperor, has also become a king-level idol superstar who exists in the eyes of "Dehua" in the eyes of young people in the empire...

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