The Rise of the European Emperor

Of course, it wasn't just these two princes who sought the secret of Beihai's high grain yield, but also others. It was mainly revealed by some wandering knight officers from Beihai Kingdom when they returned to their hometown to visit relatives. Most of them were unintentional, but their father and brother took it upon themselves. After all, if you get this method, you can also develop your own family. If dedicated to their respective monarchs, a hereditary baron cannot escape.

Although Marin is strictly prohibited from leaking secrets, some wandering knights can't stand it. Some people talk nonsense when they are drunk, and accidentally leak the secret.

For example, this spying on the fertilizer processing plant in front of him was caught by Kohler's spies as the current unlucky company captain, and that's how he leaked secrets at the beginning. Then, under the coercion of his father and brother, he began to inquire about the secret of fertilizer.

Marlin suddenly had black lines all over his head, and then he gritted his teeth and squeezed out a sentence:

"Thoroughly investigate all the wandering knight officers, and if there is a problem of talking nonsense after drinking, review them all! I'd rather kill it by mistake than let it go!"

Marin knew that people were different when they were drunk. For example, Marin himself likes to fall asleep when he is drunk, for example, he will fall down under the table, but he does not talk much.

And some people get drunk, they will go crazy, beat and smash indiscriminately, which is the legendary drunken madness. This kind of people is very harmful to society, but Marin doesn't care because they don't leak secrets.

There are those who like to sing and those who like to cry, and Marin doesn't care. What really caught Marin's attention were those who liked to brag when they were drunk. These people, when drunk, will inadvertently leak some secrets through bragging.

Therefore, Marin asked Sauer to cooperate with Kohler to jointly investigate the officers who were stray knights in the army. All those wandering knights who love to brag when they are drunk, and who go back to their hometown to visit their relatives more often will be included in the investigation list.

Of course, Marin gave them a chance. If it was unintentionally leaked and did not inquire about the secret afterwards, Marin planned to let them persuade the father and brother who knew the secret and the whole family to move to Beihai. Otherwise, it will be silenced.

Afterwards, anyone who inquired about the secrets of fertilizers would be executed. The father and brother Marin who knew the news would also send someone to assassinate them. Who knows who died.

As for those who deliberately leak their secrets in a sober state, let alone, they will absolutely kill without mercy. Even the nobles who contacted his enemy country will die, even the princes...

"Go, pick a group of spies who are proficient in assassination and escape. This time, I'm going to kill!" Marin told Kohler.

Then, he turned around and told Schwartz:

"Tell those officers who were wandering knights - or bring their families to Beihai,

Or break up with them..."

Schwartz was stunned:

"Will this be bad? You must know that there are many officers who were born as wandering knights in the army. If they do not cooperate collectively, we will not have officers to replace them..."

"You forgot my Junior Officer Crash Course?"

As early as seven or eight years ago, in order to solve the problem of insufficient number of officers, Marin established a crash course for 200 young officers.

Now, seven or eight years have passed, and these children have long since graduated, and they are all in their twenties. However, because Marin Tukuai later recruited a group of wandering knights from abroad, there were not many places in the army. These 200 young officers are hard to come by. What's more, this crash course is not one, but three, with a total of 600 people. At present, most of them have no place to arrange it, so they have to arrange to hang out in the militia camp first.

Although these people are inexperienced, they have solid basic skills. They are definitely not good at mid-level and high-level generals. It is still possible to replace some middle-level and lower-level officers.

According to Sauer's intelligence, it seems that there are no middle and high-level generals who have taken refuge in other countries' ideas. After all, the life of the middle and senior generals in Beihai Kingdom is very good, and the land given by Marin is enough and the income is high enough.

Basically, the income of the middle and senior generals of Beihai Kingdom is too much to spend. Because the output of their manor is very high. Unlike the nobles of other vassal states, most of them have budget deficits. So, only fools want to jump ship.

Only those middle- and lower-level officers who are not happy will want to change jobs. Because they have little land in their hands, it cannot bring them a very prosperous life. Moreover, their titles are not high, and they haven't even gotten through military exploits. Therefore, they will be driven by the idea of ​​"find another job".

...

Therefore, this time Marin intends to use suspended animation to clean up the army to avoid future accidents.

He still overestimated the integrity of some people, thinking that people from the knight family are honest. But in fact, when other princes offered such conditions as barons, there were still wandering knights who succumbed. After all, the baron's territory is large enough, the status is high enough, and it can be handed down.

Fortunately, Marin kept his hand and set up a fertilizer processing plant with hidden secrets, so that the secrets of fertilizers were not spread everywhere. Otherwise, it is estimated that the whole of Europe will know by now.

As a result, those middle and lower-level officers who want to betray now, although they know the magic of fertilizer, they don't know much about the composition of fertilizer. In the early Qing Dynasty, the 400 veterans who had seen Marin use manure and fishbone meal, because they were civilians and their families moved to Beihai, had no idea of ​​betrayal.

Moreover, other princes never thought of winning over those veterans. Because the European princes who stick to the tradition look down on the veterans who come from civilians. Even if they win over, they will choose to win over those wandering knights from noble families, so as not to be dragged down...

But in this way, it has narrowed the scope of reconnaissance for Marin. Because there were only 1,500 wandering knights in the North Sea Kingdom, and 1,000 were among the lancers. But the Lancers were stationed in Aurich and were heavily defended, making them difficult to reach. Therefore, Marin only needs to work hard to check the other 500 people, and focus on the third army stationed in Schleswig and the sixth army stationed in the Ruhr area. In this way, it saves a lot of things.

Even if half of the 500 people were purged, Marin still has 300 or 400 graduates of the Youth Officer Crash Course in his hands, so he is not afraid that there will be no one in his hands.

Although, the actual combat experience of those who have been purged is definitely better than that of the young boys in the crash course of teenage officers. However, a half-hearted person, even if experienced, Marin has to prevent them from stabbing in the back on the battlefield. Just like in the "Battle of Feishui", Zhu Xu, the subordinate general, shouted "the Qin army is defeated" after the formation of the former Qin army, which shook the heart of the former Qin army, causing the retreat to turn into a rout, and the former Qin who had an absolute advantage in numbers. The army was defeated... Such an example was ahead, and Marin had to guard against...

So Marlin would rather replace the capable but second-minded wandering knight officers with less capable but loyal enough teenage crash course officers. Although the combat power will decrease, it will not cause problems on its own.

Besides, they are inexperienced, and they can also be trained through combat.

Of course, Marin didn't give the officers who were stray knights a chance—if he could bring his father, brother and other relatives to Beihai Kingdom, or cut off contact with them, he could still be reused. Only half-hearted people will be purged...

But after learning from this incident, Marin will not easily recruit foreign wandering knights. Unless, the other party can bring his family to Beihai Kingdom. Moreover, as the teenagers of the school opened by Marin gradually grew up, Marin didn't have to worry about the problem of talent replenishment...