The Rise of the European Emperor

Under the persecution of Marin's musketeers, King Hans had no choice but to surrender to the coalition with the queen, the little prince Francis and his younger brother Frederick's family. Only the 22-year-old Crown Prince of Denmark, Christian, accompanied the anti-insurgency army to Sweden, stationed in southern Sweden, and did not return. Other members of the Danish royal family, except for their married daughters, were basically wiped out.

After taking control of the members of the Danish royal family, Marin immediately and quietly sent people to arrest several palace stewards and began to torture them to extract confessions and inquire about the whereabouts of the treasury.

In Europe in this era, the treasury was the treasure house of the royal palace. Because the national financial expenditure is basically issued by the king. Only after the rise of parliament and the implementation of comprehensive taxation did the palace treasury and the state treasury be distinguished.

The palace's inner treasury is naturally in the palace. Under the leadership of several palace stewards who were subdued, Marin sent Kahn, with some of his henchmen, to quickly take over the treasury in the palace and seized the coins in the warehouse. However, most of these coins are silver coins. Although the warehouse is full, it is equivalent to about 300,000 gold coins. For a country as powerful as Denmark, it's nothing. What made Marin laugh or cry was that in the treasury, he found many counterfeit Danish coins that he ordered to make.

Then, under the guidance of the palace stewards, Marin learned that most of the residences of the great Danish nobles were also in the old town on Castle Island.

So, Marin immediately dispatched troops to attack the mansions of the great nobles. Because they are in the royal city, the mansions of those great nobles are naturally impossible to be strong castles. Therefore, attacking these mansions did not take much effort.

However, the harvest of winning these mansions stunned Marin...

Because these big nobles are richer than the king. More than a dozen great Danish nobles have stored coins and treasures worth more than one million gold coins...

Marin smuggled the belongings silently, and early the next morning, Marin found Weizmann and Hermann, and asked their army to attack the Danish army that was still resisting on the street from the rear.

Of course, this is not the main thing. The main thing is that Marin told them - as long as the whole of Copenhagen is taken, the whole city is left to their looting...

When the whole news spread, the mercenaries in Lübeck and Hamburg boiled over. An emotion called greed breeds in them. They forget the danger and only have money in their eyes...

As a result, the mercenaries of the two Hanseatic cities with 9,000 people left, screaming, from the rear, killed the Danish troops who were still resisting...

However, in the narrow streets, despite the mercenaries of Lübeck and Hamburg, they were blocked by the enemy. After all, the street is so wide that it cannot be used.

Marin moved in his heart and first withdrew the mercenaries in Lübeck and Hamburg. Then, he released a dozen palace guards and drove them to the Danish troops, shouting as they ran:

"No, the king is captured!"

"No, the king is captured!"

...

Unsurprisingly, as expected by Marin, the Danish troops who were still fighting on the streets caused a huge commotion. In particular, these palace guards, many officers also know...

"Johnson, is the king really captured?" an officer leading the resistance asked hurriedly grabbing a former palace guard who was running and shouting.

"Yeah, Brother Heisen, the enemy army circled from the city wall to the gate of the palace and exploded the gate. Now, all members of the royal family have been captured..." The palace guard named Johnson said in frustration.

A dozen other guards were also surrounded by acquaintances and questioned. When it was learned that the royal family and the great nobles on Castle Island had been captured, the morale of the army collapsed immediately.

Later, when Marin once again commanded the army to force it from the rear, and shouted "surrender without killing" in the now-learned Danish, most of the Danish sergeants who lost their backbone,

All put down their weapons and raised their hands in surrender. A small number of those who still wanted to resist, Marin ordered them to be shot with a musket...

In this way, the six former Danish soldiers who were recalcitrant on the street were quickly wiped out and captured. Then, the army began to control other city gates, and opened the southwest city gate, and let in the coalition soldiers who were left outside the southwest city gate.

After taking control of the main thoroughfare, Marin immediately consulted with Weizmann and Hermann about looting assignments. According to the agreement, the property of the palace belonged to Marin, and the property of those great noble mansions also belonged to Marin. However, Copenhagen is also home to a number of Danish Chambers of Commerce headquarters. The amount of money in those chambers of commerce headquarters is also staggering. According to the agreement, those were split equally between Lübeck and Hamburg.

As for the wealthy and civilians in the city, they are handed over to the soldiers to divide the area to loot...

This time, Marin did not restrain his men, but let the 5,000 soldiers with the greatest military exploits participate in the robbery. However, Marin strictly ordered the soldiers - if possible, not to kill, not to rape women...

As for the mercenaries in Lübeck and Hamburg, Marin did not restrain them this time. Anyway, his soldiers are all wearing black cross vests on a white background, and it is clear at a glance who did the bad things...

The first to be hit are naturally the shops on the street. Except for the headquarters of more than a dozen large chambers of commerce occupied by Lubeck and Hamburg officers, other small stores were looted by allied soldiers.

Amid the earth-shattering cries, the doors of the shops were smashed open. A group of red-eyed mercenaries rushed in, tied the master first, and then began to rummage through boxes and cabinets in search of money. Even the tied hostess, the soldiers directly touch their necks and earlobes, as well as their fingers to get necklaces, rings and earrings. It doesn't matter if the necklace and ring were robbed, but those earrings were robbed, that would be miserable. The soldiers couldn't wait to take off the earrings, and they tugged hard. Then, there was a woman's tragic screams like killing a pig-obviously, their earlobes were torn...

Weizmann and Hermann, two Hanseatic officers, were surprised to find that they had seized millions of gold coins after they counted the headquarters of more than a dozen large Danish chambers of commerce controlled by them. This is not to mention, the goods accumulated in the chamber of commerce are also worth 500,000 to 600,000 gold coins.

In this way, Lübeck and Hamburg can each share a huge wealth worth 700,000 to 800,000 gold coins. Counting the hundreds of ships captured, the two of them can be sure that they made a lot of money from this war...

Because, in this war, the total investment of the two cities did not exceed 1 million gold coins, but the benefits far exceeded the investment. Not to mention the value of these properties and merchant ships, just to eliminate Denmark, a competitor in maritime trade, even if they invest millions of gold coins and have no property in return, they will make a lot of money. Moreover, they will also acquire a large territory of the Principality of Holstein...

Copenhagen is worthy of being the largest city in Northern Europe. At the end of the day, all the soldiers who participated in the robbery had their pockets full of belongings. That's not enough, the soldiers involved in the robbery, each carrying a large sack, don't know where to put it. Because it is very inconvenient to rob with property. But if you put it in the military camp, you are afraid of being stolen...

Seeing this, Marin directly set up a warehouse, and asked the soldiers to tie the sacks into dead knots with ropes, write their names, and throw them into the warehouse. The next day, they continued to go out to rob...

However, the soldiers robbed so much. Marin vacated several large houses, but none of them could hold these belongings. The main thing is that these soldiers not only robbed money, but also robbed those pots and pans... These things may not be very valuable, but they take up a lot of space.

The soldiers were looting, and Marin was not idle. On the one hand, Marin asked Weizmann and Hermann to inform the two major speakers and important members of Lübeck and Hamburg to come to Copenhagen to discuss the matter of sharing the fruits of victory.

Marin, on the other hand, did something that made King Hans vomit blood in the future - he collected papers (including parchment) all over the city. Then, cut the paper into small strips. Marin had someone write on a note in Danish - "Your robbery is the fault of your king"...

Every time a soldier goes out to rob a family, he will follow Marin's instructions and drop such a note to the victim...

Those victims, who were literate after seeing the note, became angry after reading it—yes, it was Hans, a foolish king, who took the initiative to provoke a strong enemy, which made us unlucky, and all our property was robbed by the enemy army. Guang, I hate this unfortunate king so much... Those illiterate people, after asking others to read for help, also resented King Hans...

After the withdrawal of the coalition forces, King Hans completely lost the trust of the people and died in depression within a few years...