The Rise of the European Emperor

Marin was also generous to this little blacksmith apprentice who was willing to take refuge in him. With a big wave of his hand, he directly gave the treatment of 1 shilling per day to a senior master craftsman, which is 6 times the daily salary of ordinary people and two to three times that of ordinary craftsmen.

Moreover, Marin is also willing to advance funds to let Gott move the whole family to Beihai State. And the task Marin gave him was to study how to improve the musket. If there are improvements, Marin will not be stingy with generous rewards...

After the news spread, the craftsmen in Nuremberg were all boiling. They saw that Marin attached great importance to craftsmen, and then, a group of craftsmen came to the luxury hotel where Marin lived and recommended themselves, hoping to be favored by Marin and go to Beihai to get a high salary. Of course, these are mostly young craftsmen. Or, the shop is not well run. If you are an industry leader and your own shop makes a lot of money, you won't care about a daily salary of 1 shilling. After all, being a boss makes more money than this. Of course, the premise is that the shop business is good enough.

In the end, Marin selected 5 blacksmiths who were good at making guns, 2 blacksmiths who were good at making cannons, and 1 watchmaker who was good at making clocks in Nuremberg.

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Just when Marin ran to Nuremberg to recruit craftsmen, the Principality of Württemberg also underwent drastic changes. After Marin and his party left the Principality of Württemberg for Nuremberg, Duke Ulrich of Württemberg officially turned his face, saying that the previous behavior of the Peasant Rebel Army to persecute the Duke was illegal, unreasonable, and a threat of violence. Therefore, Duke Ulrich announced that he would tear up all the previous "humiliating promises" and restore the previous taxation... and in order to appear reasonable, he also publicly dismissed the officials who were in charge of negotiating with farmers before, and said that the previous negotiations compromised him. without knowing...

His decision immediately angered the peasants and the bourgeoisie. Thus, the knifesmith Caspar began to call on all members of "Poor Conrad" to launch an armed uprising and force Duke Ulrich to submit...

However, for the sake of safety, the Duke of Württemberg sent a large number of troops to guard the city of Stuttgart and the palace in the city before announcing the abolition of the previous agreement.

Therefore, the civil uprising led by Kaspar in the city was quickly suppressed. Even Kaspar and a bunch of his cadres were almost arrested.

In fact, Duke Ulrich's people had long noticed Casbal's movements. Moreover, several loyal subordinates of Ulrich also mingled with Caspar. If it wasn't for the purpose of using Kasbal and others to destroy the opposition nobles, Kaspar and others should have been killed by now.

But in order to let him go outside the city to make trouble, Duke Ulrich sent those loyal men who had sneaked into the "Poor Conrad" organization to pretend to escort Caspar and others, "kill a bloody road" and rush out of the city ...

And through this "fight", Duke Ulrich's several undercover warriors also managed to gain the trust of Caspar and infiltrated into the inner circle of "Poor Conrad". Because they were more capable of fighting, the few people who called themselves "heroes" became important guards around Kasbal.

After escaping from the city, Kaspar brought his core team to an inconspicuous small manor outside the city, and contacted the core representatives of the "Poor Conrad" organization in the countryside.

In the next few days, the rural representatives of the "Poor Conrad" organization contacted members from all over the country, regrouped seven or eight thousand peasants, and started the second uprising.

Kaspar led eight thousand peasants, armed with various weapons, and surrounded Stuttgart aggressively. However, at this time Stuttgart has long been ready. The 3,000 defenders faced the 8,000 peasant rebels, and the advantage of the wall made the peasant rebels helpless.

Moreover, the citizens who had originally revolted in the city were also resolved by Duke Ulrich. Of course, it was not a suppression, but a negotiated settlement. Duke Ulrich was reluctant to kill or sell those citizens. After all, those citizens in the city who are mainly craftsmen are an important source of his taxes. Because, when the goods made by handicraftsmen are sold, they have to pay taxes. And the peasants, except the serfs on their own lands,

Basically, he doesn't pay taxes.

Therefore, Duke Ulrich, who originally planned to cheat the peasants, let go of the citizens of the Stuttgart riots this time, and promised not to increase the taxes of the citizens. Then, the short-sighted bourgeoisie decisively abandoned the peasant brothers and became obedient citizens with peace of mind.

The "Poor Conrad" peasant rebel army attacked the city for several days, but they could not advance an inch. After all, those three thousand mercenaries were not for display. Even in a head-to-head confrontation, three thousand mercenaries can defeat eight thousand peasant troops.

After losing hundreds of people, Kaspar suddenly realized that—it seemed that the rations they brought were running out...

At this time, the undercover leader Wolf (pseudonym Henry) sent by Duke Ulrich to lurk beside Caspar suggested:

"Boss, since Stuttgart is difficult to conquer and there is a shortage of food, why don't we attack the manors of those noble lords first!"

"The manor of the nobleman? Why? Henry!"

"There is a lot of food in the manors of the nobles! Moreover, there are horses and armors, including a lot of weapons, at the homes of the nobles. Look at the leader, our peasant soldiers are still holding simple weapons such as hoes. If Those manors were captured, and the weapons in the arsenal of the nobles are not ours? Once we have those weapons, armor, and horses, our combat effectiveness will be greatly enhanced! At that time, Duke Ulrich Even if we send troops to suppress them, we can still defeat them. If we can defeat the Duke’s army in the wild, wouldn’t it be easier than storming a fortified city like Stuttgart?”

When Kaspar heard it, he found it very reasonable. But he still has some concerns:

"However, I heard that the defense forces of those noble manors are still very tight. Will there be too much loss if we storm those noble manors?"

Wolff laughed:

"Don't you know, leader? It is said that Duke Ulrich mobilized a lot of noble private soldiers into the city some time ago, and he is probably ready to suppress us. Now, most of those noble private soldiers are in the city. And those noble manors outside the city, It’s empty right now! Besides, we have seven thousand or hundreds of people. When the time comes, we can attack those noble manors that have no private soldiers. If we take down those manors, we can take gold, silver and treasures, and eat wine and meat as we please. Ah! Even, Miss Noble...hehe..."

Under Wolfe's temptation, Kasbal immediately made up his mind:

"Okay, here we go! So, where do we go first?"

Wolf pretended to think about it, and said:

"My brother Charlie (also a pseudonym) was in charge of inquiring news in the tavern next to the military camp in the city. He heard that many manors sent reinforcements. We just need to follow the list he provided to find those manors. , you can easily conquer those manors without guards. At that time, leader, you can share more wine and meat with our brothers! Also, those noble ladies, or young ladies...hehe..."

Kaspar listened, and also began to drool. So he ordered:

"Then what are you waiting for? Lead the way!"

But Wolf shook his head:

"We can't retreat casually. If we retreat now, Duke Ulrich will definitely send troops to pursue. So..."

"So what?" Kaspar is a forger of iron and knife, how can he understand this? I can only ask Henry (Wolf).

"Let's lay an ambush! Tonight, we will retreat overnight to the vicinity of Fainen Manor in the southwest. There is a valley road over there. As long as we set up ambushes on both sides of the valley, we can defeat the pursuers when they come over." , can even eliminate..."

This is what Marin had discussed with Duke Ulrich before-now there are about 2,000 private nobles in Stuttgart. These people are loyal soldiers of the nobles that Duke Ulrich wants to get rid of. The future is also an object to be eliminated. Therefore, it is better to send them to the peasant army to destroy them, which is considered to be a murder with a knife...