The Rise of the European Emperor

As Marin expected, with the foreshadowing of selling miserably, everyone didn't care much about him sending people to recruit soldiers in southern Germany. If it was before, he would definitely be very nervous, preventing Marin from expanding his army and doing things. Some people even linked the expansion of Marin's army to the emperor's desire to unify Germany.

But this time Marin sold out first, and everyone was not so strict about his recruitment. You know, many vassal states did not allow Marin's men to go to their territory to recruit soldiers or even immigrate.

This time, Marin took the opportunity of selling misery, and sent Johnny with a face of "suffering and hatred" as an envoy to the princes in a low voice, in order to obtain approval to recruit mountain people there.

As for how many people were recruited locally in the end, it's hard to check...

As long as Marin is not short-sighted enough to be like Aunt Baiyun, staring at a sheep to gather wool, but recruit a little bit from this vassal state, and recruit a little bit from that vassal state. Little adds up, and it's not easy for people to see.

As long as the area is scattered enough, it is difficult for those princes to make comprehensive statistics. And, don't forget, Marin can also send people to privately bribe the local nobles in those vassal states to help them conceal the real data.

As Marin discovered before, the local nobles in those vassal states have long been accustomed to the two-faced way of doing things. They don't mind lying to their lords as long as they pay hush money. Anyway, this is not a direct betrayal, it has nothing to do with honor and righteousness...

Moreover, for the vassal states in southern Germany, almost every country will have a surplus of population. Most of those mountain people were relocated from various manors to the mountains. Because the manor land in the southern region is limited, there is no need for too many serfs. And serf families generally did not have only one child, and the extra children either went to the city to work as apprentice craftsmen, or ran to the mountains to survive.

Because life in the mountains is more difficult than in the manor, the nobles generally cannot get taxes from the poor mountain people. At most, after they hunted their prey, heavy taxes were levied (because the mountains and forests are also theoretically owned by nobles).

Therefore, the princes and local nobles in southern Germany actually didn't care much about the whereabouts of the mountain people. Even, many nobles were worried that these fierce mountain people would become bandits and bandits. At that time, they will have to send troops to encircle and suppress them. Not to mention very troublesome, it will cost a lot of money (this is the point).

If it weren't for Marin's background as the emperor, those princes were worried that Marin would join hands with the emperor to unify Germany when he became stronger, and these people would even raise their hands in favor of Marin sending people to recruit those mountain people...

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Fortunately, Marin knows the trick of "selling miserable"...

To know,

Before crossing, Marin had personally seen many contestants in the entertainment industry, relying on selling miserably, they managed to get enough votes to advance and even win the championship. Although the routine is old, it is unstoppable and easy to use! Moreover, in the 16th century, this routine has not been used badly...

The emissary sent by Marin, "Unlucky Johnny", already had a bitter and bitter look, which made people feel sympathetic. Marin sent him to go on a mission and sell miserably, but the effect was not so good.

Then, after the New Year in 1515, the hottest topic in the German region was that Marin spent a lot of money to bring in a lot of peasant rebel prisoners of war to open up the barren continent, but encountered a rebellion.

As the most successful representative of Germany's "Diaosi counterattack", Marin is of course extremely popular among German civilians and wandering knights. But on the contrary, Marin had a bad reputation among the German princes.

It's not that Marin is not good enough, but Marin's way of counterattack made the princes who were born nobles feel threatened. If there are a few more Marlins in Germany, how can they get along? You know, Marin's road to rise has been stepped on by a large number of old nobles along the way. For example, the Sexner family who was massacred by Marin, and a large number of old nobles who were forcibly relocated to Bremen...

Therefore, those veteran nobles usually try their best to slander Marin. Even if they understand that Marin is also a prince, he will not really help the emperor unify Germany. However, because they were hostile to Marin, the "counter-attacking wire", the princes still couldn't help spreading rumors and slandering them, saying that Marin was a loyal dog of the Habsburg family.

In other words, the princes' resistance and suppression of Marin was not all because he was once the emperor's subordinate. One of the very important reasons is that the naturally noble princes are very afraid of Marin's counterattack. Because, the success of every hanging silk means the end of at least one old-school noble family...

And as the "naturally noble" vested interests, how can these great nobles tolerate someone disrupting the order and stability of this world?

In their view, inferior people should obediently obey their rule and oppression. You are a wandering knight, wouldn't you be good as a thug for our great nobles? You actually want to become a nobleman on an equal footing with us? simply intolerable...

However, this reason cannot be stated publicly. Otherwise, they would offend the numerous wandering knights. After all, Marin is the idol and motivation of all wandering knights in Germany. And the nobles also need these wandering knights to help them fight and protect their safety.

Therefore, they could only grasp the black spot that Marin was once the emperor's subordinate and the emperor wanted to unify Germany, and tried hard to black Marin to death.

All in all, those big nobles with "noble blood" don't want to see the "inferior people" counterattack successfully. Because this will affect the original order of society and the interests of these vested interest families. That's why they blacked out Marin to death.

Even though Marin was a time traveler, he had never thought about this truth, and he really thought that he was just being dragged down by the emperor.

It's no wonder that Marin, after all, came from a descendant of the idea that everyone is equal, and he didn't feel that he was inferior to others at all. Therefore, he generally does not think about the high and low of people. Even, when employing people, Marin prefers to use generals from civilian background...

And his background, and his love of using civilian generals, are very eye-catching in the eyes of veteran nobles. In other words, Marin "broke the rules."

These nobles would not look for reasons from the incompetence of their family's children, but only saw that Marin had broken the traditional rule that "officers generally use noble children".

If everyone is like this, what future do those ineffective children of noble families have? Marin can be said to have set a very bad example for those veteran nobles. That is, he refuses to accept those noble children who have little ability...

Therefore, with the reasons for the two "bad rules" of "reverse attack by hanging silk, breaking the original social order" and "refusing to accept the children of nobles who are useless", it is no wonder that those old nobles don't black Marlin...