The Rise of the European Emperor

After tricking John V into signing an unequal treaty, Marin was in a good mood. Moreover, the news of Farrell's surrender soon spread.

Only Yevre's side was not very smooth, and Adler did not have a good way to do Yevre Castle. Because he has neither heavy artillery nor demolition team.

In desperation, Adler had to leave 500 elite soldiers to continue the siege. Then, he took 1,500 elite soldiers and went directly to Oldenburg to take over the site.

The reason for this is Marin's previous arrangement. In the plan, after Marin captured Oldenburg, he would continue to take the army eastward and join Schwarz in the Principality of Holstein. Then, the army marched north together, gradually uprooting cities and fortresses that had not yet been conquered. Because, the heavy artillery is in the army of Marin.

The 2,000 militiamen led by Adler, although they were militiamen, took much longer to train and were more elite than Marin's new recruits. It's just that these people usually have to cultivate the land, and only when the manpower is tight, Marin will choose to recruit them. In peacetime wars, Marin still chooses to use full-time mercenaries. In this way, it will not affect agricultural production.

However, because Saxony sent more than 10,000 strong people, Marin actually had no shortage of serfs who cultivated land. In addition, Marin has 20,000 to 30,000 cattle in his hands, and the animal power is extremely rich. Therefore, even if these 7,000 militiamen do not participate in the spring ploughing, they will not delay the farming time. Only during the autumn harvest period, because animal power could not be used, and the harvest could only be done manually, it was necessary to have these militiamen participate. Otherwise, if there is heavy rain during the autumn harvest, it will be over.

In fact, these 7,000 militiamen were all recruited and organized when the Serksner family ruled East Frisland. After Marin occupied the country of East Friesland, in order to control this huge army, he specially killed all the small nobles who had ruled these militias, leaving them without a leader. Marin then aggressively promoted himself and former followers of the Bullock family (Marin's grandfather's family) to command the militia. Even the old Hoffman directly became the supreme leader of the 7,000 militia. In this way, the officers of this militia became their own. In addition, Marin has been good to the common people in recent years, especially the bread pipe, which is much better than that during the reign of the Serksner family. Therefore, after a few years, the people of East Frisian counties have basically returned to their hearts. These militiamen are also from the people, and naturally they are basically at heart.

Although it is said that after several years of intermittent training, the combat effectiveness of this militia army is much stronger than that of new recruits. However, Marin considers that the security of the homeland of East Frisian counties is also very important. Therefore, Marin's choice is to use the regular army to defend the country at ordinary times. Once a large-scale national war is fought and the regular army needs to leave the border, these militias will be recruited for the defense of the country. In this way, Marin can safely take the army with him without worrying about his old nest being taken away.

This time is also no exception. Under the circumstance that Marin led the army to expedition, the domestic defense work was naturally handed over to the 7,000 militiamen.

Moreover, after winning the county of Oldenburg, Marin also needs to leave enough troops to garrison. Otherwise, the small nobles in this place will launch a rebellion, making Marin's efforts in vain.

Therefore, Marin chose to let the brave Adler lead a militia of 1,500 elites to enter Oldenburg to monitor those local nobles and prevent them from rebelling. At the same time, Adler is also fully responsible for the custody and monitoring of the members of the Oldenburg family.

When Adler arrived at Oldenburg with 1,500 elite militiamen, Marin immediately handed over the defense of Oldenburg to Adler.

However, before leaving, in order to prevent the rebellion of the rural nobles in the Counties of Oldenburg, Marin posted a notice in order to appease people, expressing his willingness to swear that he would never kill any local aristocrats unless the local nobles did not rebel. a nobleman.

This is mainly because, when Marin occupied the counties of East Friesland,

Almost killed the local minor nobles. Marin was afraid that the small nobles of Oldenburg would rebel because they feared that they would die like the original small nobles of East Friesland.

Marin was in a hurry to beat Denmark now, and naturally he didn't have time to pay attention to these little country nobles of Oldenburg. But they are worried that they will cause trouble for Adler. So, Marin put up a notice, expressing his attitude that he would not kill people indiscriminately this time.

In fact, the reason why Marin did this was to take into account the problem of future domination. In East Friesland, doing it once is enough. If you do too much, your reputation will stink. Moreover, if every time you occupy a country, you kill all the local nobles, no matter which country you attack next time, you will be desperately resisted by the other nobles. Because if you don't resist, you will die, and if you resist, you will die. It's better to fight. In this case, Marin will encounter great difficulties.

Therefore, Marin decided - to conquer any country in the future, he will no longer raise the butcher's knife indiscriminately. He decided to follow the Prussian practice of unifying Germany - just stripping the local nobles of their right to rule, but keeping their names.

The county of Oldenburg was the first "model" area that Marin planned to develop. Only by treating the local nobles who did not resist would be kind, and when Marin hits other countries in the future, the nobles in those areas will be willing to surrender. Otherwise, they will fight to the end and cause huge trouble for Marin.

Of course, Marin is not a good person. When the dust settles, Marin intends to deprive the nobles of Oldenburg from the management of their arable land. However, Marin will pay these nobles enough rent according to the current output of their arable land...

For example, the rye fields in the county of Oldenburg now yield less than 150 pounds per mu. And the harvest that the nobles get from the manor is about less than 100 pounds per acre. At that point, Marin could pay them a fixed income of 100 pounds of rye per acre. However, when the control of these estates is in the hands of Marin, it is different. With the help of fertilizer blocks, the local rye yield can reach four or five hundred pounds per mu. And the extra output is Marin's own.

In this way, the interests of the native aristocrats in Oldenburg were not damaged. And Marin, because of its advanced production technology, can also gain more after obtaining the management rights of those lands. It's a win-win situation, so to speak.

As for those local aristocrats, Marin plans to build a new city in the future, a casino like Las Vegas. Build various entertainment facilities and places in the city, specially for those nobles to have fun. From now on, these nobles would sit in the casino every day to eat, drink and have fun. And their original land will be sent a fixed income every year, and the rent of 100 pounds of rye per acre is enough for them... And these Oldenburg nobles, after being corroded, will also slowly degenerate, even become waste. At that time, they will not be able to pose any threat to Marin...

After solving the defense problem of Oldenburg County, Marin took the army and continued eastward all the way. The army first collected ships, built a pontoon bridge on the Weser River, and entered the territory of the Archbishopric of Bremen (which is not the same as the Hanseatic city of Bremen).

Although it was very unhappy, the Archbishopric of Bremen resisted Marin's 10,000-strong army by force, and could only watch them cross the border. Fortunately, Marin's army was strictly disciplined and did not commit any crimes against the people along the way. Even the 3,000 mercenaries hired by Hamburg did not dare to plunder the people along the way under the surveillance of Marin's army, which made the Archbishopric of Bremen heave a sigh of relief.

When the 10,000-strong army arrived on the west bank of the Elbe River, Hamburg on the other side of the river learned the news and sent hundreds of merchant ships to build a huge 3-kilometer-long pontoon bridge on the wide lower reaches of the Elbe River. The army quickly crossed the wide river in the lower reaches of the Elbe, and soon arrived at Glückstadt, the capital of the Duchy of Holstein, which was also on the east bank of the Elbe.

In this way, Marin brought 10,000 troops from the mainland and 3,000 mercenaries in Hamburg, and another 10,000 troops led by Schwartz and another 2,000 mercenaries in Hamburg, successfully in Glückstadt on the Elbe. Join teachers. At this time, the total number of this coalition reached 25,000. If the 5,000 people who joined Lübeck and went to Kiel, the total number of coalition forces will reach as many as 30,000... In this era, such a large army is enough to challenge any country in Europe. Of course, except for the general Ottoman Turkey, who often dispatched hundreds of thousands of troops...