King of Mercenaries Chapter 115

Published at 14th of June 2023 05:27:16 AM

On Texel Island, after withdrawing from the Frisians, Mayor Heidel Lehmann of Denborg has organized the manpower to get the horses out of the city. At the same time, the horse dung left by the more than a thousand horses were sent out of the city with a cart, and began to accumulate in the soil pit, while manure was generated.

After Schwartz returned the agricultural tools that the Frisians had snatched back, spring plowing on the island officially began. Although it's a bit late, it's too late to catch up. The winter wheat of Marin 500 Uegram was completely destroyed, so it was also re-tilled and it was planned to grow rye.

After the signing of the armistice agreement, Marin sent troops back to Texel for over 1,000 wars and overhauled the rough and heavy work of spring ploughing to speed up the progress.

In the armistice agreement, Friesland allowed Marin to openly recruit Frisian fishermen, so Marin sent someone to the coast of Friesland to recruit fishermen.

Alas, the recruitment was not smooth, and not everyone was willing to leave the old fishing village where they used to live. When Marin was furious, he no longer sent lobbyists to recruit, but instead sent troops ...

In this way, Marin very recklessly used a semi-abduction method. At the Frisian seashore, he abducted many fishermen from fishing villages. At the time of the final statistics, Marin "recruited" a dozen fishing villages and left over 3,000 fishermen ...

For the rogue behavior of Marin, the aristocratic Republic of Friesland tolerated. Anyway, in a few months, when the French army arrives, Marin can spit it out ...

Thinking that the two large islands of Terschelling and Vlieland in the West Frisian Islands were not in his own hands, Marin decided to purchase these two islands from the emperor. At the same time, the actual occupation of the entire West Frisian Islands is also established as a legal fact.

Know, because the entire Frisian aristocratic republic is not recognized by the empire. Theoretically, the empire did not necessarily recognize the agreement reached with the aristocratic republic of Friesland. If one day someone else uses this as an essay and grabs the ground by themselves, it will be bad. Therefore, while Marin planned to buy an island with the emperor, he also directly bought the legal **** of the remaining islands.

For this reason, Marin sent people to visit the two islands of Terschelling and Vlieland under the control of the emperor. It was found that the development of these two islands was very low.

Freeland Island Needless to say, the island is short of fresh water resources, and only the northeast part of the island has sufficient fresh water resources. Therefore, in future generations, there was only one village in East Vlieland on Vlieland. Now, on Vlieland, there is only a small fishing village in East Vlieland. No one has cultivated farmland on the island.

The natural condition of Terschelling is much better. The area of ​​88.1 square kilometers is placed in the area of ​​later generations, and it is also a small town. The island's fresh water resources are quite sufficient, and several villages can be reclaimed.

However, in this era, traffic on Terschelling was very inconvenient. Because it is far away from land, everything on the island (except salted fish) is much more expensive than land. Therefore, the life of the island's residents is very difficult. Only more than a hundred fishermen and dozens of farmers are living on the island. Officials in the Dutch country are also very unconcerned about the two islands. Because these two islands are too poor, there is not much oil and water. Therefore, apart from sending people to collect the dried salted fish on the island after the fish flood season each year, no other officials would go to that kind of backcountry.

In this era, the population of the Netherlands was only one million, unlike the later generations, which numbered several million. The land on the Dutch land has not been developed yet, and there is no need to develop islands. As a result, people like West Frisian Islands are less attractive. Later generations of the West Frisian Islands were developed because the Dutch population was so large that they could only use every inch of land. Now, the West Frisian Islands, except Texel, are completely dispensable poverty areas. Moreover, people of this era feel that these islands are very tasteless and tasteless. It is a pity to abandon them.

I also only have small lords like Marin. Because of their weak strength, they dare not fight land ideas, and can only focus on these islands with greater development potential.

After understanding the situation, Marin took a team of men, and bought the island's gold and silver, and went to Innsbruck, the small Austrian city where the emperor resided.

Twenty-five months later, Marin appeared in Innsbruck and met Maximilian I. At this time, Maximilian I was working with his plate armor craftsman Conla Zosenhof to develop the famous armor of later generations-Maximilian armor ...

"His Majesty, Baron Texel salutes you, hi, Holy Rome!" Marin saw Maximilian I stand straight, and an ancient Roman military salute was raised.

"Baron Marin, sit down, this time you come to Austria, do you have any questions?" Maximilian I was busy designing new plate armor these days.

"Yes, Your Majesty, Chen Gang fought a battle with the Aristocratic Republic of Friesland on the other side ..."

什么 "What? You fought a battle? Are you here to ask for help?" Frisian was off the high hillside of Austria. Maximilian I had not received the information there.

"Uh ... Your Majesty, the minister did not come to ask for help, the minister won ..."

"Ah? That's a big country. You little Baron Texel can beat them?" Maximilian I became interested.

"Chen ... Chen hired other soldiers and horses, helped defeat them, and robbed them of a few islands ..." Marin was a little bitter. Because the Habsburgs and the Swiss are enemies. Marin hired Swiss and wondered if Maximilian I would be dissatisfied.

"What? You defeated the Frisians? Where did you hire the soldiers and horses? So powerful? I'm all interested ..."

"It's Swiss ..." Marin whispered. This kind of thing, the emperor will soon receive the news, there is no need to lie.

"Swiss? Reliable?" Maximilian I frowned.

"It's just unreliable, Your Majesty! The minister, who originally brought the islanders and the Swiss, has besieged the Frisians in Leeuwarden. It is only a matter of time to break the city. As long as he breaks through Leeuden, he can completely occupy Friesland. . As a result, as soon as the French came and said a few words, the Swiss ran away in violation of the contract ...

"That's the case ... The Swiss aren't really good ..." Maximilian I nodded in agreement.

"Later, the French came over to mediate. In desperation, the minister could only ask to cut a few islands controlled by the Frisians ..."

"Why are you looking for 不 not far away?"

"Her Majesty, please see ..." Marin took out the prepared parchment map and showed it to Maximilian I.

"The islands of Ameland and Schiermonnikk that the Frisians ceded to their ministers, the other islands will not be mentioned. They are too small and have no development value."

"Um ... then what?"

"Between Texel and Amerland, there are two big islands-Freeland and Terschelling, both of which are under the control of His Majesty ..."

"You want and I want these two islands?" Maximilian I turned his head faster.

"Well, without these two islands, Texel and Ameland and Schiermonnik can't be connected, and development is not easy ..."

那 "What are you going to pay? You know, these two islands are not too small. Together, they are not much smaller than your Texel ..."

"Chen is willing to pay 5000 gold coins ..." Marin began to bid, but the bid was not high.

"A little less, Baron Marin, those two islands, I can take one more baron ..."

"Your Majesty, the minister is also poor ..."

"Poor can you afford Swiss mercenaries? Their commissions are expensive ..."

"It was the Wiggins Chamber of Commerce and the Hanseatic League that borrowed a large sum of money as a deposit before they moved them ..."

"What about the balance? How do you pay?"

"As long as the Frisian is defeated, the balance can be repaid ... anyway, the Swiss must be able to defeat the Frisian ... and because the Swiss mercenary broke the contract, I don't even have to pay the balance."

"Oh ... you're a good plan, but 5000 gold coins just want to win those two big islands, and you want to be beautiful ..."

"Your Majesty, the two islands are nothing. There is a lack of fresh water on Vlieland. There is only a small fishing village in East Vlieland. And on Terschelling, there is only a small fishing village and a small farm. 5000 gold coins, not too small ... "

"Really?" Maximilian I didn't really understand the local situation.

"The minister swears in the name of God, what he says is true!"

"Okay ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Even so, 5000 gold coins are a little lower. If you are willing to pay 10,000 gold coins, I can sign a document to authorize you the legal authority of the entire West Frisian Islands! "

"Kechen has occupied other islands besides those two islands ..."

"Without 朕 's authorization, your occupation is illegal and is not protected by empire law. It is not illegal to attack other islands except Texel ..."

Maximilian I was right, but it was already in Marin's calculations. This time I came to Maximilian I for that.

"Ten thousand gold coins ... This time the minister killed and killed, and only received 10,000 gold coins from the Frisians ..."

"That's right!" Maximilian I was very happy, and he always valued money for his financial situation. Although he still has a lot of money in his hands, the better he is ...

好 "Okay ..." Marin was frustrated, but she was actually very happy.

However, Marin used only 10,000 gold coins to obtain the legal documents issued by the emperor and the jurisprudence of the entire West Frisian Islands ...

Because the entire West Frisian Islands surrounded the entire Wadden Sea, the title of Baron Texel of Marin, the emperor simply replaced Baron Wadden. And the West Frisian Islands, in accordance with the habits of the Dutch, changed its name to the Wadden Islands ...

Although it was renamed Baron Walden, the status of the baron leader remains unchanged. It is still a duty-free Imperial Baron leader and is only responsible to the emperor himself ...

Chapter end