King of Mercenaries Chapter 119

Published at 14th of June 2023 05:27:07 AM

Marin's large-scale construction in the Wadden Islands, of course, has a lot of income. But when it comes to earnings, at least it has to wait for months. Before that, it was a net investment, and the investment was large.

I also had Marin get millions of gold coins from the Venetian in Italy, if there weren't more than 300,000 gold coins that Marin brought back from Venice. In Marin's personality, everything must be built and everything must be launched. Money is not enough.

Even if it is boiled salt in Yancheng, the Wiggins Chamber of Commerce needs to sell the salt and settle the payment once every six months. So Marin paid the price for his big hands-he has no money now ...

He had originally saved tens of thousands of gold coins during the war with Friesland. But after the war, the entire Texel Island needed to be rebuilt, and spring ploughing was also a big investment. In addition, Marin caught many fishermen, and recruited many mercenaries and serfs, which cost money everywhere and cost a lot.

In particular, supporting the development of fishermen on the island requires the purchase of many fishing boats, and these expenses are very large. At this time, European fishing boats are still relatively expensive. A tens of tons of medium-sized fishing boat, the asking price is as high as several hundred gold coins.

Originally, those fishermen used cheap fishing boats with only a dozen tons of displacement. However, this type of boat has poor resistance to wind and waves. It is easy to die when encountering strong winds and waves at sea.

Therefore, the high-level Marin has allowed fishermen to cooperate with two or three families, and they have used 50-ton medium-sized fishing boats. In this era, more than 200 tons are definitely large ships, and more than 100 tons are not small. In the case of merchant and warships, 100 tons is considered medium. But for fishing boats, a 50-ton displacement is considered medium. Because the fishermen are generally very poor and cannot afford big ones. A 100-ton fishing boat can be considered a giant.

He Ma Lin is not sensitive to money. For fishermen who have been "recruited", the promotion of medium-sized fishing boats of more than 50 tons has resulted in huge expenditures. Of course, the fishermen did not have the money to buy a large boat, so Marin took out his own pocket and offered low-interest loans to fishermen to buy a medium-sized fishing boat. To this end, Dengbao spent 20,000 gold coins, and Kohler was so distressed.

In addition, buying cattle and sheep, as well as reclaiming farmland and building villages on several other large islands, each cost a lot. Fortunately, Marin has vigorously promoted adobe adobe houses, which has made housing construction costs very low. If you build a stone or wooden house for tens of thousands of people, the money will not be enough.

科 When Kohler red-eyed his financial report to Marin, Marin was also taken aback:

"What! Kohler, we have no money?"

"Yes, Master, you have a lot of ideas. Every time you come up with an idea, your subordinates have to pay a lot of money. The more ideas you have, the faster we will spend them. No, there is no money ..."

啊 "Ah ... thankfully we have a deposit in Venice ..." Marin said in fear.

"Yes, my subordinates also know that Venice has a lot of deposits, so I didn't stop the young master from doing those things before. Otherwise, I would have raised different opinions!"

"Hehe ..." Marin smiled awkwardly ...

"Master, there is no money now, shall we go to Venice to get some money back? Otherwise, the mercenary salary will not be paid ..."

"Well, I'll take someone to Venice to pick up the money ... Mad, Venice is so far away, why there is no ATM located in Denborg so I can take it directly ..." Finally, Marin muttered.

Taking hundreds of thousands of gold coins is not a trivial matter. For safety, Marin selected 200 veterans who had all moved in, and accompanied them under Schwartz's command. And Fronzberger is still responsible for guarding Texel Island and is responsible for recruit training.

At the moment, there are not many Marin soldiers and horses, and so many troops cannot be stationed on each island. Therefore, Marin's request is to fully protect the core island of Texel. As for the other islands, the farmland has not yet been cultivated, so let's talk about it first.

Then, Schwartz selected 200 veterans who are proficient in horse riding, one of whom was assigned to the two horses, followed by Marin to Den Helder, and went directly to Venice, Italy, intending to withdraw money ...

In the previous Texel defense battle, Marin recruited 400 veterans because everyone was wearing breastplates and helmets. Therefore, there were no casualties when they were attacked by Frisian javelins on the battlefield. Moreover, the families of these people were taken hostage on Texel, and Marin was not worried about what they found or betrayed themselves.

While going to Venice this time, Marin planned to take hundreds of thousands of gold coins and escorted them back. He was not a reliable person, and Marin was afraid to bring them. Marin feels that he has grown bigger now, and it is inevitable that some of the newly recruited mercenaries will be undercover. If something as big as taking money is found out by an undercover agent ... Hundreds of thousands of gold coins are in front, even the emperor will inevitably send troops to rob. Therefore, the person escorting gold coins can only be an old brother who can be trusted. In addition to these people being reliable, their families are also an important constraint on the island. Even if they are greedy for money, they should consider the parents and families on the island ...

More than 200 people have two horses each, and they don't wear bulky full plate armor, they just wear three-quarters of chest plate armor and iron helmets. Therefore, the team rushed quickly, heading south all the way to Venice.

Halfway along, Marin was too lazy to say hello to the local aristocracy. Because, Ma Qun roared past without any stop. There are many German princes. If you pass through every country like Tang Seng, you will have to exchange customs documents ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Ghosts know that the monkeys will be able to rush to Venice.

Moreover, even if some local lords feel that the group of Marin is threatening, they have no time to respond. Because, the Marin group riding on two horses is not slower than those who report. When the local lord received the news and did not wait to respond, Marin had taken people across the country. I just want to catch up, but I ca n't catch up.

What's more, the team of Marin, although not fully armed, is considered armed. Where do you dare to provoke?

So Marin doesn't need to say hello to anyone, just cross the border quickly and go straight to Venice ...

In fact, Marin could choose to use warships to ship gold coins to Venice. However, Marin now lacks reliable sailors. And the captive sailors, Marin was not quite convinced of them. Therefore, although warships are more convenient, Marin chose to go by land to avoid being sold on the sea.

To get money, Marin had to go out in person. Because the existence of this money, most people do not know. Even though Schwartz and Kohler knew it, Marin was afraid to leave them with hundreds of thousands of gold coins.

You know, 750,000 gold coins are almost equal to several billions in future generations. Marin could not rest assured that he would hand over billions to a subordinate. He would have nowhere to cry if his men rolled money to run. Because in this era, there is no wanted online, not even regular police. It is easy for those who take away money to escape. Therefore, this time to withdraw money, he must go out on his own.

In addition, he still has a very important thing to do-that is, by the way, to go to Italy to solicit the all-round genius Da Vinci of this era ~ www.novelhall.com ~ welcome the book readers to read, the latest, fastest, most Fire serial works are all in ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Mobile users please read.

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