Chapter 210： Weeding and rooting

The liquidation operation brought huge benefits to Marin, but also brought many captives. In particular, many of the captives are big men. For example, the three brothers of Edsad I and several barons. As for knights and jazz, it's a bunch.

After statistics, this liquidation captured a total of one count—Edsad I, two princes—two brothers of Edsad I, five barons, 22 knights, and 65 jazz, and their family. In total, there are thousands of these noble captives and their families ...

Marin was a little shocked. Little East Frisian, with a total population of just over 60,000, has so many nobles and noble families. You know, Marin just caught about two-thirds of the aristocrats in East Friesland, and one-third did not move because they had already surrendered ...

Thousands of people were just the main members of the aristocratic family. As for the housekeepers, servants, etc. who serve the aristocracy, they have not been included ...

For how to deal with these captured nobles, Marin summoned his men and started a discussion ...

Hoffman and others, who were far away in Mark's country, rushed to Emden after receiving a message from Marin to participate in this discussion.

大 "Master, I advocate killing all adult males and letting go of others. It is impossible for these aristocrats to identify with you from the heart. Therefore, it is better to kill the males and let the old and young women lie." Schwartz first spoke. In a formal meeting, Schwartz is also called an adult.

"My lord, I believe that all men, including all little boys, should be killed. Because even those little boys will grow up. Once they grow up, they will become your enemies because of the hatred of their parents. For In case this happens, you should be ruthless and kill all male members. "Kohler commented.

"I object, we are knights, knights with a chivalry spirit. Remember the eight virtues of a knight?" Franz Berg said.

"Humility, honor, sacrifice, heroism, mercy, honesty, justice, soul ..."

"I have no objection to the execution of Edsad I and his brothers. They are alive and indeed a threat to grown-ups. But others, let ’s kill a little less ... If we raise our butchers to those children, the Cavaliers Where is the mercy? "

Fronzberger was silent after the speech. Even the old Huffman and Adler who participated in the discussion, after listening to Frentzberg's words, they did not want to speak.

At this time, Heidel, the mayor of Den Burg, who came from Den Burg, held up his glasses and said:

"Mr. Fronzberg, I admire the chivalry you said. But you haven't thought about it. The adults have deprived the land and title of these former nobles. This is an indefensible hatred. Whether you kill them or not , They will hate adults. If given the opportunity, they will not give up to kill adults ... "

"It's ..." Frentzberg was a little stuffed. Indeed, from the moment Marin deprived those people of their titles and land, the two sides were already in a state of perplexity. It's really unwise to keep the enemy.

If the enemy is his own, Frentzberger, he doesn't mind letting the other side out, showing his chivalry. However, the enemy is his boss, Marin, so he would not be able to say anything.

"I know that your knights cannot pass the level of mercy, but I, Kohler, and Heidel, are not knights and do not need any mercy. In our hearts, the safety of adults is the most important thing. If you ca n’t live yourself At that level, then, the executioner, let me and Heidel be the role! "Kohler is a tax officer, but a civil servant, so naturally there is no need to talk about chivalry.

"What do you want to do?" Schwartz hesitated, or asked.

"Isn't Haider a law student? He's still a top student in the Faculty of Law at the University of Cologne. Let him act as a judge and convict these people! Then I will arrange the axemen and send them on the road ..."

"No, Kohler, don't arrange the axeman, the executioner, I decided to use someone else ..." This is, Marin, who has been listening, speaks.

"Others?" Everyone was puzzled.

"Yes, those who trust me ..."

"Ah? What do you mean, my lord?"

"Now that they have taken refuge in me, in order to cut off their backstreet, I have decided to let those nobles who take refuge in me, act as executioners, kill Edsad I, and those nobles who rebel against me!" "Put a name". Some people who want to join Hebang often have to do a case or kill a person before they are accepted. Once this is done, it is tantamount to carrying a case back on your body and trying to be a good person again.

By the same token, if these nobles who surrendered him and killed Edsad I and his followers themselves, then if someone opposed the Marin under the banner of the Salkner family in the future, these people would not necessarily Responded. Because, it was them who killed Edsad I and Edsad I's loyal soldiers.

This is like Wu Sangui personally strangled Emperor Yongli of Nanming with a bow. When he later turned against the Qing, there were few old relics from the Ming dynasty, who did not believe him, did not support him, and even demolished his stage. Eventually led to Wu Sangui's defeat.

The surrendered aristocrats, as long as their hands are stained with the blood of Edsad I and his subordinates, and they want to turn back, there is no way ...

I heard Marin's poisonous plan, and everyone who was present couldn't help fighting a cold war--it was so sinister ...

In fact, these methods are nothing but ordinary tricks that Marin used to watch TV series and novels. But in the Middle Ages of Europe, where there was no conspiracy, it was too harsh ...

Soon, Marin appointed Heidel as the chief judge of East Frisian Land and formed a temporary court to begin trials of nobles such as Edsad I ...

He Haide deserves to learn law professionally. He did not begin to directly pronounce his sentence, but first judged that the rebellion in 1435 was an outrageous act of rebellion. Then, all nobles who participated in that rebellion were sentenced and their noble status was abolished.

Of course, Heidel is very clever, because it was pronounced in public. Those nobles were actually stunned by the skillful Kahn. Then, when the verdict was pronounced in court, the nobles were driven by soldiers. They looked like they were standing, but they were actually being driven. Because of the coma, their heads naturally hang down. People in this era have long hair. When their heads are lowered, the long hair will cover their faces, making people not see that their eyes are closed. It looks like they looked down and confessed ...

So when Heidel was sentenced to deprive them of their aristocracy, no one was able to defend himself, nor was he able to defend himself, because they were all in a coma ...

Now that they have become civilians, it is easy to pronounce sentence ...

According to the tradition of this era, few people will generally condemn the death of aristocracy. However, Heidel is very clever. After depriving them of their nobility, degrading them to civilians, and then sentenced to death, there is no problem ...

The next day, still in the square in front of Emden's Palace, Heidel publicly sentenced these people to death ... This also caused a commotion among the onlookers.

Because the remaining half of the citizens of Emden are still very resistant to the death sentence of Edsad I. However, this half of the citizens is not like the other half who participated in the resistance. They are less courageous and have no courage to work hard. Despite the riots in the crowd, no serious disturbances occurred under the close surveillance of Marin's heavily armed soldiers.

After that, a large group of nobles and men who surrendered to Marin, such as Jeffrey and Pace, were watched by the soldiers and walked over the square. Under the persecution of the soldiers and the crowds of the crowd, Jeffrey and others shook his hands, raised his knife, and stabbed at the chest of Edsad I and others ...

After a few screams came, when the chest was stabbed with a knife, these nobles who had been stunned finally woke up. But what made them desperate was that what they saw was their former colleagues inserting a knife into their heart ...

Hundreds of nobles, the mourning before dying, resounded throughout the square. The onlookers, whether they were soldiers or the people, were all frightened.

And those nobles who took refuge in Marin, who were in charge of moving the sword, were also ashamed. They knew that after that, they could only follow Marin to a black road. Because, from the moment they start the knife ~ www.novelhall.com ~ they have no escape route ...

There was also a noble who refused to move the sword, but he was immediately tied up, accompanied by the nobles sentenced, and killed together ...

Then, Jeffrey and others were completely honest, and honestly helped to kill ...

的 On the night after the nobles were killed, Kohler led people into the prison where the noble families were held:

"Take those little boys away!"

The soldiers did so, and then, in bursts of crying, little boys of noble families were pulled out, with a total of nearly 200 people ...

The next day, no one ever saw these little boys, as if they had never appeared in the world ...

On the third day, the remaining women, young, were taken by Kohler to the barracks to serve as prostitutes, while the older women were taken to be laundry women. And those little girls were gathered, raised, and arranged later ...

傍 On the evening of the third day, Frentzberger found Kohler at the gate of the palace and asked angrily:

"Do you mean this, or do you mean it?"

Kohler was silent for a while, then said slowly:

"I mean, Master is the lord and kind. And the executioner is me! And it can only be me!" After almost yelling, Kohler left without looking back ...

Frentzberg and Kohler didn't know that, just as they were talking, Marin was standing right behind the gate. Seeing Kohler's heavy steps as he left, Marin's heart was also heavy. Because those decisions were made by him ...

也许 "Maybe, it's time for me to compensate Kohler ..." Marin said to himself.

Glancing at Fronzberg, who was stunned, Marin frowned, but said nothing, and turned away ...