Chapter 49: Temporary "Expanding the Army"

Chapter 49: Temporary "Expanding the Army"

To prevent being robbed by an enemy or an ally, Marin had a headache. You know, his team of 1100 people, with thousands of horses and thousands of armors, many can be blinded by greed.

This is not even the ransom of 4,000 French knights. Kohler calculated it and felt that these 4,000 prisoners could be exchanged for at least 2 million Ducat gold coins. Knights are not cheaper than horses, and war horses are easy to train. It takes more than ten years to cultivate a knight, and the investment is huge. Therefore, a knight's ransom requires at least 500 gold coins. 4000 knights, at least 2 million gold coins, this is still not considered the "price" of those nobles.

"I drop a little boy, 2 million gold coins!" Marin had only money in his eyes!

"But, Master, if you take all these captives back, your emperor will certainly not give you that much money. Because the emperor itself is very poor!" Kohler said.

"What?" Marin was angry. However, he was right to think about it, the emperor could not give him that much money. Because he originally fought for the emperor, the loot should be given to the emperor.

However, if he wanted to get the title, he had to take a lot of prisoners. Especially the captives of the nobles. After thinking about it for a long time, Marin decided to compromise. Because what he needed most was the title. As for those horse armors, Marin decided to keep some of them in private use.

However, this wealth is too huge, he is not confident to protect it. So he decided to expand the army

"Expand?" Schwartz didn't quite understand. Updated from novelbIn.(c)om

"It's only temporary. I can't afford too many troops. I want to recruit some soldiers and horses, in fact, it's to scare others, so as not to be robbed by others." Now Schwartz understands that it was bluffing.

"How much will we expand?"

"3000 people ... Schwartz, you take someone to the Italian village to catch the people and say hello to them. When they arrive in Venice, let them come back, and by the way, 'borrow' some food from the peasant."

After Marin brought his army into Venice, he originally planned to do business with the Italians. Initially, he planned to send someone to contact the Italian Coalition. After all, if he brought people into the Empire army station, the disposal of those captives would not belong to him.

However, he was afraid that the Italians would eat them. Therefore, instead of sending people to find coalition forces, he directly sent people to Venice, to find the Venetian Republican government, and negotiate with them.

"What? You say a Holy Roman Empire officer captured 1,000 French knights?" The Governor of Venice was stunned. Then, he convened the merchants of the Venetian Republic urgently to negotiate.

"What does this guy mean? Why tell us the news?" Someone was puzzled.

"It's still a question? Want to exchange them for money with us..." The nobleman in business said the words of Marin's motive.

"Ransom money?"

"Yes, a knight's ransom must be at least 500 Ducat. This guy is here to do business with us..."

"Then why didn't he go with the French himself?"

"Stupid, Antonio. He is just a middle-ranking officer of the Holy Roman Empire army. He looks like a legionnaire (Marin bragging). The captives in his hands must be handed over to the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire."

"What Maximilian I? It's a poor beggar of emperor. When the captive arrived in his hands, what will happened to the ransom and that officer?" Said the Venetian parliament.

"Hahaha ..." Everyone laughed, and they remembered that the Holy Roman Emperor is poor.