Chapter 75: Frundsberg, Father of Mercenaries

Chapter 75: Frundsberg, Father of Mercenaries

After Marin became the superstar of the Empire, a lot of people joined the ranks of Maximillian the First, while there were also a lot of people who specifically rushed to Texel, in order to visit the young superstar Marin.

As such, a lot of young knight-errants had made their way towards Hollands Den Helder from inland Deutsche Germany, and boarded boats towards Texel to visit Marin.

Marin just happened to want to recruit talented people, so he had been patiently accomodating these young men. In reality, each meeting was equivalent to a job interview for Marins visiters.

These guests were majority young people who had not obtained the title of a knight. They had travelled from far and wide, actually because they wanted to obtain insider information, so that they would be able to obtain the official knight title smoothly.

In order to recruit the talents, Marin acted courteously, and enthusiastically received these squires from everywhere, and invited them to visit his own 400 elite underlings.

However, what made Marin depressed was, each of these people were extremely hungry for knowledge. But when Marin offered them to join him, all of them basically politely refused.nove(l)bi(n.)com

It turns out, all of them were dissatisfied with Marins small territory, which means no room for improvement. All of these conceited young men believed they werent lacking in any way compared to Marin.

If Marin could become a Baron, why couldnt they?

Thats why, all of the offers Marin has extended, basically none of those squires accepted, which made Marin extremely depressed. In reality, Marin also had his ways of keeping them here. Which was basically knighting them as official knights of his Barony.

However, Marin was reluctant to do that. Because, knighting someone wasnt something that could be done willy-nilly. The reason why Schwartz could be knighted, aside from his abilities and loyalty, was that he had made contributions to the war effort in Italy, which was also the main reason.

One must know, Schwartz was Marins adjutant in Italy. Besides, the daily military training were all under the direct supervision of Schwartz. As for Marin himself, his only job was to guide Schwartz. If Schwartz was officially knighted, the 400 soldiers wouldnt have any qualms with it.

How could Marin let go of a talent such as him? A university student in the Middle Ages, that was definitely an existence even rarer than pandas! Marin immediately made his decision and nmaed Heiner as the Mayor of Den Burg, as well as the Justice of Texels court. As such, Texel welcomed the first official civil servant after Marins reign.

Heiner himself was extremely delighted. Because, as a man from common roots, even though he had attended university. However, if he went to get a job, he definitely would only land one as a lawyer. As for judges of the court, only those with noble roots may take those positions. Although a lawyer was considered a well-off job, but that wasnt something comparable to an official position.

As such, Heiner was immediately bought and swore under Marin, to assist Marin in processing the management duties of Texel.

Afterwarsd, Marin had continued recruiting several other cultured young men with common-roots, who were given the positions of Mayors to t Horntje and Oudeschild, as well as Salttown.

Just as Marin was currently over the moon from recruiting several cultured young men into his faction, a sentry came reporting yet another young squire was visiting him

After several failures in recruiting, Marin was now completely uninterested in recruiting those shrewd squires. But, when Marin was told of the young mans name, his eyes immediately widened because, the sentry had told Marin the name of the young man who was visiting him, was George Frundsberg.

Who was George Frundsberg? Thats a badass figure who was praised as the Father of Germanic Mercenaries! Marin had read about the related history books about Germanic mercenaries, he knew about Geoge Frundsberg, he was the most important general of the mercenaries under Maximillian the Firsts army in the original timeline, who was also the greatest participant in the Italian war, as well as the terminator of the Legendary Swiss mercenaries.

However, it seems like Frundsberg only started appearing during the Swabian war in 1499. As such, he was still an unknown squire, and was still baesd in the Swabian region, being a soldier under who knows which lord.

As for this great person, Marin had decided to do his best to rope him in. Even if he couldnt recruit him, he would have to establish friendly relations. Because, Frundsberg in the fuutre would become Maximillian the Firsts first-in-command

As such, Marin was immediately at full attention, and with the highest specifications of receiving a noble, he invited George Frundsberg inside