King of German Mercenaries

Because he often went to the North City Horse Farm to practice his martial arts and body, Marin found that his time was a bit short. In the past, Prime Minister Geoffrey had to deal with the affairs of the country, write down his opinions, and then give it to himself for review. However, this is too much trouble. Every day, Marin has to work for a long time, giving various instructions.

Although, because the country of East Frisian Country is small, there are not too many affairs, but it is inseparable from people every day. Every time Marin came back from an errand, he had to deal with a mountain of official documents.

Moreover, currently the only civil servants in East Frisian who can do it are Geoffrey and Haider. Both of them were college students in the Middle Ages, very good. It is precisely because of this that Marin was not willing to dispose of the "former official" Jeffrey, but retained it.

As for Haider, another college student, Marin needed him to manage the law and serve as the Lord Chancellor. Dealing with various cases in the country, things are no less than Jeffrey. Therefore, Marin could not transfer Haider from the court to share government affairs.

Before, it is not that Marin did not want to recruit talents in the past. However, because Marin had not been recognized by the countries before this, coupled with the threat of the powerful Duchy of Saxony, no one was willing to take refuge in Marin, the Count whose future was uncertain.

When Marin defeated the army of the Duchy of Saxony, someone finally recognized Marin...

At the end of June, the first batch of wandering knights who took the initiative to take refuge finally arrived...

Marin received them with great joy, and then arranged them into the army for three months of acclimatization training, and then planned to let them take over the positions of some company captains that the officers had previously held.

Moreover, Philip, head of the National Congress of the Teutonic Knights, also sent a group of young wandering knights who had just arrived in the Teutonic Kingdom to solve the problem of insufficient officers for Marin.

As a result, the total number of wandering knights in Marin's hands exceeded 60, which was completely sufficient. After all, now a company has 250 people, and 10,000 people only have 40 companies. In other words, for 40 company captains, 40 people are enough.

However, for the more than 30 new arrivals, Marin intends to select 18 outstanding performers based on their performance during the three-month training period and add them to those companies. The rest were temporarily added to the militia as company captains.

After all, Marin had to take battle damage into account. In this war, because of coincidence, Marin won a big victory, and no middle and senior officers were killed. If the next time you are unlucky and encounter the death of a middle and senior officer, it will be difficult to find a replacement in a hurry. Therefore, it is necessary to use those wandering knights who are not selected as spare tires. Once the company captain of the regular army suffers casualties next time, you can directly select excellent substitutes from the militia company captains to avoid the vacancy of the commander.

In fact, a company should preferably have two company captains. But Marlin doesn't have that luxury now, so he has to equip one first. It happens that there are 20 substitutes now, and they can be replenished at any time, but they are not worried about the shortage of personnel.

However, what Marin lacks most now is a level of civil servants. Who was the best in the Middle Ages? Naturally, there are very few college students in this era.

The whole of Europe, the universities of this era, the whole of Europe, is only 80 (including some purely theological schools). Moreover, in the universities of this era, the number of students enrolled is very small, with only a few hundred to a thousand students per university. Unlike later generations, a university has tens of thousands of people at every turn...

Not only that, at least half of the people in the university are missionaries from the church. Copernicus, for example, is a member of the Polish Catholic Church.

The other half of the students are mostly from noble families, and a few are children of wealthy merchants or children of large landowners. In short, none of them belonged to ordinary people.

Moreover, the entire German region is also the University of Prague (Kingdom of Bohemia), University of Vienna (Principality of Austria), University of Heidelberg (Electoral State of the Palatinate), University of Cologne (Electoral State of Cologne), University of Leipzig ( Electorate of Saxony), University of Rostock (co-founded by the Duke of Mecklenburg and the Hanseatic city of Rostock), University of Munich (Duchy of Bavaria), University of Tübingen (Duchy of Württemberg), University of Freiburg (by Haab Created by members of the Fort family,

At first it belonged to the Austrian sphere of influence and was located in the Swabian League area)...and more than a dozen universities.

These schools add up to no more than 10,000 people. Among them, nearly half of the college students are missionaries serving the church. The other half of the students, many of whom are nobles with inheritance rights, will definitely go back to inherit titles and fiefs after graduation.

Only those aristocratic students who do not have the right to inherit, as well as those civilian students who came from businessmen and big landowners, are the ones whose future is uncertain.

However, there were so few college students in the Middle Ages that they were as rare as giant pandas. Even if he is a commoner, as long as he is a college student, there are always nobles who are willing to win over him.

Therefore, these college students in the Middle Ages have no worries at all, and only the nobles send people to win over them. Therefore, it is unlikely that college graduates will take the initiative to join Marin. Like Haider being pulled over by Marin, it was purely because Haider was idle and had nothing to do. He went to Texel for a tour, and was caught by Marin.

Today, Haider is also a hereditary knight, and he has completed the transformation from a commoner to a noble. And, crucially, his title can be hereditary...

And generally speaking, those college students who came from commoners can be named nobles by those great nobles who admire them, but at most they are just knights that cannot be hereditary. Because, no matter what aristocrat, it would not be easy to confer a title like a baron on a college student from a commoner.

Marin is also opportunistic, specifically listing titles such as hereditary jazz, which is also convenient for rewarding civil servants. In fact, hereditary knights are not as affordable as barons. Because, jazz generally do not have fiefs. Even if you own land, it's not tax-exempt. At most, hereditary knights, as aristocratic class, have some honorary privileges. Therefore, even if he awarded a few more hereditary knights, Marin was not distressed. Because jazz belongs to the category of civil servants, it is difficult to obtain fiefs. Generally speaking, only military exploits can be exchanged for fiefs. Of course, if the civil servants were enshrined to the title of baron, they could also have fiefs, such as Kohler. However, whether the civil baron of the court department has a fief or not depends purely on Marin's mood, and there is no guarantee. Unlike the baron who was exchanged for military exploits, he must have a fief.

In fact, there are special reasons why Marin doesn't have college graduates to vote. Because, as a red stick thug under Emperor Maximilian I, Marin was naturally not the same as most of the princes.

Except for the two universities in Austria, the princes where other universities are located will definitely not say good things about Marin. Some princes who were hostile to Marin even sent people to spread Marin's bad remarks and deliberately smeared Marin.

For example, at the University of Leipzig in Saxony, there is a legend that Marin is a murderer, and it is also rumored that Marin likes to cut and cook children... Now, in Saxony, the name Marin, It has almost become synonymous with demons, and it can be scary enough to stop a child from crying...

In the Middle Ages where information was underdeveloped, such rumors were very powerful. Marin didn't even know what it was like to be smeared by those princes. If I give an example, Marin is now like the three fat brother who was hacked by the Americans before his rebirth... Moreover, what is even worse is that the three fat brother does have a lot of black spots on his body, and it is normal to be hacked. And Marin is a promising young man who is much better than the nobles of his generation, and he was also hacked out...

In order to make it easier for himself, Marin first asked Kohler to send a group of people to the nearby University of Cologne to recruit graduates, but they were all rejected...

Then, Kohler's men heard a lot of bad remarks against Marin in Cologne. Moreover, the remarks against Marin circulating at the University of Cologne are considered light. After all, the Archbishop of Cologne was less hostile to Marin. Unlike the Duke of Saxony, who was hostile to Marin, he turned Marin into a super perverted murderer at Leipzig University...

Seeing that his subordinates could not attract college students, Marin had to find the Chief Justice of East Frisian Heidel Lerman, and asked him to help poach people at the University of Cologne in the name of alumni...

In order to stimulate Haider, Marin promised that every time Haider dug up a graduate of the University of Cologne, he would get a "referral fee" of 500 gold coins. Moreover, if he gets more than 20 people, Marin will canonize the second son of Haider, who has no right of inheritance, as a non-hereditary ordinary knight, ranking among the nobles... Of course, Marin also promises that he will never let anyone replace Haider. the position of the Chancellor. Unless, Haider is elevated...

Stimulated by this, Haider took a group of his subordinates and ignored the trial of the case, and went directly to the University of Cologne, where he began to lobby and fool the students...

In order to help Haider support the scene, Marin gave Haider a lot of gold coins as activity funds, so that he didn't have to save money and feasted on the students. In order to improve the quality of the banquet, Marin even sent two palace chefs to help Haider make delicious dishes, and ensure that Haider's apprentices will eat delicious food...

Not only that, Marin also arranged for 10 knight officers with good martial arts, wearing polished half-body plate armor, posing as guards, following Haider all day long, with a strong momentum, increasing the force...

In addition, Marin also allowed Haider to offer a very exciting salary, in order to impress the students of ordinary backgrounds and encourage them to work in East Frisian.

Marin is not bad for money, and if he can recruit college students from the Middle Ages, it is not a measure of money. Those college students who came from commoner families and small noble families are easily moved by high treatment. Moreover, the civil service system of East Friesland is seriously understaffed. In addition to impressing those college students with high pay, those civil service positions that are actually vacant there are also very attractive...