Marin achieved his goal, and so many people in the square witnessed the assassination of these family heirs, and he had a reason to take action. Then, more than a dozen banker families in Siena were uprooted. Then, the savings of these families for hundreds of years were naturally embezzled by Marin.
Moreover, after eliminating these bankers, Marin promoted to the public that he only "taken over" the Siena Bank and seized the property of these more than a dozen companies, with a total of more than one million Florence gold coins (equivalent to Ducate gold coins). Moreover, wealth worth hundreds of thousands of Florence gold coins was handed over to the Holy See.
Next, Marin sealed the documents of the Bank of Siena and left three thousand Friesian sailors to garrison the city of Siena. He himself led a large army out of the south gate and headed to Rome with 5,000 Austrian troops outside the south gate.
Of course, shortly after leaving the south gate, Marin divided 3,000 people to the city of Grosseto to search the local wealth. In order to maximize the harvest, Marin transferred a group of officers who had experienced in the search chamber. Grosseto is the second largest city in the Republic of Siena and is also a major transportation hub. Although this city is definitely not as rich as Siena, where bankers gather, it is definitely richer than ordinary cities. Moreover, Grosseto, like Siena, has not experienced war for a long time and has a strong foundation.
However, General Ludwig, the general of the 5,000 Austrian army stationed outside the South Gate, expressed dissatisfaction with Marin not opening the South Gate and letting them into the city to rob. However, Marin had more than 20,000 troops, which was not something he could fight against, so he had to endure.
But after returning to Radikofani, General Ludwig immediately slandered Maximilian I, saying that Marin did not take Maximilian I seriously and robbed Siena, the rich city of Siena, and forgot the emperor's people.
Of course, Maximilian I could not deny this. After all, he was one of the most capable emperors of the Habsburg family. If he had not been ignorant when he was young and had exposed his ambition to unify Germany too early and aroused the opposition of the German princes, he might have really accomplished the unification of Germany. At least, he could have swallowed more territory.
Maximilian I was indeed a little dissatisfied with Marin's failure to let the Austrian army enter the city to participate in the robbery. However, Maximilian I also knew that the Austrian army was just acting and did not really participate in the siege, and there was no reason to go into the city to "pick peaches". Moreover, with Marin's strong strength, Maximilian I would never turn against Marin because of this. However, he still had his own plans...
"What, borrow money?" Marin jumped up in shock. But he forgot that he was lying on the couch to recover from his injuries, so he accidentally pulled the knife wound on his butt egg...
"Aowu--" Marin almost cried in pain.
"Yes, Marin, I heard that you have grabbed more than one million gold coins in Siena this time. How about it? Lend me some? Don't worry, the interest is based on the market price, and it is 10% annual profit." Maximilian I said gently.
As the quasi-emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Maximilian I was well-informed. Marin claimed that he had "searched" more than one million gold coins in Siena, of which only 500,000 were cash, while others were cultural relics, artworks and other goods. Maximilian I did not believe this at all. Because, according to information, the total capital of the Siena Bank alone reached more than 1.5 million gold coins.
You ask Maximilian I why he knew the total assets of the Bank of Siena? Because he also borrowed money from the Bank of Siena. Until now, the Habsburg family still owes Siena Bank 60,000 gold coins.
According to inferred, Maximilian I believed that, however, there was estimated that there were at least hundreds of thousands of gold coins in cash in the Siena bank vault. However, the private possessions of the wealthy families in the city also had more than 200,000 gold coins. Therefore, Maximilian I estimated that Marin should have grabbed more than one million cash...
Of course, poverty limits the imagination of this poor emperor. Siena is not a poor place in the German region. In addition, he has not experienced war for hundreds of years, and his foundation is far more than Maximilian I imagined. In fact, Marin grabbed more than 2.3 million gold coins worth of cash, which was more than doubled than Maximilian I imagined. The main reason was that Marin taught his men to find secret rooms and robbed the hundreds of years of savings of more than a dozen wealthy families in Siena. If this were not the case, Marin would not have been scared to silence.
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Marin was very upset now. He almost forgot that Maximilian I, a quasi-emperor, was a famous poor emperor in Europe! According to historical records, this guy owed a lot of money in his later years and ran to the city of Innsbruck, where he often stayed. As a result, the city refused to open the city gate for him. Then, he had to go to the countryside hut to live. Soon, he died of illness in the mountain hut...
A dignified emperor was forced to hide from debts, which shows that the money he owed others is definitely not a small amount. Therefore, he, the emperor, was poor all his life. It seems that he has no ability to repay...
Originally, with the help of Marin, Maximilian I's finances had improved. However, probably because he was afraid that the Habsburg family would grow too strong, Marin asked Switzerland to conquer the emperor. In the end, in order to deal with the war with the Swiss resistance and the French, the Habsburg family's finances encountered another problem... So, Maximilian I came to borrow money with a thick face... Moreover, as soon as he opened his mouth, he had to borrow 500,000 gold coins, which scared Marin so much that he jumped up and pulled the wound on his butt egg...
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"Your Majesty, you want too much, right? I only robbed so much money this time. You know, I dispatched 25,000 troops this time, and the expenses are scary..."
"I heard that you ransacked the vault of the Bank of Siena. As far as I know, the total share capital of the Bank of Siena has reached more than 1.5 million gold coins. Even if there are many foreign debts that have not been recovered, there is still hundreds of thousands of cash in the vault. In addition, there is always a million gold coins that have been stolen from the homes of the rich in the city, right? I didn't want it all, it only looked half. Moreover, it was not to ask for it, but to borrow it, I gave interest..." Maximilian I said with a smile, revealing Marin's "lie".
"This..." Marlin choked.
But Marin lowered her head, her eyes rolled, and soon came up with the reason:
"Your Majesty, I do 'custody' the vault of the Bank of Siena, but all the things inside have to be handed over to the Holy See. I can't make the decision... If you don't believe it, go and ask the Pope..."
Looking at Marin, who was turning his eyes, Maximilian I also knew that it was not easy to borrow money. However, he sighed and went out first. After all, it took a long time to go to Rome. Moreover, Marin was going to participate in his coronation ceremony in Rome.
But before he arrived in Rome, Marin's ally brother, the future Pope Leo X, Giovanni di Lorenzo de Medici, hurriedly rode a horse to find Marin...
But after coming to the carriage where Marin was, Giovanni di Lorenzo de Medici looked around in a daze:
"Hey, where is my brother Marin? Why don't you see anyone else?"
At this time, Marin's voice came from the carriage next to him:
"Brother Giovanni, I'm in the carriage!"
There is no way. Marin now has a wound on his butt and cannot sit. He can only lie on the floor in the carriage with blankets underneath. But with the windows outside the carriage, he really can't see the Mariner...
"Ouch, brother, what's wrong with you? Why are you lying in the carriage?" Giovanni di Lorenzo de Medici was a little surprised.
"Oh, don't mention it. I was stabbed in the butt, I couldn't sit or ride a horse..."
"Oh hehe...ah, it's really unlucky..." Giovanni di Lorenzo de Medici couldn't help laughing, but quickly stopped.
Then Giovanni di Lorenzo de Medici said to Marin seriously:
"Brother, you've had a big trouble this time!"
"Come in trouble? What's wrong?" Marin was a little surprised.
"You robbed the vault of the Bank of Siena, right? You also killed more than a dozen bankers' families in Siena?" Giovanni di Lorenzo de Medici asked back.
"What? What big shots are there in these dozen families? Can't you kill them?" Marin said curiously. As far as he knew, these dozen families had no big names...
Giovanni di Lorenzo de Medici waved his hand and said:
"It's a trivial matter whether you kill or not. The most important thing is that you snatched all the vaults of the Siena Bank, causing the Siena Bank to go bankrupt. But the problem is that dozens of cardinals in the Holy See have deposits at Siena Bank. If you let the Siena Bank go bankrupt, does not mean that the deposits of those dozens of cardinals have been wasted? So, you offended dozens of cardinals all at once! You said, is this a big disaster?"
Marin was stunned and thought about it carefully. After saying that, the money from the bank was a lot of things he swallowed. Didn’t he make enemies with these big men? He made dozens of cardinals, even if his father-in-law was the pope, he couldn’t stand it...
Chapter completed!