To be honest, Marin was speechless about the princes of the Duchy of Lüneburg. There was clearly such a large grassland, 7,200 square kilometers, which was about thousands of square kilometers larger than the Shanghai Stock Exchange in later generations. Such a large grassland, not to mention being reclaimed into fertile land, at least for grazing?
But the dukes of Lüneburg were not, so they would rather waste their lives than use them. Even in later generations, they still retained the title of "Lüneburg Wasteland".
Of course, there is a salt mine in Lüneburg, so there is no shortage of money. Therefore, the Dukes of Lüneburg, who were not motivated in the past, naturally did not want to develop the prairie well. Just like the coal bosses in later generations, who had mines at home, why did they still have to farm?
Marin coveted this grassland, not because he wanted to do any economic development, but because he regarded it as an important military area.
This grassland is mainly used to raise horses. At the same time, large-scale military exercises can also be carried out. It seems that later NATO troops stationed in Germany often conducted military exercises on this grassland. Especially some tank cluster exercises are often held here. After all, the development level in other parts of Germany is relatively high. It is difficult to find a place where there is no one to do military exercises.
Moreover, the location of the Lüneburg wasteland is very good. This is the hinterland of North Germany and belongs to the core area. If the cavalry is stationed here, it can quickly arrive no matter where it attacks or supports northern Germany. After capturing Lüneburg, the main force of the Cossack cavalry will probably be moved to the Lüneburg wasteland...
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Not to mention the military value of the Lüneburg wasteland, Marin is now supervising his subordinates to search the property of Lüneburg City.
However, because Lüneburg City is an important member of the Hanseatic League, Marin had to treat it carefully. Because Lüneburg City has many important commercial families within the Hanseatic League.
When dealing with these Hanseatic commercial families, Marin had to be cautious and could not rob them casually.
So Marin had to control most of the merchant families in Lüneburg City first. Then, he sent people to Hamburg and Lübeck City to ask them to show a list of those who were to be protected.
Marin's attitude was that all the Lüneburg burger and the burger burger burger wanted to protect were not moved. As for those who did not come forward to protect them... Of course, I have to search...
In this way, Marin finally seized nearly half of the commercial families in Lüneburg City. These families were families with bad relationships with Hamburg and Lübeck, and were mostly vassals of the Welf family. In this way, Marin would have no psychological burden to snatch...
In the end, Marin grabbed property and food worth four million gold coins from the Welf family and nearly half of the merchants in Lüneburg. However, there were about millions of money and food, which were originally snatched by the coalition of the Eight-National Princes from the Beihai Kingdom. Therefore, Marin's subordinates actually grabbed at Lüneburg City, which was only worth more than three million gold coins. But even this number was very scary. After all, in this era, it was very good that the princes could have 100,000 gold coins.
However, Lüneburg has salt mines. In this era, salt was known as "white gold". It has salt mines in hand and has been mined for hundreds of years. It is not surprising that Lüneburg City can find so much money. In fact, if it was connected to more than half of the Lüneburg merchant family, the total value would have easily exceeded 5 million gold coins. However, in order to maintain friendly relations with the Hanseatic alliance, Marin still held back. After all, a little unbearable situation would cause chaos. Besides, Marin was not short of money...
Although the Hanseatic Alliance is a group of cities, each city has limited strength. However, it accumulates in small quantities. When the Hanseatic Alliance gathers together, it is also an important political force that cannot be ignored. At present, Marin annexes eight vassal states require diplomatic support. Therefore, he cannot get into evil with the Hanseatic Alliance. Moreover, there is no need.
Therefore, after searching and disposing of the merchant family of the Welf family, Marin stopped pursuing the city of Lüneburg. Anyway, the money and food he found were enough to squander him.
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After completing the search of Lüneburg City, Marin left only part of the army and then led most of the army to continue south.
However, this time he went south, Marin no longer gathered 30,000 troops to go south. In order to pursue efficiency, Marin divided the army into 6 parts - he personally led 15,000 people to continue to go south, heading straight to Wolfenbettel, the capital of the Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbettel.
As for the remaining people, except for two thousand people left to continue to station in Lüneburg, the rest were divided into five groups - one group to Detmold, the capital of Liperber, one group to Bentheim-Techlenburg, the down payment of Techlenburg, the capital of Ravensburg, the capital of Bielefeld, the other group to Geldenberg, and the other group to Ritberg, the capital of Ritberg...
Of course, the group who went to Bielefeld had another mission - sending people to capture the basic plate of Count Antonios Schaumburg...
However, except for Marin, there were many people, each of the other five armies. After all, the ones they captured were only two or three thousand soldiers.
The domestic army of these small countries was originally brought out by the princes to attack the Beihai Kingdom. Those who stayed in their country were all crooked and jujubes, with a few kittens. Any two or three thousand people could be conquered.
Only Wolfenbittle, an important city, was the old nest of Henry, the leader of the North Sea National League, and its defense was no less than that of the city of Lüneburg. It is said that there were more than 3,000 regular army guards in the city. In addition to the recruitment of civilians, the number of defenders was estimated to exceed 10,000.
Therefore, Marin planned to lead more people and lead the main force south to siege Wolfenbittle.
In addition, there is a mining city in Goslar, which Marin attaches great importance to.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! The Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbirth is similar to the Principality of Brunswick-Lüneburg, both of which make money by mining. The difference is that the Principality of Brunswick-Lüneburg mainly relies on mining salt to make money, while the Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbirth is mainly produced by silver, copper, lead and gold produced by the Lammersberg mine near Goslar (Europeans did not yet refine zinc at this time). As the most important silver-producing area in northern Germany, Goslar has always been the money tree in the hands of the Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbirth. It is said that in order to ensure the safety of Goslar, not only the capital Wolfenbirth City had been replaced with the Iron City Gate, but Goslar was also replaced with the Iron City Gate to avoid being easily captured by the enemy...
I don’t know what Duke Henry thought. It was obvious that the Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbitel was already strong enough, so he insisted on provoking the North Sea Kingdom. How can I say that human greed is endless...
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Just as Marin was heading south, Charlie, Earl of Gelden, who escaped by chance in the southwest, was instructing his men to pack up valuable property and load them together, intending to transport them away...
"Sir, why do we run away? Can't we wait for Lord Frederick and the others to come back to justice?" asked a personal guard of Count Charles in confusion.
Charlie, Earl of Gelden, shook his head and said:
"I also want to wait for Lord Frederick and others to come back to support justice, but I'm afraid I won't be able to wait for that time..."
His spies had already reported that the city of Lüneburg was captured by Marin's army in a special way...
This news made Count Charles frightened. He knew that the rich Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg had specially replaced the city of Lüneburg with heavy cast iron gates, which were as solid as it was. Such a solid iron gate was removed by Marin in less than half a day, not to mention the city of Gelden, which had much lower defense than Lüneburg?
Count Charles was worried that before Frederick III and others came back, he would be captured by Marin's army and become a prisoner...
Moreover, he was worried that the coalition of vassals formed by Saxony Elector Frederick III and others might not be able to defeat the army under Marin.
So, for safety reasons, he simply asked someone to load the only gold, silver and treasures left by the Kingdom of Geldenberg together, intending to go to France to take refuge...
Charles Earl of Gelden was an ally of the French. It was with the support of the French that the Principality of Gedes was restored and became a vassal of the German powers. Later, although the Principality of Gedes was defeated and had to ced most of the territory, France did not completely abandon him, but said that if he was finished, he could come to France to take refuge...
Now that the Kingdom of Geldenbo is almost over, he thought of this and planned to take refuge in France.
As long as he escaped to France, Marin did not have the courage to send troops to France to capture him...
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Just the day after Earl Gelden's ship left Gelden, Marin's dispatched troops arrived at Gelden City...
As Marin expected, the capitals of these little Bo Kingdoms were basically wooden gates. Marin assigned the blasters to each army, first burning the oak gate with the gasoline after blending, and then blasting, breaking the gate. As for the three or two kittens left in the city, they could not handle the two or three thousand enemies, so they could only surrender...
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And Marin's side was also very smooth. Because when he besieged Wolfenbitel and Goslar, he was surprised to find that these two cities, like Lüneburg, did not pile up bricks, stones, logs or other debris in the gate hole behind the Iron City Gate. As long as the door latch is corroded, the city gate can be pushed open directly...
Therefore, Marin's army easily captured the two cities of Wolfenbitel and Goslar, and completed the most important occupation of the Brunswick-Wolfenbitel Principality. Moreover, the old foundation accumulated by these two cities over hundreds of years also made Marin eat enough and almost "eat" them. In these two cities, Marin seized property worth more than 5 million Goulden gold coins...
Chapter completed!