The German princes in Basel knew very well that if there were walls blocking them, they still had hope to fight against Marin. After all, they had 37,000 people in their hands. Although they could not defeat the Beihai army in the wild, they could survive by relying on the walls.
However, once the city is broken, the role of the city wall will be gone. At that time, it depends on the actual combat effectiveness. The coalition forces of the princes are well aware of this and know that the coalition forces are definitely not the opponent. What's more, there are 20,000 Habsburg families in the south of the city.
In desperation, Frederick III, the electorate of Saxony, had to take all the princes out of the city from the exploded north gate and come to the Marin formation again to ask for peace talks. Of course, it was said that it was peace talks, but in fact it was a peace talk.
Seeing the dozens of princes present, Malin had the urge to tie these people up as meat tickets. However, he still suppressed this idea.
If he really did that, the church princes would not be able to turn against each other. In addition, the French would definitely stop the Italian plan and solve him first.
At this time, Marin was not able to fight against the consortium of French and German princes. Even if Marin survived the enemy's crazy counterattack, he would probably not be able to eat the vassal states. At that time, the Habsburg family might be cheaper. After all, Maximilian I was more advantageous than Marin. In addition, Frenzberg also learned the training methods of the North Sea Kingdom. Once there was enough money and food to expand the army, the Habsburg family could become Marin's strong enemy...
Therefore, Malin suppressed the ambition in his heart and greeted the princes politely with a spring breeze on his face...
"Oh, what a peerless genius! Unfortunately, it's not ours..." Looking at Marin with a warm smile, Frederick III felt very moved.
After both sides sat down, Jokiem I, the Elector of Brandenburg, suddenly asked:
"Mr. Marin, I want to know how you destroyed the North City Gate. We were covered in iron plates on the city gate, and even shelling was difficult to solve. Also, how could the city gate be burned so easily?"
The Hohenzollern family has always been martial. Jokiem I was puzzled by the fact that the North Gate was broken so quickly, so she simply asked directly before the negotiations began.
Marin rolled his eyes when he heard this - you guys, I will tell you such a secret?
So, Marin gave a fake answer...
"Well... maybe the iron sheet of the iron plate covering the north gate is too thin. I sent someone to cover the car with the iron shed to the front of the city gate, and used a mine pick to chisel the iron sheet on the city gate. Then, with flammable weeds, oil, and..."
"Sulphur isn't we all smelled!" Jokim I said confidently. After all, the scent of sulfur burns very much. Standing on the top of the city, you can smell it from afar.
Marin nodded, but was filled with joy - this "assistance" is great. I just want you to notice sulfur and ignore the varieties of "oil". Of course, I won't tell the truth... As for nonsense, "chising iron sheets with mine picks", Marin was not worried about being exposed. Because after the city gate was burned by the fire, the iron sheets of tinplate had long been deformed under high temperature burning, and it was impossible to see how they had been destroyed before. Even if the princes wanted to verify it, it would be difficult to do...
Then, in order to further fool the princes, Ma Lin said with a lucky look:
"Maybe it's good luck, you know, it's winter now, it's dryer. After the iron sheet on the city gate was chiseled open, the fire was too big, so the city gate was burned. In fact, I didn't expect that the city gate could really burn it. Maybe the quality of the wood in this city gate was not good... Originally, I planned to use a cannon to bombard the city gate after burning for a while. When the hole was blasted out, I stuffed the powder barrel and exploded the door, but I didn't expect..."
The dozens of princes present suddenly had their noses crooked - they were paralyzed, we were so lucky...
Then, they thought again - it seems that the iron sheet should be thicker for the city gate in the future, otherwise it would be bad if it was easily chiseled open... They didn't know that no matter how thick the iron sheet was, it would be useless, and the pure iron gate would be useless. In front of Wang Shui, all the metal was a cloud...
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Next, the negotiations became much easier. Because they were afraid of being destroyed by Marin, the princes did not dare to pretend to be compared this time. They just symbolically protested for Marin's attempt to annex the eight vassal states, and then there was no further text. After all, "My fellow Taoist who died will not die" is just as common in Europe.
Of course, Marin promised that the titles and titles of the eight princes would not be abolished and their status as a great nobleman were retained. However, their fiefdom would have nothing to do with them in the future.
Then, it was time to fight for the treatment. Marin, as agreed, was willing to give very little money to support the great nobles at the beginning. That little money was probably not enough for the Baron family.
At this time, Frederick III, the leader of the princes, "stand up" and argued with Marin. In the end, Marin was impressed by Frederick III's "righteousness" and agreed to increase the treatment tenfold, so that the eight princes who lost their rights could continue to spend money in the future. Of course, their scope of activities would definitely be limited, so that they would not cause trouble in the future.
There is only one exception - that is Frederick III's brother-in-law Henry, Duke of Lüneburg.
After discussing the treatment of the eight princes, Frederick III suddenly proposed to buy the land of the former Geldenberg for 200,000 gold coins to resettle the family of Duke Henry, the brother-in-law of the Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Moreover, it was Geldenberg, which was not controlled by the North Sea Kingdom of Marin...
Marin pretended to be unhappy at first, but after Frederick III's "hard-hearted" persuasion, he finally agreed to hand over control of the Kingdom of Geldenberg to Duke Henry for 300,000 gold coins.
Some other princes originally wanted to plead for the other seven captured princes. After all, the nobles married each other, and the other seven princes also had many in-laws. However, they all retreated when they saw that they wanted so much money. You should know that the reason why Frederick III was that in addition to his status as an electoral prince, Saxony's electorate was well-developed and rich in business. They did not have that much money to buy fiefs for their relatives, so they could only secretly bless their unlucky relatives... Of course, they didn't know that Marin would not accept Frederick III's money in private...
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After the two sides agreed, Marin left the army and led a group of nobles, under the protection of 1,000 lancers, rode north to Wolms to attend the temporary imperial meeting held by Archbishop Uli, Mainz, to discuss the issue of the annexation of the eight vassal states by the North Sea. Of course, because Frederick III helped his brother-in-law buy the Kingdom of Geldenberg, Marin is now annexation of the seven countries...
Because they had discussed it, there was no trouble in this meeting. Even the secular princes who opposed Marin compromised, what else could the neutral church princes say? As for the Imperial Free City Complex (the most important one is the Hanseatic Alliance), its chief and deputy leader are allies of the Beihai Kingdom, so how could they oppose it? Even if there are a few Hanseatic cities such as Bremen in the country to oppose it, most of the imperial cities support Marin...
Then, in this temporary meeting of the Empire held in the winter of 1512, the princes of each family approved the vassal of Marin with more than two-thirds of the votes of approval (7 princes and 8 vassals. Because Count Antonios had both the Kingdom of Schaumburg and Ravensburg). Moreover, the Duke of Henry, who obtained the Kingdom of Geldenbo, was also paid 300,000 gold coins by Frederick, the Elector of Saxony for three generations...
After obtaining the approval of the Imperial Parliament, Marin truly completed the annexation of eight feudal states of the seven princes. After that, if someone asks for trouble, Marin can use the written documents recognized by the Imperial Parliament to talk about the matter.
After the goal was achieved, Marin didn't talk nonsense and began to withdraw his troops after returning to Basel. Next, Marin's first task was to digest and absorb the eight vassal states, making it an inseparable part of the North Sea Kingdom.
Chapter completed!