Under normal circumstances, the lord, Duke Ulrich, cannot arrest the people under his rule at will unless those people violate the law or resist taxes. Generally speaking, the farmers arrested in this era are mostly due to taxes. After all, the nobles are poor, and the serfs are even poorer.
Of course, the nobles also have the right to arrest those peasants who dare to rebel. They can even hang them. But Europe does not have a precedent to kill all the uprisingers. At most, a group of people who led the leader will be hung or burned to death. As for the majority of people who rebel, they are generally either exiled or fined a lot of money. As for confiscation of all property or something, it is a basic operation. As for killing them all like Bai Qi, it is unlikely to kill them. Even in ancient China, which was really useless to do anything, Bai Qi's behavior was condemned.
What's more, in Christian doctrine, forgiveness is an important basic principle. But the nobles also have their own ways - I cannot kill those who rebel, but I can exile them!
The most brutal monarch of Europe in later generations especially liked to exile opponents to the extremely cold Siberia, leaving them on the verge of being frozen to death. Later, the Soviet Union also inherited this policy, and a large number of prisoners were exiled to Siberia, and even the last Tsar family was among them.
Of course, the British did the same. Back then, after the British occupied the east coast of North America, they also regarded North America as a place of exile. The initial immigrants to North America were composed of Puritans and exiled prisoners. Because they were rebellious descendants, the American people in later generations were very rebellious and perverse...
But for the German princes, it seems unlikely that they would exile the prisoners. Because everyone's territory is very small, there is really no desolate place to exile the prisoners. Even the peasant uprisings have been one after another because the land is not divided enough, so where is there room for exiling the prisoners? And when they stay in the country, there is no extra land to be distributed to them...
Therefore, before Marin wanted to buy those peasant uprising prisoners, several lords of Breschgao were actually very troubled by the handling of those peasant prisoners of war. So, they wanted to secretly sell the people to Marin.
But selling people is illegal, and it will be unlucky if it is spread. Fortunately, Marin has a wide range of knowledge and immediately came up with the excuse of "exiling on behalf of others" and solved all problems.
Moreover, exiling those rebels to the wild continent where "venomous snakes, poisonous mosquitoes and beasts" is also a deterrent to the farmers who dare to participate in the uprising.
According to the scale of the previous peasant riots, about 8,000 middle-aged peasants participated in the riots. If the army was mobilized to capture them all, they could get less than 8,000 prisoners of war. But Marin had a big appetite, and Duke Ulrich was also not satisfied with such a "commodity".
Therefore, according to the characteristics of the peasant uprising army that likes to carry out peasants wherever they pass, Marin helped Duke Ulrich formulate a vicious plan of "stricken disasters from the east" and "killing people with a knife".
The so-called disaster-stricken way is to use the methods of blocking and driving the peasant uprising army to drive the behind-the-scenes planners to the places they want them to go. As long as they are not in their own territory, they will do whatever they can.
"Borrowing a knife to kill people" is more terrifying. These peasant uprising troops are not gentlemen who know etiquette, but bandits who robbed everywhere. Once they are driven to certain manors, looting the food and wealth of the manor is a basic operation. Even the owner of the manor may be killed.
Once the little noble, who is the owner of the manor, is killed, then Duke Ulrich, as the monarch of the vassal state, has reason to take the manor to his own.
In this way, after the peasant uprising was pacified, Duke Ulrich could make a fortune by taking back many of the manors whose owners died.
Moreover, all the property robbed by the peasant uprising army before would be seized by Duke Ulrich's army. In addition to having to divide a small portion to the soldiers of the army, most of them were owned by Duke Ulrich.
Therefore, if Duke Ulrich operates well in this peasant uprising, he can make a fortune.
Duke Ulrich obviously realized this, so after Kohler explained it to him, he was so excited that he couldn't help himself.
However, he finally had no confidence in how to let the peasant uprising army wander according to his plan. After all, you must first stop the attack of the peasant uprising army. If you can't stop, the peasant army will go wherever you want, and maybe it will specifically harm Ulrich's own fiefdom manor. If you are not careful, you may get rid of this matter and then kill yourself.
Fortunately, Kohler expressed his opinion on behalf of Marin and expressed his willingness to send 7,000 mercenaries to settle in the Duke of Württemberg as an ordinary mercenary. Then, a defensive fortress was built on the border area of ​​Duke Ulrich's own fiefdom to prevent the peasant uprising troops from rushing into the Duke's own fiefdom. Of course, we must also take into account the interests of the nobles under the Duke's confidant. Then, as for the interests of other nobles, Duke Ulrich said - I care about him to die...
Moreover, the more unlucky the nobles who were against him, the happier he was. Because the benefits lost by those unlucky nobles were mostly owned by him in the end...
After the two sides reached an agreement, Kohler rushed back without stopping.
According to the agreement reached between the two parties, after Kohler returns, he will send 7,000 elite soldiers to build bunkers similar to noble artillery towers in the border area of ​​the fief of Duke Ulrich to guard the security of the Duke's private territory. Of course, some people will also help guard the fiefs of the Duke's close ministers and the nobles who support the Duke.
At the same time, Duke Ulrich would also organize his nobles to gather troops in the territory and drive away the peasant uprising troops as planned. The peasant uprising troops would roam according to the route he set and harm the territories of the nobles who were inconsistent with the duke...
In the end, the ending was that the peasant army followed the routes scheduled by the duke and harmed the little nobles and landlords along the way, but in the end they were "black and eaten" by Duke Ulrich. Marin got tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of people as he wished, and used them to develop American colonies.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! According to Marin's estimate, after this uprising, he would be able to obtain at least tens of thousands of immigrants. With these people, he not only developed the land in the later New Jersey. He could expand inland to the west, or establish colonial sites in other coastal areas.
However, when entering and leaving the colonies to prevent others from being intervened, Marin prefers to resettle these tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of immigrants on the coastline to achieve the goal of completely controlling the eastern coast of the United States in later generations and not giving other countries the opportunity to take advantage of the situation.
But the North American colonies were so large that tens of thousands of people could not make any waves. So Marin made up his mind that this time, he would find a way to get more than 100,000 people from the Principality of Württemberg, even at a high price.
But as soon as he made up his mind, he realized a serious problem - it seems that he didn't have much money in his hands...
Of course, this does not mean that Marin is poor. Marin is very rich, but most of its property exists in the form of grain and liquor. Marin really wants to sell all these property and exchange it for cash. However, Europe has a limited amount of gold and silver, and it also costs a lot of money to purchase Indian spices and other Middle Eastern goods every year. Therefore, Europe is now short of money. Similarly, Marin is also short of money now.
Just like this time when purchasing the population, although Marin only needs to pay less than half of the cash, the rest is paid with food and other goods. But if the total population reaches more than 100,000, the total transaction volume may reach more than 1 million gold coins. Even if less than half of it needs to pay cash, it will still cost hundreds of thousands of gold coins...
Chapter completed!