Vladislas II coughed, and seemed to feel embarrassed. Then, he glanced at the side. Uglaui, Earl of Peppa, cleared his throat and said:
"That's right, Grand Duke Marin, we heard that when you received prisoners of war from the Principality of Württemberg, the price you gave was 30 gold coins per household. But why did you reduce it to 10 gold coins per household? Do you think the Hungarians are inferior to the Germans? The Lord taught us that 'God loves the world and everyone is equal'. The Hungarians are also the Lord's people, how can you favor one and the other?"
(Remember wrongly, I originally talked about 10 gold coins per household, but Marin was severely suppressing the price.)
Damn, in order to raise the price, even God has been moved out! Marin was speechless, but this time he had to think about it. In this era, those who are related to God cannot speak nonsense, otherwise they will be unlucky.
Therefore, after thinking about it, Marin said:
"It's not the question of who is nobler than who, but because these Hungarian Magyar prisoners of war do not speak German! In this way, after they are sent to the wild continent, I need to send a large number of teachers to teach them to speak German. In this way, my cost will be high, and each household may spend more than 10 gold coins!"
John Zapollo, the governor of Transylvania, the Kingdom of Hungary, asked curiously:
"Malin, why did you teach those serfs to speak German? Could it be that they still need to know German in their farmland?"
This sentence immediately choked Marin. Logically speaking, in this era, a farmer really didn't need to know any language. After all, he could only know how to cultivate land. Marin's statement was indeed a bit non-mainstream in this era.
Marin glanced at John Zapollo. This guy was the real powerful faction of the Hungarian Kingdom and the confidant of Vladislas II. He led 20,000 troops to the Transylvania border for many years and was on the front line against the Turkish invasion. Originally, in history, John Zapollo brought 20,000 border troops back to aid and defeated the main force of the peasant uprising army of Duolao and George. Then, he joined 20,000 mercenaries in the north and completely eliminated the main force of the peasant uprising army.
Of course, the Hungarians were also lucky. Because at this time, the Ottoman Türkiye was holding back enough to invade Persia and had no energy to take care of the affairs of Europe. Otherwise, Transylvania would be in danger.
John Zapollo's army was somewhat similar to the Liaodong border army in the late Ming Dynasty. It belonged to the elite domestic forces. After all, it was an army that could withstand the Ottoman Turkish invasion, but it was generally unable to leave the border easily.
Fortunately, at this time, the Ottoman Turkey was gathering troops in Asia to prepare to invade Persia. It was not time to pay attention to this side, so John Zabo had a little chance to lead the main force of the border army to eliminate the peasant uprising army. The Liaodong border army of the Ming Dynasty was quite miserable. When the Liaodong border army sent the main force to attack the peasant army, it was about to succeed, but the Later Jin began to attack the border and forced the Liaodong border army back, giving Li Zicheng and other peasant army a chance to breathe and survive. It can be said that the reason why the Ming Dynasty was destroyed was that the tacit cooperation between the peasant uprising army and the Later Jin Dynasty was exhausted. The Qing army was able to enter the pass and slaughter China, and Li Zicheng "makes indestructible"...
Regarding John Zapollo's question, Marin thought about it and replied:
"Governor John, you know that these prisoners of war are the main forces of the rebels. The risk of taking them back is very high and easy to rebel. Therefore, we need to regularly educate them, teach them to be good and obey the rule of the government. After all, they are all criminals with "criminal records."
"But if they don't even understand German, how can they understand the well-intentioned teachings of the people sent by the official? Therefore, I will spend a lot of energy and money to manage these captured mobs after all."
"The German peasants in Wurttemberg are different. I can just send a small official to educate them. But I need to send someone to teach them German first, and then they can understand the education..."
"Of course, I can also send officials who understand Magyar to manage them. However, this generation is too expensive. Moreover, it is easy to make those Magyar mobs disunited and gradually disobey the management of the Beihai Kingdom. Therefore, it is better to educate them to speak German from the beginning, and then integrate into the German group of Beihai Kingdom."
"To be honest, there are too many prisoners of war in Magyar this time, so many that I was a little surprised. Originally, at the price of 10 gold coins per household, I would be under great economic pressure. If it rose to 30 gold coins per household, I could only give up and let you kill them!"
In the end, Marin began to cheat. After all, these days, he was willing to pay for people. If he didn't buy it, these people would either kill the prisoners of war or sell it to others as slaves at an extremely low price...
Now the Hungarian nobles looked at each other...
They were just dissatisfied after hearing about the high price of 30 gold coins per household in Württemberg, and wanted to get the same price. Of course, they could get a lot more after half of the price increase.
However, Marin refused to accept it and even acted like he was shaking the blame. Now they were panicked. After all, at this time, there was no second buyer willing to buy these people.
In fact, Jacob Fuger, who followed Marin, had the intention to buy it. After all, he planned to develop the Tyrol silver mine on a large scale.
But the problem is that Jacob Fuger is not willing to offend Marin easily. So he stood by and said nothing, watching Marin argue with the Hungarian nobles.
The Hungarian nobles adopted the tactic of delay and got together to discuss it. However, the next day, the Hungarian nobles agreed to lower the price slightly, but not too much.
Then, Marin and a group of Hungarian nobles began to confront each other. The living room of the Pace Palace became a battlefield for quarrels.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Marin quarreled with these despicable Hungarian nobles for several days, and finally set a discount price of 20 gold coins per household. It was not that Marin did not want to reduce the price, but the Hungarian nobles also began to cheat. They claimed that if Marin wanted to reduce the price again, they would not be willing to arrest the families of the prisoners of war... Especially the children of the peasant army prisoners of war...
In order to prevent the other party from being really unsatisfied, Marin had to give in and gave 20 gold coins per household.
But this time there were really many prisoners of war. The main force of the peasant uprising army in the South Road alone had 47,800 prisoners of war. The 30,000 rebels in the North Road Army had more casualties than the Southern Road Army because of the fierce battle. A total of 25,000 people were captured, but there were only 22,000 healthy prisoners of war. This is because the battle on the North Road was head-on and speculative means such as croton flour were not used. Therefore, the casualties rate was much higher.
However, the Hungarian Kingdom decided to pick out two thousand officers from these prisoners of war to publicly execute them to shock the people.
In this way, the total number of healthy prisoners of war that could be sold to Marin was 67,800. Together with their families, there were 67,800 households.
This number is a bit beyond Marin's estimate. Because Marin originally expected to buy 50,000 households, but now there are 17,800 more households and the price has increased by 10 gold coins per household, which makes Marin feel a little overwhelmed.
According to the algorithm of 10,000 prisoners of war to replace the commissions sent by the North Sea Kingdom, the additional 57,800 households, each household with 20 gold coins, which means that Marin needs to pay 1.156 million gold coins to the Kingdom of Hungary. This money is almost as close to the annual fiscal revenue of the French royal family, which is more than twice the annual fiscal revenue of the Kingdom of Hungary.
Fortunately, Marin had Jacob Fuger, a banker, help, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to provide the money.
After the bill of exchange for this money was issued, Marin began to command the soldiers of the Second Legion and the Cossack Legion to collect prisoners of war. When the families of these prisoners were caught, they would escort them back to their country together.
However, the Hungarian Kingdom started an internal fight because of this huge wealth of 1.156 million gold coins. After all, this is equivalent to a huge sum of fiscal revenue from the Hungarian Kingdom in more than two years.
Think about it, in the later generations, a country's fiscal revenue was tens of billions of dollars, and tens of billions of dollars were divided up by dozens of nobles... What an exciting thing...
Therefore, in order to seize more share, the Hungarian nobles performed a full martial arts campaign in the palace, competing for more distributions. Of course, there was no sword. However, many nobles were bruised and swollen.
Chapter completed!