The sudden death of Louis XII and the death of the queen caused a severe response in France. After all, Louis XII's way of death was really cowardly and weird.
However, what is more important than this is that Europe has changed!
France is the largest country in Europe (Türkiye is not recognized as a European country). The death of the French king has an extremely huge impact on the political landscape of Europe.
Moreover, there is a problem with the inheritance of the throne in France. Because France does not currently have a heir to be expected. At the same time, no one has ever thought that Louis XII, who was only 52 years old, would suddenly die.
In other words, the throne change in France was hasty and unprepared. After all, all French people knew that Louis XII had been trying to give birth to a prince as the heir to the kingdom. And his son-in-law François I was actually just a spare tire.
Once Louis XII died, François I, the spare tire, would lack foundation. Because Louis XII never trained him as the crown prince, nor allowed him to regard himself as the crown prince.
Therefore, even if he inherited the throne, François I had no foundation. At least, within 1515, François I had to spend his energy to sort out a lot of messy things in France. The most important thing is to integrate French politics and gain the support of most of the great nobles...
Originally, in history, François I was lucky. Because, in the year he ascended the throne, France had basically no strong enemies. Only France could beat others, and no enemy dared to provoke France. Therefore, in history, François I had enough time to integrate the domestic politics and control the overall situation smoothly.
However, in this time and space, due to the intervention of Marin, the time traveler, although Louis XII died more than a month late, France encountered a huge crisis - at this time, France was confronting Spain in the Kingdom of Naples...
In history, after Spain monopolized the Kingdom of Naples because of France's concessions, in return, he did not fight against France for the time being. It was not until Ferdinand II died in 1516 that Charles V of the Habsburg family took over the power of Spain, and Spain continued to fight against France. After all, the Habsburg family had a great hatred between them and France. Moreover, the Principality of Burgundy was not able to recover. When Ferdinand II was alive, he took advantage of the Naples issue and was not far too exciting for France. However, Charles V did not compromise with the French because of the Burgundy issue. Therefore, the two empires then fought a desperate battle. Then, Charles V, who had two major forces in Spain and Austria, won, forcing France to form an alliance with the infidels to protect themselves.
But in this time and space, because Marin threw out the bait of "volcanic ash fertilizer", it stimulated the two major European powers to fight for Naples. Therefore, after Louis XII's death, his son-in-law François I succeeded to the throne in a state of war. Moreover, there was a lack of support from courtiers...
The news came back to Orich, and Marling burst into laughter...
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"Ah haha, that old guy is finally dead!" Marin was extremely happy. Although he was delayed by a month than he expected, he finally died.
Once Louis XII died, François I, the unlucky child, was not well-known and had no foundation. It can be predicted that in a short period of time, France will inevitably be in chaos. This is a good time for Marin to take advantage of the troubled waters.
Marin plans to take the opportunity to do a big vote!
What was Marin doing? Of course, he took the opportunity to weaken France! Marin dared not think about completely destroying France, and it was not in his interest. Because he still needed France to restrain Spain. If France fell completely, Spain would easily step on France's corpse and grow rapidly.
Therefore, after thinking about it, Marin only planned to cheat France once, and did not intend to force France into a dead end.
How to cheat France? Marin doesn't plan to end up in person. However, France has many enemies. If Marin doesn't take action, he can encourage England and Austria to take action...
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In the first step, Marin planned to instigate Goodendorf, a German mercenary general who was previously employed in France, to openly rebel...
Of course, it is not considered a public rebellion, but announcing the termination of the employment contract. Moreover, this is based on evidence!
When Gudendorff signed an employment agreement with France, the employer signed the name of King Louis XII of France, not the Kingdom of France. Marin repeatedly confirmed this.
Now, Louis XII has passed away, that is, in the employment contract, the initiator of the contract, that is, Party A, has passed away. In this way, the employment contract is considered invalid. After all, people cannot be employed by the dead.
Of course, this is not impossible to solve. For example, Gudendorf could renew his contract with the next French king. However, the premise for this situation was that Gudendorf was determined to France and chose this way.
In fact, Goodendorf had long been secretly bribed by Emperor Maximilian I. If it weren't for the fear of damaging reputation and credit, Goodendorf would have wanted to rebel.
After all, he was a mercenary and lived on reputation and credit. If he lost his reputation, no one would be willing to hire his army in the future. Therefore, Goodandolph would rather maintain the status quo and continue to live a "infernal life" than openly rebel.
Before Louis XII died, he actually knew this. But he was also afraid of being too forced, so he pushed Goodendorf to the Habsburg family. Therefore, Louis XII had to drag it like this before. He planned to wait until the matter at hand was finished before solving Goodendorf's affairs. But unexpectedly, before the matter was resolved, Louis XII himself died first...
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If the employer Party A is dead, the employment contract can naturally be terminated. Moreover, it will not affect Party B's reputation.
However, Goodendorph himself did not notice that the signature of Party A on the contract was Louis XII himself, not the Kingdom of France. Therefore, Marin needed to send someone to remind him.
In addition, Marin also needs to remind Emperor Maximilian I. Because, once Goodendorff ends his employment contract with France, His Majesty the Emperor can completely win over this mercenary and help him deal with Switzerland and France...
Just so happens that the French throne has changed, and the newly ascended François I's foundation is unstable. These 16,000 mercenaries can take the opportunity to make trouble. Moreover, they can do something big...
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After Innsbruck received a letter from Marin's flying pigeon, Maximilian I jumped up with joy:
"Great, this is really good news!" Then, His Majesty the Emperor sent someone to send a letter to Gudendorff, asking him to evacuate from Milan and come to Switzerland... Well, accept the public title...
After all, Maximilian I had prepared the baron and fiefdom manor for Gudendorf and his son. Although the manor was not big and there were many mountains (after all, it was a Swiss fiefdom). However, that was also a baron! A baron that could be passed down from generation to generation!
After receiving the emperor's letter, Goodendorff realized that he had the right to end the contract now. Because the employer was dead...
So he did not hesitate - because the employer himself died, the employment contract was automatically terminated. Then, he would take the army back to Germany...
Chapter completed!