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Chapter 513 Big Fat Special

This terrifying demolition lasted for half a month, and the prosperous Vittenburg was demolished in a mess. Of course, Marin was still conscientious. After the demolition, no torch burned Vittenburg.

However, European architectural structures are different from ancient China. The main structure of the Old Summer Palace is a wooden house, so it is naturally very easy to catch fire. Most European houses are stone houses, so it is not easy to burn them. This often happens - the wooden floors and furniture inside the stone house are burned out, but the main body of the house is fine. Because the main body of the house is stone. Although it is burned black by the fire, it just stands...

Although there was no fire, Vittenberg was also being tortured at this time. Kahn was a violent man, and demolition was naturally violent. Marin saw many times that in order to remove the gold and silver inlayed on furniture such as chairs, Kahn directly raised his hands and axe to the furniture without saying a word... After getting apart, he asked his subordinates to cut off the gold and silver decorations... It was so rough...

Fortunately, European aristocrats did not pay attention to the use of precious woods such as rosewood or yellow rosewood like in ancient China. Generally, furniture was made of oak and pine. Therefore, furniture itself was not valuable, just before the gold and silver decorations on it. Therefore, those furniture without gold and silver inlays were preserved. Otherwise, furniture made of precious woods such as rosewood and yellow rosewood might be empty... By then, maybe those aristocrats would not even have a chair or a bed left...

Because the demolition was too thorough, Kahn's demolition brigade had harvested too much supplies. In addition to the gold coins, silver coins, gold and silverware, Kahn took his men to remove many bronze statues. What embarrasses the heirs of Saxony's Elector is that Kahn removed the bronze statue of Frederick III...

As a very capable and famous general election emperor in the Saxony Electoral State, Frederick III was naturally very popular. So, Frederick III's subordinates joined hands with the Saxony Hanseatic merchants to create a bronze statue and erected it in the palace of Vittenberg.

Unexpectedly, the statue looked very valuable because it used hundreds of pounds of copper and looked very valuable. Kahn took action himself, broke the base of the stone by talking about the sledgehammer, and then carried the bronze man weighing six or seven hundred pounds away alone.

John originally planned to protest, but when he saw Kahn carrying the bronze man weighing six or seven hundred pounds alone, he was frightened and stood there, forgetting to protest against Kahn, the pervert. Of course, he didn't have the courage to provoke a peerless murderous man like Kahn...

In addition to Nasi's gold, silver and bronze ware, Kahn and others also moved away many precious statues according to the instructions. As well as a large number of oil paintings collected in royal palaces and noble residences. The paintings that can be collected by the royal family and great nobles must be of high level. Moreover, many of them are oil paintings handed down by the nobles, which are the only basis for future generations to commemorate their ancestors, and many of them are treasures. To a certain extent, these oil paintings that preserve the appearance of their ancestors are similar to tablets of orientals. For those European nobles who value the glory of family inheritance, the importance of these oil paintings is no less than that of tablets...

The oil paintings of several generations of the Weiting family were snatched away by Kahn, which made John so angry that he almost fainted. However, Marin also told John - want oil paintings of his ancestors? You can negotiate during negotiations and exchange for things...

Because he snatched too many works of art, especially those bulky sculptures, this resulted in Kahn's demolition. If it were in an ordinary inland city, so many things might not be able to be transported. Where is Vittenberg? It is an important port in the middle reaches of the Elbe River...

Therefore, Marin could borrow the inland boats from Hamburg to bring all the materials and artworks on the ship back to East Friesland. If it were replaced with a carriage, Marin might not have a way to take away so many things. However, with the help of a large number of inland boats from Hamburg, it would be much easier to transport these "demolition results". Under the pressure of the swords and guns of the East Friesland army, the farmers near Vittenburg honestly carried the looted property in Vittenburg to the riverside pier outside the city of Vittenburg and loaded them away.

According to the evaluation of the professional auctioneer on Hamburg, the total value of the property robbed by the East Friesian army from Vittenburg was as high as 2 million Goulden gold coins. Of course, this refers to the property, grain, etc. that was dismantled by the demolition brigade, not counting the gold and silver coins and gold and silver jewelry seized by Marin.

Mainly, gold, silver, coins and ornaments are very valuable materials. Moreover, gold and silver do not occupy much land, so Marin can completely let his subordinates carry them on a carriage. As for those loading and transporting them back, they are actually relatively bulky and difficult to carry.

In fact, in this robbery, Marin only ransacked gold and silver coins worth 300,000 Goulden gold coins from the palace and the treasury, which was not a lot. Of course, in this era, nobles who could afford 300,000 gold coins were all very rich. Even Marin was at this level. Because Marin's wealth was mostly grain, and there was no discount. When money was needed, he still needed to sell grain.

However, copying the residences of the nobles and merchants in the city of Vittenburg gave Marin a huge surprise... because Kahn's demolition team copied 800,000 gold coins worth gold...

It’s no wonder that the European banking industry has not yet emerged this day, and these nobles and merchants have nowhere to save money. Of course, it’s best to have banks, so Marin directly sends troops to copy the bank vault, which is even more direct.

In this era, European aristocrats and merchants also had the habit of putting a lot of money at home. Only some aristocrats and merchants were involved in lending business and took out some of the money to lend money, but most of the aristocrats and merchants were still kept at home. So, this was cheaper. The wealth accumulated by some families for generations was directly snatched away by Kahn and the demolition brigade...

In addition, the gold, silver and jewelry that Kahn and his demolition brigade forcefully cut from the furniture and statues was also worth 500,000 gold coins according to rough estimates...

In general, this time the robbery of Vittenburg was worth more than 1.6 million Goulden gold coins. Including those supplies and property worth 2 million Goulden gold coins, this time the robbery of Vittenburg, Marin's profit was as high as 3.6 million Goulden gold coins, which was absolutely super profitable!

Of course, when conquering Vittenberg, Marin also needs to reward his subordinates. Therefore, Marin plans to take out 400,000 gold coins... to reward his subordinates.

Cash and gold, silver and jewelry can do a lot, and Marin is reluctant to give it to the soldiers. Of course, it is not a small amount of cash. Marin's decision was to take out cash worth 100,000 gold coins (mainly the small silver coins with low value and inconvenient transportation) and distribute it to the soldiers. In addition, after returning, he would sell the property worth 300,000 gold coins and distribute it to the soldiers according to the credit.

In this way, Marin can also retain cash worth 1 million Goulden gold coins, gold, silver and jewelry worth 500,000 gold coins, and various property worth 1.7 million gold coins...

Anyway, Marin is making a lot of money...

In fact, Marin never dreamed that a robbery of Vittenberg would have such a great reward...

However, it is no wonder that after all, the Saxony Business District is the second largest business district of the Hanseatic League. There are more than 20 cities in the Saxony Electoral Country alone, most of which are well-developed in business.

As the capital and economic center of the Saxony Electoral State where commercial prosperity, it seems not surprising that Vittenberg has so much wealth.

"Ah, no!" Marin was originally immersed in excitement, but suddenly slapped his thigh and stood up...

Why? Because Marin remembered that before, he had reached an agreement with Lubeck and Hamburg... All the money was divided equally by three families...

Then, this means that the income from Marin's robbery this time will be divided equally by three families...

"No wonder Hamburg sent a professional auctioneer with the ship. It turned out that he was here to count the property and prepare for future division..." Marin suddenly realized.

However, Marin only exposed the supplies and property to the hamburger auctioneer. The hamburger people didn't know about the gold, silver and gold, silver and jewelry.

So, Malin made up his mind and decided to conceal the amount of gold, silver, coins and gold, silver and jewelry...

In the end, Marin decided to tell Lubeck and Hamburg that he only grabbed 400,000 gold coins and 200,000 gold coins of gold and jewellery...

This number is absolutely reasonable in ordinary cities. Even so much wealth cannot be grabbed in most cities. But who is the Saxony region that has developed business? Marin gave such data entirely because the Saxony region is too developed and it is difficult to conceal too much. If you change to the capital of the vassal state in an agricultural area, Marin could have reported that he only grabbed 100,000 gold coins and 50,000 gold coins of gold and jewellery worth 50,000 gold coins, and it is reasonable and no one would doubt it...

In this way, after robbing Vittenburg, Marin directly concealed gold and silver coins worth 600,000 gold coins and gold jewelry worth 300,000 gold coins. As for the other ones that were taken out to share with Lubeck and Hamburg, Marin could also share gold and silver coins worth 200,000 gold coins and gold jewelry worth 200,000 gold coins... It has to be counted. Putting aside the Finney silver coins worth 100,000 gold coins that were intended to be given to the soldiers, Marin will receive gold and silver coins worth 1.1 million gold coins and gold and silver jewelry worth 1.1 million gold coins...

Even for the property worth 2 million Goulden gold coins that had been loaded, Marin also sent someone to declare to the hamburger auctioneers that the property worth 300,000 gold coins was promised to the soldiers...

This is also the practice of this era. When mercenaries seize a city, they will definitely rob. In other words, Marin's army has good military discipline and no soldiers dare to rob privately. However, Marin will not give less money to the property that should be promised to them. Because these soldiers will be more motivated when siegeing the city in the future. Moreover, this is in line with the current practice.

In this way, the supplies worth 2 million gold coins that had been loaded can be removed, and the property worth 300,000 gold coins will be left, and the property worth 1.7 million gold coins will be divided equally by the three families... In the end, Malin will also get 566,000 gold coins...

Marin took out the paper and pen, calculated carefully, and finally found that aside the rewards given to the soldiers, he could finally obtain gold, silver, coins, gold, silver, jewelry and supplies worth 1.666 million gold coins...
Chapter completed!
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