After tricking John V into signing the unequal treaty, Marlin was in a good mood. Moreover, news of Farrell's surrender soon spread.
Only Yeffer's side was not very smooth, Adler had no good way to Yeffer Castle. Because he had neither heavy artillery nor blasting teams under his command.
In desperation, Adler had to leave 500 elite soldiers to continue to siege. Then, he took 1,500 elite soldiers and went directly to Oldenburg to take over the territory.
This was the reason why Marin had made the previous arrangement. In the plan, after Marin captured Oldenburg, he would continue to lead his army eastward and join Schwartz in the Principal of Holstein. Then, the army headed north together and gradually eliminated the cities and forts that had not yet been conquered. Because the heavy artillery was all in Marin's army.
Although the 2,000 militias led by Adler were militias, the training time was much longer than that of Marin's newly recruited recruits and was more elite. However, these people usually had to cultivate land, and Marin would choose to recruit them only when the manpower was tight. In normal times, Marin still chose to use full-time mercenaries in wars. This would not affect agricultural production.
However, because Saxony sent more than 10,000 people to strong people, Malin actually had no shortage of serfs who were arable land. In addition, Malin had 20,000 to 30,000 cattle in his hand, and his animal power was extremely rich. Therefore, even if these 7,000 militias did not participate in spring plowing, they would not delay the farming time. Only during the autumn harvest period, because they could not use animal power and could only harvest human power, so all these militias had to participate. Otherwise, when there was heavy rain during the autumn harvest, it would be over.
In fact, these 7,000 militias were recruited and organized when the Sexners ruled East Friesland. After Marin occupied the East Friesland State, in order to control this huge army, he killed all the little nobles who had originally ruled these militias, leaving them without a leader. Then, Marin promoted his own people and the followers of the Brock family (Malin's grandfather's family) to serve as commanders of this militia. Even Old Hoffman directly became the highest leader of the 7,000 militias. In this way, the officers of this militia became their own people. In addition, Marin has been good to the people in recent years, especially the bread-filled, which is much better than the Sexner family's rule. Therefore, over the years, the people of the East Friesland State have basically returned to their hearts. These militias also come from the people, so they are naturally basically returned to their hearts.
Although after several years of intermittent training, the combat effectiveness of this militia army is much stronger than that of the new recruits. However, Malin considered that the security of the East Frieslander country was also very important. Therefore, Malin's choice was to use regular troops to defend the country's territory. Once a large-scale national war was fought and the regular troops needed to leave the border, these militias would be recruited for defense of the country. In this way, Malin could also take the army to fight with confidence without worrying about the old nest being taken away.
This time was no exception. With Marin leading the army to fight, the domestic defense work was naturally handed over to these 7,000 militias.
Moreover, after taking over the Kingdom of Oldenburg, Marin also needed to leave enough troops to garrison. Otherwise, the little nobles in this place would initiate a rebellion and let Marin's efforts go to waste.
Therefore, Marin chose to let the brave Adler lead 1,500 elite militias to Oldenburg, monitor the local nobles and prevent them from rebelling. At the same time, Adler was fully responsible for the supervision and supervision of the members of the Oldenburg family.
When Adler arrived at Oldenburg City with 1,500 elite militias, Marin immediately handed over all the defense work of Oldenburg to Adler.
However, before leaving, in order to prevent the rebellion of the country nobles of Oldenburg, Marin posted a notice to appease the people, expressing his willingness to swear that he would never kill any local nobles without rebelling.
This is mainly because when Marin occupied the East Friesland, he almost killed all the local nobles. Marin was afraid that the young nobles of the Oldenburg Kingdom would end up dead like the original young nobles of the East Friesland, so he rose up to resist.
Marin was in a hurry to beat Denmark now, so he naturally had no time to pay attention to these little nobles in the countryside of Oldenburg. But he was worried that they would cause trouble for Adler. So Marin posted a notice expressing his attitude of not killing people this time.
In fact, the reason why Marin did this was to consider the future rule. It would be enough to do things in the East Frieslander country once. If you do too much, your reputation will be bad. Moreover, if you kill all the local nobles every time you occupy a country, no matter which country you attack next time, you will be resisted by the other nobles. Because if you don’t resist, you will die, and resist is also death. It is better to fight. In this case, Marin will suffer great difficulties.
Therefore, Marin decided to—and to seize any country in the future, he would no longer raise the butcher's knife. He decided to learn from Prussia's practice of unifying Germany—just deprive the local nobles of their rule, but retain their names.
The Oldenburg Kingdom is the first "model" area that Marin planned to build. Only by treating the local aristocrats who do not resist well, when Marin attacks other countries in the future, the aristocrats in those places will be willing to surrender. Otherwise, they will fight to the end and cause huge trouble for Marin.
Of course, Marin is not a good person. When the dust settles, Marin intends to deprive the management of the aristocracy of Oldenburg. However, Marin will pay them enough rent according to the current output of these aristocracy land...
For example, the yield per mu of rye fields in Oldenburg is less than 150 pounds. The harvest obtained by the nobles from the manors is about 100 pounds per mu. At that time, Marin can completely pay them a fixed income of 100 pounds per mu. However, if the control of these manors is in the hands of Marin, it will be different. With the help of fertilizer blocks, the yield per mu of local rye can reach four or five hundred pounds per mu. The additional yield is Marin's own.
In this way, the interests of the local nobles of Oldenburg were not damaged. Marin also gained more after obtaining the management rights of those lands because of his advanced production technology. It can be said that this is a win-win situation.
As for those native nobles, Marin planned to build a new city in the future, a casino like Las Vegas. Various entertainment facilities and places are built in the city for the fun of the nobles. From then on, these nobles would sit in the casino every day to eat, drink and have fun. Their original land would send fixed income every year, and rent 100 pounds of rye per acre, which would be enough for them to be free... And these Oldenburg nobles would slowly fall into depravity after being corroded and even become waste. At that time, they would not be able to pose any threat to Marin...
After solving the defense problems of Oldenburg's country, Marin led the army and continued to go east. The army first collected ships, built a floating bridge on the Wesser River, and entered the territory of the Archbishop of Bremen (which was not the same as the Hanseatic alliance city Bremen).
Although he was unhappy, Archbishop Bremen, withdrew more than 10,000 troops from Marin and could only watch them pass by. Fortunately, Marin's army was disciplined and did not violate the people along the way. Even the 3,000 mercenaries hired by Hamburg did not dare to rob the people along the way under the surveillance of Marin's army, which made Archbishop Bremen breathe a sigh of relief.
When more than 10,000 troops arrived on the west bank of the Elbe River, Hamburg on the other side of the river learned the news and sent hundreds of merchant ships to build a huge 3-kilometer pontoon bridge on the wide lower reaches of the Elbe River, allowing Marin's army to quickly cross the wide river surface of the lower reaches of the Elbe River, and soon arrived at Glückstadt, the capital of the Principal of Holstein, which was also on the east bank of the Elbe River.
Chapter completed!