Chapter 215 Diplomatic Dilemma
In fact, the Jeffer problem seems to be very big. However, compared with the various troubles in the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, it can only be regarded as a small problem.
The first is diplomatic issues...
Marin seized the Eastern Frieslander Kingdom because the dynasty was changed, and it was not a natural inheritance. Therefore, Marin needed diplomatic recognition from the countries and recognized Marin's legal status.
Without legal status, the Count Marin would not be really a count. Then, the current regime in East Friesland is an illegal regime. In this way, other vassal states have reason to declare war and forcibly seize East Friesland without being criticized.
If Marin's status was recognized by many countries, especially the emperor, then he would truly become an earl and a prince.
So Marin took the lead in sending Jeffrey to Vienna as a representative, brought a lot of gifts to meet the emperor, and requested the canonization. Once the agreement was made, Marin would go to Vienna in person to accept the canonization and swear allegiance to the emperor.
In addition, Marin also wanted several surrounding princes to send representatives to be recognized by neighbors. Because, for countries that are not bordered by the East Friesland State, Marin does not need to care about their attitude. However, several neighbors in East Friesland need to be negotiated. Otherwise, the hidden dangers of war will be laid. Not to mention anything else, the new East Friesland State must first exchange maps with neighboring countries to confirm the border. Otherwise, the border will be unclear and easy to lead to border conflicts.
However, the four neighboring countries - Saxony in West Friesland, Oldenburg in the east, Bishop of Münster in the south, and Archbishop of Utrecht in the south, and Archbishop of Utrecht in the south, and Archbishop of Utrecht in the south, were only the Archbishop of Utrecht. However, the Archbishop of Utrecht, Frederick IV from Baden, did not directly recognize the legitimacy of Marin, but waited for the emperor to recognize Marin's legal status.
As for the other three, it is hard to say. Bishop Münster accepted Marin's letter and gift, but said nothing, neither admitting nor opposing it.
The requirements of Oldenburg Beth were very strict. Adolf, Earl of Oldenburg, proposed that if Marin allowed Yeffer's independence, he would recognize the new Oldenburg Beth.
The messenger naturally did not dare to agree to this very rude condition. Even if Marin had anger in his heart, he would not dare to fire it randomly. Because, getting angry would cause Denmark to bring about the great powers. Therefore, Marin simply assumed that his negotiations with the Berlin of Oldenburg had never happened.
When Marin sent people to West Friesland to ask for Prince George, he was ridiculed naked. Prince George said that he had never heard of the Brock family, but only knew that the ruling family of the East Friesland recognized by the empire was the Sexner family...
This is because I don't want to talk about it at all. Marin also heard from George's words that the Duchy of Saxony's covetousness for the East Friesland. If it weren't for scaring this grandson with his army last time, the Saxony army might have begun to attack East Friesland.
Marin was not worried about the 5,000 troops under George's grandson, but the Saxons could gather an army of 10,000 or 20,000. Moreover, this is not the bottom line. If you are angry, it is possible for the Saxons to have thirty or forty thousand soldiers.
Therefore, even if Marin is angry, it is not easy to get angry.
However, in order to demonstrate, Marin publicly announced that he would send people to Wurttemberg and Alsace to recruit 3,000 mercenaries to return...
Including the previous 6,000 mercenaries, Marin's regular army reached a terrifying 9,000. Fortunately, Marin had huge trade income from Yancheng. The first merchant ships to the Teutonic Kingdom also brought back tens of thousands of gold coins. With the 200,000 gold coins retrieved from Venice, Marin could afford to support the 9,000 army, and could also mobilize and recruit some local soldiers.
If it were an ordinary poor count with only tens of thousands of people, he would not be able to afford so many people...
Marin's behavior of sending people to recruit new recruits was a huge momentum, mainly for the Sacs and Oldenburg people in West Friesland. The purpose was naturally to warn the other party not to think about it. Moreover, some people who were rebellious in China were also shocked.
In addition, this time, Marin finally made up his mind to return Sivag and the remaining 500 Friesian prisoners of war.
This time when the attack on Emden was the leader of 700 Friesian prisoners of war. Therefore, their casualties were the largest, with only 500 left in 700 people. However, these 500 people had grown into real elites after Marin's rigorous training and fighting training. Sivag was also familiar with his training methods. Of course, it was a cold weapon training method for those Friesian prisoners of war. As for the training methods of the Spanish phalanx, Marin had never let Sivag see it. Moreover, using the Spanish phalanx, gunpowder consumed a lot, and it was not a rich man to play.
These 500 people returned to the nine Friesian nobles and immediately made the strength of those Friesian nobles soar. In addition to the 300 warriors who returned before and the 120 knights around the original nobles, then there were 920 elite warriors in the hands of the nine Friesian nobles. Such strength, coupled with some recruits, even if they could not beat George's 5,000 Saxony regular army, they could cause huge losses to their opponents...
After drinking and treating Sivag and his men, Marin sent a boat to transport the 500 people to the seaside of the Principality of Gedes and notified the nine nobles in advance to send people to the reception.
Before leaving, Marin pulled Sivag and said a lot. Of course, it was not nonsense, but taught him how to fight guerrilla...
Marin handed over some of the essence of Taizu's guerrilla warfare to Sivag, and asked him to lead his troops to advance and retreat quickly, and used it to rush to attack the Friesian region.
In addition, in response to the stupid behavior of the nine nobles who snatched the people all, Marin also gave Sivag a very unethical idea.
The idea is to let the Friesian army change into the clothes of the Saxon army during the robbery, pretend to be the Saxon "official army", and shout a few times in the German language of Saxon dialect, so that the robbed people can convince the Saxons that they were all robbed. Of course, when robbing, you should do a good job of makeup, it is best to dirty your face or block your face so that people can't recognize it.
Then, after the "Saxon Army" left, another group of Friesian troops pretended to be good people and took out some of the food to help the locals and win over the hearts of the people...
In fact, these foods used to provide assistance were taken away by people who had previously pretended to be Saxon troops, and only part of them...
But the people don’t know, and they think they are good people. In this way, when they need to mobilize the masses and recruit new recruits, the people will "join the army". Moreover, when fighting with the Saxony army, they can also enhance their combat effectiveness because of hatred...
With this detriment, the people of the Saxony will definitely lose their hearts. Then, the people from all over the country will become the source of troops under the Friesian nobles...
Chapter completed!