Spring plowing is about to begin, and Marin is ready. The only thing that is troublesome is the problem of fertilizer blocks. Because time is rushed, there are still a lot of residual fertilizers and feces after sun and wind blowing, which smells bad and difficult to hide.

So Marin sent someone to the swamp to dig a lot of peat soil, mixed with these fertilizer blocks to cover the smell. However, the smell of feces still could not be covered.

In a rage, Malin decided to fertilize all the fertilizers, which were controlled by himself, and not leave them to irrelevant people to handle. In this way, the risk of leaking secrets was greatly reduced.

Just as Marin was preparing for spring plowing, the Principality of Cliff suddenly sent an envoy to come...

In name, the messenger of the Principal of Clifford came to congratulate Marin on becoming the Earl of East Friesland and brought many gifts. But those gifts made Marin roll his eyes after seeing them. The reason was that among these "deserving gifts", they were mainly spices such as pepper, cinnamon, and cloves.

It is logical that John II gave these precious gifts with great sincerity. However, he did not know that Marin had four ships returning from India, wearing them full of spices...

Moreover, Marin did not have the habit of dipping pepper in food. Therefore, the consumption of spices is not large. However, Marin's cheap father, Old Hoffman, is more serious and is somewhat popular with the spices consumed by the great nobles. Therefore, when eating, Old Hoffman often likes to dip braised pork in pepper, cinnamon and clove powder...

Fortunately, Old Hoffman didn't sprinkle a large amount of pepper into the dish, otherwise Marin wouldn't be able to eat it at all. In fact, Old Hoffman had really planned it. However, not only Marin, Mrs. Mary didn't like to eat it directly in spices. So, this matter was given up.

Cliver's envoy, Lannet, came this time in addition to congratulating Marin on becoming the Earl of East Friesland, and had another mission - to ask Marin to return the 28 Wandering Knights...

After all, John II felt sorry for his brothers. He knew that the composition of the Teutonic Knights was very complicated. Even if Philip became the leader of the group, it would take at least two or three years to truly control the Teutonic Knights. This is pretty good. After all, Prince Philip was well educated since childhood and was quite smart. If he were a fool, he might have been undermined by his powerful knights.

Therefore, John II hoped that the 28 trainee knights who participated in the battle of Marin's conquest of East Friesland could all help their brothers. After all, these people had all seen blood, which was different from those ordinary wandering knights who had never fought. Moreover, these people also participated in the training of Marin's army and had military training experience. This was highly valued by John II.

John II admired Marin's military command and military training ability very much, so he hoped that these 28 trainee knights who had experienced war and were trained by Marin were sent to help his younger brother. With these trainee knights who had participated in war and learned military training, it would also be convenient for Philip to quickly control the army of the Teutonic Knights. At least, he could install a large number of close friends in the army.

But where is Marin happy? He has very few military officers with education. He is a treasure for these 28 trainee wandering knights. At least, these officers can understand the military orders and there is nothing wrong with implementing them. Unlike before, Marin promoted many illiterate officers, which resulted in difficulty in conveying the military orders. At the beginning, in order to accurately convey the orders, Marin even sent someone to confirm after giving the orders to confirm that the first batch of commuters did not convey the wrong orders.

Now, with these 28 people, Marin can write military orders directly by hand, and let any soldier ride a horse to hand it over to the officer. Moreover, these wandering knights are basically only eighteen or nineteen years old, and are more obedient and can resolutely execute Marin's orders. Although those old wandering knights have more experience, they have more ideas, and are prone to be smart and modify Marin's orders without authorization.

Like Frenzberg, Marin found that he had many ideas. At the beginning, the two of them were not good in cooperation. The main reason was that Frenzberg sometimes insisted on his own opinions and did not believe in Marin's guidance. But as time went on, and Marin proved his correctness with facts many times, Frenzberg was completely convinced by Marin and completely executed Marin's orders.

However, Frenzberg was a knight of old fry after all, and he still had a lot of ideas. For example, last time, Marin made a ruthless move against those women and children in order to eliminate future troubles, which aroused Frenzberg's strong dissatisfaction. Although Frenzberg did not express it in person, he still had a grudge against that matter.

This also made Marin realize that recruiting ready-made officers is easy to get started, but it is not as obedient as those wandering knights who have just been driven out of their house.

These wandering knights who were just driven out have basically zero social experience and have to learn a lot of things from scratch. This wine leaves a lot of room for transformation for Marin. As long as they are well trained, these young wandering knights can easily be trained to become Marin's loyalty.

For example, after staying under Marin for a few months, most of the 28 trainee Wandering Knights became Marin's most staunch supporters, with only a few people, because they were too slippery and not easy to fool. In addition, they had limited abilities and were not able to completely execute military orders, so they were not valued by Marin, so they were not very kind to Marin.

Sure enough, after Marin asked about the opinions of these 28 people, 22 people agreed and admired Marin very much, and were valued here, so they did not hesitate to stay. The other six people, because they had many ideas and were not valued, were willing to go to the Teutonic Knights Country.

Speaking of which, the six people who have to leave are actually not bad, and they are relatively smart. They also learn how to train Marin. However, they have an important shortcoming, which is that they are not very obedient and have too many ideas...

There are many ideas, which is a great thing for a scientist. But for a middle-level officer, it is sometimes a bit fatal.

Whether it is the modern army or the modern army, a very important requirement for grassroots officers is to "resolutely obey orders."

Marin is not afraid of his subordinates having ideas. Usually, if they have ideas, they can be raised and discussed by everyone. However, as long as the superior's order is issued, no matter whether the superior's order is right or wrong, the officer who receives the order must strictly implement it. Even if that order is to make the officer die in the palace.

Therefore, Marin did not take much attention to the six trainee Wandering Knights who seemed smart but did not obey orders. Such people might have their own ideas in the most difficult stage of hard work, such as "preserving their strength". In that case, it would be more fatal.

After understanding the ideas of these 28 people, Marin decided to find a way to keep the 22 trainee wandering knights who were willing to serve him. In fact, among these 22 people, 15 people were named official knights because of their previous military achievements. Even one person (acting the fourth quadron leader Stad) was named hereditary knights.

Of course, Lannet, the envoy of Cliver's Principality, did not agree. He wanted 28 people, and Marlin only gave 6, which was too unreasonable. Before, Lannet and John II thought that there might be several Wandering Knights willing to stay with Marlin. However, he did not expect that 22 people would stay. So, he naturally didn't want to.

So Marin decided to exchange something for...

Originally, Marin was planning to spend money. However, Marin's eyes were suddenly attracted by a report on the detained former Emden citizen...

These Emden citizens who were detained were the families of Emden citizens who fought with Marin on the day Marin attacked Emden. Many Emden citizens who resisted Marin that day were still alive and were detained together.

Marin had a headache for this group of people and didn't know what to do. If you want to say that you don't leave any future troubles, you should kill them. However, the total number of people in this group is as high as 1,600, and they are all civilians. If they are killed, Marin's reputation will be bad.

Before, Marin had a reason to kill those rebellious nobles. After all, those nobles were not legally justified because their ancestors participated in the rebellion and were not in a proper position.

However, these detained citizens are just civilians. According to the moral code of the knights, they should not raise butcher knives to civilians. Of course, on the day of Marin's siege, civilians held kitchen knives to block his army, except in that case.

However, Malin is not good at killing the detained civilians, because the other party is now unarmed. Moreover, there are many elderly, weak, women and children among them.

Originally, Marin planned to exil these people to North America in the future. However, when thinking about how the United States came from later generations, Marin was a little undecided. You should know that the earliest American immigrants were actually Puritans who resisted the king and some exiled criminals.

It is precisely because of this that American culture in later generations advocated personality (their ancestors were all criminals and rebels, could they have no personality?) and interests first.

Marin didn't want the future colonies to get out of control, so exiling criminals and opponents to North America is not a good idea. Exiling these people to a rich place like North America is not punishing them, but rewarding them.

Therefore, the real exile and punishment is to exile criminals and rebels, exile them to Africa and deal with Uncle Black.

Rich lands like North America, Australia, and Argentina should be handed over to immigrants who are loyal to themselves to ensure that those colonies will not make ends meet in the future.

Only places with harsh environments such as the African rainforests and the Sahara Desert and fierce residents are a good place for criminals and opponents...

Basically, every family has a blood feud with Marin. Therefore, it is impossible for these people to be attentive. Therefore, it is justified to send them away. But now, because of the lack of ships and navigators, Marin just wants to send these people overseas, but there are no conditions.

Just so happened that the Principality of Cliver came to ask for people, and Marin immediately decided to give these people to John II, Duke of Cliver...

Marin felt very sorry for this group of people. Because there were many craftsmen here. After all, in the Middle Ages, the people who could live in the city were either craftsmen or merchants, except for the noble nobles and the most insignificant coolies.

Marin counted that among these 1,600 people, 300 were craftsmen. Among them, there were carpenters, cobblers, tailors, shoemakers, blacksmiths, stonemasons, masons, bakers, etc.... They were all technical talents from the Middle Ages. With them, the economy could be much more active.

Unfortunately, they had a bloody feud with Marin, so Marin dared not use them anymore.

Just so happened that John II came to ask for people, so Marin decided to use these people in exchange for John II...

Although these people had a grudge against Marin, they had no grudge against John II. When they ran to John II's territory, they still made a living. Moreover, they could produce a lot of goods and promote the economic development of the Principality of Clifford.

"Mr. Marin, this condition sounds good, but these people are ordinary citizens and have high requirements. Taking them to the Principality of Clifford requires a lot of money just by setting up a deposit..."

"What ordinary citizens? They are all prisoners of war. Now, I will punish them all as slaves and hand them over to your Duke!"

The citizens of the Middle Ages were very awesome. They did not have to bear heavy taxes like serfs, but enjoyed various policy benefits. If the mayor's policies were not in line with their wishes, they would dare to go and point at the mayor's nose and scold. Because, even in the Middle Ages, the mayor and councillor were elected by these citizens.

Therefore, citizens are all old men. Because they have the right to vote, even the mayor and the mayor dare not provoke them.

Therefore, Lanett was very excited about Marin's proposal to give 1,600 people, including 300 craftsmen, to Duke John. Because 300 craftsmen could produce many commodities and brought a lot of taxes to John II.

Moreover, because Prince Philip became the leader of the Teutonic regiment, John II had a channel to transport a large amount of goods to the country of the Teutonic Knights.

But with the channels, there are also producers to help produce low-cost goods...

300 craftsmen can definitely help John II produce many goods that can be traded. The only question is, in which capacity these craftsmen are introduced...

If you are introduced as a citizen, it would be equivalent to hiring 300 old men... You should know that the medieval citizens were very accustomed to being, and craftsmen were even more high-end people among the citizens. Therefore, asking 300 old men to go back will also bring a lot of trouble.

When Marin spoke up and was willing to punish these craftsmen as slaves and give them to John II, Lannet almost wanted to agree on the spot. Because he knew that John II was unlikely to refuse such good conditions.

In order to obtain enough goods for trade, John II is now recruiting craftsmen privately. But in this way, it is still difficult to recruit. Because the craftsmen in the Middle Ages were all old men, with high salaries and many conditions. John II did not want Marin to be as generous as a wealthy man, and could use money to smash the craftsmen directly. He could only use preferential policies to recruit those craftsmen. However, preferential policies are difficult to impress those craftsmen. After all, this thing cannot be seen in a short time, and only those with long-term vision can discover the benefits. Unlike the gold coins thrown by Marin, it is dazzling and easier to be accepted by craftsmen.

As for the 22 trainee Wanderers, it is nothing to John II. Every year, dozens of Wanderers are driven out of their homes in the Principality of Clifford and Markber. Therefore, Wanderers are not short of John II.

However, John II was eager to support his brothers and wanted to send these wandering knights to the Teutonic Knights. The conditions offered by Marin were exactly what John II liked.

Moreover, it is really rare that this group of craftsmen gave him as a slave. The craftsmen with citizenship are old men and cannot afford to offend them. But slave craftsmen are purely the master's money-making machine. As long as the master makes these craftsmen full, do you dare to mention other treatments? Do you want to be beaten?

Lannett could be sure that John II would agree to this condition. However, he did not dare to make a decision without authorization, so he decided to go back and ask John II for instructions.

As for Marin, it was also very painful for letting go of 300 craftsmen. However, these craftsmen have a deep feud with themselves, and even if they enslave them, they are prone to resist.

But it is different to give it to John II. John II is not the culprit of killing their family. They have no reason to fight with John II. Therefore, if given to John II, these craftsmen can still do production with peace of mind. If they are kept in their own hands, even if these people are forced to do production, they may cause bad results. For example, deliberately making the product bad and wasting Marin's raw materials...

Moreover, if Marin used this group of people, he would not lose too much even if he used 22 easy-to-use officers, even if Marin lost money, he also eliminated Emden's unstable factor. Including the social stability factor, Marin was actually not a big loss...
Chapter completed!