Duke of Lüneburg Henry thought nothing was wrong with Marin's asking price for money. However, Marin proposed to Duke of Saxony to ced Friesland, which was a big deal.

In the Middle Ages, it was not uncommon for aristocrats to be captured. Moreover, it was normal to ask for ransom. However, it was rare to ask for land to be cedeed. Because aristocrats seemed "expensive" by having land. How expensive would they be if they had no land or less?

Of course, it was not without the cede of land. However, half of it happened when power versus power. The medieval nobles valued order the most. As a new noble, Marin had to ced such a large piece of land from the Principal of Saxony, which made Henry, the Duke of Lüneburg, instinctively arrive uncomfortable.

Because the Principality of Lüneburg is not far from the East Friesland, and there is only one Bishop of Munster or Oldenburg. If Marin annexes Friesland this time and annexes the Bishop of Munster or Oldenburg next time, then, next, it is possible to annexes Lüneburg...

Therefore, Henry, the Duke of Lüneburg, felt uncomfortable...

Then, Duke Henry returned to Lüneburg on the grounds that he could not make a decision, and told the Duke of Saxony who was waiting, and suggested that the Duke of Saxony join hands with other great nobles to put pressure on Marin...

The purpose of pressure was not to not pay money, but to ask Marin to give up the idea of ​​seizing West Friesland. The combat effectiveness of Marin's army was already clearly there. A powerful country like the Principality of Saxony could not beat him. If Marin opened a hole for expansion, perhaps the next expansion man would appear.

Saxony could not suppress Marin, and Lüneburg could not do it. Therefore, the Duke of Saxony began to send his subordinates to ask for help from his nephew Saxony Elector and the other six Electors. Even the Duke of Saxony personally rushed to Innsbruck and asked for help from the Emperor Maximilian I who had returned to Austria, hoping that the emperor would stand up and say...

Around the New Year, the seven electoral emperors of the Holy Roman Empire received a request for help from the Duke of Saxony. Except for the Bohemia King Vadislaw II, the other six electoral emperors expressed their vigilance about Marin's tendency to expand.

Most importantly, Marin was ostensibly an important thug under Emperor Maximilian I. Therefore, they were not willing to see Marin own more territory.

Therefore, except for the Bohemia King, the other six electoral emperors all demanded that Marin give up his territorial demand for West Friesland in the name of mediation. However, out of the gloomy mentality of seeing the unlucky Saxonians, except for the Saxonian electoral emperors, the other five electoral emperors expressed no objection to Marin's ransom request.

Based on the principle that Marin could not request the cedes of West Friesland, under the witness of the representatives of the six electoral emperors, Marin and the Duke of Saxony started negotiations in Papenburg, a city in the north of the Bishop of Munster, near the East Friesland State...

Marin expressed great depression in this regard. Originally, he planned to take over Sifriesland completely. However, the six electoral emperors jointly put pressure on him, forcing him to humiliately accept their "suggestions"...

There is no other reason. If it were one of the six elected emperors, Marin would never be afraid. Now, after defeating the 24,000 army of the Duchy of Saxony, Marin was in the limelight for a while, and his soldiers were particularly strong in morale, as if they were confident. At this time, Marin was not afraid to confront any vassal state head-on, even if he elected the emperor, he would not be able to.

However, when the six electoral emperors joined forces, Marin had to be afraid. As a sudden emerging aristocrat, Marin wanted not to expand rapidly at this stage, but to be recognized by all parties urgently. After all, his rise was too short and his foundation was not solid. Moreover, the newly emerging people were easily suppressed by the old-school forces. This was not only applicable to the princes' struggle for hegemony, but also to the later workplaces. Some new employees who emerged too quickly were also easily boycotted and suppressed by old-school employees. By the same token, Marin, the "new employee" in the aristocratic world, was rising too fast, and it was inevitable that they were hostile and jealous of those old-school aristocratic forces. In desperation, Marin decided to hide his strength and lay a solid foundation first.

You should know that any electoral emperor can gather an army of 20,000. It is not difficult to gather an army of more than 100,000 together with the six electoral emperors. Such a number has exceeded the total population of East Friesland. No matter how much Marin is, he dare not say that he can fight an army of more than 10,000 with 10,000 people. Unless his subordinates all use advanced weapons that are hundreds of years ahead of this era...

But at present, Marin's army can only be said to be one step ahead of the times. 10,000 people beat the other 20,000 to 30,000. If you want to fight more than 100,000, you should stop dreaming... So, Marin decisively gave up his territorial requirements and began to bargain with the Saxons in other aspects...

The representatives of the other five general election emperors, except for Saxony's Elector, were very supportive of Marin's other five general election emperors. Because the general election emperors were not so harmonious. If the seven general election emperors were so united, perhaps the Habsburg family would have been killed by them long ago. There were also many dirty things among the general election emperors.

For example, as the second largest business district of the Hanseatic League, the Saxony Elector and the Duke of Saxony benefited greatly. Their respective fiscal revenues were far greater than those of other Electors. This inevitably aroused the jealousy of other Electors.

Therefore, they also openly and secretly instigated Marin to weaken the Duke of Saxony. Anyway, as long as Marin did not want to expand, they were still willing to support Marin to bite a large piece of meat from the Principal of Saxony. After all, Marin's East Friesland, plus the Waden Islands, is only 3,000 square kilometers, and it is just a county (European counties, generally two or three thousand square kilometers in size), and it is difficult to get up.

Even the five electoral emperors were very gloating about the failure of the Duke of Saxony's expansion. Therefore, as long as Marin did not touch the red line of territory, representatives of the other five electoral emperors expressed their support...

Although the Duke of Saxony was dissatisfied with the ransom price of Prince George and the Knights, he still recognized it. You should know that among the 1,200 knights captured by Marin, he borrowed 1,200 from the Elector of Saxony. Needless to say, these people must be redeemed.

Then, on the ransom of regular infantry, the two sides began to bargain fiercely. In fact, the asking price of Marin's 50 gold coins per infantry was not high. However, there were too many people captured this time, which was more than the Duke of Saxony could bear.

Because, if Marin asked for the price, the Principal of Saxony could not raise so much money even if it was sold. After all, it was 1.64 million gold coins. The annual fiscal revenue of the Principal of Saxony was only about 300,000 gold coins. Moreover, the money was not saved, but was spent more than half of it. The remaining one year was at most tens of thousands of gold coins. At present, the Principal of Saxony could take out at most fifty or six hundred thousand gold coins. Most of the rest could not even be taken out.

Marin thought about it and found that the Principality of Saxony could not afford that much money. However, Marin did not want to suffer any losses. In the end, Marin proposed a plan to "population is replenished with gold coins"...

Marin proposed that since the Saxons could not afford that much money, they could use their population to recharge their money. For example, the 8,000 recruits and 10,000 people captured by the Saxons, Marin planned to turn them all into serfs under his name...

Of course, it is not good to just want men. These young and strong people are certainly good laborers, but men alone cannot have children. This is not conducive to the future population growth of East Friesland.

Therefore, Marin asked the Duke of Saxony to send all the 18,000 young and middle-aged families to East Friesland. In exchange, Marin was willing to exempt Saxony from compensation of 500,000 gold coins - anyway, the Saxony people could not afford that much money...

Although Albresit, Duke of Saxony, was not willing to lose so many strong men, he could not afford so much money. For this reason, after consideration, he accepted Marin's plan to "population replenish gold coins". However, there were great differences between the two sides on the number of people who were replenished...

According to Marin's plan, the Duke of Saxony not only had to send all the 18,000 young and strong family members to East Friesland, but also had to pay a huge ransom of 1.14 million Goulden gold coins. The Duke of Saxony felt that it was still too high. You should know that there are only more than 500,000 gold coins in his treasury at present. He is not the king of France, and even if he is rich, he is just the duke of a principality. Therefore, it is already the limit to be able to take out more than 500,000 gold coins. No matter how much, the Duke of Saxony will have to borrow.

However, borrowing is not so easy to repay. These days, the annual interest rates for loans given to nobles are as high as 10% to 15%. If you borrow a loan of 1 million gold coins, the annual interest alone will be as high as 100,000 to 150,000 gold coins. This is almost half of Saxony's annual income. If you borrow so much money, the Principality of Saxony may go bankrupt.

Therefore, Albresit, Duke of Saxony, definitely hopes that the more gold coins the strong men will receive, the better. As for the population, the Principality of Saxony is one of the most prosperous vassal states in Germany. At present, the Principality of Saxony has a population of more than 800,000, plus the more than 200,000 West Friesland, and there are millions of people. Therefore, the loss of tens of thousands is still affordable. Moreover, the Principality of Saxony has been safe for a long time and the population is too high. After all, the grain output of this era is there...

During the negotiation break, Albrecitra, Duke of Saxony, pulled down his face and begged the representatives of the other five electoral emperors to ask for their help.

The representatives of several electoral emperors were actually very conflicted at this time. On the one hand, they were happy to read the jokes of the Duke of Saxony. On the other hand, they did not want Marin, Maximilian I's "lack dog" to be too proud...

In the end, they chose the Duke of La Saxony a small handful...

Then, with the help of several representatives of the electoral emperors, the Duke of Saxony finally won the "discount" - he just sent the 18,000 powerful family members, and in addition, the cash paid was reduced from 1.14 million to 1 million...

The Duke of Saxony can still bear the loan of 500,000 gold coins. However, the Principal of Saxony has been in debt for many years, but it will not go bankrupt. After all, the prosperity of the business of the Principal of Saxony is there.

In fact, the other electoral emperors were also happy to watch Marin joke. Because 18,000 strong men, including their families, had to have a total of 50,000 or 60,000 people.

There were as many mouths as 50,000 or 60,000 people. These people flocked to the East Friesland Kingdom, and the consumption of food was just an astronomical figure. Even if Marin received 1 million gold coins, it was probably mostly spent on feeding those immigrants...

Moreover, the electoral emperors also had a lot of information about the East Friesland. They agreed that East Friesland could not feed so many people. Because there were too many swamps in East Friesland, and places suitable for cultivated land could not feed so many people... In the end, these populations may even drag down East Friesland - this is what they are happy to see...

However, what they didn't know was that because Marin mastered advanced agricultural technology, he could raise tens of thousands of people, and he could still raise his own food. You should know that in the autumn harvest, Marin reselled the grain of other nobles he purchased, but his own food basically didn't move. The reason why he didn't move was to wait for the consumption of immigrants, which was the total output of 500 million pounds of rye, which was enough for hundreds of thousands of people to eat for a year... Unexpectedly, before he started immigrating, the Duke of Saxony sent 18,000 strong men with a gaze, and was also responsible for sending their families. Now, Marin didn't have to worry about immigration...

When signing the final treaty, Marin suddenly thought of something that Marin specifically asked that those young and strong men who had no wives must be responsible for sending an extra young female serf to marry those young and strong men... After all, if there are thousands of young and strong men, it would be a problem for them to find a wife. Therefore, Marin directly pushed this matter to the Duke of Saxony. Even Marin had many soldiers under him, but he was still a bachelor. The despicable Marin directly asked the Duke of Saxony to solve this matter together - who said Saxony has a large population... Moreover, Marin also pointed out that the young and yellow daughter must be needed, otherwise he would refuse to "receive goods" - this is to avoid the Duke of Saxony's use of the old woman who cannot give birth to a child...
Chapter completed!