As time entered the late autumn, the musket craftsmen and armor craftsmen that Marin was looking forward to were also recruited from Spain and southern Germany respectively.

Marin had a lot of trouble in order to recruit these craftsmen, because Marin had extremely lacked talents. Moreover, none of his subordinates knew Spanish.

For this reason, Marin had no choice but to ask for help from Jewish merchants who traveled all over Europe. But sadly, Jewish merchants were still able to do well in other countries, but in Spain it was very tragic. As early as 1492, Spain (including the Kingdom of Aragon and the Kingdom of Castile) persecuted the Jews under the auspices of the two husband and wife kings. Except for a small number of Jews who converted to Catholicism, most of the rest were expelled from the country, and their property was also confiscated and robbed.

Therefore, the powerful Jewish merchants could not go to the Spanish who were ex-Jewish to hire craftsmen who made the Mushket muskets. Fortunately, a Jewish merchant came up with a solution - he would come forward and invite a familiar Italian merchant to go to Spain to engage in activities and hire musket craftsmen on their behalf.

In this way, after paying a double commission, Marin struggled to obtain 20 Spanish craftsmen who were good at making the Mushket big muskets.

The recruitment of armor craftsmen was much smoother, because armor craftsmen basically came from southern Germany. Marin hired a few eloquent merchants, so he asked them to hire 30 armor craftsmen from Augsburg, Nuremberg and other areas.

In fact, Marin was not short of armor. He still had 1,000 sets of plate armor seized from France. However, the plate armor was too bulky and was only suitable for heavy armor knight equipment.

However, what Marin wanted to do was the Spanish phalanx, mainly infantry. Therefore, even if the breastplate of the whole body was removed and worn, it was a bit bulky. In addition, it was heavy or light. The main reason was that the waist of the whole body was limited by the plate itself, so it was inconvenient to turn around and move.

The reason why Marin recruited these armor craftsmen was to build steel helmets and chest plate armor. In addition, he also had to build a chain armor belt.

As an infantryman, the breastplate worn by the two iron plates in front and back is naturally three-quarters of the breastplate of the two iron plates. However, this breastplate has no defense on the waist. If the enemy spearmen poked the waist, it would be miserable. Therefore, Marin thought about it and still equipped the soldiers with a chain armor belt that does not affect their movement, which has certain protection and does not affect their movement.

After the craftsmen arrived, Marin quickly imported a large number of iron ingots and chains from the UK (used to make chain armor belts), and made them the Mushket large musket and infantry three-piece set - steel helmets, three-quarters of the breastplate and chain armor belt. Of course, the creation of spears and engineer shovels did not fall.

After a long period of overtime, by the end of November, the craftsmen created 200 Mushket large muskets and a large number of three-piece infantry sets.

With equipment, the matter of recruiting phalanx infantry was immediately put on the agenda...

Marin remembers that the earliest German mercenaries seemed to be from Alsace, Württemberg, Baden and Austria's Tyrol. The farmers of Alsace and the mountaineering people of Wurttemberg were the main force of the early German mercenaries (Landsknechts).

Alsace is located in the border area between Shinra and France, with fertile land here. However, it has a large population and a small land area. Therefore, there is a large amount of surplus labor here. For example, the excess serfs driven out by the owner of the manor...

As for the Württemberg area, it goes without saying that most of the entire area is mountainous, with many mountain people and more fierce. This is somewhat similar to the Swiss area. Swiss mercenaries are basically composed of Swiss mountain people.

The mountain people living in the mountains often walk mountain roads, so they have good physical fitness. In addition, they rely on the mountains to eat and hunt, and may have to fight with beasts. Moreover, because the mountains are barren, they often need to endure hunger, so they have good willpower. Therefore, their survival and fighting ability often exceed that of the farmers in the plains. For example, the brave Danyang soldiers of the Three Kingdoms period came from Danyang County, which was crisscrossing mountains (now Xuancheng, Anhui, not the modern Danyang sold glasses).

Kahn and Kohler are from the edge of the Black Forest in the Principality of Wurttemberg.

Marin considered that the Tyrol region of Austria is a private place for the Habsburg family, and the people here are often loyal to the Habsburg family. Therefore, Marin first ruled out the Tyrol region to recruit soldiers.

Then, Marin's choice was left with the Alsace region and the Baden-Württemberg region. After thinking about it for a while, Marin decided to recruit half of the people in the above two regions.

Among them, Kohler was naturally the one who recruited soldiers in Baden-Württemberg. Kahn accompanied him with a team of soldiers to protect Kohler and was responsible for bringing the recruited recruits back to Texel Island.

The one who went to Alsace to recruit soldiers was Schwartz. He would be responsible for leading people to recruit bankrupt farmers and serfs in the Alsace area. The farmers in the Alsace area may not be as strong as those of the brave Wurttemberg mountaineering people, but they are better at obedience and discipline.

However, these soldiers from serfs have obedient but lack courage. Therefore, Marin needs the brave Wurttemberg mountaineering people to drive these Alsace farmers. The courage of the mountaineering people will stimulate the Alsace farmers to become braver. The discipline of the Alsace farmers will infect those too free mountaineering people. It can be said that the two can influence each other. What Marin needs to do is to mix the two, let them influence each other, and control them to develop in a better direction.

As for Frenzberg, the "father of German mercenaries", Marin did not arrange for him to go out and participate in recruiting soldiers. In Germany, recruiting soldiers is a very important ability. If a person can recruit a large number of mercenaries in a short period of time, then this person will definitely attract attention. Because this is an era when mercenaries are popular. Whoever has more mercenaries will have a better position.

It is obvious that the brothers Schwartz and Kahn are Marin's close friends. The cultivation of recruiting skills will naturally give priority to them. Frenzberg was the thug that Marin planned to give to the emperor, not Marin's confidant. Therefore, Marin does not want to cultivate the ability to recruit soldiers in the era of mercenaries.

Moreover, because Marin dug up the corners of the Friesians and recruited many Friesian fishermen, Marin was also worried that the Friesian Noble Republic would come to cause trouble for him. Therefore, Marin also needed Frenzberg, with 300 left-behind men, to station Denburg, to guard against possible attacks from the Friesian Noble Republic.

At the same time, Marin promised Frenzberg that the head of the first square on Texel Island would be Frenzberg. This made the young Frenzberg excited and grateful to Marin. As for the "small matter" that didn't ask him to recruit soldiers, Frenzberg immediately let go.

Before setting out to recruit troops, Marin specifically reminded that they should never recruit unemployed vagrants in the city. Because many of these unemployed vagrants in the city are gangsters, with a harsh and bullying the weak and fearing the strong. It is okay to let them fight the wind, but when they encounter tough battles, they can easily take the lead in escaping.
Chapter completed!