Chapter 1615 Finally Completed the Deal

Vladislas II coughed and seemed to feel embarrassed too. Then, he glanced to the side. Uglaoy, Count of Page of the Kingdom of Hungary, cleared his throat and said:

"That's right, Grand Duke Marin, we heard that when you received the prisoners of war from the Principality of Württemberg, the price you gave was 30 gold coins per household. But why did you reduce it to 10 gold coins per household when you came to us? Could it be that you Do you think Hungarians are inferior to Germans? The Lord taught us that 'God so loved the world and everyone is equal', Hungarians are also the Lord's people, how can you favor one over another?"

(I made a mistake in the previous chapter. I originally talked about 10 gold coins per household, but it was Marin who suppressed the price severely.)

Nima, in order to raise the price, even God moved out! Marin was extremely speechless, but he had to think about it this time. In this day and age, you can't talk nonsense about things related to God, or you'll be in bad luck.

Therefore, after thinking about it, Marin said:

"It's not a question of who is more noble than who, but because these Hungarian Magyar prisoners of war can't speak German! In this way, after sending them to the wild continent, I need to send a large number of teachers to teach them Speak German. In this way, my cost will be high, and the education funds spent by each household may be more than 10 gold coins!"

Governor of Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary, John Zapollo asked curiously:

"Grand Duke Marin, why did you teach those serfs to speak German? Don't they need to know German to cultivate the land?"

These words immediately choked Marin. It stands to reason that in this age, a farmer really doesn't need to know any language. After all, as long as you can cultivate the land, you will be fine. Marin's statement is indeed a bit non-mainstream in this era.

Marin glanced at John Zapollo. This guy is a real powerful faction of the Kingdom of Hungary and a confidant of Vladislas II. He led an army of 20,000 troops stationed on the border of Transylvania all year round, on the front line against the Turkish invasion. Originally in history, it was John Zapolo who brought back 20,000 frontier troops and defeated the main force of Dorao George's peasant uprising army. Then, the 20,000 mercenaries in the north were combined to completely wipe out the main force of the peasant uprising army.

Of course, the Hungarians were also lucky. Because, at this time, Ottoman Turkey is trying its best to invade Persia, and has no energy to take care of European affairs. Otherwise, Transylvania would be in danger.

John Zapollo's army is somewhat similar to the Liaodong frontier army in the late Ming Dynasty. It belongs to the domestic elite. After all, it is an army that can resist the invasion of Ottoman Turkey, but generally cannot leave the border easily.

Fortunately, at this time, Ottoman Turkey was gathering troops in Asia to prepare to invade Persia, and had no time to pay attention to this side, which gave John Zabor a slight chance to lead the main force of the frontier army to destroy the peasant uprising army. The Liaodong frontier army in the Ming Dynasty was even more miserable. When the Liaodong frontier army sent the main force to attack the peasant army, it was about to succeed, but Hou Jin began to attack the frontier fortress, forcing the Liaodong frontier army back, and also gave Li Zicheng and others The Peasant Army takes a breather to survive. It can be said that the reason for the demise of the Ming Dynasty was exhausted after all under the tacit cooperation of the peasant uprising army and Hou Jin. The Qing army was able to enter the customs and slaughter China, and Li Zicheng "indispensably contributed"...

Marin thought about John Zapollo's question and replied:

"Governor John, as you know, these prisoners of war are the main force of the rebel army. Taking them back is very risky and easy to rebel. Therefore, we need to educate them frequently, teach them to be kind and obey the government's rule. After all, they But they are all criminals with 'records'."

"However, if they don't even understand German, how can they understand the well-intentioned teaching of the people sent by the government? So, for these captured mobs, after all, I will spend a lot of energy and money managing them. "

"The German peasants in Württemberg are different. I can send a small official to educate them. But for the tens of thousands of Magyar mobs, I need to send someone to teach them German before they can understand education... "

"Of course, I can also send officials who understand Magyar to manage them.

However, such generations, the cost is too high. Moreover, it is easy for those Magyar mobs to dissociate themselves from Germany and gradually disobey the management of Beihai State. Therefore, it is better to teach them to speak German from the beginning, so that they can integrate into the group of Germans in the North Sea in the future. "

"To be honest, there are too many Magyar prisoners of war this time, so much that I am a little surprised. Originally, according to the price of 10 gold coins per household, I would have a lot of financial pressure. If it rises to 30 gold coins per household, I can only give up and let you kill them!"

At the end of the story, Marin began to play tricks. After all, these days, he is willing to pay for someone himself. If they don't buy it themselves, these people will either kill the prisoners of war, or sell them to others as slaves at a very low price...

Now the Hungarian nobles suddenly looked at each other...

They were just dissatisfied after hearing that Marin gave the prisoners of war in Württemberg a high price of 30 gold coins per household and wanted to get the same price. Of course, if the price is increased by half, they can get a lot more.

However, Marin refused to accept it, and even put on a gesture of dumping the pot, and they panicked now. After all, at this time, there is no second buyer willing to buy these people.

In fact, Jacob Fugger, who came with Marin, had the intention of buying. After all, he intends to develop the Tyrol silver mine on a large scale.

But the problem is that Jacob Fugger is not willing to offend Marin easily. So, he stood on the sidelines without saying a word, watching Marin wrangling with the Hungarian nobles.

The Hungarian nobles adopted delaying tactics and first got together to discuss. However, the next day, the Hungarian nobles agreed to lower the price slightly, but not too much.

Subsequently, Marin and a group of Hungarian nobles began to confront each other. The living room of the Pest Palace has become a battlefield for quarrels.

Marin quarreled with these greedy Hungarian nobles for several days, and finally set a compromise price of 20 gold coins per household. It's not that Marin didn't want to lower the price, but that the Hungarian nobles also started to cheat. They claimed that if Marin wanted to lower the price again, they would not go all out to capture the families of those prisoners of war...especially, the children of those peasant army prisoners of war...

In order to prevent the other party from being really unsatisfactory, Marin had no choice but to give in and gave the price of 20 gold coins per household.

But this time there were really a lot of prisoners of war. There were 47,800 prisoners of war in the main force of the peasant uprising army on the South Road alone. The 30,000 rebels of the North Route Army had a higher casualty rate than the South Route Army because of the fierce fighting. A total of 25,000 people were captured, but only 22,000 healthy prisoners of war. This is because the battle on the North Road was head-to-head, and no speculative means such as croton powder were used. Therefore, the casualty rate is much higher.

However, the Kingdom of Hungary decided to select 2,000 officers from among these prisoners of war and publicly execute them to deter the people.

In this way, the total number of healthy prisoners of war that can be sold to Marin is 67,800. Together with their families, that is 67,800 households.

This number is a bit more than Marin expected. Because Marin originally expected to buy 50,000 households. Now there are 17,800 more households, and the price has been increased by 10 gold coins per household, which made Marin feel a little overwhelmed.

According to the algorithm of 10,000 prisoners of war replacing the commission for sending troops from the North Sea State, there are 57,800 extra households, 20 gold coins per household, that is, Marin needs to pay 1.156 million gold coins to the Kingdom of Hungary. This amount of money is almost catching up with the annual fiscal revenue of the French royal family, and more than double the annual fiscal revenue of the Kingdom of Hungary.

Fortunately, Marin has the banker Jacob Fugger to help him, otherwise, he really wouldn't be able to spend the money.

After the money order for the money was issued, Marin began to command the soldiers of the Second Army and the Cossack Army to gather prisoners of war. When the family members of these prisoners of war are caught, they will be escorted back to the country together.

However, within the Kingdom of Hungary, because of this huge wealth of up to 1.156 million gold coins, internal conflicts began. After all, this is a huge amount of money equivalent to the financial income of the Kingdom of Hungary for more than two years.

Think about it, the financial revenue of a country in the future will be tens of billions of dollars, and tens of billions of dollars will be divided up by dozens of nobles... How exciting is that...

Therefore, in order to grab more shares, the Hungarian nobles staged a military parade in the palace to compete for more allocations. Of course, no knife was used. However, many nobles have bruised noses and swollen faces.

After watching it, Marin felt very refreshed—I told you to blackmail me, and it would be better if you were beaten to death...