When Marin sent people to search in West Frisia, the Duke of Saxony, who was still in shock, had fled to the Principality of Luneburg, which had a wrong relationship with the Principality of Saxony.
The Principality of Luneburg is a famous salt producing area in Germany, and the city of Luneburg is built on the large salt mine. As the second largest business district of the Hanseatic League, Saxony naturally attaches great importance to Luneburg, a big salt-producing country. Because, in the Middle Ages, table salt was a very important bulk and high-value commodity.
After arriving in the Principality of Luneburg, the Duke of Saxony quickly sent his men to make a detour to Groningen, hoping to inform George to retreat. However, unexpectedly, when the people he sent arrived in West Frisia, there was bad news that George was captured and West Frisia was occupied by Marin. The Duke of Saxony was terrified when he learned about it. He was psychologically prepared for the defeat of the army. However, the capture of his eldest son made him very embarrassed. Because, his eldest son is the legal heir to the Principality of Saxony. The capture of the eldest son will not only deal a serious blow to the reputation of the Principality of Saxony, but also make the Duke of Saxony have to pay a very high price to redeem it.
At this time, the Duke of Saxony had no courage to send someone to negotiate peace with Marin. Because, he knew that Marin would definitely open his mouth. However, it is impossible not to talk about it, most of his army has been captured by Marin. If it is not redeemed, the Principality of Saxony will not have enough troops to protect itself. What's more, if he doesn't redeem his men, no one will fight for him in the future. Especially for those knights, the conscripts are gone, and they can go to the farms in the countryside to catch them casually. But knights are different. Even trainee knights without a title are considered nobles and cannot be arrested casually. Moreover, these people are free, and they have the right to choose to serve other nobles. Only those nobles who accepted the fief of the Duke of Saxony were obliged to fight for the Duke of Saxony. But if the Duke of Saxony doesn't redeem them if they are captured, all the nobles under him will have reason to revolt...
Marin has been very happy these days. Since winning the fight, Marin has returned to Aurich. And his army was not idle. Marin lined up 2,000 people to pursue the 15,000 Saxon civilians who stayed in Leda River during the war, and arrested 10,000 people in total. As for the remaining 5,000 people, they fled indiscriminately. In this regard, Marin is also helpless. Had the whole army crossed the river to catch up without rushing to arrest George, 5,000 people would not have escaped.
However, being able to capture 10,000 people is no small surprise. You must know that all of these strong men confiscated by the Duke of Saxony are middle-aged men with a lot of strength. It just so happens that Marin needs a lot of labor to dig ditches in the country.
Originally, there were only more than 20,000 strong men in East Frisia, but now the sudden addition of 10,000 Saxon men surprised Marin.
Moreover, many of the 20,000 strong men in East Frisia have their own jobs. For example, bakers make bread for the people all over the country every day, masons repair houses for people in need every day, carpenters and blacksmiths make all kinds of utensils for people every day, fishermen go out to sea every day... In short, everyone has their own things to do. Only those serfs had the time to recruit them to dig ditches. Marin estimated that there were more than 10,000 serfs who were young and strong. Moreover, even these serfs dug ditches only during slack hours. Otherwise, agricultural production will be delayed.
But the 10,000 captured Saxons are different. They are prisoners of war, and it is not too much for Marin to detain them for working for a few years. Even, Marin only needs to provide them with food and CD does not need to pay wages. Because they are prisoners of war, almost like slaves.
In the Middle Ages, after obtaining prisoners of war, only those knights and nobles above knights would receive preferential treatment and wait for the other party to take money to redeem them. As for the conscripts, the kinder nobles despised them for wasting food and would put them back directly. And the more vicious nobles, in order to attack the mobilization ability of the opponent and fear of wasting food, would even kill a large number of conscription soldiers who were born as civilians. In this way, in the next war, the opponent will have much less infantry to recruit. At the same time, I don't need to waste a lot of food to feed these captives. Moreover, there are quite a few people who do this, and no one even accuses them of this practice. Because, in this era, the lives of civilians are very humble, and no one cares about their death.
It is not very kind, but not vicious, to use these civilian prisoners of war as coolies like Marin...
Before, the reason why many of the 15,000 Saxon people ran away desperately, and 5,000 of them ran away, was because they were afraid of being killed. Because, in order to save food, it is not uncommon to kill civilian captives who cannot be exchanged for ransom. Even those Min Zhuang had heard of many similar tragedies. Therefore, when they saw Marin's army crossing the river to arrest people, many Saxon people fled frantically like they were stepping on hot wheels in order to survive, and as many as 5,000 people ran away in one breath...
Moreover, not only the 10,000 Saxon civilians, Marin also captured 1,980 Saxon knights (including those lent to the Duke of Saxony by the Elector of Saxony) and 15,000 infantry (including 4,000 regular Saxon infantry led by George). For those 1980 knights, Marin must have waited for the Duke of Saxony to redeem them. As for the 15,000 infantry captives, Marin felt that the Duke of Saxony would probably redeem 7,000 of the regular infantry. As for the other 8,000 conscripts, the Duke of Saxony may not have the money to redeem them. Because just redeeming George and the 1980 knights would drain the Duke of Saxony's purse. As for the 7,000 regular infantry, it is the guarantee of the territorial security of the Principality of Saxony and West Frisia. Therefore, even if the Duke of Saxony borrowed money, he would find a way to redeem those knights and regular infantry. As for those conscripts and civil servants, Marin didn't think the Duke of Saxony had the money to redeem them...
Because, for the 1980 knights alone, each of them is calculated at 500 gold coins, which is close to one million gold coins. Coupled with the very valuable George and the 7,000 infantry, Marin is sure that he will make a fortune this time...
As for the 10,000 civilians and the 8,000 conscripts, the Duke of Saxony didn't care whether they redeemed Marin or not. Anyway, Marin didn't think that the Duke of Saxony had so much money to redeem these unimportant civilians. Marin would be happy if the Duke of Saxony did not redeem these people. In this way, he has enough manpower to dig ditches and improve the swamps in East Frisia. 18,000 strong men are digging ditches and ditches all day long. Marin estimates that the swamps in the territory can be transformed within two or three years.
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When Henry I, Duke of Luneburg came to negotiate with Marin on behalf of the Duke of Saxony, Marin really opened his mouth like a lion...
Marin proposed that Prince George be priced at 300,000 gold coins (who told him that he was just a prince? If the Duke of Saxony himself was captured, Marin would directly bid 1 million), and each knight would be discounted at 500 gold coins. In this way, the total price of Prince George and 1980 knights alone reached 1.29 million gold coins. As for the 7,000 regular infantry, Marin was more kind and offered 50 gold coins each. But because there were too many people, the total price reached 350,000 gold coins. As for the 8,000 conscripts and 10,000 civilian husbands, Marin didn't make a price, and Henry, Duke of Luneburg, didn't ask either. It seems that both parties have forgotten about them...
In addition, Marin did not offer a price for the 2,600 war horses and more than 4,000 draft horses captured by Marin. Because, he didn't intend to return it...
Even so, the total price offered by Marin is also very scary. The total asking price of Prince George, the Saxon knights and those regular infantry reached 1.64 million gold coins...
These are nothing, the most important thing is that Marin proposed to ask the Duke of Saxony to cede Friesland...
And this is the real lion's big mouth...