Because he often went to the horse farm in the north of the city to exercise his martial arts and body, Marin found that his time was not enough. In the past, Prime Minister Geoffrey handled the affairs of the uncle country, wrote down the handling opinions, and then handed it over to himself for review. However, this is too much trouble. Every day, Marin needs to work for a long time and give various instructions.
Although, because the country of East Frisia is small, there are not too many affairs, but it is inseparable from people every day. Every time Marin went out to do business and came back, he had to deal with a mountain of official documents.
Moreover, the only civil servants that East Frisia can afford at present are Jeffrey and Haider. Both of them were college students in the middle ages, and they were very good. It is precisely because of this that Marin was not willing to deal with the "former official" Jeffrey, but kept it.
As for Haider, another college student, Marin needed him to manage legal affairs and serve as the chief judge of the country. Dealing with various cases in the county, there are no fewer things than Jeffrey. Therefore, Marin could not transfer Haider from the court to share government affairs.
Before, Marin didn't think about recruiting talents in the past. However, because Marin had not been recognized by the countries before that, coupled with the threat of the powerful Duchy of Saxony, no one was willing to take refuge in Marin, the earl with an uncertain future.
When Marin defeated the army of the Principality of Saxony, someone finally recognized Marin...
At the end of June, the first batch of wandering knights who took the initiative to seek refuge finally arrived...
Marin received them very happily, and then arranged them into the army for three months of adaptation training, and then planned to let them take over the positions of some company captains that the previous officers had concurrently held.
Moreover, Philip, the head of the Teutonic Knights National Congress, also sent a group of young wandering knights who had just arrived in the Teutonic Kingdom to solve the problem of insufficient number of officers for Marin.
In this way, the total number of wandering knights in Marin's hands has exceeded 60, which is completely sufficient. After all, now there are 250 companies in a company, and there are only 40 companies with 10,000 people. In other words, for 40 company captains, 40 people are enough.
However, for the more than 30 newcomers, Marin intends to select 18 outstanding performers based on the performance of the three-month training period and add them to those companies. The rest were temporarily added to the militia as company captains.
After all, Marin has to consider the issue of war damage. In this war, because of a coincidence, Marin won a big victory, and no middle and senior officers were killed. If you are unlucky next time and encounter middle and senior officers killed in battle, it will be difficult to find a replacement in a hurry. Therefore, it is necessary to treat those wandering knights who were not selected as spare tires. Once the next time the company leader of the regular army suffers casualties, he can directly select an excellent substitute from the militia company leader to avoid a commander vacancy.
In fact, for a company, it is best to have two company leaders, the principal and the deputy. But Marin is not so extravagant now, so he had to equip one first. It just so happens that there are 20 substitutes now, who can be replenished at any time, so I don't worry about the lack of personnel.
However, what Marin lacks most now is a high-level civil servant. Who was the best in the Middle Ages? Naturally, there are very few college students in this era.
The whole of Europe, the universities of this era, the whole of Europe, but only 80 (including some purely theological schools). Moreover, the number of students enrolled in universities in this era is very small, with only hundreds or thousands of students in a university. Unlike later generations, there are tens of thousands of people in a university...
Not only that, at least half of the people in the university are missionaries from the church. For example, Copernicus was a member of the Polish Catholic Church.
The other half of the students are mostly from aristocratic families, and a small part are children of wealthy merchants or children of big landowners. In short, none of them belonged to ordinary people.
Moreover, the entire German region, that is, the University of Prague (Kingdom of Bohemia), the University of Vienna (Principality of Austria), the University of Heidelberg (Electoral Palatinate), the University of Cologne (Elector of Cologne), the University of Leipzig ( Elector of Saxony), University of Rostock (co-founded by the Duke of Mecklenburg and the Hanseatic city of Rostock), University of Munich (Principality of Bavaria), University of Tübingen (Principality of Württemberg), University of Freiburg (founded by Haab Founded by members of the Burger family, it originally belonged to the Austrian sphere of influence and was located in the Swabian League area)... and more than a dozen universities.
These schools add up to no more than 10,000 people. Among them, nearly half of college students are missionaries serving the church. The other half of the students, many of them are nobles with inheritance rights, and they will definitely go back to inherit the title and fiefdom after graduation.
Only those aristocratic students who had no right of inheritance, and those commoner students who were born as merchants and big landowners, were the ones whose future was uncertain.
However, there were so few college students in the Middle Ages that they were as rare as giant pandas. Even if he was born as a commoner, as long as he is a college student, there are always nobles who are willing to win him over.
Therefore, these college students in the Middle Ages had no worries at all, and only the nobles sent people to win them over. Therefore, it is unlikely that any college graduates will come to join Marin on their own initiative. For example, Haider was attracted by Marin purely because Haider was free and went to Texel Island to travel, but was caught by Marin.
Today, Haider is also a hereditary jazz, and he has completed the transformation from a commoner to an aristocrat. And, most importantly, his title can be hereditary...
Generally speaking, those college students who were born as commoners can be made nobles by those nobles who appreciate them, but at most they are just unhereditary knights. Because, no matter which nobleman, he would not easily confer the title of baron on a college student from a commoner background.
Marin is also opportunistic, and specifically listed titles such as hereditary jazz, which is convenient for rewarding civil servants. In fact, a hereditary jazz is not as beneficial as a baron. Because jazz generally do not have fiefs. Even owning land is not tax-free. At most, hereditary jazz, as an aristocratic class, has some honorary privileges. Therefore, even if a few more hereditary jazz were awarded, Marin didn't feel distressed. Because the jazz belongs to the category of civil servants, it is difficult to obtain fiefdoms. Generally speaking, only military achievements can be exchanged for fiefdoms. Of course, if civil servants are awarded the title of baron, they can also have fiefdoms, such as Kohler. However, whether the civil baron of the court department has a fief or not depends purely on Marin's mood, and there is no guarantee. Unlike the baron who was exchanged for military exploits, he must have a fief.
In fact, there are special reasons why Marin has no college graduates to vote. Because, as a red stick fighter under the command of Emperor Maximilian I, Marin is naturally not in the same way as most of the princes.
Except for the two universities in Austria, the princes where the other universities are located will certainly not say good things about Marin. Even some princes who were hostile to Marin sent people to spread bad remarks about Marin, deliberately discrediting Marin.
For example, at the University of Leipzig in Saxony, there is a legend that Marin is a murderous maniac, and it is also said that Marin likes to chop and cook children... Now, in Saxony, the name Marin is almost It has become synonymous with demons, and it can be so frightening that children can stop crying...
In the Middle Ages when information was underdeveloped, such rumors were very powerful. Marin didn't even know what it was like to be discredited by those princes. If you give an example, Marin is now like the third fat brother who was hacked by the Americans before his rebirth... And, what's worse, the third fat brother does have many black spots on his body, and it is normal to be hacked. And Marin is a promising young man who is much better than the nobles of the same generation, and he was also hacked...
In order to make himself easier, Marin first asked Kohler to send a group of people to the nearby Cologne University to recruit graduates, but they were all rejected...
Then, Kohler's men heard a lot of bad remarks against Marin in Cologne. Moreover, the remarks unfavorable to Marin circulated by the University of Cologne are considered light. After all, the Archbishop of Cologne was not so hostile to Marin. Unlike the Duke of Saxony, who was hostile to Marin, he hacked Marin into a super perverted killer at the University of Leipzig...
Seeing that his subordinates were unable to attract college students, Marin had no choice but to find the chief justice of East Frisia, Heidel Lermann, and ask him to help him dig people from the University of Cologne in the name of an alumni...
In order to stimulate Haider, Marin promised that Haider would get an "introduction fee" of 500 gold coins for every graduate of the University of Cologne he dug. Moreover, if there are more than 20 people, Marin will confer the title of Haider's second son who has no right of inheritance as an ordinary knight who is not hereditary, and will be among the ranks of nobles... Of course, Marin also promised that he will never let others replace Haider position of justice. Unless, Haider is promoted...
Stimulated by this, Haider led a group of subordinates, regardless of the trial of the case, directly stationed in the University of Cologne, and started lobbying and fooling the students...
In order to help Haider maintain the scene, Marin gave Haider a large amount of gold coins as activity funds, so that he would not have to save money and feast on the students to eat and drink. In order to improve the quality of the banquet, Marin even sent two palace chefs to help Haider make delicious dishes to ensure that Haider's apprentices would eat delicious food...
Not only that, Marin also arranged for 10 knight officers with good martial arts skills, wearing polished half-body armor, pretending to be bodyguards, and following Haider all day long, with a strong momentum, to increase the force...
In addition, Marin also allowed Haider to offer a very exciting salary to impress those college students of ordinary background and encourage them to come to work in East Frisia.
Marin is not short of money, and if he can attract college students from the Middle Ages, it is not something that can be measured by money. Those college students from commoner families and minor noble families are easily moved by high salaries. Moreover, the civil service system of the Counties of East Frisia is seriously short of people. In addition to being able to impress those college students with high salaries, those civil servant positions that are actually vacant there are also very attractive...