After Marin became a big star in the empire, many people defected to Maximilian I, and many people rushed to Texel Island to visit Marin, a young star.
Ever since, many young wandering knights rushed from the inland of Germany to Den Helder, the Netherlands, and took a boat to the island of Texel to visit Marin.
Marin just wanted to recruit talents, so he patiently received these young people. In fact, every meeting is equivalent to Marin's interview with the visitor.
Most of these visitors are young people who have not yet obtained the title of knight. They came from a long distance, in fact, they wanted to "learn the scriptures" from Marin, and contribute to their official title of knight.
In order to attract talents, Marin assumed the attitude of "Corporal Courtesy", warmly entertained the trainee knights who came from afar, and invited them to visit his elite 400 men.
However, what depresses Marin is that these people have a strong desire to learn. But when Marin wanted to solicit, they basically declined.
It turned out that they all thought that Marin's "temple" was small and there was little room for improvement. These conceited young people think they are not much worse than Marin. Marin can become a baron, why can't they
Therefore, these apprentice knights basically did not accept the olive branch thrown by Marin, which made Marin very depressed. In fact, Marin also has a way to keep them. That is—directly canonize them as official knights of the barony.
However, Marin was unwilling to do this. Because, the canonization of knights is not random. Schwartz can be canonized as a knight, in addition to his ability and loyalty, the credit he made in Italy is also the main basis.
You know, Schwartz is Marin's adjutant in Italy. Moreover, the daily military training is all under the supervision of Schwartz. Marin himself, in fact, mainly guides Schwartz. Schwartz was canonized as a knight, and the 400 soldiers have no opinion.
However, if Marin wants to canonize a foreign trainee knight to become an official knight at once, these 400 big soldiers may not necessarily buy it.
Therefore, Marin could not easily promise and canonize those young apprentice knights who came to visit him, but could only describe a bright future to them. After all, distinguishing rewards and punishments is an essential quality for a qualified commander.
However, these apprentice knights from knight families are all educated and not stupid. It is true that they worship Marin, but they are at most formal knights when they serve under Marin's command. And knights cannot be hereditary. These ambitious young people all aspire to become a hereditary baron like Marin. Therefore, they were not fooled by Marin. After learning from Marin about training infantry, they all chose to leave.
These apprentice knights from noble families are not easy to fool. It is much easier for young people from civilian families.
Among the young people who came to visit Marin, besides the trainee knights, there were also many ordinary children from rich families—the poor children did not have the travel expenses to come to Texel.
After Marin failed to recruit those apprentice knights, he turned his attention to these commoner children. Since they are civilian children from wealthy families, many of them are educated and educated. Now, Marin is in urgent need of cultural people to help him manage Texel Island.
So, Marin began to win over these educated civilian children...
After much persuasion and flickering, some educated civilian children really stayed.
Because of this, Marin finally has the mayor who manages the city of Den Bog—a 28-year-old civilian Heidel Lerman.
Haider Leman was also born in a knight family, otherwise he would not have a surname. However, he was born in a different branch of the knight family. After a few generations, he gave up the knight tradition and turned to business. Therefore, Haider is actually a son of a merchant now.
However, he went to university in Cologne, where he studied law. Right now, he has just graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Cologne, and he is not in a hurry to find a job, but to go out and travel first, so as to increase his knowledge.
How can Marin let such a talent go? College students in the middle ages are definitely rarer than pandas! Marin made a decision on the spot, appointing Haider as the mayor of Den Burg and a judge of the Texel court.
As a result, Texel Island ushered in the first official civil servant after Marin took over...
Haider himself was also extremely happy. Because, as a civilian, he even went to college. However, if you come out to work, you must be just a lawyer. As for the judges of the court, only those of noble origin can be appointed. Although being a lawyer is considered a good profession, it cannot be compared with a formal official position.
As a result, Haider fell decisively and took refuge in Marin's command to assist Marin in handling the government affairs of Texel Island.
Since then, Marin has successively recruited several educated young people of civilian origin to serve as the mayors of Te Horenche and Odesshild, and the mayor of Yancheng.
Just when Marin was happy to recruit a few cultural people as his subordinates, the guard came to report—there was another young apprentice knight visiting...
After many recruitment failures, Marin had lost interest in recruiting those monkey-spirited young trainee knights. However, when Marin learned the young man's name, his eyes widened suddenly...
Because, the guard told Marin—the young man who visited, his name was Georg Frundsberg...
Who is Georg Frundsberg? That's the man known as the "father of German mercenaries"!
Marin has read the relevant history of German mercenaries and knows that George Frundsberg was the most important mercenary general under Maximilian I in the original history. He was also an important participant in the Italian War and a Swiss mercenary. Myth buster.
However, Frundsberg seems to have emerged only in the "Swabian War" in 1499. Today, he is still an unknown apprentice knight, still in the Swabian region, and he does not know which lord he is serving as a soldier...
For this great god, Marin decided to try his best to win him over. Even if you can't win over, you must establish a good relationship. Because, in the future, Frundsberg will become the number one horse boy under Maximilian I...
So, Marin cheered up and received the young Qiaozhi Frundsberg with high-standard treatment for receiving nobles...