Chapter 1515: Peasant uprising army POW sale
The peasant uprising that broke out in Württemberg was related to the arbitrary increase of new taxes by Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg. This product is extravagant and extravagant. From 1498 to the beginning of 1514, this product only succeeded for 15 years, even owing a huge debt of 1 million Gulden gold coins.
In order to repay foreign debts, the Duke Ulrich had to "invent" new taxes to exploit the farmers in Württemberg. He newly created the "alcohol tax", "meat tax" and "bread tax". In other words, people in Württemberg must pay taxes on food and drink. Then he also came up with something called "capital tax", which stipulates that every Gulden worth of goods must pay him a Finney capital tax ...
These harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes immediately angered the farmers in Württemberg, so under the leadership of the secret organization "Poor Conrad", the farmers decided to launch an uprising to resist.
Approximately 8,000 farmers, armed with sickle and shovel, and other simple agricultural tools, led by caster Kasbar, surrounded Stuttgart and demanded the abolition of the newly added harsh tax.
Duke Ulrich saw the peasants' power, so he pretended to be soft, and made his officials lie to the peasants, saying they were willing to abolish the new tax. But secretly, he was summoning the nobles and knights in the Principality to best prepare for suppression.
Casbal did not believe in the words of Duke Ulrich, but the peasants he brought were relatively simple, and they even believed Ulrich's gossip. After receiving the promise to abolish the new tax, the farmers happily put down the sickle **** and went back to the farm.
In desperation, Casbah had to dormant temporarily with the core leadership of the Uprising. At the same time, closely monitoring the actions of the Duke Ulrich ...
After this news was sent back to Aurich, Marin immediately remembered it-it seems that the writings of the two big brothers in the later generations mentioned many peasant wars in the German area in the 15th and 16th centuries.
According to the two big brothers of Marne-Württemberg in this era, the population is one of the most princely countries, with six or seven hundred thousand people. Of course, this does not count as the Beihai country of Marin, the traverser.
Moreover, with such a large population in Württemberg, the land area is only ten thousand square kilometers. Moreover, most of them are mountainous and black forest. Unlike the Beihai, although the population is more than twice that of the Principality of Württemberg, the local area is as high as 100,000 square kilometers.
Therefore, the farmers in the Principality of Württemberg are very hard pressed. Because there is not much arable land in the territory, each family of serfs can cultivate less land, which is far away from the serfs of the North Sea country, but they have to bear the main part of the high taxes of the Duke Ulrich. In desperation, they were only ready to launch an uprising under the leadership of the "Poor Conrad" organization ...
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But the German peasant uprisings are very naive. They launched the uprising not to fight for the mountains and mountains like the Chinese peasant uprisings, but just to pledge to the lords and try to force the lords to abolish unreasonable taxes ...
Such a naive approach must be taught to be a man. Unlike the peasant uprisings in China, starting from Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, they knew that "the prince will have something to do with Xiangning". One just wants to petition, and the other is to fight for the world clearly. The impact of the two, you don't need to think about it to know the result ...
Therefore, because it was too naive, the German peasant war broke out many times, and each time it was suppressed. Because they do not know how to take advantage of the opportunity to kill the nobility and destroy the opponent ’s living power when they have an advantage, but to wait stupidly until the nobility have gathered enough power to suppress them ...
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The reason why frequent peasant uprisings occurred in the 15th to 16th centuries has a lot to do with the increase in population in Germany ...
Since the death of the Black Death in the 14th century, and in the 15th century, although the Black Death still broke out, but the scale is relatively small, very few large-scale epidemics sweeping across Europe.
Against this background, the population of the German region began to grow steadily. But the problem is-the population has increased, but the land has not increased. Coupled with the impressively low output of European agriculture, it is impossible to feed too many people.
Of course, if Ulrich collects less tax, everyone can barely pass it. But the duke owed 1 million Gulden gold coins for 15 years, and he had to tax the people to fill the shortfall. Then, naturally everyone can't survive ...
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The peasant uprising on the side of Württemberg has temporarily subsided, but Marin knew that the war would definitely be rekindled. However, the news from Breischau's side made Marin's spirit strong-the lord over there actually contacted the North Sea country's recruiting in Strasbourg in the Alsace region on the Breischau high Ambassadors, do you want the captured uprising farmers ...
The Breischgau region is similar to the Württemberg region, and it is now more populated and less populated. Under the oppression of the lords, the serfs also struggled.
Several local lords executed hundreds of leaders after capturing thousands of peasant war suits. But the remaining 5,000 peasants were captured, making them very embarrassed.
Keeping these people is a hidden danger. Moreover, the land is not enough for so many farmers. However, it would be a pity if it was killed ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ and it would ruin its reputation.
As a result, several lords discussed and suddenly remembered that Marin had been recruiting immigrants. The Swabian League, where Breischgau is located, is a rare Marin-friendly group among German princes. After all, everyone belongs to the emperor. Therefore, they intend to send someone to ask Marin-whether they are willing to pay for these people ...
After all, if these originally useless people can get money from Marin, it is absolutely cost-effective. And these people stay in their hands and have to spend food every day to feed them.
"Selling prisoners of war?" After listening to Kohler's report, Marin's eyes widened. Then he took a breath and asked:
"How many peasant prisoners of war do they have? How much do they offer?"
Kohler looked through the information and replied:
"They have about 5,000 farmer prisoners of war. The family of these farmers is estimated to be more than 20,000. But the lords do not estimate that they will sell all 5,000 farmers. It seems that they have chosen 2,000 more honest and obedient farmers. There are 3,000 more prickly farmers left, and the lords are planning to sell it to you. As for the asking price, it seems to be a family of 30 gold coins. However, it does not include children over 5 years old. Those children are very popular in the market. Counting money ... Only children under 5 years old, because they are not sure whether they can survive their early childhood, will be given with additional gifts ... "
"3000 farmers ... including family members are more than 10,000 people, right? Okay, tell them, we bought them! But, I asked more than half of the funds to be replaced with food ... In addition, try to buy all the children of those farmers, Especially those children in their 10s. These children will grow into Dingkou in a few years ... "
"Okay, let me arrange this!"
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