Chapter 1615: Finally completed the transaction
Vladislas coughed and seemed to feel embarrassed. Then he glanced to the side. Ugrai, Count of Hungary, cleared his throat and said:
"That's it, Grand Duke Marin, we heard that when you received the prisoners of war in 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? Do you think Hungarians are cheaper than Germans? The Lord taught us that 'God loves the world and everyone is equal', and Hungarians are also the people of the Lord. How can you be equal? "
(In the previous chapter, I remembered incorrectly. I was talking about 10 gold coins per household, and it was Marin who pressed the price.)
Nima, to raise prices, even God moved out! Malin was speechless, but he must think about it. In this era, those who are related to God can not talk nonsense, otherwise it will be unlucky.
Therefore, after thinking about it, Marin said:
"It ’s not a question of who is more noble than others, but because, these Hungarian Magyar prisoners of war, do n’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. As a result, my costs will rise, and the education funds spent by each household may be more than 10 gold coins! "
The Governor of the Kingdom of Hungary, Transylvania, John Zapolo asked curiously:
"Princess Marin, why do you teach those serfs to speak German? Do they still need to be able to speak German?"
These words immediately choked Marin. It stands to reason that in this era, a farmer really didn't need to understand any language. After all, as long as you can cultivate land. Marin's argument is indeed a bit non-mainstream in this era.
Marin glanced at John Zabolho. This guy is the real powerist of the Kingdom of Hungary and the confidant of Vladislas II. He has led 20,000 troops to the Transylvanian border all the year round and is on the front line against the Turkish invasion. Originally, it was John Zabolho who brought back 20,000 frontier troops and defeated the main force of Dorao George's peasant uprising. Then, the merger of 20,000 mercenaries in the north completely wiped out the main force of the peasant uprising.
Of course, the Hungarians are also lucky. Because, at this time, Ottoman Turkey is suffocating enough to invade Persia, and has no energy to manage things on the European side. Otherwise, Transylvania is in danger.
John Zabolho ’s army, which is somewhat similar to the Liaodong Frontier Army in the late Ming Dynasty, is a domestic elite. After all, it is an army that can resist the Ottoman Turkish invasion, but it is generally not easy to leave the border.
Fortunately, at this time, Ottoman Turkey was gathering troops in Asia to prepare for the invasion of Persia. I didn't pay attention to this side, so that John Zapo had a slight chance to lead the main force of the frontier to eliminate the peasant uprising. The Liaodong Frontier in the Ming Dynasty was miserable. When the Liaodong Frontier sent the main force to attack the peasant army, it seemed that it would succeed, but Jin began to attack the frontier fortress, pushing the Liaodong Frontier back, and also gave Li Zicheng etc. The peasant army breathed a chance to survive. It can be said that the reason for the demise of the Ming Dynasty was exhausted after all with the tacit agreement of the peasant uprising and Hou Jin. The Qing army can enter the gate to slaughter Huaxia, Li Zicheng "contributes" ...
Regarding John Zapolo's question, Marin thought about it and answered:
"Governor John, you know, these prisoners of war are the main forces of the rebels. It is very risky to bring back and easy to rebel. Therefore, we need to educate them often, teach them to be good and obey the rule of the government. After all, they But they are all criminals with a 'convict'. "
"However, if they don't even understand German, how can they understand the well-intentioned teachings of the officials sent? Therefore, for these captured mobs, I have to spend a lot of energy and money to manage them. "
"And the German peasants in Württemberg are different. I can send them 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 the Magyar language to manage them. However, such a generation, the cost is too high. Moreover, it is easy for the Magyar mob to centrifuge from Germany and gradually not listen to the management of the North Sea State. So, it is better They were taught that they could speak German at the beginning, and later they could be integrated into the German community in Beihai. "
"To be honest, this time there are too many Magyar prisoners of war, and I am a bit surprised. Originally, according to the price of 10 gold coins per house, I have a lot of economic pressure. If it rises to 30 gold coins per house, I can only give up and let you kill them! "
At the end of the day, Marin started to cheat. After all, this year, he is willing to pay for himself. If you do n’t buy it yourself, the group will either kill the prisoners of war or sell it to others as slaves at a very low price ...
Now the Hungarian nobles looked at each other ...
They were only dissatisfied with the fact that Marin had given the high price of 30 gold coins per household to the prisoners of war in Württemberg and wanted to get the same price. Of course, if the price is increased by half, they can get a lot more.
However, Marin did not accept it, and also showed a gesture of dumping the pan, and they panicked. After all, at this time, there is no second buyer willing to buy these people.
In fact, Jacob Fogel, who came with Marin, had the intention to buy. After all, he planned to develop the Tyrolean silver mine on a large scale.
But the problem is that Jacob Fogel is not willing to easily offend Malin. Therefore, he stood without a word, watching Marin and the Hungarian nobles whispering.
The Hungarian nobles adopted a procrastination tactic and got together to discuss it. 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 in a fierce manner. The parlor of the Pace Palace became a battlefield of quarrels.
Marin and the gang of greedy Hungarians quarreled for a few days, and finally set a compromise price of 20 gold coins per household. It was not Marin who did not want to cut prices, but the Hungarian aristocracy also started to cheat. They claimed that if Marin wanted to cut prices again, they would n’t do their best to arrest the families of the prisoners of war ... especially the children of peasant army prisoners of war ...
In order to prevent the other party from really being unsatisfied, Marin had to give in and gave 20 gold coins per household.
But there were really many prisoners of war this time. The main force of the peasant uprising army on South Road alone had 47,800 prisoners of war. The North Road Army ’s 30,000 rebels, because of the fierce fighting, had more casualties than the South Road Army. A total of 25,000 were captured, but only 22,000 healthy prisoners of war. This is because the fighting on the North Road is tough, and no speculative means such as croton powder are used. Therefore, the casualty rate is much higher ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ However, the Kingdom of Hungary decided-from these prisoners of war, to select two thousand officers to be publicly executed to deter the people.
As a result, a total of 67,800 healthy prisoners of war could be sold to Marin. Together with their families, there are 67,800 households.
This figure is a bit more than Marin's estimate. Because, Marin originally expected to buy 50,000 households. Now there are 17,800 more households and the price of 10 gold coins per household is increased, which makes Marin suddenly feel a bit overwhelmed.
According to the algorithm of replacing 10,000 prisoners of war with the commission of the North Sea country, the additional 57,800 households, each with 20 gold coins, that is, Marin needs to pay 1.156 million gold coins to the Kingdom of Hungary. This money is almost catching up with the annual financial income of the French royal family, which is more than double the annual financial income of the Kingdom of Hungary.
Fortunately, Marin had the help of a banker, Jacob Fugger, otherwise, he really couldn't get the money.
After the draft of the money was issued, Marin began to command the soldiers of the Second Army and Cossack Army to gather the prisoners of war. When the families of these prisoners of war were caught, they were escorted back together.
But inside the Kingdom of Hungary, because of this huge wealth of up to 1.156 million gold coins, began to tear inside. After all, this is a huge sum of money equivalent to more than two years of revenue in the Kingdom of Hungary.
Think about it, the financial income of a country in the later generations is tens of billions of dollars, and the tens of billions of dollars are divided among dozens of nobles ... How exciting is that ...
Therefore, in order to **** more shares, the Hungarian nobles staged martial arts in the royal palace, competing for more allocation. Of course, no knife. However, many nobles have swollen noses and blue faces.
After Marin looked at it, he was very happy-to ask you to blackmail me, it is best to be killed a few ...
