The Rise of the European Emperor

Although there is some sympathy for the unfortunate Joachim I, Marin will not let him go easily. After all, if you fail, the other party will not make you feel better.

However, there are always priorities. For Marin, Joachim I was not his confidant, but Frederick III.

Moreover, this negotiation was held in Worms, and Frederick III also drew a large number of princes to help out. Marin thought with his toes, knowing that negotiations were difficult.

In addition, after the negotiations began, King Hans and Joachim I, as the defeated party, must have hoped to pay less. Therefore, it will be a battle of dragons and tigers no less than war. Therefore, Marin hopes that the alliance of Frederick III and Joachim I can be divided, so as to prevent the other party from tying together and beating himself.

Just so, after hearing Joachim I's lament, Marin's heart moved...

Marin knew that Joachim I did not have much money. In this war, the reason why Frederick III brought them together was that in addition to the good relationship between the two and the marriage relationship with Denmark, the wealth of Lübeck and Hamburg was an important driving force for Joachim I to send troops. In order to win and make huge profits, Joachim I made a desperate attempt to bring almost all the regular army of the Electorate of Brandenburg to the front.

Being able to speak out about financial embarrassment in front of Marin, Marin can conclude that Joachim I is still very hungry for money.

Of course, as a nobleman, he would not directly say that he likes money. Therefore, like Joachim I, lamenting that we will eat brown bread in the future is the correct way to speak.

But the truly arrogant nobles are ashamed of their words. Joachim I can feel the loss of interests in front of enemies like Marin, which proves that this is a nobleman who values ​​interests, not a noble nobleman.

So, Marin rolled his eyes, and suddenly an idea sprung up. So he said to Joachim I:

"Lord Joachim, in fact, if you want to reduce your losses, it's not impossible..." Having said this, Marin suddenly stopped, and then gave Joachim I a mysterious smile...

If Joachim I was a really noble noble, he would definitely be dismissive. And if Joachim I was a very practical noble, he would definitely not miss this opportunity...

Sure enough, Joachim I's eyes lit up, and then asked:

"any solution?"

"Work with me..." Marin replied leisurely.

"Working with you? Could it be that you will share the ransom from me? You know, I was also the target of your extortion..." Joachim I said dissatisfiedly.

"Although it's not a good thing like dividing the ransom money with you, but in nature, it's not too much..." Marin said calmly after drinking a sip of tea.

"What do you mean?" Joachim I didn't quite understand.

"I mean, as long as you cooperate with me in Worms' negotiation, Lord Joachim, I can greatly reduce the amount of your ransom..."

"How much is the reduction?" Joachim I asked with some temptation.

"There are hundreds of thousands of gold coins..." Marin is not short of money now, but there are many troubles in political matters. If Joachim I is willing to help himself, he doesn't mind giving some favors to the other party.

"Hundreds of thousands of gold coins...then...can you cede a little less land?" Joachim I asked with an inch.

"Don't think about it, Mr. Joachim, if you let you lose some money, others won't see it. Anyway, I have the final say on whether I received your money, and others don't know. If you cede less land, you won't be able to All Germany knows? By then, you will be in the aristocratic circle, but it will be difficult to be a person." Marin rolled his eyes and said.

Joachim I thought about it, it really is...

This kind of transaction of money will not be carried out in the eyes of the public. How much indemnity the Electorate of Brandenburg paid to Marin would certainly not be delivered in the presence of everyone's witness. In the end, it is unclear how much Brandenburg paid Marin.

But if the Electorate of Brandenburg cedes less land to Marin,

That one cannot escape the eyes of others. Because, as long as everyone knows who dispatched the officials on the ceded land, it will be clear.

It was humiliating enough that Joachim I was defeated and captured. If it was known that he had hooked up with Marin in private, it would be really shameless. His former allies, too, would alienate him.

So Joachim I said to Marin with a serious face:

"It's fine for me to cooperate with you, but how do you ensure that the news will not leak out?" This is also the biggest scruple of Joachim I's cooperation with Marin.

Marin thought for a while, and borrowed a Bible from the military chaplain, then in front of Joachim I, he stroked the Bible and swore to keep it secret. If it leaks out, I will run to the square in front of the Aurich Palace...

"Guo Ben..." Joachim I was taken aback by Marin's oath. But think about it, in the square outside the palace, in front of the public, it is indeed very gray and often humiliating, it is better to die...

Eventually, Joachim I believed in Marin. But how did he know that Marin didn't believe in Christianity at all, he believed in the Great God of Transmigration (who told him to transcend)...

Of course, Marin is also a man of credit. As long as Joachim I cooperated with him well, he wouldn't be so cheap as to leak his secrets.

In the end, Marin and Joachim I reached an agreement in private - Joachim I did not join forces with Frederick III to create obstacles during the negotiation, and tried his best to cooperate with Marin to disrupt the anti-Marin alliance and make the negotiation more beneficial to Marin. Forest. The return given by Marin is that only Joachim I needs to pay half of the indemnity stipulated in the negotiation...

Say half, but it's not a small number. Brandenburg was defeated this time, and nearly 15,000 prisoners of war were captured, plus Joachim I himself, the most valuable super prisoner of war.

Therefore, the ransom alone is more than one million gold coins. If you add a little more... the Electorate of Brandenburg, an agricultural country, can't come up with it...

Marin agreed to let the other party pay only half, which is equivalent to reducing the other party's compensation of more than 500,000 gold coins! Faced with such a huge exchange of interests, Joachim I agreed without thinking. Besides, if Brandenburg were to take out more than one million gold coins, he wouldn't be able to take it out if he was killed... If it was a few hundred thousand, squeeze and borrow it, it would still be able to come out...

And Marin seems to have lost hundreds of thousands of gold coins, but in fact it is not much of a loss. why?

First, Marin is not short of money. But the money he grabbed from Wittenberg, the capital of Saxony, was enough for him to make a lot of money. As for the hundreds of thousands of gold deductions for Brandenburg to be divided equally with Lübeck and Hamburg? Marin is not worried, as long as he takes out the part of his own worth hundreds of thousands of gold coins from the 2 million gold coins that were stolen from Wittenberg and pulled to Hamburg for auction, it is enough to give them to two cities. Balanced. Most of those things are luxury goods, and Marin doesn't need them. It just happens to be given to people in two cities to play with, or auctioned off.

Second, Marin is naturally worried that the negotiation will suffer. The other party is already a lot of people, if they are united, they must be very sad. Even, it can be said that the pressure is very high. After all, Marin was not ready to turn against many German princes. Marin is very worried that he will suffer a big loss in this negotiation. Therefore, he does not want to see a united opponent. If Joachim I did not cooperate with those princes in the negotiation and took the initiative to agree to his own conditions, then the other party would be very passive. Even, the strength they finally gathered will punch in the empty space - one of the parties doesn't care, you are an outsider, care about a P?

At that time, the anti-Marin alliance will be very passive, and it will be difficult to unite against Marin. In addition, Marin will invite his papal father-in-law to send heavyweight representatives to the scene to suppress those religious princes, and Marin will be much better in the negotiation. At least, it will not be completely suppressed by the opponent... And this is also an important reason why Marin is willing to use a huge price of several hundred thousand gold coins in exchange for Joachim I's rebellion.

Moreover, the price of these hundreds of thousands of gold coins does not require Marin to take out the real gold and silver himself. Even if the part is distributed to Lübeck and Hamburg, it only needs to be divided from the auction property worth 2 million gold coins. Those belongings may not be able to be auctioned for a day or two, or even a few months. As it happened, Marin directly sent those to the two cities to auction slowly. On the other hand, he reaps political benefits.

In any case, the biggest threat that Marin faces now is that he is politically suppressed by his opponents. Because this kind of repression may force Marin to harvest very little ceded land. For example, Marin originally wanted to cede 10,000 square kilometers of land, but under the suppression of the other party, he only got 1,000 square kilometers... That is definitely a big loss...

If it is possible to solve the problem of the other party's holding a group in the negotiation, resolve this problem, and protect their own negotiating interests, it is not a big deal for a mere hundreds of thousands of dollars. After all, the land is permanent and can be passed down from generation to generation. And money, with Marin's insight beyond the times, it's not difficult to get it back...

And, because Marin mastered advanced agricultural technology, the benefits of the land were great. As long as you gain some more territory, the long-term benefits will far exceed the cost of these hundreds of thousands of gold coins. Therefore, in the private agreement with Joachim I, in the short term, Marin is at a loss. But if you get more territory, in the long run, Marin will make money...