Chapter 27: Fortune from Saxony
Faced with my choice, Asathsin asked me privately about my time when he was a robber everywhere.
Since you are trying to rob, why not choose the upper and lower Luosiz, who has not yet suffered from war in the east?
Others had no corresponding information in their minds for my orders, and they just did it after hearing it, and they wouldn't think so much. Asathsin is different. You should know that she is an intelligence agent, and the information in her head is more than that in other people. Even the Saxony information I have on hand was made by her, so it's not no wonder Asathsin asked questions.
The upper and lower Louciz in the eastern Saxony allowed two rivers to pass by, one was the diversion of the Elbe River, which eventually flowed to the Dutch lowlands with prosperous trade, and the other led to the Prussian port in the north. Although the flow directions of the two rivers were different, the estuaries were both prosperous cities, with rivers responsible for transportation. It is not difficult to infer that the areas along the river were also prosperous areas. If you choose the still peaceful Louciz to fight and grab it, you don’t have to think that it will get richer returns than Leipzig and West Saxony.
The upper and lower Lauciz does have a greater value, but I will not hesitate to let the 33rd Spartan Legion get hurt not just to grab money.
Assassin took Viscount Imas to contact the German princes around Saxony, which was because I stayed in West Saxony. Because I decided to trade most of the money I snatched from Saxony to the German princes that they would never dream of, and exchange money or supplies for prisoners.
I used real money and silver to buy prisoners in their prisons from the German princes. My plan to expand the army was inspired by Morris. The key content was to lack the critical location of the crime, which was the key crime site and the victim of the alcoholic.
The German princes in the west of Saxony were everywhere. There were no 20 or 30 prisoners in the prison dungeon. As long as these people were taken, Assassin and the others sent leaflets everywhere, a large number of German princes came over to send their prisoners to us. You must know that this would not only reduce prisoners and increase income. There were not many good things to do next to Lausitz, but it was either Prussia or Austria's territory. The Austrians wanted us to die all, so that we would use money to redeem prisoners from their prisons. Not to mention Prussia, even though we could fight to the north to liberate the prisoners, wasn't this going to waste the money?
"Can an army of prisoners fight?" Asathahin said with doubts. She should be afraid that I would spend this money in vain.
"Fortunately, there are not only thieves and fraudsters in the dungeon, but also jailed and raped murderers. Those people are so fierce and fight against ordinary farmers. They have advantages in nature. Besides, those people have no family, they have no worries. As long as they have food and drinks, they will be more relaxed when they kill people. So remember. We should accept everything except those who are crazy, sick and disabled."
"Okay, I understand."
Assassin's concerns are not unreasonable. However, except for Rome and the east, the military camps of various forces in Western Europe are largely filled with scum, scum, and villains. As for their combat effectiveness, some people may think they are a mob and vulnerable, but the fact is not that true. Most of the sailors of the Royal Navy, which were kidnapped from the tavern, were drunkards and gamblers, and many were sailors of passing merchant ships who were kidnapped everywhere on board, and the rest were good people who voluntarily signed service contracts.
It’s not that if you find a group of scumbags, you can fight the world with invincible scum. As the saying goes, there will be gains and losses. The rebellions of the Royal Navy of the British Empire are so frequent that they are simply outrageous. Otherwise, there would be so many stories about the captain’s rebellion in the 20th century, and then the treasure is lost. Finally, the protagonist and his party go to find the treasure.
In short, there will be gains. So far, no one has been hungry and has to find rapists, despises, thieves, and robbers from prison to join the army. But I am not going to build an ever-winning army, right? Anyway, those slags are consumables. If you put them in the front as shields, you will die. I will not be a pity. However, the 33rd Spartan Legion, such good steel will naturally be left on the blade. With the lack of one person in Bai, I will feel heartbroken for a long time.
On the days when Assassin and Viscount Imas went out, I brought the troops to Leipzig and joined a company that had been placed on the battlefield to collect the bodies of the 33rd Spartan Army and killed the soldiers.
After reorganizing the soldiers who could continue to fight in the 33rd Spartan Army, I sent them out to rob. Two hunting cavalry battalions went to block the road to escape from refugees. The infantry of the two companies guarded the bridges connecting the east and west banks of the Elbe River to ensure that the Saxons in the territory had no way to go to heaven and no way to the ground. Then the 33rd Spartan Army began to collect materials in West Saxony and Leipzig.
Considering that there are more than two months left before autumn, the Saxony farmers do not have much surplus food at home, and robbing them from them is basically a waste of time. Therefore, the 33rd Spartan Legion collected military supplies on the spot this time, which was very courageous that a big country should have.
"Don't steal ordinary people, just rich people!"
Saxony is a place with fertile plains and fertile soil, and the special metal minerals are the Seda Iron Mine. Therefore, the rich people are basically big landlords. As the landlords and the owners of the manors, according to the information provided by Asathasin, they generally have a name "noble". The reason for robbing is to cover up the escaped enemy. As for taking away all the things that can be taken, this can be explained as cutting off local aristocrats to provide financial assistance to the Saxony fugitives.
The jurist sent by my father to me once made up for the unspoken rules of the Western European wars. It shows that the two sides of Western Europe rarely attack the aristocrats. The reason is that the relationship between Western European aristocrats is complex and complicated. Unless the commander who leads the troops is the king himself, those generals who lead the troops usually choose civilians and wealthy merchants to attack, because who knows whether the owner of the 1-acre and 3-point land that was robbed has any relatives with the powerful and powerful in the country. Even if they have no relatives, what if they have a relative relationship with their mistress? If they accidentally stab a hornet's nest, it will be a big problem. So, generally speaking, the army that invades the enemy country will give face to the local nobles.
However, all these regulations are only useful to Western European nobles. I, a nobleman far away in Eastern Rome, would I be afraid of this?
The idiot Saxon nobles thought that the fire of this war would not burn to their house as usual, so they waited until the soldiers of the 33rd Spartan Legion rushed to their doorstep, and the people were still staying on the lawn to bask in the sun and have afternoon tea.
Because I made preparations in advance, most of the Saxon nobles were arrested in just over ten days.
The soldiers of the 33rd Spartan Army took over the manor from West Saxony to Leipzig in the name of capturing fugitives. There were 37 mansions in total, including famous paintings and helmets and armors. Since there was no master of appreciation around me, I would not count this thing for the time being. More than 54,000 German silver coins of Kreuz, Albuse and other types were seized, which was about 11,200 Tale. The ratio of Tale to Jinmak is roughly 5 to 4.7, which is about 2,350 German gold coins; Swedish gold coins
More than 2,000 pieces and more than 8,000 pieces of silver, which is 3,750 pieces of gold marks converted into German currency. In addition, some scattered and messy gold and silver coins from other countries are about 300 gold marks, with a total amount of about 6,400 gold marks, which is about 4,900 Ore. The income of currency is pitifully small. I think this is probably because the Saxony nobles deposited their money in the downstream cities at the entrance of the sea. However, the difference between robbing aristocrats and robbing a bank is that although the currency is less than robbing a bank, the other income is quite large.
We seized 375 exquisite silk, 973 fur, silver utensils such as knife, forks, basins, and discs weighed 11,840 pounds and 327 grams, various gold utensils, and jewelry total weight of about 938 pounds and 173 grams, and 10 pounds and 121.5 grams of gems of various colors.
One pound is equal to 453.6 grams. Among German currencies, the most valuable Tale silver coins weigh 4.8 grams each and contain 92%. The silver utensils we confiscated are worth enough to match the silver content of 1029,000 Tale silver coins. The 97% gold with a little more than 938 pounds is converted into 3.4 grams of gold with a gold content of 93%, which is about 123,000 gold marks. These gold and silver plus the currency are worth a total of 342,000 gold marks, which is about 263,000 Ore, which is four or five million Soridos. The properties I bought in Constantinople last time were not as much money as this.
This is the wealth that only a region has. Even Rome and aristocrats generally like to melt gold and silver into knife and fork vessels and candlesticks as family decorations, rather than putting a lot of money at home.
However, this does not include the 8,162 Saxony horses collected from Saxony estates everywhere. Among those good horses, the more valuable ones are 2,685 war horses that can be quickly armed without any training and training, and 4,366 young horses less than three years old. The most valuable ones belong to the Saxony stallions.
Stallions are worth more than 1,000 Soridos, war horses worth more than 1.8 meters tall are worth more than 600 Soridos, and ordinary war horses are 220-500. During this war period, these war horses are more valuable than 100,000 Ore.
Chapter completed!