The Rise of the European Emperor

(This book is the sequel to the book "King of German Mercenaries" with nearly 120,000 votes. The following is a brief overview of the previous book for new readers' reference. If you are not sure, please refer to Prequel to this book - The King of German Mercenaries.)

Marin, a company employee who is "learned" (mainly reading novels and miscellaneous books), was beaten by a brick because he was fighting for his friends. Not long after the house, Marin Hoffman, a young wandering knight on the verge of starvation.

With all kinds of "outdated" knowledge and skills from the previous life, Marin solved the problem of survival and tided over the difficulties by hunting.

Afterwards, relying on the knowledge he learned from his past life in historical novels, mother-in-law and various technical stickers, Marin resorted to the "Spanish phalanx", a big killer, and temporarily pulled up a team of mercenaries to join the Italian war. The Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I and was reused.

As a traverser, "foresight" is Marin's greatest advantage. Taking advantage of this advantage, the daring Marin, with only a phalanx (1,250 people), ambushed the French King Charles VIII and his 8,000 French knights who were busy fleeing in the middle of the night, and achieved a brilliant victory.

Through this amazing feat, Marin was promoted from a small knight to an imperial baron of the Holy Roman Empire with an independent baroniality and became a member of the hereditary nobles.

In the remote island territory, Marin found a suitable way to make a fortune by relying on the rich scientific knowledge he mastered - cooking salt. Using the coal produced by his manor in the Ruhr area, Marin set up a cauldron for boiling salt on the seaside of his island barony and started a career of making huge profits (salt was very expensive at that time).

Then, relying on good finances, Marin hired enough troops to thwart the invasion of the Frisian noble republic...

After failing to capture Friesland and being picked peaches by the Duke of Saxony, Marin had to turn his attention to the neighboring country of the Friesland Republic, the Counties of East Friesland.

Moreover, Marin was surprised to find that his cheap mother, Madame Marie, turned out to be the granddaughter of the overthrown former count of East Frisian.

With this, Marin obtained the legal status of coveting the title of Earl of East Friesland by forging documents on his grandfather's family's aristocratic status (in fact, it was a commoner's status, and children born by European nobles' intermarriage have no right of inheritance). Qualifications.

Then, Marin still raised thousands of troops, raided East Friesland, won the control of East Friesland in one fell swoop, and proclaimed himself an earl...

However, things were not all smooth sailing. Although Marin occupied East Friesland, it was opposed by neighboring countries. In particular, the ambitious Duke of Saxony, who also covets East Friesland.

In desperation, Marin had to recruit tens of thousands of mercenaries to fight the Saxon invaders to the death...

Outside the county seat of Lyell in the south of East Friesland, Marin used the "Spanish phalanx", which was ahead of his time, and dug two trenches filled with pickets in front of the line to block the charge of the Saxons.

Later, taking advantage of an opportunity when the flag of the army of the Duchy of Saxony was cut off by the artillery of Marin's warships, Marin learned Zhu Xu from the "Battle of Feishui", and commanded his men to spread rumors loudly, falsely calling the enemy commander-in-chief the Duke of Saxony "in the middle of the artillery". killed", disintegrating the enemy's fighting spirit, and taking the opportunity to annihilate the Saxon army more than twice his own.

So far, Marin has stabilized his position, and has completed a huge change in a few years from a wandering knight with nothing to a self-governing earl of the county.

Of course, as a knowledgeable (and miscellaneous) transmigrator, Marin is not just busy improving his status. He knew that this era was the beginning of the vigorous "Great Voyage Age". Marin is very clear about the huge profits of the great voyage, so,

He decisively took advantage of the territory's location on the North Sea, built ships and trained sailors, and participated in the great voyage.

By accident, Marin recruited Columbus and used Columbus to "tail" Da Gama's fleet. Arrived in India and gained huge profits from the spice trade.

In addition, Marin also specially rescued the Spanish *** Prince An who would have died of illness, and changed history. From then on, Charles V, who jointly ruled Spain and the Holy Roman Empire, could not reappear. And Spain, because of Marin's credit for saving its crown prince, allowed Marin to participate in the ranks of colonizing the Americas, giving it the opportunity to encroach on the Americas...

At the same time, Marin also intervened in the affairs of the Teutonic Knights. In the process of running for the new Grand Commander, he supported the ally, defeated the son of the enemy of the Duke of Saxony, and made the ally the new Grand Commander of the Teutonic Knights. As a result, Marin also got the opportunity to intervene in the trade of the Teutonic countries, increasing trade routes and financial resources.

Because he is familiar with the trend of history, after saving the illegitimate daughter of the future God of War Pope Julius II in distress, Marin resolutely pursues and succeeds in marriage. You know, the Pope who also had illegitimate sons, the three illegitimate sons of Alexander VI all mixed into dukes. Marin's marriage to the future pope's illegitimate daughter is clearly a political speculation.

After sending Columbus to discover the Indian route, Marin did not go to war with India himself, because he knew that the sea power under his men was too weak to compete with the Portuguese. Since the time of Prince Enrique, the Portuguese have developed a great nautical career for decades, with a solid background and a large number of warships.

In desperation, Marin could only choose to take the nautical charts of the Indian route to Spain, and make deals with the Spaniards, ceding the extremely lucrative Indian spice trade to the Spaniards, in exchange for permission to colonize the Americas. Because, as the soul of China, Marin knows the truth of "every man is innocent and he is guilty". Unable to guarantee the safety of the route, Marin resolutely gave up the huge profits of the spice trade in India, and instead obtained the American colonization license from Spain, laying a foreshadowing for the future colonization of gold and silver producing areas such as Peru and Mexico.

Then, Marin hired the equally great navigator Amerigo to lead a team to explore Grenada (a tropical island free of tropical venomous snakes and poisonous insects) in the Windward Islands of the Caribbean Sea, as well as the North American coastal islands of Nantucket and Horses. Savineyard, prepare to colonize both places.

The reason why these two places were chosen as the preferred colonies is that although Grenada is a tropical island, because there are no poisonous snakes and poisonous insects, diseases are not easily contagious. The two small islands on the North American coast were chosen as the preferred colonies because the Indians on the mainland were too powerful. Perhaps their combat effectiveness is average on the plains, but Indian archers who enter the virgin forests of North America and are good at shooting prey in the jungle will become a nightmare for the colonists. Therefore, Marin intends to play steadily, first occupying two small islands lacking Indians, building bases and farms on the islands, using this as a springboard, and slowly plotting against the Indians on the mainland...

In the end, Marin reached an agreement with his father-in-law, the Archbishop of Rovere (the future Pope Julius II), to help his former Pope to conquer the Republic of Florence, the rich neighboring country of the Papal State, in exchange for East Frisian Lambert. Secular governance of the neighboring country of the Bishop of Münster. To this end, Marin recruited 10,000 new mercenaries, and they were secretly trained in the territory of the Teutonic allies. In the future, they will be used to escort the Archbishop of Rovere into Rome... So far, Marin, who has played 20,000 mercenaries, has become a The king of European mercenaries in this era...

However, as a traverser, just to be the king of mercenaries, obviously does not meet Marin's ambitions. So, Marin, with his powerful army, began to expand and embarked on a new journey...