After Marin beca the superstar of the Empire, a lot of people joined the ranks of Maximillian the First, while there were also a lot of people who specifically rushed to Texel, in order to visit the young superstar Marin.
As such, a lot of young knight-errants had made their way towards Hollands Den Helder from inland Deutsche Germany, and boarded boats towards Texel to visit Marin.
Marin just happened to want to recruit talented people, so he had been patiently accomodating these young n. In reality, each eting was equivalent to a job interview for Marins visiters.
These guests were majority young people who had not obtained the title of a knight. They had travelled from far and wide, actually because they wanted to obtain insider information, so that they would be able to obtain the official knight title smoothly.
In order to recruit the talents, Marin acted courteously, and enthusiastically received these squires from everywhere, and invited them to visit his own 400 elite underlings.
However, what made Marin depressed was, each of these people were extrely hungry for knowledge. But when Marin offered them to join him, all of them basically politely refused.
It turns out, all of them were dissatisfied with Marins small territory, which ans no room for improvent. All of these conceited young n believed they werent lacking in any way compared to Marin.
If Marin could beco a Baron, why couldnt they?
Thats why, all of the offers Marin has extended, basically none of those squires accepted, which made Marin extrely depressed. In reality, Marin also had his ways of keeping them here. Which was basically knighting them as official knights of his Barony.
However, Marin was reluctant to do that. Because, knighting soone wasnt sothing that could be done willy-nilly. The reason why Schwartz could be knighted, aside from his abilities and loyalty, was that he had made contributions to the war effort in Italy, which was also the main reason.
One must know, Schwartz was Marins adjutant in Italy. Besides, the daily military training were all under the direct supervision of Schwartz. As for Marin himself, his only job was to guide Schwartz. If Schwartz was officially knighted, the 400 soldiers wouldnt have any qualms with it.
However, if Marin suddenly knighted a bunch of outsiders, these 400 soldiers might not buy it.
Thats why, Marin could not easily promist and knight those young squires who ca to visit him, all he could do was paint an amazing future for them. After all, defining rewards and punishnt was the necessary quality for a qualified commander. However, all of these squires who ca from knight Families, they had all received education and were not stupid. It was true that they idolized Marin, however, if they served under Marin, the most they could get was beco knighted officially. anwhile, knights were not inherited titles. All of these ambitious young n longed to beca like Marin, to beca a Baron whose title could be inherited.
Thats why, they were not fooled by Marin, and after receiving knowledge on how to train the troops, they had all decided to leave.
These squires from noble families werent that easy to fool. While the young n from commonfolk were much easier to handle.
Among the young n who ca to visit Marin, aside from those squires, there were a lot of commonfolk from wealthy families as the poorer folk had no money to pay for a trip to Texel.
After Marin failed to recruit those squires, he turned his attention towards the commonfolk. Since these commonfolk were from wealthy families, most of them had received so form of education, and were quite cultured. And Marin deeply needed cultured people to help him in managing Texel.
As such, Marin started to butter up these cultured commonfolk
After several rounds of convincing and swaying, a portion of the cultured commoners remained as expected.
Also because of that, Marin finally had a Mayor to manage Den Burg a 28 year old commoner called Heiner Lehmann.
Heiner Lehmanns ancestors were also from a family of knights, otherwise they wouldnt have had a surna. However, his family was a branch of the main one, after several generations, they had given up on martial traditions, and turned towards business. Thats why, Heiner was actually considered a rchant-folk.
However, he had attended University in Cologne, and studied law. From the looks of it, he had just graduated from Law at the University of Cologne, he wasnt in a hurry to find a job, instead, he ca to travel in order to broaden his horizons.
How could Marin let go of a talent such as him? A university student in the Middle Ages, that was definitely an existence even rarer than pandas! Marin imdiately made his decision and nmaed Heiner as the Mayor of Den Burg, as well as the Justice of Texels court. As such, Texel welcod the first official civil servant after Marins reign.
Heiner himself was extrely delighted. Because, as a man from common roots, even though he had attended university. However, if he went to get a job, he definitely would only land one as a lawyer. As for judges of the court, only those with noble roots may take those positions. Although a lawyer was considered a well-off job, but that wasnt sothing comparable to an official position.
As such, Heiner was imdiately bought and swore under Marin, to assist Marin in processing the managent duties of Texel.
Afterwarsd, Marin had continued recruiting several other cultured young n with common-roots, who were given the positions of Mayors to t Horntje and Oudeschild, as well as Salttown.
Just as Marin was currently over the moon from recruiting several cultured young n into his faction, a sentry ca reporting yet another young squire was visiting him
After several failures in recruiting, Marin was now completely uninterested in recruiting those shrewd squires. But, when Marin was told of the young mans na, his eyes imdiately widened because, the sentry had told Marin the na of the young man who was visiting him, was George Frundsberg.
Who was George Frundsberg? Thats a badass figure who was praised as the Father of Germanic rcenaries! Marin had read about the related history books about Germanic rcenaries, he knew about Geoge Frundsberg, he was the most important general of the rcenaries under Maximillian the Firsts army in the original tiline, who was also the greatest participant in the Italian war, as well as the terminator of the Legendary Swiss rcenaries.
However, it seems like Frundsberg only started appearing during the Swabian war in 1499. As such, he was still an unknown squire, and was still baesd in the Swabian region, being a soldier under who knows which lord.
As for this great person, Marin had decided to do his best to rope him in. Even if he couldnt recruit him, he would have to establish friendly relations. Because, Frundsberg in the fuutre would beco Maximillian the Firsts first-in-command
As such, Marin was imdiately at full attention, and with the highest specifications of receiving a noble, he invited George Frundsberg inside
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