(This book is a sequel to the book "The King of German Mercenaries", which has nearly 120,000 recommended votes, and the following is a brief overview of the previous book for new readers.) Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoIf you have any questions, please refer to the prequel to this book, "The King of the German Mercenaries". ）

Marin, a company employee who was "erudite" (mainly reading novels and miscellaneous books), was slapped with bricks and crossed to the banks of the German Rhine in 1494 because he was fighting for a friend, and became a young wandering knight Marin who had just been kicked out of his home and was on the verge of starvation. Hoffman.

With the knowledge and skills of the "outdated" in his previous life, Marin solved the problem of survival and survived the difficulties by hunting.

Later, with the knowledge he learned in the historical travel novels, Du Niang and various techniques in his previous life, Marin sacrificed the "Spanish phalanx" as a big killing weapon, temporarily pulled up a team of mercenaries, and defected to the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, who wanted to participate in the Italian war, and was reused.

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

Through this shocking feat, Marin was promoted from a small knight to an imperial baron of the Holy Roman Empire with an independent barony, becoming a member of the hereditary aristocracy.

In the remote island territory, Marin relied on his rich scientific knowledge to find a suitable way to make a fortune - boiling salt. Using the coal produced by his estate in the Ruhr region, Marin set up a cauldron of boiling salt by the sea in his island barony and began a lucrative career of boiling salt (salt was very expensive in those days).

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

After failing in his attempt to capture Friesland and being plucked by the Duke of Saxony, Marin had to turn his attention to the neighboring country of the Republic of Friesland, the Count of East Friesland.

Moreover, Marin was surprised to find that his cheap mother, Madame Mary, turned out to be the granddaughter of the overthrown former Earl of East Friesland.

With this, Marin obtained the de jure qualification to covet the title of Earl of East Friesland by forging documents of his grandfather's noble status (in fact, commoners, children born of intermarriage between European nobles have no right to inherit).

Marin then raised thousands of troops and raided East Friesland, seizing control of the Count of East Friesland and proclaiming himself a count......

However, not all things are smooth sailing. Marin, despite the occupation of East Friesland, was opposed by his neighbors. Especially the ambitious Duke of Saxony, who also coveted the Earl of East Friesian Lam.

In desperation, Marin had no choice but to recruit tens of thousands of mercenaries and fight to the death against the Saxon invading army......

Outside the county town of Lyre in the southern part of East Friesian Lamber, Marin used the "Spanish phalanx" ahead of his time and dug two trenches full of stakes in front of the formation to block the charge of the Saxon army.

Later, taking advantage of an opportunity when the flag of the Duchy of Saxony was broken by the artillery of the warships under the command of Marin, Marin learned from Zhu Xu in the "Battle of Weishui", and commanded his subordinates to spread rumors loudly, falsely claiming that the Duke of Saxony, the commander of the enemy army, was "killed by a cannon", which broke the fighting spirit of the enemy army, and took the opportunity to annihilate the Saxon army, which was more than twice as large as himself.

At this point, Marin solidified his position, completing the "several jumps" of "several jumps" from a wandering knight who had nothing to an autonomous earl in a few years.

Of course, as a knowledgeable (miscellaneous) traverser, Marin is not just busy improving his status. He knew that this era was the beginning of the vigorous "Age of Discovery". Marin knew very well about the profiteering of the Great Voyage, so he decisively took advantage of the fact that the territory was on the North Sea to build ships and train sailors, and participated in the Great Voyage.

By mistake, Marin recruited Columbus and used Columbus's fleet to "tail" da Gama, but he "stumbled" Da Gama halfway through, delaying the opponent's journey, and then his fleet arrived in India first, reaping the huge profits of the spice trade.

In addition, Marin also specially saved the Spanish prince who would have died of illness, changing history. From then on, it was impossible for Charles V, who had united Spain and the Holy Roman Empire, to reappear. And Spain, because of Marin's contribution to saving its crown prince, allowed Marin to participate in the colonization of the Americas, giving him the opportunity to get involved in the Americas......

At the same time, Marin also intervened in the affairs of the Teutonic Knights, and in the process of running for the new Grand Master, he supported the allies, defeated the son of the enemy Duke of Saxony, and made the allies the new Grand Master 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 of his familiarity with the direction of history, Marin resolutely pursued and successfully married after saving the illegitimate daughter of the fallen future god of war, Pope Julius II. You know, the same pope who had illegitimate children, and the three illegitimate sons of Alexander VI were all mixed into dukes. Marin's marriage to the illegitimate daughter of the future pope was clearly an act of political speculation.

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

In desperation, Marin had no choice but to take the charts of the Indian route to Spain and trade with the Spaniards, giving up the extremely lucrative Indian spice trade to the Spaniards, and in exchange for permission to colonize the Americas. Because, as the soul of China, Ma Lin knows the truth that "the husband is not guilty and bears his guilt". Unable to guarantee the safety of the route, Marin decisively gave up the windfall profits of the Indian spice trade and instead obtained a colonization permit from Spain to the Americas, laying the groundwork for the future colonization of Peru, Mexico and other gold and silver producing areas.

Marin then hired the equally great navigator Amerigo to lead a team to explore Grenada, a tropical island free of tropical snakes and poisonous insects, in the Caribbean Windward Islands, as well as the North American coastal islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard in preparation for colonization.

The reason why these two places were chosen as the preferred colonies is because although Grenada is a tropical island, because there are no poisonous snakes and poisonous insects, diseases are not easy to spread, and colonists who colonize there are not easy to get tropical diseases such as malaria. The choice of two small islands off the coast of North America as the preferred colony was due to the fact that the Indians on the mainland were too powerful. Perhaps their combat effectiveness is average on the plains, but Indian archers who enter the primeval forests of North America and are good at shooting prey in the jungle will become a nightmare for colonists. Therefore, Marin planned to make steady progress, first occupy two small islands lacking Indians, build a base and farm on the islands, and use this as a springboard to slowly plot against the Indians on the mainland......

Eventually, Marin made a deal with his father-in-law, Archbishop Rovere (the future Pope Julius II), to help him become pope and conquer the Papal State's wealthy neighbor, the Republic of Florence, in exchange for secular governance in the neighboring Episcopal State of Münster. To this end, Marin recruited another 10,000 new mercenaries and sent them to the territory of the Allied Teutonic States to secretly train them to escort Archbishop Rovere into Rome in the future...... So far, Marin, who played 20,000 mercenaries, has become the king of European mercenaries in this era......

However, being a traverser and just becoming the king of mercenaries is obviously not in line with Marin's ambitions. So, with the powerful army under his command, Marin began to expand and embarked on a new journey......