The situation of the battle between the Saxon coalition army and the Gedes army, and Marin's spies and scouts have been quietly watching. Even, at a distance from the battlefield, there were reconnaissance cavalry under the command of Sauer for a long time, taking turns to observe with binoculars.

On the night of the battle, the scouts were convinced that the Saxon coalition had been defeated......

Then, early the next morning, the powerful intelligence machine of East Friesland was activated, and two communications soldiers galloped along the hotel system operated by the Beihai Chamber of Commerce along the way. Every once in a while, the signal soldiers would change horses at the inn with the Beihai Chamber of Commerce logo and continue to gallop.

The inn's teleportation system was inspired by the games Marlin played in his previous life. The inn is a very important place in the game. In general, the lobby on the first floor of the inn is a tavern and for tours. At the back of the first floor is the kitchen.

There is a basement under the kitchen, which is a storage room for various kegs and supplies such as grain. The second floor of the inn is a resting place, with multiple guest rooms.

In addition, there is a stable next to the inn, which is dedicated to the mounts of guests. Of course, in the game, there are usually flying points next to the inn.

However, in the real world, there are no flying mounts for riding, and you still have to ride horses.

So, the area of the stables is large, not inferior to the inn hall. Moreover, in the stables, there are two or three spare horses all year round. These two or three spare horses were used for the interrogation of Marin's men.

After all, Marin can't use other countries' communication systems. Therefore, relying on the humble public facilities such as inns, and stockpiling rotating mounts to deliver urgent news, has become the best choice for Marin.

In order to prevent the hotel from being targeted by others, it will affect the communication system. Marin didn't even provide Chinese chefs to the inns, lest the inns become too famous and targeted by the local aristocracy.

Therefore, the chain hotels of the Beihai Chamber of Commerce, the food and alcohol are not better than other hotels of the same era. If you want to talk about the difference, that is, the food of the Beihai chain inn, it is relatively clean, and there is no expired spoilage. In addition, the bed sheets in the guest rooms are also changed frequently, and they look relatively clean. Other than that, there is nothing else to offer.

After all, the hotel used to deliver the message is a strategic communication channel, and it can't be too high-profile and attention-grabbing.

In addition, the innkeepers are usually spies under Kohler. They stand in front of the counter in the lobby on the first floor and serve guests. At the same time, they also eavesdrop on the conversations of guests in the hall to obtain useful information that can be passed back to East Friesland.

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However, the investment cost of building such a hotel system is very high. Moreover, the profits of ordinary hotels are meager, and the costs cannot be recovered in the early stage.

Therefore, even a local tyrant like Marin has only opened a "North Sea Chamber of Commerce Chain Hotel" system from East Friesland to Rome. As for other places, such a system must be established as well. It's just that it takes time and commitment. In addition, it is also necessary to cultivate relevant espionage talents.

It can be said that chain hotels are the best source of information in this era. Why? Because the lobby on the first floor of the hotel has the function of a tavern!

What is a tavern? That's where people drink and brag. A lot of information is revealed when people inadvertently brag about it.

Moreover, people who have drunk alcohol have a very poor sense of secrecy, and their voices are often very loud, and it is easy to shout out some useful information loudly.

Therefore, Marin asked the shopkeeper in the lobby of the Beihai hotel chain set up by Kohler to be full of spies, specializing in eavesdropping on the news of the guests' bragging, and then pretending to settle accounts on the counter and record the news.

In order to conceal it, the counter of the shopkeeper is often semi-closed and has a baffle to prevent guests from seeing the shopkeeper recording information.

However, this also creates a problem - that is, the shopkeeper must be literate......

This is a bit difficult, in this day and age, literate people often get good jobs, who will be a spy for you? Therefore, it took a lot of effort for Kohler to recruit a group of literate people to take on such a role. Therefore, at present, Marin can only open one line from East Friesland to Rome. If you want to open other lines, the biggest problem is not investment, but the lack of literate spy shopkeepers......

Moreover, it is easier to find out information in an inn tavern than in a plain tavern. Why? Many of the guests at the inn are innkeepers. These residents, who travel from south to north, know more information and information, and are more knowledgeable than the locals. Their conversations are also more informative and valuable than those of ordinary tavern guests.

Ordinary tavern guests talk about the local parents' short and new things. And the guests of the inn and tavern are more businessmen, and there are also many people on official business. The topics that these people talk about are all from all over the world, and there are rumors everywhere, which is more informative and more valuable.

At the beginning, when Marin came up with the idea of establishing a chain of hotels, he couldn't help but praise it. The idea of an inn tavern, in particular, is simply amazing.

In general, in this era, inns and taverns were mostly separated. Many inns are simple bungalows with no second floor. Then, the inn is the inn and can only be used for sleeping. If the guests want to drink, they have to run to the tavern, which is very inconvenient.

Of course, in this era, there are already inns that have opened taverns on the first floor, but there are not many. Only those large hotels with strong capital, with floors or large courtyards, can do this. However, no one has ever combined an inn with a tavern, and added spies for intelligence inquiry. In addition, the use of the hotel system, which functions as a post station and provides horses for transfer, is also quite effective.

Because the chain's intelligence system and post house system were so good, both Marin and Kohler believed that it should be expanded and spread throughout Europe to facilitate intelligence gathering.

However, there was a recent incident, that is, in the Archbishopric of Cologne, the shopkeeper of an inn was accidentally seen recording information in a semi-closed counter, causing a big trouble.

Although the sharp-eyed man was later assassinated, it made Kohler see a huge risk. The main risk is that if the shopkeeper of a hotel is caught, the entire hotel system may be exposed.

Therefore, Kohler passed this problem to Marin through the inn post system, asking for guidance.

After thinking about it for a long time, Marin felt that it was really silly to use a chain hotel. In this way, once something happens to a hotel, the entire Beihai chain hotel will be served in one pot.

Therefore, Marin made a decision - no longer use the name of the hotel chain in the future to avoid bad luck together. However, those inns, although they no longer use a uniform name, will use a uniform code and marking. In this way, it is also easy to identify with the messenger who transmits the message, and it is convenient to change mounts. As for what code to use? Marin decided to use the Iron Cross emblem or the later German tricolor flag. In addition, all the inns under Marin's command will hang a huge signboard on the top, and in the inconspicuous place of the signboard, there will be a small sign of the iron cross or tricolor flag for the messenger to identify the messenger who delivers the message.

In this way, even if the shopkeeper of a certain hotel is involved in the incident because of the espionage, it will not involve other hotels. Because, on the surface, everyone is not a family......

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Through a well-developed system of inn information stations, Marin soon received information from West Frisland. When he saw the news of George's defeat, Marin stood up, found Julius II and said:

"It's time for me to go home!"