Marin finally remembered to help his ally Grand Master Philip make peace with Poland and Lithuania, and began to think about how to speak......

Under the joint attack of Poland and Lithuania, the Teutonic Knights, which once had an area of more than 100,000 square kilometers and a population of one million, have only 38,000 square kilometers of land and 300,000 people left. Pen~Fun~Pavilion www.biquge.info Although the Livonian Knights were larger and had a large population, they were also out of the control of the Teutonic Knights with the support of Lithuania.

Moreover, the Teutonic Knights are not stable at the moment. With the support of Poland and Lithuania, the local Prussian nobles of the Teutonic Knights fought openly and secretly with the Teutonic Knights for control of the Teutonic State. For the time being, the four Hanseatic cities of Königsberg, Elbin, Thorn and Mermel were under the control of more than 800 official Teutonic knights and a few thousand reserve Teutonic knights. These four cities, which are also the wealthiest places in the Teutonic state, receive a lot of commercial taxes.

In the Teutonic countryside, however, it was the local Prussian aristocracy that prevailed. It was only in the vicinity of the four Hanseatic cities that the Teutonic knights were able to suppress the landed nobility of the Prussian countryside.

Speaking of which, these Prussian landed nobles were originally incapable of fighting against the Teutonic Knights. However, they have Lithuanians behind them. Therefore, although there was no money in the Teutonic Knights, the Prussian nobles in the countryside, with the support of Lithuania and Poland, received a lot of financial and military support, and had enough strength to confront the Teutonic Knights. Even if they were at the outback in the struggle, it interfered with the Teutonic Knights' control of the rural areas outside the four Hanseatic cities.

The Teutonic Knights had the advantage of money and troops, but they could not destroy the local Prussian nobility. Because, whenever the Teutonic Knights reorganized their armies and planned to exterminate the rural Prussian nobles, Poland and Lithuania would also gather large armies to threaten the borders of the Teutonic Knights, and prevent the Knights from exterminating those rural Prussian nobles who opposed the Knights......

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When Marin took advantage of the fact that Grand Duke Alexander was happy that he had won a large order of more than 100,000 gold coins a year, Marin made a request for reconciliation between Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights.

"Count Marin, why did you make peace for the Teutonic Knights?" Grand Duke Alexander asked curiously.

"Because Philip, the current Grand Master of Teuton, is my ally."

"Allies?"

"Yes, when I first became Earl of East Friesland, it was the Duchy of Cleaver, where the Teutonic Kingdom and Grand Master Philip were located, that first recognized my status and formed an alliance with me. So, I'm grateful to him. That's not entirely true. In fact, the reason why Marin supported Prince Philip as Grand Master and formed an alliance with him was purely to sabotage the good things of Friedrich, the third son of Albrecht, Duke of Saxony, and to prevent the Duchy of Saxony from becoming too powerful after having Teutonic as an ally.

Archduke Alexander did not make a decision immediately, but began a discussion with his younger brother, Prince Sigmund, in a whisper in the Lithuanian dialect. The discussion was long, there were arguments, and there seemed to be a great deal of disagreement.

Marin didn't understand the Lithuanian dialect, so naturally he could only stare dryly. However, there is a lot of debate over there, and it seems that the situation is not good......

So, Marin rolled his eyes and decided to put some pressure on him......

"Grand Duke, when I came, I passed through Königsberg, and I seemed to have seen the envoy of the Grand Duchy of Moscow going to Königsberg, and I don't know what he was doing. Could it be that the Muscovites want to form an alliance with the Teutons and fight from east to west......"

In fact, when Marin came, there were indeed envoys from the Grand Duchy of Moscow to the Teutons, but not to negotiate an alliance, but to deal with a trade dispute. Because, the Hanseatic merchants of the Livonian Knights and the merchants of the Grand Duchy of Moscow had a conflict because of a huge commercial dispute that occurred in the Livonian Knights. The Muscovites, believing that the Teutonic state was the suzerainty of the Livonian Order, had the right to adjudicate, so they stupidly ran to Königsberg to seek arbitration. In reality, however, the Livonian Order had long since become de facto independent, only nominally recognizing the Teutonic state as its suzerainty. In other words, the Mao Zi envoy ran away in vain this time.

So, simply Marin took out the matter of Maozi's envoy's visit to Königsberg to bluff the Lithuanians......

Although the Teutonic state declined, it was able to raise tens of thousands of troops, and the proportion of heavy cavalry was very high. To really form an alliance with the Grand Duchy of Moscow would also be a huge problem for Lithuania.

The faces of the Grand Duke Alexander and Prince Sigmund changed, and the Grand Duke of Alexander asked:

"Did they make a deal?"

"It doesn't seem to be ......," Marin pretended to think for a moment, then replied. The reason why he said this was only to tell the Lithuanians that if the Teutonic state fell to Moscow, it would cause great trouble for the Lithuanians, not to tell them that the Teutonic state was really allied with Moscow, it was just a way to exert pressure.

Grand Duke Alexander breathed a sigh of relief, and discussed with his brother in the Lithuanian dialect for a while......

Marin also said:

The news that "Grand Master Philip is also my trading partner, and every year, he makes a lot of ......profits from the sale of salt" implies that Archduke Alexander, Grand Master Philip, was also a wealthy man and could afford to recruit more troops...... In fact, Grand Master Philip did recruit 10,000 new troops, intending to rely on them to take control of the Teutonic state and suppress the native Prussian aristocracy.

Archduke Alexander and Prince Sigmund seemed to be shaken, and after a while, Archduke Alexander and Prince Sigmund seemed to have come to an agreement. So the Grand Duke of Alexander said to Marin:

"Lithuania agrees in principle to reconcile with the Teutons and undertakes not to interfere in the internal affairs of the Teutons. However, that was limited to the Teutonic mainland. We do not want to see the Knights of Livonia regain their influence and control under the influence and control of the Teutonic State......"

Obviously, this is the bottom line for Lithuanians. Marin thought about it and felt that this was already very good for the Teutons. Indeed, if the Teutonic and Livonian states were to merge, they would definitely become a formidable force. If Marin himself were to be replaced, he would not be able to tolerate such a powerful country by his side. Therefore, Lithuania's request is not excessive.

Therefore, Marin intended to bring this condition of the Grand Duke of Lithuania to the Teutonic Grand Master Philip. As long as Philip agreed and signed a treaty of reconciliation with Lithuania, he had the opportunity to deal with the opposition nobles in the Teutonic state. Because, Grand Duke Alexander was not only the Grand Duke of Lithuania, but also the king of the Kingdom of Poland. As long as Archduke Alexander promised not to interfere in the internal affairs of the Teutonic kingdom, the Teutonic Knights were free to deal with the native nobles who did not fight with the Order, and they would not be subject to armed intervention by Poland and Lithuania. All the Teutonic needed to pay was a promise not to ally with the Grand Duchy of Moscow.

Marin believed that Grand Master Philip, as long as he was not brain-dead, would definitely accept this favorable offer for the Teutonic state. Although it was not possible to regain control of the Livonian Order, in fact, the Livonian Order was no longer under the control of the Teutonic State. Agree or not agree to this condition, in fact, there is nothing. As long as the Prussian nobility in the country is dealt with, the Teutonic state can really be regarded as a country belonging to the Knights, and it will be able to develop more steadily. Unlike now, when the city and its surroundings were owned by the Teutonic Knights, the rest of the Teutonic countryside was mostly owned by the Prussian nobility......

With Alexander's public conditions, Marin continued on his way home, and by the way, conveyed this condition to Grand Master Philip......