In fact, sending envoys to ask for help and crying court was not created by Ma Lin himself, but in the late Spring and Autumn period. At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu Zixu, a native of Chu, fled from Chu and went to Wu because his father was slandered.

Subsequently, Wu Zixu and Sun Wu, the two great gods, helped King Wu Lu grow the weak Wu State into a Spring and Autumn hegemon-level country, and sent a large army to break through Yingdu and destroy the Chu State, and also dug up the body of King Chu Ping, who killed Wu Zixu's father and brother, and whipped the corpse, which opened a historical precedent for whipping corpses.

After the fall of the Chu State, the Chu minister Shen Baoxu ran to the Qin State and wept bitterly at the gate of the Qin State for seven days, praying that the Qin State would send troops to help restore the country. Qin Aigong was moved by it, so he sent troops to help the Chu State recover.

More than 1,000 years later, the drama of the Wailing Court was staged again. However, this time it was North Korea that cried in court. After Toyotomi Hideyoshi unified Japan, he sent a large army to invade Korea, forcing the Korean king Li Hao to escape the Yalu River and hide in the Liaodong Peninsula.

At that time, North Korea also sent ministers to the Forbidden City of the Ming Dynasty to cry in the court, and at the same time gave gifts to the ministers of the Ming Dynasty, which finally moved the Ming Dynasty and sent a large army to drive the Japanese army out of the Korean Peninsula.

In general, the crying court drama was successful, and only these two times. Later, after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty actually sent people to Japan to beg for teachers and asked Japan to send troops to help resist the Qing Dynasty. But Japan couldn't even defeat the Ming army at the beginning, where did they dare to fight the Eight Banners soldiers in the early years of the Qing Dynasty who were more ferocious than the Ming Jun (not to mention the ones at the end of the Qing Dynasty)? So, that weeping court beggar failed.

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Of course, Marin asked Angela to send someone to Worms to cry in court, not really to ask the princes for help, but to sell miserably.

When an envoy of a country can only cry bitterly to beg for help from other countries, it is clear that the country has reached the point of exhaustion.

For, if there is a glimmer of hope, an envoy of a kingdom will never cry and beg for help. Because, it will lose the face of the country.

But on the contrary, Ma Lin is a person who came from China in the 21st century, and the least important thing is face. In that era of "dancing demons", people even believed that "if people are shameless, they are invincible...... Therefore, Marin plans to be "invincible" this time, in order to be able to find an excuse to eat the opponent - you see, I'm so miserable, it's okay to fight back viciously before "dying", right?

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In addition, Marin also pinned his hopes on the religious princes of Germany this time......

Speaking of which, most of the German princes and secular princes were against Marin, and only the Swabian League and the Cleaver Duchy led by the Habsburgs were in league with Marin. The other 100 or so secular princes (more than 300 large and small princes in Germany) were all on the opposite side of Marin.

So, Marin never counted on the worldly princes. And those religious princes have very mixed feelings towards Marin. From their own point of view, they were disgusted with Marin, the "lackey of the Habsburgs".

However, Marin had a close relationship with the Holy See, and the Pope even publicly appeared in support of Marin. The papacy was the superior of the religious princes, which made it inconvenient for these religious princes to openly oppose Marin.

So, for these religious princes, their attitude towards Marin was - inwardly opposed, but outwardly not opposed.

And Marin wants their complicated attitude. It is foreseeable that when the envoys of the North Sea Kingdom cried for help in the Imperial Council of Worms, the religious princes, who accounted for nearly half of the Holy Roman Empire, gloated in their hearts, but they could not show it on the surface, and they must have been uncomfortable.

At this time, it was impossible for them to send troops to help the Beihai State. They just don't trouble the Beihai Kingdom because of the face of the Holy See, but they will never save the Beihai Kingdom. Even if the Holy See asked them to send troops to the rescue, they would find an excuse to shirk it.

However, for the sake of the Holy See's face, they could not help but express it. Therefore, when the Beihai Kingdom is "ruthless" and threatens to destroy the opponent through a death war, they are very likely to support the Beihai Kingdom to fight to the death on the surface. Why? Because in their hearts, the North Sea Country is at the end of the road, and it will definitely not succeed. In such a situation, verbal support will not harm your own interests, but also give the Holy See an explanation......

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Therefore, in the end, those religious princes may choose to verbally support the Beihai Kingdom to "be ruthless", but they will never send a single soldier to help.

And as long as this group of religious princes rises early, then there will be some secular princes who follow the trend and follow suit. Anyway, no matter who it is, they will not think that even the envoys are scared and crying in the Beihai country have a chance to turn over.

As long as more than half of the princes of the Worms Imperial Council support the North Sea State to speak harshly to destroy the war, then the time has come for Marin to "make a comeback". With the approval of the Imperial Council, even if these princes are destroyed, the other princes will have to pinch their noses and admit it. Because, they agreed before......

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Of course, before that, Beihaiguo needs to find an actor who looks "miserable...... No, it's an envoy......

In this world, there is a kind of person who naturally looks sad and sad, and his smile is like a bitter smile, and he looks very unlucky. Often, we call such people "full of decay......

If you have this kind of face, it will be difficult to get out of the way. Because, when your boss sees you, he feels bad luck and is in a bad mood. You say, will he still be willing to reuse and promote you?

Therefore, when Ma Lin sent people to find people, he did not look for people among middle and high-level officials, but directly asked people to go to the grassroots level to find people......

Why? This kind of person who looks like a decrepit person is generally difficult to get ahead, and can only be mixed at the bottom, and it is useless to be talented......

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Along these lines, Kohler's intelligence agents quickly found a suitable person - a small-town judge named Johnny...... Secretary......

Yes, the secretary of the town judge. Speaking of which, this Johnny is 38 years old and has worked in the courtroom in the small town of Haag in Norden County for 15 years.

Johnny graduated from law at the University of Cologne 15 years ago and was supposed to have a bright future. However, because of his declining appearance, he was very unpopular.

At first, he planned to go to Emden, the capital of the East Friesian Lamb at that time, to look for opportunities, but when he saw his decline, the magnates of Emden refused to give him a chance. So, as a medieval college student, he had to return to his hometown of Haag, intending to become a local judge. Of course, he also perfectly avoided Marin's bloodbath of the Emden officials......

However, there was already a judge in Haag at that time, so he had to start as the judge's secretary. In fact, the judge of Haag Town is just an uneducated and unskilled aristocratic kid who doesn't know the law at all. As a result, the legal trial in Haag Town, the tiring errands and the work of collecting evidence in the early stage, were all done by Johnny. When the verdict is pronounced, it will be done by the unlearned judge he serves......

But 15 years later, Haag has changed several judges, but Johnny is still the legal secretary of Haag and has never been promoted...... No way, whenever a superior official comes to inspect the candidates, he can't feel better when he sees Johnny's declining face......

Therefore, because of his appearance, even if he was talented, he was a rare college student at the time, Johnny has not been able to be promoted, and he is nicknamed "Unlucky Johnny" by the people of Haag Town......

In fact, the issue of appearance has always been a big problem. Even in later generations, when Chinese civil servants are selected, they must also look at their appearance. Of course, for the sake of "fairness", the employer will not explicitly mention the issue of appearance, but will acquiesce to this point at the interview level - but those who look unlucky or do not look like good people at first glance will generally not be admitted...... After all, officials are meant to win the trust of the people. If you look like a bad person, the people won't believe it......

So, for the hapless Johnny, how unfair fate is. If it weren't for the fact that Marin happened to need an envoy who "looked like a decrepit" this time, the hapless Johnny, he might have been like this for the rest of his life......

After bringing the hapless Johnny to Aurich, Kohler sent him directly to the secret house and handed him over to Marin Ma Dao for business training. After all, Johnny was going to perform at the Imperial Council of Worms, and he couldn't be sloppy. As a horse director, he is naturally obliged to guide his acting skills. Of course, because she is not a beauty, she doesn't have to deal with the script in private......