Vladislas II was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly said:

"Well, that's as it should be. Let me do the math...... If you give 10,000 infantry and pay three pfennigs a day, 10,000 people will be 30,000 pfennighs a day, which is equivalent to 500 Gulden gold coins...... The price of cavalry is 9 pfennigs per day for light cavalry and 1 shilling 6 pfennig per day for plate heavy cavalry...... You have 5,000 hussars, and your daily salary is 45,000 pfennighs, which is equivalent to 750 Gulden gold coins...... In this way, the daily salary is 1,250 Gulden, a month is 37,500 gold, and two months is 75,000 gold......" Vladislas II calculated carefully.

Marin couldn't help but interrupt:

"Wait, Your Majesty, I'm a veteran of a hundred battles, and I can't count it at the minimum of 3 pfennigh a day!"

Vladislas II, who was doing the calculations, raised his head, smiled at Marin, and said:

"We're all really relatives, are you embarrassed to ask me for a high price? Just calculate it according to the ordinary market......"

Marin was stunned for a moment, and then muttered:

"You are not short of money, the Bohemian silver mine is a big silver mine!"

Hearing Marin's words, Vladislas II put down his pen and said with a sigh:

"That's from the past, when the Kutná Hora silver mines in Bohemia were running dry. I'm also worried about where my income will come from without the silver mines in Kutná Hora. You know, the royal family has a lot of pomp and cost, which is really a headache! ”

Marin suddenly remembered that it seemed that the 16th-century historical materials that later generations had seen mentioned the Tyrolean silver mine, the Saxon silver mine, and the Rammelsberg silver mine in Goslar, but not the Bohemian silver mine. Bohemian silver bars, famous in Germany, seem to have been a medieval affair......

In other words, there really was no Bohemian silver mine in the 16th century. Otherwise, the Habsburgs, who had gained the Kingdom of Bohemia through marriage, would not have continued to be poor. If it weren't for the fact that Charles V, who had historically unified Spain, overdrafted the finances of the Spanish Empire, which owned the gold and silver seas of America, the Habsburgs probably would not have been able to even fight.

So, what Vladislas II said should be true, and not cry poor.

Of course, Marin didn't care if Vladislas II had money or not. He pretended to be very concerned and said:

"Your Majesty, since you are in financial difficulties, why don't I change the payment plan?"

Vladislas II was curious:

"A different plan? How do I pay? Do you want to defer payments and then let me pay interest? ”

Marlin shook his head:

"No, I mean, we don't have to pay with money......"

But Vladislas II got nervous:

"What do you mean? Do you want land? Then I'll pay for it! Although Bohemia's finances are not very good, there is still money to pay the salary! ”

Marin suddenly cried and laughed:

"No, I don't want your land either. I mean, when we defeat these 70,000 or 80,000 rebels, there will always be tens of thousands of prisoners of war, right? When the time comes, you can give me all the prisoners of war! ”

"Prisoners of war? Why do you want tens of thousands of prisoners of war? Do you want to expand your army? Vladislas II was alarmed. If Marin expands his army by tens of thousands, even if he has a good relationship with Marin, he will feel uneasy. After all, he was also a great prince of the Holy Roman Empire and did not want to see too strong princes appear.

Marin certainly denied:

"No, you should know that last year I seized the Duchy of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel and acquired the silver mines of Rammelsberg in Goslar. Right now, I'm short of money and want to expand my silver mines. If I can get tens of thousands of miners, I think I will be able to produce a lot of silver! ”

Vladislas II nodded, agreeing with Marin's statement. Indeed, in these years, if you want to produce high production of gold and silver mines, you need to put tens of thousands of people in the mines. Otherwise, if there are fewer people, the output will not go up.

But the sparse population of northern Germany makes it not cost-effective to let the already scarce farmers go to mining. Generally speaking, the mines in the north have to recruit miners in the places with large populations in the south. But mining is too dangerous to be forced to, and no one is willing to go to the mines. In particular, the kind of mining that goes deep into the shaft is very dangerous. Like the Kutná Hora silver mine in Bohemia, it is now mined deep underground. Moreover, the amount and grade of ore are also decreasing dramatically.

Therefore, Vladislas II was convinced of Marin's claim that tens of thousands of Hungarian prisoners of war wanted to mine for silver. Because, it sounds very reasonable, there are no loopholes.

However, as an old fox in politics, Vladislas II also did not want to be too cheap Marin. So, he asked for a price:

"It's okay to get prisoners of war to pay for them, but prisoners of war are also valuable. Well, how about counting you for 20 Gulden gold coins? The price is reasonable......"

Of course, Marin knew that the price was reasonable, but the question was, if it was really 20 gold coins per piece, wouldn't the 50,000 prisoners of war have to pay millions of gold coins? However, his 15,000 mercenaries fought for Vladislas II for only 75,000 gold coins in two months.

So, he called Qu Dao:

"Your Majesty, this is outrageous, isn't it? Most of those prisoners of war, if I didn't want them, would have been executed by you, and you wouldn't have received a penny. Now, use it to offset my commission for sending troops, and you will make a lot of money! ”

Vladislas II smiled:

"That's true, but it's not thousands, it's not tens of thousands, it's probably tens of thousands! If they all give you to offset the employment fee, it will be too expensive. Besides, if it's not your family, I can give some of the other prisoners of war to my brother Zygmunt to offset the hussars' commission......"

Marin shook his head repeatedly:

"It's impossible, and only if I'm in a hurry to develop the silver mines, I need so many people. Others, it should be more money, right? ”

……

Subsequently, the two sides went back and forth and kept bargaining. It was not until after dark that the two sides finally reached an agreement - no money was required for prisoners of war of up to 10,000 people. More than 10,000 people, each counts 10 gold coins. Of course, those prisoners of war, if they originally belonged to some Hungarian nobleman, if they wanted to go back, they could not be sold to Marin.

After the negotiations, Marin said with a depressed face:

"If there are 50,000 prisoners of war, excluding the 10,000 who do not need money to offset the cost of sending troops, then 40,000 prisoners of war, will I not pay you 400,000 gold coins upside down? Oh my God, you hired my army to fight, but I owe you hundreds of thousands of gold coins! What a loss for me! ”

In fact, Marin was not depressed at all. Because, if he went to buy Mao's father-in-law, counting the money given to the Crimeans and the freight and the toll for crossing the Turkish Strait, it would cost more than 20 gold coins each. You can buy a young and strong Hungarian peasant for 10 gold coins, and Marin is considered to be profitable. The only thing I wasn't happy about was not being able to get Vladislas II. After all, that's also an old fox in politics, so it's not so easy to fool!

But in any case, being able to get tens of thousands of Hungarian prisoners of war is also a big profit for Marin. In particular, Marin may have selected more than 10,000 of these tens of thousands of prisoners of war who were suitable to serve as hussars. Once it can pull up a team of light cavalry of tens of thousands of people, it will definitely be of great benefit to the enhancement of the military strength of the Beihai State......

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