Chapter 1893: The Marriage of the Great Niece
Before entering his grandson's bedroom, Ferdinand II muttered:
"I don't know how Marin's cunning boy grew up, his father was a stupid knight. His mother is literate, could it be that his mother taught her well? Well...... My grandson's mother is also smart, and I hope that in the future the eldest grandson will be better than Marin's cunning little fox......"
Juan III and Queen Margaret listened and looked at each other. After a while, Juan III was speechless:
"My dear, Marin's education depends on you......"
Queen Margaret was speechless, but, seriously, Prince Marin of Spain is really not bad. Because he was strictly educated by his mother since he was a child, Prince Marin is not an unlearned gentleman, but a primary school bully, erudite and talented. After all, Queen Margaret taught a powerful monarch like Charles V in history, and it is impossible to teach her son crookedly.
However, compared to Marin, the 16-year-old Prince Marin is still not enough to see. You must know that Marin, a traverser, left home at the age of 16 to fight the world, and Prince Marin of Spain is still studying under the guidance of his mother.
"Perhaps, I should take the time to visit Lady Mary in the North Sea Country and ask me how to educate my son?" Queen Margaret thought to herself.
However, Lady Mary, the "great mother" that Queen Margaret was thinking about, was educating her eldest granddaughter Mary at this time. Mary. Hoffman was the eldest child of the third generation of the Hoffman family, a year older than Caesar, and was born before Marin captured East Friesland. Because she was worried that her fierce eldest daughter-in-law Liv was not good at raising children, Mrs. Mary took her eldest granddaughter Mary with her and raised her personally. Staying with Mary in the east villa area where the old Hoffmans lived, there was also Mary's younger brother Muty.
Since the youngest daughter Anne got married, the old couple can only stay with their eldest granddaughter and grandson Muti. Of course, you can also visit Caesar in the palace from time to time. However, Caesar was not very close to the old couple, after all, they did not live together. Of course, Caesar is just as good as Caesar. However, it made the old couple feel that Caesar was a little too polite, not like his little grandson who could play with him......
In fact, Marin was also worried that the elder Hoffman had crooked Caesar. Madame Mary was wiser, and let her educate Caesar that there was nothing wrong with her, but old Hoffman was a muscular man, and liked to dance with knives and guns the most, and if Caesar was crooked, and became a man who did not grow brains and muscles, Marin would cry to death. Therefore, Marin deliberately asked Adler to hand over his children to the old couple to raise, so as to divert their attention.
As expected, Adler's eldest son Mutey, who was only 8 years old, was specially trained by the old Hoffman to become a little warrior, especially fond of fighting, and liked to compete with children of the same age. At a young age, he was famous among children, and only Tyson, the eldest son of Kahn, the fierce general's brother, could compete with Mutey.
Of course, this is also the result of Marin's deliberate arrangement. Ostensibly to curry favor with the elder Hoffman and to teach his grandson to be a "brave nobleman", he actually wanted Muti to grow into a muscular man so that he would not be a threat to Caesar in the future.
And Lady Mary seemed to know this very well, and did not urge Muti to study very harshly. As a descendant of the great nobles, Lady Mary was well aware of the filth of the great noble families. For the safety of Muti, it doesn't take a long brain to live long. So, when she saw Muti reading, she dozed off, and even found an excuse to avoid reading, but Lady Mary was silent.
But on the contrary, when it comes to educating her eldest granddaughter, Mary, Lady Mary is much stricter, and seems to want to raise little Mary to be a resourceful and virtuous helper.
Then, the old couple reached a tacit understanding - the old Hoffman concentrated on teaching his grandson martial arts and tried to train him to become a brave knight. Lady Mary, on the other hand, devoted herself to teaching her eldest granddaughter to read and write, as well as management methods, so that she could become a qualified head mother of a large family in the future, and even ...... Queen......
Little Mary's luck doesn't seem to be very good, though. Because, it seems, that no crown prince or monarch who wants to continue the string wants to marry her. Mainly, his father was not very attractive, and no monarch or crown prince was willing to marry Adler's daughter.
After all, the Hoffman family is nothing more than an upstart family in the eyes of others. Although he ranks among the great nobles, the others only reluctantly recognize Marin as a person, and will not recognize Adler, Marin's brother.
If Mary is Marin's daughter, perhaps some princes and princes will be willing to ask for marriage in order to establish a relationship with the North Sea Kingdom. But little Mary was the daughter of Adler, who later became the Earl of Wicklobe, but she was far away in the countryside of the island of Ireland and was not recognized by mainstream society.
So, don't look at little Mary is 15 years old, but marriage has become a big problem......
In fact, under the careful cultivation of Lady Mary, little Mary's abilities are outstanding. She had read a lot of books, frequented the library of the Aurich Palace, and possessed a wealth of knowledge comparable to that of the average university student of this era. Moreover, she also has a good level of math and is good enough to be a financial officer. Moreover, because of the influence of Madame Mary, little Mary is not as fierce as her parents, but is more educated and has the demeanor of a lady, no worse than Anne, who has become the queen of Poland.
It's just that her appearance was dragged down by her father, and she couldn't catch up with Anne, who had perfectly inherited Lady Mary, but it was definitely not bad. After all, Adler's wife, Liv, is not ugly either.
Moreover, there was no Kaizi as old as Sigmunt I who came to the North Sea Country and happened to fall in love with Lady Mary......
Therefore, the Hoffman family was a little worried about Little Mary's marriage this time. The old Hoffmans wanted to marry little Mary to a prince or an heir to the princes, but they didn't like it. The baronial families, including many of the noble families in the North Sea Kingdom, were willing to marry little Mary, but the old Hoffmans were not.
In their eyes, the eldest granddaughter should be the queen of a vassal state, not the head mother of a small aristocratic family.
But the eldest granddaughter is already 15 years old, and there are no princes or princes to propose, so they are in a hurry......
Then the elder Hoffman found Marin......
"What? Let me help my eldest niece find a weighty husband? Marin listened to old Hoffman's request, and his head was full of black lines.
Old Hoffman nodded as a matter of course and said:
"Of course, you are the most capable in our family, so it's not difficult to help your eldest niece find a powerful husband, right? This is the eldest child of the third generation of the Hoffman family, and her marriage can't be exquisite, otherwise it will make people look down! Old Hoffman was remarkable. On the side, Lady Mary also nodded again and again.
"I ......" Marin had 10,000 grass and mud horses roaring past in his heart, and he said in his heart - when will I become a matchmaker?
But what the old Hoffman couple said also makes sense, as the first person of the third generation of the Hoffman family, little Mary really can't get married, otherwise, it will be the face of the entire Hoffman family.
Marin suddenly thought of Marin, the crown prince of Spain, the child was 16 years old, just one year older than little Mary, and his age was very suitable......
But she quickly rejected this idea, not to mention that the Spanish royal family does not look down on little Marie's background, even Marin herself, and she is not happy that little Mary will become the queen of Spain. Why? After all, she is the eldest daughter of Hoffman's long branch. If Adler had only one daughter, Marin would have found a way to make her the future queen of Spain. Worse still, she also had a younger brother named Muti, formerly known as "Nafurg" (German: heir).
If Little Mary becomes the future queen of Spain, and Spain secretly instigates Muti to compete with Caesar for the right position in the future because of Little Mary's relationship, then the fun will be great......
Therefore, for the safety of her own son, little Mary must not become the queen of a powerful country. In addition, it is not possible to marry the Medici family of the future pope.
However, you can't marry too badly. Otherwise, the Hoffman family doesn't look good......
Therefore, this matter is very sad for Marin, and it makes Marin worry more than commanding the war - what kind of niece and son-in-law are you looking for?