Message transmission was very slow in the Middle Ages because this was a backward era where "transportation basically relies on walking, communication basically relies on yelling, and heating basically relies on shaking."

After a few months, Marin's "great reputation" in the Italian battlefield spread to the northern part of the Holy Roman Empire. At this time, Marin finally became the number one "big star" in the empire...

The princes in the northern part of the Shenluo Empire were basically opposing the emperor. These princes naturally would not cooperate with the emperor's propaganda. Because promoting Marin means promoting "there are many benefits to serving the emperor." Such propaganda is equivalent to pushing all the young warriors to the emperor. As the representatives stationed in Vienna saw, many young people from Austria and Swabian followed Marin and joined the emperor's army, or sought to join. This is something that the princes in the area who opposed the emperor did not want to see. Therefore, although these princes did not openly oppose propaganda, they secretly made stumbling blocks.

Therefore, Marin's reputation spread to the entire Holy Roman Empire after several months, and caused a craze...

"What a powerful knight. He was able to make such military achievements at the age of 17 and was even named Baron!" Some young wandering knights instantly regarded Marlin as their idol.

Because Marin is so similar to their background, it is very "down-to-earth" and can easily resonate with them. Marin's deeds sound very inspiring. For those miserable young wandering knights, hope is slim. But Marin's deeds have brought them a reference - why don't I learn from Marin?

But they didn't know that the reason why Marin achieved such brilliant achievements was based on his time traveler. The last time he defeated the French, he clearly used the powerful advantage of "information asymmetry" to bully Charles VIII who was running away.

If you fight in person, can Marin's 1100 recruits compare with the French knights who have practiced martial arts for more than ten years?

However, this doesn't matter. People always like to ignore their own shortcomings and pay attention to their own strengths. Even if they don't have strengths, they can think of themselves with false strengths (this is the origin of narcissist).

Therefore, no one cares that Marin won the victory by taking advantage of the situation. Moreover, when the emperor was promoting, he did not specifically state that Marin succeeded in the sneak attack, but said that the two armies "stumbled upon".

Therefore, young people think that even if I am not as lucky as Marin and cannot become a baron, I can still get a formally titled Imperial Knight...

And this was exactly what the cunning Maximilian I wanted to see. The Habsburg family was only more prestige in Austria in the Holy Roman Empire (Burgundy was shortly taken over and had a relatively low prestige). In other places, due to the malicious anti-propaganda of the princes, their reputation was not very good.

Therefore, the number of German warriors willing to serve the royal family was relatively small. Marin was born in the Kingdom of Markbour. Although John II, Earl of Mark, did not oppose the emperor, his relationship with the emperor was definitely not good. Because the emperor has always been committed to following France, intending to impose a kind of daily tax within the entire empire to provide the needs of the empire center.

However, Maximilian I's idea was opposed by almost all independent lords. Because the emperor's general taxation in the entire empire was equivalent to touching their money bags. Moreover, the emperor's financial strength and strength grew, what should he do to wipe out the princes?

Marin was born in an area not controlled by the royal family and was an unlucky wandering knight. Such a person is very representative.

Because there are countless knight families in the entire empire. Often, a knight family will not only give birth to one boy. Therefore, there are many wandering knights.

Under the anti-propaganda of those princes, many wandering knights never thought of serving the emperor. Because, in the private propaganda of local princes, the emperor was described as a greedy and stingy bad guy. It is said that if he worked for the emperor, he could not get a salary because the emperor was very poor (this is not completely nonsense). Moreover, the emperor was unwilling to award the title of aristocratic person who served him...

Therefore, many wandering knights from local vassal areas would rather be unemployed and do short-term work than serve the emperor who was "greedy and stingy".

However, the appearance of Marin suddenly overturned the malicious propaganda of the princes, making many wandering knights realize that serving the emperor would have a future.

Those wandering knights, after they heard about Marin's deeds, probably did not believe it, because Marin's deeds were too "legendary". However, many wandering knights close to Markber simply rode to the Hoffman Manor in Bochum to verify the authenticity of the news from Old Hoffman.

As the new "Baron's father", Old Hoffman naturally swears that these are true, and uses the honor of God and the knight to swear to be responsible for every word he says...

Then, many wandering knights learned that the news they heard was completely true and confirmed. Then, the verified news spread throughout the empire. Everyone finally believed that the emperor did not lie...

So, Marin became popular, and the young wandering knights were excited...

Then, many young knights who were confident that they were "not inferior to Marin" rushed to Vienna with dreams and begged the emperor to take in...

The emperor was obviously "painful and happy". He was busy asking the French for ransom, so where could he have time to pay attention to these young people?

Moreover, if the ransom was not recovered, he had no money to support so many people. In addition, this period of time was temporarily a truce period and there was no need to recruit people. Therefore, only a few of the wandering knights gathered in Vienna were particularly prominent and were absorbed by the emperor.

Most of the remaining people were helplessly stranded in Vienna...

Many wandering knights who have been wandering for a long time are used to doing some "heroes" behaviors of robbing families, which has made the public security in Vienna much worse.

But the emperor did not dare to suppress these wandering knights, because if he used violence to dispel these wandering knights, it might make his reputation that Marin established throughout the empire worsened again through publicity.

Because these "suppressed" wandering knights will definitely say bad things when they go back. The medieval knights basically had the right to speak in the lower class and had high credibility...

Therefore, Maximilian I could only try to appease the irritable wandering knights, write some blank checks, and try to coax them back...

But on the other hand, the emperor was secretly happy that so many wandering knights came to join him...

So, the emperor is currently "paining and happy"...
Chapter completed!