The Last Frontier of Fire and Sword

Cheerchen sternly rejected Pidro's approach. In Chechen's view, such behavior is no different from trafficking in human beings, and the soldiers who are recruited by this method must be extremely unsteady in fighting. When the time comes on the battlefield, I am afraid that, like these thousand recruits, a row of "Gustav's Thunder" will collapse.

Natalie was the one who really solved the problem of the source of troops for Cheerchen. On the afternoon of this day, Natalie brought two people to Cheerchen's resident.

Natalie hasn't seen Cheerchen for a few days, because she is busy solving his most annoying problem for Cheerchen.

"Head Cheechen, we meet again." The two well-dressed visitors greeted Cheechen with a smile.

"Are you Batty and Kiayan?" Cheerchen didn't expect that Natalie brought her acquaintances, and she was surprised and speechless.

"You know?" Natalie didn't expect Cheerchen and the two to be acquaintances.

"I have been helped by the head of Chechen before." Ki Ayan took the previous events with one sentence.

The visitors were Kiayan and his son Batty, the former manor steward of Prince Yanush.

"That would be the best."

Seeing that both parties are still old acquaintances, Natalie said to Cheerchen happily: "Cheerchen, Batty and Kiayan are the agents of the Earl of Hessen. Are you short of troops? They can help."

"You? Earl of Hessen?" Chechen is still very young after all, and he hasn't figured out how these two Jews became the agents of the Earl, and who the Earl of Hessen is.

These, Natalie has to explain to him.

Hessen is now the state of Hessen in Germany. In the seventeenth century, there were no famous industrial companies such as Siemens and Leica in Hessen. The local area was mainly agriculture. At that time, although the forest coverage rate of Hessian was the highest in Germany, the green mountains and mountains were not golden mountains and silver mountains. In order to make a better life for themselves, the Hessians, driven by the Earl of Hessian, had to embark on the same life-saving road as the Swiss.

In the Thirty Years' War, the Earl of Hessen of that generation was notorious for recognizing money and not people. He takes all his money, regardless of whether the gold coins are Catholic or Protestant. So at the end of the Thirty Years’ War, the Earl of Hessen had a standing army consisting of eight infantry companies and four cavalry companies in this country of 61,000 square kilometers and a total population of only 180,000. Legion. These people are far beyond the daily defense needs of the earl country. If there is no war, then Earl of Hessen can't afford to be a trouser. Fortunately, the Cossack uprising led by Khmelnitsky broke out in the Republic of Poland shortly afterwards, and the Earl of Hessen happened to rent out his army again in exchange for the money to feed them.

This time, Baty and Kiayan brought a lease contract for five hundred Hessian mercenary infantry and two hundred heavy cavalry and light cavalry.

"Our host attaches great importance to the traditional friendship with the Republic of Poland, and also dislikes the Kingdom of Sweden's aggression against the peace-loving Republic of Poland. For this reason, the count hopes to contribute to the Polish people's anti-aggression struggle."

After Natalie introduced Cheerchen, Ki Ayan said.

For this, Cheer Chen expressed his gratitude. Next, he was about to ask about the rent of the Hessian mercenaries. Natalie suddenly said, "Cheerchen, I'm going back right away. I came here without telling my father. I'm going back too late for fear of him becoming suspicious. ."

"Oh, that's good." Cheer Chen felt a little reluctant to see Natalie leaving soon.

"Fool, I'll escape again if I have a chance." Natalie smiled at Chechen, and then rode away.

Now, Cheerchen, Kiayan, and Batty are the only ones left.

Cheerchen asked about the commission, and Kiayan happily said that the price given by the Earl of Hessen was friendly. A Hessian heavy cavalry only needs 480 talers a year of hire money; a Hessian light cavalry’s annual hire money of 240 talers; the cheapest infantry, a Hessian infantry only needs one one a year Hundred and twenty talers' hire money.

Cheerchen forgot about it. The Hessian heavy cavalry and light cavalry are too expensive, and I can't afford them. Moreover, the quality of cavalry in the Republic of Poland is not inferior, and the price is much cheaper.

Although the price of infantry is slightly more expensive than domestic ones, it is not too outrageous.

"Are these mercenaries wearing armor and weapons?" Cheerchen asked.

"Of course, they are all weapons and armor made by the Earl of Hessen. Most of them are veterans who have participated in the Thirty Years' War." Kiayan assured.

"Then it seems more reasonable, but..." Cheer Chen thought to himself. But he was still a little embarrassed.

A five-hundred-man Hessian hired infantry is 60,000 taylors a year, and 5,000 taylors a month. The money Cheerchen now has is only enough to pay them four months of salary. After four months, the mercenary group will be unsustainable.

"Or, I will hire two hundred people." Cheerchen gritted his teeth and said.

"Head Chechen is worried about not having enough money?" Ki Ayang asked understandingly.

Cheerchen nodded in embarrassment.

"Head Chechen doesn't have to worry at all, Miss Natalie has already paid all the money for the one-year period," Ki Ayan said.

Cheer Chen was a little shocked. He didn't expect Natalie to be so rich, it was 60,000 Taylor!

"Does it include the cavalry?" Cheerchen asked weakly.

Ki Ayan gave Le Chechen a positive answer.

Cheerchen was very moved, and Natalie really gave a lot for herself.

"Head Chechen, what Miss Natalie paid was not cash, but the right to produce the estate and land in the Kishka family territory. She transferred the five-year use right to us." Kiayan explained. .

"But these are still the property of Mr. Janusz?" Cheer Chen didn't believe that Natalie's father would suddenly change his mind to help him. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com

"But Miss Natalie is the only heir. After the death of the old man we bought, the option for that piece of land." Kiayan explained.

This involves another question, that is, will the Earl of Hesse agree to pay with uncertain future options?

Kiayan told Chechen that the cash the Earl of Hessen wanted would be advanced by the Jewish bankers, and it was actually their Jews who bought the options.

Ki Ayang and Cheor Chen are old acquaintances, and he doesn't hide the doorway.

Cheerchen finally understood. I am a mercenary hirer, but the money comes from Natalie, and Natalie is her guarantor. Natalie actually didn't have that much money, so she mortgaged the proceeds of the land under her future name to the Jewish banker and loaned the cash to the Earl of Hessen.

Ki Ayang took out the contract, and Cheer Chen signed it.

Kiayan rolled up the contract contentedly.

"Five hundred mercenaries and two hundred cavalry, we will ship to Werner within ten days." Kiayan assured.

After speaking, Ki Ayan remembered another very important thing.

"Head Chechen, although it is not stated in the contract. But I want to remind you that Hessian mercenaries have the right to refuse to fight against their fellow villagers. That is to say, if they encounter Hessians hired by the Swedish army, they are I won't participate in the war. Of course, the other side will do the same." Kiayan said.

"But don't you mean that the Earl of Hessian supports and sympathizes with the just cause of the Polish people?" Chechen did not expect that there are Hessian mercenaries in the Swedish army, which is completely contrary to what Kiayan said just now.

"Yes, but our count, he also supports the liberation of the King of Sweden."