Chapter 157: Election Program

Marin and Prince Philip learned that by the end of December, before Christmas, all the formal Teutonic Knights would gather in Königsberg, hold the Teutonic Knights Congress, and elect the new Teutonic Chief on the spot. Then, at the New Year of 1498, the new chief was formally sworn in.
现在 Now it's early December. Although Marin has thrown away money, he has gotten a lot of people. However, many people are still full of uncertainty.
Because of the election of the head of a group, it is easy for people to take your money. However, as a Teutonic knight, they still hope to have a capable leader to lead the Teutonic Knights.
Because the situation of the Teutonic Knights is not good right now. To the south is powerful Poland and to the east is powerful Lithuania. To the north, the Livonian Knights did not obey orders.
So even if they are related, they are not willing to choose an incompetent to serve as their chief. Because if they choose a straw bag and defeat the Teutonic state, everything they have will be lost.
So, for the ability of the big commander, many neutrals also value it. At the very least, the new leader must have the ability and determination to protect Teutonic interests.
那天 On December 23, all candidates will address all the official Teutonic knights in the square of the Cathedral of Konigsberg, explaining their justice, courage, and policy agenda. Among them, the policy agenda is the most important.
Because the policy agenda represents the direction of the Teutonic Order within a few years after the new chief commander took office. Therefore, even if many knights are not good at reading, they will take it very seriously.
Alas, not all Teutonic knights are good at reading. After all, all knights have read books. Among the more than 800 knights, there are many knights with good reading and flexible minds.
A good policy agenda will also impress those Teutonic knights with their minds. These clever Teutonic knights, despite having their own political factions and positions. However, in determining the future of the Teutonic Knights, we must consider the future of the country with great care.
If a candidate's policy agenda is too good to be far superior to other competitors, those clever knights, even those in opposing camps, are likely to vote. Because, a good candidate is good for all Teutonic Knights, even if this big commander comes from the hostile camp.
After all, the so-called hostile factions are just different from each other. Most people want to talk to each other, not to fight. However, once the Teutonic Knights State declines, the Teutonic Knights may be killed by the Polish and Lithuanian coalition forces.
So, the campaign agenda used to speak at elections is very important. This election program will directly reflect the candidate's future plans and directions, and will allow those smarter Teutonic knights to see clearly the level and ability of the candidate and affect the final vote.
So, even if secretly canvassing, Marin and Philip attached great importance to this campaign.
王子 Prince Philip's ability is not very good, but he has one advantage: he can listen to others' suggestions. It is hard to get a prince who has been a monk since he was a child and has never learned the strategy of governing the country to run for the program himself.
In fact, few of the heads of the Teutonic University were very intelligent. Otherwise, the Teutonic Knights will not be bullied so badly by Poland and Lithuania.
Because the heads of all previous delegations usually came from aristocratic families, but they were trained as monks since childhood. These people are religious and religious. However, when it comes to strategy and vision, it is basically ordinary. Because they were trained as monks since they were little, they rarely learned the strategy of governing the country. However, they have also been Cavaliers since childhood, and their military literacy is good once they are. At least, there are no big troubles in commanding thousands of troops.
Prince Philip, for example, is both a monk and a knight. Since childhood, although he has not learned the strategy of ruling the country like two brothers, he has learned a complete set of basic military command knowledge. Of course, their military command knowledge is low-end to Marin. Basically, people who have learned these things basically understand what to do on the battlefield, but do not know why to do it this way, and how to do it better ...
The Teutonic Knights are now in crisis, and the Teutonic Knights also hope to have a powerful and powerful leader. Therefore, it is very important to elaborate on the election program during the election speech. If it is too bad, it may be abandoned by the original allies. Because, even if you take advantage of them, those knights still hope that someone who has a role to lead them.
Marin and Prince Philip, so spent a lot of time studying this campaign program and speeches ...
Marin believes that because the subject of the prince's speech was a group of muscular and relatively simple knights. Therefore, gorgeous rhetoric and citations are unnecessary. Instead, the words should be plain and simple, but they must accurately express what they want to say. It's so ridiculous that the big knights don't understand ...
Also, those knights must be moved around two core issues ...
These two core issues, of course, the first one is interest. In fact, since the 14th century, the Cavaliers have increasingly paid more attention to commerce. In addition, several cities of the Knights League have joined the Hanseatic League, which has brought huge profits to the Knights League. Many Knights are keen to participate in commercial trade and earn profits. As for the bravery and belligerent tradition of the knight, it was gradually abandoned.
This is one of the important reasons why the Cavaliers lost to Poland in the Battle of Tannenberg. Because the knights gradually degenerate into businessmen and are busy making money, who has the heart to fight?
Like the Battle of Tannenberg, the Teutonic Knights hired a large number of mercenaries and even hired some English longbowmen. At that time, the combat effectiveness of the knights had greatly decreased.
I can say that many Teutonic knights have degraded into the existence of half merchants and half knights. When it comes to combat effectiveness, they are far worse than German and French knights.
Therefore, they will absorb a large number of wandering knights from the past in the German region to ensure that the knights also have combat effectiveness. Generally speaking, a formal Teutonic knight often has a group of trainee knights under his command. Higher status will also bring several formal knights (not Teutonic knights). For example, Kesling and Ulle under Amsau are both formal knights, but not Teutonic knights with voting rights. Until now, they are only formal knights, preparing Teutonic knights.
Alas, these Teutonic knights who degenerate into half merchants value their interests. Therefore, Marin's large sum of money will definitely help Prince Philip to buy many people.
But this is just one of them. Spending money is attractive, but your policy agenda must also make their business better and make more money. In this way, they will be more willing to vote for you.
For this reason, Marin's opinion is to vigorously support the commercial development of the Teutonic Knights and give the Teutonic Knights a green light to do business in order to please them and get votes.
The second core issue is national security. The Teutonic Order has lost a large area of ​​territory under the combined strike of Poland and Lithuania, and the country is in danger.
Therefore, the Teutonic Knights also hope that there can be a large commander who can strengthen military strength and ensure national security. Therefore, in the military, the candidate must also propose a solution that pleases the Teutonic Knights.
For this, Marin had long thought about it. Marin believes that the combat effectiveness of the Teutonic Knights itself has been greatly reduced, and it is not an opponent of Poland and Lithuania.
Therefore, for national security, the Liberian Knights, who are not so obedient, should be drawn in to warm up and help each other. In addition, find allies to deal with Poland or Lithuania or one of them, and reduce the pressure on the Cavaliers themselves.
Finally, on the basis of vigorously developing business, obtain more funds and hire a group of Swiss mercenaries to help the Teutonic Knights ~~ EbookFREE.me ~ fight against external pressure.
The current Swiss mercenaries are the most sought-after mercenaries in Europe, and they are powerful. Moreover, the Swiss are very good at dealing with cavalry and cavalry. Coincidentally, the Polish and Lithuanian army are mainly heavy cavalry. The use of Swiss mercenaries can suppress the heavy cavalry of both countries.
Even the Polish wing cavalry known as good at attacking the infantry square, it is only good at attacking the infantry square with a bayonet rifle with a spear. If you traded Swiss spearmen with spears several meters long, would you let them try? Whose weapon is longer? Who pokes first? At a glance ...
Umarin's operational advice was to have Swiss mercenaries confront Polish and Lithuanian cavalry. The Teutonic Knights attacked the Polish and Lithuanian battles from the side or behind. Of course, this is the arrangement after the outbreak of war. But in the campaign, it must be made clear to the Teutonic Knights that you know how to defeat the Polish and Lithuanians who might invade ...
王子 Although Prince Philip couldn't think of these things himself, he was convinced by these views of Marin and decided to copy them all. Because, Marin has proved his vision and ability with facts-Texel Island has a developed economy (otherwise Marin can't afford so many coins), and his military strength is also good. In addition, Marin defeated France's most elite 8,000 knights with 3-4 ordinary infantry ...
Therefore, I believe Prince Philip of Marin decided to copy Marin's ideas completely, and then, after the election day, read directly from Marin's prepared manuscript. Marin's above ideas are all reflected in Prince Philip's election program ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Welcome the book readers to read, the latest, fastest and most popular serial works are all in ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Mobile users please read.