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697 [The Six Hundred Army Expedition! 】

Wang Ji finally agreed to help because the crew sailed with him for more than a year and only suffered hardships without any benefits.

When replenishing supplies at Mazu Port in Nanyinzhou, the money Li Ji brought was almost used up.

Wang Ji did not sail for the purpose of making a fortune. Unlike those captains in Europe, they saved their daily necessities and filled the cabin with cargo. Most of his ships were only daily necessities, and there were only a few cargoes, which could not be sold for much money in Europe.

, but greatly improves navigation survivability.

However, the crew members have long been full of grievances and must find some money to distribute. Looting the church's influence is a good way.

Wang Ji continued to stay as a guest with the King of Denmark, and asked the crew to go to brothels and taverns in batches. First, he allowed the crew to vent, and second, he asked for various information. Low-class places were often the best source of information.

One day, Zhou Fei came back and said, "Master, I have found out everything."

Wang Ji smiled and said, "Tell me."

Zhou Fei said: "The father of the current Danish king usurped the throne and established himself. In addition, he confiscated the church, often recruited troops to fight, and also used foreign troops to suppress the domestic nobles. The nobles and the people were very dissatisfied. Even the drunkards in the tavern

Han, everyone said that the princess of the previous dynasty should be welcomed back, and life would definitely be better with a new queen."

Wang Ji nodded and said to himself: "No wonder the condition he proposed was that I take my niece away from Europa." Then he asked, "Where is the princess of the former dynasty?"

Zhou Fei said: "This matter is not a secret. The princess of the previous dynasty was in some principality and was protected by a marquis in a monastery."

Wang Ji once again approached the King of Denmark to negotiate. After much back and forth, he finally finalized the cooperation plan and learned the specific situation.

The Danish princess currently lives in a monastery located in the "Duchy of Schleswig".

The name of the principality is very difficult to pronounce. Let's change it to a more understandable term, which is the northernmost province of Germany in later generations. However, it now belongs to Denmark, and the Grand Duke is concurrently held by the King of Denmark.

The King of Denmark is nominally the owner of the principality, but the nobles below are not very obedient and even dare to openly protect the princess of the previous dynasty.

The reason is very simple. This place is close to the territory of Charles V, and the nobles are unwilling to convert to Lutheranism. They are not the same as the Danish king who has been making religious reforms all day long.

Half a month later, with Princess Anna's reluctant eyes, Wang Ji set off with the crew who had exhausted their energy.

Denmark also has a navy. Although it is not powerful, it can still threaten Wang Ji's armed merchant ships. In order to cooperate with the action, the Danish king transferred all the navy to the northwest in the name of combating pirates.

Under the guidance of a Danish guide, Wang Ji quickly docked at the Port of Malmo and visited the city under the banner of being the king's distinguished guest.

"There's a church ahead."

"Don't kill indiscriminately."

An armed group of nearly two hundred people, led by Wang Ji, rushed straight into the church with knives and guns, but no one could react at all.

The Japanese ronin rushed to the front. Wang Ji ordered not to kill indiscriminately, but these guys cut down people on sight. Wang Ji would definitely deduct their bonuses afterwards.

The King of Denmark asked Wang Ji to kill the priest, but Wang Ji would not cooperate. He just wanted to steal money and not kill people indiscriminately.

This church is quite big, and it even houses a guardian knight.

There were about seven or eight people, wearing tattered armor, and some were still drinking in the tavern. When they heard that the church was attacked, the guardian knights quickly gathered, and then stood there stupidly, not daring to take action, because they saw that the intruders had a large number of

Musket.

"So poor!"

After looting the church, they only got more than twenty bags of gold and silver coins, all of which were small bags that could be carried with one hand.

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The church's greater wealth is its land and tax collection rights.

After Wang Ji made this place a mess, the Danish king could take the opportunity to carry out religious reforms, take back the church's land and tax collection rights, and put all the sins on Wang Ji.

After grabbing the money, leave the city immediately.

The city's garrison was only small. If the nobles wanted to fight, they had to slowly recruit knights and peasants. Faced with more than a hundred muskets, the garrison on guard did not dare to move at all and allowed them to leave in a big way. Of course, the more direct reason

, Wang Ji only robbed the church and did not conflict with the nobles and merchants, otherwise there would have been a fierce battle when he left.

Immediately afterwards, Wang Ji sailed to the next port city, presumably to loot the cathedral there again.

After robbing eight port cities in one go, Wang Ji finally became famous as a church plunderer in Denmark!

What the King of Denmark said about a 50-50 split is nonsense.

Why should I share the money I stole with you?

The King of Denmark did not suffer any loss. He carried out the religious reform and obtained the church's land and tax collection rights. He received far more benefits than Wang Ji, and Wang Ji had to bear the bad reputation alone.

It's a pity that Wang Ji didn't want to commit more crimes, but any priest who didn't resist could be spared a life. This gave the King of Denmark a headache. He also used the excuse of tracking down clues to send people to various churches to "rectify"

", maybe some priests "died of serious injuries."

Under the guidance of a Danish guide, Wang Ji finally arrived in the Principality of Schleswig.

The capital of the principality is under the direct jurisdiction of the King of Denmark, but he can only control this place. The rest of the country is the private domain of the nobles.

The minister who helps the king manage the principality is actually a Dutch merchant, who is usually responsible for collecting taxes. The top commander here is a poor German nobleman. The regular army only has a hundred people. It is estimated that he can recruit a few more during the war.

Hundreds of farmers.

What the hell?

What’s even funnier is that the core military attaché group of the Danish King is all German mercenary officers, that is, the lower-class nobles in Germany. For this reason, the Parliament composed of Danish nobles has been quarreling with the Danish King for more than ten years, and even specially legislated legislation.

Limiting the highest positions of German military officers.

"That's all you have?" Wang Ji was dumbfounded.

The German commander spread his hands and said: "There is really no money to support more troops. All the principal's taxes have been taken away by merchants. The king owes many merchants loans."

Wang Ji was speechless for a moment.

The king of Denmark was really miserable. He was so awesome that he took over a principality at the same time. As a result, he only had a hundred soldiers in this principality. The tax revenue was simply thrown to the merchants to repay the loans, and even the tax collector was too lazy to send over.

The German commander gathered another three hundred peasants, and then followed Wang Ji to snatch the princess.

If you include the peasants holding dung forks, they have a total of 600 troops!

It's just that Wang Ji had a headache. Those farmers were so nonsense. They were so skinny that they would collapse in the wind, and their combat ability was not as good as that of the native Indians.

Are you taking this guy to fight?

I'm afraid the only effect is to consume the limited military rations.

Zhou Fei also got a horse and rode beside Wang Ji: "Master, why do I feel so unreliable?"


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