The Last Frontier of Fire and Sword

Kiayan, who had left the castle, stayed in a hotel in the town. He wanted to go to Kiayan from Silesia to drink, drink, and complain, but he couldn't find it in most of the small town. Later, a mercenary from the mercenary group told Kiayan that Kiayan had been called by Pidro again.

Ki Ayan, who was dejected and returned to the hotel, lay down on the bed and began to plan his next way out. Kiayan lost his job, but the life of the Jews is like the dandelion that drifts away in the wind, where they can survive.

"Perhaps I should continue to be a broker for the Earl of Hessen, or apply for a consortium to transfer me to the Americas." Keayan, who was lying on the bed and looking at the ceiling, was thinking.

Unexpectedly, before Kiayan could think about it, he was called by Pidro.

"Kiayan, you have been under Prince Yanush Raziviu for so many years, should you know a lot of great nobles and lords?" This time, Pidro asked directly when he saw Kiayan. road.

Keayan was taken aback. He didn't know what Pidro meant when he asked this, especially since Janusz Laziviu had long been beaten as a traitor to the Republic of Poland, and most of the nobles who had close contacts with the Prince during his lifetime also stood on the opposite side of the Republic.

"Sometimes, but I don’t know a lot. I know General Jan Sobieski, Marshal Lubaumacki, Jan Zamois... these Republic’s Optimus Pillars and Sea Jinliang." Ki Ayan said cautiously.

Pidro curled his lips again. He decided to clarify the words with Ki Ayan.

"Kiayan, you know that the Republic is now in a war. The war requires a lot of food, munitions, armor and horses, mercenaries, etc., in the final analysis, it needs money. I'm right." Pidro said meaningfully to Kiayan.

Kiayan had some taste of what Pidro said.

"My benefactor, protector, what do you mean?" Keayan said cautiously.

"Snapped!"

Pidro's big hand slapped Kiayan's back hard without warning, and he almost staggered.

"Pretend! You dishonest Jew." Pidro said angrily: "The Kiayan who has the same name as you knows it all. I don't believe you don't know what I mean."

Kiayan certainly understood what Pidro meant-Pidro wanted to lend money to the nobles and lords to fight.

War has always been the most expensive business. How much money does it burn? For example, during the Hundred Years' War between Britain and France, the financial income of the British royal family into the war was almost 30,000 to 40,000 pounds per year. Don't underestimate this figure, because at that time the total income from land rent in the UK was only more than 70,000 pounds, so this was already a very staggering investment. And the income of the great aristocracy in Britain, the archbishop of Canterbury, the highest leader of the Church of England, can only get an income of 1,100 pounds a year from his own territory, and a prominent earl has an annual income of only more than 500 pounds.

But even if half of the fiscal revenue was invested, it was still far from the speed of burning money in the war. In order to raise military expenses for the 10,000 expeditionary force including 3680 British longbowmen, 3,500 infantrymen, and 1,141 knights, the British royal family racked their brains and ingeniously came up with the name "shield money"-that is, Xiang Bu The nobles and knights who are willing to serve levy exemption money. At that time, if the elderly nobles and knight lords were unwilling to fight for the royal family and honor, then the British royal family did not force them on the battlefield, as long as they paid for someone to replace them. The price is: a land with an annual rental income of 5 pounds mainly bears the expenses of a longbowman, a land with 10 pounds mainly bears a horseback infantry, and a local tyrant with an annual income of 25 pounds bears a heavy cavalry. But even so, the money is still not enough. As a last resort, the British royal family mortgaged their country’s wool export income to Italian bankers in exchange for the Baldi family’s 800,000 florins (in 1252, Genoa and Florence began to cast the florin). Gold coin, this kind of gold coin weighs about 3.5 grams, solid gold. Florin coins entered Western Europe and Northern Europe through the increasingly important trade routes of southern Europe, and became the prototype of most European gold coins later.), Pelucci family 600,000 Florin War loans. Among them, the Jewish profiteers living in London matched the bridge between the British royal family and the Italian bankers. Through their matchmaking, these Jews even earned back 3,000 pounds of military expenses for the British royal family each year.

On the other side of the continent, King Philip IV of France did even better for military expenses. He kidnapped the pope, forcing the church to raided 3.392 million florins from all over Europe.

Therefore, it is not unreasonable for France to win in the Hundred Years' War. In addition to having a Joan of Arc in France, the French king is also much better at making money than the British royal family.

After being vetoed by Chiayan, Pidro, who was a little bit lost, went to find Hupengou friends for a drink. He smoothly told Kiayan of Silesia. This Jewish profiteer and money lender felt that neither Chechen nor Pedro’s ideas were too out. He came up with an idea for Pedro: put the money with him, and then the Jewish consortium would lend it to him in the war. For the kings and nobles of Sweden, Tsarist Russia, Poland and other countries, the mercenary group will charge high interest from them~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Of course, the higher the interest, the greater the risk. Because once the borrower can't pay, the loaned money is likely to be in vain. But in order to reassure Pidro, the Kiayan told Pidro that this rarely happens because their Jewish consortium has a comprehensive assessment of the qualifications of the borrower. He also revealed to Pidro that Prince Boguslav of Lithuania, who is the heir of the Laziviu family after the death of Yanusz Laziviu, is now preparing to borrow 600,000 talers for military expenses. And the money is secured by the output of the castle, priceless jewels, and the Raziviu family’s estate in Lithuania. Their consortium is raising money to take over the business.

Pidro thought it was indeed a good way to make money. But he did not trust the Kiayan in front of him. After all, this is a friend and dog friend, Pidro is always a little flustered when lending money through his hands.

Therefore, Pidro did not immediately agree, only to go back to Cheerchen to discuss.

Of course, it was Kiayan from Poland that he was really going to discuss.

Pidro consulted Kiayan on this suggestion, and he also believed that since they were all Jews, Kiayan in Poland must also know these consortia that lent money to the great aristocracy to fight. Ki Ayan didn't do his own duties, but he could also be his own intermediary or lender, which did not conflict with Cheer Chen's punishment on him.

Kiayan listened to the suggestion of the Silesian Kiayan repeated by Pidro, and he immediately applauded. Now Kiayan can have no worries. He told Pidro that the Jewish consortium he belongs to is also doing war loans for the kings and nobles of Sweden, Tsarist Russia, and Poland, and has no more access than Silesia’s Kiah. There are few young people, as long as the mercenary group needs it, he will match it up.