~： 214 Cattle and Horses of Crimea

Previously, in order to facilitate the Crimean Khanate to send troops to attack Ryazan, Marin promised to buy 10,000 cattle and 1,000 Eastern European Mongolian horses from the Crimean Khanate every year.

The Crimeans attacked Ryazan in accordance with the agreement, and frightened back the troops of the Grand Duchy of Moscow in Finland. The agreement was completed. On Marin's side, there was no plan to break the contract. Moreover, the introduction of cheap cattle and horses from the Crimean Khanate is indeed in its own interest.

In the autumn, the Crimean Khanate had prepared 10,000 cows and 1,000 war horses for a total price of only 90,000 gold coins (a cow with 7.5 gold coins and a horse with 15 gold coins).

Marin was also ready to receive, and sent a team of cavalry and some herdsmen, intending to drive this huge team of cattle along the way.

With so many animals, it's obvious that they can only go by land, not so many ships. However, something went wrong on the land route.

Poland and Lithuania, in order to be able to gain the strong friendship of the Crimean Khanate, will naturally not oppose Malin's purchase of cattle and horses from Crimea, nor against the crossing of those cattle and horses. However, it is difficult for other countries to say ...

Originally, 10,000 cattle and 1,000 horses were brought back to East Friesland by land. The best route is to pass through Lithuania and Poland before entering the territory of the Electorate of Brandenburg or Saxony , And then through the Principality of Luneburg, arrived in the Old Kingdom of Oldenburg.

However, both the Electorate of Brandenburg and the Electorate of Saxony are Denmark's in-laws. Marin beat Denmark so badly and cut off so much land. Will the two countries let Marin do the same?

Therefore, the cattle and sheep bought by Marin were directly rejected by the requests of the two countries, and there was no room for negotiation.

In desperation, Marin can only choose to bypass the principalities of Pomerania and Mecklenburg from the north of the electorate of Brandenburg, and then through the principality of Holstein under the control of Lübeck and Hamburg, and then After the Archbishop of Bremen, finally arrived in the Old Kingdom of Oldenburg.

However, this matter is also more difficult. Lübeck and Hamburg will naturally not cause trouble for Marin, an ally, and the Archbishop of Bremen is also very face-saving. But the Principality of Mecklenburg and the Principality of Pomerania are very unwilling to ...

It turned out that as the neighbors of the Brandenburg Electorate, the Principality of Mecklenburg and the Principality of Pomerania were greatly influenced by the Brandenburg Electorate. The elector of the Brandenburg, Joachim I, not only refused the crossing of cattle and horses purchased by Marin, but also demanded that the principalities of Mecklenburg and Pomerania also prohibit the crossing of cattle and horses of Marin.

These two principalities could not offend the powerful neighbor Brandenburg for Marin. As a result, they all rejected Marin's request for Niu Ma to cross the border.

In desperation, Marin had no choice but to invite Lubeck, the leader of the Hanseatic League, to ask them to help put pressure on the two countries. Lübeck did come forward to help pressurize, and the Principality of Mecklenburg succumbed because he was more dependent on the Hanseatic League. But Pomerania is basically a wild country on the Baltic Sea and does not care about the threat of Lübeck. So things froze.

The Lübeck people suggested that their cargo ships can ship cattle and horses in the northern coastal port of Poland, and then unloaded and continued to rush in the Principality of Mecklenburg or the Principality of Schleswig to the west.

However, Marin was not willing to do so, because it would cost a lot of manpower and material to load and unload 10,000 cattle and 1,000 horses. Moreover, the freight is expensive. The best option is to drive on land. Because, these cattle and horses, as long as they eat wild grass can live.

In desperation, Marin had to send someone to bribe the Duke of Pomerania. The Duke of Pomerania finally told Marin's men that it was pressure from the electorate of Brandenburg, not a matter of money.

So, in the end, Marin thought of a way to send someone to register a chamber of commerce in Lübeck. Then, in the name of Lübeck ’s Chamber of Commerce, he asked to bring tens of thousands of cattle and thousands of horses through. In this way, cattle and horses passing through the Principality of Pomerania no longer belong to Marin.

Then, after arriving in Lübeck, the chamber of commerce that originally belonged to Marin sold the cattle and sheep to Marin. In this way, when these cattle and horses pass, they are no longer Marin's things. The request of the Brandenburg electorate is to not allow the cattle and horses under Marin to pass, but it has never been said that the cattle and horses of Lübeck are not allowed to pass.

In this way, despite knowing that there was a problem, Marin and the Principality of Pomerania perfectly avoided the troubles of the electorate of Brandenburg, allowing Crimea ’s cattle and horses to gain the opportunity to pass by road .

But because of such a toss, 10,000 cows and 1,000 war horses that were originally planned to be imported from Crimea in the fall did not travel until winter.

Thousands of cows and thousands of horses, the noise when passing is great. Fortunately, these cattle and horses are livestock that can solve the problem by eating grass. Especially the 1,000 Eastern European Mongolian horses produced in Crimea can also graze along the way. If you change to a European horse, a thousand war horses need a lot of oats every day, and the breeding cost is extremely high.

The tens of thousands of cows and thousands of horses, driven by a group of herdsmen, marched through Lithuania and Poland into the Principality of Pomerania, then through the Principality of Mecklenburg, and into Holstein Principality. Then, continue westwards to the East Frisian native area.

By the New Year around 1504, these tens of thousands of cows and thousands of horses finally arrived outside Aurich ...

Upon arriving in Aurich, the treatment of these cattle and horses immediately changed greatly. Those Eastern European Mongolian horses were immediately placed on the official horse farm, raised as baby, and fed a lot of oats and some soybeans from the Americas.

And those cows, because there is no shortage of cows in the country, Marin picked out two thousand heads and killed meat ...

These 10,000 Crimean cattle, after a long journey, although they lost a lot of fat, but because of long-term running, the muscles did not decrease, but the muscles were very strong and chewy.

These two thousand cows have just completed the "Long March", and they have been reluctantly retreated into the slaughterhouse before turning to www.novelhall.com ~ and turned into beef.

As it happens, the weather in January is still very cold, and the thinly sliced ​​beef is used by Marin for fatty beef hot pot ...

It's just that the lack of beauty is that there is no hot pepper in the hot pot soup, and the taste is not enough. Therefore, Marin can only use beef bone soup as a base soup, and add some other sauces to make a non-spicy beef hot pot.

Suddenly, this kind of eating by Marin suddenly became popular in the East Frisian aristocracy. Because of the high yield of food, the nobles of East Frisian are all rich in oil, and pay more attention to eating and drinking. In the past, everyone used to eat black bread, and rarely eat white bread. However, since following Marin's fortune, the nobles of East Friesland ate the "Queen" white bread, which was very expensive in the early Middle Ages and was not often eaten even by kings. After hearing about the great "God Eater" Marin and inventing a food called "fat beef hot pot", they immediately followed suit. As it happened, Marin sent people to kill two thousand cows and a lot of beef, which made everyone happy to eat.

Moreover, the cows in Crimea only cost 7.5 gold coins. Taking into account the tariffs paid by those countries along the way, on average, the cost per cow does not exceed 10 gold coins. In the German region, the price of each cow is around 20 gold coins. In other words, the cost of buying cattle from Crimea is half as cheap as buying locally, which is very cost-effective.