Chapter 1099： Amerigo is back

The Cavaliers Competition, which was held in Emden Harbor and aimed at selecting cavaliers, took a long time to prepare. Even if old Huffman wanted to see it, he had to wait.

This is not to say that preparations are difficult, but that it will take a long time for knights from all over the country to come. In this era, information transmission is very inconvenient. If you want to send letters, you often let the caravans piggyback. While caravans do business while walking, they are often not in a hurry to deliver letters and news. A day later, the caravan of the caravan can walk a hundred kilometers is a miracle. Sometimes, in order to attract business, the caravan will stop at a certain place for several days, which is very wrong.

Therefore, although the recruitment news of Adler could not be sent out, but it could be spread throughout Germany, it took a long time. Even if the news is received, it will take a long time to rush to Emden. Generally speaking, although the horsemen riding the horses have great strength, but their endurance is not enough, it is good to walk 100 kilometers a day. Unless, as a local tyrant like Marin, a knight can equip three horses for a ride, it will be fast. For ordinary knights, even if one person can bring two horses for a ride, the servant rides a bad horse, and there are no horses to change. Can't the knight leave the servant and go by himself? You should know that when not fighting, the knight's plate armor and lance are carried by the attendants. I generally only have a knight light sword in the waist to deal with emergencies. The only one equipped with a bad horse is that the journey from one day must not exceed 100 kilometers, and even only a few dozen kilometers a day. For the poorer knights, the servants are not equipped with horses and can only walk, so the overall speed of travel is even slower, only 30 to 40 kilometers a day.

Not to mention, Adler ’s recruitment message was also sent to Teutonic and Livonia Knights in Eastern Europe. Because, the German wandering knights there are very concentrated and get together. If you consider the time that the wandering knights of the Teutonic Knights and the Livonia Knights come, it will be even longer. Therefore, Adler simply gave two months to allow the wandering knights everywhere to have enough time to come. Therefore, the old Hoffman had to wait a while to see the knights compete.

In fact, the Cavaliers were quick. After all, no matter how slow a knight is, he can drive 30 to 40 kilometers a day. The German region is only seven or eight hundred kilometers from south to north, and 20 days is enough to get off.

The problem is mainly in the transmission of news. If the Holy Roman Empire is a unified centralized state, the government may establish post systems in cities around the country to facilitate the transmission of messages. For example, in the Ming Dynasty, there was a post system, which regularly issued government decrees and Di Bao.

But the Holy Roman Empire is a fragmented country, and it can meet a princely state within a few tens of miles. The transmission of news from country to country is very troublesome, even if the caravan crosses the border. In addition to paying taxes, there are various checks.

In addition, even if the news reaches the cities of the princes, the wandering knights may not receive it. Because, the general knight family lives in the country manor, the news is even worse. Only those wandering knights who are wandering in the city can receive the news in time. The wandering knights who are temporarily staying in the country estate or have not yet gone out will need to get the news very late. After all, in ancient times, it was normal for countrymen not to enter the city for ten days and a half months. What's more, entering the city also calls the city tax, which reduces the frequency of the rural people entering the city. Although the knights are not bad money, it is said that the cai knights with a closed land, and the wandering knights have no land, it is still poor money. Therefore, in this case, no more than two months is absolutely not enough for the wandering knights to receive the news and rush to Emden Port.

Even, there will still be many wandering knights who will miss. Why? Because they went poaching into the Black Forest ...

At the beginning, Marin had just crossed that moment, because of poverty, he had done poaching. In principle, German lands, including forests, are owned by lords everywhere. If you want to hunt, you need the permission of the lords everywhere, and you have to pay heavy taxes. But wandering knights are not ordinary people, but they are warriors, regardless of the bans of those lords. Therefore, many wandering knights who are temporarily unable to find work will lead their teams into the Black Forest for poaching. And the lords all over the world opened their eyes and closed their eyes. Because these wandering knights are not easy to mess with. Even if it can solve this wandering knight, it will be tricky if it provokes the family behind him.

Of course, poaching by the wandering knights is also "ruleful." Their rule is-"Take a vote and change the place", so as not to make it difficult for the local lord. If you rely on poaching in one place for a long time, it is to force the local lord to attack him. And if you pass by poaching, the lords will not care, just be alms.

If you enter the forest to poach, it is estimated that it will take a long time. If the news of Adler ’s recruitment comes at this time, these wandering knights who enter the forest area for poaching may miss it. Therefore, even if Adler gave 2 months, there will be many wandering knights who missed the time. However, this is not a big deal. After all, Adler didn't necessarily want all the homeless knights to come. Even some wandering knights may not be willing to come. Of course, the wandering knights who refused to come were generally the ones who helped the family to find a way. This opportunity for Adler might not be needed.

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Marin ordered people to build huge competition sites outside the city of Emden, and built a lot of temporary houses outside the city to house the wandering knights.

The reason why the competition venue is arranged outside the city is because the venue is large enough. And let the wandering knights live outside the city, naturally they are afraid that they will make trouble in the city. There are a lot of villains in the wandering knight. Of course, Adler made it clear that the villain would not want to be a wandering knight. However, as a warrior, it is normal to be grumpy. If the wandering knights fought, the general soldiers of the City Guard could not stop it. After all, these wandering knights are all masters who have practiced martial arts for more than ten years. The martial arts masters fought, and ordinary officers and soldiers simply couldn't manage it. If so many wandering knights poured into Emden City, there must be trouble.

As it happens, the Beihai army often goes out to fight, and there are many military camps. Therefore, Marin simply built a huge military barrack outside Emden City, which set up a lot of camps to house the knights who came to compete. Anyway, these knights are not those literati, but also to fight. Building temporary camps for them to live in is also a good way for them to feel the atmosphere of war. Moreover, the construction cost is still low, which is convenient for construction and demolition.

Moreover, in order to prevent these wandering knights from entering the city to eat and drink and make trouble, Marin decided to supply food to these wandering knights outside the city, so that they would not make trouble after entering the city.

As for the types of food served, Marin decided to supply them with Chinese fast food-one meal for each wandering knight. Of course, not with rice, but with Kohler black bread ~ www.novelhall.com ~ that is brown bread doped with straw bran.

After all, Europeans are not used to eating rice and prefer to eat bread. And Lincoln is supplying Kohler bread. Most importantly, Marin intends to provide it for free. After all, the elders came from afar, and they were all children of noble families, and Marin must not lose the courtesy. Of course, for those knight servants, it's not so polite, just giving a piece of black bread and a glass of boiling water for each meal. After all, the wandering knights are all aristocratic children. Those knight servants are not, there is no need to give too good treatment.

As for drinks, Marin does not intend to provide them. However, he let those pub owners work together to open a bar camp on the edge of the camp outside the city to sell beer to the wandering knights, but it is not free. After all, Marin is good for entertaining these wandering knights for free. If you want to drink, go buy it yourself ...

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While Marin was busy preparing for the Cavaliers Competition, Port Emden suddenly returned a news that surprised Marin-Amerigo is back!

Marlin was overjoyed, and quickly sent a bodyguard to pick up Amerigo. Amerigo was able to come back alive, indicating that Daming's Pacific route was successfully opened, and Marin was certainly very happy. And this also means that Marin can come to the Ming Dynasty ...