The Rise of the European Emperor

The preparations for this knightly tournament to select knights in the fief in Port Emden took a long time to prepare. Even if old Hoffman wanted to see it, he would have to wait.

It's not that the preparation work is difficult, but it takes a long time to wait for the knights from all over the country to come. In this era, the transmission of information is very inconvenient. If you want to send letters, you are often carried by caravans. While caravans do business while walking, they are often not in a hurry to deliver letters and messages. It is a miracle that the caravan's carriage can travel 100 kilometers in one day. Sometimes, in order to attract business, the caravan will stop for several days in a certain place, which is very wrong.

Therefore, although Adler's recruitment news could not be sent out, it would take a long time to spread throughout Germany. And even after receiving the news, it would take a long time to rush to Emden. Generally speaking, although the horses that the knights ride are powerful, their endurance is not enough. They can stop and go, and it is not bad to be able to walk 100 kilometers a day. Unless you can be as rich as Marin, a knight can change his riding with three horses, then it will be fast. As for ordinary knights, even if one person can bring two horses to ride, the attendants are riding bad horses, and there are no horses that can be exchanged. Can't the knight leave the attendant and go by himself? You must know that when not fighting, the knights' plate armor and lance are carried by the attendants. I usually only have a knight's light sword around my waist to deal with emergencies. And the one with only one bad horse is definitely no more than 100 kilometers a day, or even only a few dozen kilometers a day. As for the poorer knights, the attendants were not equipped with horses and could only walk, so the overall travel speed was even slower, and they could only walk 30 to 40 kilometers a day.

What's more, Adler's recruitment message was also sent to the Teutonic and Livonian Knights in Eastern Europe. Because, the German wandering knights over there are very concentrated and clustered. If one considers the time it took for the wandering knights from the Teutonic and Livonian Knights to arrive, it would be even longer. Therefore, Adler simply gave two months, so that the wandering knights from all over have enough time to come. Therefore, it will take some time for Old Hoffman to watch the knights fight.

In fact, the knights travel fairly quickly. After all, no matter how slow a knight is, he can travel 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 travel.

The problem mainly lies in the transmission of news. If the Holy Roman Empire was a unified and centralized country, the official may establish a post system in various cities to facilitate the transmission of news. For example, in the Ming Dynasty, there was a post station system, which regularly issued decrees and newspapers.

But the Holy Roman Empire is a divided country, and you can run into a vassal state within a few dozen miles. The transmission of information between countries is very troublesome, even if the caravan transits the border, it is also very troublesome. In addition to paying taxes, there are various inspections.

In addition, even if the news reaches the cities of the various vassal states, the wandering knights may not receive it. Because the general knight family lived in the country manor, the news was even worse. Only those wandering knights who happened to be wandering in the city could receive the news in time. On the other hand, wandering knights who are temporarily stationed in the country manor or who have not yet gone out will need to get the news very late. After all, in ancient times, it was normal for country people not to enter the city for ten days and a half months. What's more, entering the city is also called a city tax, which reduces the frequency of rural people entering the city. Although the knights are not bad money,

But that was referring to the fief knights with fiefs, and the wandering knights had no land and were still relatively poor. Therefore, under this circumstance, no two months are definitely not enough for wandering knights from all over the world to receive news and rush to Emden Port.

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

Back then, when Marin first crossed the road, he did poaching because he was poor. In principle, German lands, including forests, were owned by local lords. If you want to hunt, you need the permission of the lords of various places, and you have to pay heavy taxes. But the wandering knights are not ordinary people, they are warriors, and they don't care about the bans of those lords. Therefore, many wandering knights who are temporarily unable to find jobs will lead teams into the Black Forest for poaching. And the lords all over the place also turned a blind eye to this. Because these wandering knights are not easy to mess with. Even if he could solve this wandering knight, it would be very difficult to provoke the family behind him.

Of course, wandering knights poaching are also very "ruled". Their rule is - "one vote for another place", lest the local lord be difficult to do. If you rely on one place for poaching for a long time, it is forcing the local lord to attack him. And if you pass by poaching, the lords will not care, and they will be alms.

If you go into the forest for poaching, it will take a long time. If news of Adler's recruitment came at this time, these wandering knights who went into the forest area for poaching might miss it. Therefore, even if Adler gave 2 months, there will be many wandering knights who will miss the time. Still, it's not a big deal. After all, Adler didn't necessarily want all the wandering knights from all over the country to come over. Even some wandering knights may not be willing to come. Of course, the wandering knights who refuse to come are usually helped by their families to find a way, so they don't necessarily need this opportunity from Adler.

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Marin ordered people to build a huge competition venue outside the city of Emden Harbor, and built many temporary houses outside the city to house those 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 many villains among the wandering knights. Of course, Adler made it clear that he did not want the villains. Those villains would not come. However, as a warrior, it is normal to have a bad temper. If the wandering knights fight, the general city guard soldiers will not be able to stop them. After all, these wandering knights are all masters who have practiced martial arts for more than ten years. When martial arts masters fight, ordinary officers and soldiers have no ability to control them. If so many wandering knights poured into Emden City, there must be trouble.

It just so happened that the Beihai Kingdom's army often went out to fight, and there were many military camps. Therefore, Marin simply built a huge military camp outside the city of Emden, and set up many tents to house the knights who came to compete. Anyway, these knights are not those literati, and they have to fight. Building temporary camps for them to live in can be regarded as allowing them to feel the atmosphere of war. Moreover, the construction cost is also low, and it is convenient to construct and dismantle.

Moreover, in order to prevent these wandering knights from making trouble when they enter the city to eat and drink, Marin decided to supply food to these wandering knights outside the city, lest they make trouble after entering the city.

As for the type of food served, Marin decided to serve them Chinese-style fast food—one meat and three vegetarian meals for the wandering knights at each meal. Of course, not with rice, but with kohler brown bread, which is brown bread mixed with straw bran.

After all, Europeans are also not used to eating rice and prefer to eat bread. And Malin serves Kohler bread, which is pretty good. Most importantly, Marin intends to supply it for free. After all, people came all the way, and they were all children of noble families, so Marin couldn't lose his courtesy. Of course, for those knight servants, they are not so polite, and only a piece of brown bread and a glass of boiling water are enough for each meal. After all, the wandering knights are all children of nobles, those knight servants are not, there is no need to treat them too well.

As for drinks, Marin wasn't going to offer it. However, he asked those tavern owners to work together to open a bar camp beside the camp outside the city to sell beer to those wandering knights, but not for free. After all, it was not bad that Marin hosted these wandering knights for free. If you want to drink, go buy it yourself...

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Just as Marin was busy preparing for the Knights Tournament, Emden Port suddenly sent back a piece of news that surprised Marin - Amerigo is back!

Malin was overjoyed and quickly sent a guard to pick up Amerigo back. Amerigo was able to come back alive, indicating that Daming's Pacific route was open, and of course Marin was very happy. And this also means that there is an opportunity for Marin to go to the Ming Dynasty...