The Rise of the European Emperor

Marin was a layman to painting. After Dürer reminded him, he realized that oil painting is usually done on canvas. Therefore, he had to send people everywhere to buy suitable canvases so that they could be brought to Daming for use.

However, those 10 warships have already set off, and it is more difficult to catch up. Therefore, Marin can only send another ship, first to Panama, and then wait for the fleet to arrive before loading the ship. Fortunately, the canvas is light and does not take up much space.

But in fact, European paintings include not only oil paintings, but also monochrome paintings called sketches. Moreover, Dürer is one of the master figures. For example, the hands and feet painted by Dürer that Marin saw later were actually monochrome sketches.

Moreover, Dürer told Marin that sketches are much easier to create than oil paintings. With his ability, he can quickly draw a portrait of a person, and it is very similar.

"Isn't this a sketch?" Marin suddenly remembered that the police station in later generations seemed to ask the painter to quickly draw the appearance of the suspect based on the description of the witnesses to help solve the case.

In later generations, Dürer was evaluated as a master of sketch by people in the art circle, and he also published professional art books such as "Dürer Sketch". However, the word sketch seems to have been created by Huaxia himself. In fact, sketching is just a kind of sketching. To be precise, Dürer is a master of sketching.

For sketching, you don't need a canvas, just ordinary paper. Under the witness of everyone, Dürer quickly drew vivid sketch portraits of the Marin family with charcoal. Marin was so happy that he hurriedly put away all these paintings. However, considering the long-term preservation factor, Marin asked Dürer to absorb ink with a quill pen with better preservation effect, and created several sketch portraits. Ink is easier to absorb on paper than charcoal powder, and it is easier to store for a long time. After all, this is a work of art, and it is more valuable for long-term preservation.

And Marin also decided that after the Ming Dynasty, only Emperor Zhengde, Liu Jin and a few big shots would use time-consuming and labor-intensive oil paintings. For ordinary ministers, just give a sketch. Anyway, Dürer sketches quickly and doesn't waste much time.

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As time entered July, wandering knights from all over Germany also began to gather in the port of Emden, waiting for the knights tournament to be held.

It seemed that he was stimulated by the quota of 50 feudal knights. The number of knights who came to participate in the competition was a bit large, exceeding 1,000 people, which shocked Marin.

Fortunately, Marin didn't let those knights enter Emden City, otherwise, the city might really be harmed by these people. Moreover, most of these wandering knights brought attendants, and the total number added up to four to five thousand. However, the population of Emden City does not exceed 20,000. If these people are really allowed to enter the city, there will not be enough places to live.

In order to prevent these brave and aggressive knights from making trouble,

Marin urgently mobilized 10,000 people from the Second Army and stationed outside Emden, ready to suppress trouble at any time. Although each of these knights can fight a few, the Second Legion has more than 2,000 musketeers, which are specially used to deal with knights wearing plate armor. No matter how good your martial arts are, how thick your armor is, you will be knocked down with one shot...

"Hey, more than a thousand people compete for 50 positions, and an average of more than 20 people compete for one seat. Why did I think of the national exam in the civil service exam in my previous life?" Marin smacked his lips, shocked.

In fact, Marin also recruited wandering knights in his early years, but the effect was not so good. why? Because when Marin recruited wandering knights, he was in an awkward position and was hostile by many princes. In addition, there were powerful enemies such as Saxony and Brandenburg at that time, so many wandering knights felt that Marin's status was in jeopardy and they could not protect themselves, so not many people were willing to come to him.

But it is different now, Marin has defeated those main enemies, and the dominance of the Hoffman family has stabilized. Moreover, Ireland, where Adler went, is not a dangerous place. Therefore, many people are willing to sign up.

In fact, these wandering knights are more willing to serve Marin who has already established himself. It's a pity that Marin has enough manpower, and many civilian-born officers have been trained, so there is no need to recruit wandering knights for the time being. Moreover, as Marin's young officers were about to grow up, he didn't need to recruit those wandering knights. Even if recruited, Marin is only willing to recruit those wandering knights whose whole family is willing to move to Beihai.

Why? Because Marin is afraid of leaking secrets. With such a high agricultural output in Beihai, it would be serious if a family member of a wandering knight was not here and accidentally leaked the secret. And the family members are all in Beihai, and no one dares to leak secrets indiscriminately. Unless, he wants the whole family to go to hell.

Even Frundsberg, who has already served the emperor, Marin also reached an agreement with him-Marin provides him with a large number of bags of compound fertilizer every year, but Frundsberg must keep agricultural secrets and must not disclose them to the emperor . Otherwise, Marin asked Kohler to assassinate the Frundsberg family...

Frundsberg is a smart man, and he will not be ignorant of the power of it. Moreover, Kohler specially sent someone to show him a rehearsal of the short-range assassination with a clockwork-ignited short gun. Even if the person who was assassinated wore plate armor, it was useless to have guards to protect him. In addition, the secret is kept, and the fertilizer supply is also available at home, which can produce high yields. If the secrets are announced, everyone will have a high yield, and their own grain will not be able to sell at a high price. Frundsberg is obviously very clear about this simple truth. So, he won't talk nonsense.

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The arrival of thousands of knights and their attendants has brought great pressure to the port of Emden. Accommodation is no problem, after all, Marin took out a camp tent for the legion, which is enough. However, eating is definitely stressful. After all, that's four to five thousand mouths, and more than a thousand of them are children of nobles.

Those servants are treated very simply. A loaf of Kohler brown bread and a glass of crappy beer at every meal.

But those more than a thousand wandering knights are all from noble families, even the lowest knight families are considered noble families. Therefore, Marin needs to entertain him well, so as not to be considered impolite.

The phenomenon of dying for face is not only found in China, but also in Europe. Noble families are very taboo to be called "rude" and "stingy". Generally speaking, aristocratic families can be cruel and stingy to ordinary people, but they must not be rude to visiting nobles. When nobles or noble children come to visit, they must be warmly entertained, and they must pay attention to ostentation. Otherwise, you will be despised. And entertaining nobles from all walks of life is also the biggest expense of ordinary noble families. Otherwise, how much money do you need to eat and drink at home? Because entertaining other visiting nobles warmly, and paying attention to ostentation. Therefore, the European nobles spent a lot of money, and many nobles needed to borrow money to survive.

And Marin is considered lucky, because of his humble background, those big nobles generally look down on him. Therefore, there are very few great nobles visiting. Otherwise, the cost of entertaining the princes every year is also very huge. And Marin doesn't have many princes to visit, so the annual entertainment expenses are not much, which is a blessing in disguise.

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But no matter what, the wandering knights who came to participate in the tournament are all guests of the Hoffman family, and they are all guests from noble families, so they can't be rude.

Of course, most of these wandering knights are children of low-level noble families. Otherwise, he would not be reduced to a wandering knight. If the son of the earl's family is not doing well, the earl will help arrange it, at least he can become a fief knight.

But the non-eldest sons of barons and knights are not so lucky, because the barons and knights don't have much land, so they can't be divided any more. Therefore, many non-eldest sons of baron families, as well as most non-eldest sons of knight families, had to become wandering knights.

Marin didn't have to worry about dealing with these wandering knights from low-level aristocratic families. Otherwise, it would be very troublesome for Marin to send a minister to receive a prince from a prince's family.

And for these wandering knights from low-level noble families, there is no need to be so troublesome. Anyway, even if their father is a baron, they can't get into Marin's eyes.

Therefore, for these wandering knights, Marin directly arranged for them to live in tents in the barracks, and called it "feeling the atmosphere of the battlefield"...in fact, it was to save entertainment expenses...

But the wandering knights aspired to make meritorious service on the battlefield, so they chose to live in this way, and lived in the barracks with peace of mind. Moreover, many wandering knights who have never been to the battlefield are still watching around in the camp, learning how to set up a camp...