The Rise of the European Emperor

The logistical consumption of an army of 100,000 people is simply frightening to death. Take compressed biscuits and bagged Chinese cabbage as an example. According to each person, one bag of compressed biscuits (three pieces) and one bag of Chinese cabbage (a complete Chinese cabbage, but dehydrated) After the weight is reduced a lot, the weight is reduced by more than half), the army of 100,000 consumes 100,000 bags of compressed biscuits and 100,000 Chinese cabbage a day.

This is only the consumption of the combat troops, and it does not count the meat. Coupled with the logistical force of at least tens of thousands of people, the consumption is extremely terrifying. At present, no country in Europe can afford such consumption (except the North Sea country).

However, if the troops all use portable compressed biscuits and bags of dehydrated vegetables, the transportation pressure is expected to be much lower. Originally, an army of 100,000 people needed at least 80,000 to 90,000 or even 100,000 people to transport food and baggage. But if Marin promotes rations that are easy to transport, it is estimated that 50,000 people will be strong enough to transport rations. With fewer tens of thousands of mouths, a lot of food can be saved.

Of course, there are also armies that need a lot of mules and horses. The daily consumption of these mules and horses is also an extremely staggering figure. Because, the daily food consumption of war horses is 5 times that of ordinary people...

With an army of 100,000 people, Marin estimated that he would need tens of thousands of horses. If all the European war horses that eat a lot of food and consume a lot of food are used, Marin will probably not be able to eat them. Therefore, except for some of the knights who need to ride European war horses, Marin plans to use the Eastern European Mongolian horses imported from Crimea for the rest of the horses. After all, Mongolian horses in Eastern Europe eat more grass and consume less food. For this, it was necessary to import a large number of horses from the Crimean Khanate.

In addition, if necessary, Marin also intends to use the method of driving cattle with the army. The so-called "driving cattle with the army" means driving thousands of cattle to follow the army.

Along the way, the cows only need to graze. Historically, cattle from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth were driven all the way to Western Europe in this way.

If you drive cattle with the army, you can not only let the cattle do the work of pulling carts and load goods during the march, but also directly slaughter the cattle to supplement the meat when necessary.

This may seem very extravagant, but it is actually not very expensive. Marin imported cattle from the Crimean Khanate for 8 gold coins a head. 10,000 cows cost only 80,000 gold coins. Moreover, the cattle that accompanied the army graze, do not consume food, and can also help pull carts and load goods.

What? You said that the ox-drawn carts are expensive and need to be supplemented with concentrates? Please, these cows are backup food, do I need to add concentrate? They're all going to be slaughtered anyway...

In addition, at a critical time, you may be able to learn Tiandan and give the enemy a fiery bull formation. Of course, Fire Bull Array is not easy to use. In history, Tian Danyong was successful. During the civil war, our army and Jiang's army both tried the Huo Niu formation, but the bulls rammed around and injured their own troops. Therefore, Marin did not dare to use it indiscriminately unless it was a last resort.

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It's funny to say,

The Crimean Khanate, a famous robber country in history, because Marin buys a large number of cattle and horses from it every year. Now, the Crimean Khanate, which originally relied on robbery for a living, has actually begun to vigorously develop cattle and horse grazing.

In order to expand the scale of grazing, the Crimean Khanate sent troops to attack the Grand Duchy of Moscow several times, grabbed a large number of hairs, and acted as herdsmen after castration, grazing cattle and horses for them.

Subsequently, the Crimean Khanate reduced its attacks on the Grand Duchy of Moscow and Poland. Because they can make money by grazing, why do they have to exchange their lives for money? Besides, when they graze cattle and sheep, Eunuch Mao helps them work. Now, the nobles of the Crimean Khanate hold banquets in the city all day long, eating and drinking.

What is particularly interesting is that although the Crimeans are Green Christians, they are still addicted to alcohol. Beihai Kingdom purchased a large number of cattle and horses from them, and a large part of it was paid with rye Erguotou, which did not cost much real money.

In order to hide the fact of drinking, the nobles of the Crimean Khanate mixed spirits with mare's milk when drinking, which looked like milk tea. Then, the group of drunkards suddenly raised their glasses frequently and shouted "milk tea" together. Anyone who dares to point out that they are drinking will definitely be beaten up—Fuck Nima, when did Lao Tzu drink? Open your dog's eyes and see, I'm drinking milk tea...

Well, at first glance, in vain, it is really milk tea. However, with a mouth full of alcohol, there is no need to test it with the traffic police's alcohol tester...

Even at the court banquet of the Crimean Khan Mingri Glei, everyone used this set-mixing some mare's milk or goat's milk in the rye erguotou, it looked like milk tea, and then together Raise a glass - "Come, drink milk"! Then, everyone drank Erguotou...

Right now, the rye Erguotou, or whisky, produced in Beihai has successfully replaced salt as the most popular commodity on the eastern European prairie.

Not only the people of the Crimean Khanate learned the rogue trick of mixing spirits with milk, but even the Astrakhan Khanate and the Kazan Khanate, which were originally split from the Golden Horde, also learned this kind of "openness". In the name of drinking milk, he gulps rye Erguotou. Of course, their rye Erguotou is also bought from the Crimeans.

Because there are not enough cattle and horses in the Crimean Khanate, they cannot make up 10,000 cattle per year. Therefore, every year the Crimean Khanate imported a large number of cattle and horses from the homologous Astrakhan Khanate and Kazan Khanate. Even cattle and horses were imported from the neighboring Nogai Khanate.

Of course, the Crimeans are more chicken thieves. When they bought cattle and horses from these khanates, they used very low prices. A cow sold to Marin for 8 gp, they bought it from several fraternal khanates for only 2 gp worth of spirits.

Marin knew this too, but he couldn't get around the Crimean Khanate and trade with several other Khanates. Mainly, even if Marin bought cattle and horses from several other khanates, they had to go through the Crimean khanate. If the Crimeans are unhappy, they will definitely intercept it. Therefore, he can only watch the Crimeans make a fortune as this second-order trafficker.

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In fact, Marin's large-scale import of cattle and horses from the Crimean Khanate greatly changed the political landscape on the Eastern European steppe.

In the past, Crimeans mainly relied on looting and human trafficking from the Grand Duchy of Moscow and places like Poland and Romania to sustain their economy.

At that time, the only thing that could help the Crimeans sell off their stolen goods was Ottoman Turkey. Therefore, the Crimean Khanate was particularly dependent on Turkey at that time, and was willing to serve as Turkey's horse boy. No way, the economic lifeline is in the hands of Turkey. If you don't listen, you won't be able to eat in minutes.

But now, through trade with Marin, the Crimean Khanate no longer has to look at the Turks. Therefore, the Turks gradually discovered that the younger brother of Crimea, seems to be not listening to greetings very much recently...

But the Turks also have no way to take the Crimean Khanate, because the Crimean Khanate has become the leader of several Khanates by monopolizing the sales channels of the spirits of the North Sea on the Eastern European prairie, allowing Turkey Terrified.

Therefore, Marin changed the political landscape of Eastern Europe through trade, and made Turkey lose the help of the important thugs of the Crimean Khanate.

Of course, it's not completely lost. Because the Crimeans now sometimes send troops to cooperate with Turkey. The reason for this is that when the Crimean Khanate sold slaves, slave ships had to go through the Turkish Strait. If the Turks are completely offended, this route may be cut off by the Turks. However, the originally incomparably close relationship between the two countries has only been superficial. After all, when the economy is no longer the only one dependent on Turkey, the Crimeans do not need to be "swiped" by the Turks...

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