The Rise of the European Emperor

Woolf Esbrand has followed Marin to East Friesland for half a year. During this half year, he spent most of his time in the army, earnestly studying the Marin phalanx and East Friesland. Military training methods.

During the holidays, Woolf Esbrand also rode around the territory of East Friesland. Except during the autumn harvest, most of the soldiers and soldiers of the entire army were sent to border protection and security. At other times, as long as there was a holiday, Woolf Esbrand liked to go to various places. After all, he used to be the leader of the military and political in the Dittmarschen region.

But after turning down, Woolf Esbrand was taken aback. Because, he found, the life of the people of East Frisian is a little better...

Although it is said that the people of East Frisian may still eat very little meat. But ordinary East Frisians, even the lowest serfs, usually had good brown bread. Not the unleavened black baguette with a lot of sawdust, dirt and stones in it, but a softer black bread. Such black bread, in Dittmarschen, can only be eaten regularly by wealthy people with a good family background. But in East Friesland, serfs usually eat soft brown bread, so how could they not surprise Woolf Esbrand?

In fact, the black bread eaten by the serfs was not pure black bread, it was also mixed with some wild vegetables and grass husks. However, these two additives do not affect the softness of the bread. Moreover, these breads are fully fermented, so they are relatively soft. The taste of grass bran is actually similar to that of wheat bran. During this period, Europeans made brown bread, most of which were made with wheat bran. Therefore, add some grass bran, although it is thicker than flour, it is not very tasty. Moreover, even straw chaff can be digested, unlike stones and soil, which cannot be digested.

In addition, in East Frisland, near the residence of each manor, Marin has divided some "private plots". These private plots are used for farmers to grow vegetables, and all the vegetables grown are eaten by the people in the manor.

Of course, in the vicinity of each city, Marin will also arrange a few specific manors, all of which grow vegetables to supply the needs of the city. Fortunately, there are not many cities now, and there are few urban residents, so it is easy to meet the needs.

In addition, because East Frisian is a coastal country, there are many fishermen and naturally more salted fish. In order to take care of the fishermen, Marin also implemented the policy of "grain for salted fish". With the equivalent value of rye, a large amount of salted fish is exchanged with the fishermen, and then distributed to each manor as the main meat of the serfs.

Salted fish has a low cost, but its nutrition is no worse than that of meat. Therefore, salted fish became the main source of meat for the poor in East Friesland. Basically, ordinary serf families were allocated salted fish every week to supplement various nutrients.

Fish is not only rich in protein, but also rich in vitamins A, D, and E. People who eat fish often will not get night blindness. Because night blindness is a manifestation of vitamin A deficiency. Because one or two tons of salted fish are eaten every week, the prevalence of night blindness in East Friesland is very low.

At first, Woolf Esbrand thought it was just that the living conditions of the people near Aurich where he was stationed were better. As a result, he rode farther, ran to some remote areas, the same is true.

Of course, some serfs in noble fiefs had a relatively poor life. After all, some nobles are stingy. However, those stingy nobles did not starve the serfs, but they were not treated as well as the manor under the name of Malin.

In the manor under Marin's name, basically the serfs lived well. Although everyone's food contains less oil and water, the nutrition is basically sufficient, and people's mental state is very good.

Seeing this, Woolf Essbrand finally reconciled to Marin. He believed that under Marin's governance, the people could live a good life.

So, he began to ask Marin to teach the legendary "Eastern Art of War"...

In fact, Marin was not a serious officer, how could he know much about the art of war? However, in his previous life, he also learned a lot of miscellaneous military theories from the Internet, and read many classic battles. At the same time, I have also read "Sun Tzu's Art of War", watched the CCTV version of "Sun Tzu's Art of War and the Thirty-Six Strategies", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and so on...

At this level, he is an amateur military enthusiast in later generations, but in this era, it is still no problem to fool Woolf Esbrand.

When he was bored, Marin told Woolf Esbrand about the classic battles such as "Burning the New Field" and "Flooding the Seven Armies", and fooled Woolf Esbrand to the point of not wanting it:

"Oh, 'Burning Xinye' is really wonderful, this Zhuge Liang is too good, I adore him so much..."

"God, I didn't expect that there would be a classic example of 'flooding the Seven Armies' in the east. This general named Guan Yu is amazing! I'm still very proud of my example of drowning the Danish army. I didn't expect Huaxia 1300 years ago There are generals who have this clever plan, it is my short-sightedness..."

Marin wiped his sweat and said in his heart, my "Flooded Seven Armies" is the version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", which exaggerates Guan Yu's ability. In fact, the real "flooding of the seven armies" in history is that Cao Jun committed his own life and set up the barracks in a low-lying area. It happened to encounter a storm. Guan Yu just took advantage of this situation, not the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" version. So deliberately planned.

But when it comes to using flooding, in fact, when the three families divided Jin, Zhi Boyao once flooded Jinyang. However, in turn, Zhao, Wei, and Han were also flooded, and then they were defeated. And, that was more than 1900 years ago...

Woolf Esbrand had never seen the world before, so Marin randomly picked some episodes from what he saw on TV, and then he fooled him into a slap in the face, which made people laugh.

After Marin told him about the TV series "The Art of War and the Thirty-Six Strategies of Sun Tzu" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Woolf Esbrand digested it for a long time and took a lot of notes before he could barely grasp it.

However, such Woolf Esbrand is enough. If he taught him more, Marin would not worry about him.

It just so happened that Woolf Esbrand was at his heart now, so Marin decided to let Woolf Esbrand control the 10,000-strong army of the Principality of Schleswig to prevent the Danes from counterattacking. .

Next, if Marin wants to take the Bishopric of Munster, it will definitely be a mess for a while. Marin worried that the Danes would take the opportunity to attack the Duchy of Schleswig. Therefore, he planned to send Woolf Esbrand to control the army of the Duchy of Schleswig against the Danish invasion.

As for whether Woolf Esbrand will collude with the Danes? Marin never thought about it that way. Because, Woolf. Esbrand and Denmark are mortal enemies.

In addition, Marin arranged for Kohler to assign a team of guards to Woolf Esbrand to guard his safety. These guards actually work as spies and are also responsible for monitoring Woolf Esbrand. If Woolf Essbrand is loyal, nothing will happen. However, if Woolf Esbrand had an opposition, these guards would chop off his head and bring it to Marlin...

And the fierce brother Cage, who was originally with Woolf Esbrand, was left behind by Marin and was in charge of the training of a team of special forces.

Now, Marin's "inside and outside" trick has been used, and the art of shelling the oak city gate + blasting has also been used. In the future, other countries will definitely be prepared.

Therefore, Marin intends to train a group of special forces who "fly over the eaves and walk the walls" to cooperate with the main army to attack the city. At the same time, it can also be responsible for night raiding enemy camps and assassinating enemy generals.

Cage has good skills and a flexible mind, and is the best candidate for the captain of the special forces. In addition, this guy is so fierce, and put him next to Woolf Esbrand. If Woolf Esbrand has the intention of rebelling, those guards may not be able to face the highly skilled Cage. Can kill Woolf Esbrand...