The Rise of the European Emperor

Jamahan taught Marin a good lesson. In the past, Marin thought that nomads would kill cattle and sheep all day long for meat. When he was a child in a previous life, Marin mistakenly thought that Mongolians eat roasted whole lamb every day, and Xinjiang people eat mutton kebabs every day...

Unexpectedly, people mainly rely on goat's milk, horse's milk and cow's milk for maintenance. They just kill some sheep from time to time to eat, instead of eating meat from small fat cows and big fat sheep every day.

In fact, this is normal. Some small herdsmen have a small number of sheep. If you kill sheep every day for meat, the speed of sheep growth will not keep up with the speed of herdsmen's slaughter. After all, it takes a year or two for sheep to grow up, and even longer for cows and horses.

Therefore, normal nomads rarely kill ewes. Under normal circumstances, eating meat is killing rams. The ewes are kept as much as possible, and the lambs will not be slaughtered. There are two main reasons: One is a flock and doesn't need too many rams. After all, a ram can be bred with multiple ewes; and the ewes are able to provide goat milk during lactation. Therefore, in a normal flock, there are more rams and more ewes. If slaughtering sheep, the priority must be given to slaughtering the male. As for the mother's, it was slaughtered as a last resort. For example, the ewes are old and cannot conceive. As for the lamb, it was a pity to kill it because it didn't fully grow up.

Of course, this has also caused a bad result, that is, eating adult rams and old ewes will inevitably have a strong taint. Eating too much of this kind of mutton will inevitably make the herders smell a little tainted, which is one of the reasons why ancient Chinese people despised grassland herdsmen. But in order to save costs, the herdsmen had to do it again. Unlike modern people, in order to avoid being contaminated with taint, most of them eat lambs that are a few months old or castrated sheep...

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This conversation opened up a new world for Marin. The cost of survival for the nomads was so low... Moreover, he suddenly regretted why he didn't communicate more with the two Mongolian doctors, Mozhigen and Batel. Otherwise, he would have known this already...

But this is no wonder, because in ancient times, these habits of herdsmen, in the eyes of the farming people, were expressions of "barbarism and uncivilized" and were not worthy of publicity. Therefore, Morigen and Battelle will not deliberately introduce these things. So Marin doesn't know much about these natures.

After sending Jamahan away, Marin immediately had a long talk with Mo Zhigen and Battelle, verifying the authenticity of what Jamahan said.

Mo Zhigen and Bartle told Marin that in fact, the herdsmen are generally self-sufficient. However, whether it is the nomads in Eastern Europe or the nomads in central and eastern Asia, they are all afraid of a deadly enemy, the cold winter...

Winters in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Northeast Asia are all very cold. Even if the sheep are covered in thick wool, they may not be able to carry it. If there is a blizzard, a lot of sheep will definitely be lost.

Therefore, once there is a blizzard in winter, the grassland tribes will be severely affected. And how did the grassland tribes recover their losses and go to the Central Plains to grab them... This is also one of the important reasons for the thousands of years of grievances between the Huaxia Dynasty and the grassland tribes...

It is not that the nomads of the grasslands are born fierce, but because the herdsmen on the grasslands cannot survive if they are not fierce. Facing the harsh winter, they either starved to death or went south to plunder. In the end, the surviving herdsmen became robbers...

Of course, this is the ancient herdsmen. After the modern herdsmen accept the central management, they can trade with the whole country smoothly. Under the advanced freezing technology and transportation conditions of later generations, mutton and beef on the grassland can be delivered to the whole country smoothly. In most areas of China, agriculture is the mainstay, and there is a lack of meat. Coupled with the popularity of eating steak and hot pot later, the consumption of beef and mutton is relatively large, resulting in the increase of beef and mutton. Therefore, the herdsmen of later generations are much richer than the peasants...Farmers with only a few acres of land at home, facing herdsmen with flocks of cattle and sheep, are definitely the poorest among the poor... Therefore, the peasants had to go out to work ...

Of course, the premise of herders being rich is that they need a huge market. For example, Inner Mongolia and Outer Mongolia, Inner Mongolia is backed by the big Chinese market, and it is also a foodie empire, so the herdsmen are very rich. And Outer Mongolia, there is no market,

They also reject the Huaxia Foodie Empire, so they only have cattle and sheep, and they have no sales. They are still a poor country... They are pro-Maozi, but Maozi can't afford their cattle and sheep...Maozi lives by eating potatoes. , The economy relies heavily on selling oil and natural gas, how can there be any spare money to buy cattle and sheep in Outer Mongolia? Besides, Maozi's Central Asian brothers are also many cattle and sheep, and the freight to Moscow is still low... In short, standing in the wrong team can only make the people suffer and suffer...

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Of course, those are off-topic. The real reason Marin was interested in this was because he wanted to conquer the pampas.

However, the Pampas grassland is too large, with a total area of ​​760,000 square kilometers, which is more than ten times the size of Beihai Kingdom.

Before, Marin considered the plan to conquer the pampas with the thinking of a farming nation. In that plan, Marin intends to establish agricultural areas first in Buenos Aires and other places that are now the estuary of the La Plata River. Then, when the farming area can provide sufficient food, the Cossack cavalry will be dispatched to sweep the nearby grasslands, gradually advancing until the entire Pampas grassland is occupied.

However, since learning about the way of life of the prairie peoples, Marin suddenly felt that he was too conservative before...

According to his previous plan, the Cossack cavalry attacked and could only choose to sweep the area near the farming area. Because, if you run further, the supply will not keep up.

But in this way, how much territory can we occupy? The first phase of Marin planned to send 500 Cossack cavalry to sweep the Pampas steppe. In the case of a fixed farming area, the 500 Cossacks will not leave the farming area for hundreds of kilometers at most in order to ensure sufficient supplies. Otherwise, replenishment will be difficult. In this way, the land obtained is at most the size of the Jutland Peninsula, which is about 10,000 to 20,000 square kilometers.

However, if the Mongolian cavalry was used instead, and the milk-producing mare was brought on the expedition, it would be frivolous to capture the entire 8.76 million square kilometers of the Pampas grassland. Here is an example. The Mongol Empire used this method to conquer the huge Eurasian continent... If it weren't for the limited population, it would have been possible to conquer all of Europe and all of Asia...

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Coincidentally, the current Marin is very similar to the Mongolian Empire at the time, and it is also powerful in combat, and also has a huge territory to conquer...

Moreover, what is more advantageous than the Mongolian Empire is that the indigenous Indians are too backward in civilization, and their combat effectiveness is far worse than that of the Mongolian Empire's opponents...

Therefore, although the army was smaller than that of the Mongol Empire, it was less difficult for Marin to conquer the Americas than for the Mongol Empire to conquer Eurasia.

The only problem is that Marin uses the traditional mode of warfare in farming society, and relies heavily on the transportation of grain and grass...

In this way, the range that Marin can reach with his troops is very limited. Because, whether it's troops or supplies, they can't keep up...

The way the Mongolian cavalry expeditions brought a milking mare as a source of food gave Malin a great inspiration. If the military supply problem is solved, then, Marin's army can fight far, far, and occupy the great America first...

But using Mongol conquest tactics comes with a premise that there are enough mares...

With enough mare to provide milk, the Mongolian cavalry can traverse the entire American continent. And the Pampas grassland is the best horse farm designated by Marin...

The Pampas grassland has no severe heat in summer and no severe cold in winter, and the conditions are much better than that of the Mongolian grassland. There is definitely a bright future for the development of horse breeding here. If enough Mongolian horse mares are hoarded on the pampas steppe, then the Cossack cavalry, including the German Cossacks, will easily occupy a large area. If nothing else, the fertile lands such as Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay were seized first. Then, hit the plateau and destroy the Inca Empire... As for the Brazilian rainforest, the Mongolian horses are not suitable, let's wait and see...

In the same way, this method can also be borrowed and used to conquer the North American continent. But North American forests are more annoying and not suitable for cavalry deployment. Therefore, conquering the North American continent may be much more difficult than conquering South America.

To this end, Marin formulated two sets of plans, respectively targeting the simplicity and rudeness of South America and North America and South America, directly using Mongolian cavalry tactics to sweep the Pampas grasslands and Uruguay with mare; North America, first occupying the eastern coast, Slowly cut down trees and clear land. At the same time, some Cossack cavalry was also dispatched to conduct expeditions and harassment, attacking and driving the indigenous people to gain more land, and at the same time to avoid the aboriginal harassment in the reclaimed area...