The Rise of the European Emperor

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Although the Senegal Fur Company was named by Marin and its main employees were also provided by Marin, legally speaking, it is a company whose legal representative is Jorge de Rencastre, Duke of Coimbra, Portugal. Portuguese company.

In other words, without the support of Jorge de Rencastre, Duke of Coimbra, Marin's hunting of rhino hides in Senegal will no longer be possible. After all, the Senegal region is Portugal's colonial sphere of influence.

Therefore, Eschwein knew very well that they had to make concessions on this matter. Moreover, the two sides had agreed at the beginning that all rhino horns and ivory belonged to Jorge de Rencastre, Duke of Coimbra. Rhino horns and ivory are also the most valuable things on the West African savannah in Senegal. Although it is only a threat from Mido at the moment, Eschwein knows in his heart that the Duke of Coimbra, Jorge de Rencastre, will also support this decision. Because this decision is very beneficial to Jorge de Rencastre, Duke of Coimbra.

However, Eschwein did not have the right to decide. After all, the steel ball bullets needed to hunt elephants need to be produced by local craftsmen. Therefore, he could only report to Marin, asking for more steel ball bullets.

Before the new steel ball bullets allocated by the local government arrived, he continued to hunt West African black rhinos to obtain enough rhino hides.

In fact, because Maximilian I requested a delay in the attack, Eschwein's hunting of rhinos may not have kept pace with local demand. After all, Marin was scheduled to attack in September. However, in that case, the supply of rhinoceros leather armor may not be able to keep up. Because it takes a long time to peel off the rhino hide from the rhino, tan it, and then make it into leather armor. And Maximilian I postponed the time until November, which just gave Eschwein enough time.

The skins of the first batch of more than 400 West African black rhinos have been peeled off and preliminarily processed, and are ready to be shipped back to China, where they will be processed and made into leather armor by artisans who specialize in leather armor. However, the skin of a rhino can only be used to make a few sets of rhino leather armor. The skins of more than 400 West African black rhinos can only be used to make more than 2,000 sets of rhinoceros leather armor.

But this is also impossible, because the chassis range of the West African black rhino is too large. A rhino has a territory of 10 square kilometers, and more than 400 rhinos are more than 4,000 square kilometers! If it weren't for the hunting team riding a bob horse, it would be impossible to hunt and kill more than 400 West African black rhinos in a short period of time. You know, more than 4,000 square kilometers, which is more than the area of ​​the native East Frisian province.

Fortunately, Royce divided the 100 musketeers into groups of three, a total of 33 groups, which greatly expanded the hunting range. Otherwise, the efficiency is slower. Even so, hunting down enough rhino hides to make the armor worn by 15,000 people by November is a tall order.

However, fortunately, Marin also expects the entire army to be equipped with rhinoceros leather armor. For example, in order to deal with the possible shortage of rhinoceros leather armor, Marin also prepared a lot of "mahjong mat" wood chip armor. Mahjong mat wood slices are also light and easy to go over mountains and mountains. Moreover, the Siena defenders did not have a well-organized musketeer. To deal with Siena's crossbowmen, the mahjong mat wood chips also have a certain effect. Moreover, when the war started, Marin would push the warriors in rhinoceros leather armor to the front. The warriors wearing wooden splinter armor are arranged in the back. In this way, casualties can also be reduced to a large extent.

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While Marin was preparing to go south to Italy to attack Siena, at the end of July, the hottest time of the year, a shocking incident occurred on the outskirts of Pamplona, ​​the capital of the Kingdom of Navarra in the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula. Assassinations in Europe...

The target of the assassination is naturally the famous Caesar Borgia...

Under the signal of the Pope's father-in-law, Marin had sent people to the Kingdom of Navarre to scout Caesar Borgia's movements a few years ago.

However, what makes Marin depressed is that,

Since Caesar Borgia came to the Kingdom of Navarra, he has been very low-key, living in seclusion, and it is difficult to have a chance of assassination. Moreover, the most depressing thing is that this guy is as afraid of death as Marin. Every time he goes out, he wears breastplate armor and a steel helmet...

Fortunately, this product is not like this all year round. Because summer in Spain is very hot. If you still wear plate armor on a hot day, you will die of heat. After all, the summer temperature in Spain can exceed 30 degrees. How can you wear such thick clothes in such weather?

And at the end of last year, Marin had already decided - to hire an assassin to assassinate Caesar Borgia in the summer... and the way of assassination was to throw a knife...

The reason why he chose to use flying knives was not because the flying knives were so powerful, but because they were convenient to use and hide... After all, an assassin could have his belt full of flying knives. But if you use a bow and crossbow, it is easy to expose.

This is because the only chance to assassinate Caesar Borgia is when Caesar Borgia goes to church every Sunday morning to go back and forth. In the brilliant day, how to hide the bow and crossbow? Therefore, only the flying knife with good concealment can be used. As for the short musket, it is also a good tool. But the problem is that there are very few countries that currently use short muskets, and Marin's Beihai State is one of them. If you assassinate Caesar Borgia with a short musket, wouldn't that be the same as telling others——Did I kill Caesar?

Fortunately, because of Henry VII, darts were popular in England, which led to the emergence of a large number of dart masters in England. For this assassination, Marin hired a group of English dart masters to assassinate Caesar Borgia with poisoned darts.

Moreover, the person responsible for hiring these dart masters this time is a killer organization called "Assassin's Creed"...

In fact, the leader of the Assassin's Creed with the pseudonym Altaïr was just an ordinary Italian spy of the North Sea Chamber of Commerce under Kohler, whose real name was Ezio.

With the support of the North Sea Chamber of Commerce, Ezio recruited a group of veteran Assassins in Italy and Spain in the name of Altaïr, and planned several successful assassinations for a fee. Then, Ezio sent people to England to recruit a group of dart masters, and asked them to repeatedly practice the technique of using darts to assassinate.

Until the end of July, the hottest time of the year in Spain, the group of England darts masters were finally ready...

However, they did not immediately go to assassinate Caesar Borgia, but first learned the Spanish Navarre dialect for a long time. Then, half a month in advance, he came to the road that Caesar Borgia often walked outside Pamplona. Moreover, they had several face-to-face meetings with Caesar Borgia's team before they started...

When meeting with Caesar Borgia's team for the first time, Caesar Borgia inexplicably felt a sense of danger, but nothing happened. Even the vigilant Caesar Borgia asked his subordinates to search those England dart masters. However, nothing was found. Then, Caesar Borgia was relieved.

Afterwards, Caesar Borgia asked his subordinates to investigate the origins of these people and found that they were porters from other places. But after several days of surveillance, nothing suspicious was found.

Then, after waiting for half a month, until Caesar Borgia relaxed, the group of dart masters really started to assassinate...

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