King of German Mercenaries

Since Marin officially ate Angela, it was like casting a little devil in his heart. Before, Marin often worked late. In fact, it wasn't that Marin was really busy, but that Angela, a little beauty, couldn't eat just by looking at it, which made Marin a little depressed. Therefore, I deliberately divert attention with work every day.

Every day when he returned to the backyard of the palace, Marin was quite sleepy. He usually held Angela in his arms. After some hand addiction, he went straight to sleep.

Now that he has officially eaten Angela, he doesn't need to control himself. So now, as soon as the night is off, Marin hurries from the office area in the front yard of the palace to the living area in the backyard, and finds Angela to rub and rub...

Angela is shy and shy, and always looks like she wants to refuse and welcome, but it stimulates the desire in Marin's heart... So, every day Marin is singing every night...

You must know that Angela is in her best years at the age of 18, and she is very attractive to Malin because of her beautiful appearance and fair skin. Marin was 28 years old in his previous life. He has not married yet, so he can only rely on five girls. Nowadays, there is a real beautiful girl who can do whatever, how can she hold back?

So, after a few months, Marin clearly felt that his footsteps were a little vain...

After all, Marin was not a fierce man like Adler, and his body was already thin. Over the past month or so, the conquest has been excessive, and it is naturally a bit false...

On the contrary, Angela, who looks slender and delicate, is becoming more and more energetic...

"Sure enough, there are only exhausted cows, no ploughed land..."

For the sake of health, Marin rubbed his waist, ran to the palace medical center, and asked a Mongolian doctor to prescribe a tonic prescription...

However, Battelle smiled and told Marin that this was normal. Young people have just been exposed to this kind of thing, and it is inevitable that they will eat the marrow and know the taste, and it is easy to over-conquer them. But after a long time, after two or three months, there is not so much impulse. At that time, the married life will enter a normal pattern, and this situation will not occur. Of course, during this period of time, it is still necessary to make up for it, so as not to be empty.

Then, at Battelle's suggestion, Marin started using some dietary supplements. For example, bullwhip, leeks, etc. Originally, Battelle wanted Marin to eat mutton with wolfberry, but there is no wolfberry in Europe.

However, Europeans do not eat such organs of animals. When Kohler learned that Marin was going to eat the bullwhip, he looked as weird as possible. Then, many bulls that were raised as beef cattle suffered miserably and were whipped... That's not right, these bulls were slaughtered before they were whipped. In the past, the bullwhip was thrown straight away. Now, Kohler quietly sent someone to collect them and send them to Battelle. After being processed by Battelle, he would stew them with the herbs himself, and then give them to Marin, lest the matter be spread all over the place...

In order not to lose his body at a young age, Marin began to resume exercising and practicing martial arts. However, the Aurich Palace is too small, and it can be used for running circles. If he wanted to contact Ma Wuyi, Marin had to go to the horse farm in the north of the city.

When Marin arrived at the horse farm to practice his horsemanship, he happened to meet Kohler's men who brought a batch of Arabian stallions...

These Arabian stallions were commissioned by Jewish merchants under Kohler before. Jews travel between Europe and Arabs, and are important intermediaries between Europeans and Arabs.

Right now, because of the problems in Constantinople and the Balkans, Turkey has a very bad relationship with the Europeans, and the two sides have little cooperation. However, the Mamluk dynasty in Egypt still had many trade opportunities with Europe. Moreover, Jerusalem, the holy land in the hearts of Europeans, was also under the control of the Mamluk dynasty. If you want to go to the pilgrimage, you need the consent of the Mamluk dynasty. Therefore, the relationship between Europeans and the Mamluk dynasty is not good, but it is not bad either. Jewish merchants also traveled between Europe and areas controlled by the Mamluk dynasty.

The batch of Arabian stallions that Marin wanted were purchased by Jewish merchants from the Mamluk dynasty.

Authentic Arabian horse of the Arabian Peninsula.

In fact, in the Arabian Peninsula, Arabian horses are worthless at all. Even an excellent Arabian warhorse costs 20 gold coins. Unlike in Europe, a random war horse costs 100 gold coins or more.

It is no wonder that many tribes of the Arabs are still in the nomadic era, and there are too many horses and camels. So many horses, how to sell high price?

Those Jewish merchants who bullied Marin didn't understand the market, and apparently asked for 100 gold for an Arabian stallion that was no more than 20 gold coins. These 50 Arabian stallions directly extorted 5,000 gold coins from Marin.

Marin is very clear in his heart, but he doesn't care much. It's only a batch of 50 horses, so there's no need to fight with those Jewish merchants. However, this also strengthened Marin's determination to form his own chamber of commerce in the future and run the Egyptian trade route by himself.

In this era, the Barbary pirates had not yet emerged, and it was still very safe for armed merchant ships to travel in the southern Mediterranean. Only the coastal areas of Morocco need to pay attention to guard against Moorish pirates officially supported by Morocco.

However, if a 250-level armed merchant ship is used, two or three ships together will definitely not be afraid of any pirates. Egypt is rich in horses, as well as natural soda ash and thenardite. These are what Marin needed in large quantities. Before, Marin entrusted Venetians and Jews to help buy them, but they were all exploited severely. Therefore, Marin plans to hire a group of people to run this route exclusively in the future.

Although Marin was extorted a sum of money, the Arabian horses selected by the Jewish merchants were still very good. After all, in this day and age, people who understand horses are everywhere. If the Jewish merchants randomly picked some bad horses to fool Marin, they would be ready for revenge.

These Arabian horses are very beautiful and bold. When Marin went to see the Arabian horses, the lively Arabian horses stared at Marin curiously. If it weren't for the reins, maybe those curious Arabian horses would come up to sniff the smell of Marlin, and maybe they would have bowed to Marlin...

These Arabian horses are generally not tall, and the shoulder height is generally only about 1.5 meters. A mare might be even lower, with a height of just over 1.4 meters at the shoulder. Unlike the European horses used by local knights, they often have a shoulder height of more than 1.6 meters, and many male horses reach a shoulder height of more than 1.7 meters.

However, as a war horse, only those who need to wear full-body plate armor need to be so tall and strong. If it is to carry light cavalry, a medium-sized horse such as an Arabian horse is just right.

However, Marin did not intend to directly use Arabian horses as war horses. Because Arabian horses have a very important problem, that is - afraid of cold...

Purebred Arabian horses, born in the Arabian Peninsula, live in tropical desert areas since childhood, are heat-resistant and cold-resistant, and belong to hot-blooded horses.

Marin clearly remembers that after the introduction of Arabian horses by some local tyrants in the north in later generations, they would lock the Arabian horses in heated houses to prevent the cold every winter. Unlike the Mongolian horses, they stayed in the stables in the cold weather, and nothing happened.

If Arabian horses are placed in places like Siberia or the Mongolian plateau where the temperature is as low as tens of degrees below zero in winter, there is a high probability that purebred Arabian horses will freeze to death directly.

Even though the winter in western Europe is not very cold, it can sometimes be as low as minus 10 degrees. Arabian horses will be very uncomfortable at these temperatures.

Therefore, when introducing Arabian horses this time, Marin did not plan to introduce mares at all, but directly introduced male horses for breeding...

This is because, although foals inherit many characteristics from their fathers, their physical characteristics are closer to their mothers. Therefore, horses often give priority to the mare when discussing bloodlines.

Mares are hardy, and most foals are hardy too. However, many of the advantages of the father will also be inherited...

Therefore, when Europeans began to breed horse breeds in the 18th and 19th centuries, they chose to use local excellent mares adapted to the local area, and bred them with excellent male horses imported from abroad, so as to cultivate high-quality and adaptable local climate. New horse breed.

Based on this idea, Marin commissioned those Jewish merchants to go to the Arabian Peninsula to buy 50 Arabian stallions for breeding with local mares.

In the previous campaign of Lyle County, Marin had captured 2,600 Saxon horses. Among them, there are more than 500 mares. Counting his previous 30 French warhorses, Marin now has nearly 600 mare warhorses in his hands.

If they are all used for breeding, this group of 50 Arabian stallions will have an average of 12 wives per horse...

An Arabian stallion has to deal with 12 mares... Thinking of this, Marin smiled lewdly...

Even Angela makes her back sore. If you serve 12 women, you won't be foaming at all? Then, he looked at the 50 horses with sympathy:

"Guys, don't get excited, I will use 12 height horses (it's quite reasonable to describe it, the mares and warhorses that Marin seized, including the previous French mares, the shoulder height is not less than 1.6 meters, all are 10cm taller than these Arabian stallions) to drain you..."

After speaking, regardless of whether these lively Arabian stallions could understand or not, they whistled happily and left...

Marlin was delighted when he thought of the time when a small Arabian stallion was mated with a large European mare. Remember, even when breeding, the horse is standing. The mare is so tall, Marin thought—could those Arabian stallions be able to climb it? Why don't you make a high platform so that the Arabian stallion can climb on top of the mare...