The Rise of the European Emperor

In Newcastle, England, the "Morgan Chamber of Commerce Guards" composed of 2,000 Frisian people led by Saqqara has successfully established a firm foothold and began to organize a large number of people to resume the development of local coal mines.

At this time, Newcastle City was already extremely depressed. Anyone who has a way has fled Newcastle City long ago. It's just that the people who escaped are very sad - they all left on foot.

Because, at that time, the Scots not only robbed all the food, but also killed all the livestock, including the horses of the wealthy families in Newcastle. Of course, the wealth of those rich families was also robbed.

However, the rich are rich after all, and their social circle is, after all, much broader than the poor. Many rich people have their own properties in London. There are also many people who have relatives and friends in the south. Moreover, when the Scots robbed them, they were not so careful. Some wealthy families still had some gold and silver jewelry, which were hidden in secret places and were not found. Therefore, as long as those wealthy families bring gold, silver and jewelry to the food-rich areas in the south, they can live in style. However, if you want to take out Newcastle, you can only rely on walking. Those men are fine, but women, children, and the elderly are more difficult. Therefore, even in wealthy families, many people died on the way to escape from the famine, especially the elderly and the weak. Because they don't have food rations, they pass by food-free areas on the way, and money is useless. Only those rich people who have successfully reached the grain-bearing regions of the South will be able to gain life.

The rich people in the city have all run away, so the remaining city dwellers are mainly families of handicraftsmen. In order to obtain food, some local women in Newcastle were forced to find soldiers under Saqqara's command and seek physical transactions to obtain food.

In Newcastle, coins are not used now. The only common thing is food. Now, you can sleep with the most beautiful girl in the area with just one black bread...

However, Saqqara was born in the authentic East Frisian army and regarded discipline as extremely important. Moreover, in East Frisian military discipline, there are harsh military laws that "do not humiliate women". Therefore, Saqqara strictly forbids the soldiers to make such transactions with those women, so as not to corrupt military discipline.

Of course, if it's a soldier and an unmarried girl in a free relationship, Saqqara doesn't interfere. In addition, soldiers and women who have legal "licenses to sell their bodies", Saqqara also allows soldiers to trade with them. But the premise is that this female support female must be able to prove that there is no disease.

Due to Saqqara's strict enforcement of East Frisian military discipline, many local women who wanted to "go to sea" lost access to food. So, they thought of a way to find a former clerk in the city who did not escape (actually, this buddy did not escape because of inconvenient legs), and elected him as the temporary mayor. Then the interim mayor, Eduro, issued "body-sell licenses" to 1,500 women in one day. In this way, Newcastle suddenly added 1,500 legal women.

The strange thing is that the husbands of these women actually tacitly agree...

why? At this time, if there is no food, the whole family will starve to death. And getting food from the "Morgan Chamber of Commerce Guards" is almost the only means of survival. So, in the face of survival, what are some honors and shames?

So, in the following time, some special tents appeared near Saqqara's military camp, which were specially used for certain transactions. The price of each transaction is two slices of brown bread, and then, as the interim mayor issuing the license, Eduro will collect a small corner of a slice of brown bread as a "tax." Although it is very small, a small corner of many bread slices is worth more than one bread.

In this way, the temporary mayor Eduro's home has no worries about food at all...

And those women who do business can also bring life-saving food to their families...

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Saqqara didn't say anything after knowing these circumstances. However, he is not interested in men who acquiesce their wives to special occupations.

Expressed infinite contempt and forbade the army to recruit such ignorant men.

In fact, in order to survive, many English farmers came to Newcastle in search of food for the army. It didn't take long for Saqqara to recruit 10,000 people according to Marin's request. Among them, there are 5,000 farmers who are familiar with archery.

In fact, the 5,000 English peasants who were proficient in archery were not selected as the official longbowmen.

In England, the longbowmen were a special class between the knights and the commoners. They have some political privileges and are also given more land by the state than ordinary people.

And, most crucially, the English longbowmen were chosen from among the common people. Therefore, becoming a longbow soldier is the only way for ordinary people to be promoted to the "Master" class. Since Edward III ordered archery for the whole people, many farmers would practice archery in their spare time from farm work, in order to be selected into the official longbowmen army and obtain certain privileges and land.

Of course, the selection of longbowmen is very demanding. It requires a longbow soldier to be more than 1.75 meters tall (because the longbow itself is 1.5 meters long, and people who are too short cannot handle it), and it also requires the strength to fully stretch the bowstring and shoot 12 long arrows in one breath. Every time is full of bows. At the same time, there are certain requirements on the quasi-head.

It is precisely because of these high requirements that although England has a population of 3 million and almost all of them shoot arrows, the number of longbowmen who are actually selected into the king's army is often only about 10,000.

Of course, this is not to say that only 10,000 people meet the requirements. However, the English royal family cannot afford the military expenses of too many longbowmen. Therefore, the number of recruited longbowmen generally does not exceed 10,000. Otherwise, it will be financially unbearable.

Therefore, among the 5,000 farmers who were good at archery selected by Saqqara, one thousand were fierce men who met the selection requirements for longbowmen. The other 4,000 were either not tall enough or some other reason. Of course, the level is not bad, otherwise Saqqara would not choose them.

As for the other 5,000 English farmers, they were relatively honest and honest, but fairly strong people. Moreover, their main feature is that they are more obedient...

Such a person can easily be trained as an elite soldier. This is what Marin himself said. Of course, when it comes to selection, Saqqara and his officers will watch carefully during the competition...

Observe what? Observe whether these people are brave in the competition, whether they are afraid of getting hurt...

why is that? Quite simply, the battlefield is a place where you are desperate, and you need a lot of courage. If you are too timid in combat, it is easy to run away on the battlefield. Those who are not afraid of getting hurt when they are selected for competition are also more likely to fight desperately on the battlefield than to run away like a coward.

Therefore, the people selected by Saqqara, especially the 5,000 people to be trained as spearmen, are strong, honest, and brave farmers.

Their task is to use spears to resist the enemy's attack and cover the other 5,000 archers to shoot the enemy. When the enemy is hit enough by the archers, the 5,000 spearmen still have the task of charging forward and completely solving the enemy.

Therefore, in this 10,000-strong English army, the 5,000 strong, honest and brave farmers are the real main force. As for the other 5,000 archers with good archery skills, they can only be regarded as fire support, and the requirements are not so high.

After recruiting the 10,000 troops, Saqqara, who was full of great ambitions, carried out strict military training for these 10,000 people, using the Spanish phalanx to train these people.

Of course, the original musketeer was replaced by an archer by Saqqara. Where did the bow and arrow come from? Newcastle interim mayor Eduro said he had something to say - he opened up Newcastle's arsenal and found 3,000 spare English longbows. Although it is not enough, it can be used. As for the 2,000 bows that are in short supply, Saqqara has been looking for specialized talents to step up the construction.

Because there was no time to tame the bow slowly like the traditional English longbow manufacturing method, Saqqara directly let the craftsmen use the method of roasting the bow body to set the shape to make the ordinary bow. Although this will affect the performance, many people in bows and arrows cannot meet the selection standards of English longbowmen.