Marin was very depressed. He was playing Europa Universalis at home, but finally became the Holy Roman Emperor. He was high, but his buddy Li Liang called for help and asked him to help him fight.
As for the cause of the incident, it was because Li Liang went out to practice stalls at night, and had a conflict with a group of gangsters over a dispute over the stall site. Then, Li Liang was beaten.
Li Liang was naturally dissatisfied, so he called a few friends and prepared to get back the scene. Ma Lin is tall and strong, with agility. He also learned how to capture and fight in the army with a veteran when he was a child. Naturally, he was the "beast" summoned by Li Liang first.
Marin had just swept the entire Holy Roman Empire in the game and became the emperor worshiped by thousands of people. He was full of enthusiasm at the moment, so without saying a word, he happily went there on a second-hand electric bicycle to "maintain the justice of the earth".
After the brothers arrived, Li Liang promised to treat everyone to a hot pot meal and a pack of cigarettes for each of them, and then the atmosphere rose...
Under the leadership of the big man Marin, the brothers found a few young little yellow hairs who were still setting up a stall. Then, like a knight, Marin spread his legs and launched a horseless charge...
The little yellow hairs were indeed the five scum of war, and they beat up Li Liang because of the large number of people. Under the charge led by the Marlin horse knight, the little yellow hairs were quickly beaten to pieces.
But Marin was also complacent, just rushing forward, not noticing the danger behind him. Then, a sinister brick appeared behind Marin's head...
Then, Knight Ma was hit by a brick on the back of his head and lost consciousness...
"Sure enough... bricks... broken martial arts... gods... can't stop..." This was Marin's last thought...
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After a long, long time, who knows how long...
Marin finally woke up, but it didn't feel right. Because, when he opened his eyes, he didn't see the white walls and soft lights in the hospital, nor did he see the scene of his rented house... because he clearly smelled the green grass...
"I'll torture you! Li Liang, you bastard, my brother was injured for you, and you left him in the wild, and didn't even send him to the hospital! Damn, labor and management want to break up with you!"
Marin cursed and planned to get up, but he suddenly realized that this relatively immature voice did not seem to be his own, but it was indeed made by himself...
Marin, who has read many time-travel novels, is naturally not unfamiliar with this plot:
"Could it be... no... time travel?"
Marin quickly stretched out his hand, scanning the part of himself that he could see with his eyes at the same time...
Then, he saw a green body, a strange costume, and a pair of tender white hands that were clearly not his own...
Suddenly, Marin's heart tightened—couldn't he be a woman through time travel? Some time ago, "Prince Concubine's Promotion" was too popular, and he was very afraid that he would transmigrate into a woman. If I become a woman, I will be crushed by a man in the future... Ma Lin's hairs stand on end, he dare not think about it...
With a nervous mood, he skillfully directed the "Five Girls" on the left to reach the lower part...
After a while, Marin felt relieved—he was still a man, probably, he transmigrated into a boy. Because the hair on the bottom is not fully grown yet...
With a relaxed mind and a strong sense of hunger, Marin passed out again...
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After a long time, Marin woke up from hunger...
At the same time, a memory merged with Marin's consciousness—obviously, it was the memory of the original owner of this body...
Through reading memory, Marin learned that the original owner of this body was also named Marin. Of course, it is not the Marin of China, but the Marin of the West. More precisely, it was a young wandering knight named Marin Hoffmann in Germany at the end of the 15th century.
What is a wandering knight? First of all, this is a knight (mostly apprentice knights), who generally has a horse, a lance, and a set of knight armor. Some knights and horses have horse armor, which is the basic equipment. In addition, all knights have basically received strict training since they were young. They are good at charging immediately and are also familiar with close combat. Their skills are generally much stronger than ordinary people.
In the European Middle Ages and Renaissance, knights were the lowest level of feudal lords in Europe. Above it, baron, viscount, earl, marquess, duke, prince, king, emperor.
However, not every knight is lucky enough to get a fief. Because knights need to fight for higher-level lords to have a chance to obtain fiefdoms.
Moreover, knights' fiefs are generally relatively small, only the size of one or several villages. For example, this little wandering knight named Marin, his family, the Hoffman family, is a small knight family under the Earl of Mark in the Ruhr River region. This family only owns a small village with little arable land, and all the arable land adds up to only 100 Ugrams (an area unit in ancient Rome. In the Middle Ages, one Ugram was equivalent to 2 acres, equivalent to 12 acres). In other words, the Hoffman family only has 1,200 acres of land.
1,200 mu of land seems like a lot, right? Putting it in the Ming Dynasty at the same time, it would definitely allow a large family to live comfortably and be rich. However, thanks to the unlucky agricultural technology of the Europeans in the Middle Ages, the agricultural output is so low that people are moved—the 1,200 acres of land of the Hoffman family, aside from the fallow (Europeans practice a system of fallow farming, and the cultivated land is generally every two years or so. Abandoned for three years and one year to restore soil fertility. Until modern times, European and American villages still have this tradition) 600 mu of land is not counted, and the annual output of the remaining 600 mu of rye is only 100,000 pounds (Cologne pound, one Cologne mark = 233.85 grams, one colony pound = 2 marks = 467.7 grams). On average, the yield of rye per mu is only 166.7 pounds, equivalent to 156 catties. This is still a good harvest year. If there is a famine, the yield will be lower, and the production capacity per mu will drop to about 100 catties.
This kind of yield per mu is really touching. No wonder tens of thousands of people starved to death in the Middle Ages in Germany...
There are even more powerful ones. The wheat yield per mu in this era is even more impressive. In a large manor near Hoffman Manor, the yield of wheat per mu is only less than 100 catties...
Nima, as a top student in the Department of History, Marin the traveler knows very well that since the Han Dynasty in China, the wheat yield per mu has stabilized at around 200 catties. In the Ming Dynasty, rice in the south of the Yangtze River had a high yield per mu, even reaching about 500 catties.
The crux of the problem, Marin knows in various time travel novels-that's because Westerners don't know how to use manure. For a long, long time, Westerners didn't know how to fertilize the land. They just scraped the land, sowed the seeds, and watered it. Then, I went to do other things. Even serfs usually don't know how to pull weeds.
As for feces, the Europeans in the Middle Ages basically defecated everywhere, making it everywhere in the city, and there was a bad smell everywhere. This also caused flies to fly around and diseases to spread everywhere. The Black Death, which broke out several times in the Middle Ages, is inseparable from the poor sanitation environment in Europe at that time.
In the East at the same time, farmers even pushed dung trucks to collect dung in the city to use as fertilizer for farmland. There are also children, who specially carry baskets to pick up dung and eggs.
The feces of the Chinese people went to the fields, which created the high yield of ancient Chinese agriculture and supported the prosperity of Chinese civilization. The feces of Europeans are all over the city, breeding a large number of flies, and causing various diseases in Europe to wreak havoc...
Well, Marin felt that he was thinking too much. The reason why his predecessor in this body became a wandering knight is a tradition of the Germans.
Since primogeniture was established in Europe, other sons of nobles have suffered. The eldest son eats everything, and the other sons can only watch the eldest brother eat everything...
If it was a noble family, the situation would be better. For example, although the other sons of the king do not have the right to inherit, but the king's family has a great fortune, they can entrust the rest of the sons as dukes, earls, etc., own a piece of their own territory, and continue to enjoy the blessings. Dukes and Earls and other big nobles have a large enough territory, and they can share some meat for other sons to eat...
But the little nobles are unlucky, their own family territory is very small, only enough for the eldest son's family to live. If it is distributed to the younger brothers, everyone will have to drink the northwest wind. For example, the Hoffman family’s 1,200 acres of thin land, with that amount of output, is already very difficult to support the eldest son’s family (not only to eat, but also to feed war horses, purchase and repair weapons and armor, etc., and to feed attendants, which is very expensive). It is absolutely difficult to afford to raise Marin Hoffman and other younger siblings.
Therefore, the smallest feudal lords in the German region—the knights, were forced to make a decision—to give him a horse, a set of armor, and a lance when the other sons other than the eldest son came of age, and let him fend for himself go. As for daughters, some poor nobles even sent their daughters to monasteries as nuns in order to save dowry.
Under normal circumstances, the children of these expelled knight families chose to join the big nobles, such as being the guards of the big nobles, fighting for the big feudal lords and so on.
Of course, not every knight boy who was cast out of his home had a good chance of finding a great aristocratic employer who appreciated him. Many knights who couldn't find a job had to wander around, looking for opportunities to be hired temporarily. As a result, a new group emerged - wandering knights.
These wandering knights all grew up in knight families since they were young. They received strict martial arts training since they were young. Some strong men can single out a group of robbers with one man and one horse.
In fact, these wandering knights were the earliest mercenaries. However, they are all scattered people, seeking opportunities to serve the great nobles and rich people in the name of individuals, and have not formed a group.
It wasn't until a few years ago that the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I saw the powerful fighting power of the Swiss mercenary corps composed of Swiss mountain people in the war for the Burgundy region, and then he started recruiting in the German region under his rule. The mind of a mercenary. It was during this period that the famous German mercenaries officially began to appear.
(Note: The Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I was not crowned by the Pope himself in Rome until 1508, officially becoming the Holy Roman Emperor. Before that, the title of Emperor Maximilian I was actually self-proclaimed, only God Only people in the Roman Empire recognized it. Without the coronation of the Pope, foreigners only recognized Maximilian I as the king of Germany. However, in 1508, Pope Julius II not only officially crowned Maximilian I, but also Allow the subsequent emperors of the Holy Roman Empire not to come to Rome to be crowned, but to find an archbishop in the country to be crowned himself.)
The year is 1494, the time when Emperor Maximilian I is recruiting troops for war. Marin Hoffmann's father, Frings Hoffmann, after hearing about the emperor's recruitment of mercenaries (Maximilian I had already recruited a group in 1487), decided to send his second son, who was only 16 years old, ahead of schedule. The year-old Marin Hoffman was kicked out of the house and ordered to join the emperor and become the emperor's mercenary.
Originally, according to tradition, Marin would not be kicked out of the house until he turned 18. But the old Hoffman felt that the emperor recruited people, and the opportunity was rare. If he made military exploits, he might be able to get a noble title and a fief. Therefore, he decided to let Marin seek refuge early.
However, he overestimated his second son's experience in the world—no, not long after he left home, the original Marin Hoffman's travel expenses of only 10 gold coins were taken by a guard who claimed to know the emperor. Liars got it all...
Then, poor Marlin Hoffman had no money to stay in the hotel, no money to eat. In desperation, he had no choice but to go hunting in the wild on horseback. First, the meat of the prey can satisfy the hunger, and the fur of the prey can be exchanged for some money as travel expenses.
However, Marin Hoffman is a knight, not a hunter. Therefore, Little Marlin couldn't catch any prey at all. Can you imagine a heavy armored knight, wearing heavy armor, holding a knight lance, chasing and poking a galloping little hare
Wearing heavy armor itself will reduce the speed and sensitivity of the horse. How can it catch up with those wild animals? Wild animals that run slowly have been hunted down long ago.
And Xiao Malin has a bow and crossbow in his hand, and he doesn't know how to shoot arrows. Therefore, he can only continue to ride horses and chase animals with an empty stomach...
Finally, after two days without food, the little Ma Lin, who was a little dizzy from hunger, accidentally fell off his horse while chasing a fawn, and passed out in the grass. Then, it was crossed by Marin of the later generation Huaxia...