King of Mercenaries

Chapter 143: go to spain

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With the resolution of legal issues, Marin is also in a good mood. Then, he returned the documents stolen from Mrs. Mary to Mrs. Mary.

When looking through the notebook in the room at night, Marin remembered something...

Before, in order to prevent some historical events from being forgotten, Malinte found a notebook and recorded some recalled historical events. The entire notebook is made of sheepskin, which is thick and heavy, but it is not easy to break.

Moreover, Marin also uses Chinese characters for the text used for taking notes, which is still simplified. Even if someone peeks at his notebook, they can't understand what it is. At least, in this era of Europe, no one can understand.

In fact, after Marin traveled through time, for some reason, many memories of his previous life were very clear. Of course, because the amount of information is too large and complicated, many things are displayed chaotically in my mind. It's just that, as long as Marin recalls a reason and retrieves relevant memories, some information he has seen in his previous life will be fully displayed. Even, some things that he had forgotten in the previous life, as long as there is a reason, they can be searched like a search directory, and the original memory can be restored.

For example, Prince John of Spain, after Marin focused on looking up this person in his mind, he quickly remembered the relevant information-this unlucky prince died on October 4, 1497...

Moreover, when Prince John died, he appeared to have a high fever and was said to have lung disease. But Ferdinand II, who was holding his son, was not infected. Therefore, Marin concluded that Prince John's so-called lung disease was probably just a secondary disease such as bronchitis caused by a cold.

Of course, the specific situation needs to be confirmed. For example, did Prince John start coughing every day a long time ago, or did he start it recently. Perennial cough may be lung disease. But if you cough after a cold and fever, it is bronchitis and the like.

Marin naturally needs to make some preparations to heal Prince John. To treat high fever, it is natural to first smear the body with alcohol to reduce the fever.

For this reason, Malin specially sent someone to buy a batch of high-priced Scotch whiskey. Of course, whiskey at this time is not called whiskey, but "water of life", and it is regarded as a kind of medicine to dispel cold. And its alcohol content is only more than 30 degrees. Compared with beer and red wine with very low alcohol content, this is already a real spirit.

It's just that this kind of spirit brewed with grains is relatively expensive because of the high price of grains, so the production is relatively small, and the price is also very high.

Whiskey with a degree of more than 30 degrees can barely be used as a smear on the body to reduce fever, but the effect is not very good. So, Marin found a steamer, purified it again, and added quicklime to absorb water. As a result, the whiskey was purified to about 80 alcohol, which was already higher than the 75-degree medical alcohol requirement of later generations.

Marin filled a few bottles with bottles and took them with him, preparing to bring down the prince's fever. In addition, he sent people to buy a lot of sucrose. Then, Marin used fluffy charcoal and put it in sucrose water to absorb impurities. Then, he got sucrose with higher purity.

As for these high-purity sucrose, it is actually intended to be used to make "rock sugar Sydney". If Prince John suffers from common cough and tracheal inflammation, then rock sugar pears would be a good choice.

If it was really a lung disease, then Marin would choose to use a folk remedy he had seen in his previous life—using aloe vera, white vinegar and rock sugar. Aloe vera is originally produced in the Mediterranean region, and Spain must have it. Bingtang Marin just made a batch of high-quality white sugar, which can be replaced. As for white vinegar, Marin didn't have it and didn't know how to get it. Therefore, it can only be replaced by apple cider vinegar, which is popular in Europe, and it can also be used.

As for ginger and brown sugar to treat colds, these things can be bought everywhere in Europe. Although European ginger is still very expensive these days, it is still available. There is no shortage of brown sugar, but the price is also a bit high. 1 pound of brown sugar can be sold for 2 shillings in Europe (after Spain opens sugar cane plantations in Central America, the price of sugar will drop).

After preparing a few items, Marin set off for Spain.

Originally, the most convenient way was to go to Spain by sea. However, to go to Spain, you have to go through the Pas de Calais. Marin was afraid that the French would learn the news and sent warships to intercept it. Now, after Marin sent four main warships to India, there are only three or two small boats in his family. If he encounters the main French fleet, it may be bad luck. And if the French knew that they were going to Spain by ship, the chances of sending a fleet to intercept them were also very high. After all, in Italy, the French suffered too much from Marin. At sea, anything can happen. Even if the French killed Marin, they could justify the fact that the pirates did it...

If Marin is not on board, the French may not intercept the Wadden Islands ship, but as long as they hear that Marin is on board, not to mention Charles VIII who hates Marin to the bone, even other French local officials will probably try to get rid of it To please his own king.

Therefore, Marin rejected the plan to go to Spain by boat and took the land route instead. Of course, never take the overland route through France, although that is the best overland option.

After thinking about it, Marin finally decided to go south from Germany to Italy. After arriving in Italy, he would go to Sicily or Sardinia first, and then take a Spanish ship to Spain.

As long as he arrives in Spain, Marin doesn't have to worry about someone messing with him. Because Spain and France are deadly enemies, and they are arguing over the ownership of the Navarre region. For the Spaniards, it is impossible for nobles to besiege themselves in order to please the King of France. Whoever wants to do this, Ferdinand II must cut him to death.

Not to mention Spain, even in Italy, it is relatively safe. Because, except for the two states of Genoa and Savoy in Italy, all other states in Italy are hostile to France. The Pope, Alexander VI, is simply a Spaniard, and he is hostile to France from the standpoint of Spain.

However, some local nobles in the northwest region of Germany, because of their close relationship with France, may be bribed by France to deal with them.

But this does not bother Marin, this time out, Marin himself did not intend to show his banner, but decided to disguise himself as an ordinary soldier and act together with 100 men. Even, in order to hide his tracks, Marin, who basically didn't have a beard, put on a fake beard and put it on, pretending to be a big beard...

This was also inspired by the last time he took Angela out of Italy. The last time Marin put a fake beard on Angela, he easily escaped the inspection of the Borgia family. This time, in order to ensure his personal safety, Marin also planned to disguise himself as a middle-aged man with a beard to avoid the sight of the French and their allies in order to arrive in Spain safely and smoothly.

In order not to attract attention, Marin also divided the 100 guards into three batches, and each batch was separated by a certain distance to avoid too many people in the team from being too conspicuous.

And the three groups of people are not too far away from each other, so they can meet up quickly. If you are in danger, just ignite the double-bang cannon made by Marin. The firecrackers exploded in the sky, and the other two groups not far away could quickly get the information and rush for reinforcements. Marin, on the other hand, moved with the middle team, accompanied by strong men like Kahn and more than 30 elites.