Because the whole team is riding or riding in a carriage, there are no walkers, and there are enough horses for transfer, so the speed of the whole team is still very fast.
The whole team first passed through Mecklenburg, entered the Electorate of Brandenburg, and then passed through Pomerania and entered Poland...
The team, flying the banner of the Hanseatic Chamber of Commerce, was not in any trouble. If he ran under the banner of running for the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, he might be stopped by the Poles. You know, Poland and the Teutonic Knights are sworn enemies. The decline of the Teutonic Knights was precisely because of the loss to the Polish-Lithuanian coalition forces in the Battle of Tannenberg.
Fortunately, the road in Poland is not long, and the entire team is riding horses. The team quickly passed through the northern coastal area of Poland, crossed the Vistula River, and entered the territory of the Teutonic Knights.
Everyone rushed all the way to Konigsberg (now Kaliningrad), the capital of the Teutonic Knights, before settling down.
The influence of the Lamark family is still quite large. No, in Königsberg, there are about 16 Teutonic knights with voting rights from the Principality of Criever and the Duke of Mark. Of course, there are still some people in other places in the Teutonic Knights, not usually in Königsberg.
With the help of these 16 knights, Prince Philip rented two relatively large houses connected together as a temporary residence.
These two houses are owned by big merchants in the territory of the Teutonic Knights. However, those Hanseatic merchants were much more than such properties. Many businessmen have their own real estate in many cities within the territory of the Teutonic Knights. After all, the country of the Teutonic Knights is also the third largest business district of the Hanseatic League. Here, not too many rich Hanseatic merchants. Of course, in the country of the Teutonic Knights, there are Teutonic knights behind the Hanseatic merchants to ensure the interests of these merchants. When these Teutonic knights were in need, the merchants who had a good relationship with them vacated two large houses next to each other for the residence of Prince Philip, who was the candidate for the Grand Master, and his subordinates.
After settling in, Marin sent someone out to inquire, and found that the youngest son of the Duke of Saxony, Frederick, had arrived a week ago, and it seemed that the voice was quite loud.
It's just that Frederick is too young, only 23 years old, which makes many mature and prudent knights a little uneasy. After all, the German nation is also a relatively conservative nation, and it doesn't like to use young people boldly.
However, this time, the previous grand master didn't choose a suitable successor before his death, so everyone felt a little sudden and didn't know who to choose as the new grand master.
A week ago, with the arrival of Prince Frederick of Saxony, the situation seemed to be somewhat clearer. Many people seem to have resigned to their fate and plan to let it go.
Unexpectedly, Prince Philip, the younger brother of John II, the Duke of Cliff, is also here, giving everyone another choice.
In fact, in terms of background strength, Prince Philip is not as good as Prince Frederick. Because, the strength of Saxony is much stronger than the Duchy of Cliff and the Duke of Mark combined.
However, Prince Philip is older than Prince Frederick at 30 years old. This is Prince Philip's advantage. Because, generally speaking, a 30-year-old man must be much more stable than a 23-year-old young man.
Therefore, although he is not dominant, Prince Philip's disadvantage is not too great. Moreover, elsewhere, it is not without candidates. It's just that the origin is too small to compare with these two.
But in any case, Prince Philip's origin and background are still worse than that of Prince Frederick, and even less rich and powerful than Prince Frederick. Therefore, we must find a way.
For this reason, under the arrangement of Marin, the five chefs he brought bought a lot of ingredients and spices, and started cooking...
Then, under the arrangement of Marin, Prince Philip began to entertain the official Teutonic knights of Westphalia and Rhineland in Konigsberg, and came to Prince Philip's residence together to eat and drink .
Although the Teutonic Knights of the Westphalia-Rhineland Alliance basically supported Prince Philip. Because, there is no better choice. But Marin can't guarantee whether a new candidate will emerge one day, also from the Westphalia-Rhineland region. As long as there are such people, it is easy to share the votes of Prince Philip, resulting in a decline in the vote rate.
Therefore, for the Teutonic Knights who originally belonged to the Westphalia-Rhineland Alliance, Marin was the first to think of them and entertain them.
In these two mansions, Marin arranged to set up more than a dozen tables inside, and invited more than a hundred people from the alliance in Königsberg to the banquet.
In order to make this group of uncles with voting rights eat and drink well, Marin asked the chefs to cook the purest braised pork, and put the spices and sucrose at no cost. As for stewed chicken and roast duck, they are even more common dishes. Moreover, Königsberg is close to the sea, so fresh aquatic products are easy to buy. A variety of sweet and sour braised seafood is also a must. Also, in order to entertain everyone, Malinte bought a cow and killed it, and asked the chefs to make sauced beef. Pork is also wild boar for internal use, and the small ribs on it are all made into delicious sweet and sour pork ribs...
To be honest, these dishes are basically main dishes, without any vegetables. But in this day and age, the aristocrats are fashionable to eat these meat dishes and big dishes. If you want to serve vegetables, maybe they will not be happy, thinking that you despise him.
There is no pepper on the plate for everyone to dip in, but spices such as pepper, cloves, and cinnamon are also used in cooking. Especially the main dish of braised pork, which is full.
Europeans seem to prefer sweets, and it happens that Marin also has this taste. Therefore, when cooking, in addition to the fashionable spices such as pepper, cloves, and cinnamon, Marin instructed the chefs to add a lot of sugar when cooking. At the same time, ginger, garlic, and green onions are also essential.
A kind of food material has been made into many ways. For example, wild boar meat includes braised pork, fried shredded pork, and sweet and sour pork ribs. Considering that Europeans are still not used to eating offal, Marin did not serve classic Chinese dishes such as fried large intestine.
Beef, there are also sauced beef, pepper fried steak and other practices. As for the mutton, Marin put it on the skewers directly, sprinkled some cumin, salt, etc., and grilled it with charcoal...
As for stewed old hen, roast goose and roast duck, those are must-have dishes. It's just that, in these foods, Marin put a lot of condiments, spices, sucrose and so on, not less, but they didn't put them indiscriminately like Europeans, just put spices hard, messing up the taste. It is only after the affirmation of Marin, the "gourmet", that the specific formula can be selected...
In addition, Marin also sent people to purchase a lot of good wine locally to please these men. As a good-hearted German knight, how can he not have good wine to cheer him up
Many German knights prefer German dark beer. For this reason, Marin purchased a large amount of dark beer, as well as ale with a higher alcohol content, the "barrel" to deal with the alcohol test...
After the banquet started, these knight gentlemen were really satisfied...
Originally, I was still upset that Prince Philip didn't bring pots of pepper. When the first main dish of braised pork was served, it immediately conquered the knights...
To Marin's surprise, these master knights like braised pork, and they also like the fat in braised pork...
It seems that people in this era like to cook or bake because of the simple cooking methods. Therefore, what you do has to be a little lacking in oil and water. Therefore, for the fatty braised pork with heavy ingredients, these heavy-mouthed German men like it very much. Because the braised pork is half fat and half thin, it is full of oil and water, so it is very popular among knights. Even, many people prefer fat meat that is not greasy at all. Moreover, these knights are all big eaters...
At the beginning, each table was served with a pot of braised pork, which were all small pots according to the standard of army meals. However, unexpectedly, the entire pot of braised pork was not enough for the knights to eat.
Although these guys don't use chopsticks, Marin prepared big spoons for them. Then, the guys who fell in love with the taste of braised pork began to use a big spoon to drag the pork into their plates...
Looking at it, before the second dish was served, more than a dozen pots filled with braised pork were empty, leaving only a group of strong men who hadn't eaten enough...
Can Marin see this situation? So he waved his hand and asked the people below to speed up the serving of food. So, pots of roast chicken, roast duck, roast goose, and stewed chicken soup were served.
Damn, this group of beasts wiped out more than half of them again, and Marin's forehead was sweating...
It is hard to imagine that this is a group of formal Teutonic knights with noble status. If he hadn't known the identities of these people in advance, Marin would have thought they were refugees who had been starving for days...
We can't blame these people. In modern times, Germans have their own food system. Although they can't keep up with China's, they still have a lot of flavors. Moreover, Europe in later generations also absorbed many methods of Chinese cuisine to a large extent, and had its own cuisine. After all, there were hundreds of years of communication between the East and the West at that time, and it would have been impossible if their cooks hadn't learned a few tricks. Therefore, although the Germans of later generations also think that Chinese food is delicious, they will not be so fanatical. After all, people in their own country also have delicious food.
But in the dark age of the Middle Ages, Europeans ate dark dishes, or they just took bread and grilled meat and dipped them in pepper.
Therefore, Marin's Chinese food with a little heavy taste is really suitable for the tastes of Europeans in this era... Spices and sucrose are very suitable for the taste buds of Europeans in this era. Therefore, all the knights present were overjoyed...
Even, those dark beers and ale, everyone has no time to drink, so they patronize and grab food to eat...
Prince Philip, as the host, also came to each table with a kind face, drank a glass of dark beer with the knights, and then said to everyone with a smile on his face:
"Hehe, everyone, eat and drink well..."
But in fact, after the knights present had a cup of dark beer with Prince Philip, they continued to bury their heads in dealing with the delicacies they had never seen before. As for Prince Philip's polite words, they just let out a "humming" sound, and then continued to deal with the food in his mouth and on the table...