When Zmelmann heard that the eldest son and the second son were going to follow a knight as a entourage, he hurried back. Seeing that Marin was so young, he couldn't help but whisper in his heart.
However, in medieval Europe, there was a strict hierarchy, and he did not dare to raise objections. Moreover, he was also a little happy that someone was willing to take over his eldest son with a big appetite. I just hope that the young knight in front of him will not be left poor by his eldest son. In that case, the eldest son will be dismissed again.
After the two parties discussed it, Marin naturally planned to let Kahn hold the heavy plate armor, lance and horse armor (although they were made of wood), so that he was happy and relaxed, and the horse was even more relaxed.
However, despite Kahn's strength, carrying things that weigh dozens of kilograms all the time is a lot of pressure. Right now, Marin has no money to buy draft horses for Kahn and Kohler, and the cost of raising horses is also high. So, after thinking about it, Marin decided to ask Zmailman, who knows carpentry, to help him build a unicycle...
Why choose a unicycle? It's not just because the wheelbarrow can pull goods. When it comes to hauling, two-wheeled carts pack more. However, the two-wheeled cart has a disadvantage-it is not very capable of walking on complex terrain.
As for the unicycle, you can ignore the terrain and so on, and you can still walk happily on the mountain road. Because the unicycle has only one wheel, it has a strong ability to overcome complex terrain.
From southern Germany to Vienna in Austria, there are many mountain roads. Therefore, an all-terrain unicycle is more suitable than a two-wheeled cart.
Marin and Zmailman returned to the city, came to the carpenter's shop where Zmailman worked, and began to build a wheelbarrow.
Although, there are wheelbarrows in Europe too. However, European unicycles have front wheels, which cause people to push them up and need to bear a lot of lifting force. Therefore, the loading volume of European wheelbarrows is relatively small.
And what Marin guided Zmailman to build is a Chinese-style unicycle. A Chinese-style unicycle with the wheel in the middle. In this way, the goods on the car, the pressure is mainly on the wheels. And the person who pushes the cart is more labor-saving. A European-style unicycle can only carry the weight of two or three people. The Chinese-style unicycle can carry the weight of six people, and its efficiency is much higher than that of the European-style unicycle, and it saves more effort.
After the Chinese-style unicycle was built, Marin put the armor, lance and horse armor on the unicycle. The weight of 70 to 80 catties was indifferent to Kahn who was pushing the cart.
Kahn itself is strong and good at running long distances (it is also a result of practice, poor people in the Middle Ages couldn't afford a carriage at all, and they had to walk everywhere). So, he pushed the unicycle very easily. Even, sometimes when his younger brother Kohler was tired from walking, Kahn let Kohler sit on the unicycle to rest for a while. And he continued to push the cart and followed Marin on the horse.
Marin was also much more relaxed. After getting rid of the armor and weapons that weighed tens of kilograms, he felt much more relaxed. Feeling as relaxed as he was, was Warhorse Karl. If it weren't for Marin's control of the speed, Karl, who was much more relaxed, wanted to gallop.
Kahn is really good at eating. He eats at least 6 pounds of food a day (mainly ordinary black bread, normal bread not mixed with soil and wood chips), some vegetables, and sometimes some meat. The average daily cost is about 10 pfennigs . Marin didn't have much money now, so he had to take Kahn and Kohler to live in a low-end hotel. If the room is bigger, Marin will let Kahn and Kohler play the floor. If it is smaller, let Kahn and Kohler live in one room, and he will live in one room alone.
And because he was dissatisfied with the dirty quilts in hotels in this era, Marin bought a new set of goose down quilts himself (there was no cotton in Europe at this time, so naturally there were no quilts), packed them in rainproof pigskin bags, and placed them in Kahn on the wheelbarrow. Every time he stayed in a hotel, Marin would throw the hotel's original dirty quilts to Kahn and Collegai. As for yourself, cover yourself with the clean quilt you bring. After all, Kahn and Kohler are pure medieval people, and they have no discomfort with this. The only thing that doesn't suit is that Marin always forces them to take a bath...
Then, these two guys were also trained by Marin to be refreshed, there were no lice on their bodies, and their clothes were clean. This made the two very uncomfortable, after all, they were used to being dirty since childhood.
In view of the fact that Marin has two more mouths to eat, and one of them is a rice bucket, Marin decided to restart the hunting plan...
Marin's plan is actually very simple. There is a long distance from the small town to the depths of the Black Forest. If you don't ride a horse, you will be very tired, and you don't have enough time. If it is dark and stays in the forest, it is easy to be eaten by wolves.
For this reason, Marin asked Kahn to stay in the hotel to take care of his armor and lance. And he himself, with a bow and arrow on his back, rode with Kohler to the depths of the Black Forest.
Khloe was still a 15-year-old, still a little skinny. Its weight is estimated to be only seventy or eighty catties. He shared a ride with Marin. In fact, he was not very different from Marin in full armor and holding a weapon. For a certain period of time, the war horse Karl could completely stand it.
If he shared a ride with Kahn's brute, Karl probably wouldn't be able to bear it...
In the depths of the Black Forest, Marin dismounted and asked Kohler to lead the horse to wait for him outside, while he himself, holding a bow and arrow, quietly approached the deer in the forest...
Relying on the cover of tall weeds in the forest, Marin successfully approached a herd of red deer. Then, at a distance of 30 meters, Marin shot and killed a robust male red deer. But when shooting other red deer that were fleeing, Marin fired all empty guns...
Of course, Marin was not discouraged, he was lucky to be able to hunt a big red deer. After that, Marin shot and killed two hares.
At noon, Marin tied up the wild deer and hare carcasses and put them on the horse's back. And himself and Kohler led the horses back on foot.
Back at the hotel, Marin asked the cook to roast the two fat hares. As a result, Kahn ate a whole large roasted hare by himself, while Marin and Kohler shared another smaller one.
Early the next morning, Marin asked Kahn to push the carcass of the red deer into the nearest city with a wheelbarrow, and sold the red deer.
This red deer is smaller than Marin's last capture. Moreover, because of the arrow, the buckskin suffered a little damage. Therefore, Marin only sold 800 pfennigs. However, this also made Marin very happy.
Seeing Marin making money so easily, Kahn felt itchy. The next day, at Kahn's request, the owner of Malinto Hotel kept his armor and lance, and he took Kahn and Kohler to the Black Forest again. Of course, because the horses could not carry them, their distance into the forest was limited. But as luck would have it, they did come across their prey.
Kahn thought it should be easy to shoot wild deer with a bow and arrow, so Marin handed the bow and arrow to Kahn speechlessly and asked him to try...
Sure enough, Kahn has no talent for archery at all, and basically plays handjobs, and it's outrageous. After shooting 30 arrows, all the arrows were shot, and I didn't see a single deer hair...
Kohler also tried. Although his aim was much better than Kahn's, he couldn't hit it...
After all, things like archery don't happen overnight. Especially when shooting wild deer tens of meters away, it is really necessary to be level. The average person may shoot a target 10 meters away, and they will be able to hit the target after practicing a few times. But shooting prey thirty or forty meters away cannot be practiced in a short period of time. And those wild animals with high alertness are unlikely to let you get close to him within ten meters. So, not an old driver, it's hard to hunt with a bow. It's easier to aim with a crossbow. However, crossbows were banned in many places in medieval Europe. You want to buy a crossbow, but no one dares to sell it. Although the ban on crossbows in the 15th century was not as thorough as before, it was still difficult for ordinary people to obtain crossbows. Because the nobles are also afraid that civilians will stab themselves with crossbows, so most of them support the ban on crossbows. Only the army is allowed to equip crossbows. A commoner with a crossbow might be accused of having a motive to assassinate a nobleman...
After the two failed in their attempt, they had to admire Marin's superb shooting skills and lamented the strength of the knight...
In fact, there is no Finney relationship between Marin's ability to shoot arrows and whether he is a knight or not. It was boring in his previous life, and he spent several years practicing in the back of his hometown. Ordinary European knights, who the hell is wasting time practicing archery? Only a wretched country like Britain, knowing that it can't beat France with knights, has specially developed longbowmen.
Generally speaking, on the European continent, only those old hunters are proficient in archery. With the advent of matchlock guns, many hunters who followed the pace of the times also switched to matchlock guns and gave up the difficult training of bows and arrows.
After Kahn and Kohler gave up their archery attempts, Marin re-entered the hunter state. Kohler was clever. He suggested that after Marin's sneak attack, let Kahn, a big fool who is good at running, go out and appear from a specific direction, drive the deer herd, and drive the deer herd to the direction where Marin was ambush. In this way, Marin can get a second chance to make a shot. Unlike before, after the first deer was shot, the rest of the deer ran away.
Marin adopted this opinion and asked Kahn to ambush in another direction of the deer herd in advance. When Marin shot the first arrow, Kahn suddenly ran out, rushed to the deer, and drove the deer to the direction where Marin was ambush...
The first cooperation was not successful, because Kahn drove the deer in the wrong direction. After cooperating several times, Kahn also gradually mastered the way to drive the deer herd away. Even when the deer herd deviated from the predetermined direction, Kahn used the method of throwing stones to forcibly correct the deer herd's escape direction.
Marin found that Kahn was not good at archery, but he was good at throwing stones. Then, after the first attack, the deer group ran away towards the place where Marin was ambush...
Facing the herd of deer rushing head-on, Marin took an arrow and opened his bow, and won another one. Then the deer group was taken aback, and found that the front turned out to be a trap. Then, they turned around and ran away.
However, it takes time to forcefully stop and then change direction during the run. After all, deer are deer, not humans, and their brains react slower. When changing direction, the deer group was obviously taken aback. But just in a daze, Marin took the opportunity to shoot a deer...
At the last count, with the cooperation of the three of them, they hunted and killed three deer in half a day...
"Sure enough, the team is stronger. How do you say that... More people are more powerful!" Marin was very emotional.
Think back to when I was hunting, I was always worried about my horse being stolen. Today, when hunting, Kohler is responsible for watching the horses, and Kahn cooperates with driving the prey, which greatly enhances the efficiency.
The next day, Marin pulled the three deer into the city again and sold them for 1,900 pfennigs, which was quite a fortune. At least, it's no problem to support the idiot Kahn and Kohler Jr.
Afterwards, considering that Kohler was not physically strong, walking for a long time was a bit overwhelming. So, Marin spent 1,000 Finneys to buy a half-sized calf, equipped with saddles, and let Kohler ride on the road.
Cows are different from horses. Horses are more delicate and need to eat feed frequently. But cattle usually only need to eat grass. Only when cultivating the land, the physical energy consumption is too high, will you need to add meals.
It can be said that the cost of raising cattle is much lower than raising horses. This is also one of the important reasons why ancient Chinese farmers raised cattle to cultivate land instead of horses.
Marin bought a cow for Kohler to ride, and there is also a big reason to consider the cost of feeding. His own war horse costs ten pfennigs a day. If you buy another horse, the capital consumption will be relatively large. Therefore, buying cattle is the best choice.
As for the calf bought for Kohler, it seemed that he had a temper, and he refused to obey discipline at first. But Marin first drunk the calf with strong wine, and then put a copper ring on the nose of the bull, and the calf immediately calmed down.
In the following days, Marin usually left the equipment in the hotel, and then went hunting in the depths of the Black Forest with Kahn and Kohler on a horse and an ox. The specific assignments are—Marin and Kohler ride horses, and Kahn rides bulls. After arriving in the field, Kohler took care of the horses and cattle, while Kahn cooperated with Marin to hunt...
In this way, this golden combination of three people killed all directions in the Black Forest, hunted a lot of prey, and sold a lot of money. When they killed all the way to the Danube River in the east of the Black Forest, Marin had already earned more than 100 marks by selling prey, and exchanged most of them for gold coins.