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Chapter 9 More people are more powerful

After hearing that his eldest son and second son were going to follow a knight as a follower, Zmmelman hurried back. Seeing that Marin was so young, he couldn't help but mutter in his heart.

However, the medieval Europe was so strict that he dared not raise objections. Moreover, he was also a little happy that someone was willing to take over his eldest son, who was the big eater. He just hoped that the young knight in front of him would not be poor by his eldest son. In that case, the eldest son would be fired again.

After the two sides agreed, Marin naturally planned to let Kahn take the bulky plate armor, spear and horse armor (although it is made of wooden). He was happy and the horse was even more relaxed.

However, although Kahn is very strong, she is also very stressful when carrying something weighing dozens of kilograms. At present, Marin has no money to buy a pack horse for Kahn and Kohler, and the cost of raising horses is also high. So, Marin thought about it and decided to let Zmairman, who is good at carpentry, help him build a wheelbarrow...

Why choose a wheelbarrow? This is not just because a wheelbarrow can transport goods. When it comes to cargo, two-wheeled carts load more. However, two-wheeled carts have a disadvantage - they are not able to walk on complex terrain.

As for wheelbarrows, you can ignore the terrain and other things, and you will still walk happily on the mountain roads. Because the wheelbarrow only has one wheel, it has a strong ability to overcome complex terrain.

There are many mountain roads from southern Germany to Vienna, Austria. Therefore, all-terrain wheelbarrows are more suitable than two-wheeled carts.

Marin and Zmairman returned to the city, came to the carpenter's shop where Zmairman worked, and began to build a wheelbarrow.

Although there are also wheelbarrows in Europe. However, the wheelbarrows in Europe have wheels in front, which leads to people pushing them and they need to bear a considerable amount of force to lift the car. Therefore, the loading volume of European wheelbarrows is relatively small.

Marin guided Zmmelman to build a Chinese wheelbarrow. The Chinese wheelbarrow has the wheel in the middle. In this way, the cargo on the car is mainly on the wheel. The people pushing the car are labor-saving. European wheelbarrows can only carry about two or three people in weight. Chinese wheelbarrows can carry the weight of six people, which is much more efficient than European wheelbarrows and is more labor-saving.

After the Chinese wheelbarrow was built, Marin put the armor, rifle and horse armor on the wheelbarrow. The weight of 70 or 80 kilograms was not enough for Kahn, who was pushing the cart.

Kahn was very powerful and good at running long distances (it was also practiced. The poor people in the Middle Ages could not get on a carriage and would walk everywhere). Therefore, he pushed the wheelbarrow and was very relaxed. Even sometimes when his younger brother Kohler was tired of walking, Kahn asked Kohler to sit on the wheelbarrow and rest for a while. He continued to push the carriage and follow Marin riding on the horse.

Marin was also much more relaxed. After he got rid of dozens of kilograms of armor and weapons, he felt much more relaxed. He felt as relaxed as him, and there was also war Makar. If Marin hadn't controlled the speed, Carl, who had been much more relaxed, would have wanted to rush.

Kahn is indeed very good at eating. He eats at least 6 pounds of food (mainly ordinary black bread, normal bread without soil, wood chips) and some vegetables, and sometimes eats some meat. On average, it costs about 10 Finneys a day. Marin is not much money now, so he has to take Kahn and Kohler to live in a low-end hotel. If the room is bigger, Marin will ask Kahn and Kohler to play the floor. If it is smaller, Kahn and Kohler will be placed in one room, and he will live alone.

Because he was dissatisfied with the dirty quilts in the hotel in this era, Marin bought a new set of goose-vouts (there was no cotton in Europe at this time, so naturally there was no quilt), and put them in a rain-proof pigskin bag, and placed them on Kahn's wheelbarrow. Every time he stayed in a hotel, Marin threw the original dirty quilts of the hotel to Kahn and Kohl. He covered the clean quilts with his own. Kahn and Kohl were pure medieval people after all, and he had no discomfort. The only thing he didn't adapt was that Marin forced them to take a bath...

Then, the two guys were trained by Marin to be refreshed, they no longer had lice on their bodies, and their clothes were clean. This made the two guys very uncomfortable, after all, they were used to being dirty since childhood.

Given that Marin had two more mouths to eat around him and one was a bucket, Marin decided to restart his hunting plan...

Marin's plan is actually very simple. There is a long distance from the town to the depths of the Black Forest. If you don't ride a horse, you will be very tired and there is not enough time. If you stay in the forest after dark, you will easily be eaten by the wolf pack.

For this reason, Marin asked Kahn to stay in the hotel, keeping his armor and his spear. He himself, carrying a bow and arrow, rode his horse to the depths of the Black Forest with Kohler.

Kohler is still a 15-year-old child and is a little thin. His weight is probably only 70 or 80 kilograms. He and Marin ride together, but in fact he is wearing armor and holding weapons is not very different. Within a certain period of time, Marcard can completely withstand it.

If I had ride with Kahn, the mangul, Carl would probably be unbearable...

When he arrived in the depths of the Black Forest, Marin dismounted and asked Kohler to take the horse to wait for him on the periphery. He himself, with a bow and arrow, tiptoed and quietly approached the deer in the forest...

Relying on the cover of the tall weeds in the forest, Marin successfully approached a herd of red deer. Then, at a distance of 30 meters, Marin drew an arrow and shot a strong male red deer to death. However, when shooting other red deer running away, Marin fired all empty guns...

Of course, Marin was not discouraged. He was lucky enough to hunt a large red deer. Later, Marin shot and killed two more hares.

At noon, Marin tied up the bodies of the wild deer and the rabbit and placed them on the horse's back. He and Kohler walked back with the horse.

Back at the hotel, Marin asked the chef to roast both fat hares. As a result, Kahn ate a whole big roast hare alone, while Marin and Kohler separated the other slightly smaller one.

The next morning, Marin asked Kahn to push the deer's body with a wheelbarrow, enter the nearest city, and sell the deer.

This red deer was smaller than what Marin caught last time. Moreover, because of the arrow, the deer skin was damaged. So Marin only sold 800 Finneys. However, this also made Marin very happy.

Kahn felt itchy when he saw Marin making money so easily. The next day, at Kahn's request, the owner of the Marinto hotel kept his armor and guns, and he took Kahn and Kohler to the Black Forest again. Of course, because the horses could not carry it, they had a limited distance to go deep into the forest. But luckily, they did encounter prey.

Kahn thought it would be very 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 had no talent for archery at all, and was basically shooting a machine, and it was outrageous. After shooting 30 arrows, all the arrows were shot out, and he didn't see a single deer hair shot...

Kohler also tried it. Although his accurate head was much better than Kahn, he still failed to shoot...

After all, archery is not something that can be done overnight. Especially shooting wild deer dozens of meters away is really a good idea. Ordinary people may shoot targets 10 meters away and practice a few more times. But shooting prey 30 to 40 meters away cannot be practiced in a short period of time. Those wild animals with high alertness cannot make you close to them within ten meters. Therefore, it is difficult for them to hunt with bows and arrows. It is easier to aim with crossbows. However, many places in the Middle Ages in Europe were banned crossbows. If you want to buy crossbows, no one dared to sell them. Although the banned crossbows were not as thorough as before, it is difficult for ordinary people to obtain crossbows. Because the nobles were also afraid that civilians would assassinate themselves with crossbows, so they mostly supported banned crossbows. Only in the army would equip crossbows. Civilians had crossbows, and they might be accused of being motivated to assassinate the nobles...

After the two failed attempts, they had to admire Marin's superb shooting skills and lament the power of the knight...

In fact, Marin's ability to shoot archery has nothing to do with whether he is a knight. That was because he was bored in his previous life and spent several years practicing in the back mountain of his hometown. For ordinary European knights, who is wasting time practicing archery? Only a vulgar country like Britain, knowing that he could not compete with a knight but France, so he specially developed longbow soldiers.

Generally speaking, on the European continent, only those old hunters are proficient in archery. With the emergence of the combroach gun, many hunters who are keeping pace with the times have also switched to combroach guns and gave up the bows and arrows that are very difficult to train.

After Kahn and Kohler gave up their archery attempt, Marin entered the hunter state again. Kohler was smart and suggested that after Marin sneak attack, he would let Kahn, a silly man who was good at running, go out and appear from a specific direction, drive the deer toward Marin's ambush. In this way, Marin could still get a second chance to take action. Unlike before, after shooting the first deer, the rest of the deer ran away.

Marin adopted this opinion and asked Kahn to ambush in another direction of the deer. When Marin shot the first arrow, Kahn suddenly ran out, rushed towards the deer, and drove the deer towards the direction of Marin's ambush...

The first cooperation was not successful because Kahn drove the deer in the wrong direction. After cooperating several times, Kahn gradually mastered the way to drive the deer away. Even when the deer deer deer deer deer deer deer deer deer deer deer deer deer deer deer deer deer even throwing stones to forcibly correct the direction of escape.

Marin discovered that Kahn couldn't shoot archery, but it was still good to throw stones and head. Then, after the first attack, the deer fled toward the ambush site of Marin...

Facing the deer rushing towards him, Marin took an arrow and took one more. Then the deer was stunned and found that it was a trap ahead. Then, they began to turn around and escape.

However, it takes time to force a stop while running and then change direction. After all, deer is a deer, not a human, and their brains should react slowly. When changing direction, the deer was obviously stunned for a moment. But after being stunned, Marin caught the opportunity and shot a deer...

After the last count, with the cooperation of the three, they hunted three deer in half a day...

"Sure enough, the team is still stronger. Why do you say that?... There are so many people and great power!" Marin sighed extremely emotion.

Thinking about the time when I was hunting, I was always worried that my war horses would be stolen. Now, when hunting, Kohler is responsible for watching horses, while Kahn cooperates to drive away the prey, greatly enhancing efficiency.

The next day, Marin pulled the three deer into the city again and sold 1,900 Finneys, which was a considerable huge sum of money. At least, it was no problem to support Kahn and Kohler.

Afterwards, considering that Kohler was not strong enough, he couldn't stand it after walking for a long time. So Marin spent 1,000 Finneys to buy a half-large calf, and used a saddle to let Kohler ride on the road.

Cattle are different from horses. Horses are more delicate and need to eat feed frequently. While cows usually only need to eat grass. Only when they cultivate land and consume too much physical energy, they need to eat extra 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 Chinese farmers in ancient China raised cattle and plowed the land but did not raise horses.

There is also a big reason why Marin bought a cattle for Kohler to ride because of the cost of feeding. His own war horse costs ten Finneys a day. If he buys another horse, the capital consumption will be relatively high. Therefore, buying a cattle is the best choice.

The calf bought for Kohler seemed to have a big temper and was not obeying discipline at first. But Marin first drunk the calf with strong liquor, then put a copper ring on the cow's nose, and the calf immediately became honest.

In the days that followed, Marin usually kept his equipment in the hotel, and then rode a horse and a cow with Kahn and Kohler to hunt deep in the Black Forest. The specific distribution was - Marin and Kohler rode horses, and Kahn rode cattle. After arriving at the ground, Kohler took care of the horses and cattle, while Kahn cooperated with Marin to hunt...
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