Jama Khan taught Marin a good lesson, and in the past, Marin thought that nomads would spend their days killing cattle and sheep for meat. When he was a child in his last life, Ma Lin mistakenly thought that Mongolians eat roasted whole sheep every day, and Xinyi people eat mutton skewers every day......

Unexpectedly, people mainly rely on goat's milk, mare's milk and milk to sustain themselves, and they just kill some sheep from time to time to eat, instead of eating meat every day with small fat cows and big fat sheep.

In fact, this is normal, some small herdsmen, the number of sheep is not large. If you kill sheep and eat meat every day, the growth rate of sheep cannot keep up with the speed of slaughter by herdsmen. After all, it takes a year or two for sheep to grow, and even longer for cows and horses.

Therefore, normal nomads rarely kill ewes. In general, eating meat is killing rams. The ewes, on the other hand, are kept as much as possible, and the lambs will not be slaughtered. There are two main reasons – one is a flock that doesn't need too many rams. After all, a ram can be mated to multiple ewes; In addition, the ewes can provide goat milk during lactation. Therefore, a normal flock is mostly less rams and more ewes. If the sheep is slaughtered, the male must be slaughtered first. As for the mother, she was slaughtered as a last resort. For example, the ewe is old and cannot get pregnant. As for the lambs, because they are not fully grown, it is a pity to kill them.

Of course, this has also caused a bad consequence - that is, eating adult rams and old ewes will inevitably have a strong smell. Eating too much of this kind of mutton will inevitably bring a bit of a smell to the herdsmen themselves, which is also one of the reasons why the ancient Chinese people despised the grassland herdsmen. But in order to save costs, herders have to do it. Unlike modern people, in order to avoid smell, most people eat lambs that are several months old or castrated......

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This conversation opened up a new world for Marin - it turns out that the cost of survival of nomads is so low...... Moreover, he suddenly regretted why he didn't communicate more with the two Mongolian doctors, Mozhigen and Batel. Otherwise, he would have known this a long time ago......

But this is no wonder, because, in ancient times, these habits of herdsmen, in the eyes of the agrarian people, were a manifestation of "barbarism and uncivilized" and were not worthy of publicity. Therefore, Morrigan and Battle will not deliberately introduce these things. Therefore, Marlin naturally does not know much about these.

Immediately after sending Jama Khan away, Marin had a long conversation with Morrigan and Battell, verifying the truth of what Jama Khan had said.

Morrigan and Battle told Marin that the herders are generally self-sufficient. It's just that whether it is the nomads of Eastern Europe or the nomads of central and eastern Asia, they are very afraid of a mortal enemy - the cold winter......

Winters in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and Northeast Asia are very cold. Even if the sheep are covered with thick wool, they may not be able to carry it. If it snows hard, a lot of sheep will be lost.

Therefore, once there is a heavy snowfall in winter, the steppe tribes must be severely affected. And how did the steppe tribes recover their losses - go to the Central Plains to rob them...... This is also one of the important reasons for the thousands of years of grievances between the Chinese Dynasty and the grassland tribes......

It's not that the steppe nomads are born to be fierce, but because the herdsmen on the steppe, if they don't steal, can't live. In the face of the harsh winter, they either starved to death or plundered south. Eventually, the surviving herdsmen became robbers......

Of course, this is the ancient herdsmen. Modern herders are under central management and can trade with the whole country smoothly. Under the advanced freezing technology and transportation conditions of later generations, mutton and beef on the grassland can be successfully delivered to the whole country. Most areas of China, on the other hand, are dominated by agriculture and lack of meat. In addition, it became popular to eat steak and hot pot later, and the consumption of beef and mutton was relatively large, resulting in the rise of beef and mutton. Therefore, the herdsmen of later generations were much richer than the farmers...... A farmer with only a few acres of land at home, facing herdsmen with herds of cattle and sheep, is definitely the poorest of the poor...... Therefore, the peasants had to go out to work......

Of course, the premise for herders to have money is that they need a huge market. For example, Inner Mongolia and Outer Mongolia, Inner Mongolia is backed by the big Chinese market, and it is also a foodie empire, so the herdsmen are very rich. And Outer Mongolia, there is no market, and they especially reject the Chinese foodie empire, so they only have cattle and sheep, no sales, and they are still a poorer country...... They are pro-Maozi, but Maozi can't afford to buy their cattle and sheep...... Maozi itself lives by eating potatoes, and its economy is heavily dependent on selling oil and gas, so how can he have spare money to buy cattle and sheep in Outer Mongolia? Besides, Maozi's Central Asian brothers are also more cattle and sheep, and the freight to Moscow is low...... In short, standing on the wrong side of the queue can only make the people suffer from poverty......

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Of course, those are all off-topic. The real reason Marin was interested in this was because he wanted to conquer the Pampas.

However, the Pampas is too large, with 760,000 square kilometers, more than ten times the size of the North Sea State.

Previously, Marin had considered plans to conquer the Pampas with the mindset of an agrarian people. In that plan, Marín intended to establish agricultural areas in Buenos Aires, where the current estuary of the Río de la Plata would be, first. Then, when the farming area was able to provide sufficient food, the Cossack cavalry was sent to sweep through the nearby steppes, gradually advancing until the entire Pampas steppe was occupied.

However, since learning about the way of life of the steppe peoples, Marin suddenly felt that he was still too conservative before......

According to their previous plan, the Cossack cavalry attacked, and could only choose to sweep the area near the agricultural area. Because, if you run farther, the supplies will not be able to keep up.

But if you follow this way, how much territory can you occupy? In the first phase, Marin planned to send 500 Cossack cavalry to sweep the Pampas. In the case of a fixed farming area, the 500 Cossacks would not leave the farming area for a maximum of 100 kilometers in order to ensure sufficient supplies. Otherwise, it will be difficult to replenish. In this way, the land obtained is at most the size of Jutland, that is, about 10,000 square kilometers.

However, if you switch to the method of the Mongol cavalry, take the milk-producing mare and go out to conquer the entire Pampas steppe 8=760,000 square kilometers, it will also be light. An example is there – the Mongol Empire used this method to conquer the vast Eurasian continent...... If it weren't for a limited population, it would have been possible to conquer all of Europe and all of Asia......

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Coincidentally, the current Marin is also very similar to the original Mongol Empire - it is also powerful in battle, and it also has a huge territory to conquer......

Moreover, what is more advantageous than the Mongol Empire is that the indigenous Indians are too backward in terms of civilization and combat effectiveness are too far inferior to the opponents of the Mongol Empire......

So, although the army was smaller than that of the Mongol Empire, Marin's conquest of the Americas was less difficult than that of the Mongol Empire's conquest of Eurasia.

The only problem is that Marin uses the conquest mode of the traditional agrarian society, which relies heavily on the transportation of grain and grass......

In this way, the range that Marin can reach by sending troops is very limited. Because, whether it is troops or supplies, they can't keep up......

The Mongol cavalry's method of bringing a milk-producing mare as a source of food during the expedition gave Marin great inspiration. If the military problem is solved, then Marin's army can fight far, far away, and occupy the great America first......

But there is a prerequisite for the use of Mongol conquest tactics, and that is - there are enough mares......

With enough mares to provide mare's milk, the Mongol cavalry was able to crisscross the entire American continent. And the Pampas grassland is the best horse breeding farm in Marin......

The Pampas steppe has no scorching heat in summer and no severe cold in winter, and the conditions are much better than those of the Mongolian steppe. The development of the horse breeding industry here is definitely promising. If there were enough Mongolian mares stockpiled in the Pampas, the Cossack cavalry (including the German Cossacks) would easily take over a large territory. Not to mention anything else, the fertile lands of Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay were seized first. Then, hit the plateau and destroy the Inca Empire...... As for the Brazilian rainforest, the Mongolian horse is not adaptable, so let's wait and see......

In the same way, this method, which can also be used as a reference, was used to conquer the North American continent. However, the North American forests are more annoying and not suitable for cavalry deployment. Therefore, the conquest of the North American continent may be much more difficult than the conquest of South America.

To this end, Marin formulated two sets of plans, respectively for South America and North America - South America is simple and rude, directly using Mongolian cavalry tactics, with mare to sweep the Pampas steppe and Uruguay and other places; In North America, on the other hand, it first occupied the eastern seaboard, slowly cutting down trees and cultivating land. At the same time, part of the Cossack cavalry was also sent to carry out expeditions and harassment, attacking and driving away the natives in order to obtain more land, and at the same time to avoid the aborigines from raiding the deserted areas......