Marin was a layman at painting, and after Dürer's reminder, he realized that oil paintings were now generally painted on canvas. So, he had to send people everywhere to buy suitable canvases so that they could be used by Daming.

However, the 10 warships have already set off, and it will be difficult to catch up. Therefore, Marin had no choice but to send another ship, first to Panama, and then, waiting for the fleet to arrive, before loading it. Fortunately, the canvas is light and does not take up space.

But in fact, in European painting, there is not only oil painting, but also a kind of monochrome painting, called drawing. Moreover, Dürer is one of the masters. For example, the hands and feet painted by Dürer that Marin saw in later generations are actually monochrome sketches.

And, Dürer told Marin, a sketch was much easier to create than an oil painting. With his ability, he can quickly draw a portrait of the next person, and it is still very similar.

"Isn't that a sketch?" Marin suddenly remembered that in later generations, the police department seemed to ask a painter to quickly draw the appearance of the suspect based on the description of the eyewitnesses to help solve the case.

In later generations, Dürer was evaluated as a master of sketching by people in the art world, and he also published professional art books such as "Dürer's Sketches". However, the word sketch seems to have been coined by Huaxia himself. In fact, sketching is just one type of sketching. To be precise, Dürer was a master of sketching.

Sketching, on the other hand, does not use canvas, ordinary paper is sufficient. In the presence of everyone, Dürer quickly used charcoal to paint a very vivid sketch portrait of the Marin family. Marin was so happy that he hurriedly put them away. However, in consideration of the long-term preservation, Marin asked Dürer to use a better quills to absorb the ink and create several more sketches. Ink adsorbs more easily on paper than charcoal powder from charcoal and is also easier to store for a long time. After all, this is a work of art, and long-term preservation is more valuable.

And Ma Lin also decided that after arriving in the Ming Dynasty, only Emperor Zhengde, Liu Jin and a few bigwigs would use more time-consuming and laborious oil paintings. And ordinary ministers, just give a sketch. Anyway, Dürer sketches quickly and doesn't waste much time.

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As the time entered July, wandering knights from all over Germany began to gather in the port of Emden to wait for the jousting tournament to be held.

It seems that he was stimulated by the quota of 50 knights with fiefdoms, and the number of knights who came to participate in the tournament was a bit large, and it actually exceeded a thousand, which scared Marin.

Marin was glad that he didn't let the knights into Emden, otherwise, the city might have been plagued by these people. Moreover, most of these wandering knights had attendants, and the total number of them added up to four or five thousand people. And the population of Emden City does not exceed 20,000, and if these people are really allowed to enter the city, there will not be enough places to live.

In order to prevent these brave and aggressive knights from making trouble, Marin urgently dispatched 10,000 men of the Second Legion and stationed them outside Emden, ready to suppress the trouble. Although each of these knights could fight a few, the Second Legion had more than 2,000 musketeers, which were specially designed to deal with the knights who wore plate armor. No matter how high your martial arts are, how thick your armor is, you can knock it down with one shot......

"Obediently, more than 1,000 people compete for 50 positions, and an average of more than 20 people grab a seat, why did I think of the national examination in the civil service examination in my previous life?" Marin smacked his lips, shocked inside.

In fact, Marin also recruited wandering knights in his early years, but the effect was not so good. Why? Because when Marin recruited wandering knights, his position was embarrassing and he was hostile to many princes. In addition, there were strong enemies such as Saxony and Brandenburg at that time, so many wandering knights felt that Marin's position was precarious and it was difficult to protect themselves, so there were not many people who were willing to come to him.

But now it's different, Marin has defeated those main enemies, and the dominance of the Hoffman family has stabilized. Moreover, Ireland, where Adler went, was not a dangerous place. Therefore, many talents are happy to sign up.

In fact, these wandering knights are more willing to serve Marin, who has already sat firmly in the country. It's a pity that Marin has enough men, and many officers from civilian backgrounds have already been trained, so there is no need to recruit wandering knights for the time being. Moreover, as Marin's original group of junior officers was about to grow up, he didn't need to recruit those wandering knights. Even if he recruited, Marin was only willing to recruit wandering knights whose entire family was willing to move to the North Sea Country.

Why? Because Marin is afraid of leaks. The agricultural output of the North Sea Country is so high, if there is a wandering knight's family who is not here, and accidentally leaks the secret, it will be serious. And the family members are all in Beihai Kingdom, and no one dares to leak secrets. Unless, he wants his whole family to go to hell.

Even, Frenzberg, who had already served the emperor, Marlin also reached an agreement with him - Marlin provided him with a large number of bags of compound fertilizer every year, but Frenzberg must keep agricultural secrets and not leak them to the emperor. Otherwise, Marin had Kohler assassinate the entire Frenzberg family......

Frentzberg is a smart man, and he doesn't know how powerful it is. Moreover, Kohler specially sent someone to show him a rehearsal of a close-range assassination with a short gun using a clockwork fire. The assassinated person, even if he wears plate armor, is useless to be protected by guards. In addition, it is kept a secret, and it has its own fertilizer supply, so it can produce high yields. If the secret is revealed, everyone will be productive, and their own grain will not be able to sell at a high price. This simple truth is obviously clear to Frentzberg. So, he doesn't talk nonsense.

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The arrival of thousands of knights and their squires put great pressure on the port of Emden. Accommodation was no problem, after all, Marin had brought out a camp tent for the legion, which was enough. But, eating, that's absolutely stressful. After all, there were four or five thousand mouths, and more than a thousand of them were children of nobility.

Those squires, the way of treatment is very simple. Just give a piece of Kohler black bread and a glass of low-quality beer for each meal.

But the more than 1,000 wandering knights are all from aristocratic families, even the lowest-level knight families, they are also aristocratic families. Therefore, Marin needs to be treated well so as not to be perceived as rude.

The phenomenon of dying to save face is not only in China, but also in Europe. Aristocratic families are very taboo to be said to be "rude" and "stingy". Generally speaking, the aristocratic family can be cruel and stingy to the common people, but it is absolutely not allowed to be rude to the visiting nobles. When a nobleman or the children of a nobleman come to visit, they must be warmly entertained and pay attention to pomp. Otherwise, you will be despised. And entertaining aristocrats from all walks of life is also the biggest expense of ordinary aristocratic families. Otherwise, how much money does it cost to eat and drink at home? Because of the hospitality of other visiting nobles, and to pay attention to pomp. Therefore, the European aristocracy spent a lot of money, and many nobles needed to borrow money to get by.

And Marin is also considered lucky, because of his humble background, those big nobles generally look down on him. Therefore, there were very few great nobles who visited. Otherwise, the annual cost of entertaining the princes is also very huge. And Marin didn't have any princes to visit, so the annual entertainment expenses were not much, which could be regarded as a blessing in disguise.

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But in any case, the wandering knights who came to participate in the tournament were all guests of the Hoffman family, and they were all guests from aristocratic families, so they could not be rude.

Of course, most of these wandering knights were children of low-ranking aristocratic families. Otherwise, he would not have become a wandering knight. If the son of the earl's family doesn't mix well, the earl will also help arrange it, at least he can become a knight of the fiefdom.

But the non-eldest son of the baron and the knight family was not so lucky, because the land of the baron and the knight's family was not much, and it could not be divided again. As a result, many non-eldest sons of the baronial family, as well as most of the non-eldest sons of the knight family, had to be reduced to wandering knights.

Dealing with these wandering knights from low-level aristocratic families, Marin is also worry-free. Otherwise, if a prince comes to the prince's family, Marin will have to send a minister to receive him, which will be very troublesome.

And for these wandering knights from low-level aristocratic families, there is no need to be so troublesome. Anyway, even if their father was a baron, he wouldn't be able to get into Marin's eyes.

Therefore, for these wandering knights, Marin directly arranged for them to live in a tent in the barracks, and it was called "feeling the atmosphere of the battlefield...... In fact, it is to save on hospitality......

But the wandering knights yearn for meritorious service on the battlefield, so they just ate this and lived in the barracks with peace of mind. Moreover, many wandering knights who have never been on the battlefield are still watching around the camp and learning the means of camping......