The Knight Tournament held in the port of Emden to select the knights of the Quarry has been prepared for a long time. Even if the old Hoffman wanted to see it, he would have to wait a little longer.

It's not that the preparations are difficult, but it will take a long time for knights from all over the country to come. In this era, the transmission of information was very inconvenient, and if you wanted to deliver letters, you often had to let the caravan carry them along the way. And caravans do business while walking, and are often not in a hurry to deliver letters and news. At the end of the day, it is a miracle that the wagons of the caravan can travel a hundred kilometers. Sometimes, in order to solicit business, caravans would stop at a certain place for several days, which was very wrong.

Therefore, although Adler's recruitment news could not be sent, it would take a long time for it to spread throughout Germany. And even if you get the news, it will take a long time to rush to Emden. Generally speaking, although the horsepower of the knights is large, but the endurance is not good, and it is good to walk 100 kilometers a day with stop-and-go. Unless, like Marin, a knight is equipped with three horses to ride, it will be fast. And ordinary knights, even if one person can take two horses to change horses, but the attendants ride inferior horses, and there are no horses to change. You can't leave your squire behind, can you? You know, when there is no battle, the knight's plate armor and cavalry spear are carried by the attendants, and I usually only have a knight's light sword at the waist to deal with emergencies. And only equipped with an inferior horse is a trip from a day of absolutely no more than 100 kilometers, or even only a few tens of kilometers a day. And the poorer knights, whose squires were not equipped with horses and could only walk, were even slower, and could only walk thirty or forty kilometers a day.

What's more, Adler's recruitment news was also sent to the Teutonic and Livonian states of Eastern Europe. Because, the German wandering knights over there are very concentrated and clustered. If you take into account the time it took for the wandering knights of the Teutonic and Livonian states to arrive, it would have been even longer. Therefore, Adler simply gave two months so that the wandering knights from all over the country had enough time to arrive. Therefore, if the old Hoffman wants to watch the knights, it will have to be some time.

In fact, the knight was on his way quite fast. After all, no matter how slow a knight is, he can travel thirty or forty kilometers a day. The German region is only seven or eight hundred kilometers from south to north, and 20 days is enough to travel.

If the Holy Roman Empire were a unified centralized state, the authorities might have set up a post station system in various cities to facilitate the transmission of messages. For example, the Ming Dynasty had a post station system, which regularly issued government decrees and newspapers.

But the Holy Roman Empire was a divided country, and you could walk dozens of miles to meet a vassal state. The transmission of information between countries is very troublesome, even if a caravan crosses the border. In addition to paying taxes, there are also various checks.

In addition, even if the news reaches the cities of the vassal states, the wandering knights may not receive it. Because, the average knight family lives in a country manor, and the news is even worse. Only those wandering knights who happened to be wandering in the city could receive the news in time. Wandering knights who are temporarily stationed in the country manor or who have not yet left the house will need to get the news very late. After all, in ancient times, it was normal for countrymen not to go to the city for ten days and half a month. What's more, entering the city also requires the city tax, which reduces the frequency of rural people entering the city. Although the knights are not bad for money, it is talking about the knights who have fiefs, and the wandering knights who have no land are still relatively poor. So, in this case, there are definitely not enough months for the wandering knights from all over the country to receive the news and rush to the port of Emden.

Even, there will still be many wandering knights who will miss it. Why? Because they went into the Black Forest to poach......

I think that at the beginning, when Marin first crossed over, because he was poor, he did poaching. In principle, the lands of Germany, including the forests, belonged to the local lords. If you want to hunt, you need permission from the lords of each place, and you have to pay heavy taxes. But the wandering knights are not ordinary people, they are martial artists, so they don't care about the ban of those lords. Therefore, many wandering knights who cannot find a job for the time being will lead a team into the Black Forest to poach. And the lords everywhere also turned a blind eye to this. Because, these wandering knights are not easy to mess with. Even if you can solve this wandering knight, it will be tricky if you provoke the family behind him.

Of course, the wandering knights are also very "disciplined" in poaching. Their rule is to "change places with one vote", so as not to make it difficult for the local lords. If you stay in one place for a long time, you will be forcing the local lord to do it to him. And if you pass by poaching, the lords will not care, and they will be alms.

If you go into the forest to poach, you probably have to go for a long time. If the news of Adler's recruitment came at this time, these wandering knights who had entered the forest area to poach might miss it. Therefore, even if Adler gives 2 months, there will be many wandering knights who will miss the time. It's not a big deal, though. After all, Adler didn't have to think that all the wandering knights from all over the country would come over. Even, some wandering knights may not be willing to come. Of course, the wandering knights who refuse to come are usually helped by their families to find a way, so they may not need Adler's opportunity.

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Marin ordered a huge jousting arena to be built outside the city of Port Emden, and many temporary houses were built outside the city to house the wandering knights.

The reason why the venue for the competition is arranged outside the city is because the venue is large enough. And let the wandering knights live outside the city, naturally because they are afraid that they will enter the city and make trouble. There are many villains among the wandering knights, of course, Adler clearly said that he didn't want villains wandering knights, and those villains would not come. However, as a martial artist, it is normal to be short-tempered. If the wandering knights fought, the average city guard soldier would not be able to stop it. After all, these wandering knights are all masters of martial arts who have practiced martial arts for more than ten years. When martial arts masters fight, ordinary officers and soldiers are not able to manage it at all. If so many wandering knights poured into Emden, it would have to be a mess.

It just so happened that the army of the Beihai State often went out to fight, and there were many military camps. Therefore, Marin simply built a huge military camp outside the city of Emden, and set up many tents in it to house the knights who came to compete in the martial arts. Anyway, these knights are not those literati, and they are also going to fight. The construction of temporary camps for them to live in can be regarded as giving them a taste of the atmosphere of war. Moreover, the construction cost is low, which is convenient for construction and demolition.

Moreover, in order to prevent these wandering knights from making trouble when they entered the city to eat and drink, Marin decided to supply food to these wandering knights outside the city, so as not to cause trouble when they entered the city.

As for the type of food served, Marin decided to serve them Chinese fast food - one meat and three vegetables for each meal. Not with rice, of course, but with Kohler black bread, which is black bread mixed with grass bran.

After all, Europeans are also not accustomed to rice, preferring bread. And Mallinken's supply of Kohler bread is already good. On top of that, Marin intends to supply it for free. After all, people came from afar, and they were all children of aristocratic families, so Marin couldn't afford to be rude. Of course, for those knightly squires, it was not so polite, and only a piece of black bread and a glass of boiling water were enough for each meal. After all, the wandering knights are all noble children, and those knight squires are not, so there is no need to give too good treatment.

As for the drinks, Marlin is not going to provide them. However, he asked the tavern owners to open a bar camp on the edge of the camp outside the city, selling beer to the wandering knights, but not for free. After all, Marlin is good enough to entertain these wandering knights for free to eat and stay. If you want to drink, go buy it yourself......

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Just when Marin was busy preparing for the knight jousting conference, a message suddenly came back from the port of Emden that surprised Marin - Amerigo is back!

Marin was overjoyed and hurriedly sent guards to pick up Amerigo back. America can come back alive, which shows that the Pacific route of the Ming Dynasty is opened, and Marin is of course very happy. And this also means that Marin can go to the Ming Dynasty for a trip......