As a traverser, if Marin doesn't fight for hegemony, it will be a shame for the traverser. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info And to fight for supremacy, a large cavalry team is indispensable.

However, although European horses are good, they are too squeamish, and they have to be fed concentrate at every turn, and the cost of feeding is very high. For example, Marin's war horse Karl, this one eats 10 pinkneys worth of feed every day, which is equivalent to 5 days' wages for ordinary people. And in some poor families, the whole family spends no more than 2 puffings a day. Therefore, this product is equivalent to eating the expenses of an ordinary family for 5 days a day.

If you want to feed 10,000 heavy cavalry, the money spent on fodder every day is as high as 100,000 fennig, worth 1,667 gold coins.

Of course, 10 pfennigs a day is the standard for Marin. After all, Marin is a local tyrant. But no matter how you save, the average knight's daily expenditure on war horses can reach 5 pfennigh per day. After all, European oats are expensive, and European horses are tall and eat a lot......

So, in Europe, there are very few countries with tens of thousands of heavy cavalry. As far as Marin knows, there is only one in France. But the army of knights in France was not fed by the salaries provided by the imperial court, but by fiefdoms.

There are about 10,000 knights in France, and about 10,000 have fiefs, and the average knight with a fief has a fief area of up to 1,500 acres. Those French knights, who fought with the king, actually paid out of their own pockets to support them. However, 1,500 acres of fiefdom was enough for them to feed themselves and their horses. The other thousands of plate knights relied on the French central government to support them, and they were mercenaries and had a lot of expenses. That is, a strong country like France, if replaced by other countries, may not be able to afford it.

It is basically difficult for other European countries to afford such a large scale of heavily armored knights. Venice can afford to raise it, but it is a maritime country, and knights are of no use at all, and there is a lack of knights with high martial arts.

And Maximilian I, the boss of Marin, most of his standing army were also infantry, heavy knights, only 1,500 people...... Even if the whole country were mobilized and all the knights from the Austrian and Burgundian estates were to be recruited, the total number would not exceed 5,000...... Unless, unless, all the knights of the German kingdoms are gathered, they can overwhelm France in the total number......

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Therefore, although he has always wanted to build a large cavalry team, Marin has always worried that he will not be able to raise so many war horses. After all, if you equip 10,000 heavy cavalry, the feed consumption of war horses alone will cost you five or six hundred thousand gold coins per year, which is very terrifying.

As a result, Marin currently only has 1,000 horses from 1,000 wandering knights recruited from the Teutonic side, and 800 horses from 800 black-shirted knights. The rest of the horses were pulled horses that ate more grass than fodder.

Moreover, because Marin himself opened up 5,000 yugram oats in East Friesland and grew his own oats, the cost of raising horses has been reduced by more than half. Otherwise, the annual cost of those 1,800 war horses alone will cost more than 100,000 gold coins.

Luckily, Marin grows his own oats and has a high yield, which saves him half of his costs. But even so, feeding those 1,800 war horses and thousands of pull-back horses cost Marin a huge amount of money.

Therefore, when he remembered that the Mongolian horse in Eastern Europe was the Don hippopotamus of later generations, he was pleasantly surprised. Because, these Don hippos are similar to Mongolian horses, and they usually only need to eat grass. Only when going out on the expedition, because the energy consumption of the manned running body is too large, it is necessary to add some feed.

Moreover, these Eastern European Mongolian horses are much taller than Mongolian horses, and their shoulder height can reach more than 1.5 meters. The Mongolian horse, on the other hand, has a shoulder height of only 120~135 cm, which is too short.

If you are short, you have short legs, and even if you have the advantage of good stamina, when you charge, because of your short legs, you can't catch up with other horses. Therefore, in later generations, in horse racing, Mongolian horses can only participate in endurance races, what is better than sprinting, no one chooses Mongolian horses.

However, on the battlefield, sprint speed is very important. Therefore, Mongolian horses with short legs do not perform as well as when they charge long distances.

The Eastern European Mongolian horse (Don hippopotamus), although also descended from the Mongolian horse, retains many of the advantages of the Mongolian horse. However, because the average shoulder height can reach 1.5 meters, compared with Mongolian horses, all of them are "long-legged Oba", and the speed of running and sprinting is naturally faster. Although the endurance is not as good as that of the Mongolian horse, the advantage in sprint speed is more than enough to offset the disadvantage in endurance.

It just so happened that Marin knew that the future plate knights would be eliminated by muskets, and the light cavalry would be the main force of the future cavalry. Later hussars preferred to use medium horses as tall as Don hippos, such as Arabian horses, rather than the tall horses that are now popular in Europe. Because, heavy horses in Europe, have the disadvantage of poor endurance. These heavy horses, perhaps with great strength and fast sprints. But after rushing for a while, it wilts and needs to rest for a long time. Moreover, they eat more and are more expensive to raise. Therefore, the later modern European cavalry basically crossed the local horse breed with the medium-sized Arabian horse, and cultivated medium-sized horses that were shorter but had good endurance and speed, and used them as military horses.

In fact, the Mongolian horse in Eastern Europe itself is mixed with the excellent bloodline of Arabian horses and even sweaty horses. Therefore, it is very suitable as a mount for light cavalry. The later Cossacks, riding the Mongolian horses of Eastern Europe (Don hippos), helped the tsar and laid down the world's largest land area.

Standing in the main hall of the Crimean Khanate, Marin, after a quick thought, decided to buy Eastern European Mongolian horses from the Crimean Khanate for a long time to use as military horses for the light cavalry. Even heavy cavalry can be paired with two Eastern European Mongolian horses for transfer. As for the local horses that also had to eat feed, Marin decided to eliminate them and dispose of them to neighboring countries......

In this way, most of the horses in the Marin army will save a lot of breeding costs after being transferred to Eastern European Mongolian horses, which can be regarded as a large amount of savings.

So, Marin bowed again and asked Möngkejire Khan:

"Great Khan, I heard that there are many war horses in your country? I wonder if the Great Khan has any idea of selling? ”

"You want to buy our horses?" Möngkejire Khan arrived unexpectedly. However, there is also some joy.

In fact, it is not without that the Crimeans did not sell war horses to the Europeans. It's a pity that the plate knights who are popular in Europe need tall horses with great strength, not medium-sized horses like Mongolian horses in Eastern Europe. Therefore, the Crimeans failed to sell and had to honestly become traffickers......

And if someone is willing to buy the war horses of the Crimeans, then the Crimean Khanate will have one more way to make money......

You know, the Crimean Khanate was a nomadic state at all, with large herds of horses in the steppes. Pick out the horses that are suitable for being war horses, not too many. Marin wanted to buy it, and Möngke Jire Khan was able to find tens of thousands of horses to sell in a matter of minutes.

"Yes, Great Khan, I envy the invincible archers under your command, and intend to form a similar army."

"Don't you Europa people prefer heavily armored knights on tall horses? Why, how do you like the tactics of our Mongols? ”

"Genghis Khan's army defeated the European knights back then, so I think the Mongol cavalry is more advanced......," Marin said calmly.

"And the price?" Möngkegire Khan looked at Marin expectantly.

"What do you think of 10 gold coins a horse?" Marin directly bargained.

You know, in Western Europe, the price of a war horse is as high as about 100 gold coins. Marin offered 10 gold coins to the Mongolian horses in Eastern Europe, which was very low. However, at the moment, no one buys the war horses of the Crimeans, and Marin also sees this and bargains fiercely.

"No, it's too low. As far as I know, those high-headed Malaysians in Europe are worth dozens of gold coins! "Möngkegire Khan also knows something about several countries, such as neighboring Lithuania. Lithuania has a well-developed animal husbandry industry, and the price of horses here is also cheaper than in Western Europe, only a few dozen gold coins.

"But the Great Khan, the European horses are all tall horses, can they carry the knights in heavy plate armor?" In order to reduce the price, Marin naturally picked on the shortcomings and said.

"If it's an ordinary pack horse, it's enough for you to give 10 gold coins, but for a war horse, you have to ask for 20 gold coins......" Möngke Jire Khan was obviously dissatisfied with Marin's price, thinking that it was too low.

"Great Khan, your horses are raised on the grasslands and eat wild grasses, and there is no cost at all. If you sell a horse, you will make a lot of money for nothing, so why scare off buyers with high prices......"

Möngkejire Khan thought about it, it is true, the Mongolian horses in Eastern Europe are all raised by herdsmen on the steppes of Eastern Europe and grow up eating wild grasses, which is indeed costless...... Well, labor costs, in this era, don't mention it......

However, Möngkegire Khan was not happy to be pushed down so low. So he said:

"But the price of the expensive envoy is too low......

Marin wanted to continue to lower the price, but he considered that the biggest purpose of this mission to the Crimean Khanate was to exchange for the Crimean Khanate to send troops, not to buy horses. Therefore, Marin made a concession to avoid upsetting Möngkegire Khan:

"In this way, if the Great Khan is willing, I am willing to purchase 1,000 war horses from the Great Khan at the price of 15 gold coins a war horse and 8 gold coins a pack horse from the Great Khan on behalf of our Beihai Chamber of Commerce...... If your country's war horses adapt to the local climate in our country, you will buy a large number of war horses from your country every year in the future, and the same price is ......"

Möngkejire Khan thought about it and found that selling horses was more profitable than selling slaves. Moreover, Marin was the first high-roller willing to buy horses in large quantities from the Crimean Khanate. So, he didn't raise the price anymore to avoid scaring away Marin, a high roller. Therefore, he waved his hand:

"Okay, that's it!"