016 Preparation before entering the city
"Lord Torovsky, I don't quite understand what you mean, what do you need me to do?" Conrad asked cautiously.
He's just an ordinary hunter, and he doesn't have any special skills other than a decent hand in hunting archery.
Conrad didn't think that an 'adult' with hundreds of people would lack a hunter like himself.
After Shu Zifeng heard Torovsky's title, his brows furrowed unnaturally, and he said: "Don't call me by my real name in the future, just call me Shu Zifeng, what I want you to do is not difficult, take me to Yaroslavl City to cooperate with my actions, after the matter is completed, I can give you an official knight status!" ”
Shu Zifeng...... What a strange title......" Conrad muttered a few words in confusion, then looked left and right at the sturdy man beside him, and felt that he didn't seem to have many options......
"My lord, do you want to rescue your sister, Miss Katarina?"
Shu Zifeng's eyes flashed, and he nodded with a smile: "Grand Duke Yaroslav is going to 'torture' my sister in a few days, I naturally can't watch her being humiliated by hundreds of people, according to the custom, in the days before the execution, Grand Duke Yaroslav should stay in Yaroslav City."
Moreover, when the torture was carried out in public, the Grand Duke Yaroslav himself would have appeared in public. ”
Conrad nodded and replied: "That's the case, if we leave today, we will definitely enter Yaroslav City before Miss Katarina is 'executed', but there are quite a few prison guards in Yaroslav City, and I am afraid it will be ...... rescued."
"You don't have to worry about this, I'm not going by myself, I'll go with my guards to the rescue, you know, in the eyes of Grand Duke Yaroslav, I'm just a wanted assassin with nothing, not a lord with his own army, as long as we don't take the initiative to expose ourselves, Yaroslav City won't take too much precautions."
Conrad looked startled and led his troops to the rescue...... Is he going to rob the prison or the city?!
It wasn't until this moment that Conrad somewhat understood Shu Zifeng's crazy plan, but when Conrad's heart was full of fear of falling into the 'den of thieves', he couldn't help but have a trace of association: In case Kaba. Did this guy Torovsky succeed?
Of course, the most important thing is that Conrad feels that if he refuses at this time, he will not have good fruit to eat, since meeting this 'Fa Xiao', he has felt a different sense of strangeness and disregard for life from the other party, and Orions like Conrad are almost equivalent to marginal figures in the gray area in this era.
Because the right to hunt is clearly written into the aristocratic bill, it is a unique right of the aristocracy, and the commoner hunters are not allowed to hunt in the aristocratic territory at will.
In order to make a living, every hunt is equivalent to walking on the edge of hell, and there is naturally no problem not to be discovered, but as long as he is caught by a nobleman's horseman, it will be completely finished......
Therefore, the free people who dare to engage in the hunter's trade are people with a certain sense of adventure, and there is still a great difference between them and honest serfs.
"My lord, I am willing to serve you!" After a not-so-long mental struggle, Conrad prostrated his loyal will on his head.
In order to make Conrad more effective, Shu Zifeng asked him to prepare a full 'black bread set', this kind of black bread without sawdust sand is not cheap, sometimes even more expensive than meat!
Yes, this is the strange price level in the European Middle Ages, because of the constraints of the aristocratic hunting rights, the undeveloped areas suitable for the survival of wild beasts, and the large number of people who are bound in the fields, resulting in the survival and reproduction of wild beasts in Europe is very rampant, it can be said that as long as you are willing to take the risk of being found and punished by the nobles to go out hunting, even a novice rookie can harvest enough meat.
Naturally, every once in a while, the hunting parties of the nobility would bring back large quantities of prey, which would hit the price of the meat market, with the result that meat that could not be stored for a certain period of time was slightly lower than the price of high-quality brown bread, let alone the expensive white bread and honey.
In fact, although the lower classes of the common people in Europe lived a miserable life, as long as they were wealthy families, they could eat meat more or less on weekdays, and black bread, wild vegetable salad, and cheap meat were the staple foods of the common people in this era.
Many scholars in later generations analyzed that the reason why white people were tall, rough skin, and enlarged pores in history was partly because they had been eating meat since ancient times!
Sometimes there are a lot of benefits when there are fewer people......
Of course, in modern society, the height ratio of the Eastern and Western races is not as big as in ancient times because of the fact that the intake of nutritious food is not very large.
In the history of the late Manchu Dynasty, the height advantage of the white army made the Manchu troops suffer a lot in hand-to-hand combat, and the result was that the Manchu army could not collapse when the musket was fired, but as long as the white army launched a bayonet charge, the Manchu army would collapse at the touch of a button......
Later, when the white troops found out about this, they simply charged with bayonets as soon as they fought, and as a result, the Manchu army was repeatedly defeated, and they could not even find a chance to turn the tables......
Under Shu Zifeng's orders, Leonidas quickly gathered with a hundred recruits trained by his men, and at the same time, the rest of the young men in the village also began to collect the logging axes step by step under Joseph's orders.
Although ordinary lords have not undergone military training, they are young and strong men after all, and it is still okay to take a logging axe and cut people, but every system population is a valuable asset for Shu Zifeng, and he does not plan to let this group of lords without military training go to the battlefield, they are just Shu Zifeng's foreshadowing for the follow-up plan.
The lords also know that pulling out a large group of conscripted serfs is strong, and a large number of people is not a bad thing under any circumstances.
After Conrad saw the movements of the leaders in the village, he reminded Shu Zifeng with a heavy heart: "Your Excellency, Yaroslav City will not allow civilians to bring weapons into the city, let alone let so many people enter the city together......
"It's okay, you just need to lead me and my entourage into the city, and I have my own solutions to the other problems."
Seeing that Shu Zifeng didn't mean to say much, Conrad pursed his lips and stopped talking, retreating behind him, his eyes were complicated, scanning back and forth among the busy people.