Chapter 1 The Unlucky Wandering Knight

Marin was very depressed. He was playing Europa Universalis at home, but he finally became the Holy Roman Emperor. He was high, but his buddy Li Liang called for help and asked him to help fight.

As for the cause of the incident, it was because Li Liang went out to practice the stall at night, and had a conflict with a group of thugs over a dispute over the site of the stall. Then, Li Liang was beaten.

Li Liang was naturally dissatisfied, so he called a few friends to get back to the scene. Marin is tall and agile. He also learned how to grapple and fight with a veteran when he was a child. Naturally, he was the first "divine beast" to be summoned by Li Liang.

Marin just swept the entire Holy Roman Empire in the game and became the emperor worshipped by thousands of people. He was boiling with enthusiasm at the moment, so he rode a second-hand electric bicycle happily without saying a word, and went to "maintain the justice of the earth".

After the brothers arrived, Li Liang promised to invite everyone to eat hot pot after the event, each with a good pack of cigarettes, and then the atmosphere came up...

Under the leadership of the big Marin, the brothers found a few young yellow hairs who were still setting up a stall. Then, like a knight, Marin spread his legs and launched a horseless charge...

The few little yellow hairs were really fighting five scumbags. Before, they beat Li Liang only because of the large number of people. Under the leading charge of the Marin Horse Knight, the little yellow hairs were quickly beaten to pieces.

But Marin was also carried away, just rushing forward, ignoring the danger behind him. Then, a sinful brick appeared in the back of Marin's head...

Then, Knight Ma was hit by a brick on the back of his head and lost consciousness...

"Sure enough... bricks... breaking martial arts... gods... can't stop..." This was Marin's last thought...

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After a long long time, the ghost knows how long...

Marin finally woke up, but it didn't feel right. Because when he opened his eyes, he didn't see the white walls and soft lights in the hospital, nor did he see the scene of his rental house... Because, he obviously smelled the green grass...

"I am tortured! Li Liang, you bastard, my brother was injured for you, and you left him in the wild without even sending him to the hospital! What's the matter, labor and management want to break up with you!"

Marin scolded and planned to get up, but he suddenly realized that this relatively immature voice did not seem to be his own, but it was indeed his own...

Marin, who has read a lot of time travel novels, is naturally not unfamiliar with this passage:

"Shouldn't it be... no... it's time-travel, right?"

Marin hurriedly stretched out his hand, and his eyes scanned the parts of himself that he could see at the same time...

Then, let him see a green body, a strange costume, and a pair of tender white hands that are obviously not his...

Suddenly, Marin's heart tensed - wouldn't he transmigrate into a woman? Some time ago, "Prince Concubine's Promotion" was so popular, he was very afraid of transmigrating into a woman. If you become a woman, what would be like being crushed by a man in the future... Ma Lin's hair stood on end, he didn't dare to think about it...

In a nervous mood, he skillfully instructed the "five girls" on the left to reach the lower part...

After a while, Marin was very relieved—he was still a man, or so, transmigrated into a boy. Because the hair on the bottom hasn't grown up yet...

With a relaxed mind and a strong hunger strike, Marin fainted again...

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After a long time, Marin woke up hungry...

At the same time, a memory merged with Marin's consciousness—obviously, it was the memory of the body's original owner...

Through reading memories, Marin learned that the original owner of this body was also named Marin. Of course, it is not the Marin of China, but the Marin of the West. More precisely, it was a young wandering knight named Marin Hoffmann in Germany at the end of the 15th century.

What is a wandering knight? first,

This is a knight (mostly apprentice knights), usually with a warhorse, a lance, and a set of knightly armor. Some knights and war horses have horse armor, which is the basic equipment. In addition, all knights have basically received strict training since childhood. They are good at charging immediately, and are also familiar with close combat. Their skills are generally much stronger than ordinary people.

In medieval and Renaissance Europe, knights were the lowest feudal lords in Europe. On it, there are barons, viscounts, earls, marquis, dukes, princes, kings, emperors.

However, not every knight is lucky enough to get a fief. Because, knights need to fight and work hard for higher-level lords to have the opportunity to obtain fiefs.

Moreover, the fiefs of knights are generally relatively small, the size of one or several villages. For example, this little wandering knight named Marin, his family, the Hoffman family, is a small knight family under the Count of Mark in the Ruhr River region. This family only owns a small village with little arable land, and all the arable land adds up to only 100 Eugrams (an ancient Roman area unit, in the Middle Ages, one Eugram was equivalent to 2 acres, equivalent to 12 acres). In other words, the Hoffman family has only 1,200 acres of land.

1200 acres of land, looks like a lot, right? The Ming Dynasty, which was placed in the same period, would definitely allow a family to be well-off and rich. However, thanks to the unfortunate agricultural technology of the medieval Europeans, the agricultural yield is touchingly low - the 1,200 acres of the Hoffman family's land, aside from the fallow (Europeans implement a rotating fallow system, the cultivated land is generally every two years) Or abandon the land for three years and one year to restore soil fertility. Until modern times, this tradition still exists in European and American rural areas) 600 mu of land is not counted, and the remaining 600 mu of land can only produce 100,000 pounds of rye per year (Cologne pound, one Cologne mark = 233.85 grams, one cologne pound = 2 marks = 467.7 grams). On average, the yield of rye per mu is only 166.7 pounds, equivalent to 156 pounds. This is still a harvest year. If there is a famine, the output will be lower, and the production capacity per mu will drop to about 100 catties.

Such a per-acre yield is so touching, no wonder that in the Middle Ages in Germany, thousands of people starved to death at every turn...

What's more, the per-mu yield of wheat in this era is even more touching. In a large manor near Hoffman Manor, the per-mu yield of wheat is only less than 100 catties...

Nima, as a top student in the history department, Marin, the transmigrator, knows very well that since the Han Dynasty, the yield of wheat per mu in Huaxia has stabilized at about 200 kilograms. In the Ming Dynasty, the rice in the south of the Yangtze River had a high yield per mu, even reaching about 500 catties.

The crux of the problem, Marin knew in various time-travel novels - that is because Westerners don't know how to use manure. For a long, long period of time, Westerners did not know how to fertilize the land. They just scraped the ground, then sowed seeds and watered it. Then, go do other things. Even the serfs did not know how to pick weeds at ordinary times.

As for excrement, Europeans in the Middle Ages urinated basically everywhere, making the city everywhere, and a stench wafting everywhere. This also caused flies to fly and diseases to spread everywhere. The Black Death, which broke out several times in the Middle Ages, was inseparable from the poor sanitary environment in Europe at that time.

In the East at the same time, farmers even pushed dung trucks to the city to collect dung to use as fertilizer for their farmland. There are also children, who specially carry baskets to pick up dung eggs.

The excrement of the Chinese people was put into the fields, which created the high yield of ancient Chinese agriculture and supported the prosperity of Chinese civilization. The feces of Europeans are all over the city, which breeds a lot of flies, causing the ravages of various diseases in Europe...

Well, Marin thinks he thinks too much. The reason why his predecessor in this body became a wandering knight is a German tradition.

Since primogeniture was established in Europe, other sons of nobles have suffered. The eldest son eats everything, the other sons can only watch the big brother eat it all...

If it was a big noble family, the situation would be better. For example, the other sons of the king, although they do not have the right of inheritance, but the king's family has a great business and can entrust the other sons to be dukes, earls, etc., have a piece of their own territory, and continue to enjoy happiness. Great nobles such as dukes and earls have a large enough territory, and they can also share some meat for other sons to eat...

And the little nobles are unlucky, their own family has very little territory, only enough for the eldest son's family to live. If you give more points to the younger brothers, everyone will have to drink the northwest wind. For example, the Hoffman family’s 1,200 mu of thin land is barely enough to support their eldest son and family (not only food, but also war horses, purchase and maintenance of weapons and armor, etc., and support for attendants, which is very expensive). It is absolutely unaffordable to raise several younger siblings such as Marin Hoffman.

So, the youngest feudal lords in Germany, the knights, were forced into desperation to make a decision-to give him a warhorse, a suit of armor, and a lance when his sons other than the eldest became adults. Go for a living. As for daughters, some poor nobles even sent their daughters to convents as nuns in order to save dowry.

Under normal circumstances, the children of these knight families who were driven out chose to join the great nobles, such as being the guards of the great nobles, fighting for the great feudal lords or something.

Of course, not every child of the knight who was kicked out of the house had a good chance to find a great aristocratic employer who admired him. Many knights who could not find work had no choice but to wander around, looking for opportunities to be temporarily employed. So, a new group appeared - the wandering knights.

These wandering knights grew up in knightly families and received strict martial arts training since childhood. Some strong people can single out a group of robbers with one person and one horse.

In fact, these wandering knights were the earliest mercenaries. However, they were all scattered people, seeking opportunities to serve the great aristocracy and the rich in the name of individuals, and did not form a group.

It was not until a few years ago that the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I saw the powerful fighting power of the Swiss mercenary army composed of Swiss mountain people in the war for the Burgundy region, and then started recruiting in the German region under his rule. The mind of a mercenary. It was during this period that the famous German mercenaries began to appear.

(Note: The Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I was not crowned by the Pope himself in Rome until 1508 and officially became the Holy Roman Emperor. Before that, the title of Maximilian I was actually self-proclaimed, only God The Roman Empire's own people recognized it. Without the coronation of the Pope, foreigners only recognized Maximilian I as the German king. However, in 1508, Pope Julius II not only officially crowned Maximilian I, but also officially crowned Maximilian I. It is allowed that the emperors of the Holy Roman Empire do not need to come to Rome to be crowned, and can find an archbishop in their own country to be crowned themselves.)

It was 1494, and it was the time when Emperor Maximilian I was recruiting troops to prepare for battle. Marin Hoffman's father, Frings Hoffman, after hearing about the emperor's recruitment of mercenaries (Maximilian I had already recruited a group in 1487), decided to send his second son, who was only The 16-year-old Marin Hoffman was driven out of the house and made him go to the emperor and become the emperor's mercenary.

Originally, according to tradition, Marin would not be kicked out of the house until he turned 18. But the old Hoffman felt that the emperor recruited people, and the opportunity was rare. If he made a military exploit, he might even have a title of nobility and a piece of fief. Therefore, he decided to let Marin go to take refuge in advance.

However, he overestimated his second son's experience in all corners of the world - no, not long after he left home, the only 10 gold coins on the original Marin Hoffman's travel expenses were taken by a captain of guards who claimed to know the emperor. The liar has been deceived...

Then poor Marin Hoffman had no money to live in, no money to eat. In desperation, he had no choice but to go hunting in the wild on horseback. As a result, the meat of the prey can satisfy the hunger, and the fur of the prey can be exchanged for some money as travel expenses.

However, Marin Hoffman is a knight, not a hunter. Therefore, little Marin can't catch any prey at all. Can you imagine a knight in heavy armor, wearing heavy armor and holding a knight's spear, chasing and poking a galloping little hare?

Wearing heavy armor itself will reduce the speed and sensitivity of horses. Where can they catch up with those wild animals? Slow-running wild animals have long been hunted down.

And little Marin does not have a crossbow in his hand, nor does he know archery. Therefore, he can only continue to ride horses and chase animals with an empty stomach...

Finally, after two days of not eating, the hungry little Marin accidentally fell off the horse while chasing a fawn and fainted in the grass. Then, he was transmigrated by Marin of China in later generations...

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