The Knights Competition held in Port Emden is a long time to prepare for this Knights, which aims to select fiefs. Even if Old Hoffman wants to watch it, he will have to wait.

It’s not that preparations are difficult, but it takes a long time to wait for knights from all over the country to come. In this era, information transmission is very inconvenient, and if you want to pass on letters, you often ask the caravan to take the way. The caravan does business while walking, and often does not rush to deliver letters and messages. At the end of a day, it is a miracle that the caravan can walk a hundred kilometers. Sometimes, in order to take on business, the caravan will stop in a certain place for several days, which is a big mistake.

Therefore, although Adler's recruitment news cannot be sent out, it will take a long time to spread throughout Germany. Even if you receive the news, it will take a long time to rush to Emden. Generally speaking, although the horses riding by the knights are strong, they have poor endurance. It is good to walk 100 kilometers a day if you can walk like Marin. Unless you can be as rich as Marin, a knight can match three horses to ride, it will be soon. For ordinary knights, even if one person can bring two horses to ride, the attendant is not riding.

Horses, and there are no horses to transfer. You can't let the knight leave his servants and walk by himself? You know, when there is no battle, the knight's plate armor and rifle are carried by the servants. I usually only have a knight's light sword at my waist to deal with emergencies. Those who are equipped with only a bad horse will definitely not exceed 100 kilometers per day, or even only a few dozen kilometers a day. For the poorer knights, the servants are not equipped with horses and can only walk, so the overall speed will be slower, and they can only walk thirty or forty kilometers a day.

What's more, Adler's recruitment news was also sent to the Teutonic and Livonian Knights in Eastern Europe. Because the German Wandering Knights there were very concentrated and crowded. If we consider the time for the Wandering Knights in the Teutonic and Livonian Knights to arrive, it would be even longer. Therefore, Adler simply gave two months so that the Wandering Knights from all over the country had enough time to come. Therefore, it would take some time for the Old Hoffman to watch the knights compete.

In fact, the knights are quite fast to travel. After all, no matter how slow the 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.

The main problem lies in the transmission of news. If the Holy Roman Empire was a unified centralized country, the official might have established a station system in various cities to facilitate the transmission of news. For example, there was a station system in the Ming Dynasty, which regularly issued government orders and mansion reports.

But the Holy Roman Empire was a split country. You could encounter a vassal state just by walking dozens of miles. The transmission of information between countries was very troublesome, and even if the caravan crossed the border, it was very troublesome. In addition to paying taxes, there were also various investigations.

In addition, even if the news reaches the cities of various vassal states, the wandering knights may not receive it. Because, generally the knights live in countryside manors, the news is even more unpleasant. Only those wandering knights who happen to be wandering in the city can receive the news in time. However, the wandering knights who stay in the countryside manors or have not yet left the house need to get the news very late. After all, in ancient times, it was normal for the countryside to not enter the city for ten days and half a month. What's more, entering the city would be called the entry tax, which reduces the frequency of the countryside to enter the city. Although the knights are not short of money, it is said that fief knights with fiefs, and the wandering knights have no land, so they are still relatively short of money. Therefore, in this case, it is definitely not enough for the wandering knights from all over the country to receive the news and come to Emden Port.

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

Thinking back to the time when Marin had just traveled, he had done poaching because he was poor. In principle, the land of Germany, including forests, belonged to lords from all over the country. If you want to hunt, you need permission from lords from all over the country and have to pay heavy taxes. But the lords are not ordinary people, they are warriors, so they don’t care about the lords’ bans. Therefore, many lords who cannot find jobs will lead teams to poach in the black forest. The lords from all over the country also turned a blind eye to this. Because these lords are not easy to mess with. Even if they can solve this lord, it will be very difficult to mess with the family behind him.

Of course, the wandering knights are also very "rules". Their rule is to "try and change places" to avoid difficulties in the local lords. If they stay in one place for a long time, they will force the local lord to attack him. If they pass by, the lords will not care and just treat it as a gift.

If you go into the forest to poach, it will probably take a long time. If news of Adler's recruitment comes at this time, these wandering knights who poach into the forest area may miss it. Therefore, even if Adler gives 2 months, many wandering knights will miss it. However, this is not a big deal. After all, Adler does not have the idea of ​​having all the wandering knights across the country come. Even some wandering knights may not be willing to come. Of course, the wandering knights who refuse to come are usually found by their families, so they may not need Adler's opportunity.

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Marin ordered people to build a huge competition site outside the city of Emden Harbor, and built many temporary houses outside the city to accommodate the wandering knights.

The reason why the competition venue was arranged outside the city was because the venue was large enough. The Wandering Knights lived outside the city was naturally afraid that they would go into the city to make trouble. There were many villains among the Wandering Knights. Of course, Adler explicitly said that he would not want the villains, the Wandering Knights, and those villains would not come. However, as a martial artist, it is normal to have a bad temper. If the Wandering Knights fight, the general city guard soldiers could not stop them at all. After all, these Wandering Knights are all masters who have practiced martial arts for more than ten years. When martial arts masters fight, ordinary officers and soldiers are not able to control them. If so many Wandering Knights flock into Emden City, trouble will occur.

Just so happened that the Beihai Army often went out to fight wars and had many military tents. So, Malin simply built a huge military camp outside Emden City, and set up many tents to accommodate the knights who came to compete. Anyway, these knights were not literati, and they also had to fight. Building temporary camps for them to live in can also make them feel the atmosphere of war. Moreover, the construction cost is still low, which is convenient for construction and demolition.

Moreover, in order to prevent these wandering knights from causing trouble when they enter the city to eat and drink, Marin decided to provide food to these wandering knights outside the city so that they would not cause trouble after entering the city.

As for the types of food, Marin decided to serve them Chinese fast food - each meal was served with one meat and three vegetables to the Wanderer. Of course, it was not paired with rice, but with Kohler black bread, that is, black bread mixed with weed bran.

After all, Europeans are not used to rice and prefer bread. It is already good for Malincoln to serve Kohler bread. The most important thing is that Marin plans to provide it for free. After all, people come from all over the world and are all children of noble families, so Marin cannot lose his manners. Of course, he is not so polite to those knight attendants. It is enough to give only a piece of black bread and a cup of boiling water for each meal. After all, the wandering knights are all children of nobles, and those knight attendants are not, so there is no need to give them too good treatment.

As for drinks, Marin did not intend to provide them. However, he asked the tavern owners to work together to open a bar camp next to the camp outside the city to sell beer to the wandering knights, but it was not free. After all, Marin was good to entertain these wandering knights for free. If you want to drink, go buy it yourself...

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Just as Marin was busy preparing for the Knights Competition, Port Emden suddenly heard a message that surprised Marin - Americo is back!
Chapter completed!