Marin was an amateur in painting. After Dürer's reminder, he realized that oil paintings are usually made of canvas now. So he had to send people to buy suitable canvas everywhere so that they could be brought to the Ming Dynasty for use.
However, the 10 warships have already set off, and it is difficult to catch up. Therefore, Marin had to send another ship to Panama first, and then wait for the fleet to arrive before loading the ship. Fortunately, the canvas is light and does not take up space.
But in fact, European paintings include not only oil paintings, but also a monochrome painting called sketching. Moreover, Dürer is one of the master figures. For example, the hands and feet of Dürer painted by Marin later generations were actually monochrome sketching.
Moreover, Dürer told Marin that sketching is much easier to create than oil paintings. With his ability, he can quickly draw a portrait of a person, and it is very similar.
"Isn't this a sketch?" Marin suddenly remembered that the later police station seemed to have asked the painter to quickly draw the suspect's appearance based on the description of the witnesses to help solve the case.
In later generations, Dürer was regarded as a master of sketching by people in the art world, and he also published professional art books such as "Dürer Sketch". However, the word sketching seems to be created by China itself. In fact, sketching is just a kind of sketching. To be precise, Dürer is a master of sketching.
Sketching does not require canvas, just plain paper. Under everyone's witness, Dürer quickly used charcoal pen to give Marin's family a vivid sketch portrait. Marin was extremely happy and hurriedly put away all the paintings. However, considering the long-term preservation factor, Marin asked Dürer to absorb ink with a quill pen with a better preservation effect, and created several sketch portraits. Ink is easier to absorb on paper than charcoal powder of charcoal pen and is easier to preserve for a long time. After all, this is a work of art, and long-term preservation is more valuable.
Marin also decided that after the Ming Dynasty, only Emperor Zhengde, Liu Jin and a few bigwigs would use time-consuming and labor-intensive oil paintings. Ordinary ministers could just give a sketch. Anyway, Dürer sketches quickly and doesn't waste much time.
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As time entered July, wandering knights from all over Germany began to gather at the Port of Emden, waiting for the convening of the Knights' Competition.
It seemed that he was stimulated by the quota of 50 fief knights with fiefdoms. There were a lot of knights coming to participate in the competition, and there were more than one thousand people, which scared Marin.
Marin was glad that he did not let the knights enter Emden City, otherwise the city might have been harmed by these people. Moreover, most of these wandering knights brought their servants, with a total of four or five thousand people. The population of Emden City does not exceed 20,000, so if these people are really let go to the city, it will not be enough to live.
In order to prevent these brave and aggressive knights from causing trouble, Marin urgently dispatched 10,000 troops from the Second Legion and stationed outside Emden City, ready to suppress and cause trouble at any time. Although several of these knights can fight, the Second Legion has more than 2,000 musketeers, which are specially used to deal with knights wearing plate armor. No matter how high your martial arts are or how thick your armor is, you can knock it down with one shot...
"Good, more than a thousand people compete for 50 positions, and an average of more than 20 people compete for one position. Why did I think of the national exam in the civil service exam in my previous life?" Ma Lin smacked his lips and was shocked.
In fact, Marin had recruited Wandering Knights in his early years, but the effect was not so good. Why? Because when Marin recruited Wandering Knights, his status was awkward and he was hostile to many princes. In addition, there were powerful enemies like Saxony and Brandenburg at that time, many Wandering Knights felt that Marin's status was in danger and could not be protected by themselves, so not many people were willing to come and surrender to him.
But now it's different. Marin has defeated those main enemies, and the dominance of the Hoffman family has stabilized. Moreover, the Ireland where Adler went is not a dangerous place. Therefore, many talents are willing to sign up.
In fact, these wandering knights are more willing to serve Marin, who has already settled down. Unfortunately, Marin has enough staff and many civilian officers have already experienced it. They do not need to recruit wandering knights for the time being. Moreover, as Marin's young officers were about to grow up, he no longer needed to recruit those wandering knights. Even if he recruited, Marin was only willing to recruit those wandering knights who were willing to move to Beihai Kingdom.
Why? Because Marin is afraid of leaking secrets. Beihai Country's agricultural output is so high. If a Wandering Knight's family is not here and accidentally leaks the secret, it would be serious. And all his family is in Beihai Country, and no one dares to leak secrets randomly. Unless, he wants the whole family to go to hell.
Even Frenzberg, who had already served the emperor, also reached an agreement with him - Marin provided him with a large amount of bagged compound fertilizer every year, but Frenzberg must keep the agricultural secrets and must not disclose them to the emperor. Otherwise, Marin would ask Kohler to assassinate Frenzberg's family...
Frenzberg was a smart man, and he would not know that it was powerful. Moreover, Kohler specially sent someone to show him a preview of the close-range assassination with a short gun that used a clockwork fire. Even if the assassinated person was wearing plate armor, it would be useless to have a guard protection. In addition, he kept the secret and had fertilizer supply at home, which could be produced at high yields. If the secret was announced, everyone would be produced at high prices, and his own food would not be sold at high prices. Frenzberg obviously knew this simple truth. Therefore, he would not talk nonsense.
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The arrival of thousands of knights and their servants brought great pressure to Port Emden. Accommodation was fine. After all, Marin took out a camp tent for the legion, which was enough. However, eating was absolutely huge. After all, it was four or five thousand mouths, and more than a thousand of them were children of nobles.
Those servants treated very simply. You can just give a piece of Kohler black bread and a glass of inferior beer for each meal.
But those more than a thousand wandering knights all came from aristocratic families, even the lowest-level knight families were considered noble families. Therefore, Marin needed to treat them well so that they would not be considered rude.
The phenomenon of sacrificing face is not only in China, but also in Europe. Aristocratic families are very taboo to be called "irrespectful" and "stingy". Generally speaking, aristocratic families can be cruel and stingy to the people, but they must not be rude to the visiting nobles. If aristocratic or noble children visit, they must be warmly entertained and pay attention to the appearance. Otherwise, they will be despised. Inviting aristocratic families from all walks of life is also the biggest expense of ordinary noble families. Otherwise, how much does it cost to eat and drink at home? Because enthusiastic entertaining other visiting nobles and pay attention to the appearance. Therefore, European nobles are expensive, and many nobles need to borrow money to live.
Marin was also lucky because of his low origins, the great nobles generally looked down on him. Therefore, there were very few great nobles visiting him. Otherwise, the cost of entertaining the princes every year would be very huge. However, Marin did not have any princes to visit, so the annual hospitality fee was not much, which was a blessing in disguise.
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But no matter what, the wandering knights who came to participate in the martial arts competition were considered guests of the Hoffman family, and they were all guests from noble families, so they should not be rude.
Of course, these wandering knights are mostly children of low-level noble families. Otherwise, they would not become wandering knights. If the son of the Count's family is not doing well, the Count will help arrange it, at least they can become a fief knight.
But the non-first sons of the Baron and the Knights were not so lucky, because the land of the Baron and the Knights was not much and could not be separated. Therefore, many non-first sons of the Baron and most non-first sons of the Knights had to become wandering knights.
Marin was worried about these wandering knights from low-level noble families. Otherwise, Marin would have caused a minister to send a minister to receive him.
And there is no need to be so troublesome for these wandering knights from low-level aristocratic families. Anyway, even if their father is a baron, he will not be able to catch Marin's eyes.
Therefore, for these wandering knights, Marin directly arranged for them to live in a military camp tent, and even called it "feel the atmosphere of the battlefield"... In fact, it is to save entertainment expenses...
Chapter completed!