As time came to the end of July, on the eve of the opening of the Knights Competition, there were more wandering knights coming to Port Emden, reaching as many as 1,500.
The reason why hundreds of people were added at once was because the German wandering knights from the Teutonic Knights and the Livonian Knights returned.
In the past, because there were not many opportunities in Germany, many wandering knights went to the Teutonic Knights and the Livonian Knights to look for opportunities. After all, these two countries are countries dominated by knights. For example, the Teutonic Knights had more than 800 official Teutonic Knights and had the right to vote. The Livonian Knights were similar, and there were hundreds of formal knights.
Only these two knight countries have hundreds of knights who are enfeoffed and coexist. In general, those who have dozens of knights are considered big countries. Some little knights have only three or five knights. Because these little knights are too small, they cannot get the fiefs of knights. After all, not every kingdom has land of thousands of square kilometers. Some little knights, such as the Ritberger country, are only more than two or three towns, and can they enfeoff a few knights? This is not the worst. Some kingdoms have even a size that is not as bad as one town in later generations, and there are even a little knights with only one small city, also called Chengbo. The kingdom who can have a land area of ​​two thousand square kilometers is definitely considered a powerful figure in the kingdom.
Moreover, over the years, every knight family has given birth to a son, resulting in too many wandering knights and greatly reduced the chances of German locality.
As a last resort, many wandering knights went directly to the Teutonic Knights and the Livonian Knights to look for opportunities. After all, the number of official knights in these two countries is hundreds. Moreover, the knights are not hereditary. As long as there are old knights in the Teutonic Knights or the Livonian Knights and the Livonian Knights and the Livonian Knights and the opportunity for these wandering knights comes... And the number of knights with 1,000 or hundreds of knights in the two knights always happens to have accidents or deaths every year. Therefore, there are relatively more opportunities there. Therefore, many wandering knights simply go directly to the two knights to look for opportunities.
Of course, although there are many wandering knights going to the two Knight countries, they are still not as many as those in the local area. After all, the German region is the largest knight output base in Europe. Moreover, not every knight likes to go to Eastern Europe to explore.
More than 1,500 wandering knights, together with their attendants, had a total of more than 7,000 people. Fortunately, Marin built a huge camp at the level of 10,000 corps, which was enough. Moreover, the soldiers of the Second Legion were watching with great scrutiny, and not many people dared to act rashly. You must know that it would be absolutely unpleasant to be aimed at by 2,500 muskets. If you accidentally, you would be beaten into a sieve.
The food supply of 7,000 or more people also brought great pressure. You should know that those more than 1,500 knights all eat boxed lunches with three vegetarian food and one meat. Moreover, it is provided for free, which is a considerable expense.
Fortunately, this is July, and there are many vegetables on the market. If it were winter, Marin might not be able to provide vegetables, so he could only give the knights bacon. After all, winter vegetables are much more expensive than bacon.
Every day, Marin not only has to supply bread and vegetables, as well as some meat dishes, but also wine for more than 7,000 people.
Yes, each of these more than 7,000 people had to drink. Even the Knight's servants had to serve a glass of beer for each meal.
Some people may ask, why don’t they give them boiled water? After all, no matter how bad beer is, it is brewed by grain.
Here we will talk about the eating habits of medieval Europe. In ancient times, Europeans not only boiled fruits and ate raw vegetables, but also drank wine every meal. Because, under normal circumstances, they did not drink plain water.
The reason for this is that in ancient Europe, after drinking raw water, they were prone to stomachache and illness. The tragic medical skills in ancient Europe, that they might go to see God if they get tired of getting a stomachache. In addition to the huge fear brought by the Black Death, Europeans later did not dare to drink raw water.
As for why I didn’t drink boiled water? There was no thermos in ancient times, and boiled water would easily turn cold when it boiled. However, Europeans were ignorant and did not understand science at that time, thinking that the boiled water was the same as raw water, and they would get sick after drinking it.
In life, people find that those who drink alcohol will not have stomachache. Therefore, in order to save their lives, Europeans no longer drink raw water, but instead use drinking beer and wine as a way to obtain moisture.
Generally speaking, nobles and priests generally drink wine to quench their thirst. Wine is also divided into grades. For example, the wines drunk by nobles and priests are generally made of the flesh of good grapes with good size. Those inferior grapes such as deformed grapes and grapes falling on the ground, as well as some scraps of inferior wines are for relatively qualified people, that is, medium-sized people. Ordinary civilians can only drink beer.
Even beer is divided into grades. Lower nobles, such as knights and merchants, will be accompanied by high-quality beer with the best and add hops. The poor can only drink rancid inferior beer.
Of course, there are also wines that are too poor to afford to drink even rancid. How do they replenish water? They use rye granules directly (mainly grinding noodles in the house and grinding flour is also cost-effective, so they can't grind flour, so they can't directly add the whole granules), wild vegetables, bark, leaves and other things are mixed together, and they cook porridge. The porridge is full of moisture. Although Europeans in ancient times did not know that boiling water is healthy, they also knew that drinking porridge would not be easy to get sick.
In contrast, due to the development of tea culture, people like to make tea when entertaining guests. Therefore, they have developed the good habit of drinking boiled water. Even if there is no tea at home, they like to boil boiled water to entertain guests. Therefore, in ancient China, people in ancient times, did not need to drink sour beer as a drink like Europeans. Those with rich drink tea, and those with no money drink boiled water or cool boiled water.
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The more than 1,500 wandering knights that Marin received were all from low-level noble families and Germans, so they were naturally more accustomed to drinking good-quality beer. Therefore, what Marin provided to the more than 1,500 wandering knights was a large glass of dark beer brewed with hops per meal. Their entourage drank ordinary beer brewed without hops. But Marin was not embarrassed to drink rancid poor beer to those entourage, and they also gave undeteriorated beer, so the expenses were not small.
In fact, the Beihai country has promoted the use of drinking in the country. However, this practice is not recognized by the outside world. These wandering knights are far away. In order not to make them feel neglected, Marin can only provide a large glass of beer per ton according to the general German custom. Moreover, the wandering knights provide draft beer with better taste but difficult to store. The attendants drink ordinary cooked beer with a slightly worse taste and no hops. After all, cooked beer lasts longer and is more suitable for entertaining ordinary people.
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Chapter completed!