As a time traveler, if Marin does not compete for hegemony, it will be a shame for the time traveler. To compete for hegemony, a huge cavalry team is indispensable.
However, although European horses are good, they are too slutty and always have to feed them, which is very expensive. For example, Marin's vs. Macar, this guy eats 10 feed worth of Finney every day, which is equivalent to the salary of ordinary people for 5 days. In some poor families, the cost of the whole family does not exceed 2 Finneys a day. Therefore, this guy is equivalent to eating the whole family for 5 days every day.
If you want to support 10,000 heavy cavalry, the money spent on feed every day will be as high as 100,000 Finneys, worth 1,667 gold coins.
Of course, 10 Finneys per day are the standard for Marin. After all, Marin is a rich man. But no matter how savings are, the daily expenses of the Knights can reach 5 Finneys per day. After all, European oats are very expensive, while European horses are tall and eat a lot...
Therefore, in Europe, there are very few countries with tens of thousands of cavalry. As far as Marin knows, there is only one France. But the French knight army was not supported by the salary provided by the court, but by fiefdoms.
There are about 10,000 knights in France, and about 10,000 people have fiefs. On average, each knight with fiefs has a fief area of ​​up to 1,500 acres. Those French knights, who fought with the king, actually paid for their own expenses. However, 1,500 acres of fiefs are enough for them to support themselves and their war horses. The other thousands of plate-armored knights rely on the central finances of France to support them, which is a mercenary and has a lot of expenses. In other words, a powerful country like France may not be able to support them if they are other countries.
It is basically difficult for other European countries to support such a large-scale heavy armored knight. Venice can afford it, but it is a maritime country. Knights have no use at all and lack knights with high martial arts skills.
Marin's boss, Maximilian I, most of his standing army were infantry and heavy armored knights, with only 1,500 people... Even if the whole country mobilized to summon all the knights in Austria and Burgundy estates, the total number would not exceed 5,000 people... Unless all the knights of the German countries were summoned, they could defeat France in the total number...
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Therefore, although he had always wanted to build a huge cavalry team, Marin was always worried that he could not afford to raise so many war horses. After all, if he was equipped with 10,000 heavy cavalry, the feed consumption of war horses alone would be 50,000 and 600,000 gold coins every year, which was very terrifying.
Therefore, Marin currently has only one thousand war horses of a thousand wandering knights recruited by the Teutonic Kingdom, and 800 war horses of 800 black-shirted knights. The other horses are all horses that eat more grass than feed.
Moreover, because Marin himself opened 5,000 Yugram oat field in East Friesland and planted oats by himself, the cost of raising horses was reduced by more than half. Otherwise, the annual expenses of those 1,800 war horses alone would cost about 100,000 gold coins.
Fortunately, Marin grew oats by himself and had a high yield, which saved most of the costs. But even so, feeding the 1,800 war horses and thousands of horses was a huge expense.
Therefore, when he remembered that Eastern European Mongolian horses were the Don hippos of later generations, he was very surprised. Because these Don hippos were similar to Mongolian horses, they only needed to eat grass. Only when they went on a war, because the energy consumption of people running was too high, they needed to add some feed.
Moreover, these Eastern European Mongolian horses are much taller than Mongolian horses, and their shoulder height can reach more than 1.5 meters. However, Mongolian horses have shoulder heights of only 120 to 135 cm, which looks a little shorter.
He is short and has short legs. Even if he has the advantage of good endurance, when charging, because of his short legs, his charge speed cannot catch up with other horses. Therefore, in later generations, in horse racing, Mongolian horses could only participate in endurance races. No one chose Mongolian horses.
However, on the battlefield, sprint speed is very important. Therefore, Mongolian horses with short legs perform far less well when charging than when running for a long distance.
Although the Eastern European Mongolian horse (Don Hippo) is also a descendant of Mongolian horses, it retains many of the advantages of Mongolian horses. However, because the shoulder height can reach an average of 1.5 meters, compared with Mongolian horses, they are all "long-legged Oppas", and the speed of running and sprinting is naturally faster. Although the endurance is not as good as that of Mongolian horses, the advantage of sprinting speed is enough to offset the disadvantage of endurance.
Just so happened that Marin knew that the future plate armored knights would be eliminated by muskets, and the light cavalry was the main force of the future cavalry. Later light cavalry preferred to use medium-sized horses like Arabian horses that were about the same height as the Dun hippos, rather than favoring the popular tall and big horses in Europe. Because European heavy horses have the disadvantage of poor endurance. These heavy horses may have strong strength and sprint speed. But after rushing for a while, they wilt and need a long rest. Moreover, they eat more and raise more costs. Therefore, later modern European cavalry basically allowed local horse breeds and medium-sized Arabian horses to cross them, and cultivate medium-sized horses with shorter endurance and speed, as military horses.
In fact, Eastern European Mongolian horses themselves are mixed with the excellent bloodline of Arabian horses and even bloody horses. Therefore, they are very suitable for being a mount for light cavalry. Later, the Cossacks rode Eastern European Mongolian horses (Don Hippos) and helped the Tsar to conquer the world's largest land area.
Standing in the main hall of the Crimean Khan Palace, after quick thinking, Marin decided to purchase Eastern European Mongolian horses from the Crimean Khanate for a long time to use as a military horse for light cavalry. Even heavy cavalry can be equipped with two Eastern European Mongolian horses for transfer. As for those local horses that also need to eat feed, Marin decided to eliminate them and deal with them to neighboring countries...
In this way, most of the horses in the Marin army will save a lot of feeding costs after transferring to Eastern European Mongolian horses, which will also save a lot of money.
So Malin bowed again and asked Mongkogirekhan:
"Da Khan, I heard that there are many war horses in your country? I wonder if Dahan has the idea of ​​selling it?"
"You want to buy our horses?" Menggerekhan was surprised to arrive. However, he was a little happy.
In fact, the Crimeans have not failed to sell war horses to Europeans. Unfortunately, the popular plate-armored knights in Europe need strong tall horses, rather than medium-sized horses like Eastern European Mongolian horses. Therefore, the Crimeans failed to promote and had to be human traffickers honestly...
And if someone is willing to buy the Crimean war horses, then the Crimean Khanate will have an extra route of wealth...
You should know that the Crimean Khanate is simply a nomadic country, with large flocks of horses on the grassland. Don’t choose too many horses suitable for war horses. If Marin wants to buy it, Mongogirekhan can find tens of thousands of horses for sale in minutes.
"Yes, Khan, I envy your invincible archers and cavalrymen, and plan to form a similar force."
"Don't you Europa prefer heavy armored knights riding tall horses? Why, why do you also like the tactics of our Mongols?"
"Genghis Khan's army defeated European knights back then, so I think the Mongolian cavalry's tactics are more advanced..." Marin flattered with a calm expression.
"Then the price?" Menggerehan looked at Marin with anticipation.
"How about you look at each 10 gold coins?" Marin directly killed the price.
You know, in Western Europe, the price of a war horse is as high as 100 gold coins. Marin offered 10 gold coins to the Eastern European Mongolian horse, which is indeed very low. However, no one bought the Crimean war horses at present, and Marin also saw this and killed the price.
"No, it's too low. As far as I know, the tall horses in your Europe are worth dozens of gold coins!" Mongkogirekhan also had some understanding of neighboring countries such as Lithuania. Lithuania has a developed animal husbandry industry, and the price of horses here is cheaper than Western Europe, with only a few dozen gold coins.
"But Khan, European horses are all tall and big horses. Can they carry knights in heavy plate armor?" Marin naturally said in order to reduce the price, so he naturally chose the shortcomings.
"If it is an ordinary pack horse, it's enough for you to give 10 gold coins, but war horses must also cost 20 gold coins..." Menggelehan was obviously dissatisfied with the price offered by Marin and felt it was too low.
"Shan, your horses are all raised on the grasslands and grown up eating weeds, and there is no cost at all. Selling one is just a waste of money. Why scare away the buyers at a high price..."
When Menggelehan thought, it was true that the Eastern European Mongolian horses were raised by herders on the Eastern European prairie and grew up eating weeds. There was no cost... Well, labor costs, in this era, it would be better not to mention them...
However, Mongkogirekhan was not happy to be kept so low. So he said:
"But the price of expensive is too low..."
Marin originally wanted to continue to lower the price, but he considered that the biggest purpose of this mission to the Crimean Khanate was to exchange for the Crimean Khanate to send troops instead of buying horses. Therefore, Marin made concessions to avoid making Mongkogirekhan unhappy:
"Let's do this. If the Khan is willing, I am willing to represent our Beihai Chamber of Commerce. First, I will use the price of 15 gold coins per war horse and 8 gold coins per pack horse from the Khan. First, I will purchase 1,000 war horses from the Khan... If your country's war horses adapt to the local climate in our country, I will buy a large number of war horses from your country every year in the future, and the same price is the same..."
Mongkogirekhan thought about it and found that selling horses was more profitable than selling slaves. Moreover, Marin was the first high-ranking chef who was willing to buy a large amount of horses from the Crimean Khanate. So he did not raise the price anymore to avoid scaring Marin away. Therefore, he waved his hand:
Chapter completed!