After returning to Orich, Marin first received a report from Steindorf, asking Marindo to buy a war horse.

This time Marin went south, he did not bring Steindorf, the commander of the Blackshirt Knight, because this guy went back to his hometown to pick up his family. He was from Alsace and used to make a living in the Marin army. But after being promoted to the commander of the Blackshirt Knight, he felt that he should settle down in East Friesland. So when Marin led the team south, he returned to his hometown and brought all his family to Orich.

In fact, this was also encouraged by Marin. The families of important officers under his command, Marin built a mansion for them in Orich City for free. First, it was to facilitate the reunion of officers and their families. Second, there were also talks about the hidden purpose of the officers' families as hostages. Such methods were very common in ancient China. When a general went to war, his family must stay in the capital. If he dared to rebel, the whole family would be killed...

Steindorf was also quite dedicated. He found that the newly formed "Black-shirt Knight" lacked good war horses. Although the black-shirt Knight was a light cavalry, he did not wear full armor or horse armor. However, the black-shirt Knight still wore breastplates and helmets, and the weight of the five carbines was not lighter than the plate armor pants. To be honest, the black-shirt Knight was less weight than the plate armor knight. Therefore, the requirements for horses were quite high.

Now these 200 black-shirted knights have only 100 war horses. The other 100 are still excellent French horses. Although the quality of French horses is second only to war horses, it is not a war horse.

In addition, the horse farm that Marin built during the island of Texel. Three years have passed, and only 500 ponies have been added. Then, these horses are too small, and although there are many good seedlings inside, they cannot be directly brought to the battlefield because they are too young.

You should know that even the best horses of blood usually need to go to the saddle before they are two years old. Now, the new horse farm outside the Peninsula, outside the city of Orich, has just begun to train the earliest batch of ponies born. The best horses will not be put into use after a year.

It is very difficult for a horse to become a war horse. Generally, starting from the age of 2, they will start training on the saddle. Then, the horses begin a cruel elimination process. Horses with poor explosive power will be eliminated first. Because war horses need to sprint, and without explosive power, it is obviously not possible. Then, they will be eliminated even if they have poor endurance. After that, it will test their courage.

Generally speaking, the requirement of war horses is to be neither shocked nor shocked. At this stage, the horse trainer will arrange for people to scare the ponies and observe their reactions. If the horse is too shocked, it will be decisive to eliminate it.

Like the black-shirt knight's horse, the horse has higher courage. Because the black-shirt knights have to fire guns. The huge sound of guns has higher courage on horses.

Like when Marin went south this time, when training the black-shirted knight, some horses were frightened and almost injured. For this reason, when he came back this time, Steindorf asked to buy a war horse, so Marin seriously considered this issue.

Since Steindorf was so concerned about this, Marin simply handed over the mission to buy horses to him and asked him to go to the horse farms of various vassal states in the south to select suitable war horses.

In fact, Steindorf discovered that among war horses, the most unshocked horses were the castrated stallions. This kind of horse has no desires and no desires and is the most indifferent. Unlike stallions without castration, they are too strong and difficult to discipline. The mare is very obedient, but they are too brave. Faced with huge gunshots, the mare has a lower endurance than the stallions. Of course, this is just in general. There are actually many brave mares. They can be selected from the herd of horses as war horses, and they are not very brave. However, the one with enough courage and is easier to control is the best horse.

So Steindorf asked to buy more horses. Moreover, in this era, the price of horses was not high, similar to a mare, with only about 100 gold coins. However, the price of stallions and war horses without castration was relatively high, and they could be sold for about 120 gold coins.

The reason for this is not to say how good the stallion is, but to the fact that the knights need to save face. For example, if a knight rides a mare, he will be ridiculed as "very mother". If he rides a mare, he will be easily ridiculed for being incompetent.

In the early and mid-Medieval periods, this phenomenon was very serious. It led to the price of stallions and mares and horses that vary greatly. However, in the Renaissance, people paid more attention to practicality, so the application of horses and mares became more common. However, due to traditional concepts, many knights were more willing to ride stallions, even if stallions were more difficult to control.

However, it is also the business of the knights. For poorer knights and heavy cavalrymen, there is no such idea. For them, even if it is good to ride a good horse, how can they choose?

Just like the French war in Mali, which Marin captured last time, there were many mares and horses. The reason is that the French are paying more and more attention to practicality. Moreover, only a small part of the 8,000 knights are formal knights. The other half are apprentice knights. The apprentice knights have poor economic conditions, so how can they be picky?

Mercenaries from civilian origins like Steindorf took face even more seriously. No one thought it was wrong to let them ride horses. They were not knight masters, and they had no face, no one cared about face, they only talked about practicality.

Marin thought about it and approved Steindorf's request to buy a horse. However, he also asked that half of the horses were required to be a mare. Because mares and war horses could also be used to cultivate excellent ponies. Although horses are good, they cannot cultivate new horses and can only be used for one generation.

Marin had a plan to cultivate new and excellent horse breeds. He planned to use excellent local mares and then introduce excellent Arab stallions to cultivate new war horses. For this reason, Marin planned to arrange for Kohler to contact the Jewish merchants and let them find ways to introduce excellent Arab stallions from the Middle East. As long as they give enough money, these Jews were willing to do anything. Moreover, Jews were not as hostile as Christians in the Middle East. Even when the Spanish Kings began to expel Jews in 1492, the Turks sent ships to Spain to pick up Jews. It is absolutely right to hand over the purchase of Arab horses to the Jews. Of course, be careful not to be cheated by them. After all, Jewish profiteers often do things as inferior things.

Before leaving, Marin thought about it and told Steindorf not to choose a horse for East Friesland. It was helpless, because the Saxony system, as one of the seven German electoral emperors, had a great influence in the German region.

This time, the Duke of Saxony said that he wanted to deal with Marin. Many nobles deliberately kept a distance from Marin. When Marin came back from Italy, he found that he was treated coldly.

Although the emperor had publicly recognized his status as an earl. However, no prince of the other countries along the way had warmly received him except for the ally of the Duchy of Cliff.

In fact, this is also a simple problem of taking sides. Marin just took control of East Friesland, and in everyone's opinion, the foundation is still unstable.

At this time, Marin encountered a super hostile force like the Duke of Saxony. In the eyes of most princes, Marin's failure was almost certain.

Therefore, many princes specially kept a distance from Marin. If Steindorf had sought to buy war horses under the banner of the East Friesland, some princes would have chosen not to sell war horses to East Friesland in order to please the Duke of Saxony.

Although many war horse sellers are not official in the vassal states. However, most of those engaged in the war horse trade have an official background. As long as the official in the vassal states speaks, they may choose to refuse to sell war horses.

Therefore, in desperation, Marin had to let Steindorf go out to buy war horses, instead of using the name of the Eastern Frieslander, but instead of changing the name to avoid being troubled.
Chapter completed!