King of Mercenaries

Chapter 11: Traveling back to home

For the next few months, Marin thought about lying all night in the bed of the Vienna Hotel. The consumption in Vienna is very high, the clean hotel, the accommodation for the three people includes the cost of keeping the animals, 40 Finneys a day. And Marin's group of three, plus the money for the horse, is also up to 40 Finney a day. It is the two cows grazing, but also to charge. After all, this is Vienna, not a small town. It is not a place to eat grass. It has to be paid for by people. More than 80 Finney's consumption a day makes Marlin feel a bit too much. So Marin decided to leave Vienna for a while and go to a lower consumption of the group. If you can hunt and make some money, it will be more perfect.After making up his mind, the next morning, Marin asked Kahn and Kohler to pack their bags. After finishing the package, Marin went to the hotel owner to check out. Then he took the two attendants and came to them saying I'm returning home.

As for which road to take, Marin also thought about it - they returned to the Black Forest.

There's many animal and resources in the Black Forest, and Marin's archery technique is very good. With the cooperation of Kahn, they can rely on hunting to make a fortune. Moreover, it seems that the lords near the Black Forest are not very strict with the poaching problem, which is very suitable for Marin.

Marin's plan is to raise a lot of money by hunting. With the money, so you can change the equipment and equip Kahn and Kohler better. Also, after the end of the Italian war, I would buy a small manor for myself. As for status, I still have to rely on the emperor to fight. He knows the outcome of the war. The first Italian war, the Empire was defeated by France, and there were great military achievements to gain. As long as you save your life on the battlefield, and use historical knowledge, you can get some of the lowest-level aristocratic status of the official knight. If you are lucky, you may be able to be ennobled a baron or something.

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There is, Marin needs to recruit 3 more knights. The average poor knight also has 5 or more squire. But raising 5 knights is a big expense. Some knights are very poor in character. If they have no money, they will go to the road to rob. But Marin is a man of discipline and will not do such a wicked thing. Therefore, he decided to rely on hunting to save enough money. After squandering the money, he not only had to recruit five servants, but also bought a pony for each servant, and equipping them with weapons and armor such as mail armor and spear.

He thought about it, Kahn can be regarded as a good combat force, but Kohler is a little thin, can only serve as a role for the quartermaster. The servants are, but the knight's most trusted partner and men. Therefore, in addition to ability, reliability is the most important. The reason why Marin chose Kahn and Kohler was that he was interested in Kahn's honesty and truthfulness. As for Kohler, it is actually because of his knowledge. Moreover, Marin knows where the Kahn family is, and if they dare to betray, they can go to their homes to settle accounts.

Nowadays, the economy in the German region is very bad and there are many people. But these refugees, Marin did not dare to recruit from them. Because the majority of the displaced people are unknown, not so reassuring. Recruiting them as ordinary soldiers that can be, but recruiting them as attendants is not appropriate. You know, the knights basically leave his back to the attendant, and they can't be sloppy.

Thinking about it, Marin decided to return to Hoffman Estate to recruit attendants from the serf family in Hoffman Estate. There are more than 20 serfs in Hoffman Estate. Marin "remembers" and there are still some great guys in it. Adler Hoffman, his "big brother", has already picked up five knights. In the manor, there are still many good guys. After all, these serf families do not have only one child per family. Some people have several children. Because the manor output is insufficient, Some people with more children even have to send their children into the city. Otherwise, Hoffman Estate can't support so many people. After all, Hoffman Estate has only 1200 acres of thin land.

Of course, before returning home, Marin felt that it was right to rely on hunting for more money. In fact, Old Hoffman is now also responsible of the future armor and horses of the three sons (not the elder one because he's going to stay) and five knights. After all, as a father, even if he is drive his sons out of the house, he must have prepared for for them a horses, an armor and a lance. In addition, there is a lot of travel expenses.

Marin's plan is to utilize the Hoffmans to make a little of money after returning home, so that the economic situation in the manor is better. By the way, he also wants to point out the agricultural technology at home so that the manor land can produce more. If the manor's economy is in good shape, then his little brothers Simon and Albert can also be equipped with better horses, armor and weapons when they are driven out of the family. Don't be like me, even when you leave home, you don't even have a full plate armor, let alone a servant and squire. Moreover, with sufficient funds, his little sister, Anne, will be easier to marry. After all, if the dowry is more important and then it is more likely to marry a good family.

In order to bring enough money to go home, Marin took Kahn and Kohler and once again plunged into the Black Forest and started a crazy hunting. The Black Forest is very large and much larger than the Black Forest of modern generations. After all, the development and industrialization of later generations in Germany is very high. In the Middle Ages, because of its limited population, there were many undeveloped places, and the Black Forest still maintained a very large area. In order not to get lost, Marin bought a compass to avoid getting lost in the lush Black Forest. Spring is also a season of recovery, and the animals in the forest are very active. There are still many adult animals, and during the day, they are doing shy things in the forest. In this case, the wretched Marlin will "bless" them with two arrows. Then, a pair of bitter "couple" became Marin's spoils, and was then replaced by a lot of money. The medieval Black Forest is too big, and there are too many prey. This also led to the trouble how the three boys transported the prey back to the forest town. As a last resort, Marin untied the big black cow "Li Chen" and put it on the saddle, so that it also entered the forest to transport prey. Because the four-wheeled oxcart is unable to enter the depths of the forest without any road.

In some places, because the three boys hunted too much prey, it even caused the price of meat to fall. At the most, Marin hunted six red deer from the forest one day, resulting in local venison prices, which fell from 5 Finney one pound (retail price) to 4 Finney one pound in a short period of time. Also fell from 4 Finney to 3 Finney. Of course, some time after Marin's departure, the price of venison here has returned to normal. To this end, some local lords also sent people to drive Marlin and his party. Because the prey that Marin hunted, in the eyes of the lords, belongs to their private property. However, the lords who are sealed on the edge of the Black Forest are usually small lords. The territory of powerful lords is mostly in areas where farming is well developed. Only the small lords who are not strong will be send to the Black Forest. These small lords generally do not dare to offend the wandering knight. Even if Marin is crazy hunting, they just send people to drive away. Marin is also very conscious, basically staying in a certain area for a day or two, selling prey, immediately flashing people, not giving others the opportunity to catch on the spot. When the local lords learned that Marlin and his entourage had hunted a large number of prey and sent people to drive them away, the three were long gone.

On average, Marin three people can catch two or three red deer every day, as well as a number of hares and foxes. It was the wild boar in the forest, and Marin do not dare to provoke it. Because, he was not sure to damage or pierce it's thick skin with a 60-pound bow. As for Kahn being able to kill a wild boar alone, Marin felt that it was also accidental. Because, the last time the wild boar did not go to Kahn, but to the horse, Kahn is on the side of the wild boar, so the wild boar is not ready to kill Kahn or dodge. Unless Kahn is wearing a full set of plate armor, he can confidently challenge the wild boar. But letting a follower wear a full plate armor, it is too extravagant, as for Marin's plate armor, Kahn can't wear it. Because Kahn is much taller than Marin.

The three boys hunted and made money on the road, and enjoyed the beauty of the Black Forest by the way. By the time he entered the territory of Marker, Maring was surprised to find out that his personal assets had reached more than 500 marks. This is almost close to the income of Hoffman Manor a year.

"Hunting is lucrative!" Marin was infinitely impressed.

However, Marin is also very clear that he was able to get a sum of the more than 500 marks because others are watching him as a knight. Otherwise, if it is an ordinary hunter, when entering and leaving the city, he will be extorted by the defending soldiers and will be collected by the lord for most of the profits. Even if it can hunt down the prey worth 500 marks, at least 400 marks will be extorted by the lord, tax official and defending city soldiers.

Moreover, it is impossible for a general hunter to have a horse. This has led to the fact that the walking hunters cannot go too far inside the Black Forest. Staying in the Black Forest for the night, he will end up be eaten by the wolves. Not only that, they also don't have the same shooting skills as Marin, and a partner like Kahn. Therefore, the success of Marin is generally difficult for hunters to copy. The people who really have the status of knights generally don't practice archery. They are generally used to melee, and a very few of them will shoot arrows. Besides, among those who has status, who will lower himself to be and hunter?

Even Marin himself believes that hunting is just a short-term matter. If a transmigrator makes a living by hunting, it is simply the biggest shame in the world.