Chapter 25: "Artifact" straw shoes

After the formation of the mercenary regiment, Marin went to Vienna to report. This is also normal. Although this is a chaotic Middle Ages, it is okay for you to carry a weapon by yourself or a few people, but if you want to carry a weapon, you will definitely be killed as a robber if you do not report it.
Obviously, officials in Vienna also knew that the emperor would definitely expand the army in the future, so he did not reject Marin. However, after issuing a voucher to Marin, he required Marin to be stationed under the supervision of the local sheriff and not to rob the local people. Otherwise, they will be treated as bandits, leading to the destruction of the army.
证明 In order to prove the legitimacy of the mercenary regiment, Marin paid a large sum of 1 mark and a bribe of 5 mark, and obtained a documentary certificate issued by Vienna to prove the legitimacy of his mercenary regiment. Then, Marin officially played the banner-Huffman Mercenary Regiment.
After getting legal status, Marin began to prepare for military training. The first is the choice of location. It's impossible in Vienna, but it's the capital of the country. Not to mention that there are many rules here. The high price alone was first ruled out by Marin. He paid for his own 80 strong men, and he had to go bankrupt if he was in Vienna, where prices were high.
At the beginning, he chose the Vienna Forest to the west of Vienna and the northern foot of the Alps. This forest is very large, with thousands of square kilometers. It is relatively quiet and suitable for military camps.
But, just after Marin was about to camp, he was driven away by the forest guards ...
It turns out that the Vienna Forest is a hunting ground for the Habsburg royal family. It belongs to the royal garden, and ordinary people are not allowed to enter and approach. Especially, Marin, as a small army, couldn't get closer. Because they were afraid that Marin would assassinate the royal family who came here to hunt.
In desperation, Marin and the others continued westward, and came to a small town called Robach. Here is the Alps to the south and there are forests nearby. In addition to low prices, Marin also considered hunting in the mountains to get some meat, while also reducing the cost of living.
More than that, in the future, when we enter Italy, we must cross the Alps. In addition, there are many mountains in the Italian peninsula. Marin brought everyone here, also meant to train everyone to climb mountains.
During the long march, Marin was depressed to find that many people's shoes were worn due to walking. However, they are not willing to buy a new shoe.
why? It turned out that European shoes in this era were mainly leather shoes and clogs. The soles of leather shoes are sewn from multiple layers of cowhide or pigskin, and the shoe body is also leather. These shoes feel good and strong.
But the problem is that leather is expensive. A pair of leather shoes for up to 3 shillings. The average person earns 2 Finneys a day. In other words, a pair of leather shoes can only be afforded by ordinary people after 18 days of labor.
As for wooden shoes, although they are much cheaper, they are not very practical in some cases. Wooden bottom shoes, it's okay to walk on the plains. Once you walk on the rugged rocky mountain road, the soles will break in minutes ...
Of the 80 recruited by Marlin, 50 are relatively cheap clogs. But this kind of shoes, while Marin took them on their way, because of some mountain roads, the soles of more than 20 people broke ...
As usual, they should buy new shoes. However, the poor ghosts of this community are coming to sell their lives, where can they buy new shoes ...
At this time, Marin suddenly remembered many years ago, when the previous life was in the countryside, and learned the first magic skill with the elderly in the village-making straw shoes ...
The moccasin is one of the ultimate inventions of the ancient Chinese, it looks inconspicuous, but it is very important. Although the ancient Chinese were richer than the ancient Europeans, shoes were also more expensive products. For example, with multi-layer cloth bottom shoes, although many ordinary people can do it by themselves, cloth shoes are decent shoes in ordinary people. Only when going out or visiting relatives, you need to be decent, and you will wear cloth shoes with the bottom of a thousand layers.
But when you go to work in the field, you wear cloth shoes or wooden hoe, you are just looking for abuse. Because when working, feet often exert force. In the case of wooden clogs, they can easily break. And cloth shoes, can not stand tossing.
So, the wise Chinese ancestors thought of a good way-weaving shoes with grass ...
Moccasins are breathable, lightweight, soft, non-slip, and extremely low cost. For the poor, straw sandals are definitely more important than the four major inventions. Because the straw shoes are also affordable for the poor and can be changed often.
For example, if the Red Army walked 25,000 miles on the Long March, if the special cat wore leather shoes, I don't know how many 10,000 pairs of leather shoes would run. That cost is simply unacceptable.
The straw shoes are not the same. You can make straw shoes on the spot by simply pulling some tough weeds from the roadside. I broke a pair, and then weaved a pair of reeds ...
Moreover, the sandals have a particular advantage in walking the mountain, not only because they can be replaced at any time if they are worn out. In addition, the straw shoes are very non-slip, which can fully prevent people from accidentally falling down the mountain while walking down the mountain, causing unnecessary death and injury. The wooden bottom shoes are the most unsuitable for hiking. As for leather shoes, they are too extravagant to use on mountain trails.
The so-called straw shoes are so practical that they occupy an important place in the history of China. For example, the famous Uncle Liu Huang from the Three Kingdoms started selling knitted straw shoes.
What makes Marin strange is that Europe does not seem to have straw-knitting technology. Many serfs are too poor to afford even wooden shoes. Even if you buy relatively cheap wooden-soled shoes, you do n’t wear them when you go out to visit relatives or friends or go to church. The usual work is mostly barefoot. There is no problem walking barefoot in the fields, and there is no problem walking on the Roman avenue. However, if you want to walk on the mountain road, it will absolutely not work. Walking barefoot is afraid of slipping, and also afraid of pebble. However, it is easy to break the bottom when wearing wooden shoes and wearing leather shoes is too luxurious.
Marin's 80 poor ghosts, except 10 people wear leather shoes. Of the other 70 people, 50 were wearing clogs. As for the remaining 20 people, they walked barefoot ...
Marin really can't stand this. So after arriving in Robach and setting up a tent, Marin did not rush to train, but let everyone get a lot of grass stems and began to teach everyone to make straw shoes ...
"Master Marin, grass can also make shoes?" A group of European country yokes on the side were surprised.
However, they saw with their own eyes that under the hands of Marin's skilled weaving, the grass stems were first rubbed into thin straw ropes, and then knitted into soles and shoe bodies ...
This scene made everyone feel amazing and everyone was amazed.
After trying on the straw sandals woven by Marin, everyone felt very comfortable. Marin woven straw shoes belong to the winter version, which is relatively thick and cold-proof ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Right now, wearing thick straw shoes can effectively resist the cold. Moreover, even thick straw shoes are relatively breathable. Warm and breathable, it feels great to wear.
But to Marin's depression, he taught 86 people (including his 6 followers) to make straw shoes. Can be taught for two days, and finally learned, only 8 people, including Kohler ...
As for why these 8 people are so "talented", it is because these 7 people (except Kohler) have been tailor apprentices or shoemakers before, but they were fired because of poor talent. But even so, their level of weaving is enough to make straw shoes.
In desperation, Marin arranged these 8 people to make straw shoes for everyone's needs. After training, there must be cross-country running. High-intensity training is too worn for shoes. Only with enough straw shoes to spare can they survive. In the past, Marin watched war movies, and one or two pairs of spare straw shoes were hung on the backpacks of our soldiers. The stuff of Liberation Shoes was made after liberation. Before liberation, our army's millions of troops were fighting in straw sandals ...
For this reason, Marin announced that these 8 "technical personnel" who can make straw shoes, add meals when eating, you can eat more than others, and they have priority over meat ...
And Marin's mercenary group, everyone put on light and comfortable, and low-cost straw shoes. Even those wearing leather shoes have also changed to straw shoes. Because leather shoes are precious, if you wear them during training, you will lose more. And straw shoes are really cheap, even if worn out, it doesn't hurt. It can be said that for the army with a small family base, cheap and practical straw shoes are definitely a rare "artifact ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Welcome book readers to come and read. Mobile users at ~ EbookFREE.me ~ please read.