Chapter 872: Recruit Genuine Cossacks (Part 2)

This question was answered in another livestock trade between Marin and the Crimeans ...

The Crimeans delivered 10,000 cattle and 5,000 Eastern European Mongolian horses as promised, and Marin paid happily. Moreover, because of insufficient cash, Marin used a large amount of rye Erguotou to pay off, and the other party readily accepted.

Crimean Tatars are very interesting. It stands to reason that they are believers in God and are not allowed to drink alcohol. On the bright side, the Crimean Khanate is indeed prohibited from drinking alcohol.

However, in private, Crimean Tatars are as good as Maozi. Moreover, like to drink hard liquor. When it comes to sweating, down to ordinary Tatar herdsmen, most people like to drink hard liquor. Of course, they drink it privately. On formal occasions, you don't drink alcohol.

Although not drinking on the surface, the consumption of spirits by the Crimean Tatars is definitely not less than that of Maozi under the same population size. After all, it is a nomadic people of Mongolian origin.

When the Crimeans drank the Erguotou made by Marin, they immediately fell in love with this excellent wine. You know, Erguotou only appeared in the middle of the Qing Dynasty. But as soon as it appeared, it immediately became popular in the Qing Dynasty, especially in the north.

In fact, before the Qing Dynasty, Huaxia did not popular drinking spirits, but popular low-level wines such as rice wine and rice wine. After the Manchus entered the customs, because it was the Manchu-Mongolian Union that ruled China, they were all outsiders. The non-Guan people have long been interested in drinking knives and spirits, and after entering the customs, the Manchu and Mongolian nobles were the ruling class. Then, under the leadership of these rulers, the whole society began to admire drinking a high degree of liquor. Therefore, as soon as Erguotou appeared, it was immediately sought after, and it quickly became popular throughout Daqing ... Until modern times, the wines loved by literati such as rice wine and rice wine were marginalized, and large wines were popular in the north and south ...

This is a digression, but it is undeniable that the grassland nomads, especially the northern grassland nomads, are very fond of drinking spirits.

Therefore, when Marin's rye Erguotou was passed to the Crimean Khanate, it was immediately sought after. Then, in the livestock trade with the Crimean Khanate, rye Erguotou automatically accounted for half of the trade share ...

Today, the Crimean Tatar cavalry, every time before going to the Grand Duchy of Moscow to grab food, money, and women, will fill a bowl of Erguotou, and then embark on the expedition. Moreover, when many people go on expeditions, they also carry skins filled with Erguotou ...

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Of course, this is not the point, the point is-after the end of the cattle trade, the leader of the Crimean Khanate ’s **** team, General Jamahan, made a suggestion:

"Duke Marin, may I ask, is your country a slave to graze?"

"Grazing slaves?" Marin puzzled.

"Yeah, you buy so many cattle and horses, you can't always graze by yourself? So, we can provide you with some slaves who are proficient in grazing cattle and horses ..."

Marin understood it instantly, the other party is still the same-want to sell slaves ...

"Is it Ross?" Marin asked. The Roses were naturally later Russians, that is, Maozi.

Jamahan nodded and shook his head again, saying:

“It ’s the Rus, but not the mainstream Russians of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, but the Russ of Kiev. In addition, there are many tribes composed of fugitive slaves from Poland and Lithuania. They are mainly active in the steppes of southern Lithuania and are not under the jurisdiction of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania We sometimes go to patronize them. But they are also poor nomadic tribes with little oil and water. And they also have Cossack cavalry, which is more difficult to deal with. So, we go there less often. "

"Russians in Kiev? Aren't they Ukrainians?" Marin understood instantly.

The Cossacks are generally divided into two major groups from the lineage-one is the Ukrainian Cossack mainly based on the Zaporozhye Cossack and the Dnieper Cossack; the other is the Russian Cossack mainly based on the Don Cossack. Some Cossacks of the Caucasus group also belong to the Russian Cossacks group.

The Cossacks of later generations were obviously dominated by Russian Cossacks. The Russian Cossack, also the sharpest sword in the hands of the Tsar, opened up territory for Tsarist Russia.

However, in the early days, in fact, the Russian Cossacks were not in the climate. At present, the strongest are actually two ethnic groups of Ukrainian Cossacks-Zaporozhye Cossack and Dnieper Cossack.

The main ethnic groups of these two groups are Ukrainians, plus some fugitives from Poland and Lithuania.

It is now the 16th century, and the Ukrainian Cossacks already have a decent power. At least, those Cossack villages have their own cavalry.

With the protection of cavalry, plus the Cossacks are now mainly poor nomadic tribes. Therefore, the Crimean Khanate is generally not very willing to provoke such a difficult and oily object.

The reason why Jamahan sold Cossacks to Marin this time was because he escorted 10,000 cattle and 5,000 horses from Eastern Europe and Mongolia to the North Sea. With the accompanying Crimean cavalry, they looted this little cossack tribe with only a hundred people.

Then, after arriving in Beihai, he wanted to take advantage of this group of Cossack prisoners of war and sell Erguotou for a lot ...

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Malin is worried that his pirated German-style Cossacks have no combat power. I heard that the other party actually has authentic Cossacks to sell, so naturally interested. So he asked:

"You catch these Cossacks, the Lithuanians are not angry?"

You know, the cattle and horses of the Crimean Khanate must pass through Lithuania. The **** team plundered the population in Lithuania, in fact it was taboo.

Who knew that Jamahan shook his head and said:

"It's okay, Lithuanians won't pursue it!"

"What? You robbed them, they didn't even pursue it?" Marin felt strange. If someone dared to grab his own population, he had already sent troops to teach him.

"Duke Marin, you don't know these Cossacks. What's the matter with Cossacks? Cossacks are a group of fugitives, a group of rebels who do not obey the administration of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania!"

"For those traitors who do not obey the administration of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, it would be good if the Grand Duchy of Lithuania did not send troops to conscript them, and hoped to do justice for them? If their tribes were too poor and fierce, we Crimeans had long Destroy them! "

Marin hesitated:

"Since you said that they were fierce and disobedient to management, what if I bought them and disobeyed me?"

Jamahhan laughed and said:

"It may be a problem for others, but it is a small problem for Grand Duke Marin ..."

"May you hear it!"

Jamahan drank Erguotou and continued:

"Duke Marin, do you know? Whiskey (rye Erguotou) produced in your country is very popular on the prairie. Not only we, the Crimeans, but also the Cossacks, we like it very much. After our whiskey is returned, There are often Cossack merchants who bring animals to exchange with us. Even some Cossack thieves will come to us and secretly drink whiskey to drink ... So, those Cossacks, after you buy it, just give them such a strong whisky every day Fine wine, if you whip them, they will not leave ... "

"Can it still be?" Marin was taken aback.

"Don't believe it? Try the more than one hundred Cossacks I brought, there are more than 30 Cossacks. You only need to give them a small bottle of whiskey every day, and ensure that they are fed and warm. I guarantee that they will die for you ..."

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After fierce ideological struggle, Marin snapped the table and said:

"Okay, I will try it once. If the result is really similar to what you said, I will buy more Cossacks in the future! The price is easy to say, but for a complete Cossack family, don't kill their old, weak women and children!"

Marin suddenly thought-since pirated German Cossacks are not good, why not buy some authentic Cossacks and live with those German Cossacks, and then the old drivers bring those novices? If it does, Marin will get a large number of wolf-like Cossack hussars ...

"Are you serious?" Jama Khan was also startled. He was selling Cossacks along the way this time, just to change some rye Erguotou, and he never thought of it as a long-term business. However, it is a fool not to make money ...

"Of course!" Marin nodded solemnly. Then added:

"If you can use spirits to entrap those Cossacks, I would like to buy more Cossacks at a higher price, but ask the whole family to buy them. As for the price, you are satisfied!"

Jama Khan thought for a while and said:

"Sacking the Cossack tribe may pay a price, but if you bid high enough, I think there are people who are willing to help you plunder the Cossacks. You know, there are hundreds of thousands of Kievan Rus in the Zaporozhye and Dnieper areas. Cossack. If you need, we can cooperate for a long time ... "

Marin nodded ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ said:

"If you can use spirits to attract the group of Cossacks you brought, as we said, we will cooperate for a long time in the future. Money is not a problem, and spirits are not a problem!"

"Okay, I will wait for your good news, Grand Duke! Once we succeed, we will cooperate for a long time in the future!" After that, Jamahan went to the handover of the more than one hundred Cossacks. After the handover, Jamahan took the team back home.

However, Marin and Jamahan did not know that because of this transaction today, a mixed Cossack cavalry team of Ukrainian Cossack and German Cossack appeared later under Marin ’s command. European countries are terrified ...

Of course, later this Cossack had its own name-Jutland Cossack. This is named after their residential area. In the future, this Jutland Cossack will also provide Marin with a stable source of hussars, becoming one of the most important combat power components in the North Sea ...

In order to circumvent the Holy See's "no slave trafficking" rule, Marin bought the Ukrainian Cossacks from the Crimean in the name of "recruitment". The price paid is mainly a barrel of whiskey (rye Erguotou) ...