My British Empire

  Chapter 294 Two Archery Methods

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  Among the dozens of people who appeared in front of Edward, most of them were around thirty years old, including men and women.

  These people are just the leaders of the Orphan Camp. They are the soul, brain, and top priority of the entire Orphan Camp.

  Although there are not many people, these dozens of people lead the hundreds of support staff in the orphan camp, making various plans and arranging various tasks.

   For these management levels, Edward also repeatedly screened and was cautious. In the matter of brainwashing, there must be no mistakes, otherwise the success will fall short.

  So, the original scene where Baron Smith and Knight Alexander led the guards to manage the Orphan Camp is gone forever.

  The current management is the loyal and capable people selected by Edward from the people who have been serving the royal family, and even have been serving the Tudor royal family for several generations.

  For example, kneeling in front of Edward on one knee, the man closest to him has a V-shaped team, and he is the most prominent point of the V-shaped.

There are two thin beards hanging from the corners of his mouth, his face is dry and thin, without much flesh, he is wearing clothes made of high-grade linen, and he wears a black hat on his head. The whole person presented in front of Edward is a It looks so clean.

   Judging from his kneeling figure, his height is still average, about 1.6 meters, and his temperament is particularly like a housekeeper.

  Of course, he was promoted by the butler, and his name was Braun.

  This year, he is only twenty-nine years old, but he looks like a middle-aged man, or, in the eyes of people at the time, he is a middle-aged man.

  The reason why he was appointed by Edward as the manager of the orphan camp was mainly because of his achievements, which were too outstanding compared to others.

  In the past few years, Edward implemented deep plowing, three-field system, and farmyard manure in several manors near Windsor Castle. It didn't take long for the entire grain production to increase by half after one season of harvest.

  So, with a swipe of his pen, Edward implemented this policy on a large scale in the Duchy of Lancaster and the Duchy of Cornwall, as well as other duchies and earls, and even knights.

Among so many manors, Braun's manor, under his leadership, recorded a record increase in grain production and a growing area of ​​cultivated land, especially the income of the manor. The 600 acres of cultivated land produced nearly 2,000 The income in pounds has grown by 300%, ranking first among all manors.

   With such grades and management ability, Luna immediately recommended her to Edward's desk and appeared directly in front of Edward.

  So, after Edward made some investigations and confirmed that his grades were true, and that the father and son had been loyal to the royal family for generations, he was directly appointed by Edward to the Orphan Camp.

  Of course, the rest of the people are also the same, basically they are relatively good managers.

  For these talents, Edward will naturally not let them waste in the orphan camp. This is just a temporary place for them to stay. In a few years, they will be added to the officialdom.

  The other manor stewards, knowing that stewardship is not their end, will definitely work harder and strive to enter the orphan camp, while Edward's royal family's income is constantly increasing.

   It really is a good idea, Edward thought proudly.

  In fact, the adoption of an examination system to recruit officials has improved the quality of officials to a certain extent and alleviated the plight of insufficient officials, but it is difficult to maintain the loyalty of officials.

  So, this group of people can be said to be Edward's another shit-stirring stick inserted into the officialdom.

  Edward was thinking non-stop in his mind, but only a moment passed.

   His Majesty the King was stunned for a moment, and then with a smile on his face, he bent down gently, grabbed Braun's shoulders with both hands, and slowly helped him up.

  Seeing this, the people behind also stood up automatically with interest, raised their heads, and looked at the young king quietly.

   "Braun, how is the situation recently?" Edward glanced at Braun's touched expression, and asked softly as he walked ahead.

  Braun curled his beard and moved it, as if he was dancing, and his eyes were about to shed tears, and everyone could see the expression of being moved.

After Edward glanced at it, he kept muttering in his heart: Mother Xipi, sure enough, after helping others to brainwash too much, he himself was also washed. It seems that this profession still has this passive effect. real!

   "Your Majesty, the camp has been as peaceful as ever recently. It's just that some three hundred years ago, the girls had grown up, and their whereabouts have been arranged!"

  Braun followed Edward step by step, half a body behind him, and when His Majesty asked a question, he replied softly and slowly, fearing that he might accidentally say the wrong thing.

  Luna and Lucy followed Braun sensiblely, and the other administrators followed them.

He mischievously kicked the egg-sized stone in the center of the road with his right foot, and watched it roll away with his own strength, with a smile on his face, and then responded: "I already understand, today you will take me Let's go shopping! I don't remember being here before!"

  For these adult orphans, Edward naturally knew that they had made arrangements.

  He found that there were 20 more guards around him than the original 300 guards, and two of them were women, but they looked ordinary and did not reach Emma's level.

  As a king, there should not be too many women around him. He is no longer a college student. When he sees a woman, he wants to pounce on her and contribute to the reproduction of mankind.

   Now, the standard that can make his heart beat, unless it reaches Emma's level, she is the baseline.

  Of course, the appearance is not enough, and the figure can be made up a little bit, so it is still possible!

  The topic is off topic.

   "Yes, Your Majesty!" Facing the king's request, Braun immediately raised his chest and replied loudly, his voice much higher.

Afterwards, Braun moved his distance closer to His Majesty the King, raised his chest high, made a gesture of invitation with his right hand, and walked with His Majesty the King. Then, he turned his head and faced the group of orphans in the camp. The management group nodded.

   Such behavior, in the eyes of Luna and Lucy, is nothing.

   But for those who are also managers, this is naked showing off, walking with the king, as a tour guide, what an important and glorious mission it is! He just let him go, which made everyone psychologically unbalanced.

   Braun walked ahead excitedly, unaware that he was being hated by his colleagues.

  If Edward knew, I'm afraid his bonuses to these people would be even more!

  Following Braun's gesture, Edward walked into the manor.

  As soon as he entered, Edward found that on the green grass, a group of teenagers and girls were practicing archery.

  A group of ten people, with ten targets in front, the boys and girls pulled the recurve bows in their hands seriously, with iron fingers on their thumbs, and shot when they drew the bowstring.

  This oriental bow and arrow and shooting method made the guards who followed suddenly widen their eyes.

   But Braun and others are not surprised, and they are not surprised by the reaction of the guards.

You must know that at this time in England and Europe, a kind of archery called the Mediterranean style was used. The bowstring was drawn with the index finger, **** and ring finger, while the index finger and **** clamped the nock of the arrow, and the three fingers buckled the string. The inner side of the body has the advantage of being quick to use.

But using the fingers is our traditional shooting method (Mongolian style). The arrow rests on the outside, which is much more difficult than the Mediterranean style. And the rate of fire is much higher than that of the Mediterranean style (the fingers do not control the arrow when the Mediterranean style is pulling the string, so the arrow tail must have a buckle groove, and the speed of the arrow is greatly slowed down).

  Nowadays, archery sports basically use the Mediterranean Sea. The tradition is too difficult to follow, and you can’t achieve results in a few years. After all, you rely on intuition.

  However, the Mediterranean-style shooting method has high requirements on materials and shooters. The bow body is made of very rare yew wood, which is very expensive.

   Moreover, he also had strict requirements on the height and strength of archers, so that ancient England, which advocated archery throughout the country, had a population of more than 3 million, but had less than 10,000 archers.

  So, Edward directly chose the Mongolian shooting method, using ox horn, bamboo wood and ox tendon to make a tapered recurve bow.

  Due to the great deformation of the bow, the bowstring is often drawn into an acute angle. If you pull the bow with three fingers, it will be strangled by the bowstring.

  Bringing a trigger on the thumb can solve this problem, and the friction between fingers and strings is very small when shooting, which is conducive to improving accuracy.

  Because the Mongolian style does not use the 2-point-1-line aiming method, it only looks at the target and not your own arrow when shooting arrows, which is conducive to shooting moving targets.

  The biggest difference between the Mongolian style and the Mediterranean style is that the Mediterranean archery needs to insert arrows into the slots, just like crossbow arrows, while the Mongolian style is directly outside, which is simple and fast.

In history, Europeans were beaten into dogs by the Huns, because Europeans need to look at the arrow when archery, while the Huns shoot directly with their bows, which is slower and less flexible than the Huns. Those knights in full armor became horsemen. The living target, shot by the Huns like a dog.

  So, Mongolian archery is so cost-effective, why doesn’t Edward choose it?

  Speak simply! The Mongolian style is suitable for ordinary people. As long as you practice hard, you may become an archer, or even a master archer.

  The Mediterranean style is attractive, without that body and strength, it cannot be used.

  As for the Mediterranean style, that is, the nature of the English longbow, Edward will still carefully select those who meet the conditions to practice, and ordinary people should practice the Mongolian style!

   Someone asked, since the matchlock guns have come out, why practice bows and arrows?

  And we need to be clear that the effective range of ordinary bows and arrows is generally about 120 meters, and the English longbow can reach 200 meters.

  The effective range of the matchlock guns at that time was generally only about 70 meters, and the gap was too obvious.