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When the three pedestrians dragged the dead dog-like Earl Val out of the cage and transferred to the monastery in Lüneburg for house arrest, the two blood-black holes frightened every lobbyist and pedestrian on the road. .

Subsequently, the entire Duchy of Saxony...

All honest.

Those who should pay taxes should pay taxes, and those who should be arrested should be arrested. Everyone is methodical and looking to the north with fear, for fear that the cold water on the banks of the Elbe River will not be able to quench the enthusiasm in the Duke's heart.

Even the Slavic tribes, greenskins, bandits, robbers, and all kinds of beastmen on the border quietly restrained themselves to avoid Old Bernard's bad luck.

Only Ms. Selina of Paderborn, after learning that her husband's eyes had been gouged out, cried so hard several times that she almost died of grief.This woman was also very determined, probably knowing that her family could no longer live peacefully in Saxony, so she ran to Huo Teng's side for a long time, hoping that Huo Teng could help her get justice.

"Go, can you send that Selena back? The autumn tax on our side is still going on, the food from all over the country has not yet entered the warehouse, and the preparations for the army have not yet begun. She almost shouted to rebel immediately. Does it fit?"

Huo Teng was scared by Selena's nagging.

Regarding the current situation, Huo Teng said, "You will feel numb if you stomp on it".

He realized that Bernard would definitely respond, but he didn't weigh the status quo that under the decades of rule, the nobles of Saxony, despite their alienation, always obeyed on the surface.

This is like a sick tiger. The whole mountain knows that he is sick and weak, but who would be willing to die for himself?

Unless there is a big defeat, a complete defeat will completely ruin Bernard's reputation.

Huo Teng, who ran out of the castle to relax, met his returned sister-in-law Amelia at the door.

He specially got rid of his sister-in-law and went in person just to prevent leaks.

"I got it, I got it! Your Excellency Siegfried of Luxembourg specially ordered the Counties of Ardennes to prepare dozens of trucks of asphalt for us. But...does this thing really work?" Amelia and Greya brought back The only good news.

But as we all know, the classic story of Siegfried has been spread around.

The nobles of Saxony all know that although the Ardennes region is terribly poor, it is rich in asphalt.Also know pitch burning tactics.

Many nobles even store asphalt for fire attacks in wars.

Horten, is there any special way to use asphalt?

Chapter 140 Five Huo Teng who steals money

After the autumn harvest is over, the farmers who plow one crop and harvest one crop a year begin to load their own grain into the granary.Of course, this entire autumn was also the most emotionally ups and downs of their lives.

When weighing everyone’s grain output, many farmers have never experienced such a strong grain output in their life. For them, from 30 catties per mu to 50 catties per mu is already a huge increase that has almost doubled .After many farmers saw that their annual grain production had almost doubled, their emotions fluctuated too much, and some old farmers died of excitement.

And the more food grows, the more taxes are paid.Therefore, after many farmers found that the grain they had to hand over to Earl Hutten had to be doubled compared to before, many of them were ashamed and wished to hang themselves at the door of their homes.The ups and downs of mood are evident.

The agricultural tax in Göttingen was fixed at will by the earl himself.Before Conosha directly asked for [-]% of the grain, when he arrived at Huo Teng, he found that after the increase in private grain, he reduced it to [-]% and reduced it to [-]%. Seasonal labor time.

And Huo Teng is indeed not a fastidious person.He differentiated property levels between owner farmers and tenant farmers, and required owner farmers to add 15 days of military service each year, while tenant farmers automatically added 30 days of military service when guarding the land, and they had to bring their own spears, iron helmets, and shields.This is not counting the previously stipulated winter labor.Fortunately, Huo Teng has a bottom line even if he doesn't pay attention, and there is no harm to the two battles at the same time.If there is war, there will be no labor service, and if there is labor labor, there will be no military service.

It's a labor tax.

In non-war seasons, taxes are reduced a lot.But when it comes to fighting, the price of self-provided weapons and helmets, as well as the risk of life in combat, are very expensive.

But this kind of treatment is already quite good, and Huo Teng's territory has further harvested more homeless people, foreign businessmen, etc. to settle down.For the autumn tax alone, there were more than 800 refugees who came from other places hoping to become naturalized and settle in exchange for the status of tenant farmers.Most of them came to join their relatives, so the acceptance was very smooth.

On the other hand, Huo Teng did not receive 1 tons of grain in the end. He only received about [-] tons of autumn agricultural tax, which was [-]% of the expected income.As a result of the picketing, it was found that they had better promoted Huo Teng's double pear cattle in the places controlled by Huo Teng himself, Conosha, Jones's, Amelia's, and the villages directly under Millhouseburg. Plowing, not to mention the reclamation of a large number of new farmlands, the reclamation and irrigation of the original farmlands are also done well.

However, there are always some Mao Mao who like to fight against Huo Teng.Not every village, every squire, village chief, yeoman, and direct knight is very attentive to educating farmers and promoting new technologies.

There are also some who really want to cultivate farmland.But because they don't read and can't read, they don't know how to educate farmers how to do it, so they are doing bad things with good intentions.

For these guys who either don't care about it or are lacking in ability, Huo Teng believes that as long as he shows the progress of new technology and the increase in income, the demonstration effect it will bring will be amazing.

And after Huo Teng got this batch of food, he could be said to be a chicken thief.

He even asked village chiefs from all over the country to load it into a carriage and transport it to Fort Göttingen and the Free City of Göttingen day and night.

The transportation was fine, but after Huo Teng seized the ox cart, he filled it with pastures and repeatedly transported it day and night to show the outside world how rich his grain reserves were.Each ox cart had to go through this process for two days before it was returned.The official reason is that it is more difficult to arrange accommodation for transport personnel, and it is necessary to feed refined wheat to cows and horses before returning them.

Such nonsense, actually deceived many village chiefs to tears of gratitude, thinking that Earl Huo Teng is worthy of being a local, and everyone belongs to the same clan, which is really interesting.

Under such a warm and grand occasion, Horten's ambition to build Göttingen into a metropolis seems to have been half formed.

In the eleven villages surrounding the Free City of Göttingen, the number of settlers has continued to increase, so that a continuous line of houses around the Duck Pond River has been formed. From the outside, each village is connected together, almost as one.The popularity is also growing day by day, and there is a phenomenon of urbanization.Craftsmen of all kinds began to emerge and settle down, and they shifted from working part-time while farming to working full-time. There was also a country busker specializing in storytelling who decided to settle down directly in Liberty City to tell stories.

All kinds of phenomena gathered together were deliberately used by Huo Teng as talking points and spread in Göttingen County.

Suddenly, Horten's reputation reached a new peak in the local area, and even spread to the surrounding counties and viscount countries such as Kassel, Weimar, Paderborn, and Goslar.It also has a certain reputation in the streets and alleys of big cities such as Frankfurt, Mainz and Worms.

So good, of course some people are envious and jealous.

These people are the viscounts and knights who are not directly subordinate to the remaining [-]% of the territory.

In the Middle Ages, knights or higher-level nobles who owned fiefs did not pay taxes.They have complete control over their fiefdoms. In contrast, they have to pay more military service to the superior lords, providing semi-professional combat power of knights, retinues and sergeants.

So Huo Teng was just a routine publicity campaign for these people, and they didn't pay taxes anyway.

These lower-level nobles, after seeing the grand agricultural reform in the territory directly under Huo Teng, then looked at their own old and dilapidated castles, and the sparse villages with more trees than people, they suddenly felt envious and jealous.

I also want such treatment!

They all gathered near the church in Göttingenburg, begging Bishop Morris to lead them to prosperity together.

Back then, they were all mud legs wearing straw sandals, you can't get rich and not take me with you!

Common prosperity?

There was no such idea in the Middle Ages.After Huo Teng heard these people running over to make trouble, he started to think badly.

The forests and swamps of Göttingen belong to the earl.Huo Teng digging his own real estate is of course no problem, but when the lowly knight asks Lin Shu for a field, it is a little flawed, and Huo Teng has an excuse for wanting to intervene.

Huo Teng discussed with the visiting Bishop Morris: "Do they want my support? Yes, but everyone has to pay another agricultural tax for the newly reclaimed land and share it with me."

To put it simply, Huo Teng wants money.

More importantly, the power of land and taxes.

The idiot problem of fiefs not paying taxes comes from Charlie the Hammer.

But during the Merovingian dynasty ruled by Hammer Charlie, the grant of land was unconditional!After the king entrusts it, the other party does not need to accept any legal constraints, as long as he enjoys it unconditionally.

Therefore, Charlie the Hammer required everyone who acquired the fief to undertake military service to the king, which was already a fairly progressive and centralized measure.

However, as time progressed to the end of the 10th century, Horten was no longer satisfied with the fiefdom, an independent kingdom.

However, he did not directly deprive them. Instead, he collected a small amount of agricultural tax on the incremental new villages and newly cultivated land while preserving the stock.

The money is not much, but the meaning must be in place.

Morris also thought it was reasonable, and after going back to discuss with the entrusted knights, the latter also thought it was reasonable.

After all, it was Huo Teng who helped develop the technology to open up new fields, and he was entitled to share part of it.

Thus, perhaps for the first time in Western Europe, the contract for the lord to collect agricultural taxes from the nobles of the fiefs began to be signed.

This is a small step for Huo Teng, but a big step forward for the feudal system in the Middle Ages.

Chapter 140 Six Armed to Marry a Wife

This year is the autumn and winter of 999.

It has been nearly a thousand years since Jesus was sanctified in the flesh.Cultural symbols such as the millennium and the doomsday judgment have gradually begun to spread on a larger scale in recent years.The priests were surprised to find that some explanations about the millennium seemed to be hastily understood as 1000 years from the end of the judgment, so people gradually believed that the end was coming.Although for the Middle Ages at this time, an adult is likely to live today and die tomorrow, repeating the magical reality of the society, which is not much different from the end of the day.

Although some related doomsday theories were criticized as early as the Ephesus Council in the fourth century AD, how does the elitist Roman Catholic Church interpret this 1000 years broadly, which is different from the 1000 years you understand What's the matter?

In contrast to doomsday theory, calls for church reform have grown louder in recent years.

Although the upper echelons of the church are in a vulgar and conservative state of development, they are relatively responsible and capable, but not all are good. Under the vigorous governance of previous generations of popes and emperors, some progress has been made.But these good aspects, compared to the current situation where there is a widespread lack of talented priests, virtuous and law-abiding bishops, and various dioceses that have almost been reduced to the private property of nobles, still seem too stretched.

Of course, doomsdayism and the trend of church reform are just undercurrents lurking under the ice of society, invisible at first glance.

So what can we see this year?

First of all, the new king Conrad II who had just successfully held and completed the Imperial Conference. After his plan to go south and enter Italy to ascend the throne in the first year of his ascension failed, he tirelessly launched another operation in the second year.

But he didn't enter Italy. The humiliation of being hanged and beaten by the new Lombard king last year was still fresh in his memory.

Conrad chose to seize the land of his brother-in-law Herman III and brought the Principality of Swabia under his command.Although he boasted in name of helping his brother-in-law, who was too young to act independently, to supervise the country, when Conrad just arrived in Swabia, he took his wife Matilda into the ancestral castle of Hermann's family, giving orders as if he would implement Waburn became his own home.

The local nobles can bear it, but Conrad's plan to supervise the country has indeed caused widespread dissatisfaction in the country.The nobles who regarded the fief as their own family also condemned Conrad's misbehavior verbally.This kind of condemnation is still mild at present, and everyone just thinks that Conrad is not doing things properly.

If you want to go around in such a circle, who is the most dissatisfied with King Conrad who finally won his own army? Of course, it is the king of the Lombard Kingdom who is located in the south of Swabia and crossed the Alps. Anduin Ann, Duke of Ivrea. Scalz.

Anduin is a well-known hardcore anti-imperialist.His blood can be traced back to the Burgundy region when Charlemagne's three sons divided the country.

And his fiefdom, the Principality of Ivrea, is backed by important mountain roads leading to Swabia and Upper Burgundy (Switzerland).Relying on this natural danger, Anduin and Otto III competed for the Lombard crown many times, but they were beaten every time.

Now, Otto III died of an accident, and Anduin immediately led the small rural nobles of the entire Lombardy Kingdom to complete the seizure of the Lombardy crown by forcing those loyal to the royal family and the bishops in charge of the big cities.By the way, Anduin also led the grassroots army to block the invasion of King Conrad on the eastern border of the Lombard Kingdom, which is the middle of the Po River Plain in northern Italy today, which made him famous.

The Kingdom of Lombardy in this period was mainly the left half of the Po River Plain in northern Italy, centered on Milan, Pavia, Turin and other places.It does not involve the city-states of Genoa, Parma, Bologna and other imperial cities.

The two important towns of the Kingdom of Lombardy, the mountain road behind Ivrea leads to Geneva and Lausanne in the Principality of Upper Burgundy; the mountain road behind Milan leads to Zurich and Konstanz in the Principality of Swabia.

The latter is now directly under the control of King Conrad. Although the former belongs to the Kingdom of Burgundy, the weak King Rudolph III has been claimed by Conrad earlier. Who knows when Burgundy will appear? An event where the kingdom merged into the empire?

To use an inappropriate analogy, if the Lombard Kingdom is a beautiful woman, then this state is equivalent to removing the skirt and removing the underwear, opening two important passages to two men who have long harbored ill intentions towards him.

How does this work?

Anduin was not immune either, he began to deploy manpower in the Alps, attacked and destroyed the salt wells and mines in Swabia, and harassed the salt output of the very important mines in the Alps so that it was difficult to survive.This made the king furious.Conrad, who was in power for the first time, also sent a large number of envoys to many city-states of the empire in Italy to attack and block Anduin vertically and horizontally, and ordered the court bishop and others to curse and reprimand Anduin, and even wanted to excommunicate him. membership.

The two sides are separated by a majestic mountain range, touching each other, scolding and arguing, which seems quite funny.

……

"You said that we went round and round, but ran into the mountain again, why bother?"

Jeffrey felt that his fate was too rough.

In the first half of his life, he was a robber who robbed the rich and helped the poor, so he was naturally happy. When he was middle-aged and finally escaped from the misery of bandits, and climbed to a position close to the Viscount, Huo Tengfei kicked him back into the robber's den!

Of course, things were not as bad as he thought.

Huo Teng just asked Jeffrey to send capable officers into the Harz Mountains, through organized violence, to establish a base of hiding places, and to crusade against the surrounding bandits.

It is best to harass the viscount countries such as Wernigerode and Goslar, which belong to the Principality of Saxony, through the small Harz Mountains, so that they will not be at peace, and keep the Göttingen defense line for Horten to contain the flanks .

This request was not trivial, and it could even be said that Huo Teng's flank was completely entrusted to Jeffrey.

It's strange to say it.

Huo Teng told him before he set off that Huo Teng sent people to establish a hideout in the southwest corner of the Harz Mountains, with hundreds of refugees and dozens of capable shooters.Jeffrey didn't know how Huo Teng did it, but when he arrived as promised and found dozens of hunters, his mood improved instantly.

It's not impossible to rely on these shooters to conquer the Harz Mountains!

Jeffrey's Harts Mountain strategy begins here.

When Geoffrey set off for the Harts Mountains, Horten was not idle at his own home.

The young and middle-aged men who had just finished the busy farming season and had nothing to do at home to be their wives and give birth to children, or beat their wives and children were temporarily recruited to strengthen the castle of the knights and lords.

After strengthening the castle, Huo Teng asked farmers who had some construction experience to renovate and maintain their own villages, and added walls to the villages to prevent bandits from looting.

Everyone didn't understand why Huo Teng did this.

However, Huo Teng told everyone that in autumn he would lead the entire army to the border to meet his wife, Gaudius, who was from Saxony.

Someone greeted the bride, did they bring the army?

Chapter 140 VII The Day of the Bloody Wedding

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[Current castle level: Level 3, a stone castle. 】

[Stone Castle (Level 3): This is already a very important castle, enough to dominate one side.The total number of maintenance-free arms is +3, the monthly tax is 10 gold, and the arms that can be recruited: civilian spearmen, civilian archers, and civilian cavalry. 】

[Lord Long House (Level 2): ​​Your orders are very effective in front of the common people.Guarding army morale +2, security +2, provide guarding army: two teams of civilian crossbowmen, can release guard, governance and military policies, and can recruit elite affairs officer: sergeant captain. 】

[Noble Stables (Level 2): ​​You, you, you are you, civilians are not allowed to approach the stables of noble grandfathers, your shabby house is not as expensive as a horse's hooves.Provide horse resources and form the Earl's Inner Palace Knights.Arms that can be recruited: retinue cavalry, peasant cavalry sergeant.Gather fief knights. 】

[Garrison Barracks (Level 1): The army always needs some semi-professional soldiers to maintain normal operations.Can be recruited: Infantry Spear Regiment, Mountain Javeliners. 】

【加强石制城墙（3级）：守军士气+1、免维护总数+1、提供驻军：矛兵团X2、平民弓手X1、警备小队X1。】

[Armed Armory (Level 1): A very important guard location.Provide army material storage and increase the speed of army arming. 】

【Blacksmith Shop (Level 2:): There are many blacksmiths gathered here. They make a living by forging iron day and night, and they don't need to farm anymore.Provide: iron resources, light armor transformation, medium armor transformation, increased ammunition supply for the garrison. 】

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