At the end of the Tang Dynasty, it was a feudal town, but in Western Europe

Asking Shi Liang to lead the horse, Feng Sen started talking with Shi Liang about the resettlement work of the Thousand Households Center as he walked forward.

"Gisela, Gisela, it's me, I hugged you when you were little."

"Gisela, you may not know that my grandmother's brother's cousin is the husband of your uncle's lover's daughter, and we are also considered relatives."

The rest of the chieftains quickly swarmed on the tireless Gisela.

Unexpectedly, this down-to-earth leader, Shi Liang, who has accumulated military merits honestly, is also much more reliable than Kryon in doing things. I don’t know if it’s because he is close to Magdeburg, so he always asks for advice. Zhenhui, so after several operations, it turned out to be the one with the best performance.

The five hundreds of households have also been built, the thousand households have also been built, the village and soil have been merged well, and the local savages have also gotten along well. Everything has been completed honestly and according to quality and quantity.

This is a responsible person, Feng Sen couldn't help sighing, maybe he can take a good rest in the next few days.

During the six days in Stendal, Feng Sen had a good vacation. First, he hunted for two consecutive days, and then he had to stay in the Qianhu House because of the rain, but he was not idle, and held a competition Recruiting relatives, assigning wives to many Xuanjiaqi and Bannermen.

After holding the last banquet, Feng Sen, who drank two large barrels of beer and consumed all the meat, finally left Stendahl reluctantly, and before leaving, under the awe-inspiring eyes of others, he personally killed a A huge wild bear blocking the way.

When he came to Stendahl, Feng Sen had only [-] cavalrymen and a dozen servants by his side, but when he left, many Xuanjia cavalry had one or two more brother-in-law cavalry, even Feng Sen himself He took the daughters of two tribal leaders as concubines.

Finally, after half a month of trekking, Feng Sen finally arrived in Magdeburg on June [-].

And at the port of Magdeburg, in the pavilion where Bue and the others stayed, Zhenhui, Ying Abu, and Zuguihou Olaf all came to wait in the pavilion.

The pavilion is built with six black fir columns, the hexagonal configuration converges and extends in the middle, and a cross is erected on the top. At present, erecting a cross on the top of the pagoda seems to have become an architectural style.

In particular, this pagoda-like spire structure has spread with masons building houses everywhere. Due to limitations in craftsmanship and materials, priests in many rural churches have also built this tall and iconic structure that allows the cross to touch the sky as much as possible.

Sitting upright on a pavilion about ten feet higher than the port, Zhenhui and the other three occupied a stone bench each. The breeze blew by, and the cicadas made the sound of zhila zhila, and the amber-like beer flowed down the sharp-mouthed teapot. It fell into a huge cup with a big mouth.

"Guardian Zhenhui, our thousand households of Bue have said that they found a lot of scattered ones in the nearby forest. What's their name, oh, the people of the forest, they said that there is a shortage of people right now, ask Can I authorize him to go to the forest to capture life?" Zu Guihou poured himself beer, "I think this shitty plan is feasible, but I'm stupid, I don't know whether I should agree to him, General Wei how to think?"

"En." Zhenhui tapped the wine glass in his hand, and said slowly after a while, "This matter is feasible, but you have to be careful not to go deep into it. In this way, you can find some hunters or businessmen as guides, and don't let them alone Go, go to the two or three hundred households nearby, and those who are closer."

"Hey, that's good." A rare smile appeared on Zu Gui's thick and ferocious face, "Also, General Wei, I'm also short of manpower. This capture is still a bit slow. How about I go to Beihai to recruit more people?"

"It's not urgent." Zhenhui took a sip of beer to moisten his throat, "There are a lot of immigrants from Frank now, let's wait until this time passes."

"Okay, I'll listen to you." Zu Gui wiped his mouth thickly, wiped off the wine from his beard, and looked towards the Elbe River, "Why hasn't the Marshal Jie arrived yet... Hey, is that the Marshal Jie's flag?"

Following Zu Gui's thick and heavy fingers, a "Feng" flag fluttering in the wind was hanging on the mast of a huge Viking longship.

"It's Jieshuai." Zhenhui stood up and patted Abu on the shoulder, "Don't sleep, Jieshuai is here, let's go and greet him."

Chapter 227 Finally arrived in Magdeburg!

As soon as the sky was washed, the clear water swept across the sky.

Seen from the bottom up, the light blue Harz Mountains seem to have been painted with a brush dipped in black and green ink.

On the north side of the endless green sea, is the meandering Elbe River, which meanders from north to east, with bright waves, and on the gentle Elbe River, a forest of gray, white and blue sails is constantly advancing.

The forest of sails moved forward in a hurry in the river, forcibly opening up a blue waterway made of white foam for this small fleet to sail. The most striking thing in the fleet was the largest long boat in the middle. , the Feng Zi flag with a yellow background and a red border, fluttering in the river wind full of water vapor.

Feng Sen stepped on the dragon head of the dragon head warship, held Clarent around his waist with his left hand, and smiled as he looked at Magdeburg officials of all levels and nobles and chieftains standing in a row not far away.

The idlers on the pier have long been emptied, and from left to right, Ying Abu, Zhenhui, Zu Guihou, Griffith and others stood in a two-three defensive formation, facing the oncoming fleet.

Amid the shouts and commands, many unlucky wupped boats were overturned by the dragon-head warships, but they did not dare to complain, and could only obediently lie on the bottom of the overturned boat and admit that they were unlucky.

In the sound of friction between the long boat and the wharf plank road, Viking's dragon-head warship finally stopped its forward trend, but it kept the up and down trend, constantly undulating.

With the advantage of his long legs, Feng Sen stepped onto the plank road of the pier, put his right hand on his knee and stood on the pier. Several chiefs who had come up to greet him took half a step awkwardly, watching Feng Sen with his back turned to them, turned and pulled Gisela from the boat to the pier.

Taking two steps forward, Zhenhui squinted his eyes and smiled like Maitreya Buddha, clasped his hands together and said, "Fu Sheng Amentuo Buddha, how is Jie Shuai doing?"

"Well, well, well." Feng Sen had a smile on his face. He approached Zhenhui and joked, "The great monk has a good meal in Magdeburg. I haven't seen you in the past two months. I've become a lot richer, but I've been prescribed a lot of meat."

"Jieshuai, don't be joking." Zhenhui sang the title of Heavenly Father, "I am a monk who doesn't eat meat, but just doesn't eat seasonings. When is meat not allowed? Recently, a few Hungarians have moved here. Young man, you can roast a good lamb, I will take Jie Shuai to have a taste in a few days."

"Okay, okay." Feng Sen laughed, "Then I may stay for a few more days."

Here Feng Sen and Zhenhui are still reminiscing about the old days, and on the other side, Abu and Gisela also greeted each other.

Striding up, Abu gave Gisela a big hug: "Okay, Gisela, you are much fatter than before, you should be fatter."

Gisela's smile immediately froze on her face: "Uncle, what are you talking about, I'm not fat."

Abu immediately laughed loudly, even his beard was trembling: "Stupid boy, what are you talking about, I went to the forest to kill wild boars, a few catties and a few ounces, and each one is sure to be heavier than you before."

"Oh? Really?" Gisela's voice gradually became merciless. "That's something to talk about."

The beast-like intuition of the hunter immediately made Abu aware that something was wrong. He wiped the cold sweat from the back of his neck, interrupted and said, "I brought my wife and several sons and daughters here. They are all in Magde. Fort, Nora has grown up and is clamoring to see you."

"Really?" Gisela's mind was attracted immediately, "She was only five years old back then, and she is already a big girl now."

"Two children are born, tsk tsk." Abu tsk said, "Gisela, when will you give birth?"

"Soon." Gisela's voice was merciless again.

A group of people walked towards the city talking and laughing like this.

Riding on a big maroon meander horse, Feng Sen looked down at the small town in front of him. In Feng Sen's eyes, it was just a small town, but in the eyes of the nearby tribes and manor owners, Magdeburg with a population of 3000 people seemed to be a city.

The era of the Roman Empire has passed, and the population of Rome in the Carolingian era has shrunk from the original 40 to [-]. The entire territory of the Frankish Kingdom is composed of villages and castles. Compared with contemporary Byzantium, Baghdad and even Chang'an and Luoyang are simply incomparable, and the prosperous urban economy in the Roman era has naturally come to naught.

But in this piece of land that was never ruled by Rome, the local urban economy has a bit of Roman taste.

The pattern of Magdeburg is very similar to that of Hamburg, both of which are close to the river, and directly opposite the river, there is a huge Hexinzhou, but Hamburg is adjacent to a tributary, while Magdeburg is adjacent to the mainstream of the Elbe River.

Blacksmith shops with sparks everywhere, sweaty bag-bearers, taverns with a smell of meat and meat, scantily clad warblers, and drunks lying on the side of the road in broad daylight.

In addition, in the suburban farmland outside Magdeburg, ox-horse plows are working hard, replanting the abandoned land and reclaiming new fields. The former tribesmen have spent more time than before, But correspondingly, they also got richer returns than before.

Feng Sen stipulated that the land rent should not exceed [-]%, and before the death of the original lessee, it could not be rented to another person.

Since he can get [-]% of the income without becoming slaves, the tribal people naturally transformed into "free" people under the feudal system, and registered as private households in Feng Sen's household registration book.

Of course, this would damage the interests of the original group of chiefs and manor owners, but they had rebelled in the first place, and Charlie had to deal with it, and they had planned it a long time ago. Now that Feng Sen has a long knife in his hand, even if they were asked to take half of it, they could only give a thumbs up.

"How is Qimin, the householder in Magdeburg, doing?" Stepping on the main road of Magdeburg lightly paved with stones, Feng Sen turned his head and asked Zhenhui next to him.

"It's still in progress." Zhenhui replied with a smile, "At present, more than [-] households have been registered. In fact, our real permanent population is only more than [-]. The rest are basically business travelers from all over the world."

"Oh?" Feng Sen became interested. This is the purpose of his personal tour of the area, and he can always know something that the central government doesn't know or can't know. "Let's hear it."

"What was the purpose of the Vileti invasion? Do you still remember?"

"Didn't you say that you want to take revenge on the people of Eupolite?"

"Revenge for what?"

"I don't remember that."

Zhenhui smiled and said: "The Villetti people have two important business nodes, and their daily trading life basically depends on these nodes. One of the two nodes is Mecklenburg, the nominal capital of the Villetti people, and the other is Magdeburg where we are now.

These two nodes, one inside and one outside, maintain the normal business life of the Villetti people, but the Eupolites plundered here in 783, which made it impossible for the Villetti people to carry out normal business activities for a year. business activities.This is why the Villetti sent troops.

Of the estimated 3000 people in Magdeburg, at least five or six hundred are foreign businessmen or tribes who came to us from Villetti to do business.

It's funny to say that the money earned by the Vileti people from plundering Oupolite is basically turned into clothes, drinks, soy sauce, etc. by us, and we took it away. "

"The business in Magdeburg is quite prosperous."

"Prosperity is prosperity, it's just..."

"Just what?"

Zhenhui sighed: "It's just that those Sorbs have tasted the sweetness once, and they can't stop. Nowadays, Sorbs often come to fight the autumn wind, making the chickens and dogs restless, or they are cheating and buying and selling by force. They don't follow the rules at all."

With a sneer, Feng Sen looked ahead and said disdainfully: "Don't worry, great monk, your wine and soy sauce will still be sold, but horses and ironware are not allowed to be exported. When they like it, we will restrict the export.

Do you think they will come to loot?At that time, we will have a reason to send troops openly, first let them run rampant for two years, and then deal with them... Do you understand the imperial edict? "

"Jieshuai means you want me to play tricks with the edict?" Zhenhui instantly understood.

Feng Sen nodded with a smile, saying nothing.

Seeing the yamen and residence getting closer, Zhenhui's topic gradually turned to life: "How many days is Jieshuai going to live here in Magdeburg?"

"Well, I'm going to live until Christmas Eve, and then go to Bremen for Christmas. I'll be here during this time... Have all the heirs of the Eight Banners of the summer camp been selected?"

"of course."

Chapter 228 I'm going to beat you until you cry

Summer is here and the sun is shining brightly, but it is not so hot on the land of Magdeburg.

In this land of North Germany, the average temperature is only over 20 degrees, and rarely exceeds [-] degrees. This is the coolest and most pleasant time of the year.

But at this time of year, the bannermen and the packers of Bue Baihusuo could not enjoy the life of bragging while drinking beer in the shade of the trees. Fresh pasture.

The pasture will be carefully preserved until around Christmas, when it will be turned into hay, which will be stockpiled as fodder for cattle and sheep.

In the freezing winter, most of the cattle and sheep cannot forage. If the hay is not preserved, the cattle and sheep will probably die of hunger.

Therefore, on the grassland of Baihusuo, everyone, regardless of age, lay down on the ground, sucking the nutrients of the earth with great difficulty, and the sweat beads on their backs glistened in the sun, like crystal pearls.

Buer's pony is called Pearl, which was captured by Buer himself in front of the Great Hall in Uelzen.

Pearl is a pony from his hometown in Beihai, but Bue doesn't like this fellow. He prefers the Hequ horse, which is so majestic and tall, so he decided to give this horse to his elder brother's second son who died in battle.

During the Battle of the Settenkaner River, Bue’s eldest brother fell off his horse while chasing the enemy and pouted his leg. There is no good way in this era. We can only saw it, but it is useless. Due to rust, he died of tetanus directly, without any merit.

The elder brother's eldest son was naturally assisted, and now he is taking classes in the Hamburg School, while Bue adopted his elder brother's second son, and happened to have a place in the Bannerman summer camp in his hand, so he simply handed it over to this man named Bijou En's child, it's useless for him to keep it for himself.

Although today was very busy, Bue still found time to send the five teenagers to the summer camp. Riding on the newly purchased Hanoverian horses, Bue relaxedly hummed a ditty and walked on the dirt road leading to Magdeburg.

"Uncle." Riding on a pony, Bjorn asked impatiently, holding on to the dagger at his waist, "Don't send it off, Uncle, there are only three or four miles left, we can go by ourselves."

"Little brat, how powerful are you?" Boo violently grabbed his head and shook it for a while, "What if you encounter bandits? Who can you beat?"

"No one in the village is my opponent." Bjorn's immature face showed a trace of blood, "If any bandits come, I will cut off their heads and hang them on my waist, and then I will take their stomachs The sac acts as a water bag."

Bouer reached out and grabbed Bjorn's face, turning his face to his. Although he was only 14 years old, he was already quite tall at 1.6 meters [-] compared to his peers in this era.

"Okay, there will be a day when the wolf cubs come out of the den, I will let you go by yourself, but it is agreed, if you are intercepted by bandits, I will never come to collect your corpse." Bue took out a bag from his waist. A folded piece of paper, "This is a guarantee, don't lose it."

"Okay." Bjorn took the paper cautiously, stuffed it into his belt and hid it.

Buer gave Bjorn a hard pat on the back with a half-smile, and almost knocked him off his horse: "Restrain yourself after going to summer camp, you think you're good, it's because of my face, I'll let you, someone else, hmph, as long as you don't come back crying."

"Impossible, absolutely impossible." Bjorn said firmly.

Bue chuckled, turned his horse's head and walked in the direction he came from.

"Ah? Uncle Buer." Seeing that Buer was really about to leave, the other four teenagers immediately became impatient, and they shouted, "But we... ah!"

"What's your name?" Bjorn slapped the talking boy's mouth with a whip, and strips of redness immediately appeared on the boy's face. The rest of the people immediately stopped talking and just looked at Bu Er.

Bue didn't seem to be lying, he actually ran away without looking back, leaving only the group of twelve or thirteen-year-old boys standing in the countryside.

Riding on a pony, Bjorn kicked a young man out for more than one meter, and cursed arrogantly: "There is no mother's stuff, what are you looking at? Let's go, I know the way, everyone in Qianhusuo knows me, and Master Qianhu even asked my name. There will be no problem, go away! Pig!"

Urged by Bjorn, the teenagers reluctantly followed Bjorn and walked towards Magdeburg.

This section is not too long, the mountains are quiet, and occasionally there will be movement from a few uninhabited houses on the side of the road, but in the end there are only a few wild dogs barking.

As they got closer, the five teenagers finally saw the outline of Magde City, and the surrounding population became denser. They also encountered several waves of bannerman children sent by hundreds of other households.

During the time since they were able to see Magdeburg, Bjorn and others encountered almost no setbacks. They quickly found the gathering place and Zuqianhu on the side of the road, and successfully handed over the waist card and security deposit. .

But in the end, instead, something went wrong when entering the summer camp meeting point.

"Why?" Bjorn glared at the Hamburg boy soldier who was not a few years older than him, "Why is my pearl not allowed to participate in the summer camp?"

"This is the rule." Feng Hansi lazily glanced at the rustic boy in front of him, "Not only your horse, your knife, but also your animal tooth dog ring are not allowed to be brought in."

"Say it again! You cowardly Saxon bumpkin!" Bjorn pulled out the dagger at his waist, and before he could make any movement, he felt two huge forces hit his neck and back, and the two round forks stabbed back and forth, one tied his neck and the other tied his waist, dust was everywhere, and Bjorn was firmly pressed to the ground.

Standing up on the bench, Feng Hansi stepped forward in two steps, and stepped on the head of Bjorn, who was struggling madly, incompetent and furious, "What am I supposed to be, I am a bum, I am a Han with a foreign surname, can I speak Chinese? Said, 'Gan Niang!', do you understand what it means, even if all of you are here, you dare not speak loudly in front of me, what kind of thing are you?"

"Goo—let me go!" Bjorn sank his mouth halfway into the mud, and from the corner of his eyes, he could clearly see those companions whispering, and there was a hint of joy in his brows and eyes.

In a hurry and anger, Bjorn blushed, kept struggling forcibly, and continued to be impotent and furious.

"Scream, keep screaming, no one will come to rescue you if your throat breaks!" Feng Hansi lightly pulled the string of animal bone necklace from Bjorn's neck, "Yes, it's very beautiful, it's mine."

"Give it back to me! You damn country swineherd, give it back to me!" Bjorn's voice became high-pitched with anger, as if he was screaming, "Damn it, I curse your whole family to be killed!"

Feng Hansi stopped in his tracks for an instant.

When he turned around, the previous lazy expression on his face had completely changed. He stood in front of Bjorn, his condescending eyes were so cold that people shivered.

"Barbarian, I'll give you a chance." Feng Hansi knelt down halfway, turned his face to the side, parallel to Bjorn's face, and looked into his eyes, "Pick up your dagger, let's fight, life or death, you If you win, the animal bone will be returned to you, I will apologize to you, and let you take your horse into the summer camp.