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

"Can you introduce us to the two teams today?"

"My honor, sir, the one on the left is the Lüneburg team, and the one on the right is the Ahrensburg team. There had been some conflicts between Qianhu Leipu and Zhao Cunxu in the two places before. One day, Lei Pu's wife is inexplicable ... Today these two will play in person, so people are very much looking forward to this game."

"Oh, is it?" Seeing the players from the two teams wearing red and blue rattan armor, Seerivald suddenly became a little interested, as if the Qianhu named Lei Pu was himself, and the person named Zhao Cunxu was his sworn enemy.

However, due to his previous speech, he still could only pretend to be a lack of interest on the surface.

Chapter 294 The Heavenly Father of the Island

"Yeah, I didn't call out!"

Seerivald was wrapped in a cloak, and he shouted at his two companions a little angrily.

Kari Ulf walked vividly while imitating Seerivald's performance when watching the ball: "Damn it, why didn't you catch it, rush, rush over, don't let them stop you!"

"Hahahaha." Gondolam laughed heartily.

Seerivald blushed: "No, I'm not like you."

"Really? Who jumped on the railing to cheer, and almost fell from the audience stand?!" Gondoram smiled, lying on the tree by the roadside, trying his best to imitate Silvald's movements.

"Who is it?" Kari Ulf also imitated Seerivald's previous actions.

"You two bastards!" Blushing, Seerivald picked up a convenient wooden stick from the ground, and rushed towards the two of them.

The three of them ran and fought on the avenue in Ulster Town.

The sky was dark and cloudy, and the streets of Ulster became even darker.

The houses on both sides of the street were hidden in the shadows, and only some faint lights dotted the dark street.

The cold wind howled, kicked up dust and waste in the street, and made the already withered trees even more haggard.

On the street, people come and go, some people are walking in a hurry, some people are strolling slowly, some people are carrying baskets on their backs, carrying wooden barrels, and selling their goods along the street.

While the three Gaul youths were fighting, some local children were also running around, chasing each other, laughing and playing.

"Okay, okay." When they reached a fence, the three finally stopped, and Gundoram said, "Let's not talk anymore. After running for so long without eating, I feel that I am so hungry that I can eat a pig."

Seerivald was also happy to change the topic. After all these fights, he basically came out of the previous things. He pointed to the lantern hanging not far away: "It seems to be a tavern there."

The three of them went to the tavern to sit down together. Since most of them came to see Cuju today, everyone was discussing today's game with great interest, and the atmosphere was very lively.

The three of them found a waitress, ordered some cheese and mushroom soup, some grilled meat, and some steamed buns as staple food, and then swallowed their beers.

However, before the dishes were served, Gundolam's expression changed.

"What's the matter?" Kari Ulf was discussing today's Cuju match with Seerivald. Seeing the change in Gundoram's face, he asked inexplicably.

"Nothing?" Gundoram shook his head and stood up. "It seems that something is wrong with what I ate at the arena today. I have a stomachache. You eat first, and I will be back soon."

"Then go quickly."

After leaving the tavern, Gundolam didn't go in the direction of the latrine, but looked around, followed a figure hanging far away, and walked into an alley.

"Long time no see, Gundoram."

"Fadulf, you are a Lombard, why did you come to Saxony?"

"Gondoram, there are only the two of us here." Fadeulf narrowed his slender eyes, "As for why I am here, of course it is Lord Malajiji's idea."

"Do you think there is something wrong with the Duke of Saxony, or is it His Royal Highness Charlie?"

"Master Malajiji made his own decision, but His Royal Highness Charlie didn't stop it, ha, don't look at the duke of Saxony who seems to be loyal, but there are many small tricks in private, for example, he connived at a heretical sect that he believed in. ..."

Gundoram looked around and lowered his voice: "My father asked me to come to you, didn't he want me to cooperate with you and help find the Duke of Saxony?"

"if not?"

Gundolam frowned: "I will judge with my own eyes. If the Duke of Saxony is a good Duke, I will not help you."

"Hmph, you'll know when the time comes."

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"So, what's going on with Felix?" Feng Sen rubbed his head and said, he ticked off the execution list with a red pen, and handed it to Wei Xunzhi beside him.

Zhenhui just smiled, but didn't speak, and Wei Xunzhi also intuitively pleaded guilty, picked up the memorial and books, and turned to go out.

"It's not too much, it's not too much." Zhenhui inserted his hands into his sleeves, "So far, as far as I know, the total number of people is less than 100, and most of them are farmers and farmers in the countryside. Those Viking followers."

"Viking Yicong, how did they get involved?"

Zhenhui smiled bitterly and said: "Felix said that you are the incarnation of Odin, and Odin is also an incarnation of the heavenly father. You can defeat the enemy with floods because you have the protection of Odin. All those who believe in you as the new Isaiah can be redeemed and enter Valhalla after death.

And all those who don't believe, even if they die fighting for the sake of the commander, they will still be punished first, and they can only enter Valhalla after their sins are exhausted. "

"It's outrageous." Feng Sen helplessly tapped his head with the pen.

"Am I going to stop them?"

"What are you doing to stop them? How big do I think it is." Feng Sen shook his head, "Keep monitoring, it might be of great use in the future."

Zhenhui seemed to have guessed something, but remained silent.

"Let's not talk about this." Feng Sen changed the topic, "I asked you to ask about Priest Aiwen last time?"

Zhenhui took out the letter from his sleeve: "I have contacted Priest Aiwen, and he helped me convey the letter. The Celtic Church in Ireland is also very interested in us. They said that if there is a chance, they may send priests to visit each other."

After the Five Barbarians, the cultural level in Western Europe plummeted. However, the Church of the Heavenly Father in Ireland maintained a relatively high level of academic culture.

Ireland is located on an isolated island, and it is not easy for the "barbarians" to invade from the outside. In the case of a plunge in the academic level of the outside world, it provides a safe haven for scholars, and the original cultural depression quickly becomes a cultural highland.

Finally, in the seventh and eighth centuries AD, it became the most important academic and cultural center of the Father Church, and under the influence of monasticism, it formed the Father Church sect with Irish characteristics-the isolationist Father Church (Sea Father Church).

But later people prefer to call them Celtic churches, because their churches have a strong Celtic polytheism.

Compared with the Heavenly Father Church on the mainland, from Feng Sen's perspective, the isolationist Heavenly Father Church is more advanced.

For example, they opposed the idea of ​​church authority and the supremacy of the Pope, were more tolerant towards women, and were close to nature (druid color), etc. Compared with the later Protestantism, although they opposed the Pope's secular authority, they did not oppose the Pope's religious authority. spiritual supremacy.

To be honest, Felix's sect might be able to mingle with this group of Celtic churches.

Feng Sen needs educated people, and Charlie's own educated people are not enough, so he can only find these Irish people.

"Then you can just pick a few priests and go there without further ado. It will be decided within this month, and bring the 24 letters and the golden legend with you." Feng Sen gave Zhenhui an order.

Chapter 295 Distillation Device

Time came to January in a blink of an eye, at the end of January in 786, this year's spring was a bit cold, which made Feng Sen, who was wearing a fox fur cloak, a little cold.

"Lord, it's too cold outside, you'd better come in." Ajax held the wooden door with his left hand and invited Feng Sen to enter with a smile on his face.

Feng Sen nodded slightly, and entered the craftsman's house.

This house is a workshop specially reserved by Feng Sen for Ajax. On weekdays, there are not only guards for security, but also spies walking around to prevent thieves and bandits.

As soon as he entered the room, a charcoal smell came into his nostrils. Feng Sen looked around. Several shirtless coppersmith apprentices were sweating profusely, shaping a ball of copper water.

After walking a few steps into the house, Feng Sen's face was hot from the hot fire.

This house is not big, covering an area of ​​about [-] square meters, transparent on all sides, just a hall and a study room for resting, and the rest like the furnace for smelting copper ingots and the clamps for holding copper ingots are placed in a corner of the room.

And in the very center of the room, a distillation device composed of curved copper pipes and copper bowls stands tall.

"My lord, this is the distiller you mentioned. Based on your drawings and the surviving drawings of ancient Greek distillers, I successfully built a new type of distiller." Ajax proudly introduced.

Feng Sen approached the copper-colored still and looked at it carefully.

It is made of a long, narrow copper tube with a copper bowl at the lower end, and is about half a foot high.

At the bottom of the still is a copper bowl, which can be used to place the material to be distilled. This part is firmly fixed to the bottom of the still with snaps.

In the upper part of the copper bowl, the main part of the copper pipe is a long and narrow pipe, which can connect the bottom container and the top cover together.

Another section of relatively thin pipe is connected to the upper end of the pipe and connected to a conical flat cover. There is a small hole in the interior to communicate with each other to collect the steam condensed into liquid, and the liquid is separated from the water according to the boiling point.

"Actually, this is only the first edition." Ajax looked a little excited. He thought it would be a boring job this time, but he didn't expect that the difficulty of building a distiller was much higher than expected, and Feng Sen gave The conditions and support are far higher than expected.

Ajax even likes this feeling a little bit.

"Is there a second edition?"

"Yes." Ajax was full of confidence, "This kind of one-arm still is too inefficient, so I have already drawn the blueprints of the two-arm and three-arm stills, and I am already asking my apprentices to build them."

"Not bad." Feng Sen stepped forward, tapped the still with the hilt of his sword, and the distillation made a crisp sound.

Below the still, a flame was burning, and at the end of the pipe, drops of liquid were flowing from the pipe into the cup.

"What is this distilling?"

"According to your request, distill the wine and make concentrated wine."

"Actually, that's called ethanol or alcohol." Feng Sen picked up the half-full ethanol liquid, but his heart couldn't help but surge.

Others may not know the meaning of this small cup of liquid, but Feng Sen is too clear that ethanol is a very versatile organic solvent, which can be used to make acetic acid, beverages, perfumes, dyes, etc.

Two of the most common extraction methods in chemical systems have been developed by Feng Sen—distillation and extraction.

The rise of the European perfume trade in later generations was based on the improvement of distillation methods.

In the twelfth century, the Arabs discovered that as long as the essence was dissolved in alcohol, the aroma could be released slowly and preserved for a long time. From then on, perfume began to develop gradually.

The three major luxury goods in medieval Europe were porcelain, silk, and perfume. In order to cover up body odor and the odor around them, women and even men even showed an attitude of dying.

Although many chemicals in later generations are still unpreparable, some biochemical products can be extracted, such as the strongest biological pesticide - azadirachtin, which is very convenient to prepare and is the natural enemy of various insects. It will have too many effects on the human body.

If the neem tree is difficult to obtain, veratrine is a common biopesticide in Western Europe. You only need to collect the seeds of the sneezeweed and the rhizome of the resveratrol, crush them and extract them with ethanol be made of.

In fact, sulfuric acid can be produced later (manually, not on a large scale), and ether can be produced by distillation of ethanol and sulfuric acid.

Not to mention anything else, the anesthesia effect of ether alone is enough to save countless lives, not to mention that there are countless other uses?

"Lord." Ajax saw that Feng Sen seemed very satisfied with this thing, and he said proudly: "This distiller has been completed, you can take it away directly, and the second distiller, I will finish them as soon as possible."

"Okay." Feng Sen nodded in satisfaction. He glanced at the sweaty people in the house, "Ajax, a Latin worker, is loyal and dedicated to his efforts. He was awarded the post of guarding a hundred households. He will be hereditary and will rest with the country!"

I was taken aback for a moment, and then Ajax's voice trembled: "Thank you, thank you."

In his current business map, although paper can be profitable, the profit is not enough, that is, the price per unit volume is too low, but perfume is different, a small bottle is enough to sell for sky-high prices.

At that time, with the help of North Sea trade and Atlantic trade, Hamburg will become the Venice of the North, a huge black hole of trade, and the money of the nobles will be collected from their coffers.

However, ethanol alone is not enough to make perfume. In fact, there is something similar to perfume in this era, that is, essence.

However, the aroma of the essence is not long-lasting, and it is too strong, and when the fragrance reaches the extreme, there will be an unacceptable stench.

Therefore, Feng Sen also needs a craftsman or alchemist who knows how to prepare essence.

In addition, Feng Sen also needs to purchase a large number of flowers such as roses and tulips to make perfumes, and Feng Sen is not able to produce sufficient quantity and quality of flowers locally.

So he had to go to the hands of nobles and local people to buy these flowers and musk. These flower musks are a piece of garbage in the hands of the locals, but they are treasures in the hands of Feng Sen.

At that time, the local nobles will turn wheat into flowers and sell the raw materials to Feng Sen. After Feng Sen processes them, they will use the sales network of the West Britain Company to sell them throughout Europe, and they will still be sold by locals and local nobles.

Once this chain of interests is connected, the nobles who are firmly tied to Feng Sen's chariot, even if they don't turn their backs and disarm their armor when faced with possible incidents, at least it is good to hesitate.

Anyway, Frank, your king of luxury - perfume, has arrived!

Chapter 296 The Emperor's Enlightenment

January passed with a slightly colder wind than usual.

But in Hamburg or Magdeburg, or even Saxony, people are still discussing the previous game and the final shocking reversal.

The Ahrensburg team, which was cornered by the Hannover team, won the game abruptly under the leadership of quarterback Hans Jr. and running back Von Williams in the final free kick stage of the game.

After three attacks, the Ahrensburg team was not far from the opponent's end zone, and the game was coming to an end. In the final stage, the quarterback Hans charged with the ball himself, and successfully shot the goal just before being knocked down. He scored three points in one fell swoop and won the first Saxon Cuju Championship.

It also opened the prelude to the first Saxony post-cuju fighting competition.

At present, in the newly built hospital in Hamburg, there are still injured people recovering from fighting after the match, and some people were even killed directly.

The hustle and magic of the Cuju competition gradually spread to the surrounding area. According to the word of mouth of the merchants, many nobles and wealthy free landowners from other places began to move around, waiting for the next year's competition.

With the end of the cuju competition, the population of Hamburg gradually declined and returned to normal numbers.

But there are still some who have not left. Many free people or businessmen even bought houses in the city directly and simply lived there. The good business environment in Ulster Town is really mouth-watering. Cui Xutuo's family, who is in charge of the trial, will soon be rushed businessmen bursting out.

Business is developing, and the reclamation work in Xinye has also started over time. However, some land in Xinye is not suitable for planting wheat. With Feng Sen's promotion, almost one-third of the land is planted with fruit trees and medicinal materials.

As for those young Gauls, Feng Sen did not let them learn from the small officials at the beginning, but entered the Hamburg Academy first, and learned Chinese and arithmetic for the first half of the year before they could officially start learning.