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

Beginning this year, Feng Sen has launched a youth study, not only for these Gaul youths, but also for the dental soldiers.

Under the auspices of Feng Sen, the Lecture Hall has expanded in scale, from a small forum bookstore inside Yabing to a formal building or institution.

Inside the dental soldiers, all dental soldiers under the age of 30 have to enter the lecture hall in batches to study, astronomy, geography and map exploration, and even some literature and art courses.

After the course is over, some dental soldiers will be transferred to other places. Of course, their status as dental soldiers will remain, but they will no longer be responsible for guarding Hamburg or pioneering attacks.

They will enter various places in Saxony as soldiers of the government, build city walls and zhechong houses, and become Feng Sen's power and tentacles in the local area.

These dental soldiers are all non-military dental soldiers over 40 years old, and there are not many of them. Feng Sen plans to send only 50 people to form a team to build a Zhechong Mansion in Salzgitter.

Each tooth soldier has at least a thousand acres of land. Although it is not sure how much land and real estate it has, this amount is enough to make the eyes of the bannermen of the Eight Banners red.

Moreover, in addition to the property of the soldiers, the soldiers also have an annual annuity and a series of welfare policies.

The reason for sending the Yabing soldiers is also very simple. Feng Sen intends to separate the Yabing soldiers from the Imperial Army.

But as Feng Sen regarded the dental soldier as a kind of meritorious service, and refused to award the dental soldier in the future, the nature changed.

Although this can firmly bind the interests of the tooth soldiers and Feng Sen, it also brings possible problems, that is, the imperial army group is too closed, which is also not a good thing.

At that time, Feng Sen couldn't pay wages, so he could only use this method to buy people's hearts. Now that he can afford wages, of course, this problem can also be solved.

The forbidden army needs new blood, and the tooth soldiers refuse to have new blood, so the tooth soldiers and the forbidden army must be separated, and the existing Han population is enough to give birth to a group of fubing to fill the vacancy brought about by the internal refresh of the forbidden army.

In fact, this year Feng Sen has granted land to more than [-] government soldiers. These soldiers are basically in Xinye and Hamburg. It must be said that due to the Tang Dynasty's first military doctrine and turbulent wars, many adult men have at least one experience as civilian husbands.

Even an ordinary farmer has a two-handed ancestral crop handle. After the training camp, although he has not seen blood, he still looks good.

Thinking of this, Feng Sen stood up and took down a book from the bookshelf. This is the number of troops that can be theoretically mobilized at present after statistics.

Judging from the books, Saxony can mobilize 500 government soldiers and dental soldiers at a time, 5000 Eight Banner Banner Ding, and 500 volunteers, for a total of 9000 people.

Of course, if Feng Sen is going to fight, it is impossible to bring them all. After all, there are still local security and guard work, but this number is also incredible.

The most important thing is not the quantity of mobilization, but the speed of mobilization. As long as Feng Sen thinks, in Saxony, which has new riverboats and strong roads, within ten days, 9000 people can gather in Hamburg and prepare to go.

If Hadrad from the next door is allowed to come, within ten days, maybe even the people summoned by the messenger will not be there yet.

This year, the number of Fubing and Eight Banners did not increase much. The largest increase was the number of Yi Cong, which almost doubled, and they were basically Norse and Slavs.

Sometimes, some small tribes in the north of the Elbe River would flee under the pressure of the big tribes, and many of them directly crossed the Elbe River and settled in Feng Sen's territory.

"It's so full of vigor and vitality!" Feng Sen couldn't help sighing.

But before he could finish his sentence, the Clausewitz engine interrupted him.

[Attention, due to the turbulent state of the country and the dynasty, your business store suffered serious losses and lost [-] prestige. 】

Looking at the characters on the virtual panel, three question marks slowly rose on Feng Sen's forehead.

Crooked day, this shop actually deducts prestige!And why is it turbulent again, Li Shi, what did you do?

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Feng Sen opened the Jade Dragon interface.

【Emperor Grace: 462】

Looks like it's time for the annual card draw again.

Feng Sen stood up and walked in front of Wei Xunzhi who was bewildered.

"Xunzhi, do you know how to guess punches?"

"A little bit."

"Okay, let's do boxing guessing now, you have to do your best to win me, understand?"

"what?"

After more than a dozen rounds, Feng Sen, who had lost several times in a row, happily sat back at the table, and he turned on the Clausewitz engine again, and started!

[It will cost 300 Emperor's Grace, and within the next ten days, 1200 Han immigrants will arrive in your land. 】

"Good!"

Chapter 297 I'm so sorry

After drawing the cards here, Feng Sen also knew that the 1200 immigrants would probably take a while, and they would have to wait for the Clausewitz engine to collect them before they arrived.

So after giving Wei Xun's order, Feng Sen left the general's mansion, ready to go to the wild to change his mood.

Riding on the horse, Feng Sen put on a bamboo hat and ran all the way to the vicinity of Ahrensburg with his guards before stopping.

The sky is still gray, but the withered and yellow earth has already sprouted green and tender new shoots, and a puff of firewood gas is floating in the air. It should be that someone is cooking in the distance.

There should be a guard of the Eight Banners nearby. Feng Sen waved his horsewhip and took the guards to the Thousand Households Office in Ahrensburg, ready to make a surprise inspection and grab a meal.

As Feng Sen and his party got closer, there were more and more undulating wheat fields on both sides of the road. Layers of wheat waves that gradually evolved from dark green to black swayed with the cold wind.

These fields are not wheat but rye.

After the rye is harvested in early spring, the wheat stalks are burned to fertilize the field, and then soybeans or alfalfa are planted to restore the soil fertility. Only when fertilizer is applied next winter can wheat be planted.

This rotation of wheat and rye came about mainly because it was too difficult to accumulate and collect manure, to be precise, because there were too many fields, and the ratio of manure to field fell.

Then, in order to produce more food, the fertilizer accumulated for a year is enough to fertilize once, and with the nitrogen fixation effect of alfalfa or soybeans, there is enough soil strength to grow delicious wheat.

Coming to a mound on the side of the road, Feng Sen grabbed the rein and looked into the distance.

You can also see some coats sitting on the ridge of the field, worrying about the lodging rye straw in the field. According to a rough calculation, there should be about 100 acres of fields here, and the reclamation is in a good condition.

Feng Sen saw halfway, but saw a few smoke and dust rushing in the distance, and knew that it was the local town guard.

"The guards of Ahrensburg have done a good job." Feng Sen praised without waiting for the guard of Leip to salute, "There was an expedition mission last year, but the reclamation of this field did not fall behind."

"Xie Jie is so handsome!" Lei Puqianhu thought for half a second, and added a sentence in Chinese, "I dare not take it."

This sentence made Feng Sen happy: "Okay, I have learned to use idioms, that's enough, there is nothing to be ashamed of, if you don't do well, I will punish you, if you do well, I will reward you! Work hard, I will reward you!"

Leipu Qianhu did a good job. Before, Feng Sen gave each 75 households 3000 acres (about [-] acres) of land.

Among the 75 acres of land, there are naturally lands that can be reclaimed, and some land that cannot be reclaimed. Most of the thousands of households basically just reclaim the land that can be reclaimed, but this Arensburg town officer is different.

And judging from the two or three hundred households that Feng Sen just saw, basically all the fields that can be reclaimed have been reclaimed, and those that cannot be reclaimed are either grazing, digging fish ponds or building chicken coops, and never let the land be wasted. Feng Sen likes this kind of subjective initiative very much.

Feng Sen has dealt with a lot of issues about the bannermen. The living standards of these bannermen have extremely high and low limits.

In the well-managed Qianhusuo, the banner people can eat at least two taels of meat or an egg every day, but in the poorly managed Qianhusuo, the bannermen eat rye bread every day.

Especially Gisela's careless uncle Abu, the well-run Dessau thousand-household house was turned into a beggar's den, and the bannerman under it went to Feng Sen to complain, saying that the neighbor ate meat every day, and he ate rye bread with sand every day.

Feng Sen thought it was Abu's corruption, so he immediately sent Nie Yinniang to investigate, but it turned out that Abu himself was eating rye bread with sand. He really wasn't corrupt, it was just vegetables.

Gisela is pregnant again, and Feng Sen has not been able to do anything ruthless. In order to fill this hole, he has been devastated.

Thinking about it makes me angry, anyway, Feng Sen wrote Abu in his notebook, and when the child is born, he will be punished in the future, and he will be paid back ten times.

"I came today on an empty stomach, don't you mind taking your meal?" Feng Sen got off the horse, held the rope and said to Lei Pu with a smile.

"Our simple food..."

"What you want is simple tea and light food. What do you usually eat, what do you eat today? Don't play tricks. I will ask after I finish eating. If it is different, you will know the consequences."

Walking on the rammed loess road, everything he looked up was pale. Feng Sen looked at the sky, but there was nothing he could do. No matter how powerful the Clausewitz engine was, it couldn't change the day.

Every winter, Feng Sen himself can clearly feel that his temper has become stronger, and there is always a sense of irritability.

"Hey! Huh!" A strange voice came out, pulling Feng Sen out of his delusions.

Looking in the direction, a bloody scene appeared in front of his eyes. A soldier half-kneeled on the ground, while the other soldier held a cane and slapped the soldier on the back.

The bare back was almost covered with bright red marks.

"I seem to have said that a hundred households are not allowed to inflict corporal punishment on bannermen, and any lawsuits must be adjudicated by the Qianhu Office or the Guard Office." As Leipu Qianhu's face gradually turned pale, Feng Sen's eyes changed from calm to cold, "Leipu Qianhu, what do you want to say?"

"Jie Shuai, this is actually not a lynching." Lei Puqianhu hurriedly called someone to stop them, and said helplessly to Feng Sen, "Those two are all banner men, and the person who whipped him is not Baihu, they are even friends."

"What does this mean?" Feng Sen's brain suddenly jumped, and combined with the investigation and memorabilia of thousands of households in various places, he had some inexplicable premonitions.

Coincidentally, both bannermen were escorted over.

Rep pointed at them and said, "These two are Qi Shidao."

Feng Sen started to have a headache.

Feng Sen can still control the material life of the banner people, but Feng Sen has nothing to do with their spiritual life.

His Qi Shidao has been gradually distorted in the process of dissemination. Although the original stability maintenance effect has been realized, the way of realization is different.

Of course, the vast majority of banner people are very resistant to this kind of life that is almost ascetic, but there are still many banner people who fanatically practice this way of life.

They don't wear fancy clothes, put all their spare money into production instead of improving their lives, work hard and train hard, and are self-disciplined like a machine.

This is not a question of good or bad, but that these Bannermen are starting to become a little bit perverted. Banner Shidao believes in simplicity rather than self-torture.

What makes Feng Sen even more incomprehensible is that the number of people in this kind of banner is even expanding, although it is very slow, but it is indeed expanding.

After many investigations and discussions with Zhenhui, Feng Sen concluded the reason—that is, there was a vacuum of faith among the Banner people.

This is not because Qi Ding no longer believes in Odin and Heavenly Father, or because of the confusion of thoughts under the dual belief of Odin and Heavenly Father, but that religion has been expelled in their daily activities.

Regardless of whether these bannermen originally believed in Odin, the Heavenly Father or some primitive polytheism, even if they were serfs, at least they would have corresponding religious activities, such as some sacrifices, ceremonies and prayers.

You know, in the boring Middle Ages, even for Qi Ding, life was still very depressing and confused, especially many Qi Ding suffered from post-war syndrome.

Coupled with the gloomy weather in Saxony and the oppressive environment in the Eight Banners, they are still unable to travel far, and are almost isolated from normal society. To put it bluntly, most of the Banners have been in prison.

Being in prison can still let the air go, the bannermen can only hold back their depression, and they will become perverted if they hold back.

No matter what the intention is, these religious activities can indeed soothe their hearts. This is not some kind of enslaving rhetoric, but a real situation. Otherwise, the life of religion would not be so long.

To alleviate this problem, it is actually very simple, that is to let the priests participate in the daily life of the bannermen, but Feng Sen will never allow it.

The Eight Banners and Fubing were originally there to balance the power of the church and civil servants. If you get mixed up, that's fine.

As for why they abused themselves, Feng Sen guessed that it was winter training and summer camp.

Among the Eight Banners, the only religious activities are probably winter training and summer camps for children.

Whether it's winter training or summer camp, although the spirit is very fulfilling, the body is very uncomfortable. Under this kind of alienation, many bannermen take pleasure in pain and paralyze themselves with a mechanical and self-disciplined life.

Feng Sen also had no choice. In order to prevent the priests and priests from reaching out to the Eight Banners soldiers, these prices must be paid.

If it doesn’t work, send some storytellers or a clerical art troupe who are trustworthy enough to go on tour, at least to express a little bit.

"Restraint, let them be restrained, set a safe word, don't really hurt people, understand?" While ordering helplessly, Feng Sen put drama on the agenda in his heart.

Chapter 298 Spiritual eunuch - Eight Banners and Little Officials

After eating a large pot of wheat porridge in Qianhusuo and drinking two large glasses of beer, Feng Sen left Qianhusuo while yawning.

The moonlit night is fresh, and the cold freezes the original mixed smell in the air, leaving only the aroma of pine leaves.

Feng Sen was riding on the horse, and the woods on both sides covered the moonlight, paving the dusty road with a layer of frosty white. In the pine forest before spring, there were no more insects, not even birds.

It's so quiet.

While sighing, Feng Sen felt helpless. Although the road was solid and the forests on both sides had been cleared, no one would take this road at night unless it was absolutely necessary.

The deep forest on the side of the road is a natural cover for bandits. Once, Feng Sen even realized that someone was spying on him in the forest.

However, they retreated after seeing more than ten armored cavalry guards behind Feng Sen and twenty infantry guards sent by the Eight Banners.

Although Hamburg is Feng Sen's territory, don't think that there are no bandits here.

The Black Forest is too big and vast, and Saxony's population and productivity are too low compared to the forest here. Coupled with the problems of swamps and tree materials in the forest, everyone has no motivation to clean up the forest.

If it wasn't for deliberate logging, Feng Sen even suspected that the speed of their logging would not be able to keep up with the speed of forest expansion.

In such a vast forest, there are still a large number of retail households or people in the forest. They produce and sell their own products, and live by hunting and small pieces of cultivated land.

These people in the forest are farmers with hoes, and bandits with bows and axes. They fight guerrillas and cannot catch them.

Although many people in the forest have been attracted by Hamburg's policies and obediently came out to become farmers, there are still many forest households who hate the rules or who are closed and self-reliant are unwilling to come out.

They are not like Stendahl, they are in the form of settlements, and the monks can't escape the temple. The number of people in the forest here is also small, and they live scattered. Many are escaped serfs or slaves, full of hostility to the lord.

If you say they can cause any damage, there is nothing, but if you say they can't cause damage, they really threaten the safety of traffic.

"It's tasteless." Feng Sen shook his head, and was thinking of bringing this matter up for discussion at the next shogunate meeting, when he heard a panicked shout.

Feng Sen gestured to the guards on both sides, and the two immediately drove out. Not long after, amidst the roar of arrows and the clash of weapons, a bloody smell spread in the air.

When Feng Sen and his group approached slowly, it turned out to be a middle-aged man wearing rabbit fur trousers, who was still terrified. He looked at the blood on the hooves of the old donkey he was leading, and then looked at the two long-haired savages lying on the ground. .