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

"Dead, was thrown into the pit and buried together this morning."

"What about your father?"

"I was taken away by those savages..." Little Nose sniffled, but didn't cry.

Feng Sen stood up and took two steps on the spot: "Didn't Gisela form a medical team before? Some of them were dispatched, and these orphans were sent to Hamburg. The smart ones went to study, and the unsmart ones stayed as servants."

After finishing speaking, he knelt down and held the little nose's hand: "Little nose, don't worry, if you stay for two more days, someone will bring you food and water soon, and take you to live in a big house, where you can read and read."

Just when the little nose was confused, the little Saxon official was also a wonderful person. He rolled his eyes, stretched out his hand, and the local old man who was far behind them rushed over like a pug in an instant.

The two whispered a few words, and the old man put on a flattering smile, and walked up to Feng Sen: "Saijie Shuai, I know this little girl, let her stay at my house these days, and wait for Hamburg to come." Someone will pick him up."

"Oh, I'll trouble you then." Feng Sen smiled and patted him on the shoulder.

"No trouble, no trouble, it's what I should do." The old man nodded and bowed his head.

After bidding farewell to Little Nose, Feng Sen lost the interest to continue his tour. Instead, he returned along the original road along the ridge of the field, and did not ask questions as before, but remained silent all the way until he reached the position where the horse was hitched.

"Historical scribe." With one hand on the saddle, Feng Sen suddenly said, "I'm not mistaken, is your surname Shi?"

"Yes, my surname is Shi." The little Saxon official explained, "I was originally the son of a blacksmith, and people often called me Little Smith (Smith). Later, when I entered the Yamen, Archbishop Zhenhui gave me a Han name. The name, without the word Si, is called Shi Mi."

Although he has a Chinese name, it is only chosen by himself. In the household registration book, Smith's name is still written in Latin as Smith.

"Well, Shi Mi, this name is easy to remember." Feng Sen got on his horse, "I have something to explain, so I'm going to sort out the paperwork, you can remember it."

"Here." Shi Mi immediately took out a small notebook from his pocket, and took out a thin rabbit hair brush from his bag, wet it with saliva, and waited for Feng Sen to give orders.

Although Feng Sen's face was still calm, Shi Mi knew in his heart that this was a small test, and a few drops of sweat appeared on his forehead.

"The first thing is to expel all Vileti and Sorb within a radius of ten miles from Magdeburg. All pardons are invalidated, but all merchants are not allowed to trade with Vileti and Sorb unless I order them." .”

"But we haven't figured out who they are..." Zu Guihou interjected beside him, "Give me two days, and I'm sure I can find out."

"I don't care if he's a Sorb or a Veleti!" Feng Sen slammed his fist on the post where the horse was tied, and sawdust splashed everywhere in an instant.

"The second thing is to write a letter to the Veleti and Sorb tribes and ask them to hand over the murderer. If they don't hand over, they won't do business for a day. If necessary, I will take coercive measures. Don't say it's unpredictable."

Smith quickly recorded in the pamphlet, but still mixed Latin phonetic notation and Chinese.

"The third thing is to notify the North and South Saxony Generals, Captain Yi Cong, and the marching commander to go to Magdeburg for a meeting immediately!"

Chapter 335 Brandenburg

The sound of water was drizzling, transparent water threads hung from the eaves, and the wind chimes made a pleasant tinkling sound in the rain.

In the house, several maids added some oil to the oil lamps on both sides of the hall. As for the precious candle holders, only two were placed on the long table, which brightened the originally dim front hall a lot.

Holding a roster of conscription in his hand, Feng Sen quietly waited for the participants to arrive.

After a while, civil and military officials of all levels, large and small, came in one after another, and took their seats under the arrangement of the attendants.

"Is everyone here?" Feng Sen closed the booklet in his hand, raised his eyes and asked.

Wei Xunzhi replied, "It's all here."

"Okay." Feng Sen threw the pamphlet on the table, "I'm sure you all know why I'm here this time, it's for the Veleti and Sorb people."

Feng Sen was still worrying about how to spend the [-] Solidar's sealed pile bank, but he didn't expect these tribes to take the initiative to show their faces.

As for the income from fighting, naturally don't worry, what is the most lacking in the 8th century?Not talents, but people.

Land reclamation needs people, craftsmen need people, and infrastructure needs people. This trip to the north is to rob people, food and women. You burn my food, and I will rob you of your people. It's fair.

"Ha, I've been waiting for this day for a long time." Zhao Cunxu Nicholas said harshly. The North Saxon Guard where he works operates beeswax, but it is often eaten by those nasty Sorbs and Veleti.

Zu Guihou Olaf also shouted: "You can order, commander-in-chief. When the time comes, I will personally go to battle and build two capitals for him, and see if he dares to make a mistake."

When the ancestor moved to Magdeburg back then, part of his family property was robbed by the damned Sorbs. In addition, these Sorbs and Villetti burned his old ancestor's manor this time, and the new With old and old grudges added together, Zu Guihou wished to skin those Sorbs and cramp them.

"Has Jie Shuai found out who robbed us?" Abu raised his hand and asked.

"Stupid!" Griffith immediately scolded, "All the prisoners of war were killed, don't you understand what Jieshuai means? Jieshuai has long since stopped caring who robbed him, just fight together."

To be honest, due to the trade friction between Villetti and Saxony, these generals and officials, more or less, have a problem with these Villetti and Sorbs.

The rest of the people still wanted to talk. When the whole meeting gradually moved towards the vegetable market, Feng Sen snorted softly, and everyone immediately stopped talking and looked at Feng Sen together.

"Fight, it must be fought." Feng Sen set the tone for this matter, "If you don't fight this battle, they really think you are afraid of them. If you don't subdue them, we will never have peace."

Wang Sima wrote two strokes on the paper in front of him: "Jie Shuai, it is certain to fight, but how to fight this way, does Jie Shuai have a plan? We just made up our minds."

Feng Sen winked at Wei Xunzhi, Secretary Lang took out a piece of parchment knowingly, and spread it on the table.

"Everyone, please look, this is the map of our Saxony and the other two territories." Feng Sen took out a small stick and lit on the map, "This is Villetti, and this is the territory of the Sorbs.

Our Hamburg is on the east side of the upper reaches of the Elbe River, and to the east is the Eupolites. The furthest territory of the Eupolites is across the river from our Lüneburg.

Along the way from Lüneburg to Magdeburg, we have Saxony to the southwest of the Elbe, the Villetti to the northeast, the Sorbians to the east with Magdeburg as the center, and the territory of Thuringia to the southeast. "

Several civil and military officials in front stood up, came to the map, and listened carefully to Feng Sen's introduction.

"First of all, even though we are going to fight both, we have to decide on a main attack and a feint attack." Feng Sen drew a circle in the direction of Villetti and the Sorb with a wooden stick, "Which one do you think should be the main attack and which feint attack should be?" ?”

Wang Sima glanced twice, and immediately replied: "It should be the main attack on Villetti, and a feint attack on the Sorbs."

"Oh? Why?"

"Everyone, please see that if our army attacks the Sorbs, the Sorbs are defeated, but they can flee to Moravia. After all, the Sorbs are of the same origin and species as them, and the bamboo basket is empty, but in the end they still have to fight the Vileti.

But if our army attacks the Veleti, they cannot escape to the southeast because the Sorbs block the way, and the Moravians will not accept them.

The only way out is to go north, but there are Pomeranians and Cyporians in the north, and they are not easy to mess with.

If we mainly attack the Villetti, their strategic space and depth are much smaller, and there are allies around to help them, but if we attack the Sorbs, these advantages will be gone. "

"Besides, there is one more point." Feng Sen added with a smile, "Dragovette, one of the core cities of the Villetti people, is less than a hundred miles away from Magdeburg, and we can go up the Elbe River, from the Elbe River to the nearest point of Dragovette, which is only forty miles away.

With the Elbe River as the transportation hub, our logistical pressure will be greatly reduced. "

"Good advice!" A group of generals flattered one after another.

Although it felt a bit weird, Feng Sen continued to point to the map and said, "We want to fight, but we can't fight blindly, we have to decide when to fight.

To this end, I propose three goals: first, to punish the Villetti and convince them.

The second is to avenge the Eupolite people. The tribes that robbed Oupolite in the first place will have to pay with blood.

The third is to build Villetti into our human pool and ask them to provide soldiers and slaves to transfuse our industry.

According to the merchants, there are hundreds of large settlements. Most of these settlements are guarded by city walls. Therefore, we must be prepared to fight this battle for two, three, or even five years, and completely conquer them all at once. "

"Everyone, are you ready?" Feng Sen straightened up and said calmly.

The generals looked at each other and got up one after another: "Please Commander Jie set the date for dispatching troops."

"It's autumn now, we need to harvest food, and we also need to make preparations. We just banned the trade between the Vileti and the Sorbs now, and we will use up their patience first." Feng Sen stood up from the chair, After wandering around for a couple of times, he said, "It's still the old rule, let's put it in the autumn."

"Here!"

"Wang Sima, hand over the temple calculations and plans to me as soon as possible." Feng Sen confessed to Wang Sima, "For the winter offensive, I will personally lead the troops and go up the Elbe River to knock down the fortresses along the way. Before spring comes, we must attack here at least!"

Feng Sen tapped his finger heavily on the map, and everyone's eyes shifted to the direction Feng Sen was pointing at, only to see "Dragovit" written there in Chinese characters.

This name sounds unfamiliar now, but its descendants are well-known, that is the former capital of the Kingdom of Prussia, the birthplace of the Hohenzollern family - Brandenburg!

Chapter 336 Thinking When You See a Head Will Only Harm You

The Thuringian matter was settled, and Villetti was also putting pressure on it, and Feng Sen was about to start planning for the issue of post-war rewards.

But this reward also has its own way, that is to abandon the head-based military merit reward system.

This is what Feng Sen discovered in the last battle of Ou Pollite. Whenever a head is killed, a group of people will rush to grab it, and even drop the head of the fleeing enemy.

Regarding this point, if the Oppolits were not good enough, there might be problems in that battle.

For this reason, Feng Sen carried out another reform. Unlike Charlie's difficult reform, the Saxon boat was easy to turn around.

Moreover, under the system of the Saxon shogunate, Feng Sen's power as a military governor was unlimited, and he did not work with so many noble insects, so his efficiency was much higher than that of Charlie.

Therefore, without much effort, Feng Sen successfully modified the original military merit recording method into the current new military merit system.

First, the head remains unchanged, but only at the bottom and a single soldier, and a fixed person is assigned to be responsible for the head in each fire.

The second is to introduce the military merit evaluation mechanism of the Northern Wei, Sui and Tang Dynasties.

This mechanism roughly defines the situation of the enemy as "the enemy is strong and we are weak", "evenly matched" and "we are strong and the enemy is weak", and the victory criteria are also three situations: "[-]% of the annihilation", "[-]% of the annihilation", and "[-]% of the annihilation".

Among them, the biggest credit is naturally that when the enemy is strong and we are weak, more than [-]% of the enemy is wiped out. In addition, Feng Sen also predicts that he has set up tactical credits such as "cut the general and capture the flag", "take the lead in the battle", and "capture the enemy alive".

In this battle, at least three or four hundred Baoyi and Yicong got the chance to be promoted, but the current position of the Eight Banners is not enough.

In the previous battles, the vacancies in the original thousand households were gradually filled by the promoted Yicong and Baoyi. The eight thousand households were already full. Before Feng Sen got two or three directly subordinate hundred households, this group of people happened to be filled into two new thousand households.

Then the bannermen who made military exploits happened to be promoted to the hundred households of Chengxin Baihusuo, and finally the rewards of the soldiers. Unlike the soldiers, the soldiers did not have an annuity income every year.

And what Feng Sen provided to Yabing and Fubing were honors. This honor is still in the process of planning, so at present, only various honors such as Yunqiwei and Wuqiwei in the original place of the Central Plains are used. Of course, there are additional rewards such as land, woolen wool, and gold coins.

Thinking of this, Feng Sen closed the promotion roster in his hand, and instead took out a map of Saxony, and began to slide his fingers on the map.

New land is definitely needed to build a new hundred households. Although the fields near Hamburg and the Elbe River have basically been reclaimed to the limit, the best part of the land has been reclaimed.

But in other places, such as the lands of the earls and Saxon tribal chiefs, there are still many vacant lands, and this part of the lands accounted for most of the newly opened lands this year.

Since Feng Sen sent the so-called agricultural officials and priests to help the earl manage the land, and at the same time coordinate the relationship with the local tribes, the newly reclaimed land has bloomed everywhere on the land of Saxony.

A large number of Saxon savages defected to the peasant officials and priests in order to seek a better life. Of course, there were also tribes who came to ask for people, but in front of the converted compatriots, according to the law, they had nothing to do.

Therefore, in Saxony's ten territories other than Feng Sen's, a total of nearly [-] mu of land has been reclaimed this year.

As for why it can grow explosively, on the one hand, although Salzgitter cannot produce durable armor on a large scale, it is still very simple to create some iron farm tools.On the other hand, the government soldiers moved to the local area one after another, bringing with them a large number of skilled slaves and cattle.

Feng Sen took out a piece of paper, dipped it in ink, and wrote the word farm cattle on the paper.

Cattle trade is a recently emerging trade category, and the biggest market demand in this trade comes from Saxony in Feng Sen.

At present, there is basically one cattle or one poor horse for every five households on Feng Sen's land, but this number is still far from enough.

Thanks to the profits of the West Britain Company, previous spoils income, and agricultural income, Feng Sen has always been able to have money to carry out uninterrupted land reclamation activities, and he has to carry out land reclamation activities, otherwise he cannot support such a large population.

The population of Saxony has exceeded 50. Among the newly added 3 people, there are more than 2 Franks, 3 Donos, 1 Slavs, more than [-] naturalized forest people and new babies.

These Franks naturally migrated from the mainland, and the Norse people also came to Hamburg through various routes. As for the Slavs, their origins are very strange.

There were slaves, some from the tribes of Polabia, and even the West British Company brought hundreds of Prussians and Pomeranians to Feng Sen on the first voyage of the North Sea trade.

After all, the local nobles can't give anything good in exchange for goods, so they can only do slave trade.

The total number of Han Chinese has reached about [-].

In addition, there are more than 50 Oupolites near Oupolite, and Arvo has more than 30 Danes in the Jutland Peninsula in the north. Counting these two, Feng Sen has a population of more than 140 million.

This number is already quite a lot. According to the records of later historians, in this era, the entire Frankish Kingdom, including the Italian region, has a population of just over 500 million.

The population in Feng Sen's hands is already one tenth of that of the Frankish Kingdom. It is no wonder that with Clarent's blessing, Charlie is still wary of him.

In fact, if it weren't for Clarent's existence, Charlie would have revoked Feng Sen's full power long ago.

In order to accommodate these populations, Feng Sen still has to continue to play the big land reclamation campaign, and he has also set the direction of land reclamation in the future, that is, the Dietmarschen area in the lower reaches of the Elbe River and the plain area where the Eupolites are located.

Lyudmila has done a good job in Mecklenburg recently. The battle between Messislaw and Latimer is a lose-lose situation. Lyudmila and Zinovac operated together, and the tribes and lands directly under them rose sharply.

With the help of the Varangian guards, Lyudmila's force has become the largest among the many tribal forces in Oupolite.

Due to the rich output of Opalite, plus the resumption of trade in the North Sea and the reconstruction of the storehouse, her annual income is actually only a little less than that of Feng Sen.

Of course, Liudmila's achievements cannot be separated from Feng Sen's support. Lyudmila has made a lot of money from the North Sea trade led by the West Britain Company.

Then there is still a great demand for farm cattle and even rough horses. It is naturally the West Britain Company that Tiffonson handles all of this.

To be honest, the West Britain Company and General Zuowei are almost half of the Ministry of Internal Affairs or the Shaofu.

Or, Feng Sen bit his brush and thought, should we really set up a Ministry of Internal Affairs or a Shaofu to deal with these matters?

Chapter 337 Don't Blame Me For Being Unrighteous

Sitting in the study, Feng Sen removed the map, put aside the paper that recorded his thoughts, and took out another book from the stack of books next to him.

This is the income and expenditure booklet for this year, recording all income and expenditure from the autumn of 785 to the autumn of 786.

This year's income can be divided into two parts, the first is local output, and the second is trade income.