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

This position is very important. I am going to ask you to be the magistrate. Considering that you have worked very hard during this time, I want to reward you by going to Friesland to play in the water, soak in hot springs, etc., but I never thought that you would actually want my body. "

"Bah." Li Baojing spat with a blushing face, "Shameless, who wants your body."

Afterwards, she continued to ask: "Since you already know that I am Princess Datang, why do you..."

Feng Sen asked back: "Why do I have to force you to marry? Just because you are a princess? Li Shi is the emperor?"

"You, do you dare to call your father's name directly?"

"Hahaha, your father is just a successful king, and I, Feng Sen, will be the founding emperor of the future. I'm fine with you, but I'm fine without you. I'm a commoner in Liaodong, so why should the world have anything to do with me?!" Feng Sen laughed loudly, "I can't afford to get a woman with no proof to make a royal robe for me. My royal robe doesn't need the dragon pattern of the Tang Dynasty! My Feng family can't sit on the dragon chair, so why do I have to be part of your Li family's blood?"

"Then you mean you don't want to marry me?" Unconsciously, Li Baojing's voice revealed a hint of coquettishness.

Feng Sen chuckled and said, "I'm going to marry the Chancellor of the Audit Office, Li Baojing, the bank manager of West Britain. What's the deal with Princess Tang An?"

"Huh!" Li Baojing snorted coquettishly through his nose, but the corners of his mouth hung up uncontrollably.

"Okay, the misunderstanding has been cleared up, and the matter has been settled, you can go back and unload the audit office's affairs." Feng Sen stood up and stretched, "I'm going to practice martial arts, so I won't keep you ...Don't worry, you can take some of the subordinates of your audit office away, and the rest will not be changed unless they don't pay attention."

"Jie Shuai, if I really married you, would you still let me continue to be the Minister of the Young Mansion?"

"I am a commoner in Liaodong, what do the ministers do to me... huh?"

Feng Sen's eyes widened, Li Baojing was close at hand, and his lips touched something warm and moist, and a small tongue followed into Feng Sen's mouth.

"Boom-"

"You have seen the talents of my Princess of the Tang Dynasty, and you should have seen my temperament of the Princess of the Tang Dynasty. This is the real way to see it!"

Wiping his lips, Li Baojing ignored Feng Sen's hot face and ran out of Feng Sen's side like a rabbit, almost forgetting to take the veil.

Reminiscing about the soft feeling in his mouth that hadn't dissipated, Feng Sen also grinned and smiled silly for almost a minute, then hummed a little song and took off a warhammer from the wall, played with it and went to practice martial arts field.

The two left, the dust settled, the fragrance of flowers overflowed, and the room remained quiet and peaceful, as well as Wei Xunzhi who was sluggish.

With blank eyes, he stepped out of the door of the study in two or three steps, looked around, but Feng Sen and Li Baojing were nowhere to be seen.

"Hey, can you see me?" Wei Xunzhi asked a passing maid.

The maid looked up at him in horror, lowered her head, and left quickly.

"Am I really standing here? Hey, that guard, can you see me? Can you? Don't run!"

Chapter 369 The Rebel Base Camp

After getting off the horse, Feng Sen touched the ground with both feet and stomped the ground vigorously. A puff of smoke and dust rose, but there were no gaps or marks on the ground.

This route is newly built in Hamburg to Neufeld and Dietmarschen, an area that was once hardest hit by seawater intrusion, salt marshes and forests covering the land.

However, since the completion of the construction of Chengong Weir, the river water has been difficult to flow backwards, and this barren area has been extensively developed very quickly.

The soldiers from the Tang Dynasty, with their slaves and coats, as well as local tenants, reclaimed nearly [-] mu of land here in just two years, and this number is still increasing.

You know, in the first year of Xinye's establishment, only about [-] mu of land was reclaimed, but in the second year, [-] mu of land was reclaimed in one go, and now it is the second quarter of the third year, and [-] mu of land has been reclaimed.

Since these places were originally swamps, the soil and deposited humus brought extremely high fertility to the fields after they were filled and leveled.

According to Feng Sen's investigation, ten soldiers with twenty tenants or freedmen, eighty slaves, and forty rough horses can reclaim almost 3000 mu of land a year.

If he was ruthless and willing to spend five to six slaves, he could even reclaim 4500 acres of land. Although Feng Sen forbade slaves from being killed without reason, death from overwork was not considered. Besides, these slaves were a precious labor force, and many soldiers couldn't bear to consume them like this.

Under the premise of frantic reclamation, livestock trade gradually became a highly profitable trade product in the first half of 787.

A good cow costs 10 Solidas, an ordinary cow costs 6 Solidas, a good farming cow costs 8 Solidas, and an ordinary farming cow costs 5 Solidas. The price of a farming cow is worth 5 Pomeranian slaves or 4 Prussian slaves.

Some of these livestock came from the French region of later generations, some came from the Slavic tribes in the north, and even many parts came from the Slavic tribes in Northern and Eastern Europe.

The selling price of a piece of coarse wool in the south is about 1 to 3 solidas, and the price Feng Sen offered to Pomeranian tribal leaders and ancient Prussian warrior castes was 5 to 6 solidas.

What kind of concept is this? It is equivalent to saying that Feng Sen can exchange a piece of cloth for a cow or five slaves.

The cost of Feng Sen to produce a piece of cloth is less than one-fifth of the selling price, and the production speed is extremely fast. A piece of fine woolen cloth requires two weavers to work for about five days.

The greed of the tribal leaders is insatiable. With woolen fabrics, they also need fine woolen fabrics. With ordinary chairs, they also want high-end furniture in Ulster Town. Of course, there is the most important beer, and even fine-tasting wheat flour (many local people eat rye).

Not a few local chiefs shed bitter tears after trying wheat flour—I could have tolerated rye, if I had never eaten flour, I could have tolerated hides, if I had never worn wool.

However, there are not many things that the chiefs can trade. Their specialties are basically owned by the Villetti and the Opolites. The only things that can be sold are livestock and people.

But how can the population be sold indiscriminately as their own strength? This is the most troublesome problem for the chiefs. Could it be possible to rob those companies and chambers of commerce?

That is asking for death. There are not many things to sell in the first place, and if you offend these merchants, they will leave by boat, and there will be nothing left.

Until an ancient Prussian warrior leader had an idea, he exchanged the flour he was going to buy with the trophies that Feng Sen eliminated in the Villetti War, including some defective weapons, such as shields, armored clothing and spears.

I can't sell my own population, can't I rob other people's population?I don't have any extra cattle to sell, can't I rob other people's cattle?

Anyway, even without Feng Sen, they would have to fight every once in a while, and now the frequency has just increased.

As a result, tribal disputes have gradually increased, whether in Pomerania or in ancient Prussia, and there is even a tendency to spread to Lesser Poland.

In the first half of this year alone, Feng Sen acquired nearly 1000 farm cattle, 300 dairy cows, and more than 2000 people from these Slavic or near-Slavic tribes along the Baltic Sea.

This is also the first reason for the explosive growth of Xinyetiandi.

The second reason is the actions of Chen Chongyi's construction department.

At the end of last year, Chen Chongyi's construction company built barrages on both sides of the Elbe River to prevent the seawater from flooding in the downstream areas. With the help of Byzantine scholars and craftsmen, windmills were erected in swampy areas such as Xinye and Dietmarschen.

Hamburg, Xinye and Dietmarschen are basically located in the prevailing westerly wind belt, and the sea and land winds from the Atlantic Ocean are blown all year round. Although the wind resources are not as good as those in the lowlands, they are still very good compared with other regions.

Feng Sen came here today precisely for these windmills.

Surrounded by a large group of people, Feng Sen stepped over the dew-shiny green grass, passed the ridge and the drain, and came to a windmill.

This windmill was built on a swampy highland with a wide field of view. Looking down from the top, there is a continuous large mud swamp behind it, but a piece of farmland in front of it.

Feng Sen has also been here before. When he came here, it was a continuous puddle of large and small stinking water. The sticky and muddy swamp exuded a disgusting stench.

But now, most of the puddles have been filled one by one, turning into patches of fields and ridges.

Feng Sen came to the windmill, touched the hard brick surface of the windmill and the cement used for bonding, and he tapped lightly to make a "硿硿" sound.

This is a cylindrical multi-storey tower. At the top of the tower, there are four huge fan blades mounted on the rotating shaft. It is like an enlarged version of the fan, except that the fan is blowing and it is sucking.

In order to enable the windmill to operate normally, there are also chain members composed of huge wooden gears inside. In order to prevent wear and tear, many of them are still gears embedded in iron.

These windmills are usually used to pump water through wooden propeller pumps, and when necessary, they are used to grind flour. The livestock are precious and they are all cultivated in the fields, so they can't do this.

In the field at this moment, serfs of various colors wearing beige and with their hair tied up are leading cattle, holding fences, and working hard in the fields.

On the other side, under the sunlight, a group of serfs brandished hoes, dug up tree roots and wood, loosened the previously solid land, and sprinkled dry soil, sand and loess to neutralize the too wet black soil.

Speaking of which, Feng Sen combed the beard on his chin. During this period of time, the population of immigrants from Frank has become less and less.

He knew where the root cause was. First, there were not so many Frankish hungry people because of the increase in food production. Second, the northern land was remote and cold. Some free people didn't adapt to the policy, so naturally they didn't bother to come. In the end, it was the role of the nobles.

Those nobles would rather the peasants starve to death than let them go. Going to Feng Sen's land is also a protest and counterattack against Feng Sen.

However, there are always more solutions than difficulties. Some businessmen have even developed a method of leading people to smuggle people, and collecting money on both sides, wouldn't it be beautiful?

It's just that there is less support on the surface, and the number of immigrants from Frank is still a lot less, even less than half of the previous year.

But it doesn't matter, Feng Sen has already got the news that Charlie defeated the Byzantine expedition fleet a few days ago, and blatantly tore up Rotrude's marriage contract with Byzantium.

If it is not to be expected, large numbers of Lombards will soon be sent to Saxony and Villetti.

As for the land they vacated, the nobles don't even think about it, but under Charles' coercion, most of the land was allocated to priests and monasteries, and bishoprics were established.

Although the aristocrats made efforts, they did not gain any benefits, and they were full of anger. It happened that a priest declared that the Duke of Bavaria did not pay attention to honor and did not fulfill his military obligations.

It can be expected that another group of Bavarians and Frankish nobles whom Charles dislikes will go to Villetti or Thuringia.

Crooked sun, is this Villetti Ningguta?

No, Feng Sen suddenly realized that in this way, Saxony and the surrounding area would become a stronghold of rebels, all of whom were exiled by Charlie!

Handing over the traitor to me under the care of Mount Anluo, isn't that an affirmation of His Royal Highness Charlie's loyalty to me?Feng Sen burst into tears.

Chapter 3 Nobles: Look at the word Siris, it's really foreign

Returning from Xinye, Feng Sen non-stop ran to the riverside to inspect the newly built hydraulic forging hammer.

These three hydraulic forging hammers are all built on the edge of a dam in the upper reaches of the Ulster River. The potential energy of water falling from a high place provides the hydraulic forging hammers with sufficient kinetic energy.

These hydraulic forging hammer workshops, from the appearance, are a water turbine in the shape of a round tower of bricks and tiles. Under the washing of the high and low water levels, the water turbine rotates slowly.

Standing beside the hydraulic forging hammer, Feng Sen could even hear the creaking sound of the huge ratchet wheel turning. The ratchet wheel here also uses an iron-clad wood structure.

Across the threshold, in the round tower, a dozen craftsmen are stepping on the pedals, manipulating huge iron forging hammers, and hitting the iron armor leaves on the anvil one after another.

Unlike the forging in the Central Plains, there is no scene of sparks flying around here, and there are not even many furnaces. It is just that each piece of iron makes a crisp clanging sound under the constant knocking of a huge hammer, and the thickness is slowly becoming thinner.

A peculiar convenience is that these blacksmiths intentionally left a spot the size of a chopstick head at the end of the iron piece to observe the progress while forging, and it looks vaguely like a wart. .

"Jie Shuai." Sun Jingxiao held a wart armor already strung together with rivets and belts, and handed it to Feng Sen.

Feng Sen tapped lightly: "Have you tried this armor before?"

Sun Jingxiao nodded: "I've tried it, and it's much stronger than our ordinary armor. This armor is really powerful."

Of course it is powerful. This is a technology that has been hundreds of years ahead. The cold-forged warts from Xixia, Shen Kuo mentioned in "Mengxi Bi Tan", let the soldiers of the Song Army shoot at it with a fifty-step crossbow, and it would not enter.

Although considering Shen Kuo's possible exaggeration and the Song Army's combat effectiveness, Feng Sen had doubts about this level of sturdiness, but at least it was much better than the hot-forging armor he was using now.

The most distinctive feature of this craft is the cold forging technology it uses, rather than the common fire and hot forging in the Central Plains.

These irons are subjected to hammering processing at room temperature, which will produce strong plastic deformation, distort and distort the crystal lattice, cause the crystal grains to shear, slip, and eventually be elongated.

These will increase the hardness of the surface layer metal and reduce the plasticity of the surface layer metal deformation, which is called cold work hardening.

There is a reason why Feng Sen adopted this technology.

The first point is that the material requirements of this craft are very consistent with the local materials in Saxony.

Later, in the Song Dynasty, after discovering the sturdiness of warts, they also wanted to reproduce them, and finally came up with a batch of four different shapes, which obviously used the same technology, but they couldn't make them.

Of course, this is not a problem of craftsmanship or God bless Xixia, but the difference in iron quality. The content of iron and sulfur in the Central Plains is too high, there are too many impurities, and the fatigue resistance is very poor.

And this kind of cold forging process requires anti-fatigue, otherwise how can it be deformed by cold forging?

But the iron produced in Saxony, or Tieling in other words, is all good iron that has been appraised by the top metallurgists, with few impurities and high fatigue resistance. In addition, there are abundant water resources here, why not use it?

The second point is that it is handsome. Whether it is strong or not is a matter of a while, but whether it is handsome or not is a matter of a lifetime.

The output of this kind of warts is not high, and the annual output is only fifty or sixty pairs. The main reason is that the construction cost of the hydraulic forging hammer is too expensive. Feng Sen had to use part of the production capacity to forge various tools, such as saws, awls, and iron pliers. one of a kind.

These tools may seem inconspicuous, but they are in great demand, especially those in docks and furniture workshops.

The furniture workshop is a new industry in Hannover recently, especially the high-end furniture with secondary processing, such as various woolen chairs covered with shredded wool and feathers, beds inlaid with hanging pearls, and velvet quilts.

Since they tried chairs with cushions and woolen soft backs, many nobles could never go back to the small horses and hardwood stools of the past.

On these furniture, there are all kinds of rare and exotic beasts in the style of Seris sewed by the Seris embroiderer, and occasionally a blanket embroidered with mandarin ducks will be given.

Aristocrats from all over the world still like to bring Chinese characters, and they all feel that it is foreign.

This year, these nobles are all rich. First of all, the weather is good. Coupled with the development of agricultural technology, food production has increased significantly.

Charlie took out [-] bolts of woolen cloth to buy grain, and then used the grain as rations for the army and labor (road construction). The road was cleared, merchants came one after another, and the market was held more and more frequently.

Some monasteries and churches talk about doctrine, but their hearts are full of business. Buying and selling, tax evasion, and tax evasion are no better than them.

The reason why this happens is that under the leading effect of Saxony, a special economic zone, everyone has a lot of "money" regardless of whether they have gold or silver in their hands.

In the past, if the biggest political problem of the Frankish Kingdom was the failure of government orders and the decentralization of power, then the biggest economic problem was the lack of hard currency.

In this era, the absence of hard currency means that there is no industry that can absorb gold and lack of means of circulation. This is a reflection of Charlie's manor economy.

As the economic situation in the Saxony Special Economic Zone improved, Charlie also started to carry out reforms.

However, he still didn't directly engage in land sales with an upper limit like Feng Sen did, and only took half a step.

This half step is to learn Feng Sen's method in Ulster Town, specially divide a piece of land, set up seven or eight self-governing markets, and hand them over to the merchants, and what the merchants have to do is to pay Charlie a redemption fee every year.

What Charlie valued was not the redemption fee. Feng Sen had discussed with him clearly before that the two main purposes of these municipalities were, first, to develop a certain amount of industry and commerce, to facilitate circulation, and to prevent the outflow of hard currency.The second is to gradually promote woolen cloth instead of gold coins to solve the problem of official remuneration.

The principle is very simple, there are three treasures for the loyalty of officials, and the resources for beheading are good.

The big cake is to draw a big cake for the bureaucrats, so that they think they can climb up and enjoy different treatment from others. The specific system is the nine-rank system of official positions.

Beheading is the end of disloyalty, which depends on the monarch's own prestige, methods, and military and political achievements. The specific system is the cruel officials, Jinyiwei, and Dongchang.

The last point is resources. This resource is not just money, but also social status, private privileges, real estate and benefits.