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

"Under Heavenly Father, all living beings are equal, even pagans are just lost lambs." Feng Sen clinked glasses with Bolainus, "How about this wine?"

"I have to say." Bolenus took a big sip, "Although it's just Groot, it's already better than some low-quality wines, but this kind of beer is only liked by little nobles, artisans, farmers and soldiers, scholars Aristocrats drink wine."

"But the number of nobles will never be as large as that of craftsmen, peasants and soldiers, isn't it? What do you think of this canned fruit?"

"It's very fresh and delicious." Bolenus held out his thumb, "If it can be preserved for a long time, I believe those profiteers in Italy can make a lot of money from it. Sicily is a suitable place to grow fruit. .”

"I'll contact Italy. Do you have anything you want to buy? Bolenus?"

"Yes, not only there, but also many." Bolenus picked up the cup in his hand, "such as this cup, such as the wine in the cup, such as the hot pot on the table, such as your Roman cement."

"This is not Roman cement, but Sanhe cement, a kind of mortar from Seris." Feng Sen shook his head, "I know what you want to say, but the formula of Sanhe cement is a secret, and you can only buy goods."

"If you can contribute the formula of cement, you will definitely become a guest of the Constantinople court..."

Feng Sen spread his hands: "I am already a guest of the Frankish court, because of this, without my king's permission, I cannot sell any formula to you."

"...Okay." Bolenus sighed, "Then, can I buy your beer?"

"Of course, two desnels per quart. After the banquet, someone will contact you."

"Is this a bit expensive?" Bolenus frowned. "With all due respect, some inferior wines are also at this price—that's wine."

“Two mugs with handles are given away with every barrel of Hamburg beer, and if you can do me a favor, I can give you 1.5 de Nères a quart, and when I’m done, I’ll be rewarded.”

"What is it?"

"I need scholars, farmers, soldiers or craftsmen from the Eastern Empire. As you can see, my territory is really short of people, especially when we need to weave nearly [-] bolts of woolen cloth in a year."

"Of course, farmers, soldiers and craftsmen are easy to say. Now there are a bunch of bankrupt farmers, soldiers and craftsmen in Anatolia. It only takes a few bucks to get them on board, but scholars..." Bolainus shook Shaking his head, "Great scholars will find jobs wherever they go, even if they don't, they can rely on their contacts to live and eat."

"I don't need great scholars. Aren't some scholars working as scribes? Scholars like this are fine."

Bolenus thought for a while: "Are you talking about apprentices or elementary school teachers? In that case, there are no Anatolia, but there are many Junbao. You know, the Bulgars and Avars are making trouble , Greece and Macedonia are not at peace."

"That's the best, I'll leave this matter to you, my friend." Feng Sen patted Bolenus on the shoulder affectionately, "By the way, why didn't I see Zinovac, isn't he your business partner?"

Bolenus smiled wryly: "Zinowac bought a bunch of so-called military books in Junbao, and has been shutting up in his room recently, staying with those imperial mercenaries."

Feng Sen was taken aback for a moment, and he said half admiringly and half helplessly: "He is really a brave man."

"Your Excellency?" Feng Sen was about to ask Zinovac's residence, but was interrupted by another voice. It was Fowles who came, and he was holding a few blank papers.

"I have read your "West Britain Company Agreement", and it is not different from what you said. I have already signed it." Fowles handed several bound blank papers to Feng Sen, "Congratulations, sir, I think most of the people in the hall have signed this agreement. Although I don't know how you came up with this great business idea, I have to congratulate you—congratulations on the establishment of West Britain Company!"

"Thank you, Fowles." Feng Sen smiled and took the blank paper in Fowles' hand, and said in a voice that only he could hear, "(TM)D, why hasn't this achievement been triggered yet?"

Chapter 121 Europa Eight Banners Transformation System

Three days have passed since the establishment of the West Britain Company, and one day has passed since Zinovac left with the Three Hundred Banners.

However, the achievement reward of [West Britain Company] still hasn't been triggered. Feng Sen is a little anxious, because the achievement reward is very important - 100 artisans and the population of a workshop.

Needless to say, there are 100 craftsmen in Baiyi, the importance of craftsmen is self-evident, and among the population of that workshop, what Feng Sen values ​​more is the female population.

During the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the population of each fang city was different. For example, Guazhou in the Western Regions had only seven fangs in total, but no matter how small the number of people in each fang was, there were always 1000 people.

Moreover, these 1000 people were not a group of fighters like Feng Sen, but a group of people of all colors. The most important thing was that there were many women among them.

Feng Sen knew that while the local area was Sinicized, the Han people would inevitably become Husi in terms of blood and culture, because they lacked enough ethnic groups and scribes to spread culture.

If there were no Han women, Feng Sen's next generation would be fine. By the time of Feng Sen's grandson's generation, all members were of mixed race, and in such a big environment, they might not be able to speak a few words of Chinese.

When the officials of the Tang Dynasty inspected the Western Regions conquered by Tubo and visited the local Han people, they came to the conclusion that these Han people were illiterate, ugly in description, and vulgar in behavior, which was very different from the Han people in the Central Plains.

Feng Sen knew that this trend could not be stopped, because this was not a mental desperation, but a material desperation.

For example, silk and silk cannot be spun here in Western Europe, and the Chinese clothes of those silk and silk must be lost. For example, there are no ash worms in Western Europe, so the culture of candles (not beeswax) must be lost. It is estimated that their future generations will not be able to understand the image of candles in poems—they have never seen real candles.

But in any case, Feng Sen still hopes that the identity and culture of the Han people who have determined his position and existence can be retained a little bit more, not like Manchu, which even the Manchus can’t speak.

He needs Han women and pure-blood ethnicity, but there is a balance point. If his ethnicity can reach that balance point, it doesn't matter how much he values ​​pure-blood ethnicity, because there are enough people, but now, it is obviously not enough, so he must bring locals to play.

Feng Sen needs to give his people an identity to distinguish what is you and what is me.

Thinking of this, Feng Sen picked up the yellow book on the table, which is the roster of bannermen. As time went by, more and more local villages cast their flags, and at least ten hundred households of the Saxon Banner had been filled.

This one hundred households does not only have 100 people, but one hundred households, and one household has about five people. Basically, all the people who fight are bannermen, and those who work are all coated clothes. There are almost two people in this one hundred households. Ten households of Bannermen and eighty households of Baoyi, that is to say, each household of Bannermen can share almost four households of Baoyi to work for them.

The Frankish Banner is still scattered, with only five hundred households. In the newly established Norse Banner, many people chose to be free because of their previous military exploits, but there are still about a thousand Viking warriors. Norse flag.

Calculated in this way, the population of the Eight Banners in Feng Sen's territory is about 1 people, most of them are refugees, prisoners of war or slaves, while the population outside the Eight Banners, that is, the Stormarn tribe and some scattered small tribes, is estimated to be only four to five thousand people.

The existence of the Eight Banners is actually used by Feng Sen as an identification. The reason is very simple. Feng Sen specially linked ethnic identity with rank.

A man is a slave, he is not of any ethnicity, he is just a talking animal, but when he is a coat, he has a layer of identity, such as a Saxon, a Norse, etc. When he becomes a bannerman, he is no longer a member of a certain tribe, but a person of a certain banner.

In terms of perception, there is no difference, but it is like boiling frogs in warm water. At the beginning, they will be turned into Han people, and they will definitely be unwilling to do so. But if they are cooked slowly, they will be called a certain tribe first, and then a certain flag, and they will not know. Change unconsciously.

With the accumulation of military exploits, when they were promoted to Han people with foreign surnames, there was no difference between them and other ethnic groups, even the flags. When they were successfully promoted to Han people, it was natural for them to consider themselves It is Han Chinese.

Han people are no longer divided by ethnicity, but by class.

Feng Sen deliberately confuses the identity of ethnicity and class. For example, if ethnicity is to cut the crowd vertically, cutting people into Norse, Saxon, and Franks, then class is to cut the crowd horizontally, cutting them into slaves , free folk, nobles.

But Feng Sen's Eight Banners is to cut all ethnic groups vertically, and then put the Han people horizontally on the heads of all ethnic groups, and then tell the people below that we are cutting horizontally.

Take Hanfu as an example. If you ask a Saxon to wear a set of Hanfu deep clothes, he won’t know how to wear it—why do I, a Saxon, wear your Han clothing.

However, after the baptism of the Eight Banners, they will think that I have fought for so long just to be a master, and if a master wears Hanfu, I will also wear it.

In this way, organizational identification gradually turns into identity identification.

This process must also be based on advanced culture. If your Hanfu is uglier than their ordinary clothes, then of course they will not think it is a symbol of nobility.

The systems and benefits brought by these cultures are the most solid foundation for their transformation.

Moreover, Feng Sen's set of vertically cutting eight banners also has an advantage, that is, all class conflicts can be transformed into ethnic conflicts through this system. When the Saxon peasants revolted, it was the Norse who took What does it have to do with us Han people if we lost the land of the Saxons?

Feng Sen will open up the imperial examinations for Han people in the future, and if they pass the exam, they will be Han people with foreign surnames. This will open a door of convenience for those nobles who have no time to accumulate new conquests. After all, who can afford to read as a slave?To study, at least one must be a poor freeman or a rich man.

Want to read, want to be coated?It's very simple, pick up the sword in your hand, go to the battle, and survive once, you will basically have the identity and money to study.

Feng Sen constrains the prerequisite for all promotions to be military exploits. The starting point for all promotions is military exploits. If there is a hole, it is either your military exploits or your father's military exploits. Anyway, you have to have it.

To put it bluntly, the existence of the Eight Banners is actually quite reactionary. It is only in front of the more reactionary feudal system that it looks cute. In this era, a slave has a high probability of being a slave for the rest of his life. But here in Feng Sen, if a slave does well, he can even become a general.

Only absorbing the elites of various ethnic groups into the Han people, on the one hand, reduced the assimilation speed of the Han people, and on the other hand, suppressed the contradictions between the Han people and the local ethnic groups.

If the Eight Banners system wants to run smoothly, there is no escape. Another thing is to rely on continuous victories and trophies. Otherwise, people will not get benefits from this organization. Why should they identify with this organization?

Feng Sen touched his chin with a brush in his hand. Many soldiers in his army married some local nobles as wives, but in Feng Sen's view, the next generation of pure-blooded Han Chinese should at least be on par with the present.

Turning on the Clausewitz engine, Feng Sen looked at the [Invite Ladies] option. The last time I invited scribes and craftsmen, there were three people each, so there should be three invited ladies, right?

Chapter 122 New Translation of Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Feng Sen's Latinization Group

Now that prestige and psychic power are insufficient, it's useless to think about it, so let's do it right now.

After getting rid of those distracting thoughts in his mind, Feng Sen continued to deal with his government affairs. With the increase of population and the expansion of city size, he had to deal with more things.

After checking the accounts in the yamen for a while, approved a few cases, interviewed five or six minor nobles, and handed over seven or eight matters with a few attendants and clerks. In the evening, Feng Sen was finally free.

Seeing that there was still some time before dinner, he took out a booklet, picked up a quill, and wrote carefully in Latin.

This is a book called "Three Kingdoms". Yes, this "Three Kingdoms" is the Latin version of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" presented by Feng Sen's Latinization Team.

At first, when Feng Sen went out for a walk with Ador and Lyudmila after dinner, in order to keep these two too energetic princesses from running around and be obedient, Feng Sen told them the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Of course, it was the Latin version-Feng Sen's Frankish was not that good.

But fortunately, the two princesses have a high level of education, and Latin is their second mother tongue, so they can understand it.

Good works can always transcend cultural barriers. At least the two little girls are chasing books like crazy every day. They are very concerned about Liu Bei's Prince's Return to the Country. It's not just these two little girls. In the end, Even the attendant monks followed Feng Sen, listening to his stories.

Feng Sen himself knew that this was a romance, but in the eyes of the people at the time, romance was no different from history, and they naturally regarded this book as the first-hand information for studying Seris—isn’t the narration of a pure Siris still reliable?

At this point, Feng Sen suddenly realized, in this case, why not turn this story into a book?You must know that although Charlemagne himself has no culture, he has a high regard for scholars and educated people. The Carolingian Renaissance is a proof.

So why can't I add bricks and tiles to this Renaissance?

So, there is this "Three Kingdoms", no surprises, it is still a high imitation copycat version, Feng Sen can't remember the whole Romance of the Three Kingdoms, some vague memories can only be slurred, and even made up some new generals New stories to fool.

At least now there are three versions of this "Three Kingdoms", the simplified version with illustrations without water injection in Feng Sen's hands, the religious revision version in the hands of the priests, and the nonsense version recorded by Feng Sen with oil and vinegar, and some A fragmented story version of the nobles and nobles who occasionally walked with Feng Sen.

Relatively speaking, the nonsense version made by the two princesses looks better.

It's a pity that the nonsense version has stopped updating recently. Since Zinovac came to visit Feng Sen, Lyudmila has stopped riding horses and practicing bows. He often sighs and occasionally tears his face. Papa's phlox fell.

Feng Sen doesn't know how to coax little girls. The only way he comforted girls in his previous life was to pour someone a cup of hot water, and then say a few words. If your mother/father is still alive, they definitely don't want to see you like this.

The sky is getting darker and dark clouds are covering the sky. I'm afraid there will be a night rain tonight.

After giving some instructions to the soldiers at the gate, Feng Sen turned a corner and came out of the yamen. After walking a few steps, he arrived in front of his family's general's mansion.

After passing through the courtyard of the first entrance, Feng Sen greeted the praying attendants and the scribes with tired faces. Feng Sen passed through the courtyard of the second entrance, crossed a threshold, and came to the innermost small courtyard.

A long straight square path in the small courtyard extends from the door to Feng Sen's own room, and there is a little smoke from the kitchen behind him, and a small silver-haired head pokes out from the door of the main hall: "Feng, you It's too late, I'm going to starve to death."

"I'm coming."

Through the corridor, Feng Sen walked up to Ador, took her hand, and walked into the back room: "Don't stand outside, be careful of catching a cold."

"No, I'm wearing two layers of beaver cloak, and I'm going to die of heat." Ador said happily, "I went out riding with Mia today, and the sea snake is taller than me now, and I almost can't climb I went up, but her tongue was as soft as before, it was itchy to lick her face, and there were..."

The sea snake is a pony, the offspring of a green horse in the Jingnan Army and a local Hanoverian horse. Speaking of this, Feng Sen didn't pay much attention when arranging the breeding of those horses before, and many pony ponies were pregnant with the children of big horses.

The name of the sea snake was also given by Ador. Although Lyudmila is having a bad time recently, Ador is living very comfortably. He goes up to the mountains to hunt every day, goes down to the water to catch fish, and plays with a few friends when he has nothing to do. .

Although I still have to study at the Hamburg Elementary School and Mother Gisela, compared with the palace, life here is much more cheerful.

Feng Sen took off the horizontal knife at his waist, hung it on the wall, walked into the inner room, surrounded by a table of Eight Immortals, Yingying Yanyan sat a large table of princesses.

It has to be said that in this era, Latin is indeed the same as English in later generations. Even Arvo, who is the most uneducated, can stumble and speak a sentence or two of Latin.

Arwo had two slender braids on her temples, and when she saw Feng Sen coming in, she smirked. She patted the seat beside her and said in a strange Chinese accent, "Sit, sit down."

A small stool was placed on Ador's chair, Feng Sen sat next to Arvo, and Arvo also smiled, and locked Feng Sen's feet with two slender and firm thighs under the table.

Ador immediately stared at Arvo with his eyes wide open like a kitten blowing fur.

Feng Sen rubbed Ador's little head with a smile, and a sentence came out of his mind, as long as you are weak enough, no matter how terrifying the threat is, it will look cute.

On the other side of the Eight Immortals table, Gisela was talking with Lyudmila in a low voice. Compared with before, Lyudmila's expression was much more mature. Some time ago, she was obviously a little girl like Ador, almost In just three days, she became a young girl.

Sighing lightly, innocence is indeed a consumable, and Feng Sen felt that the lively, cheerful and carefree Lyudmila might never come back.

"Anything new today?" Feng Sen asked while waiting for the food to be served.

"God bless, everything is well." Gisela replied with a smile, "I was talking to Father Kelvin recently, and I am planning to combine the monastery in Elsdorf and the monastery in Hamburg into one."

"Did something happen?"

"You know some hateful heretics and poor refugees, God bless them."

"It doesn't matter, the hamburger is big enough to accommodate many people." Feng Sen shrugged indifferently, and he looked at Lyudmila again, "Don't worry, Mila, when I defeat Uerzen's rebels, I will Will immediately go north to support your father."

"It's okay, I trust my brother and Uncle Zinovac." Lyudmila forced a smile.

"When will dinner be served? I'm hungry." Arvo complained.

Feng Sen couldn't help laughing and said, "You don't have many new things, except eating and sleeping."

"Who said, I still need to practice shielding and swordsmanship." Arvo punched Feng Sen's shoulder in aggrieved manner.

"Okay, okay, let's eat."

Soon, hot lamb noodle soup and a large plate of garlic and white meat were served. In addition, each person also had apple cubes and strawberries mixed with cheese, a small bowl of hummus, a large bowl of dandelion and carrot salad, and some toast.

Although Feng Sen and the others ate at the same table, during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, meals were still divided, so everyone had several fixed dishes and food, among which Feng Sen and Arvo had the most, especially Feng Sen, who In addition to the above food, there are a few eggs and a large bowl of chicken breast.

Feng Sen has to exercise at least two hours a day, one hour in the morning and one hour in the evening. He does a lot of exercise and eats a lot.

Hululu used chopsticks to swallow a large bowl of stewed noodles in three or five mouthfuls. Feng Sen threw an egg into his mouth, picked up the bread and took a few bites. Suddenly a servant ran in from the outside, and he fell on Feng Sen Said two words in the ear.

Feng Sen's complexion changed, and he hurried out the door before he had time to eat.

Chapter 123 Your Highness Pepin, sit down

The evening wind howled, much more urgently than before, and the chilly air permeated the street in front of the Jiangfu Gate. Walking in this chill, Pepin's body twitched from time to time.

Led by Priest Al, the hunchback Pepin stood in front of the gate of the inner city.

He looked up with difficulty. To him, this was simply a high mountain. Between the endless fir permanent piles, layers of rammed earth were piled up to a height of five meters.