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

Under the dazzling sunlight, Zhenhui raised his snow-white barley robe, and walked forward slowly. At his side, three priests held iron horns, ready to repeat his words loudly.

After a boring speech of thanking the heavenly father, thanking Charlie, and thanking the fallen soldiers, Zhenhui sang a hymn emotionally, then calmly stepped aside and let Feng Sen stand on the stage.

Wearing a deep robe and a black veil, Feng Sen straightened his back and came to the front of the wooden platform. Under the wooden platform, countless pairs of eyes finally raised their spirits, and the hands covering their ears were also put down.

Still continuing the previous style, Feng Sen quickly read a short congratulatory speech and prayer, and then entered the topic:

"I think everyone should have heard of it. Under the blessing of the great god and under the leadership of King Charles, we crushed the rebels everywhere and won the Saxon War.

And His Royal Highness Charlie sleeps day and night, struggling to find a way to help him stabilize Saxony, relying on the kindness of His Royal Highness Pepin, Saxon people, although you have launched a rebellion, His Highness has decided to forgive you, for this reason, in my At the suggestion of the letter, the "Saxon Law" - was abolished! "

Feng Sen did not continue to speak, but stopped the conversation skillfully. The sound from the three speakers was like stones thrown into the water. The whole venue was so excited that many Saxons covered their faces and wept with joy. , but there were also quite a few people with unhappy and regretful expressions on their faces.

"I know that many aristocrats here have used the "Saxony Law" to embezzle land and force free people to become slaves. Here, I want to repeat what His Royal Highness Charles said—in the land of the Frankish Kingdom, there are only three identities, nobles, free people and slaves.

Unless it is the sanction of the law or the punishment of the heavenly father, no one can force a freeman to become a slave. I know that most of you are clean and clean, but there are also a small number of nobles who disregard His Royal Highness Charlie's trust and devotion to the heavenly father!

I want you to listen carefully, I can let go of the past, but if this kind of thing happens again in the future, I will double the punishment! "

Feng Sen's voice was cold and cruel: "If you don't believe it, you can go to the north and ask those Vikings how I treated them. At that time, no amount of ransom money will change my mind. swear."

Under Feng Sen's bloody gaze, many nobles and manor owners present lowered their heads with guilt.

After the effect was achieved, Feng Sen adjusted his collar with satisfaction, his eyes softened a lot, his words changed, and his voice became a little cheerful: "However, considering that the Saxon War caused too much damage to the population and land, in the next three years , all earls and nobles do not need to pay tribute and provide military obligations to me.

As far as the manor owner is concerned, the newly reclaimed land will not be subject to investigation within five years.I will not collect any Sensus (land tax) for your newly reclaimed fields within five years, and I will send a small official to teach you how to reclaim and plant. This is my reward for not participating in the rebels! "

With a devilish smile, Feng Sen tapped the hard cover of the Sun Worship Book in his hand: "As for those nobles and chiefs who participated in the rebellion, they will get the punishment they deserve."

A classic method of carrots and sticks, the classics belong to the classics, it works or it works, the expressions of the manor owners and the nobles are quite honest, how much of it is sincere and how much is fake?Feng Sen didn't know, but it didn't matter, he had plenty of means to find these people out.

"There are three things today, and the first thing is to abolish the Saxon law..." Feng Sen was halfway through, when suddenly there was a huge noise and cheers outside the venue. It seemed that the abolition of the Saxon law had spread outside, "...I will send people to spread the good news all over Saxony. Everyone present, please be cautious in your words and deeds.

So now let's talk about the second thing, which is the new Saxon Act, which abolishes the old "Saxon Act", and we will also implement the new Saxon Act.

This decree is called "Saxon Country Law". I have always believed that faith cannot be persecuted by the sword, but should be cultivated slowly like spring rain nourishing the land. For this reason, I have formulated this law. Simply put, This is a decree to distinguish who are my subjects.

First of all, a person who lives in a city, in a manor, is under an earldom, and believes in the teaching of the Heavenly Father, no matter he speaks Frankish, Saxon or even Slavic, he is a national.Those who live in the wild and do not believe in the teachings of the Heavenly Father are savages.

The Chinese can hold public office, be enshrined as manor owners, and can use money instead of military service, but the savages do not have any of the above powers. At the same time, because they continue to believe in heresy, I will charge them an extra land tax, thirty one tax, not high, but enough to ring the alarm for them! "

Speaking of this, Feng Sen paused, and continued to announce: "As for those Saxons who have made meritorious service on the battlefield, although they don't know it, they are grateful for their dedication to God, and they are also regarded as citizens of the country.

This includes two full-staffed thousand households of the Saxon banner in the Eight Banners Legion, three under-staffed thousand-households, and some Saxon soldiers who were awarded rural soldiers or volunteers. From then on, the Saxon banner only recruited soldiers among the Chinese! "

Chapter 2 Eight Great Thousand Households

The main reason for only recruiting Bannermen among Chinese people is that the forces within the Eight Banners are somewhat out of balance. You must know that Feng Sen’s Eight Banners Legion is called the Eight Banners, but in fact there are only four banners: the Saxon Banner, the Frankish Banner, the Viking Banner and the Slavic Banner .

Among the four banners, the Saxon Banner is too powerful. Even if a large number of Viking prisoners of war are recruited, the Viking Banner with soldiers in the banner reaching a thousand households cannot be balanced.

Among Feng Sen’s Eight Banners, the Saxon Banner has 52 households and a total of 12000 people. This terrifying number has been simplified by Feng Sen. Of the 4000 Saxon prisoners of war on the Weser River, he only kept [-] people as bannermen and coats, and the rest were returned to their hometowns, but the number is still so terrifying.

Comparing the Viking Banner with a total of less than 4000 people and the Frankish Banner with less than 2000 people, and the Slavic Banner with only three hundred households, you can see how powerful the Saxon Banner is within the Eight Banners Corps.

Feng Sen had to divide up some Saxons who could speak Norse or Frankish, and forcibly classified them as other flags to balance this terrible situation.

"I have asked someone to write the specific terms of the National Law on the notice board in front of the city gate, and every morning, noon and evening, someone will recite the specific terms of the National Law three times in front of the notice board.

In the summer, I will lead people to patrol the whole of Saxony to see the implementation of the law. Therefore, handle the affairs in your territory and implement the law well. His Royal Highness Charles has given me full power. I can directly deprive you of the title of earl and let you go back to your hometown. "

Standing in front of the wooden platform, Feng Sen's back was scratched by the sun. He adjusted his posture and waved to a servant beside him. Soon, the servant came over with a stack of papers on a plate.

"Okay, the third thing is the issue of rewards for the soldiers." Feng Sen shook the list of rewards, "According to the agreement, I will give each hundred households, remember, not individual hundred households, but the entire hundred households' bannermen and coats are equivalent to two or three knights' fiefs. From now on, you don't have to pay taxes anymore, you just need to go to battle and kill the enemy!

However, I want to warn you that all the banners hold a big competition every three years. In each big competition, five out of a hundred bannermen will be eliminated to become coats, and five will be selected from the coats or justices who have accumulated enough credit to become bannermen.

Of course, if you don't want to become a coat, there is another option, which is to go out and become a free citizen.No matter what, I won't let people who lack martial arts continue to enjoy the preferential treatment of bannermen, understand? "

What?Bigger than?Didn't you say hardcore crops?Many bannermen couldn't help talking loudly, and some even wanted to bypass the guards and come to Feng Sen in person to express their interests.

"What? Do you want to rebel?" A cold voice sounded in the ears of the banner people. Feng Sen took a few steps forward and came to the edge of the wooden platform. His tiger-like eyes seemed to mute the remote control. Wherever he went, The soldiers who were excited just now were immediately choked by the throat of fate, and could only sit down carefully like quails.

Coughing twice, Feng Sen turned around and returned to the center of the wooden platform: "If you have anything to say, let's talk about it after the conference is over...Okay, let's get back to the topic.

In this battle, the soldiers used their lives, the captains were courageous, and they were all loyal and loyal... According to the military judge's statistics on beheading, charging into the battle, beheading generals, and capturing life, a total of 1919 Baoyi and Yicong were promoted to bannermen, 70 bannermen were promoted to hundreds of households, and 4 hundred households were promoted to thousand households.

In order to prevent you from being confused, I need to tell you the difference of martial arts again.

First of all, before the flag is thrown, the Wuxun representative of the villager can serve as the captain of the volunteer army and the village leader, and the Wuxun representative of the Yicong can directly become the bannerman when throwing the flag.

After throwing the flag, one hundred households will be promoted to one thousand households for meritorious service, and one thousand households will automatically receive the martial arts of "Han people with foreign surnames".

In order to distinguish the hundred households among the generals from those among the people, from now on, the hundred households among the people are called Li, and the head of a hundred households is called Lizheng.

In the next six months or so, eight thousand-household offices will be distributed along the banks of the Elbe River, with our Eight Banners in Hamburg as the main force. Each thousand-household office will govern five to eight hundred-household offices. "

Speaking of this, not only Feng Sen's face turned rosy, but also many bannermen and hundreds of households below stood up, looking nervously and expectantly at Feng Sen on the stage.

Beat to death for what?Isn't it just for the land, money and status?Now the owners of the Eight Banners have all become the Dukes of Saxony, and we captains of the personal army can't be counted as earls.

Sure enough, Feng Sen did not hide much, and directly began to divide the land nakedly (harmoniously):

"Then, let's begin.

Saxon Banner Kaiqi guarded Zhao Si with a hundred households. They were loyal and brave.

Huward, who guarded Lüneburg with a hundred households in the Saxon Banner, knew the general situation.

Prechtel, a hundred households in Dongtou Village, Frank Banner, is loyal, unbreakable, and quiet about everything, so that thieves cannot enter.

Saxon Banner Iopa Baihu Dike, who joined our army from the beginning, fought several battles, was very brave, was promoted to a Han with a foreign surname, and was given the name Niu Zhihao.

In our Eight Banners military system, [-] households are one guard, and these [-] households are the North Saxon Guard, defending the Hamburg government to resist the Viking pirates and the Danes.Han Shizhong was appointed General of the North Saxon Guard.

Olaf of the Viking Banner with a red ax of hundreds of households, Lune served first to defeat the bandit army, and he must be killed in battle. The Weser River Settenkaner River first rushed to the battle in World War II and created it.Promoted to a Han with a foreign surname, he was given the name Zu Guihou, and was granted the post of guard of a thousand households in Magdeburg, leading a thousand households.

Abu, the leader of the Saxon savages, abandoned the darkness and turned to the light to help me win Vidukind and defeat the Danish king's army, but his achievements were insufficient, so he was promoted to a bannerman and given the surname Ying.

Kryon, the leader of the Saxon savages, and the three leaders of the battle group, but their meritorious service is still insufficient, so they were replaced by Qianhu.

Saxon Banner Tam Xiliang has a hundred households. Tam Xiliang has made great achievements in hard work, killed the enemy, and accumulated several merits. He was promoted to a Han with a foreign surname.

These [-] households are the South Saxon Guard, defending the Magdeburg government, resisting the Eastern Vileti, Slavs and Sorbs, Ren Zhenhui is the general of the South Saxon Guard.

These eight people all stepped forward to receive Futou and forehead, four seasons official uniforms and long swords! "

The warriors stepped forward one after another, but Feng Sen's attention was focused on the bottom. He could see a flame burning in the seat of the venue, not only the bannermen, not only the coats, but also the wandering warriors and free people. The flames of greed and excitement were ignited in their eyes.

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ps It is said that it is only my age, so what?Tie Guan said that I am a long-time leader in armor, and there are many engineers, so the armor is very strict.

It is said that this is the end of the day, how many years will it be built?Tieguan said that I practice fine steel here, or that the armor is made of goodness, and then it is cultivated in the heart.

What did you say about armor today?Tie Guan said that I have strengthened the system of armored soldiers and strictly followed the legacy of the Taizu.

The above said, but since the 19th year of Xuanwu, how much has armor been made today? (Tieguan) His eyes are farsighted, and he is speechless.

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Chapter 2

Although the Hamburg Awards Conference had ended for three days, its subsequent impact was like ripples stirred up by stones, and spread throughout Saxony along with the wheels and horseshoes of the departing nobles and business travelers.

In this reward meeting, in addition to distributing spoils to the soldiers and issuing conscription advertisements to other warriors, another important gain was the loyalty of some lords and feudal lords, even if it was only superficial.

Due to the oath of allegiance from most of the Saxony lords and feudal lords, half of the local snakes in more than 30 Saxon territories or counties have already offered their loyalty to Feng Sen, including Hanover, which is in a key position.

This is the benefit of conquest by force. The figure of Feng Sen's army kicking Uda in the south and Vidukind in the north has been firmly reflected in their hearts. Absolute violence brings absolute dominance.

Doing as the Romans do, the lords and manor owners consciously offered protons to Feng Sen. There are about a hundred of these protons. They will form Feng Sen's Habayashi guards together with the orphans of the banner people and the young soldiers from the Hamburg Elementary School. .

As for the attitude towards the country's law, most of the nobles still readily accepted it in terms of three years of non-service, Xintian's five-year non-official policy, and Feng Sen's illustrious reputation.

For the Saxons, although they have to pay another tax, they will not be oppressed simply because they are not believers of the Heavenly Father. Ordinary Saxons are already very satisfied. Besides, this Serisian is the son-in-law of our Great Chief Vidukind, so he is considered one of his own.

Among other things, just three years of non-service, Xintian's promise of not serving in the army for five years is enough to make refugees or poor peasants flock to them, regardless of whether they are Saxons, Franks or Slavs.

Not serving in the military for three years, and Xintian not paying a job for five years is of course a policy of recuperation, but Feng Sen still has a series of plans, waiting for the most important parts to be put into operation-money and food.

In terms of food, Charlemagne has ordered the lords and priests on the East Frankish side to send some of them to Saxony. For the time being, they have settled down, so the only thing left is money.

Feng Sen is now sitting in the study every day, and those task plans and wood chips have basically been placed, but they have been put on hold now because of lack of money.

Unskilled work such as the establishment of thousands of households and hundreds of households can be outsourced to local people, but such as digging canals, mining, and textiles that require technical content can not be recruited by relying on land and simple personal attachments.

He needs to spend a lot of money to recruit and buy these craftsmen from Italy, Venice or Constantinople or even the Abbasid Empire.

As for the grain from the East Frankish lord, Feng Sen didn't have much hope. He was very familiar with the feudal lord's urination. It would be a great mercy to fill up the rations of a thousand households. Maybe you only gave out two handfuls of wheat and said you owe him a favor.

It is really painful to have no money. Looking at the report, excluding the future development plan, there is still a gap of 2200 solidars in the current situation. I really don’t know where to get the money. Feng Sen frowned and stared at the plan in front of him. Otherwise, ask the Jews to raise a small amount?

The Jews of this era have not yet reached the state of hating dogs in the middle and late Middle Ages. I don’t know if doing so will cause public outrage.

The current Jews appear as bankers and merchants most of the time. Although the current Frank is a self-sufficient manor economy, in the final analysis, they still have to exchange. At this time, the meaning of the Jews emerges.

In the early Middle Ages, Jews were not prohibited from doing business, so most of the Jewish groups were mainly merchants, and the manor system economy also needed circulation.

Since Frank is a country dominated by agriculture, and the Church of the Heavenly Father does not advocate commerce, in the process of continuous feudalization, Jews who are engaged in business are naturally excluded.

It can be repelled, but only a little.

After the dark age after the collapse of Rome, the identity of the Jews as "Romans" was gradually lost. With the establishment of the feudal system based on land enfeoffment and personal attachment in Frank, people of different cultures and classes generally established attachments using land as a bond.

But the unlucky Jews have no land, or the Jews who own the land basically get rid of the Jewish ethnicity, and the Jews who are separated from the land inevitably become a marginal group. Although the enforcement is not strict, the law is indeed strict Intermarriage between Jews and believers of the Father is prohibited.

Although in principle and law, people despise the Jews, but in this era, the Jews are actually doing well, at least they will not become cleaning supplies.

If it is in later generations, if the Jews hate dogs, what would happen if they killed a creditor? In "The Merchant of Venice", Shakespeare blatantly asked the protagonist to borrow money from the Jews and not repay it, and even wrote it to praise it.

But in this era, Feng Sen still has to consider the impact, so this item has to be raised with skill and level.

Sitting alone in the study, Feng Sen was thinking, but he saw Li Baojing wearing a plain white Confucian shirt and a short beige felt cape over his shoulders, walking out of the gate with gentle steps, and she came to Feng Sen's table with a piece of elm bark in her hand.

"Jie Shuai, this is today's schedule. I have marked it in order of priority." Li Baojing's voice was soft and soft, a bit like the clip sound of later generations, but it was not so contrived and shrill, and instead had a soft feeling like a lamb.

Yes, Li Baojing is Feng Sen's new secretary. The three previous scribes were divided up by Wang Sima and Zhenhui as soon as they arrived, and the remaining one was an old and dim-witted private school teacher who was directly sent to teach by Feng Sen.

According to what Li Baojing said, although she was born in a general family, she could write good handwriting, and her skills were better than many Kongmu officials. She even embroidered better than the two embroiderers Feng Sen summoned. She could even write essays and poems.

Damn, as expected of the nobles of Guanlong, the quality brought by the education of this noble, compared with those Kongmu officials, is not crushed, but stepped on their faces and slipped everywhere.

Such a good secretary Lang oh no, secretary lady, why not use it?

"Thank you, Miss Li."

Spreading the elm bark on the table, Feng Sen carefully checked the plan of the elm bark, and at the same time put the papermaking workshop on the agenda in his mind.

Spring plowing is just around the corner, and all the production capacity of Feng Sen's Void Workshop has been used to produce agricultural production tools such as hoes and axes. Therefore, Feng Sen's yamen has entered the era of paperless office ahead of schedule.

Scanning today's itinerary, Feng Sen frowned. He saw a familiar to-do item on the itinerary - "handle Hong Baoxiang and other matters".

Hong Baoxiang was the soldier who partnered with Frank's rascals to defraud money, and finally killed the creditor.

He is considered an old dental soldier. He was a dental soldier in the army during the generation of Feng Sen's father. In the battle between the Elbe River and Glore, his calf was injured, infected and inflamed, and he had to cut off the entire calf. Put on a prosthetic leg and walk on crutches.

"It's better to hit the sun than choose the day." Feng Sen stood up, took two steps back and forth in the study, and walked in front of Li Baojing, who was calculating his financial affairs.

"Li Xiaoniang, please postpone all the things on this schedule for three days, I'm going to Badovic."

"What are you going to Badovic for?"

"Meet that Jewish Abbey-Reuben, I have something very important to talk to him about."

Chapter 2 A Conversation with Reuben Abbey

After a whole winter of rainwater infiltration, the whole land is like a sponge that has absorbed water. When the boots step on the soft ground, you can even hear a clear "squeak" sound, which is the sound of water overflowing from the land.

In the wilderness of Lune, Badovic is a small oasis. Under the leadership of the morning breeze, the sun drifted to the top of Badovic, dyeing the sharp red roof of Badovic Church in a faint light. orange red.

Taking a deep breath of the air that smelled of cow dung and mud, Feng Sen stood in front of Badovic's gate, silently watching the city in front of him, with a smile on his lips.

In front of the gate, many free people from nearby rushed to the gate of the fort. Fishermen hawking, coaters working, and shepherds grazing out of the city, a group of people blocking the gate actually added a bit of excitement to this small soldier of more than 500 people. atmosphere.

As the nobles and chiefs were transferred to Hamburg by Feng Sen, with the help of the Eight Banners garrison, a large number of former freemen or slaves were assigned to the land and became coat packers or banner bearers, and Badovic also changed from an ordinary settlement to a hundred households subordinate to a thousand households in Lüne.

However, the role of the original Badovic's business base was transferred to Lune. The distance between the two sides is not far, and it can take half a day at most.

Because of the wasteland here, Badovic’s hundred households basically focus on animal husbandry, so in the vast wasteland, the coaters waved long poles to drive sheep or grazing cattle, and the spring breeze blew their felt hats on their heads.

Half of the original Badovik’s wooden wall has been demolished, and the remaining part of the city wall is a two-meter rammed earth wall as the bottom, and a female wall and a tower are built with wood on the top. On the tower, two Bannerman soldiers holding short crossbows leaned against the railing and looked into the distance.