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As a result, Huo Teng's army finally got the most scarce piece of the puzzle.

In close combat, you can use expensive heavy armored sergeants, supplemented by upgraded armored spear regiments to form a strong front like a fortress.

On auxiliary troops, mountain spear throwers can be recruited to throw spears around the edge, and special units such as rangers can both shoot and melee.

On long-range troops, cheap and easy-to-use conscript archers with good range can replace poor peasant archers as the main shooting force.Due to the limitation of the recruitment limit, Huo Teng's rangers and crusader archers only have the upper limit of two teams, so the unlimited recruitment of archers is very important.

Of course, nothing can do without the strategic and decisive arms, the cavalry.

Huo Teng's cavalry can use the elite giant beast cavalry as the core, supplemented by retinue knights and retinue cavalry to form a well-defined charge structure, which will completely collapse the enemy's morale after encountering multiple superimposed charges.

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But on the surface everything seems to be good, once the cost is calculated, you will cry blindly.

Huo Teng didn't need to think about it, he could tell that maintaining a heavily armored sergeant could produce a full 3.3 times the spear regiment.

Can a feudal warrior in chain mail kill three and a half peasants in cloth armor and spears?This is a very incalculable thing.

The monthly salary of recruiting archers is half times higher than that of peasant archers, and peasant archers not only do not need to recruit fees, but even the military salary can be reduced by converting food.

Can 80 recruited archers shoot past 120 peasant bows? 1

When the problem of cost weighed on his head like a mountain, Huo Teng also had to worry about how to arrange the operation of funds, so as to ensure that he would not appear so militaristic, so that the territory could maintain a momentum of sustainable development.

First of all, following the Kassel development plan this time, Horten disbanded most of the overdue troops and sent them to Kassel to develop their own industries.This saved Huo Teng a lot of money, and it also allowed Huo Teng to enjoy a good life of having chicken every day. He could sit at his desk and plan how to prepare the army in autumn.

"Dear Palatine Earl, this is a letter from the Earl of Paderborn. The master of the north does not seem to feel that his authority has been lost. He suddenly issued an order today to take the Saxon knights to the edge of the country. To open up the land, but also to attack the Slavic tribes and force them to get out."

Relatives in the northwest brought the newest driver of the Duchy of Saxony.

"Dong Shi imitated and responded clumsily, ha ha." Huo Teng sneered at this.

Colonial pioneering is a technical activity.

Most of the time, why do people venture to wilder, more primitive places unless they can't live there?

Old Bernard must have noticed that Huo Teng was actively developing the country, which caused a great psychological crisis, so in order to appease his mentality, he started the pioneering order.

Huo Teng opened the envelope, and after reading it carefully, he was even more grinning from ear to ear.

Old Bernard was really old.

He actually encouraged the knights to cultivate on the barren frontier by simply rewarding them.Neither Huo Teng will provide more advanced farming machinery and safety guarantees, nor can it guarantee the safety and independence of the newly pioneered fiefdoms.Isn't this a green light for false reporting of accounts and nobles' occupation of Shanze?

Such imitation will significantly increase Saxony's ongoing financial crisis.

"Old guy, it seems that I really think highly of you."

Huo Teng put away the letter and put it in the file of important reference letters.

Now that old Bernard has been misled by the Beastman disaster and Huo Teng's reclamation operations, Huo Teng can continue to bluff and disband more corner troops while flaunting his military power, so as to free up pressure for next year. prepare.

"Well... then disband a group of marginal troops and recruit 10 peasant spearmen and 5 peasant bowmen. Send these troops to our important roads and border checkpoints to show our internal and neighboring countries that we are rich and powerful. powerful."

Huo Teng's countermeasure is not simply to wait.

As the saying goes, take a gamble, millions of troops will be disarmed, bear with it, and the aircraft carrier will be built.

On the one hand, it is necessary to disband the old army, and on the other hand, it is necessary to bluff and write its own strength on its face to deter the enemy.

The dispatch of 15 peasant troops to important intersections and checkpoints is precisely to demonstrate Göttingen's force to neighbors, subordinates and passers-by.

We can even dispatch militia troops so luxuriously, do you dare to provoke my regular army?

Do you dare to challenge the mighty Earl Horten?

Huo Teng felt that he could take a gamble.

After all, there were not so many fancy strategies in the Middle Ages, and most people were stupid and naive.

Just as Huo Teng was planning this, another piece of news shocked Huo Teng a little.

King Conrad responded to his request for the completion of the Beastmen's extermination, but the reward he gave was not the previously agreed funds. Instead, he confirmed that the control of Eschweger belonged to Horten, and the price was that Horten would become queen. vassal.

Where is this?

Conrad is too shameless.Don't you just want some bad money from you?If you are so stingy, have you embezzled the treasury?

The distraught Huo Teng wished to immediately send the king to prison for corruption.

But it was Conrad's stinginess to the end that reminded Huo Teng of one thing.

Recently, in the duchy of Haut-Lorraine, south of Luxembourg, a town called Sioverville, an unconventional meeting of bishops was being held.According to Prime Minister Morris, Archbishop Heribert of Cologne will personally preside over it, and many famous bishops in China will also participate.

If Huo Teng's impression is correct, this matter will involve the marriage of King Conrad and Queen Matilda.

Matilda, 13, and Conrad, 29, are related for four generations, dating back to the time of Otto the Great seven or eighty years ago.

This is not a big deal at all, after all, the Christian church generally only prohibits it to four generations, and the folks even just don't allow brothers and sisters to marry.

But the terrible thing is that in the last century, the Christian Church had a very unreliable amendment to the regulations on marriage between close relatives. In that amendment, marriages within seven generations were prohibited, so strict that many nobles could not even find suitable peers As a marriage partner, it seems superficial and ends without a problem.

But the problem is that a rule that no one follows is still a rule.

Some people are going to use this question to start making waves.

Chapter 210 Six Can This Crash a Car?

When you wanted to accuse a medieval nobleman of breaking the law in the 9th and 11th centuries, the most appropriate way might not be to accuse him of being a heretic, but to report him for consanguineous marriage.

The bishop will really check whether he believes in heresy very seriously. Although most nobles are not devout believers in this regard, there are really few real heresies other than rural evil ways. This accusation is likely to end without a problem. .

But if you feel that he is married to a close relative and initiates a report to the Holy See, this issue is likely to be confirmed.

During this period, he would violate the law of consanguineous marriage in all likelihood.For a family with a probability of living and interacting within a radius of fifty miles, it is really too difficult to find a family that is not related by blood within seven generations from a well-matched family nearby.Even if there is, it is likely to be your family's old enemy.

As for why breaking the law is related to the church?

Because it is very difficult for you to find suitable legal provisions from other places.

These seven generations of laws prohibiting marriage, compared with all kinds of wonderful pre-divine judgment laws, and the inconspicuous and casual laws of emperors and kings, are already quite modern jurisprudence rules.

In addition, lords from all over the world contributed most of the wonderful laws.

For example, Huo Teng formulated a "wonderful" law for the country.

Every family must have a latrine, and the excrement produced must not be discarded at will, but must be buried in the field.

In the eyes of farmers at this time, this is a pure and wonderful thing.Won't you take a shit in the wild?Why do you have to build toilets?

Huo Teng couldn't explain it to the peasants, so he simply exposed the essence of a tyrant and ordered the peasants to implement it, because this was God's will.I believe that everyone who argues with illiterates about whether the earth is flat will have such violent moments.

While God gives military advice, he also asks farmers not to defecate indiscriminately.

This is reasonable.

At the meeting place of the bishops' conference, located in the town of Sioverville in the Principality of Luxembourg, Archbishop Heribert was slowly entering the venue with several bishops who had been connected with him for a long time.

Although the place is in Earl Siegfried's territory, this town is the property of the Church and has nothing to do with the Earl.Moreover, Siegfried's son had just been elected Duke of Bavaria, so it was obviously impossible for him to hold such a meeting against Conrad.

"Earl Siegfried specially sent an envoy to warn us not to act aggressively and not to provoke the king. Hehe, it seems that he is probably on the king's side."

"I can't help it. The whole principality is in the hands of the Luxembourg family."

Heribert and the bishops chatted privately before the meeting, surrounded by a dozen bishops from different dioceses.

The Bishops' Synod, which is a common form of bishops' organization in Christianity, lasts about three years. After bishops from different regions gather, they will discuss new issues in their own dioceses and discuss the church discipline regulations for diocesan management. There is also whether the various laws applicable to the region continue to be implemented or are modified.

For the time being, it can be regarded as a regional parliament.But this situation is uncertain, the participants are uncertain, and the time for holding the meeting is not fixed. It is likely that a highly respected person will stand up and say that it is time to hold a bishops' synod. It must be documented and implemented.

Synods can be large or small.If it reaches the level of the General Council, it is the ecumenical council that has caused many historical divisions. In the history of Christianity and Rome, sectarian conflicts caused by the ecumenical council have occurred many times.Including the first church schism, the second schism, and the iconoclasm movement that directly led to the weakening of Rome, etc.

The small ones are the current kind of meetings that are similar to family chatter.

Everyone sat down, although I don't know why the Archbishop of Cologne condescended and ran to Sioverville, but in short, there must be something wrong.

Just watch for fun.

At the beginning of the synod, the bishops of various dioceses first came out to complain.

Whose priests are lacking in their eyes, whoever has a newly accepted godly priest who can't even read Latin, where a rural cult has come out again, and the Beastmen in so-and-so's jurisdiction have harmed the cemetery, etc.

The bishops spoke freely, raised many problems, and also summarized some solutions.

Heribert's keen suggestion: "To manage rural cults, we must first develop our doctors and train more medical priests."

In fact, the spread of rural cults is largely due to farmers' fear of disease.It is as if people are afraid of the unknown, and the church provides burial services in the cemetery to make them feel at ease. These are social services provided by the church in a practical sense.These services are the cornerstones of the widespread existence of the church.It's not about hiding in church and chanting scriptures every day.

Only those who have really practiced government affairs know.

"Having said that, it would be nice to have two or three solidly educated students graduating from the monastery every year. There are really not many students like Huo Teng who understand theology, Latin, and can ride horses and fight." The bishops said one after another complain.

In the era when most dioceses were useless, basically bishops could only manage the cities or villages where their monasteries were located, and the success of other places was purely luck.

At this time, the bishop arranged by Heribert suddenly took the case: "If you want me to say, this is the top beam is not right and the bottom beam is crooked! One of our kings married a 29-year-old girl at the age of 13. It is even suspected of consanguineous marriage, which has four generations of blood relationship with this 13-year-old girl. Whether it is the four generations fixed by the old code or the seven generations confirmed by the new code, it is a serious violation! Robert, king of West Franks, wants to marry Widows who are two generations away from me are excommunicated, so what about our certain king?"

Good guy, although this didn't specify the name, it directly poked the hearts of the bishops.

The four generations happened to be stuck in a blood relationship that was acceptable or unacceptable.

The bishops who finally realized that Heribert's purpose was to condemn His Majesty the king's inbreeding here seemed hesitant.

"I personally think that since the king of West Francia can be excommunicated, we should also carefully investigate the illegal behavior of this unnamed king. Marriage of close relatives is never allowed! In the pre-Roman era, those brothers married their cousins, and their sons The absurdity of remarrying with the stepmother must never happen again." Herribert stood up immediately, like a banner, calling on the bishops to be responsible.

Let's condemn together, this matter is a bit far-fetched.

Let's not go together, he is the archbishop anyway, how can this group of young bishops be offended.

After some crude discussion, the Synod of West Oville passed an important resolution unanimously condemning the terrible practice of consanguineous marriages in King Conrad.

Conrad must have paid the price for ignoring Herribert, an old minister.

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"Condemnation? What's the point of condemnation?"

In Lüneburg, the beaten old Bernard was reviewing his estate report. In recent months, his only concern was how much food his estate could produce and how many soldiers and armor he could provide.

Store more food and prepare more armor.

There were already disturbing signals coming from south of Saxony, and Bernard was convinced he had to.

And his new heir, and the only heir, Dietmar, a boy in his teens, even organized a group of bishops and nobles to hold a meeting in Lüneburg and unanimously condemn Horten for welcoming the wedding procession. atrocities.

The specific reason is that because Huo Teng wounded and killed many escort knights during the "Welcome" and caused a huge loss of personnel, according to the customary law of the Germanic people, Huo Teng should pay compensation.Each casualty knight must not be priced at least 20 gold?

In Dittmar's view, such a joint condemnation by the bishops should be effective against Horten, who also came from the church.

In this way, Huo can be forced to spare a large amount of compensation and hand it over to the victim's family.Even if Huo Teng doesn't give it, it can still stir up conflicts between the two sides and prevent Huo Teng from infiltrating into the Principality of Saxony.

"Father! My thoughts are not just like this." Dittmar, who was full of enthusiasm, explained his original intention.

This involves the customary law of the Germanic people. Unlike Roman law, there are a large number of personal compensation clauses in customary law.According to the level of the dead, different levels of compensation should be given.Common people and knights have their own prices.

Anyway, as long as you have a thick skin, what condemnation can't you say?

Old Bernard thought for a while, and suddenly felt that this was a good idea.

Didn't you, Huo Teng, come from a church and claim to be civilized and reliable?

Now I will give you a general condemnation, so that your good reputation will have a few more black scars, yellow mud will fall on your crotch, and it will be shit or shit.

"My dear son, you can carry out this plan. But remember, defeating the enemy is not based on sin, and blackening Huo Teng's reputation is only a temporary strategy."

The old Bernard watched his son grow up with satisfaction, and he was much better than the last young Bernard who was eunuched.

Therefore, when Westover strongly condemned the marriage of the king's close relatives, in Lüneburg they all condemned Horten's violent acts, which resulted in many deaths and demanded compensation.

It just so happened that, with the vigorous condemnation of the two conferences, it crashed!

Chapter 210 Seven

Regarding the criticism and condemnation of the Western Ouville Synod, Horten said that the weapon of condemnation cannot replace the condemnation of weapons. No matter who is standing behind Heribert, now he is going to fight the king. In addition to proving that the king is weak Except for bullying, he won't get involved until there is no substantive action.

However, you want to stand on the dry shore, but no one is willing to let you watch.

Horten's supposed father-in-law, Bernard, called a synod in Lüneburg a few days later.What they studied was the 'massive damage' caused by Huo Teng to the Saxon army during the wedding ceremony, and they unanimously passed the three charges of condemning Huo Teng's behavior of violence, use of demonic weapons, and use of force against compatriots.

This is more than unreasonable, it is simply nonsense.

Huo Teng felt as if he had eaten a fly.