prince of europe in quintiles

He trekked from Göttingen to Provence, and returned after a long journey, he can be called a hero.

"Honorable, warrior of God."

The young people around Huo Teng praised Greb so much.

This is Maison's son, Weller.He received his father's education in theology and government administration since he was a child, and cultivated him as an heir.

But when Huo Teng used [Recruitment Officer: Government Affairs Document], his father decided to recommend his son to be Huo Teng's ruler in Kasselburg.

This is also a rationalization.

"Let me introduce you. This is Weiler, a monk and a government clerk. I specially recruited you to play a supporting role. His public position is the priest of Castle Castle, and he is also the governor of the Kassel region. He has arrived In the end, you are still the main person in charge, responsible for clearing the monsters and defending the homeland. You don’t have to be busy with your family’s quarrels.” Huo Teng eased Greb’s worries about the replacement with a strong affinity.

"Thank you for your help." Greb was in tears for a moment.

He thought that he was certain to fall, and he was captured and returned to Göttingenburg to continue guarding the gate.

"Work hard, I'll wait to arrange the fief for you." Huo Teng patted him on the shoulder without saying anything more.

When it comes to Weller, a young man, Huo Teng's requirements are much stricter: "Your task is very difficult and heavy. When necessary, you can use my face to suppress those rebellious fools. Make sure this poor Not too many people will starve to death after the autumn harvest this year.”

Affairs officer: The ability of government documents is to coordinate governance and handle all kinds of trivial affairs in a place.

However, the hardest part is the day-to-day trivialities, which are an important part of life.The behind-the-scenes heroes who carry these chores are hard to find.

After staying in Kasselburg for several days, Huo Teng commanded the local nobles to unite and organize several large-scale extermination operations before returning to Göttingenburg. It was considered a relatively perfect cover for Matilda.

However, when Huo Teng rode across the road, he unexpectedly noticed that the local area was actually building a canal.

Yes, drains.

The last time there was an aqueduct, it was the Romans hundreds of years ago... Sorry, the Romans never reached Göttingen, so not only in the last century, but also in the last era there were no aqueducts.

As a classical civilization, the double-arched aqueduct of the Romans is indeed the crystallization of early human civilization, which effectively solved the problem of unbalanced water resources and insufficient water supply.But that is mainly to supply water to cities, to solve the problem of uneven water resources in the subtropical zone.

And the Germans?

Sorry, this really doesn't work.

People's agricultural cultivation, the main tasks after spreading grain on the ground are weeding, resisting wild boars and waiting.

Today, the people of Göttingen are actually digging river channels, diverting water into the canals, and preparing for important summer irrigation?

[Monastery technology research completed. 】

[Canal irrigation (Level 1): branch canal. 】

Branch canals are those small canals outside the main canal.

Göttingen may be the first advanced region to adopt water release irrigation for agricultural fields.

Here in Göttingen, people have no resources to build extravagant stone canals, but thanks to the complex and rich local water system, Göttingen, which communicates with the Rhine and Weser river systems, can directly dig the estuary, The water is introduced into the half-deep earth tunnel dug by people themselves.

Huo Teng stood on the side of the road, looking down at these extremely rough waterways paved with gravel.

The farmers chanted and dug up the wooden planks that blocked the river mouth, the water flowed into the side channel, and ran happily to the designated destination, the farmers' farmland.

Every family digs a gap at the mouth of the field, puts water in to a certain extent and then blocks it, and then it is the turn of the next family, a scene of busy farming in the countryside.

"I told them that irrigation with water every summer can lead to a bumper harvest. This is a gift from God, so they believe it." Morris Palace walked beside Huo Teng, telling him the construction results of Göttingen after half a month away .

Horten nodded slightly, appreciating the good research of the Göttingen Abbey.

"In the future, please work harder to build more water canals and spread our plows and water canals to all parts of the territory."

Huo Teng suddenly felt that the fact that he was about to cheat was nothing.

Building a territory and protecting the people are far more important than these, and they are more worthy of evaluating yourself.

The author's words: The records about aqueducts in the Middle Ages are almost all aqueducts left by ancient Rome, and they are functioning well.The German region has not been conquered by Rome, and the pure agriculture is very frustrating.

Chapter 230 VII Flood

Prime Minister Morris and Huo Teng were wandering by the side of the road, watching the farmers irrigate in the fields.

The amount of rainfall in Europe is not low, but the water source required for agricultural irrigation can not depend on the weather. Now it can be irrigated according to the growth time of crops, and the growth of food will be fully guaranteed.Regardless of the water in the ridges, it may be more effective in promoting the yield per mu than Huo Teng's transformation of heavy pear cattle farming.

Speaking of which, the relationship between Huo Teng and Morris seems a bit strange.

On weekdays, Huo Teng intervened in the internal affairs more than anyone else, and even personally manipulated the economic development of the territory.And Morris seemed like his subordinate.

But in fact, it is only half right to regard the official positions of Horten and Morris as lords and prime ministers.

According to the arrangement of the imperial system, Huo Teng is only the commander of the Göttingen Territory and a garrison officer. He only needs to train the feudal knights and the army on a daily basis, and ask for taxes from downwards.Morris is the bishop, and he is mainly responsible for local governance.

In this half, Huo Teng is very special.

Morris didn't think there was anything wrong, and he even appreciated Huo Teng's good work of being busy with civil affairs every day.By the way, those fief knights who harmed the place were restrained.

"I want to tell you a piece of good news and a piece of bad news. The bad news is that, after repeated calculations by the priests of the monastery, the recent rainfall has been increasing sharply, and the time for the sun to rise has been shrinking. After we have been checking last year and the year before Rainfall and flood records, and found that the next wave of floods is just around the corner."

"Is there still this?"

Huo Teng turned around from time to time and did notice that the ground nearby was also wet, which was unusual.In the scorching summer of Europe, although the average latitude is quite high, it seems that the sun is not harsh, but in fact sunburns often occur, and the land should be dry and waterless.Therefore, even in summer, people here can't wear short clothes indiscriminately.

At this moment, Huo Teng was nervous.

Germany, even though it is a country located in the middle of Europe, on the edge of the Western European plain, it seems that it will not encounter floods and droughts, but contrary to the normal impression, it is precisely because of the raised mountains and mountains in Germany that lead to a sea facing the Atlantic Ocean. The westerly wind that blows forms a rain belt, which often causes floods in Germany in summer around this time.

This has caused Germany to always form local showers when the rainfall in summer increases, and a large amount of rainfall forms silted swamps and lakes because of the not particularly rugged mountains and river valleys.On weekdays, there are flood discharges from the Rhine and Weser river systems, but it can also handle it.

But if there are more, then wait for the flood to recur, and the flood will destroy the city.

Logically speaking, such areas should build more water conservancy projects.But the Germanic people didn't start to drain the swamps and release the water until the 11th century. How could they have the organizational strength to carry out water conservancy construction at this time?

At this time, Huo Teng noticed that the farmers were still digging ditches: "But at this critical moment, shouldn't the people prepare to take refuge and flee to higher hills and hills?"

Göttingenburg is an example of a strong waterproof fortress surrounded by a moat.

Prime Minister Morris shook his head slightly, his expression seemed to tell Huo Teng that I can't do military affairs, but you still can't do geography, weather and governing the people.

"We have just studied how to dig ditches to irrigate the farmland at the right time, but how can it be extended to the whole territory? Just tell them to dig ditches to irrigate the farmland, are they willing?" Morris's words awakened Huo Teng.

Yes.

Although the Middle Ages also had harsh labor for farmers, which lasted for ten days and a half months, or as long as one month, it was still extremely rare to organize large-scale labor.

How to mobilize the people, relying on one mouth, tell them that if you dig the water tank, you can increase the grain production by dozens of jars next year?

People have seen this kind of empty promise a lot, and it doesn't work at all.The owner of every fief pats his chest on the people and guarantees that he is a benevolent and kind person, but the result is that he cheats more and more every year.

"Oh~ you want to persuade them to dig short canals to irrigate the farmland by the river first, and then use the reason of the flood to persuade them to dig big and long canals to run through our farmland. What a good plan!" Huo Teng was happy clap your hands.

Morris' plan was brilliant.

People's expectations for increasing food production are already very low, but there is always a deep fear of heavy rain and floods.

With the help of their fear, coupled with the civil prestige of Bishop Morris and Huo Teng, they organized the people to dig the main canal to keep the water in the waterway.

This seemingly ordinary plan in later generations was already called a whimsical idea and a genius creation at this time.

"Okay, just..."

Huo Teng suddenly remembered the little queen's plea to him.

King Konrad has already revealed that he has given up on Huo Teng, and he will rely on him to restrain his old father-in-law Bernard, intending to force Huo Teng to enter the Marquis of Meissen.

If a flood disaster broke out in the Earl of Göttingen at this moment, and Huo Teng was busy with disaster relief, how would he deal with state affairs?

Morris quickly understood Horten's worries. He sighed and put his hands away: "Is it about Meissen? There are talks in the northern parish. Bruno of Otto's blood fled Konstanzburg and returned to Regensburg to be with him. The matter with my cousin. Many people think that the king is probably going to do something against justice regardless of the danger of the country."

Cultural people among parishes have a tendency to gossip.The noise that happened in the south spread to the north so quickly.

"Yes. He wants to send me to interfere with the Poles' interference in the inheritance of Meissenia. With my interference, Bernard's interference can be avoided. Alas...he is interfering indiscriminately." Huo Teng regretted it.

"Then I was just about to get this good news. The Elbe River also swelled. The vicar of Hamburg suffered a huge flood and accidentally fell into the water and died." Morris said with regret: "The Elbe River originated in Bohemia and mainly passed through Meissen. The feudal kingdoms of Nia, East, and North went to Hamburg and entered the sea. The Elbe River flooded, what about Meissenia?"

Here is a small detail. Hamburg was originally at the level of the archbishop, but since the Vikings ravaged, the diocese of Hamburg and Bremen merged, the cathedral was placed in Bremen, and the vicar and priests with special status were retained in Hamburg. Have the right to act independently.

Huo Teng immediately felt relieved.

"Although I am very sorry for the death of the Vicar of Hamburg, I am also grateful for his death, which let us know about the Elbe River Basin. I can be sure that the Poles do not have astronomy experts like you. They are now gathering more Going west near Bautzen. I'd like to know how many Poles will die when the rains come."

Morris shook his head, both happy and regretful.

After all, people are going to die.

Chapter 230 Eighth First Night and Confession

A few days after Horten and Matilda met and went home, the predictions of the meteorologists at the Göttingen Abbey finally began to approach the scope of scientific research.

The sky rained long and thin, continuous, and finer and finer.

Huo Teng knew that this was the water vapor carried by the warm sea breeze from the westerly belt, and it was accumulating in the hilly areas of Hesse and Saxony.

In other words, when the rain clouds carrying water vapor accumulate more and more, Göttingen has to prepare to soak in the pond, and Horten can also prepare for life in the water in advance.Seems like a good idea to use your wooden tub at home as a vessel?

On this day, Huo Teng stood on the edge of the watchtower on the city wall, watched the torrential rain gradually expand, and listened to the opinions of the people in the city.

The residents under the castle are sharing the troubles of the past few days.

"It's raining more and more these days. What Bishop Morris said is not true, is it?"

"Fortunately, a group of farmers were gathered to dig the canal as soon as possible. Otherwise, in our place, I don't know how many people would have drowned."

The people of Göttingen will always have a deep memory of the flood disaster.Who made this river valley area happen to be connected to two major water systems, where the river branches that flow from south to north criss-cross here, and where flood disasters will break out first?

At this time, Connorsa, who was wearing a slim and elegant long dress and supported by a maid, slowly climbed up to the attic came behind Huo Teng. She seemed to see through Huo Teng's worried state of mind, and comforted her with a smile: "Brother Morris is really powerful. Not only is he mobilizing civilians to take refuge in high places, but he is also mobilizing the surplus labor to dig and expand canals so that the flooded rainwater can return to the river along the canals. Although the Duck Pond River, Rainer The rivers are all rising, but it doesn't look like it will endanger farming this year."

Nine years of farming, three years of accumulation.

Huo Teng, who watched the heavy rain submerge the farmland, deeply understood why agriculture is so fragile.

If it hadn't been for Morris to organize the people to dig ditches under the rain, these flourishing wheat fields would be soaked in the silted rainwater, forming a foul-smelling swamp.

"Gather all the witches and gods from all over the world, and order them to offer medicines to warm their bodies, and be careful of flu." Huo Teng called his subordinates over and ordered him to help.

"What did you talk about when you went to the south?" Conosha pretended to ask casually.

But she soon discovered that Huo Teng seemed a little absent-minded.

"what happened?"

The Countess waved her white hand in front of Huo Teng, bringing Huo Teng's sanity back to reality.

After thinking over and over again, Huo Teng felt that the alliance with the little witch should be confessed to Conosha.

Only Conosha, who is good at strategy, can help her with advice.

"You all back down, I have something else to say to the hostess." Huo Teng waved his hand to shield the people from retreating, turned around and took Conosha's hand, and then gently knelt down on one knee, facing Conosha's unexplainable trouble Jiaoyan, Huo Teng sincerely apologized: "I'm sorry, I did a big thing, a big thing that I don't know if it's right or wrong."

"what?"

Connorsa was taken aback.

Didn't Horten go to Eschwege and Kassel to inspect the southern border?What does he mean by posing this way?

Did he cheat?

Hoten clenched his fists and explained the reason of the matter: "During the Erfurt Empire Conference, I had contact with the king's betrothed wife, Queen Matilda. This time she came from Frankfurt to warn I, don't get too involved in the civil strife in the Marquis of Meissen, the king may lose his car to protect his handsome man. During the conversation, Queen Matilda told me that if King Conrad fell, if... if I She can guarantee the revival of the Hermann family in Swabia, and she is willing to transfer the throne to me."

After all, Huo Teng didn't dare to directly reveal the veil, so he could only tell Conosha with subtext that he might continue to regret the marriage, marry Matilda, and take over the German crown.

Kang Nuosha Bingxue is smart and naturally understands the pros and cons clearly.

She couldn't help lowering her head, her expression was dim, as if she was thinking about something.

"Sure enough, I knew my fate would not be so ordinary." Connorsa laughed after hearing the thought.

She patted Huo Teng on the shoulder coquettishly and angrily: "I got it, you. You actually hooked up the queen like this. Are you particularly attractive to little girls, or are you just lying to me all the time, just a scumbag?" ?”

"I... I just thought, I have to tell you such an important matter. After all, we are a family." Huo Teng stroked the back of his head in shame and anxiety.

After Gotisdiu was forced to intervene, Conorsha's anger was no longer as great as before.

She may have understood that since she arranged for Jones and Horten to marry, her and Horten's marriage will always be bumpy.

"Marrying the Queen is politics. Could it be that you're still planning to abandon me?" Conosha pinched her waist, pretending to be angry, but she was trying to ease Huo Teng's nervousness.

Huo Teng didn't dare to say anything, he waved his hands and pulled Conuosha into his arms.

Yes, marrying the Queen is a political need, and marrying Conosha is out-and-out love and lust.

After more than two years of ups and downs together, this love is somewhat mixed with family affection.