prince of europe in quintiles

Can anyone really direct such a mess?

The Thuringian nobles were already known for their own way of doing things and being a mess. Letting Riehausen be the commander-in-chief would kill them just for talking about it.

Fortunately, Riehausen found Jeffrey in the crowd, and Jeffrey also noticed Riehausen.

"You are...a subordinate of the Earl of Horten Court..." Lihausen's expression vividly explained what it means to go from unfamiliarity to familiarity, and from encountering an old friend by chance.He pushed away the crowd at once, put his arms around Geoffrey's shoulders, and boasted to the people around him: "As expected of the warm and friendly Earl Horton, he sent Sir Geoffrey to help us. Actually, you don't know, Geoffrey We Saxons too. How many troops did he bring? 900? Awesome!"

Lihausen's headquarters was small, so he immediately moved closer to Huo Teng's subordinate, Jeffrey, and let his direct subordinates exceed a thousand.

The two worked hand in hand, but suppressed the arrogance of the Thuringian nobles a lot.

Many Thuringians complain about Arendreser, how did you bring this grandson in?

Later, Countess Jimmy of Bernburg, north of Merseburg, also came with more than 600 people to support him, and joined forces with Jeffrey, which stabilized Riehausen's position.

The nearly [-] troops advanced along the local river, and after half a day, they entered the country of Toyshane.

At a horseshoe-shaped bend in the river, they encountered the enemy.

The army led by Eckard the Younger seems to have only 3000 people, only one-third of the Thuringian coalition army.

How could this be lost!

Jeffrey's heart fluttered, and he suddenly ordered his army to slow down, then secretly took out the bow, and aimed at Arendsey who had pulled him into the group.

I don't know when it started, all the troops of the coalition army seemed to slow down, as if everyone was full of ghosts.

This is not revenge.

Alen Desai has no heirs. As long as he is killed, the army of Göttingen can be introduced into the Principality of Thuringia and occupy half of the country on the west side of it.

With such an insect, how can it dominate Germany?

Chapter 240 The Third Opportunity Came

The wind can enter, the rain can enter, but the king cannot enter.

This sentence is pure fart, and it is a false excuse for bourgeois elements to create laws for the protection of private property ownership.

When Huo Teng was looking for inspiration everywhere, he ran to the city of Göttingen, which he himself built.

There are two kinds of merchants. One is that handicraftsmen are incidental merchants, such as blacksmiths and carpenters. They are producers and are indispensable in basic life.There is another type, which is mainly responsible for transferring the products after production. They are not involved in production, but they can help with transportation and dominate the distribution process after production.

In other words, the former exists for essential production, and the latter exists to prove that your economy is really good.

What Huo Teng entered was the shop of a small peddler.Without any knocks or requests, Huo Teng entered whenever he wanted. The little shopkeeper saw the noble earl seated, and wished he could offer the chair under his buttocks to worship.

Huo Teng had many questions: "What do you usually sell?"

"Um... This is complicated. I sell all kinds of goods in the city. For example, wooden shovels, wooden hoes and other good things are cheap and in large quantities, and people buy a lot. Others are precious ironware, which people buy the most They are iron needles, iron pans, and kitchen knives. Occasionally, some people buy weapons, but the weapons in Göttingen County are not particularly good here, and the good weapons from Brunswick are more valuable... "

The small shopkeeper runs around on weekdays, and from an unusual perspective, he is the most valuable source of information on the Göttingen economy.

Huo Teng, for example, understands that compared with hoes, shovels and sickles used in production, people who feel that only wooden shovels can handle the plowing think that it is more important to buy iron needles for textile sewing and iron pots for eating.However, in order to expand agricultural production, Huo Teng produced a large number of hoes and shovels and prepared to sell them to the people.

This is a vexing paradox.

After the people think that they have met their production needs, they will become lazy.

"Then what do you buy?" Huo Teng knew that small shopkeepers seldom used currency, and bartering was the most primitive principle when the economic collapse had just passed and Western Europe was in ruins.Shopkeepers also like currency transactions, but the assets of the people are too few. They only have the food they produce and weaving linen. How can they exchange for currency and then trade with shopkeepers?

The high-end currencies minted by different monasteries, such as silver coins and gold coins, are used by nobles of Huo Teng's level.

"It's mainly food, cloth and animal skins. Bacon or sausage is also good, but I don't take too much. We also have a lot of specialties here, such as various herbs needed by the monastery, ores that the blacksmith wants, etc. In most cases, if there are enough cysts, I will bring some back." The shopkeeper talked about his life experience.

Having said that, the barter trade is actually very volatile. In addition, in recent years, famine, war, plague, and death have been rampant. Even if the peddler works seven times and 30 days, he can only guarantee food and clothing for the family.

Huo Teng glanced around, and there was a big dog skin hanging on the wall of the shopkeeper's house.

No need to guess, the dog must have eaten too much, so I had to kill the big one and keep the small one.Dog skins can also be used to make clothes.

"Good job."

Leaving behind a dinar silver coin, Huo Teng went out with great emotion.

He felt that in the eyes of King Conrad, he might be in the same situation as the big dog skin on the wall.

The dog is too big to be fed, why not kill it?

"Damn it, with such an insect king, how can we govern the country well?" Huo Teng couldn't help complaining.

……

And at this moment, on the east side of Merseburg, on the battlefield near Teuchen.

"Damn it, listen to the command!"

Lihausen, the general sent by Saxony, was watching the movement of the army with a teapot already on in his head, wishing to spit out his brains.

I saw a huge army of 9000 people, even a group of hundreds or dozens of people, crossed the river indiscriminately, preparing to beat the damned little Eckard.

But this is a horseshoe-shaped river bend, and the Thuringians who attacked from west to east were suddenly divided into three parts, and most of them even just waded in the river and moved relatively slowly.Isn't this a proper gift of the head?

Of course, there are still smart people in it, such as Jimmy, Countess of Bernburg, and Geoffrey, Viscount of Harz Mountain.

The dumbfounded Jeffrey even sighed: "My God, they are not as good as the little bandits under my command!"

The person he wanted to get rid of, the Earl of Arendres, was among the attacking crowd.It's all right now, there's no need to fight by yourself, the count might drown in the river himself.

"Now you know why Eckard I moved his base to Meissen, right? The Thuringians are always like this, boastful and self-righteous, and when they encounter a strong enemy, they rush to commit themselves to beg for mercy." Countess Jimmy He crossed his chest angrily, and showed no mercy to these evil pens who did not obey the command and attacked indiscriminately.

"Did you lose?"

"I lost."

Jeffrey and Riehausen used only one word to express their mood at the moment.

There are 9000 troops without a command center at all, and it is clear that dozens of powerful bandits with hundreds of people are fighting the enemy.

However, on the opposite side, the troops of Little Eckard could at least do what they ordered.They are all veterans who have killed many heads with the Slavic tribes on the border. Of course, they know that discipline is more terrible than personal force.

The Duchy of Thuringia is a very inland duchy, and the main task of the nobles is to compete with the king and other nobles.The Thuringians have always been famous for their rebellion and confrontation with the king.Letting this group of people who are good at opposing go to a real war is not just talking about it.

Eckard II's army first strangled hundreds of enemies in the horseshoe-shaped river bend, and drove back more than 2000 pioneer warriors.

Then they waited for work at leisure and beat more than 1000 people by the river.

The people after that didn't dare to attack any more. The 5000 people saw that there were routs everywhere, so they retreated and ran home.

It's hard to believe that the army with a total of 9000 people only died a few hundred people, and then they all collapsed in a hurry. Few of them dared to confront Eckard again.It's very different from the rhetoric they used when they attacked.

Countess Jimmy spread her hands: "What shall we do now?"

Jeffrey immediately slapped his horse and shook his head: "I want to go home, how about you?"

Riehausen counted the number of people in his hands, and said: "I will retreat to Merseburg and guarantee this border land. Can you give me some people? Bernburg and the Harz Mountains are behind me , we have formed a tendency to fight, and we can maintain it."

"Okay, I'll give you two hundred bandits and one hundred shooters."

"I'm overwhelmed here, I can only give you 50 shooters."

Jeffrey and Jimmy donated money to help each other.

On the way home, Geoffrey hanged Arun Desai and hanged him on the border of Toyshane.Arun Desai asked for help by himself. Before he died, he thought that Jeffrey had betrayed Horten, and scolded Jeffrey for being unfaithful in collecting money.

"With an insect like you, how can Thuringia grow stronger? I am the most loyal person." Jeffrey felt that he did a good job.

But it was Arendresey, who was hanged, that caused great problems.

An earl killed another earl, not on the battlefield, but in a corner of the countryside.

The Thuringians believed that Eckard the Younger had murdered Arendsee, and a very nasty war of words broke out.But their army had already retreated and their combat effectiveness collapsed, so they had to go to their neighbor Göttingen to send troops to help.

For some reason, Huo Teng's opportunity came like this.

Chapter 240 The Power of Dozens of Jins of Gold

Jeffrey returned to Göttingen, and when he heard that something had happened in the Principality of Thuringia, he hurriedly asked Horten to admit his mistake.

He sneaked into Huo Teng's study room and touched the door.

He certainly didn't come to plead guilty in vain.Jeffrey, who didn't let go of the gangster's anger, was carrying a bag with a few dusty golden lumps in it.It was the associated ore dug out by the bandits in the Harz Mountains when they were digging copper mines everywhere. Due to the extremely poor level of refining, it could only be roughly condensed into a few gold lumps and brought over by Huo Teng.

But this is not enough, he has to find someone to put himself in.

There are many interesting memes in the Middle Ages, such as the toilet minister.The courtiers who cleaned toilets for kings and dukes also held high positions because they could clean toilets for others every day.After all, the king can see his subordinates for a day, but he can't stop peeing.

Jeffrey looked left and right here, but he didn't find a suitable candidate.

He has been squatting in the ravine, and according to the old tradition, he also bought himself a group of "little ministers" in charge of clothes, war horses and toilets.

The viscount of Mount Hartz, who was chasing left and right, was completely forgotten.

Huo Teng didn't set up these guys at all.His clothes are prepared by his three wives, and he does not need to manage nobles and policies at the same time; his stable is only Miss Laura, and a dozen servants are dedicated to serving Miss Laura, and Miss Laura fights like a tiger alone; his toilet They are all flush toilets that have been modified randomly by themselves, and the maids are only responsible for filling the water.

Only this toilet, Huo Teng couldn't bear to be served by others.

While Jeffrey was running around, he accidentally ran into another woman of high status in the court, Huo Teng's childhood friend Greya.The daughter of a merchant who escaped from Friesland is responsible for the trade of this metropolitan circle.Although her status is much worse, her relationship is tough.

The woman Huo Teng grew up with when he was a child is still in charge of Huo Teng's small coffers, and even Huo Teng's wives have to win over her.

"What are you wandering around here?" Greya pushed the door open, "Hotten has been waiting for you for a long time, he heard that you were also involved in the Thuringian nobleman's mess, and he has been waiting for you to come back and explain Woolen cloth."

Jeffrey didn't expect that the door was so close.

"If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have prepared gold." He muttered, and got in.

However, Greya rolled her eyes and hurried to find other people.

Huo Teng waited for Jeffrey for several days. When he caught Jeffrey, he asked angrily: "Your ass is bigger than your face. You fucking think you are a Thuringian? You are a Saxon, what are you pretending to be?" What? Still laughing and rushing along with that group of trash, this is good, hundreds of trash died, and the whole of Thuringia became a mess."

"I... am I helping you find out the news? I have found out everything..." Jeffrey also defended himself.

Huo Teng's eyes were about to pop out at that time, he pointed at the window outside and yelled: "Wipe your eyes with the water from the toilet, poke your eyes out for me to find out, who doesn't know? The whole world knows the damn Thuringian nobles with 9000 men and horses forcibly swam across two river bends, but were defeated by Eckard II with [-] to [-] oxen and horses. You, with thousands of people, are among them, It's still the one with the most people! Aren't you embarrassing me?"

The sound was so loud that Laura, who was letting the maid brush the horse hair in the stable, jumped out and grabbed Huo Teng's window to watch the play.

After being scolded so badly, Jeffrey also hurriedly wiped his ass: "But I should have done it too... I did a good thing! I caught the bad guy Arun Desai on the side of the road, and I hung it on the tree for you by the way." gone."

"what?"

Huo Teng was so dazed on the spot that he almost boiled his brains out.

"Alen Desai, you killed it? There are rumors outside that it was little Eckard who hung Alen Desai on a tree branch. So it was you who did it..." Huo Teng didn't know how to describe himself for a while. The bandit-turned-subordinate came, and he stood up and slapped him on the shoulder fiercely: "You fucking...you fucking...you fucking did a bad thing and stirred up a pool of rotten fish and shrimps, Made a... good game!"

Huo Teng was worrying about his next plan.

The requirement of the main task is to solve the crisis in the East, and reward a rare heroic officer, who is really hard to get.

But at this very moment, Earl Arendres was hanged on a tree by accident. He encountered a little setback, and may have to wait for the next life to develop again.

Without this, the Thuringian nobles had no momentum in the scolding battle, and a group of rookies without a leader just now went around looking for someone to help them punch, which gave Huo Teng a chance to enter the arena.

Huo Teng didn't know whether to reward Jeffrey or punish him.

"Didn't I...bring you the gold from the Harz Mountains. You see, this is the gold refined by the blacksmiths in the mountains. I will send it to you as soon as possible, without stopping."

Jeffrey put the gold on the table and begged Horten for forgiveness with a big face.

On the table was a mess of cyan stones, and you wouldn't even notice that it was gold unless you looked carefully.As the so-called seven green and eight yellow, the purity of gold is not enough, when it is filled with various impurities, the color it presents is such a simple and broken color.

Of course, this way of bribery is simpler, but Huo Teng can accept it.

Like a Sichuan opera changing face, he first fooled and reprimanded Jeffrey for a few words, then turned his face into a big face and ignorant of the gold.

"You just use this to fool me? The color is just average, but... how much gold is there?"

Jeffrey hastily said again: "We dug for half a year. We dug thousands of baskets of copper mines and several pots of gold and silver. I brought all the gold this time, and the silver and brass are all on the way. But the brothers have been struggling for half a year. ,It is really……"

"What is it? Why don't I give you any money? I'll give you food and money. Let them continue to work harder and dig as much as they can." Huo Teng patted his chest and said, you work harder , I will be richer by three points.

Well, this is past the past.

Thank you very much, Jeffrey, and ran away with his legs up.

Huo Teng was also happy, holding the dozens of catties of gold on the table, wondering how much would be left after smelting.According to the Roman-style Nomisma manufacturing rules, each piece has a purity of more than 95% and weighs 4.5 grams, which is converted into 23K gold for future generations.A catty of 500 grams, converted into losses, Huo Teng would have to smelt thousands of gold coins with this batch of gold.

But I'm sorry, Göttingen doesn't have the ability to smelt gold like this, nor does it have the craftsmanship to make exquisite coins. If he really wants to make it, it's nothing more than making a bunch of shoddy goods like ordinary monasteries.

You have to think of a good door.

While thinking about it, a group of women from Huo Teng's family rushed through the door like wolves, rushed into the study, and snatched all the gold without waiting for Huo Teng to stop him.

On weekdays, only a few grams or tens of grams of gold treasures can be seen. Today, seeing the treasures of tens of kilograms on the table, everyone panicked.