prince of europe in quintiles

Chapter 240 Seven Great Changes in the World Line

I don't know why, but Huo Teng won't lose.

It's not just Caron who thinks so.

After fighting with Huo Teng for more than two years, seeing the Earl of Göttingen from a weak state to a strong one, the knights who can always save themselves from danger under the control of Huo Teng, an excellent captain, despite all the disasters, are also very happy. Think so.

In the village of Great Göttingen, a squire's wife asked: "The rainstorm has just ended. If you don't hurry up to urge the farmers to drain water, trim the ridges, and take care of the crops, what is the rush to fight?"

She was married from Thuringia. Thuringia can be regarded as having a large number of people and a small land. In addition, the fourth and seventh generations of the church’s perverted blood prohibit marriage, so foreign marriages are frequent. Göttingen and Turingen The root has deep marriage communication.

"You are a woman's opinion." The squire, who had just been crowned the fief, was sitting at the door drying his saddle, mocking his new wife: "What do you know? How many people can those tens of acres of crops support? To follow the count to Thuringia, the sword is better on the battlefield than the plow in the field."

"Tch, after all, you are a fief lord, and you are not a knight, but a newly promoted nobleman." The wife didn't understand, and sat at the other end of the corridor sullenly.

Turning around, more than a dozen squires who also newly acquired the fiefdom called their friends to find them, and dragged him to fight around the castle.

The difference between nobles and knights is not very big.

Even at this time, there is no difference between the noble and the knight.

The dignitaries are the powerful and powerful people in one party, the squires, the nobles of the fiefs, and the nobles are all called the dignitaries.The knight refers specifically to those warriors who have undergone a ceremony of loyalty, surrendered to the lord, and rode a horse.Knights, as the lowest level of all nobles, will not be realized until more than 200 years later.

Huo Teng's grandfather, the old tailor Schneider, was promoted to a powerful man by participating in the battle against the Hungarian cavalry as a conscript for the Otto family's palace.

In that era, the death rate of civilians who were urgently called up to defend against invaders on the battlefield was very high, and Old Schneider was considered a genius if he survived.

This group of dignitaries who challenged the battle is just a microcosm.

After the heavy rain, all the nobles in Göttingen were gearing up to go to Thuringia to cut another piece of fat and tender meat for Horten.Hundreds of fief lords sent letters of war to Huo Teng.Especially the nobles who are close to Thuringia on the east side and already have marriage ties, begging Huo Teng to hurry up.

But the question is, can Huo Teng do it?

"Damn it, Jeffrey the dog, after killing Arendser, we can't find any supporters in Thuringia." Huo Teng was holding the other two letters, with veins on his forehead. jump out.

After Geoffrey casually killed the Count of Weimar, the consequences were mixed.

The good thing is that Thuringia is even more disorganized, and there is not even a big person who can speak.

The bad news is that it is most convenient for Horten to enter Thuringia, and the character who led the wolf into the house is gone.

In this ghostly place of Thuringia, there is a group of stubborn donkeys who are addicted to food.Even if King Conrad helped issue an intervention order, even if Thuringia really needed Huo Teng to help resist little Eckard, but the donkeys didn't cut their necks with knives, would he bark?

A group of stubborn donkeys huddled together, and it was only convenient for Huo Teng to get in if someone asked for help.Otherwise, the donkeys would turn around and harass Huo Teng, defecting to little Eckard, which would be self-defeating.

There must be a leading party.

"Where's the Bishop of Weimar?" Conosha idly supported Su Bai's neck, flipping through a pile of documents.

Huo Teng said speechlessly: "Magde is a corrupt old bastard, and the reformist priests in Thuringia are about to hang him on a big tree. Turn around and join Eckard against me."

To use a not so good metaphor, Thuringia is now like a naked beauty.

In front of her was little Eckard, counting her ex-husband, trying to make her work for him, and she didn't want to be beaten up.

Behind her is the old Wang Huo Teng next door. On the surface, he wants to help, but in fact he wants to take her home directly to have a baby.

The naked beauty either sided with little Eckard or went home with Horten.Under normal circumstances, she would not pouted at Huo Teng while giving mouth to little Eckard.That's not a good woman, but a street corner whore.

The choice of how to compete for the beauty who is weak but also has autonomy is the battlefield where Huo Teng and Little Eckard compete in diplomacy.

Huo Teng asked Bishop Magde to recruit him into the group, which was equivalent to going directly to rape the buttocks of beautiful women.Can a beautiful woman run without covering her ass? 1

This problem is currently unresolved.

Until Keshihai and Kalon returned to Göttingen with 5-year-old Oda, Huo Teng did not find a leading donkey who was willing to take him to Thuringia to join the team.

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However, things are always so fickle.

Brother Morris suddenly conveyed the king's new appointment to Horten.

"Appoint Ms. Adelaide as the Principality of Thuringia, the dean of the Erfurt Abbey, and the dedicated master of the royal manors in Erfurt, and... send it to me?"

Huo Teng frowned.

No wonder he received the task of defending Erfurt yesterday. It turned out that the king made troubles first, and the system would assign him the task.

"Yes. The king's elder brother is Heinrich. He died of illness at the beginning of last year. He died at the age of 19, leaving Adelaide and his daughter alone. Although there is talk of remarriage, it has never been realized. I don't know this time. Why, she was sent to Thuringia all of a sudden. She is from Upper Lorraine." Prime Minister Morris was also very confused.

"Ms. Adelaide? Is she the widow of the king's brother?" Huo Teng's eyebrows couldn't help but twist together.

For this Conrad, one of the good tricks is not used, but there are many cheating tricks.

Adelaide, he knows, she is the biological mother of Emperor Conrad II.But Henry died a little earlier, and Conrad II was not born!

This means a huge change in the world line. An emperor who almost succeeded Henry II and led Romania downhill steadily but also had many bright spots of his own is gone.

In this way, neither Henry nor Conrad can ascend the throne, and the world line is simply in chaos.

"Why did you send Adelaide here? Adelaide is my cousin..." Conosha rubbed her forehead that was also swollen, and sighed, "We are very close sisters. We were best friends who played with a toy when we were young. In fact, I was also on the option of marrying her deceased husband, but Adelaide went."

Huo Teng's eyes suddenly brightened.

By the way, that makes sense.

Conrad wanted to launch a pillow attack, and asked Adelaide to persuade Conosha to urge Huo Teng to send troops.

But the king didn't realize that his appointment gave Horten a good excuse to directly intervene in the Thuringia region.

Chapter 240 Eighth King's Rider and King's Widow

Ms. Adelaide, her grandfather is the second grandfather of Conorsha, belonging to three generations.

She lived not far from Göttingen, and soon arrived at the southwest border of Göttingen under the escort of a team of 'King's Riders'.

"I first lived in Speyerland of my late husband. He felt that he was delaying his entry into Worms and made things difficult for me. I moved back to Metz's hometown and lived in my cousin Adler's manor. He still wanted to do everything possible. Make things difficult for me, and send me to my cousin's house to make puppets and hair dryers. What a fate, little Judith, when do you think this day will end?"

In the carriage, Adelaide hugged her daughter Judith with a bitter taste like water, and spoke Latin that the young daughter could not understand.

The knight outside the door couldn't understand either, so she could comfort herself by complaining.

Adelaide's hands were shaking, and she felt that she had been persecuted by Conrad.Since the younger brother-in-law Pope Gregory V died of illness, then his husband died early, and then the second uncle, Conrad, who had been elected king, was persecuted.She lived in Speyer on the Rhine, and the bishop of the territory and the city even expressed his allegiance to the king, because Speyer made it easier for the king to move north from his control to the central city of Worms.

She had nowhere to go, so she could only return to her hometown with her children in desperation after burying her husband in Worms Cathedral.But she couldn't settle down in her hometown for a few months, and she was preparing to remarry to the local Babenberg family, that is, when she was once the noble family of the country's vice-duke, she was once again expelled by the king for no reason to Ernest, a place of war. ford.

Yes, in Adelaide's view, this is exile.

The escort team gradually approached Göttingen.

Little Judith didn't know her mother's distress, she wondered why her father disappeared, she lay on the edge of the car window, pointed at the rainbow after the heavy rain and shouted: "Mom, it's colorful!"

Only then did Adelaide have the mind to notice the scenery outside the window.But to her surprise, she went east from Metz to Worms and then north to Frankfurt, and everywhere she went, she saw disaster scenes after heavy rain.I thought that Göttingen was deserted as a royal court, but the infrastructure here seems to be better than Frankfurt. Farmers on the side of the road are draining the silted water in the fields by the canal.

Some people even want to take this opportunity to dry up the uncultivable swamp on the roadside and open up a new field.

The widow's favorability towards Huo Teng has increased slightly.

But seeing those riders of the king, Adelaide's expression quickly fell.

The King's Riders are actually Caesar's court guards.They have been organized differently since Otto the Great, and they were successfully reorganized under the hands of Conrad.These knights are a standing army directly supported by the royal family, as an extremely rare army directly under the royal court.The knights of the king are neatly dressed. As a royal army, at least they have a dignified appearance and uniform equipment.

These noble knights, mainly from Swabia, lacked respect for Adelaide, and everything was done according to the king's will.Otherwise, Adelaide could have deceived them and tricked them into letting him go.

The send-off team gradually crossed the muddy path and gradually approached the huge city of Göttingen.

The towering castle in the distance and the huge town that tried its best to fill the field of vision surprised the king's knights who set off from Konstanzburg for a while.

Afterwards, they escorted the carriage into Göttingenburg.

Adelaide also saw another man who would protect her, perhaps the second man in her life.He was a strong and tall young aristocrat who did not look fat or greasy. He was holding her hand with another beautiful woman as white as jade, his cousin Connorsa whom he had not seen for many years.

Go to the ancient scroll in the monastery?

The widow has no such plans for the time being, she would rather remarry.

A middle-aged nobleman reported to Huo Teng: "My name is Dingle, the leader of the King's Rider. Ms. Adelaide has been delivered."

The carriage opened, and a beautiful and elegant lady walked down leading her daughter.

"Good day, my protector." Ms. Adelaide held her daughter's hand and bowed cautiously to Huo Teng.

She is the king's widow, but her husband died early. In front of a central bully like Huo Teng, she must understand the difference in status between the two parties.

"Good day, Ms. Adelaide." Huo Teng looked at Adelaide, feeling surprised.

This is a slightly haggard, but beautiful lady.

The carefully combed brown-red hair stuck out the boundary between dangerous temptation and pure desire, and the open-fronted crimson dress revealed plump and deep snow-white suet, and the waist-tight red dress revealed a curvy waist, like a flower in The wild roses blooming on the side of the road are mature and attractive, and the corners of the group are tightened, which makes her sway gently with one step, and her figure is graceful and graceful, making her more attractive.

She didn't wear a headscarf, but wore a thin long skirt that exposed her snow-white breasts. In the eyes of orthodox nobles, she was simply dressed like a courtesan.

So as soon as Adelaide showed up, Huo Teng was pinched by the waist by Conosha, and she moved her fingers on his tender flesh.

Seeing Connuosha's witty and charming eyes, Huo Teng forced a smile and waved his hands to ensure that he would not cross the line.

really?

To be honest, although there are not so many dirty and dirty places in the political exchanges between nobles, the primitiveness and wildness have never disappeared.Adelaide is ready to be physically occupied by Huo Teng.She is just a weak widow, anyone can bully her, so why not find someone strong who can protect her?

Adelaide has its own chips, and it is not coming empty-handed.

After being appointed as her protector and guardian, Huo Teng also has a certain right to manage her property.

Adelaide inherited another ancient city below Worms, Speyer, from her husband.Speyer was built in the Teutonic period BC, and then served as a Roman military camp until it was destroyed by satisfaction in the 5th century and rebuilt in the 7th century.It is very fertile and close to the most prosperous Worms, and Huo Teng will prepare a shrewd and capable housekeeper for her to take care of it.

In addition, the city of Erfurt was newly donated by the king. In name, Adelaide only got the abbey and royal estate of the city, but in fact, because the church was also donated by the royal family, Horten could appoint a bishop on his behalf.The bishop is also the administrator of the city, and he in turn controls the faith and bureaucracy of the city.

In addition, Erfurt, like Göttingen, is a serious business town.Moreover, Erfurt is the core city of the Thuringia region, as well as the textile printing and dyeing center and the commercial distribution center in the eastern part of the empire.

Such a big city with a population of thousands, if Huo Teng doesn't seize it, will he give it to others?

Chapter 240 IX Crappy Historic City,

Why do some people miss the feudal era?

This is a matter of opinion.

But Huo Teng suddenly understood at least one aspect at this moment.

Women in the feudal era were not a complete person in the social sense, and she was restrained in all aspects of society far more than men could imagine.

Obedience to father at home, obedience to husband when married, obedience to uncle after husband's death, Adelaide's life trajectory follows this traditional way.Even if her life is not bad, she is better than more than [-]% of the people and enjoys the service of the fief.

There are still too few ruthless characters like Kang Nuosha who are independent and play their own small world in the forest of men, and she failed in the end, and chose Huo Teng as her husband to solve political problems.

But when Huo Teng was still thinking about the similarities and differences between Conosha and Adelaide, the cousins, Conosha, who had already overturned the jealousy jar, immediately took his arm and pushed Huo Teng out: "You'd better take Miss Laura to go out, Adelaide and I will deal with it."

Huo Teng simply took Laura out for a walk, to see how Conosha would deal with her sister.

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The clever maid carried Adelaide's luggage and guided them to their new home.They settled here and did not go to Erfurt.

I believe that even the citizens and priests of Erfurt would not really bring the pillow wind booster sent by the king to the Horten house back to the Erfurt Abbey, right?

Connorsa held her sister's wrist warmly on the surface, and praised with a smile: "Please come upstairs, usually only our family is here, and the guest room is always empty. I didn't expect you to move here. This way the house is also lively. So I haven't seen you for many years, but you are still as beautiful as when you were young."

Although Adelaide was also full of smiles, she could feel the embarrassing atmosphere.

It is reasonable to say that her status is slightly higher than that of Conosha, but in the face of a strong cousin, Adelaide is not good at resisting in a straight line, so she can only politely beg for mercy: "Sister, don't embarrass me. I, Like a wandering cloud, being chased here and expelled there, it is enough to have a place to stay."

Seeing her cousin begging for mercy, Connorsa was relieved a little, and asked the maid: "Is the room tidy? Go and call all the women in the house to meet my sister. My sister is from the royal family and has a high status, so she cannot be taken lightly. "

It appears that Adelaide's begging for mercy has worked.

"By the way, sister, I'm pregnant. Do you think it will be a boy?" Connorsa is not very old this year, several years younger than Adelaide, and she showed off her slightly protruding belly by the way.

Connorsa tried to use a boy to prove that she was better than her sister.

However, with deep eyes, Adelaide, who is already an older girl at the age of 27, also knows better that she will have problems sooner or later when she lives under someone else.

Whether it is whether she can bear her heartache and bumpy days, or Huo Teng's occasional drunken slip, Adelaide is bound to be involved in a civil war in the Göttingen family.

Should he take the initiative, or continue to wait for the day of remarriage, or be pressed by the bedside by a drunk Huo Teng one night, and he could only comfort his poor daughter Judith while receiving the man's rough treatment Woolen cloth? 1

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