prince of europe in quintiles

You women shouldn't be independent at all, you should be led by us men!

Therefore, Arnulf, bishop of Halberstadt, has a grudge against Quedlinburg, and has always declared that he has the "spiritual leadership" of this monastery, and the women here must listen to him.

The eldest princess was not dead, so he did this. The eldest princess left unfortunately, and Arnulf must not send priests to the monastery to take over forcibly?

Jeffrey suddenly became angry, and patted the hilt of his sword and called out: "Mother of the Earl, don't worry, I remember that the dean of the Quedlinburg Monastery was bestowed by the emperor, sitting at the head of the Imperial Council and not under the control of anyone I will gather my men and go to the city of Halberstadt to teach that dog bishop a lesson."

Anderhina was irritated by Jeffrey's repeated labeling. She stood up dignifiedly and reprimanded Jeffrey: "Stop talking nonsense. I have never been married, and I have never had a son..."

At this time, the female nobles living here probably understood what was going on.

The relationship between the eldest princess and Huo Teng is not as close as Jeffrey thought.

But some smart people came forward.

She bit the princess's ear: "Princess, our Quedlinburg Monastery is an independent secular monastery with clear laws, so Arnulf dares to keep harassing you, think about your sister, Princess Sophia's Gandershai The monastery is always being harassed by the local Bishop of Hildesheim, and this harassment has been going on for 13 years, you might as well recognize Horten and let him help you and your sisters get rid of the bishop's harassment."

This put the eldest princess in a dilemma, and she blushed for a while.

Quedlinburg's legal rights are clear, and the disputes are not too big.But the richer Gandersheim Abbey next door has been harassed by the local bishop since 13 years ago, constantly declaring that men have leadership over women.This dispute has even become the biggest controversy in the empire in recent years, attracting the attention of kings and dukes.

The cause of this incident was that the young second princess Sophia insisted that her appointment should be ordained by the archbishop of Mainz, that is, Burgard's teacher Willikis.But when Gandersheim Abbey was first founded, it was in the Diocese of Hildesheim.But four years later, the abbey moved to straddle the border of the Diocese of Mainz.

As a result, the conflict between the Archbishop of Mainz and the Bishop of Hildesheim inevitably broke out. From the second princess, to the archbishop, and the Duchy of Saxony, this dispute lasted for more than 13 years. Last year, the second princess actually arrived Serving as the abbot of the monastery, on the contrary, intensified the dispute. .

It will continue for another 30 years, taking 43 years to resolve.

So at present, the second princess Sophia can only worry about it.

Faced with this situation, the eldest princess really couldn't think of any good solution.

She could only pinch the corner of her skirt, grab Jeffrey in a low voice, and commanded softly: "I'll just... reluctantly admit it. But I order you to let Huo Teng come to Quedlinburg to visit me in person, I have It's up to him."

Chapter 260 He Beats Him, I Earn Me

Of course Jeffrey agreed with the princess' favor.

But Jeffrey, who is smart, witty and shameless, has not forgotten the big trouble he caused.

Before going out, Jeffrey grabbed the people around him and said in a low voice: "You take a few chivalrous knights and find some good troops who are clean and don't cause trouble here to stand guard for the eldest princess. Don't desert or harass the people. This is the most important thing for you right now, and you must not delay it."

The subordinates are very reluctant, what's the point of just standing guard?Besides, I have to eat.

"Eat?" Jeffrey laughed angrily.

"Hey, you guys are really stupid. What's in the Harz Mountain Walled City? It's a barren mountain, only bears, wild boars, copper mines and bandits. This is the Quedlin Abbey, the richest cultural sanctuary in the country. Are you still afraid that the eldest princess will not give you something to eat?"

So on the second day after Geoffrey left, the eldest princess stood on the bell tower and accidentally discovered that there were a large number of vagrants led by chivalrous knights from the Viscount of Harz around the monastery.Hundreds of warriors dressed in shabby but clean clothes replaced the previous guards, staring at every believer who came in and out.

Anderhena sent her maid to inquire, and found that these shameless and shameless Harz army even claimed to passers-by that they were the princess' army sent by Horten to protect Quedlinburg.They also shamelessly spread the glorious deeds of Huo Teng as the adopted son of the eldest princess and as a close minister of the Otto family.

By the way, they also expelled any priests who came from the north with the emblem of the Halberstadt diocese on their bodies, and expelled all the 'patriarchs' who continued to harass women here.

The eldest princess was ashamed and annoyed by this, but the ladies who were finally freed from harassment clapped their hands and applauded.They had money, and seeing that some of the brave troops outside didn't even have shoes, they took out their small purses and issued a uniform to each of the troops outside at the weaver in Quedlinburg.

In the evening of two days, the second princess drove to Quedlinburg.The second princess, who is known for being 'proud and stubborn', is not easy to serve, so there was friction with the chivalrous army at the door.

"Sister, where did those veterans outside come from?" Ms. Sophia's tall figure was not seen, and her clear phoenix voice flew to the hall first.

"Oh, it's not that kid Huo Teng who sent me to trouble me." Anderhina sulked at Huo Teng, but she had a special feeling for Huo Teng.At least this kind of action of directly sending troops into battle and beating the staff of the Halberstadt parish is very relieved.Before and after two years of scolding, this matter could not be solved, but now hundreds of soldiers have solved it perfectly, and the eldest princess has truly realized that the criticism of weapons can replace the weapons of criticism.

The second princess saw that the eldest sister was still depressed, and after asking the other noble ladies to find out the situation, she pinched her waist and scolded Huo Teng: "Why are you only sending it to Quedlinburg? Are you so partial? Didn't I bring him when I was young? Hurry up." Write to Horten, and send another batch to Gandersheim, and all the servants of the local diocese will be beaten out."

"slow!"

The eldest princess still stopped her sister's slender waist.She told the noble ladies: "Go out and change them into clothes and flags in the colors of the Quedlinburg flag. Although this group of troops belonged to Huo Teng, outsiders had to think they belonged to us. By the way, more food and Money, comfort them more, let them be loyal to our monastery, our sisters, understand?"

The careful princess probably knew the purpose of Huo Teng's tricks, which was to earn some fame from her.But the army guarding the gate couldn't be easily controlled by Huo Teng, it would be better to win over him under his skirt.

Naturally, it won't be so close to under the skirt, and this position will not be reserved for ordinary people.

The second princess nodded again and again.

After going out, Princess Sophia asked about the number of troops stationed in Quedlinburg, and sent someone to add a few more words to the letter sent to Huo Teng.

"Her garrison is twice as large as her sister's! Half of the Harz Mountains was dedicated to the eldest princess, and she had to be given fertile fields, bridges and mills from the Rumer River to Gandersheim."

After Huo Teng got the letter, he was speechless.

He kicked Jeffrey a few times, and cursed angrily and laughingly: "It's really you, you knelt down and called mom, and sent five hundred defenders, you can't wait to call Ann Mother Delhena, do you live in the bustling gold-selling cave in Quedlinburg?"

"How can it be!"

Jeffrey repeatedly complained: "I just completed the task you gave me."

"You have accomplished too much. Now, the second princess insists on being better than the eldest princess, and she wants to take away 1000 troops from me. What do you think? How can I arrange her defense in a hurry? I will pay for it." How much?" Huo Teng kicked him a few more times to relieve his anger.

Of course, there is no solution.

Huo Teng knew that the second princess had nothing to do with those male priests.Just give him a few hundred thugs, but the general needs to be more careful in this regard, and get some loyal and reliable honest people to go there.

"Go, you go to Millhausen to select 800 refugees with good fortune, and let them bring their families, wives and daughters to Gandersheim Abbey. By the way, choose 8 loyal and reliable knights, and I will take the land over there Give them the share, and be sure to guard the gate for the second princess. You must remember that you must tell the second princess that her treatment is twice as much as that of the eldest princess."

Huo Teng was going to equip these people with some gaudy clothes and bright nails to fool the second princess.

Jeffrey turned over and ran away in a hurry, and continued to work.

Adelaide and Jones, who were sitting behind the curtain, congratulated Huo Teng with smiles on their faces, and Adelaide met Huo Teng for a while, sticking to Huo Teng's arm: "What a good idea, your idea is so good .”

It wasn't your idea, when did it get pushed on me?

Although Huo Teng was a bit pissed, it was quite useful.How about saying that this smart woman can do things?

"Okay, you have also contributed a lot. In this way, you will be our court in the future... Oh, you are not a court now, and you don't live in a monastery. You will be our family's think tank and help advise domestic and foreign affairs."

The excited Adelaide even kissed Huo Teng in front of Jones, and then went out with her waist twisted alluringly.

Only then did Jones stride out from behind, Huo Teng wiped the hickey in a hurry, and said to his first wife with a smile: "Win people's hearts, just play around."

"Tch, I don't know you yet?" Jones rolled her eyes at him, but held his hand and said, "This woman is scheming, but her nature is quite reliable. After all, she is Connorsa's cousin. If you are afraid that she will give birth to you in return, it will be difficult for her to arrange for the daughter of the king's brother, and she is an illegitimate child after all."

"It's okay. She has no title. I know how to control her." Huo Teng comforted Jones and sent her out as well.

Adelaide was going to the monastery to meet with the representatives of the city, while Jones was going to go out with the army to inspect the neighboring city of Gotha, in fact trying to control that city.

The next day, the Eldest Princess announced her gratitude to Huo Teng for the gift in Quedlinburg, and stated again that she and Huo Teng were only close and had no actual adoptive mother relationship.By the way, his army was also brought under the flag.

At this moment, Huo Teng felt like he was constipated.

Not only because the relationship with the eldest princess cannot be rushed, but also because it has to be done slowly, and it also includes the chaos of all parties under the current situation.

In terms of warfare, on the Polish side, the Polish cavalry is quite strong, but they are also short of food, so they can only move around the east; the Saxons, food cannot be transported to the front line, and half of the army is starved and fainted.The two parties can be described as crouching dragon and phoenix chick, and everyone is starving to death.

At home, Bernard resolutely refused to hand over the title of Thuringia; the eldest princess and the second princess can only be said to have resumed their previous contacts; Not really the boss.

The main strategies of internal and external are all stuck in the middle of the road.

"Oh, what a mess this is."

Huo Teng, who was pinching his chin and looking at the map, was still wondering how to break the situation, when a messenger came from the south.

He is the Duke of Bavaria, Henry V, the brother-in-law of Horten's mistress, and the eldest son of the allied Luxembourg family.

He sent someone to tell Horten: "Robert II, King of West Franks, was excommunicated by the Pope because of the marriage of close relatives before he could hold the hand of his fiancée. The Archbishop of Clans not only sternly refused, but also exposed it, causing the whole church to scold Robert for his lack of shame and piety."

The implication of these words is that the upper and lower Lorraine families in the west are going to be further involved in the battle for the throne of West Francia, making King Conrad unable to withdraw.

But Huo Teng suddenly had a good idea.

"Bernard didn't give me the title, so I took this opportunity to blackmail Conrad. He beat him, and I earned mine!"

Wandering for two steps in the room, the complacent Huo Teng suddenly saw the letter from the Eldest Princess again.

He put his finger on it and tapped it, jokingly said: "It's like a relationship drama with the eldest princess. She beat her too, and I earned mine!"

Chapter 260 Three Swallow Weimar Again

Bautzen, the eastern gate of the Romanian Empire.The capital of the border territory of Lusatia.

It was the homeland of the Slavic Sorbs before the great Goro Cyclone in 939.

That year, he came from a humble background, as a courtier of Emperor Otto, his father was originally the godfather of Emperor Otto's father, and the great Gero was just an ordinary border military leader.But this year, Gero had a terrible Hongmen banquet.

He invited 30 Slavic chiefs, and then beheaded none of them at the banquet. Only one escaped by accident and narrowly escaped death. The 29 chiefs and hundreds of servants and slaves were all beheaded by Gero, which was more plain and bloody than the Bloody Wedding in A Song of Ice and Fire, but also more bloody.

From 939 to 960, in 21 years, the great Gero relied on his own organization of the "Followers Legion", a completely out-of-production warrior group, according to the Slavs from south to north, probably the German Expedition The earliest practitioners.This land, which was as big as the East German Republic during the Cold War, was all conquered by Gero, so the vassal state and border territory created by him were collectively called the Grones vassal state. After his death The five vassal kingdoms of the North, the East, Meissen, Merseburg and Zeitz were split.In his lifetime he was even considered the greatest of the Saxons.

Although he was born low.

Compared to this super hunk who will become the next East Germany in 20 years, Horten is nothing.

Not only Huo Teng occasionally thinks this way, even Grand Duke Boleslav of Poland also thinks this way.

Under the city of Bautzen, who was appointed as the Earl of Upper Lusatia by Archbishop Gniezno of Poland, Guntherin of the Eckard family, who had defected to the Poles, was hit on the head by a horsewhip and fell to the ground aggrieved. I dare not protest.

"Hahaha, what a waste. I asked you to find two hundred carts of food, but you couldn't collect them. I want you to use them? Huo Teng, a little thief, is a mere snobbish kid whose legs are entangled by petty profits. Don’t dare to enter Merseburg, hide in Thuringia’s prosperous and prosperous world to count money, you are a waste like you. When I have enough food, there will be centaur warlords, slave giants, slave beast warriors on the top, and Poland on the bottom Hussars, warriors of the Krakow forest, wouldn't it be easy for me to flatten Meisen with an army of tens of thousands? But you have delayed my big event."

A little giant nearly two meters tall stood proudly on the hill, reprimanding a group of defectors headed by Guntherin.

Guntherin choked speechlessly. He didn't expect that the Earl's position in exchange for the Poles would not be so easy.Those more unlucky Germanized Slavic nobles were even more dissatisfied. They surrounded the Grand Duke and bowed three times: "Great Grand Duke Boleslav, please learn from me! The summer rainstorm drowned dozens of your centaur generals." , slaves and giants at both ends, and they continue to requisition food, our tribal people are almost unable to support them."

"Idiot, call His Majesty the King!" Boleslav was furious, beat and kicked the dignitaries to the ground.

In addition to these defectors, other slaves shackled by their necks in the light rain looked at the Polish army expressionlessly.They were the Slavic slaves who were reduced to serfs during the Grotto Expedition.

In the beginning, the Romanian emperor declared that they did not believe in God, so they had to be slaves.

Then they converted to Christianity and found out that even if they became Christians, they still had to be slaves.

So they hoped that the Poles, their compatriots and relatives, could take themselves out of the serf situation.Who would have thought that after the arrival of the Grand Duke of Poland, instead of liberating these poor Slavic slaves, he even arrested them rudely and forced the serfs to go hungry to help the royal army deliver food.Under every grain truck running from east to west, there was a serf's skeleton.

not only that.

The dead serfs, their families, wives and daughters will be occupied by the Polish army immediately, and their bones will be dragged to feed wolves and slave beastmen. They lived miserable lives and died even more without dignity.

The dignitaries of the flamboyant Polish royal family, with fat heads and big ears and waists as thick as buckets, accompanied their self-appointed Polish kings in the city of Bautzen to misbehave, which has already aroused anger and resentment.

popular sentiment?

rule?

For the king, as long as the army is in hand, it doesn't matter even if Bautzen is squeezed to nothing.

Bao Cen will soon be in dire straits.Whether it is the Slavs or the Germans, the people have fled westward to the territory of Meissen, pursuing the slightest bit of dignity in survival.

If things go on like this, the bones of Upper Lusatia will be exposed in the wild, and there will be no chickens crowing for thousands of miles. The Prime Minister of the Grand Duchy of Poland, Archbishop Ladim Gordon of Gniezno, can't help but see it. Live with the king to discuss the issue.

Although Radim Gordon is the archbishop of Poland, he is the prince of the Principality of Bohemia.Because of the coup d'état and the massacre of nobles there, he fled north.

He looked at the king, who was said to have the blood of a giant, so rough that he couldn't ride a horse, and begged in a low voice: "Your Majesty, we can't continue to wreak havoc like this. If the serfs aren't liberated, the grain just harvested by the farmers will be wiped out. There are vacant villages everywhere, and Lusatia is about to become an uninhabited area. Didn’t we support Guntherin’s succession and let him inherit Meissen on the grounds of brotherhood?”

Unexpectedly, King Boleslav, who seemed vulgar and wild to outsiders, who was good at playing with women and giving birth to children, showed a treacherous smile: "This is why you don't understand. Romania is powerful, while Poland is small. I don't have many demands. That is to cede the vicinity of Bautzen to us, and leave the rest of Lusatia to Guntherin. Now squeeze this land dry to prevent them from being used by the Franks. I will leave it deserted first, and then the Roman king will Give it to me."

"This..." Archbishop Wang felt depressed about this cruel theory.

But he had no way to obstruct it, he could only allocate food as much as possible so that the Polish army could fill their stomachs.

Legend has it that most giants are extremely stupid, but Boleslav is as shrewd as a ghost. I really don't know whether the giant greened his ancestors or his ancestors greened the giants.

No matter which one, it means that his ancestors and grandmothers should have great physiques, whether it is a toothpick stirring a big tank, or a villain riding a big horse.

……

Amidst the Polish people's seemingly rough, but in fact little movement, this winter is gradually coming.

The power of the German Winter General, although far less brutal than Moscow, has a slow and deadly cold.

The average temperature here in winter hovers around minus five degrees below zero, but the abundant water vapor makes the cold penetrate into the bone marrow, and I dare not stay outside for too long.The magical subtle cold often makes travelers fall dead on the road.

On days like this, the Thuringians would just hide at home and scold the chaotic situation while looking for the way forward in confusion.

Under the city of Erfurt, a few low-level elite guards knelt together to enjoy the fire, chatting by the way.

One of them said: "Have you heard? The bishop of Weimar was arrested by Huo Teng and sent to the Holy See in Mainz for trial because of corruption. This Huo Teng is really good, and he can be regarded as getting rid of the old corrupt official." .”

"Cut, it's all fake. Let me tell you about the secrets inside. Huo Teng is a wolf who eats everything. Weimar is extinct, and the bishop was arrested and tried by him. You say Weimar is still left." Who is it? Isn't it in Huo Teng's pocket?" The people next to him didn't like Huo Teng, and slandered and scolded him endlessly.

"Well, Huo Teng people are not bad."

"I don't think so..."

Several people were clamoring, and suddenly they saw a horse coming from the west, a large group of peasants riding archers, riding through the warm sun of early winter, and returning to the city with the heads of a group of bandits.