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"It can be discussed, but what about the new territories reclaimed by farmers?" Baron Kenan was old and well-informed, so he probably guessed Huo Teng's meaning.But he also has a lot of concerns.

Wouldn't it be a loss if the new land dug up by the farmer didn't belong to the old lord he was personally attached to?

"Temporarily managed by the lord, in a few years, we will sign a new contract like today." Huo Teng smiled slightly, and offered even more important benefits.

So the knight reluctantly agreed.But there are still discussions in private.

It is okay to succeed in pioneering wasteland, but who will bear the burden if it fails?

Only Bishop Matt felt that Huo Teng had bad intentions when he was listening.

He actually wanted to renew the feudal contract with his subordinates on a regular basis, and those knights were worried about the whereabouts of their farmers, so they ignored Huo Teng's conditions as benefits.

But if you think about it carefully, if the feudal contract is renewed every few years, doesn't it mean that the new assets of the knights must be used to deal with the lord?

In this way, the lord's control over the knights was unprecedentedly strengthened.

Bishop Matt shook his head, secretly preparing to expose Huo Teng's conspiracy at tomorrow's official canonization ceremony.

……

Although there is not yet a complete process for the canonization of knights, there are many rules that have been agreed upon.

Huo Teng had to take a shower and fast the day before he was canonized as a baron. Like Islam and Buddhism, he had to cleanse his body and soul first.

Huo Teng will then put on a red and white dress.Because in Christianity, white means purity, and red symbolizes fighting for Christ.After packing up all these, Huo Teng will take his sword and armor and pray in the church all night.Until dawn comes, and then the bishop comes to preside over the mass, inspiring the knights to faith in the lord.

Of course, the bishop should also bless the knight's sword and armor, which can be regarded as spiritual encouragement.This article appeared relatively early. As early as 950, relevant records appeared in the monastery of Mainz, Germany.

When all the preparations for the ceremony are completed, it will be the core sword-giving ceremony.

After Huo Teng prayed in front of the church, but actually slept all night, the sword-giving ceremony began at five o'clock in the morning.

Huo Teng, wearing red and white clothes, stood under the stage.

Conossa, who was dressed gorgeously and solemnly, sat on the stage.

Bishop Matt, stood aside.

Connorsa held the sword in her hand and was still hesitating whether to shake hands with Huo Teng, which was an etiquette representing loyalty.

The Countess had studied systematically in the capital, Nancy, and knew more about feudal etiquette than Huo Teng.The signing of feudal contracts and the allegiance of real personal attachment are actually two rituals.It's just that the two ceremonies are often held together, or they already have an object of personal attachment such as a family, so they are slightly confused.

But when Huo Teng came to the front of the stage, Bishop Matt stepped forward and stepped in front.

Matt held Huo Teng's sword solemnly, and said before the countess: "Young Huo Teng, you have used your ability to show your extraordinary talent to the knights around you. You are ready for your oath Yet?"

"of course."

Huo Teng stepped aside from the bishop, slightly moved towards the countess, and knelt down on one knee.

Speaking of which, the oaths that the knights made when they pledged their allegiance to the lord were also very eloquent.This is an article similar to the genre of poetry, expressing aspirations, and the oaths with gorgeous rhetoric are more sought after by people, and are more likely to be valued by the lord.

Huo Teng prepared a magnificent article: "I swear, I will be kind to the weak... I will be honest with my friends... Finally..."

After reciting his oath, Huo Teng suddenly added another sentence: "I will treat her sincerely and be faithful to my love."

Connorsa finally swallowed her breath.

Horten didn't mess up.

But when everyone was applauding and preparing to celebrate Huo Teng, Bishop Matt suddenly stopped Huo Teng and asked in a sharp voice: "Are you sure you treat the city to your friends? Then what happened yesterday..."

Huo Teng immediately guessed that Bishop Matt was going to attack him at his canonization ceremony.

You don't even slap someone in the face!

So Huo Teng, of course, loudly stopped Bishop Matt. He bent down, pretended to pick up a letter from the ground, and read aloud: "My beloved Lisa, our son..."

This letter is the letter found in Skok's treasury.It contains the detailed plot and correspondence arranged by Bishop Matt for the illegitimate child.

Matt was shocked.

"How could it be in your hands..." Of course he knew that Huo Teng took the letter out of his sleeve.

Matt wants to announce that Horten has renewed the feudal contract, making him hated by most knights.

But Huo Teng aimed at Bishop Matt's life early on, ready to kill him with one blow.

The surrounding knights began to gossip.

Someone said: "What? The son of the guy in the next county is the illegitimate son of Bishop Matt? Then he is raising children for others..."

When Huo Teng read the contents of the letter, everyone was immediately convinced.

After all, Bishop Matt usually has a bad reputation in this regard.

When he wanted to explain to himself and prevent the matter from further escalating, Huo Teng stopped him and shouted loudly: "Bishop? Don't seek suicide, Bishop. We should find out the truth of this matter! If someone framed you , but..."

Huo Teng hilariously stopped Matt, not giving him a chance to explain.

So Bishop Matt fainted from the anger, and almost choked himself to death with a mouthful of old blood.

Huo Teng had no choice but to shrug his shoulders, and met Kang Nuosha's helpless gaze.

……

The farce was over, and Göttingen County also preliminarily counted a new group of knights.

A total of 147 knights can form an army of nearly a thousand people, and their strength has increased by more than [-]% compared to before.

These were all bought by Huo Teng with money, so the rights should be concentrated in Huo Teng's hands as a matter of course.

Chapter 56 The Thing About Power

After Huo Teng publicly exposed the issue of illegitimate children, Bishop Matt stayed here shamelessly, hurriedly covered his face with his sleeves, fled backstage, and cried with his disciples.

As for his funeral, in fact, the vast majority of nobles are clear.

Generally, there are only two processing results for events like this.

The first is that Bishop Matt asked the powerful people behind him to protect him. Everyone can only pretend that nothing happened, and they should pray and pray, and pay tribute, and everything will continue as usual.But if Bishop Matt doesn't have a strong backing, or if the backing isn't very fond of him, then the whole situation will become interesting.

Because it is the most common trick to get Bishop Matt down and replace him with a new bishop to make money.

Here I have to mention the great contradiction between the church and the emperor in the Middle Ages, that is, the issue of the bishop's renewal of power.

The bishop's renewal right, just like the literal meaning, is the question of who will appoint the next bishop.

Traditionally, the Holy Roman Emperor in Germany, as the secular head of the Roman Catholic Church, held the power to appoint bishops to local offices.

But on the one hand, the Church and the Holy Roman Emperor were not always on the same page.The Church and the Pope, have a mind of their own.So I also hope that this power will be taken back.But the Holy Roman Emperor specifically needed this power to fulfill his need to gain local control and fill his treasury.

Among them, there are not only contradictions and oppositions between secular power and religious power, but also mutual unity and support.It also includes conflicts between ideals, reality, loftiness, depravity, etc., so that although this storm has not fully risen, several popes have already died.

As mentioned earlier, the church was a rare scholar in the Middle Ages.Bishops often also serve as local magistrates.Therefore, on the one hand, the bishop is the usurper of power, and on the other hand, he may hold the two coffers of the local area and the diocese at the same time.

As a result, the bishop's renewal of power gradually became tainted with the smell of copper.

So much so that some people spend money specifically to buy bishop renewal rights.As soon as he took office, he wanted to collect money, sell fake holy objects, illegally deal with the real estate of the diocese, collect unequal property from the diocese believers, and so on.In short, in fact, peeling off the skin of the outside church is not very different from the core of the tax subsidy system in ancient Rome.

In the same way, this kind of corrupt buying and selling of teaching positions is also a stimulating factor that breeds corruption in the church and leads to the rising power of the reformists.

Just like this, many people in it don't know which side they are on.

Connorsa looked at this scene with her small face, and it was hard to hold back a smile.She stretched out her hand to support Huo Teng's shoulder, and couldn't help patting and complaining to him: "You really are, how can you lose face to Bishop Matt in public? If you have something to discuss with the suffering master in private."

What Conosha said was convincing, in fact, it was basically confirmed in public that Bishop Matt had an affair and had an illegitimate child.

Holding the sword, Huo Teng pretended to be morally noble: "I really didn't expect that the honorable Bishop Matt also has moral flaws. It's really frightening."

In fact, it's all fart.

One master and one minister, a few words of chat cut off the last way for Bishop Matt to come to ask for help.

Now, the only way to keep Bishop Matt is the shelter of the Archbishop of Mainz.

In the Roman Catholic Church in the middle and early Middle Ages, archbishops did not cover all regions, and the number of archbishops in a country was very small.For example, in France, there are mainly the Archbishop of Sens and the Archbishop of Reims, but there is no Archbishop of Paris.In Germany, there are a few archbishops such as Magdeburg and Mainz.

The Archbishop has a lot of power, although it also depends on his prestige and relationship with the emperor, but for a remote place like Göttingen, the Archbishop of Mainz is already a colossus.

As for why the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Göttingen is in the hands of the Archbishop of Mainz, but it is far away from the Archbishop of Sens, which belongs to Nancy, that is because Göttingen is on the northeastern border of the Grand Duchy of Lorraine, and the Duchy of Saxony and Germany. The Principality of Franconia is very close to each other, while the capital Nancy is southwest and close to France.

Having said that, the Archbishop of Mainz is busy fighting with the Duke of Franconia, arguing over whether the local people are more of a subject or a churchman, so he probably doesn't have time to deal with the fuss here.

Speaking of this, Göttingen County has heard of it.

The Archbishop of Mainz actually incited the people to surround the Duke's castle, causing a commotion for several months that he could not step down from power.It shocked many dignitaries around.

After the ceremony, Huo Teng finally had time to check the new attributes he had obtained.

[Congratulations on unlocking the title: Baron Millhouse]

Baron Millhouse will provide an added bit of oomph to make Horten stand out even more.But obviously, this bit of charm doesn't really make him handsome, it just embellishes him with his status, as if his family has four suites.

But the key arms that are unlocked are very interesting.

Baron Millhouse did not provide the unlocking of units. After all, when he acquired the attribute of the castle master, he had already unlocked the unlocking of high-value units such as squire knights.

The reward provided by this title turned out to be the addition of a personal bodyguard.

No, just a bodyguard at the level of a general affairs officer, responsible for protecting Huo Teng's safety in all aspects.

But as far as Huo Teng is concerned, one more person still needs to take care of food and money, but in fact he doesn't really need close protection, it can only be said that talking is better than nothing.

Of course, apart from this tasteless reward, Huo Teng also unlocked new functions because he has mastered two territories.

That is to assign left behind.

Huo Teng can choose to send elite affairs officers or ordinary army leaders to his castle to provide different levels of benefits.

For example, Jeffrey who is currently staying in Fort Millhouse, as the leader of the bandit knights, his role is to 'recruit knight costs -5%' and 'reduce the chance of bandit outbreaks'.

As an ordinary soldier leader, Jeffrey can provide two buff blessings.

But if it is an elite affairs officer in charge of governance, it shouldn't be a problem to come up with at least five profitable buffs.

Therefore, Huo Teng will continue to work hard to see how to unlock the recruitment method of elite affairs officers.

After Huo Teng returned to the Free City of Göttingen with a full load and met his subjects and Greya who was still in charge of trade affairs, he lay on the bed exhausted physically and mentally, and fell asleep soundly.

But soon, he couldn't fall asleep.

A tribe of halflings who had been waiting nearby for a long time rushed to the door.

They chose to go to Horten and were willing to offer war beasts as sacrifices.

Chapter 57 New Mount, New Frame

In this somewhat magical Middle Ages, most of the legendary fairies and dwarves existed.

Halflings, as a race that is actually similar to short human children, have a relatively wide distribution.They are good at cooking and domestication. They are naturally happy and timid, and they haunt the manors of those powerful people every day.Life is not bad.After all, the Middle Ages was basically a class society without human rights.

Human rights will only be possessed after modern humans discover themselves from the group.Before that, everyone was part of the group, and the group came first.

Therefore, this group of halflings came in the form of an ethnic group.

This should be the halfling tribe who came to defect as mentioned in the battle rewards.

"Respected Baron Millhouse, your great and glorious achievements have shocked the whole world. The surrounding counties and parishes are all impressed by your greatness. I... the villain Griff Big Tooth, came here specially. I hope you can , to acquire the right of settlement and citizenship in your domain."

A short halfling who was only about 1.3 meters long but looked like a middle-aged man in his 40s saluted Huo Teng in the hall.

According to him, he specially migrated here from the neighboring county after hearing about Huo Teng's strength.

"Where's your original master?" Greya, the master trader of the territory, asked sharply.

She questioned: "When I followed my parents to do business in each territory, I found that each halfling tribe is the property of the local lord. They have their own contracts and cannot leave the territory at will. I think you Big Tooth tribe left your original hometown , must have its own unspeakable secrets."

really.Including Huo Teng, Greb, also guessed like this.

Don't look like a halfling.

In fact, except for robbers and green-skinned monsters who are not accepted by the order, all life groups living in the order must find their superiors in this class of society.

The guardianship of the superiors over the subordinates, the feudal order constituted, is the essence of this class of society.

The name Griff actually means 'spoon handle' in German, indicating that he was originally a cook.

The speaker of the Big Tooth Tribe could only rub his hands together, and apologized in embarrassment: "We used to be the chef of an earl in the duchy of Saxony in the northeast. But the earl became more and more picky about food, and even asked me to fly The pegasus, the stag in the north, and the griffin in the Alps all make a feast for him. How can I have this ability. As a last resort, I can only take advantage of the chaos of war and escape here."

Saxony.