prince of europe in quintiles

Isn't this ready-made material?It's still a masterpiece that I accidentally planted willows and willows.

"You mean, fight the Earl of Kassel next door before the Principality recruits us to the capital?" Connorsa was once again impressed by Huo Teng's crooked mind, and almost flew out of the atmosphere.

Chapter 61 The green turtle was tricked

The grandson of Earl Kassel's uncle's family, Baron Orinte Kassel, has recently become the biggest joke in the Earl of Kassel.

Everyone was laughing off the top of his head.

Of course, the nobles didn't know the concept of green hats at this time, and they preferred to call such people green-haired turtles.

almost the same meaning.

Bishop Matt was an ordinary priest in the county of Kassel in the early days. Orinte Kassel's wife especially liked to talk and study with Priest Matt, who was restrained in speaking and had an ordinary background but excellent knowledge. After all, her husband could not read. , savage and cruel.To put it simply, this may be one of the problems that every noblewoman who grew up in a monastery may encounter. Orinte's wife belongs to the kind that has too beautiful fantasies about literati priests.Nobles pray at least once a week on weekends, so Priest Matt has been able to visit the castle of the Olint family for a long time.

This communicates, communicates, communicates to the bed, communicates to the depths of the souls of men and women.

Finally, also communicated to the womb of the physical body.

Olinte's wife gave birth to a child for Priest Matt out of nowhere.

In the Middle Ages, there was no advanced technology for identifying blood types and parent-child relationships, so Baron Olint was kept in the dark.During that time, he was traveling with the Earl of Cassel, and after several months of fighting, he came home and found that his wife had a big belly. He thought it was just the credit for his hard work before he set off.

But after the child was born, Bishop Matt found that the child was more and more like himself, and only then did he know that the child was really his.

Bishop Matt, who didn't dare to delay, worked very hard to flatter his superior, and transferred to the parish next door under the pretext of a lack of work to prevent being caught by Orinte.

For more than ten years, Bishop Matt has tremblingly overcome all kinds of difficulties, and has also been promoted to the position of bishop, which can be regarded as a consummation of merit.After all, if you lack background or prestige, or advanced knowledge, one of these three, then don't even think about being promoted to Archbishop.

The position of bishop is enough to make money and live a prosperous life.

Now, Bishop Matt has long lost his literati character.If he were to fall because of the scandal and be forced to live a life like an ascetic eating maggot-infested apples and drinking dirty river water, Bishop Matt was sure that he would go crazy.

Therefore, in the face of the accusation messenger from the Kassel family, Bishop Matt would even kneel down on his knees and kowtow to the messenger regardless of his honorable status.

Oh yes, the Middle Ages did have etiquette similar to kowtow, but it was not widely used.Mainly occurs between barbarian, lower knight and peasant interactions.But the game between the high-level dignitaries will not be so vulgar.

In this regard, the Cassel family's questioning messenger actually exceeded psychological expectations.

After all, in addition to the unnecessary loss of prestige suffered by the Cassel family, Olinte Cassel has also raised the child for more than ten years.Moreover, he has not given birth to a second heir in the past ten years, which proves that Olinte may not have any children in the future.In addition, people in the Middle Ages didn't pay much attention to blood relationship, so it would be okay if they recognized this child as Olinte's heir.

The premise is that Bishop Matt offers enough compensation.And he is willing to leave his bishop position to the Kassel family.

"I am willing to pay a huge amount of compensation. I will also donate my private estate on the west side of Göttingen to Baron Olint!" Bishop Matt went bankrupt and even took out the coffin.

And this matter started because Bishop Matt wanted his illegitimate son to be fostered in a better family.

Every noble heir will be sent to a close noble family to send samples when he is seven or eight years old.On the one hand, it is because the children cannot be raised, and the family next door may train them better. On the other hand, it is also because the surrender of hostages facilitates the establishment of mutual trust between the two parties.Bishop Matt really didn't expect that the evidence of a letter made him so depressed.

In short, after Bishop Matt reached a series of exchange conditions with the envoy, he returned home contentedly.

For things like this, it is really difficult for the Countess Conosha to intervene because of religious and personal vendettas.

Therefore, Huo Teng stopped the messenger of the Kassel family on the side of the road.

He didn't say much, but asked the emissary in amazement: "What's going on? Didn't Bishop Matt tell the countess that he has absolutely no illegitimate children, and he will not allow the bishop's renewal right to fall into the hands of others? We For this reason, a full 500 Gold Desaiers were spent to deal with the ups and downs. You should go back where you came from, the bishop of Göttingen's renewal right will not fall into the hands of outsiders."

The envoy was furious immediately.

He felt like he was being tricked.

If Bishop Matt is unwilling to hand over his bishop's succession rights, and still eats both inside and outside, cheating the Kassel family while concealing Göttingenburg, then the so-called private estate and heavy rewards may be castles in the water.

"You...you have to pay the price for this!"

The envoy was furious and hurried away with his own people.I went to report to the Earl of Cassel.

And Huo Teng secretly sent rangers to steal the huge reward that Bishop Matt gave to the envoy on the other side of the forest, causing all the efforts of Bishop Matt to come to naught.

At this time, it was originally just a dispute over illegitimate children, but Huo Teng got involved on both sides, and it turned into a conflict of interests between the two counties.

The most valuable thing about Bishop Matt is the investiture of bishops, and bishops generally will not be removed.

All, this is a golden egg hen that can live for decades, and the counts of Kassel and Göttingen will not let go.

The best way is to let the two sides fight.

That's exactly what Huo Teng wanted.

……

The messenger hurried back to Kassel Castle.

The Cassel family is different from famous families like Northumborg. They are native-born local nobles, and they are very localized from their surnames to their accents.

This also allowed the Cassel family to mobilize more relative knights.

The current head of the family is a middle-aged dignitary named Teppler Cassel.

After the messenger came back, he told him: "Bishop Matt has offered us an extremely favorable condition, and he is willing to hand over everything to atone for our sins."

"That's pretty good. I'll recognize this child." Earl Tapler laughed loudly, patting his unhappy nephew Orinte.

In life, sometimes you have to be open-minded.

Green is also convenient for life.If you want to live a decent life, how can you not bring some green?

But the messenger went on to say: "Although these conditions are so favorable, there is one problem that cannot be solved."

"What's the question?" Earl Tapler's expression immediately fell.

The laughter stopped abruptly.

The envoy was extremely angry and gritted his teeth: "Neither Bishop Matt nor Countess Connorsa and her palace minister Huo Teng seem to be prepared to fulfill it."

This agreement is a fake, to deceive Earl Tapler.

Chapter 62 Upper Hook and Army Planning

"Are you kidding me?! Our Cassel family is being fooled like this?" Earl Tepler was furious.

At this moment, he is not relieved that his nephew is "green on the head", he is in the prime of life, and Earl Tepler, who is in the middle-aged period of vigorous energy, draws out his sword and chops Matt's letter of conditions into pieces, and then angrily reprimands the messenger: " We have been humiliated like this, how can you have the face to come back?"

The messenger was also aggrieved.He waved his hand and said: "Matt said that he would give me a huge sum of money, but I waited for a long time at the intersection, only to see the surrounding defenses were empty, the cottages were deserted, and I didn't get any money at all."

"Nonsense! They are all ready to break the contract, how can they give you money? It's because I have a soft temper, and it's unreasonable to shield villains there because I'm a famous family!" Earl Tapler became more and more angry.

Connorsa was barely considered a nobleman, and Huo Teng regarded this status as a burden, but in the eyes of Earl Tapler, it was a clear proof of bullying others.

"What should we do?" Baron Olinte slapped his thigh, and said to his uncle, "Let's go for him and see what she can do with us in Conosha? The famous lady with delicate skin and tender flesh fell into our hands , then it may not be possible to go back completely."

Although it was just angry words, Baron Olint also pointed out the biggest fact.

The Earl of Kassel has combat power and can launch a war of revenge against Göttingen County.And if the Countess falls into their hands, aside from this and that, if Baron Orlint proposes a divorce on the pretext of his wife's infidelity, and then forces Connorsa to marry him, then the fun will be great.

Independent aristocratic women in the Middle Ages did not have much right to speak, or could not last long.

They are often not considered to have independent guardianship and are therefore often forced to marry men to compensate for the loss of guardianship.

In short, under this set of rules of the game, in extreme circumstances, the Cassel family really has a chance to obtain custody of Göttingen County.

Achieve cross-regional mergers and acquisitions.

"Good guy. Doesn't this give her some color?"

Earl Tapler immediately spread out the map, asking the envoy to point out the key intersections, pontoon bridges, etc. to him one by one, and formed a war-leading plan in his mind.

Tianlei's first step is to create an excuse to declare war.

……

When Earl Teppler made up his mind to start a war to spy on Göttingen County, Huo Teng was sorting out his various data.

The main types of arms he can currently recruit are rangers, crusader archers, and retinue knights.

In Huo Teng's sight, only these three arms had real combat capabilities.The rest of the peasants on horseback and archers are just auxiliary surprise soldiers. Once they are targeted by the enemy, they will give away their heads; not to mention the forest axe soldiers, they are a unique trick that works.The Peasant Spear Corps, the Infantry Corps, and the pilgrims who had been disbanded by Huo Teng were even more unsuitable as the main force in the battle of the large corps.

Especially the pilgrims, who don't have any armor, can hardly play any role when confronting Schmalen.Even if they have fanatical beliefs, they cannot be eaten as food.

Huo Teng urgently needs to rearrange his fighting system.

In the absence of high-quality combat infantry, and there may not even be any in the near future, Horten decided to focus more on the cooperation between knights and long-range archers.This is actually the helpless choice of most nobles.

Therefore, Huo Teng started to disband most of the useless troops, and asked them to cultivate the land between their own Liberty City and Millhouse Castle, and find food for themselves.

It was also during such disarmament that Huo Teng really felt the difficulty of actual disarmament.

Farmers have to eat, soldiers have to feed themselves and their families.If Huo Teng fails to provide suitable treatment to the withdrawn army, such as becoming tenant farmers and allocating land, then Huo Teng's other troops will be demoralized and even flee.Moreover, when Huo Teng recruited troops in the future, he would face a situation where no one would come.

Fortunately, with the signing of a new round of feudal contracts and the spoils of victory, Huo Teng has enough capital to pay for this disarmament.He also didn't expect that laying down troops would cost more than recruiting.

Afterwards, Huo Teng chose to upgrade three teams of 80-man upgraded peasant archers, suppressing them with their combat effectiveness in numbers and improving their long-range assistance.With these 240 peasant archers, assisting the rangers who are good at rapid fire, and the crusader archers who are good at destroying houses, a total of 320 luxurious archers are enough to defend Huo Teng's combat advantages.

The horse-riding peasant archers were not abolished, and two teams were kept for emergency.

In addition to this, Huo Teng formally recruited a team of retinue knights.

Such retinue knights are between the inner palace knights without fiefdoms and formal knights, and they are a group of knights close to the imperial level. The scale of 20 people, combined with the 32 local knights that Huo Teng can recruit, is enough to serve as the main force of a battle.

Why 32?

Because there are still 20 people, and their territory is near Millhausburg, which belongs to Weimar County.In the case of new attachments, these knights could refuse to serve in the wars of Horten and the Counties of Kassel for reasons other than their feudal obligations.

This is just an explanation.

The core problem is that Huo Teng only has a military name in Fort Millhouse, but no prestige.

In this way, Huo Teng's army's monthly salary expenses have been reduced to less than 50 yuan, which ensures that he will not go bankrupt in a short while.

On the other hand, Huo Teng also examined his financial income.

Currently, the Free City of Göttingen, relying on income from trade fairs, river transportation, road taxes, etc., barely raises its monthly income to around ten gold coins.

Fort Millhouse only eats taxes, and the unshakable five gold coins remain unchanged.This is because the minimum income stipulated by the system is here.

In other words, it is the default of the system that military castles do not make money.

Horten must vigorously develop the commercial functions of the city.

While thinking about it, a servant came to tell him: "Master, Greb please see me."

Today, Greb, the leader of the Crusaders in exile, has also jumped from the embarrassing status of a sergeant to a civilian dignitary in Göttingenburg, quite powerful.

He went to Horten to report: "Master, something serious happened. The Earl of Kassel next door officially sent us a letter of war yesterday, demanding that we in Göttingen County hand over Bishop Matt and compensate him for his losses. , and want our countess...to marry her."

"No surprise. I'd expected it."

Finding that Earl Teppler took the tick so quickly, Huo Teng couldn't help smiling and took out a letter of appeal for help that he had written a long time ago and sent to the capital Nancy.

Horten 'requested' in the letter that Göttingen had suffered three consecutive wars and was no longer able to provide anti-autumn troops.If the capital of Nancy can mediate the invasion of Kassel, then Göttingen will consider going to Beijing.

Otherwise, all interviews.

Huo Teng really wanted to know what Adler Northenburg would think when he saw this.

Chapter 63 You Are Still Insidious

Speaking of which, even though the County of Kassel has declared war with Göttingen County, in fact, no matter whether it is public or private aristocratic marriages, ordinary marriages, business exchanges, etc., all have not been interrupted.

Even the other nobles in the County of Cassel had some intention of watching a joke.

They did not join Earl Teppler's team. On the one hand, the reasons for this war were so bizarre that Teppler himself was ashamed to speak out, and he didn't have the nerve to conscript the nobles under him for military service; Because the County of Kassel, like Göttingen County, has just experienced an outbreak of green skins.Aristocrats from all over the country have served for more than 40 days, and many of them even overdue their service and missed the summer harvest, which caused Teppler's popularity to plummet.

According to the feudal contract, the nobles served the lord for 40 days each year, depending on the customs and habits of different places.After the extended service, the lord will not only have to pay for it, that is, pay for food and compensation, but also be regarded by the nobles as harsh on the monarch and lower his reputation.

Therefore, Tepler himself can only mobilize the forces directly belonging to his family.Fortunately, the Kassel family has a large number of people in the local area. After agreeing to etiquette, the family formed an intervention army and headed for Göttingen.

But this side pulls the hips, and there is not much difference there.

You know, Göttingen County fought two consecutive wars before this.Nobles suffered heavy casualties, and many families were forced to reorganize.The nobles here also basically overdue their service.Moreover, in the first two wars, one was a civil war to eliminate the rebels, and the other was a war involving the lives of the nobles.

But this time, it was the unreasonable war of the bishop's illegitimate son, which made the nobles feel free to sit on the fence and watch the show.Everyone speculated that this nonsensical war might have been deliberately provoked by Huo Teng to blackmail the nobles in the capital to prevent them from being taken to Nancy to die.

Indeed, this is a plan close to an overt conspiracy.

The only one who was injured was Bishop Matt, whose reputation had completely plummeted.The Archbishop of Mainz learned that Kassel and Göttingen had gone to war because of him. In a rage, he held a religious meeting, announcing the abolition of Bishop Matt's deeds, and imprisoned him in a monastery as a punishment.This does not require the pope's permission, the archbishop can finalize it himself.