prince of europe in quintiles

His wife, Lady Lihild is weaving.The lady combed her hair with wooden knitting needles, and said virtuously: "Maybe the children of Conuosha and Huo Teng are angry with you. You are also, your territory has been robbed, and you are still chanting scriptures in Nancy City .”

Lady Lihild, daughter of Fulmar III, Earl of Brisgow.

Fulma III is a very powerful earl in the country.The height of Bristol is the meaning of the county.The eastern part of the Duchy of Upper Lorraine is Franconia, and Brisgow is precisely the border of this eastern border, and its capital is Saarbrücken.This piece of hills on the eastern border is an important line of defense against the plain army.It was also Fulma III's strong support for his son-in-law that kept Diodoric from being kicked out.Fulma III was also Dioderic's court stable master, that is, minister of war.

Therefore, it is only natural for Ms. Lihild, who has a strong mother's status, to shoot at her husband.

Since their marriage in 985, 15 years ago, Diodoric has no record except for the embarrassment in the Battle of Verdun.If it weren't for the noble status of his father's and mother's families, he probably wouldn't even have a place to chant scriptures now.

"This..." Diodoric also knew he was wrong.

In fact, Diodoric has indeed strengthened himself recently.He plans to build 30 more monasteries to strengthen his relationship with the church, and use this to consolidate and maintain the declining aristocratic hearts of Upper Lorraine.

However, whether this kind of behavior will work, or will it make the nobles more alienated, this is a matter of opinion.

"It's terrible, it's terrible! My sister rebelled!"

Count Adler was in a hurry, ignoring his fat body, and almost scrambling towards Diodoric.

"What?" The Bible in the Grand Duke's hand fell on the table.

If it's Adler, whom he trusts so much, then it means that Conosha and Huo Teng are indeed...

"What the hell, how could such a thing happen? Franconia is not impassable. If we can lead the army through cities such as Worms and Mainz, or even go to Bonn, we can support Göttingen County. Could it be that the Saxon army really dares to confront me with the army of the Principality of Lorraine?" Father-in-law Fulmar III became even more irritable, and he followed closely, pointing the scabbard in his hand at Adler. poked to death.

The so-called Duchy of Haut-Lorraine is almost the Franche-Comté province of modern France, and the famous Alsace-Lorraine is located in the eastern salient of this province.

The city of Bonn mentioned by his father-in-law Fulma is the eastern border city of the Duchy of Lower Lorraine in the Ruhr area of ​​Germany on the east side of modern Belgium.Worms and Mainz are the bustling cities in the west of the Principality of Franconia.

In short, if you want to support the enclave of Göttingen, as long as you think about it, there is always a way.

The biggest problem is, don't want to.

"You mean...Konosha...Hotten...no, this..." Grand Duke Diodoric covered his head in disbelief.

"Yes, with only 500 soldiers, 50 knights, and the castle he built in less than half a year, Huo Teng, Prime Minister of Göttingen, caused the loss of more than half of the Saxon army, damaged a giant war beast, and fled back. Such a General, you should take him back to Nancy directly and make him the Earl of Verdun to prevent the French King or your relatives from invading." Fulma III rebuked his son-in-law mercilessly.

Adler, on the other hand, was worried about gains and losses: "But... the King of France is constantly begging for mercy with the Pope because of the excommunication of close relatives. We should have taken this opportunity to connect and strengthen the alliance to prevent foreign enemies from invading, alas..."

Obviously, Adler, who is in charge of internal affairs, only wants to consolidate power, and Fulma, who is in charge of military affairs, hates his son-in-law's weakness.

"Then what are you talking about? Send the army to take down the rebellious Conorsha and Huo Teng together." Ms. Lihild passed her husband and ordered directly.

"Just to my liking."

Father-in-law Furma didn't give Diodoric and Adler any face at all, and turned away.Long before he came, he decided to go on a cross-border expedition and confront Huo Teng head-on.

The neglected Grand Duke was left alone with a livid face.

Perhaps Diodoric still doesn't understand that there is only one force that can unite the nobles, and that is victory, continuous victory.

……

At this time in Göttingen, Horten was listening to Monk Morris, telling him the inside story of the current empire.

"In our Romania (referring to Germany at this time), or Franconia, becoming a king requires three recognitions. First, the joint coronation of the two archbishops of Cologne and Mainz; second, the holy object or holy gun, to be precise , the gun of St. Maurice, the (black) saint was established as the guardian of Germany, and his gun became the holy gun; third, the electoral recognition of the Reichstag, although we do not recognize it firmly, who is the He is a member of the Imperial Council, but legally, we believe that the five old duchies, new duchies, and some powerful counts have voting rights."

Maurice, is talking about the conditions for being crowned King of Romania.

"However, due to the assassination and kidnapping incidents at the beginning of last year, there was a big problem in the election of the king. Conrad II neither received the holy gun, nor did he only receive the unilateral support of the Archbishop of Mainz. Even, he is not yet the emperor .”

At this point, Morris pointed to the core problem.

"Yes. After the death of the previous Pope Gregory V, we chose the Frenchman Sylvester II, but our king did not go to Rome to be crowned."

When Morris came here, he accused Conrad II of being only the king of Romania, without the approval of the Pope and the coronation ceremony in Rome, so he could not be regarded as the emperor of Romania.

"In other words, is the throne vacant?"

Huo Teng pinched his chin and began to think about this question.

"Yes. He is currently fighting hard in Italy. However, the local forces in northern Italy still oppose the new king of the non-Otto family. I... In short, you can start from this direction and get Conrad II's approval." Mo Brother Rhys broke his mouth as he spoke.

But Huo Teng already knew what was behind the matter.

That is, there are a large number of powerful bishops and archbishops in Italy, all of whom were appointed during the Otto family era.They are loyal to the Otto dynasty, but they have many scruples about the newly elected Conrad.

In fact, these bishops are not for the so-called loyalty at all.

Rather, the new emperors may have to switch their spheres of power.This is what they who have already tasted the sweetness gave up.

But Conrad II has not let go so far, and has no convincing feats.

As a result, the war situation in Northern Italy has reached a stalemate.This is the church's own rotten ass, and it's not convenient for monks to discuss it.

"Okay, I see, thanks for your help."

Horten bowed slightly to Morris gratefully.

Beside him, Countess Connorsa had already slipped away quietly.

Today is the imperial knowledge course arranged by Huo Teng for himself, Connorsa, Jones and others.The original intention is to supplement the understanding of the current domestic situation and prevent misjudgment of the situation.

But Huo Teng was the only one who could insist on listening all day long.

"The class is over, let's talk about yours. Is that iron plow effective?" Morris smiled and said something else.

"Of course it works. It's a good technology only found in Paradise Lost in the East. I also occasionally heard it from a businessman who is said to be from Constantinople." Huo Teng pushed it to an impossible to confirm without any psychological burden. on the person.

Iron plowboards are extremely effective for clearing deep and deep land.

Without it, European farmers could only do half-cultivation and half-grazing, harvest once a year, and live an extremely backward life.

But if there is an iron plow wall, the big plow of the farmer can crush almost all the potential arable land, open up geometric multiples of farmland, obtain higher food production, and indirectly detonate the bomb of population growth, leading to the Crusades .

"Paradise Lost... It's in the land of Qin (sina) recorded in Rome." Morris was deeply moved.

Yes, Christianity generally believes that the three magi who celebrated the birth of Jesus came from Qin.And the legendary Lost Paradise is also located in Qin.

The so-called Qin land (sina) is the China that the Romans recognized. Sina is China.Everything from pronunciation to word formation is well documented.

Morris did not go to verify the truth of Huo Teng's statement.

But he subconsciously believed that that kind of big plow could indeed tame the previously difficult-to-digging land.

The population of Göttingen and the power of Huo Teng will all have long-term progress.

Huo Teng also received a new surprise.

[Congratulations, you have unlocked the technology system]

Chapter 88 It is a universal truth that the father dies and the son succeeds the son

What Huo Teng did not expect was that the necessary prerequisite for unlocking the technology tree was not the blacksmith shop.

but a monastery.

But it can be explained if you think about it carefully. As the root of Western European civilization and the base of social and cultural progress, the monastery itself includes the necessary directions in all aspects of society such as religious theology, astronomy, geography, history, agronomy, and medicine.It makes sense to use it to unlock the tech tree.

Just like Huo Teng's skill line is divided into personal, army, and strategy, the main branches of the technology tree are also divided into three lines, namely politics, society, and military.In addition, there are several unique branches that have not been unlocked, but they are not in the main trunk.

Currently, the longhouse of the lord unlocks the political tree of the technology tree, the monastery unlocks the social tree, and the smithy and barracks unlock the military tree.

On the contrary, Huo Teng has not been able to unlock the technology tree because there is already a monastery in the territory.

Now Dean Andreas just ran away with the backbone of the monastery.Although the teaching quality in the Göttingen area has been severely damaged in theory, considering that this monastery does not provide any necessary elements for the area, it is more suitable for Horten to deploy it from it by relying on the monk Morris to build a new monastery. Elements for local development.

[Rural Monastery Level 1: It's hard to explain to you, this simple house is a monastery.But it does have a church, a residential area, a school room, and a medicine garden, which can complete the basic content of an ordinary monastery and train monks.Social Security +1, People's Happiness +1, City Sanitation +1, Unlock Technology Tree, Unlock Social Technology Tree.Non-certified monks and pharmacists can be cultivated, but don't expect them to be much different from witches and gods. 】

As the introduction of the monastery says, it can provide bonuses in three aspects: social security, people's happiness, and urban sanitation.However, because they do not have the qualifications to train regular monks, they can only train a small number of undocumented illegal pharmacists.To say that the only difference between these pharmacists and the witches in the streets and villages is that they have the endorsement of God, and the poisoned people can use the excuse of God's punishment to be irresponsible.

Just after the winter, Huo Teng actually summoned seven or eight pharmacists who can only read scriptures and grasp herbs for the needs of epidemic prevention, and asked them to go to the countryside to spread epidemic prevention knowledge in the name of God.Even if it's just to prevent the flu.

I don't want to completely prevent it, but I ask you not to create a continuous spread of show operations.

[Level 1 dilapidated blacksmith shop: There is only one family running this blacksmith shop, but it can already provide a lot of help.God said, learn to endure hunger.Provide: iron resources, light armor transformation, unlock military technology line, increase ammunition supply for the garrison army. 】

What Huo Teng didn't expect was that the blacksmith shop provided a resource called 'ironware'.This resource needs iron ore resources for reproduction, but once it is owned, it can continuously provide a series of iron tools such as needles and shovels for daily use, which can be said to be a technological leap.Fortunately, Huo Teng didn't need to think about the lack of iron ore at all, because Weimar County next door had iron ore, copper ore and other resources.

You must know that most farmers are not qualified to use iron farm tools at all, and wooden farm tools belong to farmers who live well.

The poor peasants of the Slavic tribes just took branches and hands to plan.In a Christian world where civilization has developed for thousands of years, there are actually a large number of marginalized people who are still digging fields and shirtless.This is quite normal.The Slavs in the valleys of the Balkans were still savagely hacking after the Renaissance.

"Should we prepare light armor for the peasant spearmen, or upgrade the medium armor?"

Huo Teng pondered.

This is a problem.

Light armor, that is, linen armor; medium armor, that is, tattered armor.

Although these equipments are already at the elite level, do the peasant spearmen have the confidence and combat effectiveness?Moreover, they also have to engage in agricultural labor.

After completing the construction of the blacksmith shop, Huo Teng thought that he would be able to get blessings such as crossbowmen, sword and shield warriors, but so far, he did not.

And if he wanted to obtain continuous and reliable infantry, Huo Teng found that he had to open the military technology tree first, and then click on the blueprint of the city barracks to have a standard infantry line such as professional spearmen and sword shield warriors.Or, Huo Teng can find a way to obtain a special fief or title to unlock special soldiers.

However, what Huo Teng wants most now is the social technology tree. He is eager to build up the almost impoverished Göttingen County.

Without money and economy, how can there be a later stage?

"A... something big happened."

Huo Teng was anxious about it, and even began to think about giving up on himself and recruiting the retinue knights. As the backbone of the foot soldiers, Jones hurried into the house, sweating and shouting: "In the Principality of Saxony, Duke Bernard A few days ago, I proposed to the Imperial Council to strictly enforce church discipline and punish unqualified and violating church members. Especially those incompetent people who are judged will not only be severely punished, but also arrested and imprisoned.”

"Does he want to dig his own grave?" Huo Teng's first reaction was that he couldn't believe it.

In the Northern Principality of Saxony, reformist priests are unusually rare.Most of Gein's parishes here have been occupied by noble bishops.These bishops who can't fully read the bible are all masters of martial arts.Isn't Bernard afraid of being overthrown by these grandchildren?

"No. He... was the first to accuse you. He sued the Archbishop of Cologne and called you to the Cologne Cathedral to plead." Only then did Jones say what she was really worried about.

"Good cards... no, good chess!" Huo Teng couldn't help but marvel at old Bernard's political skills.

Although he claimed to be a serious church discipline on the surface, but thinking about it carefully, the old Bernard only needed to deal with some bishops who were enemies, wouldn't it be good to keep his own people?Although it may lose face, but with power in hand, what about losing face?

The place where Bernard appealed was not his own Cathedral of Magdeburg, but the Cathedral of Cologne in the Principality of Lower Lorraine next door, the second most powerful bishopric in the country.Pretend to be fair.

Once the Archbishop of Cologne accepts, Huo Teng will either choose to go to defend, and [-]% of them will be killed by Saxon assassins on the way.In this regard, Old Bernard has a major criminal record. He was suspected of assassinating Duke Hermann of Swabia when the Imperial Parliament was held. However, it was the time when the new king was enthroned, so everyone tacitly did not pursue it.

If Huo Teng chooses to defend, then I am sorry, not only will he be expelled from the church, but his reputation will also be ruined, and he will be trampled by the swarming opposition.

Therefore, old Bernard's wrist is not bad.

He made full use of his status as a duke and launched a dimensionality reduction attack on Huo Teng.

Of course, speaking of it, old Bernard was still a little ashamed.The principle of reciprocity was followed in the Middle Ages, and the duke was obviously extremely unequal to the baron.

"What... what should we do?" Jones was very anxious. Seeing that Huo Teng hadn't responded, she really wanted to make a decision for Huo Teng.

"What should I do? Find a backer."

Huo Teng immediately ordered: "Please ask Monk Morris to visit the archbishops and bishops of Mainz and Worms respectively. I would like to see if the Archbishop of Mainz, who is the most powerful in the empire, can suppress him." Archbishop of Cologne who lives in second power."

And why did Horten invite Bishop Worms?

Because Bishop Willikis of Worms is the archbishop of Mainz who crowned the new emperor Conrad last year.He was advanced in age and chose to leave his place to his apprentice Burgard.

Yes, the current Archbishop of Mainz is the successor of the previous one.

It can be described as another example of succession from father to son.

Chapter 89 Boudoir Pleasures

The civilization process of the Middle Ages originated from the Christian Roman Empire, and from the Renaissance to the rise of Protestantism, it was passed on to modern society in an orderly manner. This is why many modern elements can be found in the Middle Ages.The diplomatic system including the Treaty of Westphalia, the tithe legacy of the Catholic Church, etc.

It should be noted that the bureaucratic system and legal judgments in modern Western society are not completely inherited from the medieval knight system.

In fact, they are largely descended from the Christian line of bishops and diocesan administration, laws and courts for which bishops are responsible.The knight's set of stuff was thrown into the garbage dump very early.The model of city and village councils was directly inherited from Greece and Rome, including the inheritance and evolution of Germanic civilization itself.

During this period, a large number of educated bishops controlled most of the major cities in Italy with the support of the emperor, and also controlled many bishop states within the empire.

For the emperor, they were Confucian bureaucrats in the eastern sense, not Taoist priests or monks.The death of each bishop will allow the emperor to take back this territory and continue to replace his trusted newcomers, thus forming the emperor's continuous control of power.This is the origin of the bishop's renewal dispute.

Is it the emperor who chooses the bishop to take over, or the Pope?Both parties are the highest points in the system of theocratic unity, but the emperor and the pope are two people who cannot be compatible at the same time.

This is a problem.

Of course, the period when the pope competed with the emperor was not long, and in another two centuries the pope would gradually fade away.

In other words, the pope rises only a few times.For a longer period of time, the Pope has always been the number one supporter of maintaining the Sibelian Roman Empire system.After all, the real Roman Empire is not dead yet.

Even the emperor himself was closely bound to God, the Christian Church and the Pope.The emperor's translation also appears to be very inaccurate. Perhaps translated names such as the emperor and the apostles on the ground are closer to the supreme power of the unity of politics and religion.

Therefore, Huo Teng is very clear.