prince of europe in quintiles

Varangian Guard, who doesn't love it?

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The strange, chaotic, you-eat-me-eat-you siege of Worms is over.

Huo Teng was walking on the battlefield, watching the only cavalry army in the whole battlefield, that is, his knights running around to catch all kinds of prisoners.If they were greenskins, they would be executed on the spot. Bandit knights would be tied up individually, and a large number of bandits and followers would be imprisoned in a fence, waiting for their fate, basically similar to being slaves.

[Income from loot: 2771 gold coins, including all kinds of slaves, armor and other loot, is it converted? 】

Huo Teng, of course, immediately chose to convert.

This time it is not fighting against a relatively wealthy regular army, and all the benefits are far less than the income from defeating the same proportion of the Saxon army.After fighting so many bandits, the most valuable thing is actually the bandits themselves.They have the potential to be sold into slavery.Don't say that Christians don't sell Christians. Even if the church is watching over them, they still have to sell.

"Good day, great hero of Göttingen, now you are not only a hero of Göttingen, but a hero of Worms."

The merchant who came to buy the spoils this time was the Franconia merchant after the victory of the last city defense battle.As soon as he met, he praised Huo Teng's greatness familiarly.Of course, he was not relentless when he lowered the price. He probably got the instructions from above and knew that Huo Teng was no longer a candidate for cultivation.

[Special loot: sharp battle flag, special aura: within 50 meters around the flag, all your troops get a +1 weapon sharpness modifier. 】

【Congratulations on getting a special trophy: Giant X1.】

The so-called weapon sharpness is a damage modifier for bladed weapons.Such as swords, knives, spears, etc., this modification can increase the damage to unarmored, clothed and other enemies, which is equivalent to increasing the ratio of weapon damage to armor.If you use a simpler description, it is against light armored infantry.

But what Huo Teng didn't expect was that the stupid and stupid giant was not counted among the prisoners of war, but included in the ranks of special trophies.This means that if Huo Teng is willing to pay a certain amount of manpower and financial resources, he can also bring the giants under his command.

But is there really a need to go on an expedition to Saarbourg in Lorraine with such a fool?It's kind of weird no matter how you think about it.

Maybe use it for something else.

[You have upgraded, available skill points: 1]

[Congratulations on unlocking: Church social content. 】

[Trait obtained: Famous person, global diplomatic reputation +1. 】

[Upgrade traits: Green-skinned Slayer→Green-skinned Calamity Star, looting income +20%, morale against greenskins +2, gain the effect of 'inducing fear to greenskins'. 】

Regarding the newly added skill points, Huo Teng thought about it and focused on strategy.After all, the current expeditionary force is different from the infantry team I imagined. It is a mobile force with knights as the main combat force. At this time, increasing the strength of the army may cause a situation where the goods are not right.

[Looting like the wind level 2. Post-war looting income increased by 10%] It can be said that it is better than nothing.But since the guys who eat in the expeditionary force are usually the weapons in their hands, it is still useful.

At least it can guarantee that the expeditionary force will not starve to death on the road.

As for the newly added traits, Huo Teng prefers the first one.Because its description is global, it means that Huo Teng can become a famous person no matter where he goes.Although it may seem more like bragging everywhere, it works as long as it works.

As for the second trait, it looks very useful, but in reality there is not much room for it to be used.Huo Teng himself was an imperial nobleman and a well-known priest, so it seemed tasteless to plunder places.It’s okay to grab some food during expeditions, but you can’t take robbery as your main business in normal times. Isn’t that different from bandits?And the tasteless attribute of causing fear of green skins is even worse.

Because the morale of the green skins is already bad.

This is all that Huo Teng gained in the Battle of Worms.

You mean church social module?

In fact, this is a convenient tool for Huo Teng to communicate with the church.Through this, he can manipulate his highly loyal priests, and according to his reputation and ability, assign the direction of connection with the church, so as to improve the church's goodwill, obtain the church's financial support or political influence support, and so on.

Even without this module, Huo Teng is actually doing similar things through Monk Morris.

"Master, be careful, that's entering someone else's city."

Just when Huo Teng was content to go to the city to accept the last [-] gold coins as spoils of war, the legendary black hunting assassin couple, who were the legendary troops that Huo Teng drew under the lottery, Essen Schmidt and Bumo Shimi Te appeared from the team and quietly warned Huo Teng.

The biggest function of this couple of assassins on the battlefield is to try to assassinate the enemy generals.At first, Huo Teng thought it was quite useful, but when he started a battle with the bandits, he found that it was useless at all.Bandits and bandit knights have no leader, and there is no stable leader at all, and the green skin... people can tell at a glance that your skin color is wrong, assassinate a ball.

Unexpectedly, their role is here.

Huo Teng raised his head and saw the smiling old man on the top of the wall.

He had a tacit understanding, and he knew very well that this guy was Bishop Willikis, one of the most famous archbishops in the empire.

The faction he cultivated has taken root in Franconia and nearby.A large number of church jurisdictions have been formed, deterring the rule of ordinary nobles.

If he is ambushing assassins in Worms right now...

No, Horten trusted Willie Keith.

But Huo Teng didn't really trust the other nobles and citizens in the city.

So when he approached the city, Huo Teng's eyes were sharp, and he quickly discovered that one of his subordinates was arrogant and domineering and trampled on a semi-underground house, which was usually a temporary house for the nearby market.

Originally, this was all unnecessary, but Huo Teng suddenly became furious. He rode his horse and beat the subordinate with a leather whip: "How can you trample on the peasant's house? You dare to hurt the peasant's house at the gate of the city. You entered the city What will happen in the future, I don’t even dare to think about it.”

This strange episode interrupted the entry of Huo Teng's army into the city.

Huo Teng very sincerely said to the priest who came to consult: "Since my soldiers may harm the citizens of Worms, I think it is better for us to live outside the city. After the rest is over, we will lead the army south and continue to sweep Bandits and other thugs will return the peace of the Mainz plain.”

Such hypocrisy, in the eyes of modern people, is naturally too hypocritical.

But for the medieval people who value reputation and don't have much work, this is a very good political show.

It can't be said that it is on par with Cao Cao's haircut, at least it is at a similar level.

The per capita quality of the medieval army was very poor, perhaps not as good as the stray dogs in the village.So Huo Teng stopped the army from entering the city, and made a serious reputation in front of the citizens of Worms, which is currently one of the best big cities in the emperor.Most of the citizens praised Huo Teng's benevolence and generosity, while a few directly prepared supplies and sent them to the military camp outside the city.

"You see, if we don't go into the city, firstly, we avoid danger, and secondly, they have to take the initiative to deliver the goods. This is called not only earning face, but also earning face. Stop robbing with no fuss, it's too low." Huo Teng received all kinds of comfort items prepared by the citizens of the city, and boasted to his subordinates complacently.

Of course, Huo Teng knew very well in his heart that this belonged to the organization in the city and paid for Huo Teng's show.To prevent Huo Teng from going back on his word, gaining prestige today, and going to the city tomorrow to welcome the common people.

The next day, Bishop Willikis was still very sincere, pretending to save face, and took the priests out of the city to congratulate Huo Teng on his arrival.By the way, settle the three thousand gold coins for protecting the city.

"Young man, I appreciate your ability, but if you can restrain some of your nature, maybe I can introduce you as my successor." Bishop Willikis publicly praised Huo Teng's character, saying that he was only one step away. We were able to inherit the mantle.This is not demeaning, because the status of Bishop Willikis is too high, and ordinary priests know that they are not capable.

They looked at Huo Teng enviously.

But Huo Teng was a little numb. He didn't expect Willikis to praise him so highly in his first move, so he didn't know how to deal with it for a while.

Suddenly, Huo Teng had a good idea: "In this case, it is better to give the giant we caught to Worms as a gift. I believe that the giant will greatly help the construction of Worms. Whether it is building a stone city wall, or Giants are good at throwing boulders."

Since you put a high hat on me, I will step up my efforts to give back.

Anyway, this giant Huo Teng is useless.

But Bishop Willikis instructed him to ask the Earl of Luxembourg for help the day before yesterday, so Huo Teng began to hint Willikis, you write me a letter of introduction, so that you can help me and the legendary Siegfried Earl matchmaking ah.

The bishop, who is old and refined, can understand at a glance.

He praised again: "Just a little bit, you will succeed in succeeding me."

The giants are indeed helpful to Worms City.At least a big man standing there can deter ordinary bandits.

But Huo Teng didn't know that this old man with a pleasant smile was telling the truth.

Indeed, he was only a little short of inheriting him.

This distance is worth three thousand dinars of gold.

……

The battle in Worms was over, and Huo Teng, after two days of rest, urged the army not to indulge in the colorful world of Worms, and it was important to go south to save lives.

At this time, Germany, if you want to describe it in one sentence, it is the country of hills and forests.

Horten already took a flat road, but when he hurried to Strasbourg on the south side of the Rhine, he still walked in the bushes for many days.

Near Strasbourg, there have been reports from refugees on the side of the road that the army of the Principality of Upper Lorraine is approaching Saarbourg.

[Sudden task: Chao Lai Wan Feng is in a hurry.The army of the Duchy of Upper Lorraine is approaching Saarbourg under the leadership of the military commander Fulmar III. How should you deal with it?Request to resolve the threat to Saarbourg from the army of the Principality of Lorraine.Reward: One basic technology of any technology tree. 】

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Huo Teng left.

With the huge wealth he grabbed from the city of Worms with almost no effort, nearly [-] dinargins minted by the Mainz Abbey.

The history of coinage throughout Europe before the Renaissance can actually be seen as an electrocardiogram of the rise and fall of trade.When the peace under Roman rule reverberates in every European country, the solid gold coin from Rome is the hardest currency in Europe. You hold a golden head with the head of the Roman emperor in your hand, and you can buy it from England. Travel to the country of the Persian Empire, reach India and Central Asia.

But when the Roman Empire experienced the collapse of the west, the economies of these countries in Western Europe began to go from bad to worse.However, they still retained a lot of Roman elements, and naturally practiced the Roman-Germanic dual-track system, lingering on their aging corpses.

Then, Prophet Muhammad appeared.He led a terrifying army from the desert, swept across Persia, Mashriq, Egypt, Maghreb, and even Spain and South Frankland.The Arab pirates all over the sea warned every Christian not to approach the sea with plasma and cruelty.

As a result, the old Roman system that was still barely maintained throughout Western Europe finally collapsed with the collapse of trade and merged into the German system.

The most intuitive manifestation is the withering of mints.What is the use of currency when economic activities cannot be sustained and trade in the Mediterranean Sea has temporarily left the stage of history?As a result, the level of coinage in Western Europe continued to decline, and gold was hardly used as an official currency, while the silver dinar was the currency with the largest face value after the 7th century.Its casting level is not even as good as that of ancient Rome thousands of years ago.

It was not until the beginning of this century that better coinage techniques began to flow back from Italian city monasteries to monasteries in Western European countries such as Germany, Frank, Lorraine, and Burgundy.As the driving force for the development of civilization, the monastery helped the dukes to mint private currency, which reflected the economic recovery of Western Europe from the side. (Historically, the revival of gold coins began in the 12th century after the Renaissance in the 13th century)

It's just that the trade in the Mediterranean is still in a stage of waiting.The people along the coast have just begun to try to expel the Arab colonists and their bases under the banner of Christianity.Including Provence, Genoa, Sardinia, south of Rome, etc.

Therefore, on the whole, in fact, gold coins are not just needed in this period, but food is just needed.

But so much money is still too much to make people greedy.

Even if it is [-] gold coins, as long as you have it, you can try to buy a huge territory and get an earl-level experience (provided that your background is strong enough to keep your money and territory.)

This amount of money can move almost every grand duke-level lord.To give a simple conversion ratio, this money can maintain about 400 people in Rome, the salary of two flag teams.Don't underestimate the 400 people. Many military regions in Rome have only two flag teams in total.The Varangian Guard has only 6000 people because of the gift from the Grand Duke of Kyiv, and there are only more than 100 armored cavalry.

Therefore, the Jews who paid a lot of money in it were particularly dissatisfied.

The funds they used to build synagogues were taken away, and even many poor people in the Jewish community had to bear a heavy burden.

"Kill him! Get an assassin to kill him!"

The Jewish leaders shook their fists angrily in front of the bookcase of the great rabbi (pastor) Guillaume.

And the big rabbi of all German Jews, the black-haired man wearing a Jewish kippa cap at the moment, raised his head indifferently: "Kill him? Kill Horten Bowenden, and the Jews will have Have a good life? Or kill him and get the money back? As long as you understand our current situation, we don’t have to be so passive. If it weren’t for Bishop Willikis to take us in, we might not even have a place to live .”

They speak Frankish, not Jewish.

Obviously, this group of Jewish ethnic groups who have been wandering for a long time do not know when, the composition is extremely heterogeneous.After thousands of years of intermingling and intermarriage, as well as various adoptions, most of them are of German descent, and some do not even have the rare Jewish blood.But this does not affect their being discriminated against because of their Jewish identity.

"so what should I do now?"

"That's right, just being squeezed like this? What about in the future?"

Guillaume was also a little tired.

He knew very well that as long as Christianity existed, they would not forgive the Jews, a group that was guilty of original sin.

The only way to alleviate the embarrassing situation is to find a city to seek refuge in, or a lord who has no resistance to the Jews.

Willie Keith is an option, but he's too old.

Gotta find a way to find a new pinner.

"Send someone to find Huo Teng and seek refuge with him first."

This opinion immediately received more scolding.Many Jews could not understand Rabbi Guillaume's weak approach.They were noisy, which once attracted the dissatisfaction and vigilance of the surrounding citizens.

As for the big rabbi's plan, it naturally ran aground in the water beach without any accident, without any ripples.

……

Easter is finally over.

Huo Teng spent half a month back and forth supporting Worms, plus the time before departure, barely survived the four-week Lent.

Horten, who could finally let go of his stomach and eat meat and drink during the day, led the army to Strasbourg, the capital of the Alsace region, with great energy.The flashpoint of the feud between Germany and France, the witness of Germany's violent penetration of French chrysanthemums.

This is a fairly famous place, which has been the front line of the empire's trade with Germany since the Roman Empire.Therefore, the remaining Roman people here are, without accident, localized as city dwellers.If you look at places where there are many Roman survivors, you will find that their ears are either square or pointed, and they are always different from purebred humans. That is the legacy of the blood of the Roman elves.

Since the 6th century, Strasbourg has been ruled by local powerful bishops.

The current bishop, and the first bishop recorded in history, is called Alavitch.He has just been elected this year, but his overall ability is meager.

So when Mihail arrived, Aravich refused to open the city gate, and did not allow Mihail to replenish supplies.

The reason he gave was that he was afraid of spies mixing with Michael's army.

The funny thing about this joke is that anyone who hears the reason for it will think that Aravitch is out of his mind.

So he was deposed by Michael.

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Pope's decree.

"Third, only the pope has the power to depose and restore bishops."

But please don't worry, this article will not be promulgated in his papal decree until 77 years later, under the crown of Gregory VII, the most free pope on earth, who combines ideals and madness.Moreover, even after he promulgated, there were not many emperors who were willing to talk to him. Gregory VII's life of letting himself go and pursuing freedom ended in tragedy very regrettably.