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The Saar River is meandering, so there are more than 30 bridges on the river section, which are very famous. Therefore, relying on these natural tax collection roadblocks, Bristol's taxes can't escape even if they want to.

Near a village called Humboldt, in the shade of lush trees, Squire Speer, a respectable man in a linen jacket, leggings, and moccasins, squatted among the crowd, bragging about his raids on the plains.

Although Sibier is a rogue knight, he has not been formally canonized, he is just an ordinary wealthy country gentleman.However, because the family has mastered the secrets of beekeeping, relying on honey that is more expensive than gold in the Middle Ages, it is quite authoritative in this village.The superior knight tried to take away the secret recipe many times, but the Sbier family is also a relative of the baron family, so they have been arguing until now.

Humboldt Village is Sibier's base, and opponents and enemies can't do anything about him.

But this time, Sibier took out 12 people, and only 5 came back. Not to mention, the wealth looted was obviously not enough to support Sibier's rhetorical 'big victory' statement.

"Speer, people say you got a hole in your ass the day you came back. Did you win or not?"

"That's right. You said that those who didn't come back ran away, but they didn't come home."

Most of the villagers are relatives of Sibier's family, or are close to the tribesmen, and it is very straightforward to joke with Sibier.

In fact, dead people are not a problem.Because everyone can only see tomorrow's life, those who go out to wander around have long been regarded as dead by default.

Several children ran around Sibier and shouted:

"Where's the butt? Where's the butt? It's hanging on a tree!"

On the tree refers to the beekeeping of the Sbier family, which is actually to hang wooden boxes on the trees in the dense forest to attract bees to gather.Children already know this simple trick.The villagers don't know. They think that simply hanging a wooden box may not be able to find bees, and there must be some kind of secret technique.

Sibier was exposed by the villagers to the disheartened reality of running home after losing the battle, so he had no choice but to yell in a bad temper as he walked home: "Go away, I really can't talk to you short-sighted people."

While walking, Sbiel ran quickly.

But when he ran to the entrance of the village, he was stunned to find that the two missing people had come back hand in hand.

"Big... Big Sbier, there is a good deal!"

The two stuffed a handful of gold coins into Sbier's hands, and said excitedly: "Hotten! Horten said...he is willing to offer a thousand gold dinars minted by the Mainz Monastery, please us, and People nearby come out to build momentum together!"

The so-called building momentum actually means that Huo Teng hopes that the gentry here will start a war against taxes.

It is naturally impossible to directly rebel, and there is no corresponding soil here.For the time being, there is no religious war to speak of, so the only way to destabilize Briscoe is to resist taxes.

With more than thirty bridges all over the place and road taxes soaring, the people need a reason to fight.

Now, Huo Teng helped them find it.

"But, who the hell would trust Huo Teng again!" Sibier was furious, and reprimanded the two of them, "You guys are so stupid that Huo Teng tricked us once, and you have to do it a second time!" ?”

"But……"

"No but, get the hell out of here!"

While hiding Huo Teng's deposit, Sibier ran home.

But those two people were not happy, they pestered the village tyrant: "You give us back the money, and we will find someone to do it ourselves!"

As mentioned earlier, the simple world view of the lower-class people in the Middle Ages made them stubborn and cute in many cases.Huo Teng let them go, paid the money, and swore before God, so they must start a tax resistance dispute.

Otherwise, you will go to hell.

Horten is also an officially certified priest. He told every captive who returned home that if you take money and don't do things for the apostles of God, you will all go to hell.

So the anti-tax war started by Huo Teng started like this.

At the beginning, it was located in the later Kaiserslautern. At this time, it was just a corner of the village. Several people issued a tax resistance declaration, refusing to pay the nobles any more grain taxes because of the delay in spring plowing due to the war this year.

These few people, leading their families, fought with relatives of the local nobles.

It just so happened that all the nobles in Bristol went to Saarburg to fight, and all the old and weak women and children were left behind.The guy that Huo Teng released was a villain who had participated in the looting, and he beat them so viciously that he drove away the noble relatives within a few days.

This suddenly made many squires who were struggling to obtain the status of nobility see the light of day.They took the initiative to stand up against the tax with their families and refused to pay the nobles.

Although it is a bit outrageous for the squire to lead the tax resistance, Sibier's attitude has also undergone a 180° turn.

"The village next door is fighting, let's fight too!"

"Hey, didn't you let us fight?"

The villagers gathered around Speer to hear the squire continue to speak.

Sibier slapped himself immediately, and said proudly: "Because I was bewitched by demons at that time! Now I have come to my senses. All the nobles in Bristol have gone out. We only need to defeat a group of old and weak women and children and rush into Saar Brücken, we can also be nobles! Everyone come with me!"

The Humboldt villagers, who could not hold back for a long time, immediately went home and took out their housekeepers.

Wood splitting axe, very precious iron.

The wooden flail, a tool originally used for threshing grain, can also kill the enemy.

Hook sickle, a long-handled agricultural tool, but also an inferior halberd with armor-piercing properties.

Other than that, they are all long and short wooden sticks.

With such a peasant army who couldn't wear enough straw sandals, Sibier quickly transformed from a rogue knight leader to an agent of the anti-tax movement. Relying on his rich combat experience, he was elected as the leader of the anti-tax movement.

It's only been three or five days, and Briscoe is in a mess.

When the news reached Saarburg, Fulma III's expression must have been so wonderful, so wonderful.

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"Damn it, damn it! Huo Teng, you can use such tricks, you really... really..."

Fulma III insulted Huo Teng angrily, despised his moral bottom line with the most obscene and shameless words, and even couldn't find how to curse Huo Teng with appropriate words for a while.

this is correct.

Because the nobles of this era mainly stabbed each other through political alliances, betrayal, recruiting pirates, etc., but Huo Teng was the first to directly control the people of the territory to rebel together.

Even if it is a pirate invasion or a bandit attack, as long as the local people support it, there is always a way to expel it.But even your own people have come out to rebel, how can this be done?

"It's simply a habit of the church." Fulma's son, Bendorf Fulma, reminded his father.

"Yes! It's simply the habit of the church."

Fulma III nodded immediately, his son was too aggressive, and what he said was too correct.

It is exactly the same as those hateful bishops who always claim to be pleading for the people, arbitrarily inciting the emotions of the people, putting on some hypocritical shows, and not caring about the face of the nobles at all.For example, Bishop Burgard next door, it turns out that his policy of demolishing the city wall was an extreme failure.

As long as there is a powerful noble in Franconia who comes forward to organize, Burchard will definitely be arrested and sent to a monastery, where the nobles gouged out his eyes and cut off his dick, and died in pain.

This is the usual method used by nobles to deal with priests. A few years ago, when Otto III was still alive, he captured the enemy Pope John XVI. This unlucky guy was a Roman, so he had the sharp ears of an elf.As the new pope elected by the local nobles in Rome, he came to fight Otto III.As a result, Otto III went south and personally stormed the city of Rome.After John XVI was caught, he was locked in a monastery and sentenced to five sense organs, that is, cutting off his eyes and eyebrows, cutting off his nose and mouth, and cutting off his ears. It was even more terrifying than simply cutting off his genitals. It was very miserable .

What's even more frightening is that this unlucky guy is still alive miserably.And just halfway from Göttingen County to Frankfurt, living in a monastery in the earldom called Fulda.It will take another two years before he will die in the grave.

Very Roman, proving that they did learn a lot from Rome, but they didn't learn the good things.

It is a pity that Franconia began to be split up vigorously during the period of Otto the Great. At present, another more powerful figure is the archenemy of Willikis and Burgard's master and apprentice, Archbishop Herbert of Cologne. Younger brother, Bishop Heinrich of Würzburg.

We are all bishops, and no matter how much we have enemies, we will not hate each other on the basic concept of people's livelihood.

"Father, let me go back to Nancy Castle to find out what the Duke wants." Bendorf Fulma cautiously suggested.

"Okay, hurry up and ask my weak son-in-law, is he going to compromise again? I mean never! Even if I cut down the last farmer in Bristol, I will not surrender!" Fulma III So angry that he didn't even care about the dignity of his son-in-law.

Bendorf had no choice but to leave the barracks.

As soon as he left, many knights grabbed him one after another, hoping to quickly reach a peace agreement with Huo Teng, and then go home to suppress the rebellious gentry and peasants.

Everyone doesn't want to fight, and they don't want to die by the Saar River for the so-called enclave of Göttingen.

In fact, although Bendorf Fulma mocked the customs of the church, he was prevaricating his father.Bendorf, like many of the more well-known nobles, grew up in the ecclesiastical education system.He has the same temper and ambition as Emperor Conrad II, and he hopes to let the church and cultural intellectuals make the country further progress towards a civilized country.

Although they came from local nobles, the church has instilled in them more ideas and ideas, so they can betray their own class and think about the future of the country.

Some people may think this is nonsense, but it must be noted that Germany at this time, like Rome at this time, many people still retain the state of the Greeks, with only one name, no surname and no family.Billund of the Billund family, Duke of Saxony, is the name of Billund, who opened the door of the family; Bendorf Fulma's surname also comes from his father.Before my father, three generations followed the same name and no surname.The surname of the Capet family comes from the official position of the ancestors in the past.

This shows that the aristocratic culture at this time has not been completely solidified. At the fork in the road of civilization, Merovingian and Carolingian used to be distinguished by the names of nobles, but now the local nobles are resurgent and transforming the new world together with the church.It was after this era that aristocratic surnames gradually became common, representing further class differentiation.

As for Göttingen County, Bendorf's opinion is very simple, just let him go.This kind of remote mountainous place is still left to the Duke of Saxony to worry about.

Bendorf ran back to Nancy City on horseback, and soon saw the bewildered Grand Duke Theodoric.

"Grand Duke, the battle ahead is not good! My father and Huo Teng fought in front of the formation, but we can only rely on the giant war beast to stop them, and the peasants of Brisgow have already stood up and rebelled. I am afraid it will be worse."

Bendorf was very weird and reversed his father's words.

Fulma III asked his son to go to the Grand Duke and ask him whether he would support his father-in-law. His original intention was to hope that Grand Duke Diodoric would increase his support for his father-in-law's war.But Bendorf considered the interests of the country and Emperor Conrad, coupled with his instinctive aversion to the nobles, Bendorf deliberately twisted the originally [-]-[-] battle situation into one that Fulma III was about to lose situation.

Although this is true in itself, with the turmoil in Briscoe, Fulma has no choice but to go home.

But as a son, it is very weird to describe it like this.

Grand Duke Diodoric is also a weak nobleman raised by the church.He only fought one battle, which was the Battle of Verdun in 985, and the result was extremely bad. He was also arrested by the second-to-last Carolingian king. It can be said that he left a lifetime of shadows. Since then, he has never been on the battlefield again.

Therefore, the Grand Duke who doesn't understand military affairs, when he heard that his most trusted father-in-law and fierce general Fu Erma had beaten Huo Teng, he was frightened out of his wits and began to blame himself constantly.

How did you put Conosha, an unusual woman, in Göttingen?

Why didn't you find out that there was a natural fierce general hiding in the monastery in Göttingen?

Thinking of this, I feel very dissatisfied with Dean Andreas who keeps causing disturbances.As long as Andreas could not run away and stay to help when the Duke of Saxony invaded, things should not have reached the point where they cannot be turned back today.

He didn't even think about it, and Andreas was sent by him, and Andreas only ran away after knowing that Grand Duke Dioderic would not support Göttingen.No matter what, this blame cannot be pinned on his head.Andreas went to Göttingen to be the dean this time, but not only lost his position, he even lost his wife.Without Mrs. Shara, Andreas would have to live in a monastery for the rest of his life.

"This...what to do?" Dioderic panicked, not realizing that Bendorf had distorted his father's intention to ask for help.

Bendorf took the opportunity to propose: "Before my father is defeated, and before the tax-resisting crowd in Bristow is unstoppable, I suggest that you settle with Huo Teng for a fee. Let Huo Teng hand over 500 gold , or a thousand gold, as the fee for Göttingen's independence. In this way, let Horten go back to Göttingen, we can still free up our hands, and use the money received to appease Brisgaard's anger. My father charged If you get the money, you will definitely retreat honestly.”

It can be said that Bendorf has perfectly captured his father's weakness.

Use money to give a step down, and it can also appease the turmoil in the family territory.

Fulma III has no reason not to agree.

"Pay the money...Okay, okay!" Dioderic nodded as he reached the steps.

During this period, territorial transactions were not absent.It has also happened to buy his territory by paying a lot of money to redeem it, or paying a lot of money to a superior.In this way, it was not Grand Duke Huo Teng who forced him to admit independence, but Huo Teng came to the door to spend money, begging for independence.

It was a condescending gesture, one that represented Theodoric was not ashamed.

"Then who should I ask to make arrangements?" Diodoric had already fully agreed to Bendorf's proposal at this time, but he didn't want to lose face and needed someone to give him the steps.

"Of course I'm looking for Ardennes and Count Luxembourg, Siegfried." Bendorf immediately patted his chest and said, "I can contact them. I believe Count Siegfried will not refuse."

Diodoric, unaware that he had been led to treachery, even thought that Bendorf was much better than his unreasonable father-in-law.Fulma III should be allowed to go home for the elderly, and Bendorf should be allowed to help him govern the country.

What is the purpose of doing all this?

Bendorf Fulma was at any rate the son of a famous count, and he was also on good terms with Emperor Conrad.Recently, Conrad really has no way to maneuver, and he even tried to get involved in the succession of the Burgundy Kingdom, which is too nonsense.The late emperor still has this qualification, Conrad, do you have it?You have a fart.

As an ordinary nobleman and a friend of the emperor, Bendorf hopes that Conrad can face up to himself, and first return to China to clean up the messy domestic environment, so that the alienated nobles can clean themselves up first, prepare for battle, and then go south to Italy and enter Rome in an open and honest manner. city, to complete the final coronation of the Roman emperors.

Specific to the current situation, Bendorf supports the independence of Göttingen, but cannot return to the hands of Saxony, which will inflate the desire for power of Bernard Billon and his son.

But Huo Teng can't be allowed to continue to do evil, so I hope Huo Teng can pay a ransom in name as the cost of Göttingen's independence.

Huo Teng certainly does not lack the ability to raise this money, Willie Keith and Archbishop Burgard will definitely help him.But to repay this favor, Huo Teng would definitely be exhausted, busy in dealing with favors.

After such a plan, Bendorf induced Diodoric to exchange for peace at the price of Göttingen. The real purpose behind it was actually to help the emperor clean up the chaos in the Upper Lorraine area.

After that, Bendorf also planned to send a letter to Conrad, granting Horten more powers, so as to balance the independent desire to control the Principality of Saxony.

He wrote his plans and arrangements into a letter and sent it to Emperor Conrad who had just returned to Bavaria from Italy.

……

Siegfried, who learned all this by accident, didn't expect Diodoric to be weaker than he thought, and he asked for peace just because the battle situation was unfavorable.

"Pass this news to Horten Bowenden, I'd like to see how he does it."

As an intermediary, Siegfried then sent the news to his ex-daughter-in-law.

When Huo Teng found out, he really sat up in shock.

The only problem is that the [-] elite soldiers of the Principality of Saxony are about to return to Saxony from the hands of the emperor. This long-term threat still needs to be considered.The original plan was to instigate the Duke of Lorraine or the Kingdom of Burgundy to invade Italy, run for the king of Italy, and attract the attention of the emperor.

Now, what to do?

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Fulma III didn't understand at all.

"What the hell is going on? Why is everyone rumoring that I'm going to lose? Which bastard said that?" The angry Fulma III panicked.

Just yesterday, Fulma III looked down on Huo Teng's weakness and deceit, but after his son ran to Nancy City overnight, the whole of Upper Lorraine was rumored that Fulma was almost defeated by Huo Teng in a duel After getting off the horse, it was only by relying on the giant war beast that he regained his victory.Coupled with the rampant rebels in Briscoe's own territory, Fulma III's defeat seems to be only a matter of time.

Son Bendorf is also stupid.