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"Don't make any public contact yet, tell them in private that I will attend the imperial conference to be held in the Duchy of Thuringia as an independent country." Huo Teng nodded arrogantly, as if he had no idea Count Weimar put it in his eyes.

Join the Imperial Council!

It has to be a powerful country to be eligible to participate.For example, the Earl of Nordgau, which is located between Thuringia and Bavaria, has long been a developed area centered on Regensburg, and its earls can not only participate, but even decide many major events in front of the emperor.

Huo Teng actually did not tell his subordinates that his participation in the Imperial Council was only a temporary decision of Conrad and the behind-the-scenes driving force of the Luxembourg family.I believe that King Conrad and the Luxembourg family should also have their own tacit understanding.

As for whether he can participate in the future, it depends on whether Huo Teng can withstand the siege of the Principality of Saxony.

Immediately, the morale of the knights became lively again.

Everyone has a firm belief, quickly help Huo Teng to the top, and solve the "abnormal" state of the heroine in charge of the country.

The archer captain Greb even knelt down on one knee and shouted directly and publicly: "My lord, it's time to hold the first hunting parade and meet the knights of the whole territory."

Immediately, many knights followed him and knelt down on one knee, begging Huo Teng to meet the knights.

Huo Teng was a little embarrassed about this.

Because Conosha is the legal ruler of this territory after all, Huo Teng's earl seat comes not only from the king's approval, but also from the results of the marriage between him and Conosha, and the woman's guardianship by the man.After he died, the territory still belonged to Conosha theoretically.

Therefore, it is a bit too presumptuous to hold a hunting parade rashly and try to establish prestige in social ceremonies before getting married and meeting the king in the Imperial Parliament.

"It's still the summer of war. It's better for the knights to fortify their own castles first to prevent the northern thieves from invading. As for the hunting, it won't be too late to meet after I scold old Bernard at the Imperial Council." Huo Teng asked made an excuse.

Looking at this scene, the mercenary captain Calon couldn't help but sigh with emotion at Huo Teng's high reputation.

It also strengthened his confidence in staying in Göttingen.

But the one with the most mixed feelings should be standing at the side from a distance, watching a group of knights surround Huo Teng, the Countess Connorsa and his contract wife Jones.

"If you think about it carefully, the fight between us is actually very ridiculous, isn't it?" The noble and intellectual countess returned, and Connorsa, who had a soft face, said quietly: "If we can sit down and talk, we can reach a good agreement." agreement, the position of Countess should still be in my hands, instead of being easily stolen by this guy."

Jones smiled disdainfully.

"Is this the groaning of a loser? How do I remember that in the stables, you groaned louder and more honestly than now." Jones dismissed it.

The resolute and indifferent knight decided that his best friend was what everyone expected, so he began to plan to form a small group in the court to improve his status.But Connorsa has no force, and the result of her forming a small group is nothing more than betraying Jones, trying to push Jones to the edge.

Anyway, the child was in her womb, not in Conoza's womb. Jones had a lot of time to wait for the child to be righted, or when the child was righted.

Seeing the failure of the series connection, Kang Nuosha had no choice but to sigh and accept her fate of being ridden by Huo Teng.

Fortunately, however, she was being harnessed in a luxurious velvet bed instead of continuing to have an affair in the stables.

Most of the single ladies whose marriages were forcibly arranged by the superior lords either met a strong husband who seized the family property, or were sent to a monastery. Most of the fate of the rest of their lives was quite miserable.

At the same time, Huo Teng also came in front of the two ladies.

First of all, Huo Teng was unexpected. He bowed to Conosha and knelt down on one knee to express that he was still loyal to the mistress of Göttingen.

Then Conossa stretched out her slender hand for Huo Teng to kiss.

This represented Huo Teng's surrender.

Then, of course, Huo Teng stood up and faced Conosha with an equal attitude, which was to meet his fiancée in the state of a fiancé.

As a couple arranged by the king himself, there should be no more reasonable way for an unmarried couple to meet.

Huo Teng, of course, could not express the intimate etiquette of "kissing the nipples" in public. He hugged Connorsa and then kissed face to face to express the affection between the unmarried couple.

Even plastic feelings.

After completing two rounds of rituals, Huo Teng turned around and kissed Jones again.After all, they are friends and couples, and they have a child in their womb. Huo Teng can't love the new and dislike the old, that would make people unhappy in front of the knights and ministers.

Then, Huo Teng was the first to announce: "Everyone, I have made a decision. I will leave the Free City of Göttingen to my children and Jones, and at the same time, Jones will act as an agent to manage the affairs of urban development. Of course, I will take care of the output of the territory, but in this season... I still have to focus on the war."

Huo Teng also didn't come up with a way to balance the two wives. In the current situation where the church is getting more and more developed, if he wants to have multiple wives when he is weak, he has to make a clever name.

However, it was inconvenient for Huo Teng himself to stand in the same trench with the gang of noble priests, so he had to feel wronged, and started to practice turning and sprinting between Göttingenburg and Göttingen Free City every week.

Chapter 110 Eight Immortal Dreams

It finally quieted down.

Huo Teng was lying in Göttingenburg, Connorsa's room, feeling uneasy.This was the first time he lived in this room. Of course, the beds here were the most high-end, and the bedding was also high-end velvet products brought over from his hometown in Nancy.

But after sleeping on the camp bed for several months, Huo Teng was afraid to sleep on such a high-end bed.

Not only recognize the bed, but also miss the home that I can see from standing on the city wall four miles away.Free City is a city founded by Horten, and Göttingenburg symbolizes the ancient royal power in this land.

The layout and temperament of the two places are completely different.

Liberty City has a passionate and unrestrained temperament. Huo Teng lives in the largest longhouse. A crooked road extends from his door, leading to the gate of the city. Even a horizontal street has been occupied, because indeed It's of no use.There are humans and halflings in the city, there are trade master Greya who came from the north, and there are knights who defected.

It is very safe to live there. It has its own large courtyard, a courtyard where you can bask in the sun, livestock pens, and a mill.

But Göttingenburg, at a glance, is very imposing, and it is still a very small number of large castles with stone foundations and stone walls, but when you look closely, it is almost like a prison.Among the small circle of stone walls, there is almost no place to stand in the narrow area.Most of the houses are built on top of each other as if they were attached to the inner walls. The bottom layer is either a servant's room or a stable.

This kind of ghost place is cold in winter and hot in summer, hot and humid, and there is almost no sunny place to stay.Everything is for the best defense, and any place that is convenient for people to live in but occupies a defensive space is abandoned.

Although it looks so shabby, such a building is already a very advanced and easy-to-use advanced castle.

A more common castle in this era is surrounded by a thick fence about two meters high, with a tall wooden door and a small back door. The lord's family, as well as some guards and blacksmith families live around it, which is not as good as an earthen blockhouse. A small village is considered a good castle.

What's even more outrageous is that most of the knights were overwhelmed by such an earthen village where the city walls couldn't stand, and they could only leave after robbing at the gate.

Because of this difference, Huo Teng prefers his own little Liberty City.

Unable to bear this strangeness, Huo Teng couldn't help sleeping peacefully. He got up, put on his clothes, left the high-rise bedroom, walked to the city wall, and overlooked the small town by the Yachi River two kilometers away.

At this time, Liberty City also fell into a deep sleep. The city wall with its simple stone foundation and multi-layered wooden fence was also the hero who prevented the [-] army led by Bernard Jr. from besieging for several months.Several soldiers holding torches are patrolling, sparkling with fire.

While visiting the city wall at night, Sasha's voice kept coming from downstairs.

Huo Teng's ears were itchy. When he turned around and looked down, he found that there were a few servants carefully removing the thatched shop on the roof, throwing away the wet and messy ones, and replacing them with dry and newly made roofs. .There were also a few maids who did not sleep in the middle of the night, holding sticks and smearing mud on the broken parts of the houses they lived in.

With the help of the bonfire on the top of the city, two servants with wet clothes were washing and drying clothes in the heat of the bonfire.

Probably because there are still many things to do during the day, so these servants can only work harder than farmers, working in the middle of the night.

If Huo Teng remembered correctly, the reason why they were busy was because he was about to ascend the throne as earl, and the servant had to make preparations for him.

Seeing this scene of renovating and maintaining the house without daring to provoke the Earl's family too loudly, Huo Teng was a little dazed.

Yes, he actually forgot more important things.

Göttingenburg is an almost permanent castle, and only the wooden houses attached to the inner walls need to be renovated; while the free city of Göttingen is a city built in a hurry, from the city walls to the lord's longhouse, it is all Frequent renovations are required to maintain temporary cities.

This is also the characteristic of this era.

Most of the residential buildings are extremely primitive, and there is almost no old and small architectural art.Farmers in this era have to make great efforts to renovate their houses almost every year during the slack season. Whether it is the cracked mud wall foundation or the leaky wooden wall, they are all maintained and damaged every year.

An extreme example is that in the past few decades, a farmer even rebuilt his longhouse nine times in a row, and the house where three generations lived has changed its position nine times in a row on an area of ​​several hundred square meters.

This proves that the houses at this time are primitive, easy to build, easy to damage, and often abandoned.

When the wood is pasted with mud, it becomes the wall, and when the beams are covered with thatch, it becomes the roof.Such a house is probably a skill that every farmer must learn.

Centuries before this, farmers still lived in earth caves and shacks.The custom of living in soil holes lasted until the Ottoman Empire, and it was still preserved in the Balkans. The Bulgarians were nicknamed "rabbits" by the Ottomans. Those poor farmers could only live in semi-underground soil holes. Cut a hole in the top of the head as a smoke outlet.

Why would every knight want a permanent castle?Maybe it's also because they don't even have a permanent house.

Just like nomads, they repair their houses every year, and then build new ones in different places after a few years.

In this sense, Göttingenburg is solid, reliable and indispensable.

Huo Teng, from the cities and castles with two attributes of permanence and fragility, couldn't help but think about the more outline starry sky.

"Are you crazy? Isn't it cold at night?"

Connorsa rolled her eyes, wearing a long black dress and walking over with the white steam from the shower, followed by the maid.

When he returned to the room, he was shocked when he found that Huo Teng was not in Connosha, thinking that Huo Teng had run away to rebel.

"I have a special idea."

Huo Teng stretched out his hands, pointed to the Free City of Göttingen in the distance, and the eleven surrounding villages, extending to this area of ​​Bowenden Village, and said: "Build a long city wall and divide this area Include it and build a great city. There are churches, there are markets, there are..."

This area covers several square kilometers.If it is completed, it must be the largest city in Germany at present.

"Are you crazy? That's the city of Rome." Connorsa took Huo Teng's arm, "Come, follow me back to the house."

Huo Teng knew that Conosha would not understand his eternal dream.

"When you enter the house, you enter the house."

Chapter 110 Nine

There is only one small chapel in Göttingenburg, and the bishop's cathedral is outside the city. There are also a group of villages and affiliated people settled around the church.But generally speaking, robbers and knights from other places would not easily attack there, so although they were prepared, it was just a short courtyard wall.

The bishopric was also excluded from the castle. Needless to say, one could guess that it was due to the limitation of the small area of ​​the castle, and there was no room for the church to live in.

After Huo Teng's spring night, he ran to the chapel downstairs early in the morning to find the hermit Morris.

It was five o'clock in the morning, and the sky was still gray.According to the rules of the monastery, some get up at 2 o'clock, some get up at [-] o'clock, and it will not be lower than [-] o'clock sooner or later.

To Huo Teng's surprise, Brother Morris was still asleep.

Looking at the sky, the sun is already under the earth and wants to jump up, spraying his endless flames to the earth.In the Middle Ages, unless you were a rotten person, no one would still be awake at this time.

"Cultivator?"

Huo Teng stepped forward and knocked on the door.

There were no windows, for the poorly crafted wooden walls were naturally drafty, and an extra window would only make the room colder.

"What...what's the matter?"

Morris got up in a little panic, and heard a woman's low voice rustling in the room, and knew that the hermit, too, had corrupted his life and started to degenerate.He actually found a woman to sleep with at night.

The woman didn't have the back door to leave, so of course she had to lower her head to avoid the Earl who was shooting her sternly.

Michael noticed that this woman should be a nun of the cathedral, not married.

The story between the bishop and the nun, or the priest and the nun, not to mention the recent centuries, even if it dates back to the era when the Roman Empire was still in the polytheistic faith, those witches were also gossiping, and they were indeed doing similar things. Whore thing?

It's just that Christianity's progress compared with polytheism is that they will not admit that nuns and prostitutes are equivalent terms.

But in fact, nuns, or churches and monasteries with some nuns, have been reduced to prostitutes. The nuns chant scriptures and sing hymns to praise God during the day, and at night receive guests and play flute to praise customers. See records.

The famous old hooligan, Heinrich Losso has a very famous pornographic painting called "Original Sin".It's called original sin, but the main content of the picture is a priest, holding a nun with bare thighs across the fence, making love with each other.This is a very significant reflection of the social situation at that time.Sexual repression and the corruption of the church's internal management, as well as the ugliness of human nature, together lead to the tragic fate of a large number of low-level women who enter the monastery and may become adulterers, sexually abused and prostitutes.

From this point of view, although the theory of evolution from polytheism to monotheism is theoretical, in reality, nuns still move towards the same ecological niche.It proves that the economic foundation remains unchanged, no matter how the name is changed, the society will still correct and return to the same appearance.

Huo Teng suddenly slapped his forehead, thinking that he was thinking too much.

The problem is also the timeliness.

The knowledge I just thought of was actually formed after a series of self-reforms such as the Cluny Abbey Movement and the Gregorian Reformation in the church.

In this day and age, it is quite normal for bishops to marry wives.Even a bishop who is relatively clean and politically inclined will marry a wife.Decades later, the bishops in Normandy are still defending the matter of marrying two wives, saying that they sincerely serve God, but marrying two wives or three wives is also our own tradition, and outsiders cannot interfere at will.

A small number of monks deep-fried and rolled the ancient dogma with noble rice bran in their minds, but it was hard to stop the tide of the times from spiraling downward like this.

Monk Morris could not escape the limitations of the times.

In his opinion, probably he just found a single nun, which is already a very reliable behavior.

"Ahem... I'm going to marry her, and I'll give her all my property after I die. She can also marry a wealthy squire." After Morris went out, he was not embarrassed and explained his compensation casually.

Huo Teng nodded again and again, this is very rich compensation.

In this era, in terms of the concept of virginity, only the upper-class aristocrats are particularly fond of Christianity, so that people who take the vow of chastity don't care whether they are virgins or not.In this era, it is remarkable to be able to eat enough. Who cares about that layer of film?If she is the official widow of a famous monk, she will not only get a generous dowry if she remarries, but will also be respected by the other party.

After all, she is the woman chosen by famous hermits, and marrying herself is also a blessing.

After thinking about these joints, Huo Teng said in a low voice: "You also know the recent incidents. I never thought that Jones would be pregnant. This made my preparations very hasty... How should I arrange her and that child? Is it not against the will of the Lord?"

Morris coughed a few times, feeling a little embarrassed.

The trouble with this matter is that Huo Teng and Jones are still husband and wife in theory. After all, the appointment time is two years, and it was recognized by Conosha's guardianship.

But the marriage was chosen by King Conrad alone, and it belongs to the content of the king's acting guardianship, which is very politically correct.

These two things collided and found that the child was already in the womb, but the parents were forced to divorce, and the troubles became what they are now.

"I'm going to discuss with the three archbishops, Burgard, Heribert, and Willikis, whether a law should be issued now. At least the latecomers will not be as unlucky as I am." Huo Teng said pretending to be sympathetic.

Morris was taken aback.

The Archbishop of Mainz and the Archbishop of Cologne have always been at odds. If these three were allowed to collide to discuss whether Huo Teng's marriage was legal or illegal, it would take several public meetings and several years of fighting to produce results.During this period of time, the church was almost rotten.The power of the church is too weak, and it is already no match for the princes, so it dare not split anymore.

"Don't!" Morris hurriedly patted his chest and said: "Actually, I privately believe that this marriage is definitely legal, and the child is also a legitimate child, not illegitimate. He is eligible to inherit part of your territory. Of course, he can also join the church to inherit me. mantle."