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Yes, the monastery is the key to unlocking technology, and it is also the direction for researching technology.

Huo Teng gathered a few learned monks and asked them a question: "What should I do to increase the farmers' yield per mu again?"

Among Huo Teng's three technology lines, he only has social-oriented agricultural reclamation (level 1): pear and cattle farming, and the extracted political-oriented standardized knight fiefdom, a total of two.

What Huo Teng asked the monastery to continue to study was to continue to increase production in the socially oriented agricultural line.

At this time, it is the period when the two-field system and the three-field system alternate. Huo Teng hopes that they will at least make breakthroughs in the two directions of farming paradigm and agricultural manure.

The research and development progress of different monasteries is also different.

If it's the monastery in Mainz, it may have results in a week.

And here in Göttingen, there will probably be a buzz in a season and a half.

Huo Teng began to think that if he could subdue the Weimar country and obtain the monastery there, it might have better research and development results.

If Huo Teng had money, he could invest in building a second monastery locally.

But once you come to the monastery, it is easy to repair, but the manpower that enters is inherent in the local area. Only these people will not increase if they are divided into two monasteries.

Speaking of money.

According to the latest inventory, there are less than a thousand gold coins left in Huo Teng's pocket.

In other words, according to the current rate of consumption, if you don't do a lot of work in autumn, you may not be able to pay wages in winter.

Chapter 140 Financial Statistics

Financially, Huo Teng's income has always been beyond his means.

The first big income came from stealing the wealth of the mortal enemy Dean Skok, and the subsequent incomes were either robbed or wars. Up to now, there should be no very wealthy families in Göttingen.

People are not fat sheep, even fat sheep can't continuously gather their wool.

It's not the right way after all.

But now, Huo Teng has time to sort out his own, or the financial revenue of the entire Earl of Göttingen.

This money is the bulk of the annual income, the field rent tax in autumn.

First of all, the villages, small towns, manors, etc. directly belonging to him, Connorsa, and Jones. In terms of the scope of these lands, Horten owns nearly [-]% of Göttingen's arable land, and more than half of the forests and swamps in the entire territory. .

On the cultivated land, about 1 free farmers, tenant farmers, slaves, etc. are counted together, and they can produce a new high level of about 180 jin per mu on the cultivated land of about 50 hooks (one hook is equal to about 800 mu). , can create about 40 million jins of wheat grains per year.However, it seems that the amount is very large, but it is actually less than 60 tons.First deduct the annual rations of the [-] producers and their families, and then extract about [-]%-[-]% of various taxes, miscellaneous fees and other expenses. In fact, it is not enough for each person on average.

On average, each family can own about [-] mu of arable land. Even if the weather is good, the annual farming income can only feed a family of three, not to mention that these families often have five or six members, and there is a big gap in expenditure.

Assuming that Huo Teng extracts [-]% of the high land rent from each tenant farmer and slave, and then obtains about [-]% of the grain income from the owner farmers, then Huo Teng can obtain about [-] tons of grain per year.The reason why the number is so small is because of the bureaucratic level and transportation capacity of Lahip, as well as various concealments and arrears.It is impossible for him to collect [-]% of this large sum of money, and if he can get [-]% of it, it belongs to his subordinates who are more capable.

Such a sum of food, if it is in the southern Italian city-state, or the wealthier Roman capital Constantinople, can be exchanged for about [-] to [-] Nomisma gold coins.

It's a pity that Horten is located in Germany, which is ridiculously poor compared to the south.

Going back to Germany, let’s not mention that the sales in most cities do not need to be so much, but even at the prices of nearby cities, Huo Teng sells all the grain together without reducing the price, even if there is no loss, it can only earn income Three thousand gold coins of various colors and large silver coins equivalent in property.

In fact, Huo Teng needed to use these grains to convert the wages of his subordinates first, and then deduct daily expenses and festivals, which was also relatively tight.

It is no wonder that there were records at the time that a businessman in an Italian city-state had a transaction, and his harvest could even exceed the annual income of an earl in northern England.At that time, the income of the poor earls in England was only a few hundred silver coins. Although the values ​​were different in different regions, if you draw a straight line, you will find that the Italian merchants are much richer than the earls of England.

"Thank God this year! Our annual income has doubled faster than before! When I ruled, I could only receive food worth a thousand gold a year, and it was very difficult to maintain my inner palace knights and various expenses. .”

Connorsa, who was sitting opposite Huo Teng, was very pleasantly surprised to see Huo Teng pull out a considerable income of [-] gold and silver from a series of numbers.

As I said before, the right to mint coins in Germany in the Middle Ages was very low-key, and the monastery made them privately, while the Nomisma gold coins of the Southern Roman Empire were particularly precious.The exchange of money and food is not smooth, and the price difference between them is enough for money merchants to earn a few acres of land.Therefore, it is more reasonable to directly distribute food to the knights and let them resell it themselves.

"That's because you don't know how to deal with the treacherous officials, and the village elders who want Naka. I sent three groups of circuit judges to replace me to deal with the local ruffians and bullies in the countryside. Those who disobey will have their land confiscated. Only in this way can the food collection be completed better."

Huo Teng criticized Conosha, but did not brag about his other achievements.

The reason why the food and currency income of the territory has improved greatly is because Huo Teng reformed the way of food production, increased planting and land reclamation, and provided some better farming methods at the same time. 30 catties per mu, an increase of 50%.

The increase in this large amount of income added a motor to Huo Teng's small coffers.

"It's more effective for you to reform the planting methods and land reclamation tools you gave farmers." Jones has handled the fields. She boasted about Huo Teng's achievements, and she and Conosha looked at each other, and the two were slightly jealous , and the complicated eyes of sympathy and compassion flashed across in an instant.

"It's not very successful. In theory, there should be three thousand gold, but after the conversion, it may be more than 2000 points, which is more in line with expectations. The remaining vacancies will be filled by other taxes."

Huo Teng knew that he could not collect the full amount as expected.After all, the income of the whole territory is also guessed on paper from air to air.

So he safely paid [-]% for himself.

He takes [-]%, and the elders of the villages and towns below take [-]%, is it reasonable?

And when it comes to other taxes, it's very chewy.

The amount of tax Huo Teng can legally collect now is frighteningly large.There are traffic road tax, head tax, forestry tax, mill tax, income from administrative punishment, transaction tax in the trade market, conversion of farmers' labor, villagers' marriage and so on.Although the money sounds like a miscellaneous tax, if you eat everything, you can often receive an income close to or even equivalent to the land tax.

All in all, it was Huo Teng who used simple and crude new farming techniques, namely oxen and heavy plows, to open up wasteland and recruit refugees in an unpretentious and frantic way, so that the scale of cultivated land in the territory skyrocketed, and the average yield per mu also greatly improved.Therefore, the food earned far exceeds that of previous years. After the population has increased, the exorbitant taxes have also increased, so the annual income of the territory has directly doubled.

All intensive cultivation and meticulous care are fake.First cut down the mountains and forests, empty the swamps, and expand the area of ​​cultivated land to the end, and then consider these details.

The result of this is that the short-term increase in income looks good, but it is actually overdrawing the land carrying capacity of the territory.If reasonable fertilization technology is not developed in the future, the population will continue to increase after the fertility of the land declines, and the result will be obviously miserable.

Overdraft is overdraft, others are not qualified to overdraft yet.

After Huo Teng's life is over, the woods in Göttingen may not be cut down, and the overdraft will not come to an end.

"Speaking of which, how much do we need to pay the army?" Connorsa asked suddenly, thinking of the guards at the door.

The question is simple.

Huo Teng clapped his hands together: "No matter how much you earn, it's all covered."

Although it's not that serious, just the two teams of retinue knights, one team of single-feathered light cavalry, two teams of Frankish professional mercenaries, crusader archers, rangers and other professional soldiers, the annual expenditure of these gold-eating tigers is as high as Nearly a thousand gold.

After sorting it out, it was found that these pawns swallowed up about [-]% to [-]% of Huo Teng's annual net income.

In other words, a large part of the annual income is eaten up by the army.

Chapter 140 Carry out the reaction to the end

Huo Teng actually does not have the ability to recruit a large number of troops.

Because of the barracks building he obtained, he can only recruit horseback militia and horseback archery militia.Due to the slow development of science and technology and the temporary inability to upgrade the city, Huo Teng's main army strength still has to rely on gifts and acquisitions unlocked by various missions and various special official positions.

Incidentally, Horten also unlocked the special recruitment of the Earl of Göttingen.

[Congratulations on unlocking the title: Earl of Göttingen]

When Viscount Millhouse was unlocked last time, all Huo Teng got was a little special charm and a slightly tasteless personal bodyguard.Huo Teng hasn't recruited this thing until now, because he has knights of honor and various guards, and he is no longer afraid of the assassins' single-person attack.

However, it is a very good function to have a territory with a fixed title, which can be guarded by elite affairs officers or army leaders.

And this time, for the first time to unlock the earl's position, what Huo Teng gained was also unexpected.

First of all, Huo Teng's earlship brought him special benefits, and it was a family heirloom.

[Black Feather Cloak (Level 2 Treasure): An heirloom of the Earl of Göttingen, +1 Legitimacy, +1 Prestige, +2 Territory Management.This cloak comes from the local duck hunters, who caught the local specialty black duck and wove it after obtaining duck feathers.It is a pity that the black duck was caught and extinct. 】

This heirloom is not bad.The three added attributes are all directions that Huo Teng needs very much.The most special thing is the territory management, this attribute is added very timely.

The characteristic of attribute modification is to use zero as the origin, and use the added value as the benchmark for event success or failure, or unlocking.For example, if persuasion +0, it may not succeed, if persuasion +2, there is a high probability of success.

It seems that every great uncle country may have similar family heirlooms.

The second benefit is the two functions of diplomacy and governance.

Huo Teng can send envoys, or messenger groups, which is a high-end, formal, convenient and quick way to establish, provoke or even frame allies or enemies around.

He can also designate a bureaucratic minister of his choice in internal affairs to help him manage the internal affairs framework of the territory.For example, the three priests he had chosen before, as the inspection team going to the countryside, forced those bullies and ruffians to hand over their money and food.

This is a function with the help of the system, and the success rate is greater than that of operating it yourself.

The third point seems more like Huo Teng's special reward for unlocking the Earl's title for the first time.

[Congratulations on obtaining the drawing of the hiding place. 】

The so-called hiding places are simple residences built in the mountains and forests by refugees who could not bear the rule of the nobility and were exploited layer by layer during the Middle Ages.In fact, there is not much difference between staying in the private camp.But there is a difference, this is a place where life and military are combined.

In the stash, there are three types of armies that can be recruited.

The first is the refugee army (ordinary arms: refugee army, number: 200 people. The quality is low but there is no need to provide military pay. As long as there is food to eat, they will go with you, but if you expect them to win the battle, it must be your problem. Trait: Be content with the status quo.)

The second type is slightly better, is the wandering shooter (excellent unit: wandering shooter, number: 40, the quality is slightly better than ordinary peasant hunters, the special feature is that they are good at shooting while walking, and often harass passing merchants in the forest. Traits : self-sufficient, mobile shooting.)

The third type is the chivalrous concealers who can only be recruited under special conditions, that is, the first cavalry team obtained by Huo Teng, a civil organization led by Jeffrey.Ease is not easy to come by.

It seems that the stash is so good that just after Huo Teng got the blueprint, he wanted to cover him with 20.

Without him, recruiting the refugee army inside and then disbanding it on the spot, wouldn't it just increase the population of the territory in vain?Such a good building, why only take it out now?

It wasn't until Huo Teng saw the construction conditions that he realized that there was no such thing as a free lunch.

This thing was built by hurting Huo Teng's prestige!

To put it bluntly, isn't a hiding place just a refugee group organized to resist the oppression of the nobility?

If Huo Teng organizes such a group in his own territory, the damage to his own prestige will be small, and he is even more afraid that the refugees will become troubled. If he really surrounds Göttingenburg and divides the local tyrants and divides the land, then as a reactionary ruling class Huo Teng, it's time to hang a street lamp, or cut off his head.

Although hanging street lamps and guillotines were not popular in France in this era, under the leadership of King Robert II, they re-established the burning technology of ancient Rome.

They're popular with Burning Man.

In the beginning, this technique was specially used to burn Jews, because the king was a fanatical Christian, but he was ignorant and layman. He was recently excommunicated because of the marriage of close relatives.But after hundreds of years, the fire torture technology rediscovered by the French king was used by the English to burn Joan of Arc.

It can also be regarded as feedback of evil force, and the retribution is not good.

Therefore, although the hiding place is good, it must not be created randomly.If you are not careful, you will kill yourself.

Huo Teng hid this blueprint at the bottom of the box.

……

Your Excellency, the Flash Knight Jones, is leading the knights to inspect their territory.

Although everyone thinks that the Free City of Göttingen is Huo Teng's masterpiece, but Jones has already set it as the property of her unborn son.

We are inspecting eleven villages around Liberty City to resolve disputes between immigrants and locals, re-dividing the horizontal and vertical standardized cultivated land, and dividing each hook (180 mu) into five square fields (36 mu) to facilitate reorganization When the pears and cows were plowing and reclaiming, Dongfang suddenly came galloping a few horses.

Taking a closer look, it was Jeffrey, the leader of the chivalrous Masked Han who was promoted to stay behind in Fort Millhouse.

He led several accomplices who were clearly dressed and dressed in a lot of corruption, and rushed to report: "Ms. Jones! Something serious happened!"

"Fort Millhouse was besieged?" Jones was taken aback. The lady was very angry, and she also designated Fort Millhouse as her son's territory.

Jeffrey was busy in the world, took a sip of water and spit out a few mouthfuls before reluctantly said: "It's the Harz Mountains! It is said that when the princes of all parties were besieging the bandits in the Harz Mountains, they found the copper that the local refugees had been secretly mining in the Harz Mountains." mine!"

铜！

What does copper represent?

For people in this era, it is a precious metal close to gold, a reliable carrier of currency, and a raw material for the manufacture of high-end furniture, sacrificial altars, and sacrificial candlesticks.

In short, copper is money!

However, Mount Harz is exactly located in the ring-shaped encirclement formed by the Duchy of Saxony, Viscount Millhouse of Horten, the Count of Weimar, and the Duchy of Thuringia.

For the Quartet forces, there are valleys, cultivated fields, copper mines, and population in the Harz Mountains. As long as a castle is built, it is worthwhile to have a border earl.

But compared with Saxony and Thuringia, Horten is still obviously weak.

When the news reached Göttingenburg, Horten immediately pulled out the construction blueprint of the hiding place from the bottom of the box.

Who said it must be built on your own territory?

It's better to build directly into the Harz Mountains, secretly establish a group of refugees who are loyal to themselves, and take the opportunity to seize the cultivated fields and valleys in the Harz Mountains, as well as the copper mines!

Huo Teng suddenly had a strong sense of déjà vu, being the aristocratic class under the reactionary rule and secretly the leader of the lumpen proletariat.

Chapter 140 The second son-in-law Huo Teng!

Autumn is coming.At this time, there are always sad stories of self-cultivated farmers going bankrupt and reduced to tenant farmers. The tenant farmers' families have no way of life and are forced to go to Liangshan to rebel.

After all, it is difficult for us to ask the illiterate knight master to really understand the misery of the people, even if he occasionally praises his own virtues with rhetoric.No matter the time, farmers always have the hardest life, even in modern times.And being a farmer in the Middle Ages was undoubtedly a difficult life.Among other things, the high land rent and land tax per acre of land alone are enough to make a tenant farmer who works day and night realize that hard work cannot bring a family a comfortable life.Not to mention road tax, wedding tax, mill tax, firewood tax, and so on.

As long as Lord Knight is short of money, he will even ask you to pay a special tax, such as war tax to squeeze your wealth.

Perhaps the tax rate on the surface is not high, and it seems that it can always be maintained.However, the illegal oppression overt and covert, and the exorbitant taxes year after year are just the record of the deepening feudal oppression.