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In traditional cognition, the Pope is a promise, and he can take off the king's crown with a single sentence.But in fact, such days are very short. Most of the time, the church is a vassal of the powerful imperial power.

As for the city of Rome specifically, this ancient city controlled by the Roman survivors has another microclimate.

A large group of nobles formed by the Roman survivors has always held the supreme head of the church.Several big families took turns to sit in the manor, ruling the church corruptly with each other.

It should be said that the church has been cleaning itself from the bottom up.

After the Otto family continued to go south, the religious aristocrats in Rome had to give way to the pope supported by the imperial power. This is also the reason why the first German pope and the first French pope were born one after another.

But the Otto family died.

The current situation is incomprehensible. Sylvester II suppressed these wealthy religious nobles, but failed to completely suppress them.

He had to look everywhere for a kingdom that could support his status, which was one of the reasons why he went to Hungary to crown Istvan as king not long ago.

After reading Huo Teng's resume, Sylvester II wanted to directly judge Huo Teng and Jones to marry, and send the two noblewomen back to where they came from.But soon, the pope noticed that the archbishops from Germany were arguing and arguing about who was more powerful, the central kingship or the local dukedom.

The pope neither wanted to offend the Duke of Saxony, nor could he allow the king to be bullied.

So... Sylvester II's Pope's seal stamped on the names of his two fiancées while he was thinking in a daze.

Then, the Pope, who had a splitting headache from thinking, gave up thinking, got up to observe the stars, and relieved the pressure.

At this time, his servant came to clean up the table and found that the Pope had stamped two seals on a piece of paper.He mistakenly thought it was a document that had already made a decision, packed it up, and sent it back the same way.

Chapter 190 Six Controversies Between Two Wives

When Pope Sylvester II came back, he did not find this letter involving Horten's marriage, but he received even worse news.

The king of Lombardy, Anduin Anscalz, who was so iron-headed, brazenly crossed the traditional border and began to reach out to the various imperial cities south of the Po River Plain, looking like he wanted to expand his territory.While this aroused the terror of the city-states, it also involved the question of whether or not to support King Conrad's going south to be crowned.The emperor's priests who supported the northern king's going south were at odds with the native priests who supported independence.

Both sides have their own arguments. One side says that the king is strong enough to deter those bastards who disrupt order. The other side says that the unity of the city-states is enough. Italy does not need an emperor. Can you give him a false name?

Italy lacked the concept of a state, and remained so for a long time after the unification of Italy in modern times.

But now this pile of bad debts, but no one can figure it out.

"Italy has been in turmoil for 500 years since the Lombards invaded, and it is still difficult to calm down." Sylvester sat down and stared at a pile of parish registers.

After the Great Plague of Justinian, the Italian region gradually became beyond the reach of the Roman Empire, which had moved its capital to Constantinople.They installed a governor here, but most of the cities and church folk have gone their own way.This loose situation continued until the Lombard barbarians established a country in the north and gradually became civilized.The finally civilized Lombard barbarians wiped out the governor of Ravenna, and these areas were gradually under the jurisdiction of the pope. When the Lombard king forced the city of Rome, the pope had no choice but to go south to find Charlemagne.

Charlemagne brought rule.

At that time, the aristocrats of the city of Rome, who were fighting among themselves, caused Pope Leo III to flee. The Pope suddenly crowned Charlemagne as the Roman Emperor with his ambition and the excuse that the Roman Emperor was a woman Irina. .This was the early beginnings of the Holy Roman Empire.

Objectively speaking, Charlemagne's coronation was an accident.But it is also inevitable in the tide of history.The Roman Empire is in constant decline, getting rid of imperial rule, but the Roman Church, which urgently needs the support of a strong power, this vine without a root, climbed to the tyrannical Charlemagne.

But Charlemagne is so kind, and he has many concubines and illegitimate children's personal virtues aside, but the great emperor forgot to reform the traditional Germanic inheritance system.

As soon as he died, the three sons divided Frank.

Among them, Lothair, the eldest, won Middle Frank, but he died soon. His three sons divided the Kingdom of Middle Frank into the Kingdom of Lorraine, the Kingdom of Burgundy and the Kingdom of Italy.

Then there was a series of extinct events. The Kingdom of Italy and the Kingdom of Burgundy could be said to be connected by blood, constantly competing for the throne.

In the end, the Carolingian family soon fell in Italy earlier than France and Germany. Several aristocratic families continued to fight for power. During this period, a Princess Adelaide who escaped by chance married Otto the Great. Create an excuse for him, go south to capture Italy, and then be crowned emperor.

Otto the Great's strategy for capturing Italy was no different from that of Charlemagne.Even after they were crowned, the titles they used were not bad, and they were all kings of the Franks and the Lombards.It can be seen that the temptation brought by the wealth of Italy.

Three generations of the Otto family have revolutionized the status quo in Italy.Today, the city-state here considers itself a part of the Roman Empire and supports the emperor on the one hand, but it also directly conflicts with the emperor's request and control.Under the indirect rule of the Pope, they appear to be more divided.Many of them were appointed by the Otto family.

The Kingdom of Lombardy is not the case. It belongs to the Po River Plain near Milan. Anduin Anscalz, who took the responsibility of resisting the northern imperial power, insisted that he was of royal blood and did not recognize the emperor for a time.

But it must be noted that most of the ruling city-states are priests and religious aristocrats.This is still the continuation of the situation in the Roman Empire era, and the religious aristocracy was particularly powerful in Central Italy.

Businessmen are not yet qualified to appear on the stage.

"Write a letter to Anduin and ask him why he violated the boundary." Sylvester II was very entangled.

Is it to lure the emperor's army from the north to the south, or to support Anduin?

In such entanglement, Sylvester completely forgot about Huo Teng's marriage issue.

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The topic follows the verdict and walks through the snow-capped Alps in winter.

In any case, compared to the scattered Western Europe, the church can be regarded as a highly organized group.

Several archbishops were waiting for Sylvester's answer.

But the pope's answer was beyond everyone's expectations!

Looking at this reply letter stamped with two seals at the same time, the upright Burgard scolded directly: "Even if it is a dog on the side of the road, it knows that it can only shit on its own side! No matter whose family Servant, he also knows that he has only one master. How can there be two chapters? Yes, I know that many nobles have concubines, Charlemagne has many wives, and those nobles in the north even marry more than one in private, but this is not true. It means that we civilized people can marry plural, right? Where is order? Where is civilization?"

Extremely resentful, Burgard, who wished to go to Rome to question the Pope face to face, had nothing to do with this document.

This is the seal of the pope, and theoretically it is a legal document with the highest power of interpretation in the church.Sylvester outrageously did not write down any evaluation criteria, so in Germany, where information exchange is blocked, how to interpret this document has become a big problem.

Willie Keith was conservative, and after getting it, he insisted: "This means that both are acceptable. The Pope also feels that he can only choose one of the two. This is a conservative policy."

Apprentice Burgard also interpreted it according to the direction of the teacher.

But there is always something weird.

For example, Archbishop Heribert of Cologne, the former Prime Minister in the prime of his life simply scolded: "The old fool must want to marry the two, so he stamped the wrong seal. It is recommended to reject it."

Needless to say, Herribert is the closest to the truth.Because he really managed the state affairs in Italy.

The stable Magdeburg Archbishop Tajino followed the direction of the interpretation of scriptures: "According to the order of the seals, it should be to marry Godisiu first, and if he dies of illness or other events, then consider Conosha. This is There is a difference."

There are even more outrageous ones.

Archbishop Rudolf of Trier, who is famous for his abnormal brain circuits, publicly declared: "Does this mean that you can marry two? Then I will also marry two."

This pushed Huo Teng's marriage turmoil to a new climax.

But when it rises to a certain height, it won't affect Huo Teng, who is trying to find a way to help Kassel County.

When Huo Teng kept transporting food and aiding the refugees in Kassel, the upper nobles of the empire quarreled endlessly because of this.

Some people with ulterior motives even use this as an excuse, planning to marry a mistress first.They didn't care that it wasn't written that way in the Bible.

In the end, King Conrad had to make another decision on this matter.

However, Conrad is too lacking in the title of emperor, and the current throne is empty, which seems to be not strong enough legally.

In the end, at the suggestion of Queen Matilda, Conrad gave an ambiguous new judgment: "For the time being, the marriage will not be held, but it will be recognized that Gaudius has the same status as the heir of Conorsha. The rest I will come back to the theory later when he is crowned emperor."

For the king, this matter can only be delayed again and again.Until he has enough prestige to overwhelm Bernard Billon.

This also meant that, due to an oversight by the pope and the temporary suspension of the king, Huo Teng had to temporarily live under the same roof with his two fiancées.

But it also angers a person because of it.

That was Bernard's younger sister, Gaudistius' aunt, wife of Eckard I, Marquis of Meissen, and Swanhild who had six children.

This woman is currently the controller of the Marquis of Meissen and the Duchy of Thuringia.

She decided that her niece had been greatly humiliated.

Revenge is to be given!

Chapter 190 VII

The Fulda River, the main trunk of the Weser River that flows through Minden, Bremen and enters the North Sea, is the second longest river in Germany.

The river, which goes straight to the north, flows north with a meandering road.The county of Göttingen is also located near this river, but Göttingen and Notgeim mainly control another tributary of the Weser, the Leine.But in general, except for the Duck Pond River flowing westward, Göttingen generally shows a trend of going out of the Fulda River and entering the trade area of ​​the Weser River.

The County of Kassel is located on both sides of the Fulda River, adjacent to the County of Fulda on the south side.

When the plan to help the neighbors was established, Huo Teng led the temporarily mobilized soldiers to the south on the fourth day, January [-], based on simple local friendship.

In this cold weather, Huo Teng failed to mobilize too many knights, but only pulled out hundreds of infantry spear regiments, two hundred archers, and more than a hundred knights to cross the small hills and bring supplies. Go to the Fulda River, and then cut wood for the camp. After setting up a temporary camp, take the wood as a raft, and send envoys with a small amount of supplies to the refugee concentration area to condolences.

More than ten miles northeast of Kassel, there is a river bend.There is a small trade fair called Minden an der Fulda, which mainly provides accommodation for passing passengers and earns tolls.The reason why it is also called Mingdeng is that it copied the name of Mingdeng, a famous downstream city.This is nothing in Germany, there are many cities with the same name.

Today, Fort Kassel has been devastated. Tens of thousands of beastmen ate and drank the poor land there. Thousands of refugees, mainly farmers and businessmen near the capital of Kassel, gathered in Minden Fair, seek a little shelter.

But everyone knew that Minden was a small city with barely enough walls, and a circle of fences couldn't stop any enemy's onslaught.

"My God...Compared to Huo Teng's rough behavior, these bastards are too cruel..." Earl Tapler turned his head gray overnight.

Compared with the army of beasts galloping with thousands of hooves, only a few people died when fighting with Huo Teng, which can be called friendly wrestling.

Now, Teppler has lost hundreds of thousands of acres of mature land, at least half of the grain and various tools, and only most of the wealth and manpower have been brought out.Just like this, we must continue to patrol the river to prevent the Beastmen from crossing the narrow river valley and completely wipe out the Kassel family.

On this day, Teppler also knew the announcement that Huo Teng was coming to help him.

But the two families had fought once, and on Huo Teng's side, a bishop named Matt greened his heir's nephew.This mix of old and new hatred made Tepler believe that Horten was after the hills on the east bank of the Fulda River, the plain near Göttingen.That's where he and Huo Teng started working together.

He just took advantage of the fire to rob.

But Teppler guessed wrong.

Within a few days, Huo Teng's emissary, Greb, brought hundreds of bags of food and important cloth supplies, as well as flint and steel and other urgently needed items to support.

Although there are not many things, the expression of heart is in place.

In particular, flint, hammer, needles and other supplies that are necessary for life but will not be available for a while, have improved the difficult life here.

Seeing Minden's miserable state, Greb hurriedly beat his chest and feet according to the established performance plan, and cried emotionally: "We are late."

Teppler has always had no psychological expectations for Huo Teng, and it is difficult for him to suddenly get help from his neighbors.

"Dear Earl Teppler, our earl asked me to promise you that the people of Kassel can cross the border and flee to the villages of Göttingen first. We specifically asked the villages to help the refugees. They want to go home next year, If you want to continue living, we will not evict you."

According to Greb, Huo Teng is not taking advantage of the bad luck of his neighbors to snatch the population, but a good person who sympathizes with the people and lets them settle across the border.

In this era, although the population of Germany should have exceeded [-] million, in the relatively barren Black Forest area, there are still fewer people than land, showing a trend that people are more important than land.

For Teppler, this proposal is too good to be true.

He didn't know how to resettle these tens of thousands of refugees. If they all starved to death in the river valley, Teppler might not be able to enter heaven in his life.

"I blamed Huo Teng wrongly. We are really close friends and neighbors!" Tapler looked at the full ship of grain, and couldn't help crying, holding the messenger with snot and tears: "From now on, our generations Friendly, I will never blow the horn of war again. Huo Teng can come here as much as he wants, and I can help him with as many people and land as he wants, but please do lend a helping hand to help the poor people here!"

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But how could Huo Teng be so kind?

After the envoy set off, Horten secretly borrowed a map of the Cassel County from a nearby monastery.

In name, it is to prepare for the battle with the Beastmen, but in fact, it is secretly searching for where it can be swallowed.

Before that, Huo Teng had no idea what the County of Kassel looked like, how many people there were, how much cultivated land, how many monasteries and towns and villages there were.Only when you really go deep in and get the map, can you realize that your neighbors are actually as good as you are.

The County of Kassel is located on the southwest side of Göttingen. It generally has a spindle-shaped structure. The main body is the small plains alluvial on both sides of the Fulda River. The surrounding mountains, large and small, are the natural protection of the County of Kassel. cover.It's a pity that these mountains also hide great threats.As soon as the swarm of beasts, which were rare in ten years, arrived, the castle collapsed immediately, and the Earl's family went out to suffer.

After some investigation, Huo Teng couldn't hide his saliva.

Maps are very precious and important strategic weapons, and only monks in the monastery will record them.Although their map drawing method is more like sleepwalking, Huo Teng also roughly estimated that the small plain of Kassel County has at least hundreds of thousands of acres of mature and arable land, which is enough to support tens of thousands of people.At present, due to the crowd of beasts, these tens of thousands of people are moving to Göttingen.

There is no reason not to accept these tens of thousands of people, these hundreds of thousands of mu of cultivated fields that have been developed.

They share the same language and customs with the Göttingen people, and many of them are related by marriage.Accepting this country will allow Huo Teng's population to break through the [-] mark.

10 people are in the bag.

But another woman who came with the army asked: "Patriarch, is Tepler willing to surrender to us?"

She is Amelia.

It's funny to say that Huo Teng's family mainly has four women sleeping in his bed.Jones was taking care of the children every day, so she didn't have the energy to accompany Huo Teng for a while, while Connorsa and Goldiu had just received a reply from the Pope.

In the end, it didn't take long for Amelia to sneak into Huo Teng's bed.The kind of spring on a woman's face is unavoidable, and only a woman who knows the taste can feel it.

But with Conosha as the leader, none of them resisted Amelia's sneaking in, because legally, Amelia was Huo Teng's brother's wife, and the child she conceived would inherit the place of Bowendeng Village.

"Oh, this story can only be told later."

Horten shrugged.

Not only for women, but also for Kassel, a pun for a later date.

If possible, Huo Teng does not want to have too many conflicts with Tepler, but Huo Teng is determined to win the ruined Fort Kassel.

Chapter 190 Eight What Medieval People Wear

In the Middle Ages, a person's clothes were an important external expression of his identity.You never see peasants in gaudy tunics, women in leggings and stockings, men in Roman veils, and poor people in hard-soled boots.