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I directly wrote down what your ancestors did, where your blood came from, and whether you changed masters. You can't deny it.

But do you recognize the mines hidden in it?

Huo Teng, who threw a landmine, listened to the doubts of the surrounding people with satisfaction.

"What's going on? So it's not the family of Emperor Otto's cousin anymore."

"Changed to the species of Nordic barbarians?"

"Damn it, Vikings!"

The people argued.

The topic gradually became hotter, and the scorching noise would hit Bernard's ruling foundation in an extremely tragic way.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Huo Teng increased his stake again: "I will not be afraid of winning. I want to tell you that a knightly competition will be held in Göttingen, and whoever defeats me will receive two hundred gold and a piece of fertile fief!"

Chapter 210 IX

Horten wrote a detailed and comprehensive biography of the Billund family!

"You bastard! You really belong!"

Bernard Biron, Lüneburg, after reading the whole thing with the bishop's help, loves and hates it.

What I love is that Huo Teng's writing style is really good, and the history of their family is clearly written, from the rise of Otto the Great to Bernard's defeat of the Slavs' uprising, everything should be there, and there is nothing left, and the comments are It is also more favorable, and there is no sign of malicious smearing.These days, the Billund family has a family history, and there is no other semicolon.

What I hate is that Huo Teng's writing is too real.Record all the historical records of Herman's replacement.Many Saxon families didn't know until now that their immediate superiors had long been of Viking origin.

As a result, the nobles who supported Otto's blood would naturally stay away from Bernard, causing his rule to decline rapidly.

"I'm going to order my courtiers to confiscate these albums, and then destroy all of them." Son Dietmar hurriedly wanted to go out to destroy the evidence.

When he yelled like this, old Bernard was very dissatisfied: "Little bastard who has forgotten his ancestors, how dare you! This is the history book that records our family history, and... and Huo Teng, the bastard, did not make mistakes. He remembered every history." Clearly, there are even details of the Battle of the Ardennes Forest, some of which I can’t even remember clearly. If you destroy it, how will future generations know the history of our family?”

How else could Huo Teng be smart enough?

I will write down the history of your family exactly. I not only write it in a detailed and credible way, but also have a lot of compliments.

Do you dare not admit it?

These days, apart from monasteries that are free to record the messy histories of various places, there are no scholars who specialize in family history.

Huo Teng is willing to write to the Billund family. Even if the Billund family scolds, they must scold secretly, and they must greet them with a smile on the surface.

"Then... today is different from the past, we..." Dittmar felt that the old man was simply too stupid.Isn't it enough to keep a copy of it privately?

"Go, send someone to prepare a gift for Huo Teng, saying that it is sponsoring his monastery. This is also a thank you for his biography of the Biron family." Bernard made a thank you gift commonly used by medieval nobles, sponsoring Abbey estate.

Looking at his son's puzzled expression, Bernard sighed.

Little Bernard had already been eunuched, and it was too late to change it now, only this mediocre son could be used.

At this time, it was pointless to attack Huo Teng.It would be better to admit it generously, thank Huo Teng for helping to write the history, and shift the topic to the interaction between father-in-law and son-in-law.This will also allow the public to forget to talk about the past of Hermann's replacement, and the controversy will be submerged under other topics.

To master tricks, you must know how to change.

Bernard is depressed, why are the children he raised so upright?

……

King Conrad, who has been attacked by public opinion, felt a sense of sympathy for Horten when he saw the tit-for-tat posture of Bernard's father-in-law and son-in-law.

Of course, Conrad's sympathy for Horten mainly came from himself.

The unanimous condemnation of the synod of West Oville put the king in a position of reproach.Although most people feel that the blood relationship that has been separated by four generations is too far away, is it necessary to torment the king like this?

But Conrad really didn't have any special features, and he didn't have any loud slogans. His qualifications were so poor that the people once thought that it was still the era of Otto III.

Ordinary civilians would not support such a king, which led to the fact that although most of them were sympathetic, few people stood up and said good things for Conrad.

"Hey...Look at Huo Teng, his sharp tongue is no worse than anyone else. If Bernard dares to scold him, he can write a history book of the other family's family to scold him back. If I want to fight back, I'm afraid I have to capture Rome first. Let the pope amend the terrible law of consanguineous marriage." Conrad lamented self-pity, feeling that the king was not as comfortable as Huo Teng.

The voices accusing Conrad intensified. Under the instigation of Herribert, even Archbishop Rudolf of Trier, that unreliable weirdo, jumped out and accused him of marrying a close relative, king, and you are guilty of a serious crime.

In fact, after careful distinction, Conrad is quite clear that this is a siege from the Lorraine lineage, and the bishops of Upper Lorraine and Lower Lorraine constitute the main body of the attack.

According to court priest Bruno, there is only one solution: "For the present, the only solution is to declare chastity."

"Chastity?" Conrad was shocked.

The oath of chastity, the most common thing for the high-ranking nobles who had religion in their minds in the Middle Ages, was to declare that they would keep their chastity from now on, and that they would not consider having children if they were not close to women.Whenever the king declares chastity, his reputation will be much better.For example, Henry II in history, he stepped on the accelerator when the empire was going downhill, and was still canonized after his death, because he declared his chastity, he was not close to women in this life, and he devoted himself to serving God.

In this way, the church would definitely not stand against him, and thus controlled the most powerful group in public opinion.

No matter how bad you are, the literati of the church can help you smear it, right?

The only problem is, Conrad has a wife.

But Bruno pouted at Matilda, as if to say: "Do you have fantasies about a 13-year-old girl?"

Of course it is not and will not be, Conrad still has a mistress.

But in the face of the honest Bruno, Conrad was also embarrassed to make this matter public.

He was far from those aristocratic teenagers who grew up in the church and regarded faith as their bones and soul. He also believed that Bruno sincerely expected him to be able to take the oath.

In this way, Bruno believed even more that Conrad was a wise king with a heart for the holy cause of Christ, and he contributed to the construction of his empire.

"Okay... okay."

Conrad, whose face was full of reluctance, was helpless. Facing the accusations that came like a wave, and the attacks on him by church figures at home and abroad, Conrad could only reluctantly accept Bruno's suggestion and swear Chastity.

Shouzhen has no heir?

At this time, how can I think about the heir.So many high-ranking nobles followed the oath of chastity, which led to the direct destruction of the country. Could it be that they didn't consider this?

Let Conrad live through this year first and then talk about the future.

This is also the reason why many later conspiracy theories accused the church of exterminating the famous European families in order to unify the Christian world.

The church sincerely advises the nobles to keep their chastity, just like the monks in the East advocate the nobles and even the emperor to become a monk. If you are a monk, who will manage the country?

The monk doesn't care.

Even when the country is destroyed, it is necessary to promote monkhood, and when the family is severed, it is also necessary to teach chastity.

It's the same reason.

Chapter 220 Can You Be an Emperor With This Face?

The Church no doubt compromised.

When the king chose to lean towards the church, it meant that the fierce battle between him and the domestic nobles would heat up again, and it also meant that the country's administrative system could finally give the king a green light.

The problem is, choosing always means giving up.

"Idiot Conrad, before you have mastered the violent system, you hurriedly followed the priest's nonsense. If you don't step down, whoever will step down." Huo Teng learned that King Conrad was in Swabian Kang This is how he commented when Castle Stanz declared virginity, a virgin for life.

Administrative system?Violent system?

Yes, in Huo Teng's view, simply distinguishing the current domestic situation, priests are the administrative system. Of course, for them, their main job is to preach and study theology.This may be different from ordinary people's understanding, but at this time, most countries are in a state of unity of politics and religion, and it is normal for the administrative system and the religious system to be separated.On the contrary, those who are separated appear to stand out from the crowd.

At least in the vast majority of countries with a Christian tradition.The Islamic world is different. Due to the more complex religion and population distribution, the urban population formed by more complex and concentrated urbanization, government affairs are mainly controlled by scholars, professional urban bureaucrats, and urban aristocrats.In the tradition of Islam, the religious groups represented by imams have more traditions of non-interference in secular politics.

The so-called fundamental Islam also includes this part.From this perspective, the revival of fundamentalism in Iran is very strange. It is not fundamentalism at all, and its religious figures are deeply involved in secular politics.

Under a simple distinction, in Western Europe, most priests live in the countryside, and monasteries are also in the countryside. Cities, commerce, and culture emerged very late; in the Islamic world, most educated and powerful people live in cities, higher The urbanization of China has led to greater urban-rural divides, thus making the social situation more complex and more likely to be subverted.

The violent system described by Huo Teng is naturally the secular aristocrats who control the force of war.

They are messed up in government affairs, but they have fists, swords in their hands, and horses on their crotches.

The first generation of the Otto family was actually Henry the fowler of the Saxon dynasty.From the beginning of the 'Uncrowned Sword' with an irregular coronation ceremony, the tribal principalities of the Romanian Empire continued to rise in power, forming a high degree of freedom and privileges that a large number of nobles defaulted to.

But in the Otto Dynasty, because Otto the Great himself was too powerful, historians all changed the era of the dynasty for him. The power of the tribal principality had been stabilized, and the emperor could only appoint his cronies as the Grand Duke, which was inconvenient in the country. Too many changes in privileges.In order to show checks and balances, Emperor Otto began to have a large number of church personnel hold the actual ruling power in the country. These people are called real bishops, or translated as prince bishops.

The subsequent history has remained roughly the same. On the one hand, there are the privileged nobles of the principality, and on the other hand, the church that supports and coexists with the emperor. The emperor must weigh the relationship between these two legs, and pursue the dream of establishing a universal Roman Empire. , a lot of trouble.

Conrad did something extremely stupid.

Before he installed his cronies as the leaders of the principality, he first showed his intention to continue sleeping in the same bed with the church.

Before sharing the bed, you have a different dream.

What do you think of the nobles who have been invaded by priests and taken away their power.

Huo Teng himself didn't dare to touch Gaudiu, but he just maintained the pure relationship of being unmarried.

Things like this are based on the general trend, not the attitude of certain nobles.At present, the attitude of the nobles towards Conrad's announcement of chastity is relatively mild. Everyone is not too disgusted and thinks that the king is not bad.But in a few years, when Conrad gradually changed from being chaste to fully falling to the nobles, the nobles would start to loathe him, hate him, and regard him as a sworn enemy.

The plumbing duck prophet, Huo Teng is like that duck, thinking that Conrad is still on the same path as Henry II in history.It's just that he is far inferior to Henry, and he is a lot crappy.

All of these are reminding Huo Teng.

History has its inevitability and its accident.

It is inevitable that the emperor must rely on the priests, and by chance, the quality of the emperor's qualifications determines his ability to be a few more years.

How many years will Conrad be on the throne?

When he fell, Huo Teng was qualified to participate in the election of the emperor.

Do you want to run for emperor?

Or support the puppet?

Or join a political alliance?

Before Conrad made the stupid choice, Huo Teng hadn't really thought about what he would do after the emperor fell in a few years.

Now is the time to seriously think about it.

After thinking for a long time, Huo Teng stretched out the paper again, and seriously wrote down his plans for the day.

"The Knights Tournament must be held in a special way to attract outstanding knights from nearby territories, and at the same time gain good relations with surrounding forces."

"The scolding war with Lüneburg cannot be stopped. He can fight as long as he likes. Accumulating fame is the most important thing. Infamy is better than being unknown."

"What else?"

Huo Teng, who has no political capital, is an upstart who has risen suddenly, just like Eckard I next door. It is difficult to say that he can find a solid ally in the political situation.

"I should seriously consider getting a long-term ally to maintain the security of the external environment." Huo Teng was convinced that this was what he had to do.

I used to think that it would be enough to hang up the king, but who knew that Conrad looked like a short-lived ghost, and he didn't know when he would fall.

Could this be Henry V, Duke of Bavaria of the House of Luxembourg?

After Huo Teng thought for a while, he immediately chose to give up.

This is a heavyweight player, and the son of the legendary Siegfried is also quite distinctive, but Henry V is famous for his good relationship with the church, and he is also someone who will choose to keep his chastity in the future.

Then... is it possible to form an alliance with the Principality of Poland?

Looking for a foreign force?

While he was thinking, the countess hurried into his study.

"Big news! Riehausen from the Black Dragon Knights will represent Lüneburg in your knight competition. The problem is...he is riding a half-sea dragon..." Connorsa was a little confused.

The Black Dragon Knights is the strongest knight organization in Saxony.Huo Teng just happened to win last year, and it was also related to the fact that the Black Dragon Knights did not mobilize in full force, and that they were fighting against the nobles due to the food shortage.It seemed that old Bernard was still unwilling to lose the competition just like that, and wanted to give Huo Teng another leverage.

What was even more confusing was that Amelia, who was shocked by the news, suddenly couldn't help vomiting.

It is well known that intolerable vomiting is a distinguishing feature of pregnancy.

And Amelia has been waiting for Huo Teng to give her a seed to inherit Bowendeng Village.

Connorsa, who had been pursuing her pregnancy for a long time, was so anxious that she shed tears when she saw this scene.

Huo Teng almost went into shock on the spot.

Chapter 220: The Woman Quarreled and the Man Died

Anyway, good old Maddy.

When he learned that his daughter-in-law was finally pregnant and could inherit his eldest son, Schneider, who died early, and went to the village with Bowen, his performance was even hotter than when Huo Teng won the earl.There is no doubt that if the child is a male, then he must be called Schneider III.

The old father was so happy that he seemed to go to heaven. As soon as he heard the news, he immediately ran into Gottingenburg. After carefully confirming that his daughter-in-law Amelia was pregnant, he hurriedly prepared to go back regardless of Huo Teng's sight. Tell the folks that my two children have children and grandchildren.