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Can obese people and ascetics be linked together?

The Blue Fox didn't care about so much. He had to investigate the entire city defense structure of Bremen, at least he had to turn around the streets and alleys at the root of the city wall.

It is precisely this behavior that has been out of the ordinary, and the denser crowd can hide it in the market. Now he is exposed to the eyes of the citizens.

In this era, a fat man's emergence is blinking, and ordinary people don't eat well for the time being and are generally thinner. Why is an ascetic monk obese?

Bremen is an important logistics transfer station for the northern Frankish wool trade. In addition, cheese products and hemp textiles will also be distributed to the inland areas through this place.

The prosperity of the commodity trade naturally gave birth to bandits, and Bremen needed these merchants to pay high taxes and was obliged to eradicate bandits. The thief caught the chopped hand, and the robbers in the city caught it and pulled it to the square to hang him in public. As for the bandits wandering outside the city, they must be wiped out regularly, and a small cavalry unit specializes in this task. As the saying goes, bandits must be suppressed at any time, and the earl even uses this to train his troops.

There are also soldiers patrolling frequently in the city. These people walk frequently and are familiar with the faces of the citizens. However, every day there are traffickers and pawns outside the city to sell goods, and soldiers have to be more vigilant in patrolling.

Three ascetics walking in the streets at the root of the city wall?

The captain of the patrol took his five subordinates on purpose and stood still, sneaking behind them. After all, the other party was an ascetic monk, so even if the behavior was weird, he could not be arrested rashly.

The Blue Fox didn't know all this.

It has been nearly 50 years since Bremen's expansion. The city has been renovating and expanding slowly. As the city's buildings are mainly made of wood, repairs are more frequent. Most of the citizens are no longer involved in agriculture. They may serve the various handicraft families of the Earl of Bremen, some are purely settled merchants, and some are dependent on soldiers. These people are almost separated from rural life. They are the earliest urban residents in Western Europe and the pioneers of the "civilian class".

The taxes collected by the earl led to the employment of many people, and the prosperity of businessmen also allowed people who did not farm to have other jobs.

The results of the "Carolingian Renaissance" are vividly displayed in Bremen. The city has no longer been severely suppressed during the military fortress, and a thriving business atmosphere has emerged and continues to develop.

It's just that its prosperity is inferior to that of Hezeby in the past, as well as the rising Slovakia on the Neva and Birka in Sweden. At least the blue fox judged this way.

Blue Fox really appreciates the local people's architecture. Although most of the buildings here are single-story thatched houses with wooden walls, there are also a number of double-story houses. He deliberately stopped to observe for a while, couldn't help but stroke his beard that had been cut off with satisfaction, and couldn't help but smile.

"The double-storey houses are all stone foundations. The first floor is a stone chamber, and the second is pure wood. Very good, so that the building does not have to worry about flooding, and the upper floor can live freely."

Ross can also learn from the Franks' house-building model. He is trying to memorize it.

Continue to walk, there is another moth in front.

A wooden window was opened on the second floor of a house, and the few pedestrians who had dropped down clearly got the signal and ran away. After a while, hands holding the wooden basin appeared, and some brown sticky things fell down the slope.

There is no need to explain what happened. The blue fox subconsciously pinched his nose, and yelled in Northen in a hurry: "It's a villain, dare to throw the feces casually. If it splashes on me, I must cut your head!"

The language is Gnostic, and most of the residents in the city are Saxons who are good at speaking Saxon. The two languages have the same origin. People who hide from the dung can hear the abuse but understand some of the key words. When they see that the abuser is actually a priest dressed as an ascetic, they can't help but cross their chests and sigh their sins.

It was the blue fox's casual curse that attracted the uninvited guests, and the patrol team that had been trailing rushed forward and took the three of them down.

"Hey! Why are you arresting me?" Blue Fox still yelled North in his desperation.

However, the patrol captain directly yelled in Norse: "Is it a Danish? I have dealt with you. I entered the city disguised as a priest? I have been observing you for a long time, and the priest will not swear or look around in the military area. Your work!"

"This is a misunderstanding! Misunderstanding. We are here from the church." The accompanying little priest hurriedly explained in Frankish.

It is useless to explain it. The blue fox and others were **** with ropes and escorted to the earl's residence in front of the citizens, which was the inner city fortress of the city. The next step was to go to prison and wait for the release.

The blue fox wanted to explain, but he was still twisted and sent to the underground prison. As the bronze lock fell, he became a bird trapped in the pit. It was really hard to fly.

"It's really unreasonable!" He slammed the wooden door hard, and his mouth was not clean.

Although the jailer was impatient, but the other party was also an ascetic monk at any rate. Although it wasn't for some reason to be sent here, don't act rashly. Maybe they will stop when they get tired of cursing.

Things are really weird, do ascetics also abuse and complain? It's really unheard of.

For the Earl of Bremen, today should be an ordinary autumn day. Earl Hunter guards his eldest place, and can earn a large fortune every year by collecting the merchant's transit fees. With this money, he can support more troops and recruit more troops when necessary. Many militiamen defend the city.

Precisely because of the good weather today, Lord Earl took more than fifty people out of the city on horseback when it was light.

Autumn is a good time to hunt wild deer. By the way, it can also deter the bandits hidden in the forest. It can also show their presence to small merchant ships and land-travel merchants on the border to make them feel at ease. It also makes a warning: taxes must be paid.

Until the evening, the earl, who had shot two deer with a bow, returned with his troops. The horseshoes of the cavalry overturned a lot of dung, and the earl did not think about tidying up the traffic and sanitary conditions of the city. Seeing the return of Lord Earl, the people evaded one after another, and most of them bowed and saluted in the street.

The cavalry returned aggressively to the inner fort of the city, which is the area across the city square from St. Peter's Church. There is a three-story wooden fortress, or four stories, because the top of the herringbone stands. There is a cone-shaped arrow tower, which is the commanding height of the city and the platform from which the Earl overlooks the whole city. It can also watch the enemy in times of war.

The blue fox who visited the city hasn't come back in the evening! Saint Eskil has panicked, because the rule is not to eat after the meal. Based on his understanding of the fat blue fox, the man is unambiguous even if his belief is not purely on the issue of eating.

The blue fox and the accompanying priest seemed to have disappeared. What's worse is that the city gate is now closed. When the sun sets, the city enters a curfew. While the priests are noble, they are also restricted by many dogmas. For example, they are not allowed to leave the church area at night if they are not necessary, and the closed wall doors may even be locked.

The blue fox will never run away? He is from Ross!

St. Eskil's mind was in a mess, or the local priest offered some seemingly reliable advice, that is, to ask the Count of Bremen for help.

The priests' discussions and Eskil's anxious appearance was noticed by Robert the Count of Hamburg. The old nobleman said with almost certainty: A fat ascetic is suspicious in every way! The earl's castle is here. On the other side of the square, if I were Hunter (referring to the Earl of Bremen), I saw such a person dangling in front of my eyes, and immediately sent someone to take it."

Robert is so sure that Eskil has the backbone.

"Joseph Blue Fox is the messenger of Rose and the convert I trained. Even if he is not a devout person, if something goes wrong, I don't want to go to Rose to preach."

Hearing, Robert deliberately arched the fire: "Then you have to hurry up. My old friend always has to face the robbers outside the city. If Joseph Blue Fox is regarded as a gangster in Qiao Zhuang, I am afraid that he will be subjected to intestinal punishment. ."

It was terrible to hear. Eskil's legs tightened and he made an exception and announced that he would go to the earl's fortress at night to see the situation.

Can the Northern Saint Eskil be so reckless, that fat man is really a treasure? Robert didn't want to disturb Hunter, nor did he want other nobles to know that the Earl of Hamburg had left his fief without authorization.

Now that I want to keep a low profile, I'm afraid it won't work.

There needs to be some preparations on the side of St. Peter's Church, and another situation on the side of the castle.

Today's hunting harvest is pretty good, although it is a mere two small deer hunting, according to the usual probability, hunting two deer in a week is a normal level.

Deerskin is the earl's treasure and will be made into leather gloves, leather hoods and saddle skins. The deer head will be made into a specimen and become a pendant of the house. As for the venison, the earl left the most chewy deer hind legs, and rewarded the soldiers with all the meat left.

"Ah! The soldier has gained a lot today!" He returned to the house, and the young countess took off his robe herself.

The young son ran over with a smile, was picked up by him, and kissed his son's delicate face with a bearded mouth.

Hunter, Earl of Bremen, died of a high fever, and the poor wife only left one daughter. The daughter had been married to nearby Flanders and became the wife of Earl Baldwin.

Hunter became single and worked as a happy free man for several years. During the period he was recruited to conquer the Normans who had stolen the Port of Duriste, but he was defeated.

Hunter was highly nervous about the Normans. The group of guys was legally recruited by Prince Ludwig, but in fact, everyone knew that it was a group of wolves that needed a lot of meat to feed in order to stabilize. As long as the people north of the Schleswig Great Wall are Normans, Normans are roughly equivalent to pirates. Earl Hunt's understanding is very simple but also very pragmatic. He himself never crossed the Great Wall to take a look at the Danish area, even though they are not far apart from each other. In my mind, Normans and pirates are equated.

"The prince is playing with fire. Harald and his people are pirates, and Horrick and his people are also pirates. Who can guarantee that these people will not suddenly rebel? Who can guarantee that they will only attack Lotaire? Attack you (referring to Ludwig)?"

In recent years, the days have settled down. The most intuitive manifestation is that he collects the tolls extremely happily and increases every year. With the help of Prince Ludwig, he married the daughter of the Marquis of Frankfurt. This was a purely political marriage. Because of this marriage, Ludwig of East Frank had intervened in the affairs of the Duke of Almanni.

The family of the Duke of Alemanni was extinct, and the title of state was vacant for a time. King Louis the Pious wanted to grant the land to his younger son Charlie, which caused other princes to conspire to imprison his father and poor younger brother Charlie.

Until now, the Frankish King Louis, the pious, was released. Although he became a king again, the huge kingdom was essentially controlled by the princes and the great nobles of the frontier. The loss of military power only had the title, and no one cared about the King Louis.

Ludwig did not have the title of Duke of Alemanni, and this one has always been vacant.

The Marquis of Frankfurt had already declared allegiance to Ludwig, and he had to do so because an elite army had been stationed in Regensburg. The army ran along the Danube and the cavalry could reach Frankfurt in just two days. Frankfurt is the largest city under the Duke of Almany. The Marquis has his own mind, because the kingdom has been divided in substance. If it is officially divided, if you want to come, you can mention Almany from the king of Prince Ludwig. Duke title.

A political marriage strengthened the relationship. The Marquis did not want his young daughter to marry the old Count of Bremen, but what could be done? This marriage was recognized by the Pope.

The Count of Bremen was Ludwig's loyal minister, and the Countess was a nobleman in Frankfurt.

Hunter rested and drank a large glass of wine in his silver jug and enjoyed himself, and then described to his wife the results of his hunting in the woods.

Although it is a political marriage, the earl is deeply in love with his young wife, especially since this woman gave birth to a son.

Now that the Marquis of Frankfurt has long changed his attitude, because his territory is the inland transfer station of northern wool, Frankfurt has economic contacts with Bremen, and the commercial tax on wool merchants has brought Frankfurt a very good business. Income. In the near future, my grandson will inherit the Earl of Bremen, and business cooperation with each other will be more comfortable.

The countess listened to Hunter's description. She was just an ordinary woman, so ordinary that she had no thoughts of her own, but prayed step by step every day, and lived a calm life.

When the deer legs were burned, Earl Hunter tore the greasy meat under the oil lamp, and asked his son to gnaw the meat with him, saying, "You must be brave when you grow up, and now you have to behave like It's a beast, tearing meat like a hungry wolf."

The little boy grew up in such an environment. He had a father who was good at hunting, at least, and suppressing bandits. He took his father as an example.

The appearance of the son biting the meat made Hunter happy.

It was at this time that the city sheriff, who was waiting for the opportunity, informed the good earl of the deliberate clergy arrested by his men.

"What? You arrested weird ascetics? They really deliberately? You shouldn't be so reckless. I don't want to go to church to confess for you."

The sheriff was also helpless: "But my lord, the ascetic monk is swearing in Norse. We arrested them near the city wall, so I'm afraid..."

"Wait..." Hunter pinched his beard and realized that things were not simple.

The sheriff guessed the Lord's meaning, and said: "We interrogated something. A fat priest said that he was a friend of the northern saint Eskil. He also said that the saint was in the city."

"It's ridiculous. It's not the time when Saint Eskil came to Bremen. Others are in Hamburg!"

"Yes. But the three ascetics all said that Saint Eskil had entered the city. And..."

"And what?"

"The Earl of Hamburg has entered the city himself."

"Absurd!" Hunter yelled, obviously frightening his son, and then said in a soothing tone: "You go down first. When I finish eating, I will go to the dungeon to take a look. You know, I'm afraid this is a Norman. Conspiracy. Sheriff! You acted very vigilantly. Go to the Treasurer to collect twenty silver coins."

"Thank you, sir."

The sheriff then left happily, and the poor patrol team who actually arrested the Blue Fox and his party was only given a reward of one person and one silver coin. UU reading www.uukanshu.com

In a sense, Earl Hunter guessed right. In Frank's concept, the Ross was also a type of Norman, and the arrested Blue Fox was indeed a military and commercial work. He was arrested while collecting intelligence. Loss.

The Blue Fox did not encounter any severe beatings in the dungeon. First, the jailer didn't dare, and second, the fat man "confessed". The information he confessed directly shocked the warden who had to prepare a black bread confession. It was Saint Eskil's friend, who offended this fat man, fearing that his soul was full of dirt.

The earl was still busy eating meat, and soldiers came to report on the situation.

He got confused and criticized harshly, "I'll talk about it later."

"But my lord, you should go and see outside the window. A torch team came out of the church, and they are coming towards us."

Hearing that the earl stood up immediately, and then hurriedly ran to the tower on the top of the fortress, and indeed saw a torch team.

"Oh, don't be my friend who really caught Eskil. It's really bad luck. Saint, if it's you, you should come here in a big way!" Earl Hunt gritted his teeth and immediately ordered his men to connect Neiburg to the city. When the suspension bridge is put down, I will meet the visitors in person.

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