"This must be a miracle of God!"

I was so excited that my voice began to tremble, as if I saw the future full of gold coins that the money cellar could not stuff, and the Corinthian scholars, who had just annoyed people, suddenly became a golden cash cow, this kind of high-tech talent, nothing can be lost.

"Master, you are too powerful, I have wronged you during this time, I must compensate you well, please open the conditions casually!"

This time it was the turn of the second monk of the other party to wonder at a loss, he didn't even know when we came in, scratched the back of his head suspiciously and swept over the faces of everyone in front of him one by one, and finally found his familiar face in the crowd, and immediately shouted angrily: "You explain to me, how to let a group of peasants who like to shout come in and interfere with my work!" Didn't you say that no one should enter the lab? ”

The attendant behind Luo Luo looked up at me in embarrassment, waved his hand to stop the scholar from saying something even more ugly, and explained to him: "This is the Duke, he heard that you have a new research result, and he specially came to see what is going on, how can his words be so presumptuous, and he doesn't hurry up to make amends!" ”

The Corinthian scholar tilted his head and thought for a while, maybe the word Duke was not as important in his heart as charcoal that burned and did not smoke, so he simply continued to pretend to be stupid: "Lord Duke? Well, although I am grateful for your food, clothing, shelter, and research funds, I still have to say that the conditions of the laboratory are so poor that if I hadn't heard that Nijmegen could give me a strong enough cauldron, who would have come to this hellish place to suffer? This broken pot is not only too small, but also very rotten, and it leaked after just a few burns, and I made up for it myself......"

I barely squeezed out a smile to listen to the other party's numbers, and felt that it was humiliating to talk to an unsympathetic nerd, so I simply let Leonardo do it for me, anyway, he found out, and the rest of the things can be done by those who can do more, and they will all push it to the old guy to complete.

"Leonardo, I have some other things, so I won't waste time here, you will send the finished glass over later, and we will study whether it is possible to put this thing into production next."

I pointed to the grayish-white glass solution on the table, which was still covered with a layer of ash, and I couldn't tell the color of the finished product, and I didn't know how long it would take to cool and solidify.

By this time, the autumn harvest work of the whole country was basically over, but Emperor Henry's order to send troops for the autumn harvest had not yet been issued, maybe he took Figura back to the emperor's palace, reveled in the gentle countryside and forgot about it?

But judging from the information sent back by the spies, the empire and Poland have begun to make contact, and the envoys have been sent one after another, and there is a momentum of increasing intensity and frequency, but the exchange of hostages has no warning and is not on the agenda, which makes people inevitably wonder: Could it be that his beauty plan really worked, and Emperor Henry was really ready to pull the Grand Duke of Mieszko as his in-law and abandon Empress Kunigund, who he had been with for many years?

But whatever the outcome, these are the palace laces of the royal family, and Nijmegen must rearm itself and prepare itself for the enemy.

The samurai and ownerless knights who came to the Duke of Nijmegen gathered in the hall of the lord every day to wait for the summons, and the noisy and shouting made me tired of it, and the shabby knight in tattered clothes and riding a crappy old horse had a proud little neck, and claimed that he was the descendant of an ancient hero or a certain king, please, even if it was useless to boast that he was a rich second generation official? Is there a way out, can you come to Nijmegen to send people under the fence? This kind of behavior is tantamount to going to the labor service center to find a job with a graduation certificate from Peking University and Tsinghua University, and pretending to be a Sven person, but in the end it is not working hard to earn food.

I've always been impatient, I'm fed up with listening to a group of pretentious workers, one day I complained to Serena during the meal, I didn't expect her to be very interested in being behind the scenes, and begged me to give her responsibility, in view of her past inappropriate style, people are very suspicious of the motive is not pure, I vaguely prevaricated in the past, looking for an opportunity to ask Leonardo for verification, only to know that the original knight after the lord's wife inspection, is a normal thing.

Although these five big and three thick muscular men have a rough personality, their inner world is very delicate, many people regard the noble lady as their dream lover, pursue pure spiritual love, and regard them as loyal and unswerving allegiance, this disguised lady diplomacy has always been the only way for lords to use to entrap and control their subordinates, but only if your wife is attractive enough, obviously Serena meets this standard.

The knights who swore allegiance to the Duke of Nijmegen did not immediately receive the canonization of the land, and they were reluctant to divide the precious land into the feudal system, so the new knights were organized into an independent army, and the monthly salary was paid from the duke's treasury, requiring them to pass a strict examination before they could prove that they had committed themselves to the fiefdom.

Although some people objected, the priests present solemnly said that this move was reasonable, and it was proved by the great Holy See that this was the only way to stabilize people's hearts.

Fighting a battle can consume a considerable number of these people, and the remaining few sporadic corners can be stuffed to live together, which is equivalent to spending money to hire a group of mercenaries with stronger combat effectiveness, no matter how you look at it, it is a good deal.

The Slavic captives who had been brought back had been living in Nijmegen for some time, and most of them had gradually become accustomed to local life, or rather, had developed a barbaric yearning for civilization, and envied the living environment where food and clothing were worry-free, and a few stubborn thorns were secretly disposed of, and the rest were all obedient obedient people.

I took the opportunity to propose a policy similar to that of the knights, to exchange service for abode, and that men of appropriate age with families and families must serve in the army, and as long as the period of one year was completed, regardless of whether the person died in battle, the whole family would receive the citizenship of Nijmegen and a piece of land worthy of the exploits, so that a Slavic legion of three hundred men would be obtained, and the fighting power would be quite strong, especially when equipped with better equipment, and become the best of the infantry, and Leonardo, according to the custom of the Eastern Romans, suggested that they be named the Varangian Guards, Jensen was appointed commander, which made Bull Kohler and others blush.

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Ever since the navigators of ancient Greece wrote the name Shuri on their charts, the northernmost region known to have been given the title of the land on which the sun never sets.

The Greeks described it in the history books as a place that lasted from sunrise to sunset for half a year, and was wrapped in a thick ice sheet that never seemed to melt, and the people who lived on the ice sheet were accompanied by the sea all year round, driving their humble boats through the storm, there was no civilization, no king, no city, people lived together in the villages, and seemed to live an idealized perfect life.

The lands of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, now known as Denmark, Norway and Sweden, have been an inseparable whole since ancient times, with the same people, the same living environment, the same living habits and the same belief in Odin, which unite them to live on the ice sheet year after year.

The abundance of amber and furs was coveted by merchants from the south, and the tall and high-quality timber was equally eye-catching, but there was no southern empire that extended their rule to the lands of the northerners, who were so far from the center of civilization that even the merchants did not come very often, there were no roads at all, and the forests were littered with unfriendly barbarians, and it was almost a fatal transaction to go back and forth.

The northerners, who had prepared their furs and amber, stared longingly at the sea in the south, but never saw the merchants who came to trade, and the southerners, who were well-dressed and traded in gold cakes and silver plates of value, disappeared with their empire, and the northerners looked at the rough seas with sadness, and suddenly thought of a question:

Why did they come to us when we never thought of going to them?

The first person to have such an idea is no longer verifiable, but his idea was undoubtedly great, and the northerners entered the stage of history and began their era!

An era of horned helmets, dragon ships, and Vikings!

The rest is known as the blonde devils from the northern ice fields, who have become a nightmare for all southerners, who at first came to civilized lands with their possessions and exchanged amber and fur for their favorite objects, but gradually they became less inhibited, ransacking weakly defended villages and killing all gasping creatures.

Later, more and more northerners arrived by boat, and they gathered to attack the well-defended villages and towns and castles with more and more populations, so that the dragon head warships appeared on the large and small river beaches, and Viking became the common name of the northerners.

Denmark was the most developed of the three countries, because it was closer to the center of civilization and often fought with the bordering Frankish states, they were better equipped and had a better economic base, and they were often led by Danish nobles in all their expeditions.

Norway and Denmark originate, in this narrow country, there are seven independent counties, they are all evolved from the original clan tribes, the Norwegians are good at iron smelting, often participate in the pirate gangs, it is said that the Duke's family in Normandy is a concubine from the Norwegian earl family, which shows the importance of this group of fjord dwellers.

The Swedes lived in the eastern lands, and the inhabitants were divided into several powerful tribes, each with their own rulers, and maintained hostile relations with the Danes for the control of several important islands in the Baltic Sea, and fought with their neighbors, the Norwegians, from time to time outside the unified Danish and Norwegian alliance.

Like the other Vikings, they also carried on the business of raiding houses, but in the opposite direction, while the Danes sailed long ships across the wide and icy North Sea to attack the north-east of England and the Scots, and the Norwegians tried to conquer the whole of Ireland and occupy the Isle of Man, the Swedes still adhered to their traditional robbery routes, came closer to the east, and traced up the great river that flowed through the entire land of the Rus, and finally came to the shores of the Black Sea. He made contact with the Eastern Romans and the Baghdad Caliphate, the center of civilization, and chose to join the powerful after several unsuccessful attempts to unite the Slavic tribes along the Dnieper River and attack Constantinople, becoming the famous Nordic Valangian Guard of the Eastern Empire.

They even followed the Volga River into the Caspian Sea, and then abandoned their ships and landed in the rivers of the long trek into the heart of Asia, selling the northern specialties they had brought with them.

(End of chapter)