015 Shu Zifeng's temptation
After listening to Conrad's half-hour presentation, Shu Zifeng basically figured out the specific circumstances of his family from being arrested to being escorted to Yaroslavl City.
In order to make an example of the monkeys, Grand Duke Yaroslav not only did not hide the arrest of Shu Zifeng's body, but also publicized the crimes committed by Shu Zifeng on the road with great fanfare, and informed those low-level civilians what kind of punishment Shu Zifeng would bear!
The family was executed, and the beautiful sister will be openly 'fiddled' is just part of it, and after Shu Zifeng is arrested and brought to justice, he will have to endure a punishment that is worse than death!
The Manchu Qing Dynasty had ten major tortures that made people feel terrible, and the methods of torture by the European whitemen would not be much inferior even if they were almost there, and in an era without the constraints of morality and the dawn of civilization, death was not the most terrifying thing in many cases!
This is also the reason why many dead soldiers will take lethal poison in their mouths before carrying out their missions, and they are willing to do so, and being poisoned to death is a hundred times stronger than being tortured to death.
In fact, every incident in which a nobleman was killed by a criminal was made into a living propaganda warning by the aristocratic system, and there was no psychological barrier for the nobles to deal with this group of untouchables, who were like two biological groups in the European Middle Ages and even in the early Renaissance.
The use of even the most ordinary flogging of the aristocracy was questioned and said to be inhumane, but the brutal torture of the untouchables was taken for granted......
Historically, Ivan IV was called a tyrant not because of how many commoners he killed, but because he executed too many orthodox members of the nobility in an 'unreasonable' way to achieve the goal of recovering power.
As a result, after the death of Ivan the Terrible, he was scolded by his descendants as a tyrant for hundreds of years......
The dark Middle Ages, which even Europeans themselves admit, were not as 'clean' as they are recorded in the historical records.
Conrad is not a hopelessly stupid person, after realizing that the 'fat small' in front of him doesn't care about his name and always picks up the topic, he wisely chooses to cooperate throughout the whole process.
This is also a very common practice of lower-class commoners, it is easy to get information about the war between nobles, just capture a serf, a conscript, or a local civilian, and they don't even need to be punished, and they can tell their parents clearly how many times a day they are 'blending' with a knife on their necks......
The civilians of this period are really pitiful and 'cute', they basically have only one thing on their minds all day long - to eat enough to live!
As for snapping and getting married, it's just out of the instinct of hormones, and the idea of a civilian woman......
Well, the social status of European commoner women in this era was not much higher than that of the Eastern world, in the eyes of the aristocracy it was a mobile machine that could produce and increase the population, and in the eyes of the commoner men it was a bed utensils used to relieve the boring time after work......
Of course, due to the existence of Christianity in European society, there are many cases of women relying on their husbands, because in the eyes of Europeans, there is no so-called concept that women are not allowed to interfere in politics, and women can also be in power when the male heir is dead!
Knights don't think it's bad to fight for a woman, and even many handsome or well-capitalized knights are looking forward to their allegiance to a woman, so that he can use his male 'charm' to make his life better......
The more awesome the woman, the more debauched she is in that aspect of life, and even the body itself is a means to entrap the brave people below, which man doesn't like this kind of generous and 'humane' heroine?
Can you still have love after a long time......
Shu Zifeng looked at Conrad, who had adjusted his mentality and looked well-behaved, and asked meaningfully: "Do you want to break away from the identity of a civilian and become a real knight master?" ”
After Conrad heard this, his submissive demeanor immediately became sluggish, if the other party was still the original serf boy, he would naturally only regard this kind of words as 'fart', but now Kaba in front of him. Torovsky had become the lord of a small town of several hundred people, with full rights to knights, and the credibility of this statement was naturally unspeakable.
It's just that although the other party is a lord, he is also a wanted criminal by the Muscovy, which puts Conrad in a dilemma.
You must know that the knightly class, which is worthless in the eyes of later generations, is a grassroots tycoon in the real sense of the European social system, and it is this kind of knight lord that ordinary civilians deal with the most, and it is difficult to see those nobles and commoners who are high up and do not easily 'go to the countryside'.
Therefore, these knights who can 'legally cut people' at every turn, the deterrent effect in the eyes of civilians is real, even if they are 'people outside the country' or even bandits and robbers, when they encounter a lone knight riding a war horse, they don't dare to start without absolute certainty.
Any knight has honed his fighting skills since he was a child, and his courage is no different from that of an outlaw, and if a bandit dares to rob a knight who is serious, he must be prepared for a bloody battle.
To put it bluntly, the bandits are just a group of underfed armed mobs who want to rob money, where is the desperate morale?
Naturally, they will stay away from this kind of knight lords who rely on force to make a living.
Therefore, becoming a knight is the ultimate dream of almost all 'aspiring youths', even if a knight without a fiefdom can follow his allegiance to his allegiance to earn spoils of war through meritorious service, and can also get a military salary in line with the status of a knight on weekdays.
In fact, the reason why the nobles were willing to divide the land to the knight class was not only to ensure their loyalty, but also to reduce their own military expenses......
Knights are lifelong and hereditary, and as long as there is no rebellion after canonization, they cannot be banned, which is why nobles generally do not canonize knights easily, and nobles prefer to spend money to hire a group of horsemen or infantry guards for a long time, if they have money......
It is conceivable that the canonized knights are valuable in European society!
A freelance hunter like Conrad has no concept of allegiance to the lord, and he has no resistance to becoming a knight of Shu Zifeng, but he knows too well how powerful the enemy Shu Zifeng is facing, and he doesn't want to become the enemy's exploits just a few days after becoming a knight lord......
After Shu Zifeng saw Conrad's hesitant face, he smiled and added: "I know you are worried about my current situation, a person who is wanted by the Principality of Moscow, even a lord is destined to have little future to speak of, but as long as you cooperate with me to do one thing, I can reverse the current situation, are you willing to fight for the glory and wealth in the future?" ”