Chapter 319: The Age of Knights Is Over?

Count Quy saw that the men seemed to have nailed the thing to the ground.

Then, seeing that they had basically retreated, leaving only a white assistant with a torch.

At this moment, he heard the merchant with an Orleans accent shout: "Waste! ”

The white assistant immediately touched the tail of the thing with a torch.

"Tom!"

A thunderous sound rang out...... Although the guard officer David Charles told him beforehand that the voice would be loud...... Count Quy still almost jumped!

No wonder the guard officer David Charles clutched his arm...... The horses of the carriage jumped up, but fortunately the carriage tightened the gates, and they could not run.

The horses of the knights in the distance also jumped...... A long hissing sound is made.

Count Quy's face turned pale, and he saw the trees in the distance shaking, and the branches of the arm's thick were broken!

What would have happened if this was a frontal attack by the armored cavalry?!

Count Quy asked slowly, "How many of you have?" ”

"A total of twenty 'marching guns' and the ammunition they need...... If you add them, in the right terrain, with reasonable coordination, the frontal charge of 10,000 cavalry will also be defeated! ”

“…… We've never seen a weapon like this before......"

"Honorable Earl, rest assured, after you buy it, my assistants and I will train your soldiers to use ......"

Then he said a price...... Count Qu Yi smiled, it was really not expensive, it was far less expensive than raising five hundred armored cavalry himself.

However, anyone can see that these weapons can easily wipe out five hundred armored cavalry!

David Charles, the guard officer, had a blank expression...... The age of knights is coming to an end?!

The martial arts he has spent more than ten years training are going to be in vain?

Under this kind of weapon, no matter how good the martial arts are, they will fail in an instant......

However, the guard officer David Charles had a poisonous eye.

He asked calmly, "You have all been in the army?" Where did you participate? ”

The businessman, with an Orleans accent, smiled and said sincerely, "Yes." Dear Officers...... We served as slaves in the Great Shang Empire, and later the great and merciful King Zhang gave us back the sacred freedom...... It also allows us to do business freely......"

During this period, most of France was still serfdom, and the peasants were not free...... However, in Flanders' territory, the proportion of freedmen was the highest.

The Count of Quy took over and said, "God has taken care of our Flanders...... Thank you for being able to do business freely, and thank you for bringing me the weapons I need...... I will pay the price, and I hope you will keep your promise to help us train our soldiers to use them as soon as possible. ”

"As you wish!"

The merchant, with an Orleans accent, gave another elegant French salute to the Count of Quy.

Well, he was a merchant from the East.

It was only then that Count Qu Yi felt a little cold on his body, and it turned out that he had come out in a silk robe.

The Seine is the great northern river of the Kingdom of France, with a total length of nearly 800 kilometers.

It has always been the river of Paris.

Paris was founded on some of the river's main crossings, and the interdependence of the river and the city is close and inseparable.

To this day, it is still the largest port in the Kingdom of France...... This is similar to the London area of the Kingdom of England.

The merchants of the Confederate Empire, who had come to Paris from the Liberty Island to do business, had sailed here from the estuary of the English Channel against the current, under the guidance of well-intentioned men.

The river's birthplace is said to be about three hundred kilometers southeast of Paris.

In a limestone hilly area about 500 meters high, there is a small stream in a narrow valley with a cave up from the stream.

The entrance to the cave is not high, it is man-made, and there is no fence in front of the door.

There is a statue of a goddess in the cave, she is dressed in white, half-lying and half-lying, holding a water bottle in her hand and smiling at the corner of her mouth.

And the brook crept out from behind the goddess.

Obviously, the Seine is fed by springs.

According to local Gaul legend, the goddess was Senna, a goddess of precipitation, and the Seine River was named after her.

It flows northwest from the Burgundian region to Champagne above Troyes; It is a fortified gully on both sides of the Champagne-dry chalk plateau.

It flows near Romiy to join the Orb River, and when it flows west towards the vicinity of Montero, the valley widens, where it receives the Jonah River from the left bank.

It then turned northwest, and when it crossed the Île-de-France into a ravine-like valley to Paris, it passed through Melen and Corbet.

When it enters Paris, it joins its large tributary, the Marne, on the right bank; After meandering through the metropolis, it receives the river Oise on the right bank. By the time of passing through Paris, the Seine had narrowed due to the construction of quays on both sides.

It flows along a winding course through Normandy and heads straight to the mouth of the Channel of England.

There is an Île de la Cité on the Seine, which is said to be the birthplace of the French nation.

Merchants of the Federal Empire have investigated, and it is said that a long, long time ago, there was a people living on the island called the Parisians.

Hence the name Paris.

The most famous religious building on the island is the "Notre-Dame de Paris", which is considered to be the first Gothic building in the Kingdom of France.

It was built just a few decades ago and is still under construction, and it is said that the church can accommodate 9,000 people...... The merchants of the Federal Empire did not enter, only the photographer who ran the photo studio took a few pictures of it outside.

This is the request of the Governor of the Second Junior Governor...... The level of production technology in that place can be evaluated through the building.

The photographer also went to the Sorbonne on Mount Saint-Geneviève.

It is said that decades ago, the seminary was supported by King Louis IX to help the poorest and most eager students to study theology.

The photographer hurriedly took a picture outside and left with his assistant...... Except for the fact that there are as many young people here, the other academies here are too different from the Academies on the main island of the Federal Empire...... The photographer always felt eerie.

Good young people don't learn production technology, but learn this kind of thing to serve ghosts and gods.

The photographer certainly knew about some of the college graduates on the island, and their incomes were very high...... It is higher than the income of students who are officials in the Great Song Tai Academy!

Man dies for money, and birds die for food...... If it weren't for the money he was making, how could he have followed the fleet to such a distant place?!

But he didn't expect His Holiness to collect such a high tax!

I thought that the business would be extremely profitable, but it was not profitable, but I really didn't expect it...... However, he had been promised in advance by the Governor of the Second Lieutenant that he would give him a lot of subsidies.

Well, so that you can have the heart to take pictures in the city of Paris.

What a filthy city this is......

The streets of Paris have no concrete roads, not even paving stones.

The dirt roads were narrow, potholed, difficult to circulate and had no sunlight.

The streets are covered with mud made of human feces, rotten water, garbage, horse manure, pig feces, chicken, duck and goose droppings, and dust.

Most neighborhoods have neither public toilets nor pothole troughs, making it easy for pedestrians to get around.

When it rains, the road will be cut off, and the busiest streets will become sewage puddles.

There are only 200,000 people in the city of Paris, which is not as big as a county town in the Great Song Dynasty, but the garbage on the streets is constantly spreading, and if you walk on the street with your nostrils facing the sky, you will be in danger of stepping into a quagmire or falling into a rut.

The photographer was pinching his nose and taking pictures around, and he had to finish his task quickly to get to Flanders Port to reopen...... He had heard that the taxes were low and clean.