Chapter 50: Building a Utopia (Part I)
Over the next few days, the paper mill grew in size, and I cut the paper into long, thin strips, which I rolled on a stick and gave it a high-sounding name: Roll Paper!
Although the old liar thought that wiping his ass with such a perfect thing was too extravagant, and even the emperor of Constantinople did not have such a corrupt lifestyle, I comforted him by saying that in this way he could show the taste of a noble nobleman, and that anyone who was a true nobleman would like to make himself look a little nobler than others.
I'm going to make this the center of medieval fashion, and when the brand landmark is formed, even if I sleep at home, the whole Christian aristocracy and merchants will come here to give me money and flowers, and of course, the old crooks will always scoff at my theories.
November 11, 997 A.D.......
I had a strange St. Martin's Day, and this benevolent brother tore his coat in half in a snowstorm and gave it to a frozen beggar.
When people praised him for his high style, I think the highlight of the legend is that the quality of the clothes of that era was not good, if it is placed now, you can tear me a down jacket to try?
Since a few days before this festival, everyone has been using this festival to remember the day, for example, the day I studied papermaking, it is called the four days before St. Martin's Day, and for a period of time after the festival, we can only say that St. Martin's Day is a certain day after St. Martin's Day, so as to calculate the date, which is a bit of a reference.
On St. Martin's Day, the castle kitchen prepared a roast goose stuffed with cabbage and shallots, which is not very attractive but is said to have a story.
The canonized Roman soldier Martin was very popular back then, and everyone wanted to elect him as bishop, but he felt that the stakes were very high, and he was not qualified to prepare to slip away, but he couldn't get rid of the public's expectations, so he could only run to the goose pen to hide, who knew that his fame even the geese had already heard of it, and they quacked their wings to welcome him, and they exposed Martin very blindly, and was found out to be a bishop.
This story teaches us that it's not enough to just guard against people, and sometimes even the humble beasts have to be on guard, because you never know which beast you will be betrayed.
From the time it was still dawning, some unemployed homeless people held small lanterns and danced in the open space outside the castle in fancy costumes, which was very rustic heavy metal rock style.
As the crowd gathered, everyone sang songs in harmony, and the atmosphere was like a big party in the community. As a lord of the people, I naturally want to rejoice with the people, but go down to join the carnival together, it is unrealistic to have a horse dance, I can only take care of the biting autumn wind, pretend to be deep leaning on the city wall to pay attention to the crowd, tell everyone that I am very worried about them, from time to time in the cheers of the crowd beckoning to make a pose, saying that the feudal dictatorship in the Middle Ages is not so easy to be, and this kind of thing has been around since ancient times.
The day after the holiday, Isaac set off with confidence full of our industrial product rolls, and the old liar patted his chest and said that he would definitely come back with a gold coin as heavy as the product, and I did not hesitate to beat him, and pointed his head and scolded:
"Those broken papers just sank, you said so casually that I lost a lot of money in vain, to remember that our business purpose is to ask for a price to death, as long as the other party does not return the mouth, he will be slaughtered, and the autumn wind is a fine style that must always be adhered to and passed down from generation to generation." Isaac listened resignedly, once again struck by my undisciplined lower limit.
Watching the old crook's broken carriage go away, the clanging classic car full of my dreams of making a fortune and running into the unknown.
This is the ideal of life that I have been determined since I bought the baked cold noodles from the little fat next door, but did not give it to me, although it has been a few setbacks, but it has lasted for a long time, and the ambition to become a handsome and rich strawberry flavored powder fungus has inspired me to get up from failure and defeat repeatedly, if you want to say that I am not Xiaoqiang, then who is still?
Until the figure of the old liar disappeared at the end of the road, I reluctantly looked in the direction he left, reluctant to look away......
Please don't think that we have any relationship, this is worried that he made too much money and finally absconded with the money.
After thinking about it, I hurriedly ordered one of my men to ride a horse to chase after him, and as my personal bodyguard, he stayed by Isaac's side day and night, and at the critical moment, he could take extraordinary measures to cut first and then play, and it was important to keep his money.
Seeing my subordinates ride away on a fast horse, I began to worry again about whether this subordinate would run away with the old crook with the money, in short, the tangled heart has not been able to stop, and it makes me miserable.
Now that the income-generating work has come to an end, while the conscription order for sending troops to Italy has not yet been issued, use this time to deal with all the chores in the territory, and in the future, I will not be at home in the future, and the people who stay behind will be in a hurry, so that I have a bottom in my heart when I fight outside, and we can fight bravely as safe as Mount Tai!
The first thing we should do is to rearmament; although I myself have eaten the last meal and not the next meal, it is better for us to receive national defense education and study, and it is not because we pay attention to forgetting the war and will be in danger, otherwise we will be knocked on a dull stick and troubled by someone when we sleep in the middle of the night.
In view of the current financial situation, the number of standing soldiers was tentatively set at twenty, with the bull as the commander, responsible for the day-to-day training and patrol arrangements.
The families of these lords who signed up for the army no longer paid me taxes and labor, but only paid the church tithes on time, and each of them received a piece of land from my lord's own land as compensation for joining the army.
The purpose of my doing this is to bring the army on the road of professionalism, to distinguish them from the peasant soldiers of this era, who are generally very poor in combat effectiveness, to avoid their worries about the unsustainable family life after joining the army, to liberate them from the land, and to become my personal soldiers wholeheartedly.
The rest of the lords also have to receive military training when they are slack, such as quickly assembling and defending the city, both farming and soldiers, and keeping bows and arrows at home, so that they can be used at any time when the enemy situation is urgent, which can be regarded as improving the national defense mobilization of the territory, and turning all the men of appropriate age into militia reserves with potential combat effectiveness, but since I don't have so much spare money to arm them, the equipment or something will be solved in combination with the actual situation!