"As long as you don't feel dangerous, let them come to my ship. I would also like to ask you a personal question, which may be a bit difficult to answer, you can not answer me. "Hong Tao is really convinced, this emperor has changed three kinds of personality in his own place, I don't know if he has a fourth, you have to try.

"It's okay, just ask." When he was happy, the emperor spoke better than Karl.

"I have never wondered why you, as a Christian emperor, are so tolerant of pagans. Karl told me that your palace was built by the craftsmen of Aʹraʹ and that there were many Jews, İ İ ṣṣṇa, Byzantines, and Greeks in the palace, how did you come into contact with them? Although he planned to take the emperor's words, Hong Tao's question was indeed true, and he never understood the origin of the emperor's character.

"Quite simply, I lived in this palace when I was a child, and the church people at that time simply forgot about me, and they were the ones who taught me to read and grew up with me. What's even more ridiculous is that the person who taught me to read the Bible was a Jewish pastor and a Greek teacher. Karl may have told you that I speak seven languages, including Hebrew and Greek. You're my eighth language teacher, I'm learning Chinese, but it seems to be difficult. The emperor didn't care much about his life as a child, but when he talked about these things, his expression and tone changed to a different person, with a deep sadness.

"It's a little harder, it's a completely different language and script, and it doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to what you know. But don't be too anxious, I have an idea to send some scholars from our country to your university in the future. If you wish. You can also send scholars from your university to study in my country. Knowledge is like doing business. Only by communicating with each other can all parties benefit, and no one will be allowed to see it when it is hidden, and it will be difficult to develop. Hong Tao finally saw the fourth character of this emperor, and as for whether there was a fifth, he felt that it was very likely.

In addition to his personality, Hong Tao has found another project that he can work on, that is, cultural exchange. Since there is a cultural invasion. That has to be communicated in order to take advantage of it. Through in-depth exchanges with this emperor these days, Hong Tao found that although Europe was relatively backward economically, it did not lag much behind the Great Song Dynasty in natural science, at least it was advancing in an orderly manner, and even more advanced than the Great Song Dynasty in some aspects. If you want to promote the development of the world, it is not enough to rely on yourself and those people in the Great Song Dynasty to conduct research, and some things can be shared with more people to do, such as medicine, philosophy and some natural sciences. Everyone learns from each other's strengths and weaknesses, and they only need to control the approximate direction and speed of this knowledge. It's much easier.

"Doesn't Your Excellency the Duke need to get the Emperor's approval for this?" Friedrich II did not object to Hong Tao's proposal, but had other concerns.

"Carl didn't tell you? I, the duke, are not under the control of the emperor. I have my own territory, an independent territory, and the relationship between me and the emperor of the Great Song Empire is delicate. Hong Tao thought that Carl and his cousin had said a lot of things, especially about himself. Now it seems that Carl really has a chivalrous demeanor, strictly abiding by the agreement between himself and him, and he didn't say anything he could.

"His soul has been captured by the Duke, and this is what I wonder, he was not like this before, he has been a loyal follower of the Emperor since the day I knew him. Can you tell me how you affected his soul, and so completely. "The emperor was very helpless and incomprehensible about his cousin's disobedience.

"I must have let him see another way of life, the way I manage my territory is different from your empire, and I can't tell who is good and who is bad. Would Your Majesty like to talk to me about the experience of managing a vast empire? You are my teacher in this regard. Speaking of which, Hong Tao felt that it was necessary to learn the techniques of managing the country from this hard-nosed emperor, and he basically understood the set of the Great Song Dynasty, and he was not very clear about the way of Europe. In the future, the Jinhewan system will definitely get bigger and bigger, and it will definitely not be possible to rely on the current way of cooking in a big pot if the governors stationed abroad are flying all over the sky, but it is a big question of which to change and how to change it.

Did Friedrich II have any secrets to running the country? Anyway, Hong Tao didn't hear it, the only thing the emperor had to do was to play with those princes and nobles, reduce taxes appropriately to please them when he was in a weak position, and raise taxes when he was in an advantage. These skills are what he learned on the streets of Sicily since he was a child, and they are not knowledge that can be taught by words and deeds, but life experience and experience.

At this time, Europe and the Great Song Dynasty were not in a state at all, and their people had an extra layer of religious constraints, which were still very strong constraints, so although the exploitation was more serious, there was no need to worry about the peasant uprising or anything, as long as the relationship with the lords was carefully maintained, the emperor basically completed the task. There are more things that a king or an emperor can't manage at all, and they can't manage it if they want to, because the imperial power can't reach the level of ordinary people. In the eyes of the common people, the emperor or king is just a symbolic thing, and it is the knights, priests and lords at all levels who really have to face the people, and the emperor has little to do with their lives.

In a detailed discussion with Friedrich II, Hong Tao had a relatively clear understanding of the countries in Europe in the thirteenth century. At this time, Europe was an agricultural country, most people lived in the countryside, and there were not many cities in the true sense. And the ordinary people who live in the city are not worthy of respect, because they do not create any value, and even the church treats the people in the city as a kind of parasite.

This prejudice has theoretical origins, and around the eleventh century, the Church proposed an ideal structure of social organization that divided all the people of the world into three kinds. There is a type of person called a prayer person, who uses prayers to be used by all beings, that is, clergy, bishops, and popes. A type called the warriors, who use military force to protect everyone, is clearly referring to the knightly class. There is also a kind of people called laborers, who use their hard sweat to maintain the survival of all people, and this is the peasantry. At this time, there was no concept of a worker, and those who lived in the city could neither farm nor herd sheep, but were engaged in some handicrafts and services, and were obviously not any of these three kinds of people, so they did not conform to the philosophy of the Church and had to be discriminated against.

In the thirteenth century, the countryside was organized in three ways: villages, fiefdoms, and parishes, which were more or less the same in northern and western Europe and southern Europe.

Villages, generally formed spontaneously by a group of freemen and tenant farmers. Free people had their own land, did not need to pay rent, and were self-sufficient as long as they paid enough tithes for the church. Tenant farmers, on the other hand, did not own their own land, and they usually rented the land of the nobles, and had to pay rent after paying the tithes.

The basic social module composed of the nobility and the tenant farmer can be large or small, depending on how much territory the nobility has. Sometimes it may include several villages, sometimes just a small village.

A parish, a social module composed of priests and parishioners, a parish may include several villages and several fiefs at the same time, or it may have only one fief in a parish, which is generally relatively large.

Of the three models, the fiefdom is the most common and important organizational structure, which can have no villages, no parishes, but no fiefdoms. Because there are many public facilities in each of the estates, there are generally no in the villages. Blacksmiths, carpenters, butchers, bakers, and brewers, for example, can provide all inhabitants with services such as repairing farm tools, houses, slaughtering, making bread, and making wine. In addition, there will be a very important thing in the miner, which is the water source, that is, the well. This thing was the most expensive facility in rural Europe in the Middle Ages, and it was unaffordable for ordinary people, and only the lord's fief would have a glimpse for everyone to use. If you catch up with a big lord who is richer, there may be two eyes or more, the lord uses the special digging inside the castle, and the common people use it outside the castle.

There is a very unexpected thing here, that is, the winemaker. In the Middle Ages, winemakers were all women, and it is not clear when Friedrich II passed down this custom. Probably at the beginning of the Middle Ages, the brewer was still called a brewer, but by the middle of the Middle Ages, the suffix was changed to ster, which is a feminine, feminine ending.

In addition to freemen, tenant farmers, artisans, lords, and clergy, there were also some outsiders or homeless people in the estate. They all came from other places because of wars and epidemics, and there was not enough land to cultivate, so they worked long hours for others while farming, and they belonged to a class lower than the tenant farmers, and their lives were the most difficult. People who herd cattle, sheep, and chopping wood are generally such long-term workers and are discriminated against. Especially for sheep herders, because sheep will gnaw away the grass roots, there are designated sheep grazing areas in each territory, and sheep are not allowed to be grazing indiscriminately. The woodlands also belonged to the lords, and the sheep herders were not allowed to pass through at will, and the roads generally walked by the sheep herders were called manades or bacades.

Many foreign movies and television will play the love story of a charming shepherdessman and a nobleman, Hong Tao has also seen it, and only then did he know that he had been deceived, there could be no charming shepherdesss in the Middle Ages, and that kind of hard-working children and children couldn't do it at all, it was all done by rough old men. Anyway, Friedrich II lived for more than forty years and never saw a young woman herding sheep.

(To be continued.) )

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