83. Blood feast
The sudden rise of the Huns was much like the slow rise of Rome, with the nobles making a fortune from the war, while the commoners were living in poverty, and the commoners, who should have been rich in the war, found themselves with nothing after spending all their spoils on the bellies of women and on spicy wine. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
And they lived a good life every year with the tribute of the conquered peoples, but with the defeat of the Battle of Attila Sialon, the Western Roman Empire stopped the blood transfusion of the Huns, and the settled Huns found that they had lost the ability to live.
They are not good at farming, and in a strange land, they do not practice hard their only strength, force, but live a life of luxury. Protestantism did not spread well here, but it was strong among the poor, settled Huns.
Many Huns began to form pilgrimages of their own accord and began to go to the Promised Land in their hearts, where the Church promised to divide them into a free land, where they could graze their cattle and pay no taxes except after participating in the battle.
The Huns had no concept of paying taxes, and they would be unhappy if they were to pay taxes suddenly. For Ye Feng, there was no need to collect taxes on the Huns at all, what they paid was a blood tax, paying taxes with their blood, and fighting to defend their nascent regime.
And in the vast area of the Baltic coast, there were not only the Yoneds, but also the Saxons, Angles and Kaushi. For these ethnic groups, Ye Feng did not adopt a policy of extermination.
In fact, they were very uneasy about the arrival of the Huns, but their forces were scattered, less than half the number of the Jøneds, and even the Jønedians were defeated, and the Huns suffered almost zero losses, which made them lose the confidence to fight.
Ye Feng seized their thoughts, and held a grand banquet in the city of Ioned, which is now the holy city, inviting all the Anglo, Saxon, and Kaushi tribal leaders to attend, and threatening to disrespect the Huns if they did not attend.
In this unavoidable situation, there is not a single tribal leader who does not attend.
The grand welcome ceremony unfolded in the castle, and these tribal leaders saw the Huns' welcoming ceremony, flowers, and applause, and the atmosphere suddenly became joyful, and these tribal leaders also relaxed their vigilance.
Due to the strong demand of the Huns, they had to put their swords on their feet and have their guards wait outside the city gates.
Ye Feng personally appeared in front of them, which completely made their vigilance disappear, Ye Feng raised his glass and said:
"Greetings from the Lord to all visitors!"
After speaking, the ceramic cup fell to the ground, bang! The smiles of all the visitors froze, thinking that something was going to happen, Ye Feng also had an embarrassed expression, this was really not intentional, but accidental. He wouldn't do anything to raise a glass, he himself was in the crowd of visitors.
What if one of them goes crazy and hurts himself by mistake.
The guests found that nothing had happened, and laughed happily, when the banquet reached its climax, the guests pushed each other's cups and set the lamps, and Ye Feng also left at this time. The visitors didn't notice anything unusual, and still cheered for eating and drinking.
At this time, the sound of horses' hooves outside the city sounded rapidly, and the visitors and guards at the gate of the city felt a strange movement, and more than a hundred people felt the ground tremble, and subconsciously looked in the direction of the horizon.
Two hundred heavily armed knights were rushing towards the panicked guards with the force of thunder, and at this time the city gate was also quickly closed, and these guards banged on the city gate, shouting for them to enter.
When the knights tightened up and saw that it was actually a Hun knight, these guards instantly understood that this was a conspiracy, a conspiracy to clear all the forces of the Baltic Sea, and the western part of the Baltic coast would be completely controlled by the Huns. This is the northernmost region of present-day Germany.
The Baltic coast is very vast, so there are still many enemies to conquer.
At this time, the tribal leaders who were holding a banquet heard the sound of horses' hooves outside the city, and some vigilant people looked around, trying to ask what was really going on outside the city.
At this time, the knights of the Order who were originally protecting them drew their swords one after another, and the sound of drawing swords sounded, and these tribal leaders stood up uneasily and said in a trembling tone
"What do you want to do?"
One of the Knights of the Order smiled and said:
"Send you to hell!"
With that, the sword stabbed into the chest of the tribal leader who had asked him, and then he drew it out sharply, and the blood shot out, and the rest of the knights also took action, using their swords to earn a new living space for the Huns.
In this world, no one has ever been willing to give you land, everything has to rely on your own struggle, Ye Feng understands this truth, and the Huns also understand this truth.
Barons and knights, large and small, cherished these fertile lands. They worked hard to improve their strength according to the Protestant teachings, they did not engage in production, but only fought, as if for the first time among the Huns there were professional soldiers. Knights and barons were supported by freedmen and slaves.
Knights and barons provided protection to freedmen and slaves.
The feudalization of the Huns was taking shape at an accelerated pace, and unlike the complete centralization of power, and the later feudal system in Western Europe, it was also different from the feudal system in Western Europe, and the establishment was a ******** feudal kingdom with Hun characteristics.
The blood of the visitors in the courtyard of the castle was splashed on the spot, and their resistance was in vain, and in a short time, more than a dozen tribal leaders were slaughtered by hundreds of elite knights, and all blood was splattered on the spot.
The battle outside the city also came to an end, and after the onslaught of the Huns' fast horses, the messy and unformed visitors and guards could not form any resistance at all. They were all slaughtered, and not a single one survived.
And Ye Feng was in the castle where the smell of blood was not strong, and he was looking at the latest registered household register, there were more than 3,000 Huns, more than 900 Gallic converts, and more than 30,000 slaves.
The number of slaves was obviously too much, but for a while Ye Feng couldn't think of any good way, and there were about more than 100 Huns who were not registered, they were all pilgrimage groups that came to visit, as well as the Anglo pilgrimage group, a total of more than 100 people, the Saxon pilgrimage group, about 200 people, and the largest number of people was the Kawushi pilgrimage group, a total of more than 300 people. There are more than 700 people in total, which can establish seven pioneering regiments.
Now the standard configuration of Ye Feng's barony is dozens of knights, a baron, a gray-robed priest, and more than a hundred shepherds. A herding soldier was a free land warrior who both herded cattle and fought in wartime.
The barons were responsible for the armed and military aspects, and the clergy were responsible for the cultural and political aspects. In terms of business and economy, it is directly managed by Ye Feng.