Am I an eagle?

Magnus smiled wryly, shook his head, nodded again, and finally shook his head again.

This Kot, who really deserves to be a priest, has a good hand and a good mouth, and even Magnus will become distraught.

O Empire!

The empire is so easy that it can be built if it is said to be built.

This world is so big, I don't know how many talented people are hidden, even if Magnus is a traverser, but all he has is pure knowledge; Although as the saying goes, 'knowledge is power', but this power can't be said to me to manifest a bunch of books out of thin air to stone people to death!

That book is not history, it has to be changed to Western fantasy.

To put it bluntly, using knowledge is like building a house, knowledge is the design drawing, the materials required for the house, the steps to build the house, everything is clearly written on the design drawing; But it's not enough to have a design drawing, you also need engineers who can read the design drawing, and you need a sufficient number of workers...... In short, those who have knowledge, but do not have it as a carrier of knowledge, then knowledge is just a burden.

Moreover, building a house takes a lot of time. However, in the Middle Ages, because of religion, aristocracy, and all kinds of unspoken rules, and even more jealous neighbors were eager to burn the house to powder with a fire, it was still a debatable question whether Magnus could survive until the day the house was built.

Therefore, even the most optimistic estimate from Magnus himself that he can recover England in his lifetime, even if he is worthy of Odegar and the body he occupies.

It's just that...... What boy hasn't dreamed of being the emperor?

Wake up to the power of the world, drunk and lying on the knees of the beauty, the Son of Heaven is angry, millions of corpses are ambushed, thousands of miles of blood are shed, the world is vegetarian, the first emperor is out on patrol, thousands of carriages and horses, tens of thousands of soldiers, majestic and solemn, and the husband should be like this!

No wonder Xiang Yu would say the words 'he can take his place'.

Whew-

Suck –

Take a deep breath, hold your breath for seven seconds, and then exhale it for four seconds, repeating a few times, at first you will feel a little dizzy in your brain, but soon, because a lot of oxygen is inhaled by your lungs, your brain will move faster and faster.

That's how Magnus used this method to forcibly pull his mind back on track.

Daydreaming can be done at any time, but before doing it, it's better to finish everything at hand. Magnus thinks that he doesn't have any big advantages, the only thing is that he can distinguish between primary and secondary clearly, and he will never do small things until he finishes big things, and he has gone so many times today because he was tempted by Kurt's words.

In fact, if you look closely, you will find that Magnus handled things very methodically, and used the spoils after this attack on the county of Brest...... Well, take the division of the spoils as an example: the first thing to deal with is the foreign aid from France, because the foreign aid is an existence that Magnus can never beat and cannot afford to offend under the current situation; The second is Cotter, whose origin is a hidden danger that may detonate the disagreement between Magnus and the Bretons, and cannot be careless; Finally, it's now.

Ask, what is the one thing that an army must do after its victory, and what is the essential thing for their generals?

Reward the three armies!

The army is like a violent beast, but this beast still has great strength, and will only act according to the law of survival of the jungle, and cannot distinguish between good and bad, so there must be military discipline to restrain this beast and prevent it from suddenly breaking out and hurting people.

- Of course, the other, and most important, role of military discipline is to continuously strengthen the combat effectiveness of the beast of the army, but it has nothing to do with the main purpose here, so it will not be mentioned.

However, you are training dogs, and you have to whip one hand and one bone; To put it mildly, it's a useless mule, and if you want it to work, you have to hang a carrot in front of it!

It's the same with the army, strict military discipline only provokes rebellion, if you don't want this ferocious beast to turn back and bite you, then in your hands, there must be fat meat prepared for it in advance.

And this piece of fat, Magnus had already prepared, and it was big enough, oily enough, enough to feed the beast.

This piece of fat is the title.

Knight, to be exact.

Before I go into details, I would like to ask one more question, what is a knight?

A warrior on a horse, can they call a knight?

No, they can't.

When Magnus first attacked Brittany, the Duke of Brittany raised 200 cavalry, all of whom were skilled in archers and horses, and skilled in martial arts, but they were only 'warriors' who were raised, at most they were called 'cavalry', and none of them could be called 'knights'.

Knights, not just warriors, most importantly they had their own fiefdoms.

So, if there are fiefdoms and warriors on horses, can they be called knights?

Magnus didn't think so.

The wandering knights who roamed the continent like hounds had no fiefdoms or servants, and had nothing but a body of martial arts and a set of shabby chain mail, but they were also called 'knights'!

In fact, there was no answer to this question in medieval Europa.

What kind of person can become a knight is not the person who has become or will become a knight, but the desire of their lord - this is very clear in the movie "Heavenly Dynasty", when Saladin was about to capture Jerusalem, the commander of the city, Berion, in order to boost the morale of the soldiers, loudly announced: "Whoever survives this war will be knighted!" ”

This sentence alone has already proved that knights are not as high as one might think—but not low.

In the same way, as long as Magnus wanted to, he could canonize all of Brittany today, men and women, all knights!

Although, in reality, he wouldn't do that.

Knights, riding is to control, Shi is the people, the so-called knights, the first thing to understand is how to control the people, if you don't understand this, then even if you seal a hundred knights, and then give each knight a hundred villages as a fief, it is just a meat bun to beat a dog, it is useless.

Like the forty knights that Magnus had recruited before to strengthen the façade, it was useless.

And to tell the truth, in the Western feudal system, the knight is a very deformed order, not as good as the baron, not even the aristocratic rank, but in terms of power, in his own acre and three points of land, in addition to the direct lord in legal theory, even the emperor himself came, and he did not listen to the announcement.

With such a deformed rank, doesn't anyone feel that it is really too powerful and should be weakened and weakened?

No, not only not, those noble lords also desperately took out their fiefdoms to recruit knights, one lord may do this because he is stupid, but all the lords are doing it, that must have its reasons.

Knights, rightfully the hands and eyes of the lord.

Just as officials are selected through the imperial examination in the East, the essence of a knight is similar to that of a township chief, and the knight's fiefdom village, according to the magnification of the population ratio, is not it a township in the East?

As for the knight's allegiance only to the direct lord, this is easier to understand, the dukes and counts of the European continent are independent principalities, and the village chief is not loyal to the king, can he still be loyal to which minister, or is it a foreign king?

That's how Magnus understood the knight.

But now the knight has deteriorated.

This is because of the relationship of war.

The constant wars forced the lords to tilt all their resources towards war, and the whole country entered into a wartime system—if there was a word for it in the Middle Ages—that was supposed to be both civil and military, or knights, who were inclined to martial arts but also had certain requirements for literature, were gradually replaced by reckless men who were more accelerated and could not read a single word.

As the days passed, those knights who were both civil and military became legendary figures, and all that remained was a guy who wore a layer of knight's glossy skin, and was actually no different from the cavalry.

The so-called bad money drives out good money, and this is similar to this.

Magnus, however, is confident that his knights will be completely different from the shoddy ones above.