Bathing people is something Magnus has wanted to do for a long time. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Although he has long accepted the living environment of the Middle Ages, where there is dirty coaxing and feces and urine everywhere, acceptance does not mean habit.

But to change, it's not as simple as saying a word.

Even Magnus is a duke.

The duke's words can kill people, but the duke's thousands of words cannot change reality.

In the case of ordinary peasants, the peasants of the Middle Ages, their so-called houses were thatched huts - burning bricks required enough fuel and all kinds of materials, which the peasants could not afford.

Thatched huts, once it rains, there is no difference between nothing, and this thatched hut is not only for people, but also for farmers' livestock, chickens, ducks and sheep, these are the most valuable possessions, and they must be placed in the house to be assured.

Livestock, unlike people, can control when they excrete. Not to mention that in this era, even people, when they come to feel it, it will immediately be a happy flood.

Lying on the floor and sleeping (there is no bed, there is a layer of thatch on the floor) and the next morning you may wake up close and personal with yesterday's excrement - this is not deliberately disgusting, but simply stating the facts.

In such an environment, it is impossible to even keep it clean.

Besides, they don't bathe yet.

No, no, no, this is a bit exaggerated, it's not that they don't take a bath, they just rarely take a bath.

After the 14th century, when the Black Death swept across Europe, people believed that 'demons' entered their bodies through bathing, so they did not bathe for the rest of their lives.

But in the eleventh century, bathing was still a personal hobby, and the Church only did not encourage it, and it did not reach the point of resistance—in fact, there were quite a few clean-loving female lords who were in the habit of bathing once a week.

But this is a female lord, a 'luxury' life that only nobles can live.

Ordinary peasants want to take a bath? Okay, first chop a few bundles of firewood back, and then set up a big iron pot to boil hot water, generally speaking, a barrel of hot water should be burned at least three iron pots, please note that the last pot is burned and the front is cold - besides, in those years, there can be an iron hoe is an heirloom, where is the iron for you to make a pot!

As for taking a cold shower, dear, be careful of colds.

A cold can be fatal.

Taking a bath was life-threatening, and it is no wonder that people at that time never took a bath unless necessary.

This explains why when Magnus issued the first oracle, the reaction of the peasants was so great.

"Quiet, quiet!"

In the noisy environment, Magnus had to shout loudly to attract the attention of the peasants, but the peasants finally remembered that they were in charge of their life and death, so they made a noise for a while, but gradually quieted down.

"The oracle has made it clear! A clean soul is the ticket to heaven! And if you want to have a clean soul, you must first have a clean body! It is not difficult to take a bath, but are you not willing to suffer even such a little bitterness in your devotion to the Lord? ”

This was said so harshly that the peasants immediately did not dare to speak.

"It's understandable that there are difficulties, but it's because of them that we have to overcome them, don't we? It is said that only by obeying the will of the Lord can we receive the blessing of the Lord, and we are overcoming this difficulty now precisely to let the Lord of Heaven see that we are the most pious! When we die, we will go to heaven! ”

God knows where you'll go when you die.

But it's not enough to just blindly use high pressure, even if you let the donkey work, you have to hang a carrot in front of it. The combination of sticks and sweet dates is a weapon that has remained unchanged for thousands of years.

So Magnus wrote another blank check.

Now, please begin to think about how we can accomplish this great task that the Lord has given us. Please remember that everything we are doing now is for the sake of accumulating good karma and for ourselves! ”

Without waiting for the peasants to react, Magnus stepped down from the platform, leaving the peasants staring wide-eyed.

Asking the peasants to think, not really letting them think of ideas, there is a Western proverb: 'When man thinks, God laughs', and now it can be applied to these peasants as well.

They are not born with the ability to think.

Birth, growth, farming, marriage, having children, and then the children grow again, farming, and getting married......

The cycle of generation after generation, to put it sadly, is like a domestic animal used for breeding, and their world is only in front of them.

The only thing that can change all this is education.

Education opens one's eyes to the world.

But this is not easy to say, in Europa, where there is no book with the same text, in Brittany alone, in such a small area, there are three kinds of writing in such a small area, Latin, French, and Breton.

Breton is a mixture of Norman, English, French, Welsh, Irish, etc., and the most knowledgeable people in the region would rather learn the cumbersome Latin than the native Breton.

After all, Latin literature is common to Europa, while Breton literature can only be used in this one place.

If Magnus wanted to popularize education, he had to create a new script, which was not so simple.

So, now he is asking the farmers to think, in fact, to divert their attention.

Move them from 'why do we need to take a bath' to 'what can we do to take a bath'.

Although Magnus had already had a draft, the idea that the peasants had come up with on their own was more receptive to them; Moreover, Magnus was always just a man, and the wisdom of the crowd was infinite when manpower was sometimes exhausted - as long as it could be used reasonably.

"Salute to your wisdom, Your Excellency the Great Duke."

After getting off the stage, Kurt, who was waiting respectfully on the side, stepped forward and handed over a towel made of silk and praised him repeatedly.

Magnus glanced at him with a strange tilt of his head.

I don't know why, I always feel that this guy's loyalty has become more and more explosive recently, and it is almost overflowing.

Actually, this is also easy to understand.

This is a young organization, and being young means that it is impatient, inexperienced, and prone to mistakes; However, it also has more opportunities.

Unlike the old, dying organizations that lie on the ground and wait to rot, this young organization is vibrant, it is vigorous, it is eager to expand, and at the same time it is hungry for all the talent that can make it expand.

In such an upswing organization, as long as he is not a fool, he knows that he should be fully loyal, and if the organization expands, he will be able to get a hundredfold and a thousandfold benefit.

Especially, when the leader of the organization is both talented and ambitious.

Cotter has always thought he sees people accurately.

Magnus packaged Father Adolphus as God's agent, and Lord, how dare he package Father Adolphus as God's agent!

And he succeeded!

He's giving oracles now!

Although the content of this oracle is indeed elusive to him, but so what? To borrow another proverb: "How can a lion full of ambition fall while chasing its prey?" ”