As Christmas gradually passes, although the afterglow of the new year is still lingering in people's minds, the first warm breeze of the year blows the first grass green, and spring comes. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Spring is coming.

This is the busiest season, and when the spring flowers are blooming and the sun is right, all the business is concentrated in the spring - the kings and nobles have to hold banquets and invite guests in the spring, and knights have to be canonized, and large-scale hunts have to be organized - this is not only a recreational activity, but also has the effect of training the soldiers. In addition, if there had been a reclamation or conquest in the previous year, they would have to divide the newly developed land to the new nobles in the spring.

Farmers are busy sowing, planting, fertilizing, weeding, watering and irrigating the fields, and since there are no pesticides in this era, they have to lie on their stomachs in the fields all the time, paying attention to which seedlings may have insects, and then quickly get rid of them.

It's hard work, and after the day they're done in the fields, the farmers can't wait to get up from their beds — oh, sorry, they don't have beds yet, and the Celts in the Middle Ages still basically kept the customs of primitive tribes — that is, they slept on the ground covered with fur and more straw than the Mongols.

As for the travelers who came from afar, the gypsies, who had become accustomed to wandering, packed their bags early and prepared for a new round of wandering; The circus also locked the animals in cages and prepared to continue the performance elsewhere; And those bards, well, they've all been dazed by the free wine in the hotel, and there is such a good place in the world where the wine is free on New Year's!

How could this make the bard, who had always been a heavy drinker, endure it? So they gathered themselves in the inn and drank one cup after another, and the bards were human beings, and they were just as easy to get drunk, and when they were drunk, there would be a good show.

Bards have their own unique way of dueling - when two bards have a conflict, they pick up their harps and start singing to each other. But they can't sing songs that are already there, they have to use their talents to choreograph songs that match the rhythm on the spot, and this duel will continue until one of them can't make a new song.

Whenever there is such a thing, the whole inn is like a carnival, think about it, two quick-witted, well-versed bards, they are chess opponents will meet good talents, will attract a large number of people to watch, which is also beneficial to the innkeeper, he is trying to make a name for himself!

So in medieval works, we often see that there were resident minstrels, in taverns or inns, and their role was similar to that of the lead singer in bars today—to be honest, sometimes the Count Don wanted to recruit two bards, and listen to them when he had nothing to do, but on the other hand, he gave up the idea for fear that they might be spies.

Yes, in the Middle Ages, bards generally also served as spies, coming from this place, going to that place, and selling information to those who needed it.

It doesn't matter if it's an ordinary noble, anyway, everyone is a neighbor for hundreds of years, the neighborhood is long and the neighbor is short, and you don't know anything, and getting a few more spies is a pure waste of money. But Little Count Tang, there are too many things he can't see here, and sometimes he can't hide them if he wants to!

For example, when fertilizing fields, the ancient Romans in BC already knew that dung was useful, but the people of the Middle Ages did not. If this is exposed, those princes and nobles will turn over the old paper piles, and suddenly the grain production of the whole of Europe will go up - can the grain of the little Count Tang still be sold at a good price? He didn't come over to be a virgin!

Therefore, the Earl of Little Tang can only send people to keep an eye on these bards and other outsiders, as for how long this secret can be kept...... Well, it depends on luck and God's will.

In addition, although spring ploughing is also very important, it can be said that it is the most important thing of the year, but Count Xiao Tang still attaches more importance to education.

The reason for this is that farmers already have their own traditional sowing methods, for example, in the Rhinegen region of Germany, there is a custom of letting pregnant women roll in the fields, hoping that in this way, the pregnant women's pregnant qi will be distributed to the fields and the fields will be more abundant. The Celts, on the other hand, were even stranger, sometimes dancing in the fields before ploughing, believing that they could please the gods in this way and let the gods bless them with good weather all year round.

And this kind of custom, Count Tang Xiao can't see any benefits, but he can't see any harm, at least if it continues like this, it can give the peasants some psychological comfort. Besides, we have said several times that Count Tang Jr. is true, he really does not understand agriculture, and since last year he caused the harvest of his fields to be destroyed by sprinkling chicken manure, he has never expressed a single opinion on agriculture.

But education, as a hard-working engineering dog who has been educated for more than 20 years, Count Xiao Tang feels that he still has a little right to speak.

Education is the foundation of a nation.

There is only one reason why all dynasties and even this dynasty attach so much importance to education and enforce compulsory education - workers who have not received basic education are not good workers who can be used.

In modern industrialized society, if there is enough population but not enough education, it is not a demographic dividend but a population burden, so I usually watch the third brother as a joke.

And education, the first benefit is punctuality.

There's a joke about someone who went on a hook with an African, but she didn't come to the hotel, so she went to sleep by herself, and then in the middle of the night she suddenly felt someone enter the house and go to bed! Frightened, she quickly shouted: "Help, help!"

The people in the next room heard it and called the police, and then the police came and took both of them to the police station, and at this time the woman saw that the person who touched the bed in the middle of the night was the African who had made an appointment with her!

"How could you call the police? Didn't we make a good covenant? The African said depressedly.

The woman replied, "But we made an appointment at eight o'clock, and you didn't come until twelve o'clock, and I thought you were a thief."

"Oh, that's normal." The Africans said, "If we are not three or four hours late, how can we call Africans!"

Well, it's just a joke, it doesn't necessarily happen in reality, but Africans are not punctual, and this is true, and the reason is because Africans are not educated enough.

When it comes to education, as soon as the class bell rings, students know that they are going to class, and as soon as the class bell rings, students know that it is time to get out of class, as long as such a bell rings, students will have self-awareness, they must be punctual, otherwise they will be drawn by the teacher first and then by the parents.

Students who are educated in this way will understand the importance of punctuality, as long as they are punctual, their work efficiency will also be improved, and they will be able to create more wealth.

Besides, education, its most important place is to teach students knowledge, knowledge is everything, if the little Earl Tang had listened to biology well, then he would not be at a loss for agriculture now, if the author had listened to world history well, then I would not have to look up an hour of information every time I wrote a chapter.

Moreover, knowledge can also bring about the development of science and technology, and the development of science and technology leads to technological progress, everything in this world can be stolen, but knowledge cannot be stolen. Even if those princes and nobles know to sprinkle manure in the fields in the future, as long as the little Count Tang popularizes education, he will have new technology, and the advantages brought by these new technologies are not comparable to the ancient heritage left by the Roman Empire hundreds of years ago.

—————————— Preface: The Grand Duke's Ambition (1) ———————————

"How's it going?"

There were only a few faint candles in the dark castle, and the Grand Duke of Murchid hid in such candle flames, and a gust of wind blew and the candles swayed, reflecting the uncertainty of the Grand Duke.

"Master, everything is ready, the eldest prince is dead, his head is here, his body is gone."

There was also a man kneeling in the audience, dressed in an all-black ascetic burqa, very, very unobtrusive, and when he lifted his face, it was just a very, very ordinary face, the kind that would be forgotten in the crowd.

There is no doubt that this man is an Assassin, or rather an advanced version of an Assassin, which can only be cultivated by a large family that has been passed down for more than a hundred years...... Dead man.

"Okay, I'll ask you to do two things."

The Grand Duke looked at the head of the eldest son on the ground, and said in a deep voice: "First of all, you have to send the head to Desmond, although you have to send it secretly, but the commotion caused by this head must be as big as possible, do you understand what I mean?"

The dead man knelt down and nodded in understanding - not because he was pretending, but because he was a dead man, his throat would be treated with a special potion from a young age and become hoarse, which also made the dead man's throat very painful, and he could not speak except for necessary things.

"Second, I will give you a letter, I don't care what method you use, but you must, you must make sure that this letter is safe and secure, and that it is completely in the hands of Earl Desmond, do you understand?"

The Dead Man nodded again.

"So, you go ahead, and when you're done with these two things, you're going to 'disappear.'"

The Grand Duke said this - this 'disappearance' is not to make the dead incognito, but to directly let him commit suicide, whether it is jumping off a cliff or feeding wild beasts, not even a complete corpse.

"It is my glory to serve the Master."

The Dead Man spoke, then turned around and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

In the midst of the increasingly deserted castle, the Grand Duke sat alone in his lonely royal chair, squinting and not knowing what he was planning.

Ps1: Thank you for the reminder of the book friend, I just realized that I made a mistake yesterday, the aborigines of the island of Ireland should be Celts, and the Saxons lived in England at the time, I apologize for this mistake, sorry everyone.

Ps2: The next chapter will be released at 6 or 7 o'clock.