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After two days of busyness, a rudimentary military camp slowly took shape near the ancient city of ******, and at the same time, half of the city's garbage accumulated over 200 years was cleared.

To what extent? The streets are more than half a meter high, revealing the bluestone pavement of the Roman era, and a black, more than 10 meters high and more than 100 meters wide smelling garbage mountain appeared on the edge of the city.

With its marble-white streets, neatly arranged houses, and the cleared Town Hall Square, more than a dozen plaster statues of ancient Roman soldiers buried in the rubbish have also been erected, and the civilization of the past has finally revealed its original appearance.

However, the sewer facilities built underground can not be cleaned up in two or three days, fortunately, the residents who do not need to ****** here for the time being consumed brains, after interrogation, the Earl Frederick, who guards here, has completely explained the old bottom, and the thirty-eight big knights who have lost their value, more than a hundred knights, and more than two hundred Germanic infantry have all been sent down to the sewers to desperately clean up the garbage that has blocked the two worlds.

Fortunately, the smell of garbage is similar to that of their bodies, so they don't faint.

Located in the north of the Italian Peninsula, it is already the rear of the Lombard invasion of the Apennine Peninsula, almost more than 100 nautical miles away from Rome, and the fleet has been seriously damaged after the storm, and it will not be able to open in a short time without a major repair, so even if Pope Eugene anxiously returns to Rome to preside over the overall situation, he still has to wait patiently.

It is a good port, with a vast sheltered bay and a deep-water port, otherwise it would not have developed into the two major commercial hegemons of the medieval Mediterranean, although I don't know the scenery of this small city hundreds of years later, the strategic value of this place Chen Zhangming and Yang Xiong can still be seen, so the two of them are so determined to clean up this small city, is to use this place as a permanent base of the expeditionary force to station.

Since it has been decided to station troops here, then the first thing to solve is the problem of hygiene, don't think that it is not important to go to health in the rain in the ancient march, tens of thousands of people gathered together, if you don't do a good job of sanitation, a major disease can take half of the army, and this place is full of rice fields, if you don't do a good job of cleaning, just dysentery can let these Indian soldiers and Tang soldiers give their lives here.

The whole ****** is roughly divided into two parts, the ancient city left over from the ancient Roman era and the port area ****** the residential area built by the people themselves, before the Count of Rumbard Crederick chose to place the castle in the rammed earth city, which is the highest point in the ******, to the west can overlook the entire harbor, to the east can also control the ****** rare narrow cultivated land, so the Fujian country also chose this place as a garrison.

Several wells were completely emptied, and the groundwater in them was poured into the lanes, and the officers and men of the expeditionary force still attached great importance to the place where they were about to stay for a long time, and they were desperately cleaning with mop brooms, eager to clean all the last stains.

On the other side, as the coach, Chen Zhangming, Yang Xiong and even the county lord of Luocheng were worried around a cauldron.

It stands to reason that as a soldier, you should not be too picky about what you eat, but the problem is that the food of medieval Western Europe makes these expeditionary forces from rice farming areas really unable to adapt.

At this time, bread was not like the soft and fragrant bread that had been fermented and put in a lot of sugar and cream, and baked with honey, and it had a noble name in this era, the queen's bread, which was a luxury that the king could not eat at once.

Even better, the white bread that the priests ate was sifted and baked with wheat bran, which was barely softer and cheaper than the ones bought in later generations

The civilians ate a lot of it, that is, the kind of black and hard stuff that they brought two days ago, without separating the bran, the noodles and rice that were directly mashed with a pestle and a pestle were not fermented at all, and were thrown directly into the oven to roast out.

Chen Zhangming saw with his own eyes that the big yellow tooth who "smiled shyly" at him that day took this thing to fight with her old man, and as soon as he went down, the man with chest hair who was five meters seven or eight and five thick and three thick was beaten on the head and bled out, and fainted on the road.

If this thing is eaten by his subordinates every day, it is estimated that it will not take a few days for his mercenaries to riot, so it is very important to take the local rice materials, whether they can make something delicate, which is related to whether the expeditionary force can take solid roots here, if he is really not used to eating it, it is estimated that Chen Zhangming will have a headache how to introduce rice from Fujian.

For this reason, even the lord of Luocheng, a noble county lord of the heavenly family, personally got started, leading a few little maids to sift noodles, roll noodles, ferment, and be busy, and even the white and delicate forehead was covered with a layer of rice and dust, and on the side, a ****** baker who was also dressed in gray and dirty was full of self-satisfaction, proudly holding his fat head high, and speaking incomprehensible Latin.

"Master, don't bother, the little one has baked bread for a lifetime, no matter how much this thing is tossed, it's still this thing."

The earliest formation of guilds in Europe is the bakers, do not underestimate the small bakers, the price of bread is related to the stability of the entire aristocratic territory and even the country, so in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, Britain also had a law for bakers, strictly stipulating the price of bread, the baker's food, clothing, housing and transportation and even the cost of eating the watchdog are included in the calculation of the price of bread in an era.

Although such a strict system has not yet been formed, the baker in front of him is also an important figure in the ******, and he has everything he said in front of Count Frederick, so it is no wonder that he dares to rely on the old man and sell the old man from Fujian.

It's a pity that he watched his wife cook warmly, Chen Zhangming of the number one boss didn't even pay attention to him, and Yang Xiong on the side also twisted his head every time, letting the dirty fat man send the noodles and rice, and his mission was completed.

Fortunately, even the wheat in Europe is theoretically wheat, which is not much different from the wheat grown in the Guanzhong Plain.

After floating on the sea for so long, eating either fish or baked bread that is not much better in North Africa, even if it is white water noodles, the two adults who can't help but look at it are full of mouth, pretending to help their wife serve noodles, and the two bowls of noodles are in the bowl, Chen Zhangming and Yang Xiong ate it regardless of their image, which made the county lord of Luocheng roll his eyes.

Seeing Bai Shengsheng's noodles and the two big men eating so deliciously, the fat baker who was still proud just now almost didn't make his eyes, this is what he can make with the black stuff he usually bakes?

On the other hand, several maids removed the large steamer made of bamboo strips and iron sheets that were unloaded from the boat, and looked at the steaming, plump and soft steamed buns, and for a while what Gollum's worldview collapsed.

"Lang Jun, don't be in a hurry to eat, try the cooking cakes made by the concubine!" Virtuously holding a few large steamed buns on a ceramic plate, Lord Luo Cheng was about to come over with a smile, but he was cold and there was a loud bang on the wooden floor of the medieval tower, splashing dust.

was startled, Chen Zhangming even put his hand on the handle of the knife on his waist, and turned his head in shock, only to see the fat baker who was arrogant and proud just now lying on the ground, and simply shouted in Latin to apprentice.

But he couldn't understand Latin at all, and Chen Zhangming looked at each other when he listened.

At this moment, the door of the tower of the temporary headquarters was slammed back again, and without looking at Pope Eugene I or Lu angrily, he broke in, and the holy big foot happened to step on the fat hand of the baker lying on the ground, and in an instant, the black fat face of Gollum immediately turned white, and he glanced at the back of the Pope's holy robe sadly, and swallowed the scream back.

"Generals, how can you be like this, you came to Rome to help God's believers, it is a holy war, but what you are doing is breeding sin and evil, and if you do this, you will be rejected by God and go to hell!"

Even angry and angry, the pope's popular voice trembled, listening to Chen Zhangming and Yang Xiong, who were holding noodles, looking at each other again, what did they do? It's against the statue of Mary, or which priest's chrysanthemum has exploded, which makes the Pope so angry.

Fortunately, the gentle Lord of Luocheng was calm, and asked softly with a smile: "Lord Pope, don't worry, talk slowly, what happened?"

Only then did he react, his native language came out in a hurry, and before he could explain anything, Eugene I, who was blushing with a red face, immediately slapped his thigh sadly.

"General Chen, did you order the restoration of that evil public bath in ancient Rome, and also ordered the entire ****** residents to go in and bathe."

"yes!"

Chen Zhangming nodded stunnedly, the whole city was dirty and lice, and with a good heart, he dug it out of the dung heap with great difficulty, and the ancient Roman public bath that had been carefully cleaned was open to the public.

How did he know that St. Joseph preached in Christianity that he had been baptized by Jesus and therefore did not need to be bathed again. The early Christians enshrined this as the golden rule, believing that the dirtier the body could be, the closer it was to God, and not bathing became a symbol of holiness.

Chen Zhangming ordered the whole city to take a hot bath, which forced the whole city to breed original sin, and it is no wonder that the dignified Pope is so anxious.

However, just as the Pope and the expeditionary general Chicken and Duck were talking about how important it was to take a bath, the door outside was pushed open again, and a sweaty Fujian herald stepped on the heel of the baker lying on the ground, and immediately knelt on the ground and shouted loudly.

"Governor, a large number of Lombard barbarians are attacking in the northeast!"

"What!"

I didn't care about eating noodles, put down the bowl Chen Zhangming rushed out with a knife directly, and followed him, Pope Eugene didn't care about sins or not, and hurriedly followed, and in the blink of an eye, a room of people stepped on a certain object and walked away.

The poor baker stretched out his hand to Bai Shengsheng's big steamed bun with a dizzy head, staggered two steps, and chirped again, like dough on the floor, and couldn't get up again......