Stuttgart was indeed one of the few major cities of the Holy Roman Empire in the millennium, but that was only relative to the Holy Roman Empire. The scale of Stuttgart in this era is not only compared with the real Stuttgart in the real Shijie, but even compared with the cities of the Song Dynasty in the same millennium era, there is a considerable gap.

Even though this trial shijie made spells and magic appear frequently around humans, and many municipal works could be done more easily, it still couldn't change the fact that there were no underground water pipes outside the castle, and the snow made the roads so muddy that they were almost impossible to walk.

Compared with magic and magic, Europe in this era was backward compared with the East in terms of an open bureaucracy and the emancipation of the mind that matched the bureaucracy. Without all this, there would be no such thing as thinking about infrastructure.

Relatively speaking, Stuttgart's location is more important than Württemberg's, and if the Holy Roman Emperor wants to go to Rome to be crowned by the Pope, he must occupy Stuttgart and ensure the smooth flow of logistical assistance. All the Holy Roman Emperors in history were not only emperors of Germany, but also kings of Italy. The march into Italy through Bavaria was not always as sunny and serene as the book depicts. Italians have never had a good attitude towards the emperors of the Holy Roman Empire, and if you think that a single upheaval could force Otto III to leave Italy and return to Speyer temporarily, you can see that in real history, too much blood has been easily smeared.

On the other hand, Bavaria has always been one of the most rebellious parts of the Holy Roman Empire. In order to maintain a firm grip on Bavaria, it was necessary to have a smooth passage to ensure that logistics and information could reach the emperor in a timely manner.

Precisely because of this. The counts of Stuttgart tended to owe direct allegiance to the Emperor, and were one of the few counties in the Holy Roman Empire that owed direct allegiance to the Emperor without going through the local Grand Duke. These counts were jealous of each other with the local archduke or marquis, and had little sense of trust. It can only be completely attached to the emperor's surroundings. Similarly, since these counts often controlled the transportation fortresses of a region, the local archdukes were also very well guarded against these counts.

But the Earl of Stuttgart in the millennium. To be exact, Tustaff, Earl of Stuttgart, did not behave the same as his own ancestors. He often warmly invited nearby nobles to Stuttgart when other nobles were in trouble. Most of them can also provide some necessary help. This made him get along more closely with the nobles around Stuttgart than before, and although this harmony displeased the emperor, Otto III was no longer the emperor who could have two popes in a row, even if he was dissatisfied with the Count of Stuttgart. It's already a little overwhelming.

Relative to the praise of the outside world. Tustaff knew his position better, and now Otto III was running out, but the Holy Roman Emperor had no male heirs of his own, leaving the entire imperial throne hanging. Therefore, instead of waiting for an unknown emperor and an unknown emperor's policy, it is better to first make the Stuttgart neighborhood a monolith, so that even if the new emperor wants to change the administrator of Stuttgart, he must first weigh the mood of the nobles near Stuttgart.

But just one Stuttgart and not enough. In the northwest, Württemberg, which also maintains the connection between Bavaria and Saxony, is also in Tustaff's eyes. Württemberg and Stuttgart today are very different in terms of geographical importance and history. Divide this territory, which has forests, pastures, and mineral resources, into many small pieces. Of these small fiefdoms, the Viscounty of Sutter, near Württemberg, was more favored by Tustaff. He married his fourth daughter to the Viscount Sartre, who was nearly 50 years old, and then began to gradually meddle in the affairs of the Württemberg region through the female officials around his daughter.

Tustaff's vision proved to be good, and Viscount Sutter, with the support of the Earl of Stuttgart, quickly annexed several small nearby fiefdoms. Since these territories were so small that the process of annexation was not discussed by the House of Nobles at all, it was impossible for the Emperor to keep an eye on a single area of Württemberg.

However, Viscount Sartre's expansion was eventually thwarted, and near Württemberg's approach to the Black Forest, a territory called the Rose Realm stubbornly stopped Sartre from becoming Count of Württemberg. Tustaff and Sartre secretly negotiated with the Counts to find out how to solve this biggest problem, for which Sartre paid a great price, but in the end came to nothing.

The Rose Collar became a peg nailed to Sartre's eyes, making him feel restless, but powerless.

Eventually, several nobles from the Bavarian region and the Kingdom of East Francia got involved, and they contributed to this. At the same time, some of the Goth knights in the Emperor's Praetorian Guard also set their sights on Württemberg, and under such a multifaceted push, the lord of the Rose Lords finally died in an accident. And what this lord had suffered before his death, and what the lord's wife had suffered before his death, was quickly smoothed out. The problem now is that the lord's son, Fleiman. Sasud. Karluhe didn't suffer any surprises.

The disappearance of little Flemann was not a big problem, but this small movement was finally discovered by the House of Lords, and Sartre's path was once again seriously hindered. A year after his disappearance, Fryman Jr. appeared once, and Viscount Sartre bought some knights to hunt down Fryman Jr. However, the chase eventually became a mystery and disappeared along with the knight who entered the Black Forest with little Fryman.

Some time later, before the Black Forest was covered by snow, a new news reached the ears of Tustaff, Count of Stuttgart, that little Flemann was not dead.

The big one appears in Tosto and has a good relationship with the clergy of the Holy See there. It is said that an ascetic named Constantine became a little Flemann adult baptist. What made Tustaff even more anxious was that little Fryman had already led a dozen dwarves out of Tosto some time before the snow closed the mountain. It is clear that this is annoying that little Fryman has made it clear that he will return to the Rose Realm to inherit his father's domain.

As a count who was directly loyal to the emperor, Tustave did not go with the emperor to Speyer, and he had to keep the passage open and safe. Moreover, the division of interests of the local nobility was not necessarily related to the earl. But in this way, his news will be a little slower than that of Speier.

Tustaff only knew that two miracles had occurred in Speyer as a result of the Emperor's arrival. And the next purge of the Gothic knights of the Emperor's Praetorian Guard, the princess of the empire going to Württemberg to establish a women's monastery, etc., are all related to these two miracles. These may not sound like a big deal. However, to Tustaff's panic, most of the gothic knights who were purged involved in the actions of the Rose Lord and his wife. However, there are also some goth knights who are plotting to seize the Rose Collar who seem to be safe, and all kinds of news are mixed together, making people feel impatient and at the same time not knowing where to start.

Tustaff could vaguely feel a large net falling from the sky, and he couldn't find out where the man who had cast the net was. He didn't even know who his enemy was, and it would be an exaggeration to say that it was little Fryman, but apart from Fryman, the Earl of Stuttgart couldn't be sure who was doing it in the shadows.

If the news made him feel impetuous, it was the quasi-miracle that had suddenly appeared southeast of Stuttgart two days earlier, and on the main road between Munich and Munich, felt even more wrong. It was a sudden change in the weather in the sky, and with that change, divine light fell from the sky. The appearance was so brief that by the time the Stuttgart knights arrived at the place of the incident, it was empty.

Sensing a quasi-miraculous eruption, the two priests who arrived at Stuttgart Cathedral later claimed to have felt a breath of holiness in that narrow, unknown passageway. According to them, a certain priest once had a trial here, and it was likely that the judge was some kind of unclean life. The Light of Judgment was not of a high level, but it changed the entire sky, which puzzled the two priests in Stuttgart. Later, Bishop Novmann of Stuttgart Cathedral gave the answer, and the bishop of Bavaria, who was highly respected throughout Bavaria, personally arrived at the cave and finally declared that the person who used this light of judgment, although the priest may have only 5 ranks, had an unshakable devotion to the Lord, so that he would receive additional encouragement from the Lord for each of his trials.

A pious priest appeared near Stuttgart for a trial. The news made Tustaff even more upset because, strangely, no one knew who the priest was or what he had tried. The site was so empty that there weren't even footprints left, and it looked like someone had cleaned it up.

Think of a devout pastor who, immediately after a short trial, has someone to deal with it after the fact. There's something wrong in that. Also, where does that long, narrow and dark passage lead? Or rather, how did this pious priest emerge from a cramped underground passage, and what did he encounter here? (To be continued......)