104. The Assembly of Sain and the Council of the Magi (5.7K)
There was a woman in the car, Adesha.
She hides her beauty with a burqa, does not powder her face, and takes care of Oran.
This time, she followed Orlan and prepared to return to "Sea Town" to contact her previous deployment and old acquaintances.
The fate of the two is bound, and before completing the goal, they are now the closest partners and lovers.
"Your Excellency, are you alright?"
Adesha knew that people were the most vulnerable when they were sick, and it was easy to take advantage of the situation, and before Orlan woke up, she had already thought about how to use this short time to make Orlan feel better.
Oran looked at Adesha's face, how pure and immaculate it was, full of love.
But, it's an ambitious woman!
"Come here, Adesha." Oran hugged her.
In the face of Oran's sudden weakness, Adesha cautiously tried to give full play to female maternal love.
He even hummed a song to Orlan and helped him rub his forehead.
Comfortable with her service, Oran decided that he would protect the woman until he was "tired".
Oran woke up and fell asleep, and when he awoke, one of Earl's wooden forts was already on the other side of the hill, and it was estimated that it would be half a day before he arrived.
Oran saw the sky, ordered to halt the advance, and waited until early in the morning, and in the morning he could reach the "town of Tan'an", a knightly fiefdom on the hills, almost noon.
"Your Excellency, a dozen miles further from that place is Haizhen, which is my territory, and twelve miles to the west is the knight's territory of 'Delim'." Adesha pulled back the curtain of the carriage and gestured into the distance.
Orlan lay down all day, sore and out of the carriage to get some fresh air.
Kunsang stepped forward and stood side by side with Oran, the two men standing together, and Adesha looked out of place.
At this time, she hides her identity, although she looks like a monk.
But there was still a woman's scent on his body, which made Kunsang very disgusted
This is a female viper, I want to keep an eye on her!
"Your Excellency, if you let him go back, will that Micho betray?"
"I have already explained everything to Nanding, he and Armand took one hundred and eighty men to guard King's Landing, and set up traps more than ten days in advance, if Shi Meng really does it, unless the main force is exhausted, it is he who suffers."
"What if the main force is really exhausted?"
"He has just lost fifty warriors now, and the chances of being so reckless are very low, I have already instructed Nanding to retreat if Shi Meng is really crazy and cannot resist, and send someone to inform me as soon as possible.
At this time, Shi Meng's main camp must be empty, and we will also turn our formation, not to the north, but to the southeast--sneak attack his lord, and at that time, kill anyone we see!
Then he beheaded a few Vikings who were captured, and sent them to the territory of Ella and Earl respectively.
Tell the lords that the Vikings in the northern Danfa district are in league with the Kent group, and that at this time of crisis, Bember will convene a 'Council of Thorn' to state the benefits to them, and at that time, our agreement with the king of Ella can also be pressed first. ”
The first time Kunsang heard this, Adesha knew it.
"Sain" is an ancient aristocratic title in England, which means "knight (including upper class)".
More than 100 years ago, "Northumbria" ushered in the Renaissance period, and the king established a large monastery and a library.
Various technologies flourished, painting, metallurgy, engraving, arithmetic, etc.
More than 100 years before the later Carolingian Renaissance.
From Yorkshire to Mercia, as well as the Welsh region, there is also a smooth road left by the Roman Empire, which is full of merchants from afar.
Even the "Irish" came to trade through this aisle.
Later, when the Frankish era arose, Charlemagne recruited a large number of scholars to build schools and churches.
Many of these scholars are from Northumbria.
It was a beautiful time gone by, and some ancient books even mentions,
"This is the best of times, the peasant is a pure servant, Seon is kind, and the ploughing oxen see the fields without being whipped by their masters, they will automatically go down and trample on the ground.
The number of beggars and criminals is also very scarce, and the harvest is reaped from the hard work, praise the Lord......"
A great deal of wealth went to the monasteries, the vestments of the clergy became more and more precious, the Gospels in the hands of the clergy, and even the pages made of precious stones and lambskin threaded with gold thread appeared.
But later, the Vikings invaded the "Lindisfarne" monastery and set off waves of looting, which severely damaged the place.
Frankish culture also invaded England a few decades later, forming a new aristocratic class, the "kings and knights".
The "Council of Sain" was a temporary meeting held by the British countries when they encountered special conditions a hundred years before the Viking invasion, and according to the convention, the lords of the kingdom with more than 5,000 acres of arable land were eligible to apply for and participate, and make suggestions and formulate national policies at the meeting.
Later, the Vikings invaded, and the Seven Kingdoms suffered greatly, and in order to escape the war, the kings of each country were often forced to move to the city.
For a while, the king did not even have a fixed residence (capital).
And at this time, a new Anglo-Saxon political system emerged,
It is called the "Council of the Sages".
It was convened by the kings themselves, in different places and times, and even "manors" or "paddocks" could be used for meetings, and wherever the king went, a warrant could be called.
Participants are also exempt from holding 5,000 acres of land.
Bishops, abbots, stewards of manors, magistrates, knights, and even those with invitations from kings or nobles were also allowed to attend.
The convenience of the "Council of the Wise" soon replaced the "Congress of Sein" at a fixed place and time.
Those who did not attend after receiving the king's edict were sometimes punished, and attending the Council of the Wise was not only an honour and a right, but also an obligation.
Adesha understood Oran's mind when she thought about it.
The threshold for attending the Assembly of Seon is high, and there are many people who can initiate and convene the king, and it may deal with other military affairs and emergency internal affairs.
The Council of the Magi enlarged the number of attendees, so that the interests of the nobility suppressed the royal power, and even removed the king from the throne, so that the king had to share power with the nobles, but because it had to be convened by the king, it created a balance.
"This kid is so cunning!" Adesha said in her heart.
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When Micho dragged back to the territory of Smon, the Vikings and Anglos of the entire settlement roared.
Fifty people will come back with one?!
The longhouse meeting was about to take place, and Flamen and his pot-bellied wife, Freya, looked sad like clouds covering the sun.
Micho took him inside and sat on a bench, outside which was crowded with bereaved people.
Shi Meng sent ten men to guard the outside of the house to suppress a possible riot.
Inside, more than twenty Vikings shouted and cursed Micho.
But no one rushed over, firstly, Shi Meng was still there, and secondly, Micho's injuries were too bad.
His hands and feet were ulcerated, one eye was covered with coarse cloth, and his face was covered in blood and mud.
Freya called the physician to inflict on Migeorge, but the well-trained physicians had nothing to do, and although they did not learn from the Divine doctor to let him bleed, the means were to suppress the pain with stronger stimuli.
The doctor took a "medicinal mushroom" mixed with wine and let him drink it.
It is a plant that grows in the mountains of Norway and Sweden, and when dried and drunk with alcohol, it will cause a paralyzing sensation, suppress pain, and make people prone to auditory hallucinations.
When sacrificing to the living, or during ceremonies, they love to take this medicinal mushroom, which can temporarily forget their troubles, and meet their former relatives or hear the oracle themselves!
Before the battle, many Vikings would also take it and go into a barbaric state.
During Charlemagne's time, a large number of Vikings who invaded Francia spread this thing, and the Holy See regarded it as a "monster" and called it a "poisonous mushroom".
After Micho ate it, his blood vessels contracted rapidly, his face turned red, and the doctor stepped aside and shouted, "Long live God Thor."
The Viking nobles loved Odin, but the freedmen preferred the god Thor, who was also in charge of agriculture.
Micho told him all about what Orlan had taught him, saying that in the first two operations, they split up and split into several teams, but two of the teams did not expect to meet Earl Knights and then be bought......
The two devilators, Orlan had previously told Hyde to choose two people who did not have a good reputation to slander, which would increase the credibility.
After listening to this, the onlookers scolded the two people, but the family members of these two people could not agree and scolded Micho for slander.
The scene was noisy again, until Shi Meng raised the cane of the former lord (father-in-law) and struck the ground, which made the scene calm again.
Shmon walked over and looked at Micho, then gently removed the coarse cloth from his left eye, which could not be opened and was red and swollen all around it.
Micho had just said that it was set on fire by the enemy and caused by the smoke of the fire.
Shi Meng looked like it was real, and at the same time, he carefully observed Micho's body, and it was all real injuries, so a bitter battle was real, but how to verify the truth of his words?
Then, Shi Meng raised his cane aloft like a Viking sword.
"Look at me, Micho, you dare to swear that everything you say is true?"
Micho was scared, but Shmon couldn't read Micho's eyes.
Because the eyelid of the other eye was also injured, he could only open a small opening.
And all of this was done by Orlan Jean Kunsang.
Last time, Simon's observation ability made Orlan remember that this Viking was a brainboy and had to play the trick to the fullest.
Oran made Micho's pair of eyes unable to be used normally, making it difficult for Shi Mengruo to stare at the question, and it was difficult to see the details.
"It's all true! Odin witness!"
Before the cane fell, Micho held on, for Kunsang's words rang in his ears,
"I made your body injuries more real, now there is no proof of death, if you are forced to ask, as long as you hold on, you will have a bright future, if you can't stand it and be scared, let people ask the truth, you can't survive......"
The words were still in his ears, so Micho could only gamble, and Shi Meng saw that he was stiff, so he could only put down his crutches.
"You persuaded me with your guts, Micho!"
Shi Meng sat back in his chair, his whole face as if he was ten years older.
Born may have many flaws, but he is loyal, and even his lover can be shared with him.
If he said it himself, he would never compromise his execution, so he took these young men out by Sien, but they were completely wiped out in the first battle!
So many people have died, and all the weapons and equipment have been lost, and if there is no revenge, he will not have to do it as a leader.
But if revenge kills one person, two people must be sent out for revenge, and then the whole settlement will be plunged into never-ending killing.
Shi Meng regretted it very much, regretted that he shouldn't have stayed by his wife's side, and let Sien go out alone,
I regretted letting go of the sword wolf that day, and was affected by his words to the big bear, so I was deceived (persuaded) by Orlan later.
But it's weird, everything comes from the weakness of your heart!
At this time, his wife's hand rested on Shi Meng's left palm, and she did not say a word, but her eyes were full of support and understanding.
Husband and wife get along, no need to say too much, one look is enough, Shi Meng put his right hand on his back, patted his wife's hand twice, and immediately got up and gave a battle order to everyone,
"You are loyal to me, I will protect you, since ancient times, this is the relationship between the leader and the people, today, we have died so many soldiers, we must seek back the honor, every drop of blood, not in vain!"
"!"
The crowd is excited, no matter who you hit, anyway, hit the fuck!
Shi Meng looked at Micho, still uneasy, and asked again, "Lord of the White Eagle, did you bring anything back?"
"Yes, they said they want revenge, please bring someone over and send an army to Earl together."
"Micho, do you think the Lord of the White Eagle has betrayed us?"
This sentence made Micho stunned, and after thinking for a few moments, he said, "I think there is, although they were also attacked, maybe it was the uneven distribution of the spoils, or some other reason?"
This group of believers in God has poisonous juice in their brains!
Count me in, chief, and I will avenge the dead, people of Odin, and there are no cowards. ”
Although he swore by the god Odin and was a little flustered, Micho thought about it and changed his faith anyway, so he acted more seriously.
In fact, this is what Orlan taught himself to Kunsang, they said that if Shi Meng took the initiative to contact the White Eagle Leader and take revenge on Earl, then say more good things.
On the other hand, if you ask yourself what you think of the White Eagle Collar, tell Shi Meng not to trust the White Eagle Collar.
Oran thinks that when Simon hears this, he should no longer suspect that Micho is related to the White Eagle Leader, and if Simon really believes Micho's words, he will come to ask for the guilt......
Because Micho suppressed the follow-up questions at the time, Orlan didn't take the initiative to say, so Micho didn't know, in case Shi Meng believed it, what Orlan's back hand was.
This questioning scene, also in the Orlan calculation scene, Shi Meng still didn't determine whether Micho was weird or not.
"Go back and prepare, tomorrow morning, we'll go!"
After a few minutes, Shi Meng made up his mind.
"Where? Chieftain. ”
"The enemy is in King's Landing!"
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That night, Micho stayed in the room, drinking an onion medicinal soup that Shi Meng had carefully prepared, with a lot of spices added to it.
After Micho finished drinking, the woman who came in to collect the bowl sniffed the wound on Micho's body with her nose, if the wound smelled very strong, it meant that the condition was deteriorating, and on the contrary, it was recovering.
This Viking medicine makes them compare the survival rate with God's medical skills - half a pound and eight taels.
The woman didn't go out of the room, staying to take care of Micho.
He is Micho's lover.
But I came today under the instructions of Shimon.
Lonely men and widows, living in the same room, Shi Meng also wants to see if Micho will "lose his word" and say things that shouldn't be said?
But when Micho closed his eyes, he saw the head of S'en cut off, plus the injuries all over his body, and he quickly fell asleep, and the woman didn't ask anything.
Early the next morning, Flamen said goodbye to his wife Freya and led two hundred Viking warriors to King's Landing, a three-day's journey.
"Glock is gone, I am very distressed, I don't know if he will come back, and you are my husband, my most important person, you must come back to see me safely."
"Yes, we still have a lot of good days."
Then two hundred warriors shouted in unison, each with their own favorite cheers.
Their feet are amazing, and if they are on the road at full speed, they will be able to reach King's Landing in two days.
At this moment Michaud peered out of the room and saw the group departing, and he remembered Oran's words that he would henceforth be a knight and a chieftain.
This made him fear for the safety of his companions, but for the sake of his future, he hoped that Orlan would annihilate them.
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A team of two hundred people, walking in a straight line, is almost impossible to hide.
Soon the makeshift watchtower twenty miles outside of King's Landing, the garrison scouts spotted the murderous Viking army.
They galloped and shouted, "The Vikings are coming!"
When Shi Meng came with two hundred men, it only took a day and a half.
But they were already tired, and Nanding and Armand had been waiting for a long time, although the temporary fortifications were rudimentary, but this piece of wooden thorn wooden wall, it was almost impossible to break through without injury,
Not to mention that there are still a few catapults that have been set up in advance, and with the blessing of manpower, they can shoot stone pellets that are several times more powerful than the power of bows and arrows.
There is also a group of villagers who have been transferred, and there are more than 100 people, and under the command of Nanding, they make loud voices synchronously, making people feel that there are quite a few people in this town.
It's a tough nut to crack, and it's hard for Smith to gnaw on, and Armand, one of the defensive coaches, is full of confidence, and it's not there yet.
Armand looked at Nanding and said, "Who are we going to send out and lead them in to inspect those graves?"
"I'll go."
"Nanding, are you crazy? In case these Vikings kill you!"
"During the talks, the important thing is that the other party feels your sincerity, they kill me alone, and they don't get anything, but they can feel our sincerity."
After Nanding finished speaking, he rode out on horseback, and after flashing through layers of obstacles through the wooden wall, he came to the Vikings.
One person, alone against two hundred Viking warriors, even if he rode a war horse, once these Vikings shot a battle axe, it would make Nanding have no chance of surviving.
"Leader Shimon, we're meeting again."
Nanding dismounted, walked over, and was surrounded by Vikings.
Nanding looked unswervingly, his eyes passed through the human wall, and found Shi Meng's tall figure.
"Let him go." Shi Meng admired Nanding's courage and stepped forward, and the two looked at each other.
"Blood Cross, you deserve such a brave nickname, but what about your lord Oran? Ran away?"
"Your Excellency has brought someone to Earl for revenge, you have come just in time, you can join us."
"Nanding, dig out your heart, if you can still stand and talk to me, I will believe you, you Catholics, don't you always like to do this kind of trick?"
Today, Shi Meng did not have any God ornaments on him, and at this moment, he returned to his past Viking wolf madness.
"If you want to kill me, you can do it at any time, but I suggest you send someone and go into town to check, and you will understand everything."
"Chief, don't talk nonsense with him, kill him, and level the town!" Vikings, who had lost their families, clamored.
But Nanding just sneered and said to Shi Meng, "I dare to come alone, but you don't dare to send someone to verify my words?"
Shi Meng thought for a moment, and sent a brave young man to the town, and in less than a moment, the young man ran back in a hurry and whispered to Shi Meng.
Then Nanding said, "If you still don't believe it, and you want to see it with your own eyes, our troops are retreating, and you can bring someone in to see it yourself." ”
"No, I believe you."
Then Shi Meng said a few words to several cronies around him, and everyone's eyes changed from anger to calmness.
Then, in order to show his sincerity, Shi Meng also entered the town again with only a few people.
They saw the Viking cemetery that Orlan had built for the dead Vikings.
Nan Ding pointed to the wooden plaque and said, "This piece, we know his name by his Viking sword, and engrave it, this piece, the owner is obese, this piece, the master only has three fingers on his left hand......"
Each wooden plaque is clearly marked with a name or feature for easy identification.
Armand then asked them to take their weapons and put them in front of Shimon, saying, "Take these weapons back, give them to their relatives, and take revenge with us!"
Armand also pointed to a cemetery in front of him, "This is the man who was wounded by Earl, thirty-six in all. ”
In fact, these thirty-six wooden rafts are all fake, but they are driven into wooden stakes.
But there has never been a God Lord - to build a tomb for the Vikings, Orlan's meticulous manipulation completely deceived the Vikings in front of him, and his innate hatred for the Vikings made Shimon believe that it was all Ergan's.
"After I capture Earl, I'll sacrifice him!" Shinen drew his Viking sword and swore an oath at the wooden plaque.
Two days later, a messenger scout from King's Landing delivered a letter and quickly delivered it to Orlan.
After reading this, Orlan burned it with satisfaction, and said, "The dog has turned into a wolf, and he will sweep all the towns on the border of Earl, and according to our original plan, before this summer passes, the county of Jerey will also be owned by Benber!"
Another day, the Oranbon team came to "Sea Town".
To the east, the Earl's home city was located, but Oran was ordered by Earl to take the first place.
His troops, by this time, had been broken up into three by Earl.
But Orlan is getting more and more excited, not at all afraid.
On May 22, 865 A.D., Oran led thirty men into the main city of the Earl Earl, and at this moment, the two counts finally met.
Earl's death begins to count down.
------Off topic------
Book Buddy Machine Guns:
The Count had not yet appeared, and at this time to the nobles, he was addressed as Sein. They own the land and follow the king to war, and their sons will join the king's army, and if Sain dies, the heirs will have to pay taxes to inherit their father's weapons and equipment. The freedman owns five or more al-Had's land, while the land owned by Sain is not fixed, and there is Sain below Sain. (The land of Sain is not subject to tax, it is called the book field),
There were no knights in the region, and each village could have several free peasants who owned land in five hads.
1 acre is equal to 6.075 acres, 120 acres of Hyder, but Hyde actually does not have an accurate statement.
Free peasants could be heralded in war, they had a shield, a spear, a Saxon dagger, but no chain mail and helmets. The Saxon dagger was seen as a symbol worn by free people, and women could also wear it.
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Historically, Northumbria had a period of high Renaissance, so a lot of wealth poured into the monastery, which also caused the Vikings to rob the Lindisfarne Monastery after the madness, and continued to rob it, which was too rich, and was later stopped by the Vikings.
Since the author doesn't have a deep understanding of early medieval England, and he doesn't know that the king actually has no fixed residence at this time, after referring to the study, he knows that there is a leak in the historical setting, so he plays the plot patch of this chapter, the royal capital, Sain, etc.,
and brought out the Council of the Wise to produce historical convergence (which influenced British politics for hundreds of years, and was prevalent at this time).
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Poisonous mushrooms, some movies and books have mentioned it, is there really this? I'm not sure either.
Drinking soup is a Viking therapy that I saw when I read the information.