Chapter 1093： The blue fox ruled Nassau well

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The Gould family is a typical businessman, and even if individual family members are upgraded to a party lord, the change of mind cannot be completed immediately.

How does a businessman govern a territory?

Now, Henry Nassau has to give up the substantive direct management of his hometown of Nassau due to management needs. Legally, he divided his hometown to his youngest daughter Sophia Nassau. His two sons have no objection to this matter.

The small hilly river plain of Nassau Village is now in the middle of the fierce battle of the Frankish Civil War, and its economy is far inferior to that of the wealthy coastal Netherlands.

Sophia is just a well-protected "country girl" like a frog at the bottom of a well. Although she has a noble status, she is indeed more noble than those real village girls in terms of status.

In essence, Henry handed over the governance rights to Ross's Gould family. First, the blue fox and then the black fox. The two temporarily served as stewards, and they could connect with each other smoothly.

As for how the nobles of the Gould family govern Nassau Village, this is what Henry is too lazy to think about.

Even in Henry's view, he brought a group of people to the Netherlands to leave the terrible whirlpool of the kingdom's civil war and stay in a remote part of the seaside, with the military protection promised by the Rus, and live a worry-free life.

He didn't have any big plans, at least he and his son did. As a vassal nobleman, everything was fine.

Obviously, the black fox is very ambitious, and the blue fox has already made a big transformation for Nassau Village before his younger brother arrives.

Half of the villagers left, and all three settlements in the Barony of Nassau had shrunk to the point where they could barely even count babies in the little over a thousand people.

On the contrary, Lanhu has nearly 500 subordinates this time. They are businessmen when they run the boat, and they are heavy infantry when they get off the boat. They were all strong men, and the presence of such personnel made Nassau Village structurally a military camp.

Henry, who was assisted by many of his subordinates, left temporarily, and the Blue Fox, who remained in Nassau Village, lost most of the ships.

Of course he still has two hundred soldiers!

With just this amount of troops, you can go to the Middle Kingdom site across the river to loot? The scale of the war in the north over the years was huge, and two hundred soldiers were nothing for a normal battle. However, the real situation in Europe is that 200 highly armed soldiers can already run amok.

Adhering to the past experience, Blue Fox chose to be conservative. His essence is still a businessman. As for how to obtain wealth, the first thing that comes to his mind is to buy materials at a low price and sell them at a high price, supplemented by bodyguards to ensure transportation safety.

Unlike absolute feudal lords, his way of grabbing wealth is almost locked in the taxation of peasants in the territory.

Asking for taxes from farmers is justified, and charging businessmen with business tax, port entry tax, and tolls is already a high-level act.

If the lord himself plays the role of a businessman and integrates the foreign trade of materials in the ruled area, it is too advanced.

Nobles are just noble, and they are all brave and rough. Letting them do business is not as interesting as fighting and hunting.

Of course, there is the most important point. According to the priest's interpretation of the scriptures, businessmen do not engage in production and act as second-order dealers for nothing, and businessmen are morally spurned by those who claim to be noble. In order to avoid this situation, at least the nobles will not do business in person, at most they will arrange their own housekeepers and trusted people to do things. But more nobles don't ask about it at all, and hunting and fighting are fun.

Converting to the faith of the Frankish world is nothing but a conspiracy.

Blue Fox knew Latin himself, and he could read the scriptures directly without having to listen to the nonsense of the priest. Only God knows whether these priests added their own private goods when explaining, at least Blue Fox can understand it himself.

Blue Fox was in Nassau Village, so he didn't bother to go to the monastery in the village. Even if it was a small Sunday mass event, at most, he stayed for a symbolic time and then pushed open the closed door and left.

Every move makes Father Conrad half-dead, but what's the use?

This Norman with the Christian name Joseph is really wild and unchanging, and even if this person converts, he really worships Saint Andrew, and the flying flag says it all.

Indeed, Ross' flag is essentially an "abstract staggered oars", which Blue Fox interprets as "Saint Andrew's Cross", plus he can sing opposite Father Conrad in Latin, so the people who stay in Nassau Village think Violent turmoil occurred in the so-called "who should we listen to".

Who do you listen to? Whoever can bring benefits to everyone should listen to him more, and people will never have trouble with themselves on the issue of eating.

In principle, the 11th tax is still a must, and it is double the 11th tax! One is given to the priest of the village, and the other is given to the nobles.

Taxes are to be collected at the autumn harvest, which is still very early.

Sophia is the de jure baronial ruler. She is really just an ordinary little girl who doesn't know anything about how to be a ruler. The governance rights were all packaged to the blue fox, so after Henry left, he really wanted to do whatever he wanted.

Blue Fox really can't stand the poor infrastructure environment in Nassau Village. He wants to renovate this settlement to provide a better stationing environment for his younger brother and the corresponding army, and even provide a stable rear base for the army. It stands to reason that it is a matter of course for the farmer to serve the lord, and he also thought of recruiting local farmers, including those boys and women who were able to do farm work.

It is understandable for little boys to do farm work, and even women have to be mobilized, which is too shocking for Nassau village.

Father Conrad called on the women of the village not to listen to those calls and not to blaspheme.

Originally, these women supported the priest on this issue, and the blue fox directly used the army.

Blue Fox has his own way. He claims that all his actions are supported by Sophia Nassau. In essence, everyone knows what is going on.

Those village women who were unwilling to show their faces were forcibly pulled out of their homes, and some tools were distributed to make them work. Elderly women were also forcibly organized, and were required to wash their clothes by the river, and set up pottery urns and iron pots to cook for the laborers.

"I forced you to do this! You did not violate your beliefs. If you mainly punish people, you must punish me first. You must do what I want. Those who disobey are imprisoned, and those who cooperate will be paid."

Blue Fox embodies his ruthless side, and the people of the whole village have no choice but to obey his arrangements.

Of course, the obedient people are not at a loss!

In the Swedish world, especially the Angkras tribe of Lake Mälaren, the ancestral home of the blue fox, the locals are mostly honest farmers, unlike the Mälaren tribe with a strong business atmosphere. Due to the limitations of the times and the environment, there are not many slaves in the Swedish world, and most of the so-called slaves are debt slaves (serfs). However, there are still many young laborers who need to survive. They will serve as mercenaries for wealthy businessmen and leaders, as coolies for artisan families, and make money by selling their physical strength.

These young people are rebellious and brave, and it is suitable to hire them as mercenaries and servants. In exchange, the master has to pay money.

You pay and I contribute, so the employment relationship is justified in the Swedish and Danish worlds. Even the Rus who emigrated and controlled the eastern Slavic world still pursue this trick and even play with it. The so-called state-run factories in various industries are After the autumn rain, the solitary mushrooms appeared one after another.

Blue Fox pays cash to all the villagers who participate in the labor, and the commission is half the price of the northern world. Even so, it is already a huge reward for these villagers who are extremely short of cash.

This old, fat-faced northern man speaks Latin, and even if it is blasphemy, he will bear the punishment of God, and this man is really giving money, and the brand new iron he has got on hand can work for them at the same time. own housework.

The poor villagers got cheap and gradually became willing to do things for the Rus.

In Blue Fox's plan, living in the village of Nassau was just an expedient measure. What he really wanted to do was to organize the army to seize the city of Koblenz on the other side of the Inn River, and then move the Ross store there. This move has a lot of risks. He wanted to ask for stability. After hesitating, he decided to renovate Nassau Village pragmatically to ensure that there is no way out to win Koblenz.

He came with a lot of silver coins, which was the start-up capital for the construction of Ross's shop, and the first time outside capital intervention in Nassau Village's history.

Blue Fox first built a walled barracks. He did it very carefully, even paving the ground with gravel inside the wall to make it harder instead of the soft mud.

The pine trees are deeply plunged into the silt of the riverbed of the Lan River. A number of brand-new trestle bridges have been built in the riverside area, and some wooden boards have been laid on the banks. Even a simple wooden human lever crane was erected, which immediately took on the task of moving the stone.

In the three baronial settlements, a small number of fishermen in Landstein tried their best to fish, and the Baden Ems quarry was transported upstream as much as possible to excavate large stones or shovel gravel, and the village of Nassau became a large construction site.

Even if the blue fox came with advanced technology and bought local labor with a lot of real silver coins, the embarrassing thing is that the number of laborers here is still seriously insufficient, and heavy manual labor is in urgent need of a lot of wheat and salt. The village of Nassau is not a wealthy land, although the future is promising, it is really poor now! And when Henry left with the strong and strong villagers, he also took away a lot of softness, so that he left his young daughter a poor mess.

It's a hassle that can be solved with money.

Father Conrad certainly has a problem with the blue fox of the Russ who reveals his true nature. He has to go there as usual, and now Nassau Village is indeed facing some difficulties.

On an ordinary day, the blue fox in civilian clothes actually went to the monastery.

Conrad, who got the letter, thought that this guy suddenly found his conscience and wanted to repent, so he hurriedly sat in the confession room, waiting for the blue fox to be heartbroken through the wooden window of the fence.

Where did the blue fox come to repent? He shouted a few times in the monastery, and was invited to the confessional by the little priest on call.

"Oh, here you are," he said in Latin.

"Sit down, my child." The wooden wall has small windows and a wooden fence, and the bald Conrad is sitting behind the wall wearing a "small melon rind hat."

Just when Conrad felt that the man was finally going to confess the blasphemies he had done these days and was willing to repent, unexpectedly the other party didn't say "I was wrong", but asked straightforwardly and abruptly in this sacred place: " I see we're running out of food. What to do? There's a good place to get food nearby."

Such a question directly choked Conrad, and after being silent for a while in embarrassment, he saw Conrad standing directly behind the wall with an old face: "Forget it! If you want to talk about this, let's change it. local talk."

It is fair to say that Conrad has a gaffe. He is also a person with a temper. In the priesthood, he is forced to suppress his own heart. To talk about war and trade in the Holy Land? This is the worst kind of blasphemy.

Of course, the fact that there is not enough food to eat is a reality, and even a monastery cannot be alone in the summer drought.

After a moment Conrad appeared, glanced at the blue fox and asked him to go outside and have a good chat.

Even if you eat brown bread to survive, you must first have rye. Recently, Blue Fox has mobilized the entire village labor force to do heavy physical labor. Of course, the considerable remuneration has attracted the villagers to work actively. A wooden fort, docks, and even improved roads in the village are said to be the next step in transforming the villagers' housing.

Many actions are firstly beneficial to the life of the Rus people here, and secondly, they have indeed improved the lives of the people. As a price, the materials in the village's inventory are being consumed at an unprecedented rate.

The food that the blue fox brought by himself is not enough to eat, and the stock of Nassau Village is not enough. It is precisely in this situation that the blue fox still has a lot of money in his hand, and people can't survive by chewing on silver coins.

He just wanted to hear if there were other noble territories near Conrad and if they could buy food.

Conrad, who was angry, was in a bad mood under the scorching sun. He pouted and said, "You can go to Koblenz on the other side of the river and rob their warehouse and take food. Anyway, you are here for this, Go attack Lothair's territory, Ludwig won't say anything anyway. You will never listen to our priest's attitude, what else can I do for you?"

The blue fox was too lazy to be angry with a middle-aged man who was powerless, so he asked: "It's not the right time to attack Koblenz. I just want to know where I can buy food recently. The upstream is from Earl of Ingol. Territory? I've dealt with them, but I don't know if their territory can buy the food we urgently need." He added more solemnly: "Purchasing wheat with silver coins very peacefully."

"If you really have a peaceful attitude, of course there is no problem." Conrad's attitude eased.

"Very good. Let's cooperate! I'll go out, you go out as a guide. If we can go by water, it's better, we'll buy food to ease the trouble now."

"Yes, but I have conditions."

"condition?"

"No matter how much grain you want to buy, you must give my convent a thousand pounds of wheat."

"So many?" Lanhu was surprised, and then thought about it even more strangely: "Aren't you unwilling to cooperate with a businessman like me?"

"Now and then, if our existence is threatened, it is not against faith to do such a thing. The monastery is running out of food, and until the autumn harvest gets the 11th tax, we have to make sure that we continue to live. There are only ten of us. , a thousand pounds of wheat can hold up well for three months."

"Alright. You'd better take my people to the nearest place to buy food when you go out to guide."

The blue fox soon learned of a place name - Lorchhausen on the River Inn.

Lorchhausen is the western frontier of the Earl of Reingau. Unlike Nassau Village, which is a barony, this place is directly managed by the Robert family of Reingau.

After Ludwig's successful return to Mainz, the imprisoned Robert regained all power. A series of misfortunes have made Robert have a deep grudge against Ludwig, but he still does not want to give up his territory, even though his strength has been greatly weakened.

However, Robert's current situation is extremely embarrassing. The core areas of the counties are in Wiesbaden and Mainz, but here they are continued to be controlled by Ludwig's Bavarian army, and the financial power is also held by the king. The count simply has only one title, and it is difficult for his family to fulfill the status of the great lord. A great aristocrat who was overridden by the king lived like a joke. In addition, he was severely injured in his heart. He was already thinking about evacuating from Yingao and switching to the new king.

Robert, who was released, moved the Count's residence to the Taunus Mountains, north of Wiesbaden, and settled in the village below the mountain, the so-called Taunustein town was founded. Others were freed, and his ambition was gone. He attacked the defeated Ludwig with the most vicious words behind his back, but on the surface it was completely rotten. He is a big noble, and being imprisoned is already the maximum punishment. If he is killed, it will inevitably lead to a large-scale rebellion against Ludwig by many nobles.

Knowing the stakes, Ludwig knew that this guy was rude to him, so what could he do? Just leave it free.

The Robert family temporarily lived a life like a salted fish. He even thought about it, once Lothair defeated Ludwig in the civil war, he would immediately swear allegiance to Lothair.

All he can control now are some remote villages, and continue to gain the allegiance of the local knights. I couldn’t do it by collecting taxes from various knights. Fortunately, because my own strength fell to the extreme, I didn’t have to save a huge amount of money by maintaining a cavalry team of hundreds of people. By collecting taxes from directly controlled villages, I became rich. The day is still good.

One such village is the remote Lorchhausen.

Blue Fox and Conrad reached a cooperation, a longboat towed five local small fishing boats, and a team of nearly 30 people set off towards Lorchhausen, not far from Nassau, in the upper reaches of the Laine River, and went smoothly there. Bought food.

Lorchhausen, who simply came to the Inn, could not provide much food, but some wine was provided locally. The fleet continued to run along the river to the upstream villages with real money and silver. Since they were buying food under the banner of Nassau Monastery, they naturally got the cooperation of the monasteries in the villages here. After all, the monasteries have always kept in touch with each other, and they knew the news that the local area of ​​Nassau had changed. Now that the priests have led a group of Normans who converted to the faith, the transaction must be done well, and various questions should be asked. .

This is not business, it is just a matter of adjusting the supplies of the monasteries!

The priests gave themselves reasons to make sure that they did not blaspheme their beliefs, so they took out food and collected silver coins. To the surprise of these Rus people who were instructed to do business, the local food prices were much cheaper than those in the northern world. After all, this is the richer food-producing area. In fact, the currency in circulation in the Frankish world is rarely used in remote areas, and there is a lack of cash in many places, resulting in a high value of the currency in circulation. The Russ came with hard currency, and the villagers who sold the grain had bright eyes. Grain was their only surplus property. In the past, there was almost no chance to convert it into more stable silver coins.

So, when the fleet came back with a huge load, the longships were full, and the towed boats were well-loaded.

For a period of time, the dilemma of food shortage was easily resolved. At that time, even as part of the remuneration, these began to enter the stomachs of village laborers, and Lord Lanhu was really willing.

Who can refuse to build a house for Joseph Blue Fox, who can speak Latin, so that he can eat every day?

It was this trick Blue Fox got huge fans, and even brought all the Rus people into great people.

The farmer was full, so the little girl Sophia Nassau began to eat delicious food, and she slowly began to look like the "Gould family woman" familiar to the blue fox, and her shriveled cheeks slowly bulged. After all, this little girl is her younger brother and sister, and it is only natural to gain weight.

And this material purchase was paid for with good Frankish silver coins, which were also mixed with some Eastern Roman silver coins of poor quality. This is the chicken thief behavior of the Rus, but the currency value of the two is exactly the same.

The news quickly reached the ears of Robert, who was aged in the Taunus area, and learned that this was what the Rus said. He was shocked and the world was absurd at first. After calming down, he really couldn't lie down.

"Damn, how did these guys get under my nose? Is this a conspiracy between them and Ludwig? Mine find a chance to meet the Rus..." He pondered.

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