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Chapter 37 The Powerful East Rome

War ended, peace came, and sorrow was everywhere.

At first glance, the last one seems to have nothing to do with the first two. However, this is the actual situation in the Ile-de-France region.

Just like in the previous conversation with Joan of Arc, the French serfs obtained "freedom" one, okay, this is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that they obtained land. Land! Land Land Land Land Land Land Land Land Land Land Land Land Land Land Land!!! So what if they bear huge debts? So what if they have to pay heavy taxes?! It is land! Land Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

No one understands the value of a piece of land, a piece of land that can be cultivated, than these serfs.

Being able to grow food and support your family is the most valuable thing in the world.

So, after being a self-cultivated farmer for several months, the serfs were excited and their enthusiasm for production was extremely high. Egil also took the opportunity to record 5,000 gold coins, which made Egil feel that it was unimaginable. In less than three months, there was no economic, agricultural, or mineral construction in this place, which could harvest so much money with just one transformation. This was simply incredible...

So productivity determines production relations and so on. At some point, it can also be said the opposite.

But now, Egil has signed a peace treaty with Philip II. According to the agreement, the Ile-de-France region must be returned to the other party. In this way, Egil's policy reform cannot continue. Although he does not know how Philip II wants to treat these guys, the possibility of continuing Egil's policy is very small. "It is not that Philip II is stupid and cannot see the benefits of doing this. Instead, Philip II dares not do this. He is not as weak as Egil, his nobles under his command. He has absolute strength. He is also the largest landlord in the Norman Kingdom.

The Kingdom of France is an extremely typical feudal kingdom. There are many princes and men. The aristocrats are extremely powerful. And these treacherous, nervous, short-sighted and illiterate nobles. It is absolutely impossible to see such benefits. They will only see their serfs turning into "Liberal" and your sister's si-produced one's family. Why do you? Are you the king? "With labor and capital, you can't become king immediately! In the hands of Egil, the enemy country, how can you reach out to him? But now it's different.

The Ile-de-France region is in the hands of its own kings.

Someone may ask here. Didn’t Egil cut down all the aristocrats on the Ile-de-France before? Their heads were piled up so high. Now, where are so many nobles snatching territory and serfs?

Therefore, never underestimate the number of children a nobleman gave birth to, and the number of relatives that are dozens of times more than that, and are inseparable from each other.

That's it. Although Philip II put his face down and insisted on nationalizing the land, that's not impossible. But such a move "will definitely make all the nobles in France think of His Majesty the King. In this way, the aristocratic class is alienated from power. Philip II does not have a complete professional bureaucratic system like Egil. France's destruction of the country and the genocide is not far away.

In fact, Philip II decided this way: in the reorganization of the Ile de France, he was able to occupy about one-third of the land with the status of a king.

And the remaining one third of the children gave birth to children to those relatives of the original nobles, although the number of people was reduced a lot. But those people were originally settled. There should be no big problem with knocking. In addition, there were still one third of them left, but one third of them were the six thousand elite professional soldiers who were granted by Philip II. Philip II was bound to win.

That's it. The future fate of the serfs in front of the Ile-de-France is long ago decided.

Will resist? Will there be a riot? Will there be a public gathering of people into the woods and become bandits? Some of the Île-de-France are lively and beautiful. Egil laughs in his heart.

That's it.

Five days later, Egil evacuated with the last Norman army, and Philip II also brought his court ministers to the scene. The Vatican envoy also came with the papal mediation order. Speaking of which, although there were many letter exchanges before, this was the first time Egil met Philip II. As a cunning opponent as fox, Philip II was naturally qualified to let Egil take a good look.

At this time, the Middle Ages did not emphasize bloodshed as alliances like China. The two kings just exchanged a pamphlet with seals of peace, and then ordered them to be kept well. Then they listened to the decree of the Pope's envoy. Then they swear in front of the cross. That's all. Next, there was a welcome and farewell party.

At the banquet, Egil and Philip II confronted each other many times, chanting and politely. Philip II relied on his own as a victorious country, so he unconsciously became Egil.

However, Egil sarcastically said that France must have a prefix of "leading under the woman". The two of them were so terrified that they were dying. However, in the end, when everyone felt that this guy was going to upgrade from a verbal gun to a duel to draw a sword, the two of them were silent at the same time. Then a laugh of hahaha made the people around them feel inexplicable.

It would never be that the two kings became psychopaths at the same time, right? This is really a loss in the world of Christ...,...

After that, the Vatican messenger called Egir and Philip II, saying that he hoped to gain their support to fight the aggressive Eastern Rome.

Through his own intelligence network, Egil naturally knew more. He understood that this was a few days ago, when 100,000 Eastern Rome troops were invading Hungary. The Eastern Roman army under the command of Bashir II won consecutive battles, defeating Hungary and Romanian coalition forces. He successively captured Sophia, Bucharestes, Belgrade and other cities, and was about to approach Budapest, the capital of Hungary. Hungary was about to fall, and Attila called the sky and the earth to be unsatisfied. He almost wiped his neck in a hurry. The new Romanian king Dracula directly changed his camp, swore allegiance to Basil II, and then sent troops to fight Hungary.

If this is the case alone, then the key to not making the envoys of the Pope State so nervous is that the Pope State also declared war on Eastern Rome before this!!!

Originally, Innocent III had a wishful thinking: Iberia was controlled by Leon and Castile Kingdom, and on the other hand, the Balkans were controlled by Hungary and Romania. He then declared war with the northern Italian city-state. Then Eastern Rome, which was fighting from all sides (and Ottoman Turkey in Asia Minor, but due to faith reasons, it cannot be counted on the surface).

Innocent III had a very positive idea. Although the Pope was not strong enough, he was nominally the chief commander of the European continent. This alliance was dominated by him. After suppressing Eastern Rome, he could not only obtain a large tract of southern Italy, but also increase his reputation. Next, he took the opportunity to eliminate Egil's religion and lead the continental coalition to defeat the Norman Kingdom. In this way, it would no longer be a dream to establish the continent into a kingdom of earth.

However, ideals are beautiful, reality is cruel. Sir II is very talented and wise. The Eastern Roman Empire is powerful. In Iberia I, because it is too far from the core of the empire, the Iberian Legion is a little less powerful. His Excellency Sid, who emerged from nowhere, is really powerful, so he can gain the upper hand. However, he was defeated in other aspects.

In Asia Minor, the Imperial Legion almost knocked out the Ottomans. On the sea, Greek fire warships directly burned down Venice and more than half of the navy in Genoa. The Imperial Legion in Sicily came to Rome three times. The Pope's country was shocked three times a day...

Of course, the messenger's statement also made Egil feel a little regretful if he had known this was the case, the treaty with France should have been signed more harshly. Really, it turned out that the coalition had, but it was not for him. He was completely self-indulgent during that period. Egil felt so depressed for a moment that he almost blew up like the Orleans girl under the city of Paris a few days ago, and she squirted the old high blood...

In addition to mediating the conflict between France and Norman, the envoy of the Pope came this time, in addition to mediating the conflict between France and Norman, there is another point in hope that they can come forward and join this alliance to give the heresy in Eastern Rome a profound and unforgettable lesson.

Philip II and Egil looked at each other for a moment, then quickly looked away. Then they rushed to agree. Before the messenger could be moved, they praised the two Majesties for being true believers of God and examples of piety.

Philip II began to complain first, saying that the people in France were in decline and the soldiers were exhausted and were powerless. Before the messenger was depressed, Philip II changed his words again. However, as a Catholic country, how can the Pope not save him in trouble? It was just a little difficult... The road to Italy south is going through Gernaya. But Gernaya occupies the port city of Marseille, our French port city. It is still in war relationship with us. This... I wonder what the Pope is going to do?

The messenger was so embarrassed. Where did he have the right to guarantee such things?

At this time, Egil also began to say that the Norman Kingdom really wanted to help. But you also know that the range of activities of our Norman people is usually in Northern Europe. Going south to Italy, south to Iberia, or south to the Balkans. This journey is too far, and the heavy grain pulley is really a burden. See if the Pope sees a piece of land in these three peninsulas for us to live in. I will try to ting two Sicily. Can you discuss it?

This matter is even more difficult. The Pope regarded the two Sicilies as their backyards. How can people be sent? But what Egil said makes sense. Well, it is basically impossible to ask someone to do white work. So the Vatican envoy could only go back in shame.
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