Chapter 1 Three Years

Time flies, spring goes by and autumn comes.

Two years seem to be just a blink of an eye.

In the beginning of Xia, this is the fourth year that Bai Zhou has come to this world. In other words, it has been three years since Bai Zhou came to this era.

The young faces of those days have now begun to grow a faint beard, and their size has finally surpassed Fiora, and the edges and corners of their faces have begun to become clear. After completing the ceremony, Bai Zhou was finally considered a man, although before that, no one had ever regarded him as a child.

When the entire Europa continent was full of smoke, the little Switzerland was like a paradise, quiet and peaceful.

No, to be precise, the eastern part of Switzerland, controlled by the Germans, is indeed peaceful and peaceful. However, in the western part of Switzerland, the place ruled by the Western Qin people, is like a huge construction site, with new buildings being continuously built; it is also like a huge arsenal, continuously transporting various combat readiness weapons to the outside.

In the west of Switzerland, Burgundy, a principality that could even be on par with the royal family of England and the Holy Roman Empire, only resisted less than four months in the face of the 1,500 farmers brought by Joan of Arc. The number of Joan of Arc's army, after occupying Dijon, the capital of Burgundy, was as high as 30,000 people. Moreover, these 30,000 people were real combat troops (although not very combat effectiveness), excluding ordinary civilians who voluntarily donated food to Joan of Arc's troops and transported food, and the data of their people reached a population of 100,000.

Philip was not unfairly defeated because his troops did not even dare to compete with the famous Valkyrie in France. The troops sent by Philip to fight against Joan of Arc were not a few of them surrendered without fighting. In the end, even Philip could not guarantee whether they would obey their orders after sending the troops out of Dijon.

"There is France after her; she is France, and France is Joan of Arc"

In the hearts of the French civilians, Joan of Arc was the messenger of God. To make them fight with the messenger of God, they would rather turn the gun head around.

It was precisely because of the rapid destruction of the Principality of Burgundy that the ore resources of the Western Qin were greatly enriched at once, so that they could have the ability to export finished weapons to the outside world.

Fiora and Zhang Yi and his group stayed in Denmark for more than three months before they gradually finalized all matters.

The biggest difficulty is that they don’t like weapons made by the Western Qin people, nor that they don’t have that much money. In fact, when they saw the effective range of bows and arrows taken out by the Western Qin was as high as 180 meters (and the effective range of bows and arrows of the Western Qin were as high as 250 meters), and within a hundred meters, they could shoot through ordinary chain armor, some generals and small nobles had already decided to buy weapons from the Western Qin at all costs.

Because in the cold Northern Europe, there were no horses. Although the descendants of these Vikings may have very strong infantry and strong water wars, they had almost no horse army, let alone confronting the Holy Roman Empire, even Poland and the weak France did not dare to show their minions easily, because these three countries were all cavalry powers.

In addition to the heavy infantry who are well-arranged in the formation, they can only support them, bows and crossbows are their best weapon of destruction.

But for Western Qin, it was just the purchase of those little nobles that were far from meeting the funding gap of Western Qin, and their king had to agree.

Unexpectedly, the descendants of the Vikings who have always shown their courage have many concerns about their kings, and he is concerned about the reaction of the Holy Roman Empire.

Even if the Western Qin could replace the pillars and hand over the weapons to them without missing traces, the problem is that they are now unwilling to provoke such a powerful Holy Roman Empire under Frederick's rule.

At this moment, Zhang Yi played an unexpected role. Of course, Frederick also had the indirect help of him - he launched another army to invade Italy.

Zhang Yi quoted classics from all over the world and made the Vikings believe that Frederick looked down on the barren Nordic. Even if you can't defeat Hamburg, the bridgehead in the north of the empire, you can turn your direction to plunder Poland, which is also deeply trapped in the quagmire of war, or get a piece of the battlefields of England and France. There is no need to worry that your soldiers will go out to fight, and Frederick will shift his strategic focus from the rich south to the north.

What surprised Bai Zhou even more was that Zhang Yi contacted several merchants in Denmark as if he had divine help, and worked as arms dealers with Xi Qin (of course these merchants are the legendary second-hand dealers). You should know that Switzerland is an inland country with no ports, but there are countless ports in Nordic places. Through these merchants, Xi Qin can sell weapons to Poland, and of course, Poland's enemy Russia. Similarly, the English may not buy weapons from other countries because of their complete industry, but Scotland, Wales, and Ireland are all good partners, especially Scotland where rebellion is breaking out. I heard that the weapons of many of their soldiers are just a wooden stick with a few iron nails inserted on it.

In short, the number of weapons that the Western Qin has made can be sold as much as possible. It is not an exaggeration to describe it as a daily pound of gold. Therefore, the construction work of the Western Qin is moving forward at the fastest speed, and the Mohist school of architecture was also completed half a year ago. Now it is not money that restricts the progress of the project, but Xi Qin cannot gather so many people to work as construction workers for a while.

Speaking of Frederick's second conquest of Italy, because Frederick allowed the soldiers to plunder in Italy (in fact, there was no way. In this era, ordinary soldiers had no military pay, and those soldiers who wanted to fight abroad still maintained high combat power. Frederick could only choose to do this. After all, huge wealth was the driving force of the war. Frederick could not only make himself a fortune, regardless of the feelings of his subordinates, the middle-level generals and the little nobles.), the northern city-state of Italy was completely angered, and they formed a city-state group led by Milan to fight to the death with Frederick. However, Frederick overwhelmed the insurrections with powerful military violence, and the city-state alliance was forced to surrender.

At the same time, Frederick convened representatives of the Italian city-states to convene the meeting of Loncaria, and stated that he had absolute dominance over Italy, and that from the appointment of officials to the collection of taxes could only be decided by him.

This time, Frederick did not bring the people of Western Qin for some reason. Of course, Bai Zhou was happy. Although this conquest of Italy ended with Frederick's victory, Bai Zhou did not hope that the development of Switzerland would be delayed because of the pleasure of the temporary robbery. You must know that once troops were sent, Xi Qin could not only send a few thousand miscellaneous troops to deal with it, but to devote all the troops from the whole country.

The Hundred Years' War between France and England is still in full swing. Although Joan of Arc was ruthlessly abandoned by the royal family, she had no intention of taking over as the Duke of Burgundy. Of course, she did not join the royal army directly as a French general, but went north to regain the lands that originally belonged to the Duchy of Burgundy. These lands are now occupied by the English, which means that Joan of Arc is still active on the front line of fighting against English invasion.

Some of the nobles and generals who were originally friends with Joan of Arc joined Joan of Arc's camp, for example, after the night he rescued Joan of Arc, he had no news.

Later, Bai Zhou learned that this French marshal, a national hero, was allowed to use lilies representing the royal family on heralds, and the black wizard who fell from Joan of Arc's death, hid in Burgundy until the end of the Burgundy and Western Qin war.

No wonder Bai Zhou had no news about him at the beginning. Moreover, he and some other generals who were disappointed by the French royal family (if Charles VII had not raised the banner of fighting against England again, there would have been more nobles who were disappointed with him) joined Joan of Arc's camp.

Adversity inspires generals and good times conceals generals. In the future, Giles, who was named Marshal at the age of 25, is now just a qualified general under Joan of Arc and has far from showing much military wisdom. Perhaps his light was completely covered by Joan of Arc's flag. However, Bai Zhou believed that he was lucky, even if someone once said that Joan of Arc who did not die was not the real Joan of Arc; Giles who did not go crazy were not the real Giles.

In Bai Zhou's eyes, they were all living people, not cold historical images. If they were traitors, then Bai Zhou would not mind pushing them on their way to the abyss, but they were both firmly believers and loyal emotions. Therefore, even if Wei Fu once said tactfully that it would be almost impossible for him to conquer Burgundy in the future and truly include those precious mineral resources into the pockets of the Western Qin people, but Bai Zhou still did not regret the raid of thousands of miles to rescue Joan of Arc.

Wang Xiaobao and Weiwei were finally able to return to Switzerland. According to the news they brought, Burgundy today is far superior to the relatively weak France in terms of military combat effectiveness alone.

The English definitely did not have the ability to deal with two-front battles at the same time. Moreover, there was still a rebellion in Scotland behind them, resulting in their repeated defeats and even in the face of Charles VII's royal army. If it weren't for Crown Prince Richard, the Lionheart would have decisively abandoned those cities that were not safe to defend and took the initiative to retreat to narrow the defense scope. The current situation of the Golden Flower Raven Dynasty would have been worse.

The old neighbor of Western Qin, the Swiss Germans, was the Swiss Germans. Due to the news that Moqi brought to Bai Zhou before, Bai Zhou attached great importance to the movements in the east. The scouts patrolled the "Border Line" almost 24/7. However, these Germans were very honest. Frank even sent someone to ask if there was any problem within Western Qin that made Western Qin so nervous.

Bai Zhou had a haha ​​before he could deal with it. However, there were more and more "normal" Western Qin merchants in Zurich, St. Galen and other cities.

On this day, Bai Zhou came to the suburbs, named for inspecting the fields, but in fact he wanted to breathe fresh air. Although the air in this era was so fresh that it could not be fresher, the Bern where he lived was surrounded by construction sites, blacksmith workshops, and the air formed by the rot and fermentation of feces and animals in the city, which made Bai Zhou really unable to bear it. In fact, Bai Zhou could completely move into the Twin Cities of Bern, but there was a very important reason. No matter where Bai Zhou lived, he was the son of the Western Qin people, but if he did not live in Bern, he seemed not the Duke of the Swiss.

After several years, the idea of ​​"average land" proposed by Bai Zhou has basically been achieved. Although it is not so smooth on the road of "the farmer has his own land", under the regulation of Weifu and the deterrence of the powerful force of the Western Qin Dynasty, in Switzerland, except for those sluts, everyone has a land that truly belongs to them.

The land tax set by Xiqin was five to one. Strictly speaking, this is a very high tax rate. However, compared with the lowest land tax set by the aristocrats in the past, it does not include a total of more than a dozen miscellaneous taxes. Xiqin is already kind enough.

This year's year is also kind enough to Xiqin, and it is basically a good weather. Bai Zhou was moved to see the happy growing crops in the fields and the farmers who kept asking him good things.

Sometimes, people's desires are really low, just to have a full meal; but sometimes, people's desires are endless.

Bai Zhou also wanted to be his peaceful husband safely on the unfertile land of Switzerland, but everyone understands that this can only be thought about it.

A cavalryman, the attendant from Bern, handed over the documents that Bai Zhou had to deal with today. It was all regular affairs. Bai Zhou roughly flipped over and was about to keep it for the afternoon to deal with it, suddenly, a message came into Bai Zhou's eyes.

It was a message sent by Mo Qi to Italy. Strictly speaking, it can only be regarded as a piece of news, a rumor, and even intelligence, but Bai Zhou knew that his comfortable life would probably end soon...

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