The tax collection team came back in the afternoon and almost in the evening, bringing in two full boxes of money.
Food and accommodation are included here, and of course the ten thugs with swords also need food and drink.
So the southwest room of the kitchen and dining room became lively, with constant chatter and laughter.
After Rudolf took off his armor in his room, he asked the servant to wipe it.
He took a meal and went to the study to eat, because everyone else was in the study.
Reger was also eating in the study.
Rudolf closed the study door after coming in, while Cheng Qianxun and Sneijder were counting money by burning the lamp.
Sneed placed the copper coins in a pile of ten and raised his eyebrows: "Knight, it seems you should go to the restaurant to eat.
After all, we are all masters.
You are equivalent to a supervisor in their pile. character.”
"I want you to go," Rudolf said angrily: "They did let me give up the seat of honor, but the smell on their bodies can make me unable to even eat."
"It's better to come over and eat."
Reger was drinking soup with a spoon: "They don't use tableware at all, they use their hands for everything.
It turns out that in the Middle Ages, there were no napkins at all.
They wiped oil on their bodies directly and wiped their mouths with their sleeves.
You guys can I've never been to a village, my God, the smell is terrible.
Farmers don't have toilets at all, and they just dump their excrement wherever they go.
It is said that people in the city also dump their urine directly.
On the street."
"Stop talking, why don't you let me eat?"
Rudolf tore open the black bread with his hands.
The black bread just baked today should be relatively soft, but relatively speaking.
He immediately pretended to be humble and said: "Oh, I am a knight.
I cannot speak like this to my noble lord and master.
Please consider my humble position.
I wore more than 60 kilograms of armor like a clown and stood in a smelly pile of excrement and urine for a day.
Let me have a good dinner."
Cheng Qianxun and Sneijder suddenly became happy.
Under their influence, Rudolph became more and more interesting.
Cheng Qianxun kept grabbing the money from the box and placing it in piles on the table: "Brave and loyal knight, your armor is extremely shining.
But no one will think you look like a clown."
Sneijder was even more direct: "The Milan armor worth 200,000 euros will make those village girls scream no matter who is wearing it.
Your war horse alone is worth the price of four bulls.
When you ride it, No less than driving a top-end luxury Ferrari.”
"Why don't you, the respected Mr.
Sneed, enjoy this honor?"
Rudolf was obviously very angry.
He also looked extremely tired.
He tore the black bread hard, trying to tear it into pieces.
Put it in your mouth and you can open it without teeth: "Who told me that only I can wear this damn armor?
I just feel guilty."
"My loyal knight."
Regel sat for a day.
With his special abilities, he didn't feel much tired.
He comforted him: "Don't worry, we don't have to go there starting tomorrow.
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We just need to count the money and pay in the castle."
He explained to the others: "The farmers are very cooperative.
They all come out and pay the tax obediently.
All the ladders have been placed at the church.
Anyone who wants a ladder can go to the priest to get it.
If it exceeds the time or the ladder is missing, he will have to pay money."
Cheng Qianxun was a little surprised and said: "The ladder can really collect taxes."
"Of course you can pay taxes.
There are more weird taxes in many places, and you may have to pay taxes on any dressing mirror that is too big."
Regel chewed the bread and said: "When I said the taxes should be given to the church, the priest was very happy.
He took the job immediately and made some nonsense on the spot.”
Rudolph laughed at this time: "That bastard is really good at making up things, saying that climbing a mountain ladder will get you closer to heaven, and it will make God think that they are approaching heaven without permission.
That is blasphemous.
So the ladders should always be kept.
In the church, use them in time of need, so that God will see that they are church ladders and forgive them.”
Everyone was happy now.
Apparently the ladder problem was solved.
The hole was patched up, and a special person stood guard at the door.
The ground in front of the door was deliberately made muddy and illuminated by torches like daylight.
The main door is not open, only a small door is opened.
It can only be used by one person bending down to get in and out.
Anyway, just to guard against one person.
That's Jeffrey.
"I never thought that Europe in the Middle Ages would be so poor and scary."
Today, he finally went deep into the grassroots countryside.
What he saw probably touched Rudolph.
He described the villagers: "Those people are better than what we have seen before.
They were even dirtier and scarier.
There were many pustules and scars on their faces, as well as a thick layer of dirt.
The beggars on the street were probably cleaner than them, and their clothes were all tattered and of the same color.
It’s just a piece of old rags that can be hung on your body.”
"Because he doesn't take a bath and is poor."
Reger raised his spoon and swallowed the food in his mouth: "Don't talk about these peasants, look at the clothes on our oriental female nobles, they don't even have a patch or a hole.
No, you can only see it in the palace.
Now in the castle, even if it is the lord's daughter, you can find a few patches on her clothes.
It is impossible to wear clothes without patches every day, only when meeting guests or going on a blind date.
I quickly put it on when a well-matched aristocratic young man comes.”
This is what Europe, which is famous for its richness, looked like more than five hundred years ago.
Cheng Qianxun said with a wry smile: "The Yuan Dynasty was probably the darkest place for the Han people in our country.
Even at that time, some Han people lived better than most of the farmers here.
At least, it’s better to let Genghis Khan fight here.”
Reger looked at Sneijder who was counting the money: "How did you do what you were told to do today?"
Sneijder laughed and shook his head: "After chasing a beautiful woman covered in stinky sweat for a day, I chased all the pretty ones in the entire maid team."
"I prove" Cheng Qianxun joked: "I guarantee that everyone inside and outside the manor knows that Mr.
Sneed is very normal and fully conforms to the characteristics of a lustful noble.
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Those women are also very happy to be chased, and they laugh endlessly.
Compared with you When catching chickens, the chickens that are being chased still crow loudly and crisply.”
Reger also smiled: "There's nothing we can do about it.
When we get to the stairs later, I'll scold you a few times and scold you for not knowing how to behave when your fiancée is here.
This way you don't have to chase her anymore, but you need to take pictures from time to time.
They touch your butt, touch your breasts, etc.
Don’t worry, they will just scream and scold you for being boring with a smile on their face.”
At this time, Sneijder stopped what he was doing, looked at Cheng Qianxun seriously, and said seriously: "My dear, you won't abandon me because of these little indiscretions.
I still love you."
"Get out of here," Cheng Qianxun cursed with a smile.
After Rudolph and Reger finally ate the unpalatable bread, raw vegetables, and roasted fruits, Sneijder and Cheng Qianxun also counted all the money.
A total of four thousand copper coins, because the lord here has been vacant for almost a month, so the taxes must be a lot these days.
The next step was to discuss how to spend the money.
Reger sat on a chair and put his feet on a high place to relieve leg fatigue: "This fief has about one thousand silver coins every year, which is equivalent to one hundred thousand copper coins."
The income is similar to that in other areas.
Of course we won’t stay for a year, we just need to figure out how to get through this period.”
"A month's income is about 8,000 copper coins."
Sneijder quickly calculated: "The monthly expenses are 6,000 copper coins.
It seems that the lord's income is not much."
"That's because we paid half the salary to the people called by that bastard in the church."
Rudolf said a little angrily: "Actually, only four thousand coins are enough for expenses."
"As long as you save your life, you can take care of other things."
Cheng Qianxun thought for a while and suggested: "You can't give the priest too much money.
This man has a poor memory.
He gave gold coins before, but he turned away within two days.
Otherwise, after receiving the tax every day, let someone go to the church and give it to the priest, saying that he is thanking God."
"How about every week?"
Sneijder said: "Every week there is a service and we need to go to church.
We send someone to go there with 70 or 100 dollars, which can be regarded as a fundraiser."
This is like spending money to buy some peace and quiet, and finally decide to go to church every week.
It happens to be the day after tomorrow, so that people in the church can continue to reap some benefits, so that sustainable development can be achieved.
At this time, someone knocked on the door, and Rudolf immediately put his feet down, stood up from the chair, stood next to Regel, and raised his chest, looking full of energy.
The knight must stand by his master's side and sacrifice his life to protect his master at any time.
Everyone also arranged their clothes, and Sneijder walked over and opened the door.
Outside the door was a thug.
He held his hat in his hand, nodded and bowed with a flattering smile and said, "Mr.
Sneed, is the lord here?"
"Yes," Sneijder replied, moving his body slightly so that he could see Regel sitting inside.
Reger pretended to be noble and asked: "What's the matter?"
The visitor smiled with his yellow teeth exposed: "Lord, a few untouchables are here and want to ask you to move their daughter who is about to get married."
"What?"
Reger was stunned for a moment, thinking he didn't hear clearly.
The thug smiled with his mouth full of yellow teeth and explained: "Since the death of the last lord, I have been unable to arrange weddings for the past month.
The farmers in your fiefdom came here just to find you to unbutton their daughters."
Now he understood that he had heard it right.
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After being speechless for a long time, Regeer said, "I'll be here right away.
Let them come in first and wait downstairs."
After the door closed, Cheng Qianxun looked at Rudolf who was holding back a smile in a daze: "What do you mean?"
"Right of first night" Rudolf finally couldn't help laughing: "I forgot, among the privileges of the lords here and there, there is the right of first night."
The right of first night means that before all women get married, they must prepare a generous gift, send the bride and the gift to the lord's manor or castle, and ask the lord to have sex.
Because in the early Middle Ages, it was believed that women were poisonous for the first time.
Only noble lords and monks could overcome the "toxicity" of virgins, replace the groom under the protection of the holy light, and "ward off evil and eliminate evil" for the virgin bride.
Then those who did not Only the groom with magical power dares to perform the conjugal ceremony with his wife
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