Golden Greenery

In the spring of the following year, Deport's castle was finally completed. From a distance, there was a pile of black lumps standing on the top of the mountain, which was quite spectacular.

It's a bit small. In Yang Yi's eyes, it's just a watchtower. It's neither beautiful nor majestic. It's just a fortress built according to local conditions and the mountains. Not to mention that it cannot be compared with the castles in the Central Plains, even it is far from the earth buildings of the Miao people.

But for today's Count de Port, it is enough. It houses seven or eight people, raises seven or eight horses, and can store food and money. Even if we defend it with 200 people, we won't be able to capture it. This is very important.

A large area of ​​newly reclaimed farmland under the hillside has been cultivated, and many farmers and craftsmen have gathered nearby to form villages. As long as the horn sounds on the castle, they will immediately gather to form a defense for the castle.

A standard lord model has been formed.

Yang Yi and Deport climbed to the turret, which is the highest point of the entire castle. The two of them overlooked the valley on the back of the castle, with several goshawks circling back and forth in the valley.

The majesty of the eagle striking the sky seems to match the new castle standing here.

"Duke, what do you think of naming the castle Eagle Castle?"

"Good."

"Thank you, Duke."

"You're welcome."

"I am Count Deport, I am 21 years old this year. I will marry a wife in the future, and I will marry a princess." Deport said: "My descendants will all take this castle as their surname, Eagle's Castle. "

In the languages ​​of the Allgäu and north-central Europe, 'Eagle's Castle' is pronounced 'Habsburg'.

"I, Count De Peter, am the ancestor of the Habsburgs, the ancestor of the Habsburgs."

"My friend is Duke Sheep from the East."

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Yang Yi settled down in Yingbao, just like living in Zhongnan Mountain. He ate, slept and practiced martial arts every day, and then got on his horse and went out for a walk from time to time. After a few months, he returned here.

Seven years passed like this.

In the past seven years, in addition to continuing to search for clues to return home, Yang Yi also did two things.

Helped Count Deporte form and train an army of eleven men, a total of 12 including Deporte himself.

From the very beginning, Yang Yi opposed Deporte’s adoption of the lord’s popular military line.

That is to say, farmers in armed territories work as farmers when they are busy, are bandits in their spare time, and serve as soldiers in wartime.

A military force composed in this way can only be in chaos. Because the Allgäu Mountains belong to the Holy Roman Empire, although it is only on the edge of the empire, once the lords here make trouble, the behemoth of the empire can flatten this place at any time.

The only way for Deport to rise quickly is to train an elite army of his own, and then participate in the empire's conquests as a noble, so that he can quickly approach the empire's power center.

The Earl of Deport wants to have a standing army that is loyal to him and can go to war at any time. The size does not need to be large, and he cannot support it if it is large. Twelve men are enough.

Twelve knights in full armor, even the horses are covered with leather armor, and each has two horses. Each of them has a long axe, a broadsword and a short bow, plus a round shield.

All formation tactics, weapons, three-and-three, two-and-two, and all kinds of coordination were taught to them by Yang Yi. It's not because he's proficient, but because these things are common goods in the Central Plains, and even thieves who go up the mountains and drop grass understand them.

Regardless of the Tang Dynasty or the Song Dynasty, those who are proficient in fighting in a twelve-man squad are only average at best.

The introductory knowledge of war in the Central Plains is still quite high-end in Europe today.

It’s just practice, not fake tricks. Anyway, robberies here are part of the normal pace of life. On average, Count de Port's team spends basically five months of the year fighting outside.

At first, Yang Yi followed them to fight, then he just stood aside and watched. Later, he lay in the Eagle Castle waiting for them to come back, and also helped Deporte look after the house.

At most once, a team of 12 people defeated the opponent's peasant army of 300 people. Yang Yi felt that this was obviously not enough. According to the setting, it would be appropriate to start at least one thousand.

So they practiced hard and fought hard for seven years.

During these seven years, Yang Yi also made a harpsichord.

This idea came from more than fifty years ago, when he listened to Zhou Yingluo playing the harp, harp, harp, and of course the sheng, Xiao and drums every day in the Changchun Valley of Immortality. Although Yang Yi has a different temperament, he is very fascinated by the instrument that uses silk string drums to make music, and he is naturally familiar with it.

This feeling is very similar to the feeling he had four hundred years ago when he combined polo and Cuju to form football in the Yulin Guards of Cheng Zhijie in Chang'an City.

He didn’t understand polo or Cuju at all, but he invented football.

I don’t know much about harp and pipa at all, but I always feel that the silk string playing method can be better.

One hand holds the frets and the other hand plays the tune. What if both hands are used to play the tune? Will it be richer?

If the resonating cabinet were larger, would the sound be fuller?

And the craftsmen here also gave Yang some inspiration.

The blacksmiths in the Central Plains can forge hundreds of steel and smelt alloys with various properties. These technologies are much more powerful than the blacksmiths in Europa. But the ruler is short and the inch is long. There are some craftsmen here who can pull out very thin metal wires from molten iron. Yang Yi seems to have never seen this in the Central Plains.

It is said that this craft originated from the jewelry making of nobles and is quite magical.

Most importantly, these wires can produce pleasant sounds.

It cost Yang Yi a lot of looted gold coins to make this, and it took two full years. It was finally completed with the help of church musicians and a bunch of craftsmen.

It is a wooden box that is larger than the dining table in Eagle Castle. When the lid is opened, it looks like flying wings. When the keys are pressed, the quills at the back will move the strings.

Yang Yi conducted the production but could not play it at all, but the church musicians found it a treasure.

The harpsichord was a delicate and fragile piece that could not be moved once it was built on the spot in the Eagle Castle. The obsessed musician lived in the Eagle Castle for a full half a year and was so angry that the bishop sent a knight to almost chop off his head.

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Seven years later, the fully qualified Earl of Deport, at the suggestion of Yang Yi, brought his elite knight squad to fight with the king, fighting for his own glory and the surname of Habsburg for future generations. world.

Yang Yi will once again embark on the long road of search. The Duke and the Count said goodbye on the banks of the Limmat River. The city-state here was called Zurich.

"Duke, I wish you will find what you are looking for soon. Deport will always remember your help."

"Depot, I hope that one day, your descendants of Habsburg will be able to roam under the sky of Europe."

Count de Port and his knights galloped towards the northern battlefield, while the sheep headed south and began another journey around the world.

In the years that followed, there was no more news about Sheep Yi in Europe. There was only one legend about the Duke of the East that slowly disappeared into the long history. And 'Zorro' has become a symbol of chivalry, passed down from generation to generation, and has been warning those who are unkind for the sake of wealth for centuries.

This is an era of chaos, an era of heroes, and an era of pirates.

In the northern seas of Europa, Viking piracy was at its peak. Various fleets composed of countless pirates licking blood in the waves went around plundering trading ships between England and the mainland.

Among these pirates, there are men and women. The pirate nicknamed "Black Annie" is the most famous and vicious female pirate leader of this era. She is a legend in the ocean.

Thirty years after Sheep left Europa, in a secret cave on the big island of ice and fire in the North Atlantic Ocean, a crippled old woman lay dying in front of the fading candlelight.

Surrounding her were countless gold coins, silver coins, gold and silver vessels, and jewelry piled up like a hill. The wealth here is enough to be called rich enough to rival a country or even a big country.

The old woman has fallen into confusion, and she has reached the last moment of her life.

"Duke, my husband. I miss you so much... Here is all the money I grabbed for you. I am not willing to spend a single gold coin, so I will keep it all for you."

"My husband, I have been fighting for you at sea for forty years, but... I can't take it anymore. Do you think this is enough... It should be enough, right?"

"You must not spend money indiscriminately... cherish money and protect money..."

"Duke, I miss you so much. I have been thinking about you every day for forty years. Duke... where are you... you..."

"My fleet... has found the continent to the west that you mentioned... waiting for you to come... I will take you there... I miss you..."

The candlelight extinguished the last flame, and the cave fell into endless night. The sealed cave entrance was submerged bit by bit by the cold sea water, disappearing forever under the sea.