In mid-June, Bishop Robert of the southern province of Wales in the Kingdom of Burgundy reported two submissions to the Church of the Kingdom of Burgundy.
The content of the first submission was to confirm that Atwood Wells, Earl of the Southern Province of Burgundy, was the baron of Wellsburg (now Solonborg) in the Lombardy Principality, and to request the church to recognize his status as a lord in the Lombardy Principality.
The content of the second submission is generally a complaint. Twelve years ago, Count Wadbury, the Lombard army leader who was a robber, colluded with the scum of the church. Under the perjury of a servant of the Wells family, he fabricated heretical charges on the basis that the then Baron of Wells had "criticized jihad", "blasphemed God" and "accepted pagan ideas" while drunk. As a result, Baron Wells was deprived of his title by the church and the secular court. Wadbury took the opportunity to occupy Wellsburg and the surrounding territory, and renamed it Sorrenborg.
Along with this complaint were sent the signed and signed testimonials of Christopher, the former vassal knight of Wellsburg in the Principality of Lombardy, and more than thirty citizens of Wellsburg at that time.
Two days later, the Church of Burgundy reported these two submissions to the Church of the Kingdom of France, and attached a letter signed by Archbishop Olof of Burgundy. In the letter, Archbishop Olof personally rectified the identity of Atwood Wells and accused the church of the northern diocese of the Principality of Lombardy of despicable acts.
Half a month later, a storm of public opinion took Tynets County, the Marquis of Burgundy, as the breaking point and quickly swept across the entire southern continent...
In Tynets County, the newly expanded "Free Bison" pub next to the headquarters building of the Continental Commercial Bank was filled with people of all kinds.
Among them are troubadours, puppet troupes, jugglers in acrobatic classes, magicians and their apprentices, as well as small traders and prostitutes who are active in various countries.
It is not surprising that Tyniec County has not yet turned into a flea nest. These special talents from all over the world were invited by a chamber of commerce called the Continental Trading Company. At this moment, the "Free Buffalo" has turned into a den of monsters and monsters.
At this moment, a half-singing, half-selling "band" was singing a hymn in the not-so-quiet tavern.
O, the light of the Wells family,
You will light up the top of Sauronburg again..." (Poetry)
"Stop, stop, stop!! The rhetoric of your poem is too complicated, and it is only suitable for high-ranking officials to sing, but the common people at the bottom can understand what is said." Dennis, the former ideological and political director of the Wells Corps and now the deputy inspector general, stood up from his seat and interrupted the chorus performance of the "band".
"Brother Balor, please show me the script of the poem." Sitting next to Dennis was Balor, the private secretary of the Earl of Wales and the chief dean of the School of Government Affairs.
Dennis took the Welsh papyrus with the characters transcribed on it. He leaned over and swept away the wine and fruit plate on the wooden table in front of him. He turned around and picked up the quill in front of Balor and began to write and draw on the paper seriously. He kept muttering, "For the common people." The content of the poem must be popular, with some slang or swear words, and it is best to add some content about Wadbury having sex with his brothers or his hobby of fucking the serfs' cows and horses. These things are what common people like most and are the fastest to spread. "
After a while, the poetry script modified by Denis was born. He held his masterpiece in both hands, blew on the ink that was not dry, and said proudly: "Hey, that's right, you have to bring some exciting colors."
Dennis handed the script to Balor, "Let the band sing the poems in both scripts for me. From today on, they will sing in turn every day."
Dennis immediately stood up and said loudly to the demons and monsters who crowded the tavern: "Guys, you will stay in the tavern for the next two days, and all the food, drink, and food will be paid for by the European Commercial Bank. But after two days, you must send two I know the poems of this script by heart. "
"You have to take action in two days. With Tyniec as the center, you must take these poems to every corner of the continent. When you meet nobles, you will sing the elegant poems. If you go into the poor, you will sing the vulgar poems to them. Especially the Principality of Lombardy and several surrounding countries, that is your focus. "
"In addition, every time you teach a circus troupe, a minstrel or a prostitute, even a son of a serf, to learn to sing these hymns, you can rely on their signature or bond to receive additional salary from the nearest European trading house, warehouse, or branch."
"But I have to warn you, don't try to defraud us of money.的耳目遍布整个大陆......」
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「......总督大人，大订单！大订单呀！」山谷木堡政务府总督官署外，一个商务部的官吏手里扬起一张订货单朝正在官署中给屯务部部署新领民安置任务的库伯大喊道。
Old Cooper is already in his fifties, and his hair has been bleached by the increasingly heavy workload in Wales, but his wrinkled face is still full of perseverance.
"What kind of big order are you in a hurry?" Cooper said with a serious face.
Entering the room, he saw many officials from the Ministry of Civil Affairs discussing matters. The business official realized that he had just lost his composure and quickly lowered his voice, "Your Majesty the Governor, the headquarters of the Continental Commercial Bank in Tinets is reporting immediately. Five days ago, a letter came from the Paris Trading Company. The Paris Royal Court and the Paris Church used Will The Queen was so shocked that they immediately placed an order for 100,000 pieces of papyrus."
The commercial officer continued to be excited, "Not only that, merchants from the Principality of Burgundy, the Principality of Swabia and even the Hanseatic League in the northeast have begun to submit orders for Welsh paper to the European trading houses."
"Governor, my lords, our Welsh paper has finally been recognized."
The development of printing technology is one of the few top-secret technological creations that Art personally initiated and supervised. In order to develop printing technology, he not only invested hundreds of thousands of pfennigs, but also killed several talkative leakers to protect these top-secret technologies.
· However, in this era, the spread and development of culture is slower than Art’s imagination.
Two years ago, Art ordered Balor, who had just come north from Lombardy to join him, to preside over the compilation of dozens of sets of Bibles with the help of Hamish. These Bibles were all made of Welsh papyrus, and the text of the Bible used unique movable type printing technology.
Soon after, the civil affairs system at that time was dominated by European commercial banks, using the Bible and free samples of Welsh paper as carriers to carry out a small but large-scale propaganda.
At that time, churches and palaces in several states around Burgundy, as well as important trading cities, received papyrus printed versions of the Bible and some free papyrus samples.
However, in the past two years, Welsh paper and movable type printing technology have not caused a huge wave in the cultural world as imagined. The early publicity only resulted in some medium-sized orders for Welsh paper, which mainly came from some churches and monasteries in the Principality of Provence. Of course, merchants who had contracts with European trading houses were also the main source of orders.
After the War of Succession ended and the Burgundian Kingdom was established, Welsh paper sparked a craze in the Burgundian court and church organizations at all levels. However, Art gave an order to the government to supply 20,000 pieces of Welsh paper to the court of Besançon and the church in the princely state for free every year without charging any fees.
In this way, relying on endless orders, the papermaking workshop keeps running.
It was not until early spring of this year that Welsh paper and printing technology appeared in the Paris Palace and the city's merchant guilds through the Paris branch of the Continental Merchant...
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“...I didn’t expect that papermaking and printing technology would actually bloom from the Kingdom of France. I would have known that we would have focused on the market of the Kingdom of France.” In the barracks of the commander of the Beiguan Army Fort, Art could not help but sigh as he looked at the submission sent by the Government Affairs Office.
Att thought for a while, dipped his pen in ink, and approved a few lines of text on the submission - the government office will expand the papermaking workshop and increase the production of Welsh paper from now on. In addition, the European trading houses were ordered to lower the selling price of Welsh paper from one pfennig per sheet to half a pfennig...
Matt raised his head and glanced at Dennis, the deputy director of supervision, who had just reported on the public opinion propaganda task, and suddenly had an inspiration. "Dennys, you have done a good job in building momentum. Now, I will give you another related task, to translate the content of those poems into Wells Print the paper into palm-sized leaflets and give them to the people you invite, and let them distribute them when they meet literate people. "The words "Welsh Paper, Exclusively Sold by Continental Trading Company" are printed on the back of this leaflet in the most conspicuous font. ”
Dennis quickly recorded Art’s words with a hardwood carbon rod, and replied: “My lord, I will go back immediately to make some drafts for your approval.”
“Kazak, come in.” Art continued to lower his head and review the submissions on the official desk.
"Sir, the one-month training for the elite mountain soldiers recruited from the mountains has ended. Please tell me how to distribute these soldiers." Kazak stood up and stood still, waiting for a reply.
Matt raised his head and twisted his neck, "The number of this group of soldiers is not large, and I have no plans to build a new organization for the time being, so most of these soldiers have been added to the companies of the First Division of the Welsh Army. In addition, the soldiers with slightly inferior performance will be added Select thirty people and send them to the Southern Xinjiang Garrison Army and the Wells Garrison Army as the backbone of the combat force."
"The specific allocation will be led by your Operations Department and coordinated by the Staff Department."
"Yes!"
“By the way, how is the resettlement of the families of these elite mountain soldiers going?” Art raised his head and asked.
"Sir, Baron Bob of the General Staff Department is responsible for liaising with the Government Affairs Office for the specific placement of military dependents. I heard that all 130 households of military dependents have been handed over to the Government Affairs Office. It is estimated that the resettlement can be basically completed before autumn..."