Chapter 393 7.47 The Duchy of France and the "Carolingian Renaissance"

10 days later.

Loki stopped involuntarily as he looked at the endless green fields and the white walls at the end of the fields.

After 22 years of traveling, Paris was the first great king's city he had seen.

This majestic royal city radiates from the center with five satellite cities surrounding it. At this time, only the first fortress "Versailles Castle" appeared in front of him.

And this fortress alone is comparable to the scale of Wessex Royal City "Southampton".

In the 9th century AD, the "Palace of Versailles" that would later become famous would not appear until 700 years later. At this time, Versailles Castle was just a well-known tourist area in the Duchy of France.

This place has large tracts of forests and algae marshes, and is one of the three breeding grounds for wild unicorns in France.

The Plantagenet family divided 500 hectares of forests and swamps into conservation areas, and organized a forest guard of nearly 10,000 people to patrol here day and night to prevent the appearance of poachers.

Versailles Castle is the garrison of this army.

It has to be admitted that even for an inconspicuous satellite city, French architects have invested in a rigorous design spirit. In the endless fields, the snow-white city wall appears at the end of the field.

Behind the city wall, all the buildings are white bricks and white tiles, setting off the misty green peaks behind the Versailles Castle like a fairyland on earth.

"Everyone says that France is a good place, only when you see it with your own eyes can you find that it is indeed a paradise!" Wen Zof, riding on a tall horse, looked at the corn field that was nearly one person tall and marveled at it.

Thousands of years ago, the pre-Qin Qigong masters who flew on swords discovered the New World while purging the foreign gods. When they brought back the seeds of this yellow fruit from the New World, "corn", a highly adaptable dryland crop, quickly became popular.

A hundred years later, along with the Silk Road, it spread like wildfire around the world.

The corn in the Duchy of France is like the sturdy crops affected by the "Xuan-Yuan Sword", and each stalk can produce two or two sticks.

However, the range of the Xuan-Yuan Sword is limited after all.

At this time, in the territory of France, the endless corn fields all over the mountains and plains mercilessly declare the country's strong national strength.

Compared with Wenzof, who has been counting his days for most of his life, Alfred on the other side of Loki doesn't think so. He has lived in the palace of Southampton since he was born, and has been sent to Constantinople by Ecbert at a high price since he can remember.

He has seen too much of everything in the prosperous city, but he is more fascinated by the Viking culture of killing all day long.

Loki only brought Wenzof and Alfred on this trip. Guraul, Sat and other old friends who have been following him for a long time asked to go with the team, but Loki refused without exception.

First of all, this is destined to be an extremely dangerous journey.

The Viking pirates who put their heads on their waistbands and wielded axes to create a new life had not had time to enjoy their new life for a few days. They had no need to enter this hostile foreign country.

The only reason he chose to bring Alfred was that this guy, like himself, was also a target of the Illuminati.

Secondly, it was not a wise decision to let this group of lawless robbers who wanted everything enter France.

I have already fallen into a conspiracy, and there is no need to add other troubles.

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The Duchy of France perfectly interprets what it means to "know etiquette when the granaries are full."

Thousands of years ago, when "Ancient Rome" conquered Carthage and began to expand along the Mediterranean coastline, they found that the "Gauls" living on this land were much taller than other barbarians.

Not only that, the Gauls' villages often have a large population and amazing combat power.

The only reason why Gaul was defeated by Rome was that this primitive city-state did not have a reliable god. In contrast, the 12 temples under Zeus provided the Roman Republic with sufficient "chosen ones".

This led Caesar to conquer Gaul in 49 BC.

After conquering this territory, Rome brought advanced cultural technology. Under orderly farming, the value of this land was quickly discovered.

Rome's rule over France lasted for nearly 500 years.

In AD476, the Western Roman Empire fell, and the Roman citizens living here declared independence. They called themselves Franks and established the first independent dynasty on this land - the "Merovingian Dynasty".

In AD508, the capital was moved to Paris and renamed the "Principality of France".

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The Duchy of France completed several "installations" in the Dark Ages.

First, in 732 AD, the French people used dragons and Pegasus to successfully resist the newly developed "Fire Knights Legion" of the Arab Empire and successfully resisted the expansion of the Arab Empire in the western continent.

From then on, the territory of the Arab Empire stopped at the puppet regime "Principality of Ramses" in the northern continent.

No further progress for more than 200 years.

Secondly, in AD751, the Carolingian Dynasty was established. The extremely wealthy French people started the first "Renaissance" in the Dark Middle Ages, known as the "Carolingian Renaissance".

In the Dark Middle Ages when most people were still struggling for three meals a day, carriages and houses, the ruler of the Carolingian dynasty, "Charles Carolingian", had successfully ensured that every French household had enough food and water.

There were horses in the stables and cows in the cowsheds.

Looking at the silver coins that were almost piled up to the ceiling in the treasury, and some of them had even oxidized and turned black, he had a new dream in his heart.

He wanted to make everyone in this country literate.

The first step was to reform the font.

Charlemagne spent a lot of money to invite nearly half of the scholars in the Western Continent. After several years of research, he and these scholars transformed the cumbersome Latin characters into a more convenient style for learning.

The first letter of a sentence is capitalized, and a giant number is added at the end of a sentence.

This unprecedented feat originated from the "Carolingian Renaissance."

After formulating a more regular and simple language, the next step is how to promote it nationwide.

Charlemagne thought of the "Holy Church" that had spread throughout the country at this time.

However, religion and country are always two concepts. As a king, he can command his subjects without obstacles, but if he wants to give orders to monks, it requires more effort.

Charlemagne adopted a roundabout tactic.

He first collected the legends about the Holy Bishop scattered around the world, combined with the different "Bible Stories" in the churches of various places, and after careful sorting by the scholars, he integrated a brand new "Bible" in French.

This Bible can be regarded as a unified integration of the history of the Holy Bishop.

It elaborates in detail from the "Exodus" in 1350 BC; to the Persians' conquest of the Babylonian Kingdom in 537 BC, the Jews returned to their homeland; to the Hebrew Bible stories compiled by the Jews in ancient Greece in 300 BC, and then to the difficult development of the Holy Bishop in the 12 Temples of Zeus in the Roman period.

This Bible, called the "Old Testament", was immediately crowned as a treasure by the Holy Bishop as soon as it came out.

Charlemagne promoted this Bible compiled in the "new language", and the monks naturally accepted this new language called French.

This provided fertile soil for the monks to establish church schools in the future.