Chapter 73 2.31 Church School Opens

Three days later, the cold Scandinavian Peninsula suddenly welcomed a rare winter sun. Taking advantage of the moment when the sun briefly melted the snow, the entire village of Hanshui went out to the Snow Grave Valley to dig through the hard ice and bury the three carts of corpses in it.

Jerome, wearing a set of white bishop priest robes, prayed for them before they were buried.

Our Lord in heaven, may your name be honored as "holy"

When the kingdom of heaven comes, may all my brothers (all my brothers) be able to return home in accordance with the will of the gods!

In the soil, there is also heaven!

Give them new life, forgive all their sins, and help them get rid of the intrusion of demons

Amen

As he recited the prayer softly, the evenly scattered sunlight condensed into a dazzling flare that shone on the place where he stood. The six saints behind him began to chant hymns, and other believers in the village who tended to believe in the saint also put their hands together and recited softly.

Amid the chants, three carts of corpses were pushed into the pit, and some of the broken weapons, clothes, water cups, whetstones and other daily necessities they used in their lives were thrown into the pit. When night fell again, the pit was filled again.

These mortal enemies who had fought with swords and axes in their lives were buried together quietly after death. This was Loki's will, firstly to reduce the workload for the tribesmen in this cold winter.

Secondly, the soldiers themselves were innocent. They succumbed to the will of the lord to act, and as far as they were concerned, they had no power and could not decide their own fate.

After the soil was refilled, Gol Marash carried down a rough tombstone made of broken knives, axes and shields from the carriage. The tombstone was three meters high and weighed almost 200 kilograms. The tombstone was engraved with the names of every dead person buried in the tunnel.

When this brief burial ceremony was about to be completed, Loki took down the stone tablet of "the Knowledgeable" Ahai and his urn from the carriage mountain. At this time, Hanshui Village had no extra space to place his tombstone in the village because of the sudden influx of a large number of residents.

Loki took the iron pole and dug the ground himself, buried Ahai's ashes, and then erected his tombstone on the side of the wooden pit. When the tombstone was erected, he turned over and took out Swain Gonk's head and Darth Gonk's head, and placed them respectfully in front of the tombstone.

Although they had been dead for nearly a month, the cold winter still froze these two angry heads as hard as stone.

"Old charlatan! I will avenge you!"

Facing the wind and snow, Loki shouted loudly. He had to use all his strength, otherwise his voice would not be heard in the cold wind.

"But I still don't know how to repay your life-saving grace! For so many years, you said that you never told anyone where you came from, and whether you have any family."

"If you still have the ability to send dreams after you die, remember to tell me!"

"Wow! Wow!" Black crows began to land on the tombstone. They stared at Loki, as if Ahai was responding to him.

"Your magic power is so strong that you should have returned to Valhalla now that you are dead!"

"When I die, I will find you! Even if they don't let me go, I will find a way to enter Valhalla myself!"

"On that day, don't forget to send a crow to lead the way for me!"

The cold wind was howling, and Loki roared every word. As he spoke, he actually felt a little tearful. Wiping his eyes hard, he gently patted Ahai's tombstone and turned away.

The work of the dead was done, and how the living survived was still a huge problem in front of him.

**

During the following winter, a major event in the history of the Scandinavian Peninsula occurred in Hanshui Village: classes began in the Hanshui Village Church School!

The first batch of teachers were of course only the six holy bishops and monks that Loki had looted from the Lindisfar Monastery. When the church was built, each of them was promoted to "God's Chosen", and after a battle with Fog Duck Town, each of them moved forward one step.

This step was something that many holy bishops and monks could not take in their entire lives, but they actually waved their weapons and easily completed it with the will to live and die.

Such a huge harvest, plus everyone has a beautiful Slavic wife. Now they have truly regarded Hanshui Village as their home. In the church school, they also worked very hard to impart knowledge.

The first batch of students enrolled were 46 children aged 4-12 in Hanshui Village. It is worth mentioning that among this group of children, Slavic children accounted for about half.

The Vikings raised Slavic slaves and treated them like livestock. The only time these people could be free for a short time was when the Vikings forced them to mate.

When slaves mate, they are like stallions. Strong slaves are forced to mate with many women in an attempt to impregnate them and give birth to stronger offspring.

The offspring of slaves are still slaves. Once the lord tattoos the slave mark on their cheeks, they will never have the chance to return to freedom.

However, in church schools, there is no difference between Slavic children and Viking children. Each student will be given a set of exclusive stationery bags by the monks, including brushes, papyrus, handwritten learning materials, etc.

After entering the school, the children will be managed by the church school. The school has its own independent canteen. The meals that children eat every day will be matched by Loki as much as possible according to the standards of 21st century kindergartens. In addition to the four church courses of English, law, Bible stories, and basic mathematics, "Principal" Jerome also added "fighting techniques" after personally participating in a life-and-death battle.

In this way, at least these children can receive some basic fighting training before going out to participate in the "coming-of-age ceremony".

In addition, Loki's other purpose in setting up this school is to completely abolish the ancient group training of the Vikings.

In the customs of the Vikings, newborn children aged 10-12 will be taken to the lord's castle by their parents during the "spring gathering", meet the lord and swear allegiance, and receive the armband given by the lord.

This is the lord's trust in the warriors. Children who were given armbands could drink, marry, and go to sea with their lords on longboats to plunder. They could also freely choose the city to live in and the forces to be loyal to in the lord's land.

Under this system, all Viking pirates were martial. Although this Spartan-like civilization was very powerful, in the long run, it was very dangerous for residents to obey their animal instincts too much and ignore the light of civilization.

At this time, more than 50 years had passed since the "Kaiyuan Prosperity" on the Asian continent, and the powerful Tang people were conquering the world by land and water. Compared with the powerful Tang Dynasty, the Vikings at this time were not even barbarians in their eyes.

They called Vikings and Slavs "white ghosts" and they were not even human beings.

Loki was a time traveler, but he was just an ordinary worker in the Red Country in his previous life. His poor family forced him to work to survive after finishing high school. All his knowledge came from the Internet and nine years of compulsory education.

The rise of the Red Country originated from the two bombs and one satellite, and the pioneers of the two bombs and one satellite did not study the satellites and atomic bombs in the mountains.

They traveled across the ocean to the most powerful beacon country of that era to learn the most advanced technology.

In the 8th century AD, the most advanced country was undoubtedly the Tang Dynasty in the East!

Loki's real purpose was to let these children in Hanshui Village study hard, put down their axes temporarily, pick up paper and pen, and wait until they traveled across the ocean to the powerful Tang Dynasty in the future to learn the advanced culture, technology and ideas of the Tang people.

Rogues who simply play with guns and swords are not terrible.

What is really terrible is a group of hooligans who know martial arts, understand technology, are proficient in the etiquette and customs of various countries, and can also think independently.

At this time, these children holding paper and pen, ignorantly learning, they are the cornerstone of Loki's future confrontation with real powerful countries.