"The capital! Brother Ka's cousin isn't the emperor. No wonder Brother Ka was captured by the cannibals. The city wall here is too low!" Luo Youde looked around and listened to Hong Tao's explanation, shaking his head and smashing his mouth. He looked down on this small coastal city.

"In fact, his cousin's country is very big, called the Holy Roman Empire, with a population of about 10 million, most of which are in the north. This is just one of the small kingdoms. His cousin is not only the emperor of the empire, but also the kings of the two Sicilian kingdoms. How to say it? Their country is different from the Song Dynasty. It is composed of small kingdoms. The emperor chooses from these small kings. Whoever is chosen must be crowned by the head of their religion before he can become an emperor. But

Well, these small kingdoms are not directly managed by the emperor. As long as they pay enough taxes, the emperor will not be able to control them. At most, they will help the emperor send some troops during wars. Compared with the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, his cousin, the emperor, has a far worse power." Hong Tao was not very familiar with the situation in medieval Europe, but he still understood much more than Luo Youde. Anyway, he had nothing to do now, so he just took up his ability to be a tour guide, not only to teach Luo Youde, but also to increase his knowledge of the crew.

"I understand, Brother Ka's cousin implemented ancient rituals. When the Zhou Dynasty was established, the emperor was elected by all the princes, and everyone had their own vassal states. There was an allusion called "Beijinghuo Ji" by the princes. Didn't the princes there bring their own soldiers to help their emperor when they were fighting. If they were not satisfied with the emperor, they would simply not come, or bring their soldiers to overthrow the emperor and choose others to do it." Luo Youde understood the history of China than Hong Tao, and he was also good at associating. The European national system introduced by Hong Tao was directly transformed into the ancient Chinese vassal model of feudalization by him.

"Brother Luo is a talented person! It's a bit like this, but there is something we don't have, it's this church. The church in Carl's hometown is very powerful. Although they do not directly participate in the management of the country, their power is spreading everywhere in every corner of the country. Even if they elect a king, the emperor will be influenced by the church." Hong Tao felt that Luo Youde's deduction made some sense, but it was not comprehensive. The model of ancient Chinese vassal states was indeed similar to that of medieval Europe, but there was an important component unit. That is the church.

"Well, building a country with religion is a bit like the habit of the Indian Kingdom, *******." Luo Youde was also a well-informed person in this era. As long as Hong Tao said something is not too advanced, he usually has his own opinions.

"There is also a difference from *******. There is not only cooperation but also struggle between their popes and secular emperors. I don't understand this very well, but I will soon understand it. Since we are here, we can look at it with our eyes, think with our brains, and ask with our mouths. By the way, remember, I will leave you a mission now, when we return to the voyage, everyone will give me a discussion on the political system of European countries. People above the first-level sailor must submit it, otherwise

Treat it as dereliction of duty!" When talking about the issue of the political system, Hong Tao was very touched. Although he was neither a king nor an emperor, he was actually doing a king or even an emperor. What kind of political system is the most promising and most suitable for the development of Jinhewan? He was also confused by the monk. Since he couldn't figure it out, it would be better to mobilize the masses to think together and focus on it. Everyone put forward their own opinions, and there might be something worth learning from.

Frederick II, this is the transliteration of Hong Kong and Macao. In Mandarin, it should be translated as Frederick II. This emperor has many names, and his full name is "King of Germany, King of Sicily, King of Jerusalem, and His Majesty the Holy Roman Emperor."

So where is he the emperor? This question is very complicated to explain clearly. You can use the seven kingdoms during the Warring States Period as an example. Frederick II is the king of Qin, Wei, and Chu. Then these three countries formed an empire called Holy Roman, so he was the emperor of this empire.

In European history, kings and emperors have two concepts, and kingdoms and empires are also two concepts. Kingdoms are fiefs, and a person can be kings of multiple kingdoms, but they can only be emperors of one empire. There were many kingdoms in medieval Europe. There were also priests, states of waiting, knight territory, etc., under the kingdoms, these were hereditary and canonized. However, the imperial emperors must be crowned by the pope before they are orthodox, which is considered to be authorized by God. In an empire, there can be n kingdoms and n principalities and states of waiting.

The bloodline of this cousin of Carl's cousin is very complicated. If you have to trace the root of the root, you can always trace it to Charlemagne. It has a history of hundreds of years. If you don't write tens of thousands of words, you may not be able to figure it out. I won't talk much about it here. If you are interested, check it yourself. But there is still a few words to say about the surname Hohenstefin. Hohenstefin is a respectful title, and Stefan is the real surname. This surname originated from the Swabian region in southwest Germany. The name comes from a castle called Stefan. Carl and his cousin's ancestors were the Duke of Swabian, and together with Saxony, Bavaria and Lorraine, the Principality of Germany.

Frederick II's mother Constance was the legal heir to the two Sicily kingdoms, so he could not only inherit the German kingdoms of his father Henry VI, but also the legal heir to the two Sicily kingdoms. The king of Jerusalem was self-proclaimed. During the Sixth Crusade, he ended the expedition with the Arab leader Sultan Camille in peace talks and talked back half of the holy city of Jerusalem. No matter how dissatisfied the pope and the European nobles, he believed that he was qualified to be the king, so he named himself King of Jerusalem without the crown of the pope.

This emperor was born in Sicily and grew up in Sicily. Strictly speaking, he was an Italian. He disliked the German Kingdom, two were not adapted to it, three were not concerned. Most of the time, he stayed in the Kingdom of Sicily, and even gave the title of King of Germany to others. In his life, he only claimed to be the title of Emperor of Germany once in public, and in the rest of the time he called himself the King of Sicily, which shows how disliked the German land in his heart.

Hong Tao probably knows this emperor more than anyone else in some aspects, even better than the emperor himself. There is no way. Many history books in later generations have introduced this maverick emperor in a flash. Dante even called him the father of Italian poetry in "Divine Comedy". The reason is not how great he is, but how strange he is, and it is almost incompatible with the social environment at that time. Hong Tao happened to have read this information. He himself is also a person who is not very compatible with society, which is also considered as a feather of feathers gathered together. Sometimes Hong Tao even suspects that Frederick II may also be a time traveler, and what he does is very similar to the time traveler.

He was a Christian but despised the pope. He not only had no enthusiasm for religion but also doubted the correctness of religion. He was expelled from the Pope four times in his life. When it was at its most stern, he even led his army to directly conquer the Pope, which scared the pope all the way to France. This was also the reason why many popes were influenced by France later. He was versatile, a zoologist, philosopher and poet. He knew seven languages ​​and was proficient in writing, including Hebrew, Greek and Arabic. The most interesting thing was that in the two Sicily kingdoms he ruled, the Greeks, Byzantines, Arabs, Normans, Franks, Italians, North Africans, Jews and Christians lived in harmony, and they got along very well.

"Sir, I don't know if other cities in the Holy Roman Empire are more prosperous than here. If they are similar to here, our goods may not go out. I just saw the clothes worn by Captain Carl's fellow villager. As a royal businessman, he was a little shabby..." Jiang Zhuyi's ability to do business was also innate. After spending a few months with Hong Tao, she raised her thinking pattern to the same level as Hong Tao, and began to think about it from afar when looking at the problem.

"Miss Jiang said it very well. This is a warship and it didn't load any cargo. I see that just those things made in Cape Town Port would have to travel to several such cities before they could go out. If the fleet of the Song Dynasty traveled thousands of miles to come here in the future, it might take one or two years to go out. It's not cost-effective!" Luo Youde asked Jiang Zhuyi to say that, and he also remembered his identity as a merchant. He was clearer than Jiang Zhu's intention. After all, he specialized in this.
Chapter completed!