Chapter 96

It was getting dark and the roadside woods looked particularly gloomy. A light wind blew, and the branches and leaves swayed like demons. The guards around Victor immediately surrounded the Lord, with spears stretched out and shields erected. The whole team instantly became a huge hedgehog.

Victor saw the nervous reaction of the guards, a burst of funny, gloomy and worried mood was much better.

Under Victor's arrangement, everyone witnessed the fierce wolf, and more than one. Now, not to mention ordinary guards, even Nelson is very nervous.

If a movie is made with the Paladin as the protagonist, the captain of Claude, who is bright and just, has traveled more than 800 kilometers with a large number of people through hardships and arrived at the land of hope. And met the guard led by the Lord. Then the Lord told the paladin that there were terrible monsters in the territory. If the monsters were not eliminated, the people would not be safe. So the great Paladin Claude began to fight with the fierce and cunning monster in order to protect the people. Finally, he destroyed the monster, but found that the Baron was the behind the scenes. Tut Tut, such films must be very popular! Unfortunately, the reality is that good intentions often do bad things. Thought Victor sarcastically.

Yesterday, as soon as victor made a deployment for the upcoming wave of refugees, he received a letter from Baron eskry. After reading the letter, Victor was stunned. In his letter, eskry told Victor that a large number of refugees migrated to his territory under the organization of the church, and asked Victor to handle the matter properly, otherwise eskry would block the border. The implication is that if Victor blocks the refugees in eskri, eskri will no longer let Victor's motorcade pass through his territory.

Eskrill is the only way for Victor to go to Heibao town. Because the relationship between eskrill and Victor has been relatively harmonious, Victor's team has never been taxed by him. So Victor, the exile, had to take it if he didn't take it. He was too dependent on the trade of Heibao town.

In addition, Victor was deeply frightened and baffled by the people of the church. The church has been trying to ensure the survival of the people. How could it organize so many free people to die? The Church cannot fail to know that there is not enough food in this territory. Have the people who calculate themselves bought the church?

With such doubts, Victor redeployed. Originally, in the face of a small group of refugees, several alchemical war mastiffs could completely control the situation. But now a large wave of refugees are pouring in in in an organized way, which can't be blocked by just five alchemical war mastiffs. Victor immediately led the guards to block them at the border and let them camp in the designated place by using the deterrent of fierce wolves.

As victor expected, the organizers of the refugees did not dare to let the people risk their lives into the depths of the territory, so they had to camp obediently. But there will certainly be bold liberals trying to sneak into the core area of Victor's collar. At that time, they will face the killing of fierce wolves, and the survivors will flee back to the camp with definite news, so the rest dare not move rashly.

"Sir, do we really want to provide food to those people? That's more than 1000 people! More than ours." Nelson said stiffly to victor. It was acceptable for him to raise dozens of people in vain, but he was very unhappy at the thought of supporting so many people.

Victor sighed: "we must keep them. We can't watch them starve to death. Otherwise, once these people hit our villages and camps, they will bring us greater losses."

Victor knew very well that hunger would make people crazy. Only the basic survival guarantee could keep these refugees in order, and they did not dare to act rashly under the threat of violent animals.

"My Lord, I'm afraid we can't raise so many people! Can we hire free people to work for us like other lords? Anyway, we originally wanted to recruit people." Nelson whispered.

Nelson knows that the current income of the territory is OK, especially the products of several professional villages sell well in Heibao town. If more people are engaged in production, these more than 1000 people can be digested. It's better to hire them and let them feed themselves.

Victor shook his head: "It's not that simple. In fact, land and population are equally important to the Lord. But you see how the York family transformed the free people? There are more than 20000 free people living in Heibao town. The York family did not directly pull these people to the territory, but raised the free people in the shanty towns of Heibao town by donating food to the church. The York family established three organizations, the stonemason Association , caitou, and hyenas. The masons and caitou are responsible for recruiting people to work among the free people, and selecting hard-working and down-to-earth people to become their leaders, while those who are lazy can only continue to rely on the help of the church. Hyenas maintain the order of the free people and don't let these eliminated people make trouble. "

"The masons, vegetables and hyenas sift the free people over and over like a sieve. They provide qualified leaders for the York family. But these three organizations are free people organizations. No matter what they do, the church can't blame the York family."

"The process of transforming the York family into a free people is difficult and slow. Those who are successfully promoted to lead the people will cherish their identity, and naturally have a deep sense of identity with the York family."

Victor thinks very thoroughly, which is due to his life on earth. In that highly civilized world, all countries are very cautious about the problem of refugees. Even those virgin countries host refugees in refugee camps, rather than directly let refugees enter their own cities and villages. Even so, the selected refugees still bring a lot of social benefits The most ironic thing is that the most developed country continues to create refugees, but receives refugees from a small scale. This shows how difficult the refugee problem is.

In Victor's view, these influx of free people are actually refugees. He can't accept them with his current ability. Forcibly accepting them will only capsize the ship. Moreover, it was obvious that someone had dug a hole for him. If he jumped foolishly, his brain would be kicked by the donkey.

"Our production system can really accommodate these people. But we must not do so!" Victor firmly said, "they are not here to make a living, but for the work point system. Once we start hiring these people, more people will come here. We must not give them any illusions!"

Nelson looked at the guards around him and could only sigh.

Facing this crisis, Victor not only did not abolish the work point system, but reiterated his determination to adhere to the work point system to everyone. The terrified villagers immediately settled down. At the critical moment, internal stability is particularly important. Victor can't break his foundation.

"Sir, I'm afraid more people will join the camp. At that time, our burden will be even heavier." Nelson said anxiously.

Even if he is not sensitive to internal affairs, Nelson knows that more and more people are eating white rice, which will certainly bring down the whole territory, but he has nothing to do about it. Nelson wanted to drive these people away with violent means, but the paladin stared, which was destined to be an idea, not to mention Victor would not agree with him.

A haze flashed in Victor's eyes. Originally, a small group of refugees could only choose to return the same way under the threat of fierce wolves. Now with the disturbance of paladins, they have one more choice. Victor could imagine that more and more free people would enter the camp and watch, and his burden would be greater and greater. At this juncture, he was unable to recruit more people to engage in production, and even his plan to recover Pinghu village ran aground. The most important thing is that we can't let the paladin withdraw now, otherwise thousands of refugees will become his burden and can't be thrown away. This is an unsolvable dilemma.

"We have only one choice, that is to drag!" Sighed victor.

"The news of dragging them to despair, dragging them to leave, and dragging the fierce wolf spread all over Heibao town. Before that, we only provided a small amount of food, as long as we were hungry. We also frequently sent motorcades to Heibao town to buy food and escort those who were willing to leave."

Victor doesn't know if he can afford to delay, but he has done everything he should do. In addition to intimidation, aid, blockade, repatriation and dissemination, he also needs to seek external help. Victor let the paladin camp in that area for some reason. It was the intersection of three territories. In addition to eskry and Victor, there was the Viscount Buryat. When more and more people gathered and Victor couldn't bear it, the other two lords couldn't sit back. Although they were pond fish affected, who made them neighbors with Victor.

Victor rode on his horse and stared at the direction of Heibao town. He had a feeling that the key to quell the storm was not the territory, but the church. Now, the first thing he needs to find out is, who is calculating him? Did the church arrange this organized migration? Or the personal behavior of the paladin?

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"Stupid! Idiot! Is this a paladin? Not even an old farmer! Conley, you have to take full responsibility for it!" Father Ivan, a burly warrior, roared at father Conley of the Central Church.

Father Conley was scolded by Ivan for half an hour. Even if he was spit on his face, he didn't shout. Claude poked such a big basket, and he was Claude's boss. But now, Ivan told him to take full responsibility, and Conley jumped up immediately.

"As the priest in charge of the church in civilian areas, you don't know about the migration of more than 1300 people? Now, if something goes wrong, you run over and put the responsibility on me? I tell you not to think about it!"

Ivan Yusai, he really came to throw the pot, but it's not easy to throw the pot. Ivan was tired of Claude. The paladin often came to him with some trivial things. Finally, Ivan simply refused Claude's request and didn't want to hear about him. Unexpectedly, in two days, Claude's left Heibao town with more than 1000 people.

"Claude is your man! Not mine! He acted privately, and you can't escape!" Ivan jumped and shouted.

"They are all brothers of a church. What's the point of prevaricating with each other? Let's think about how to solve the problem!" Conley said with a sad face, "it's strange that the flow of free people is normal. But they all flow from barren places to rich places. How many people flow to remote places? Why on earth are they?"

Conley's soft obedience calmed Ivan down. He hummed, "what else can we do? It's not to join the work point system."

With that, Ivan introduced what he learned to Conley.

Conley was stunned. After a long time, he said, "Baron Victor is going to be bad! He will be drowned by the free people!"

"It's not just him! It's us! It's the stupid freemen!" Ivan said angrily.

Victor didn't get so much food. If a large number of free people starved to death, they could be blamed as the presiding priest of the glorious church.

"No! Where did Claude raise food? That's 1300 people. They can't live by digging wild vegetables!" Conley frowned. He clearly felt a conspiracy in it.

"So Claude is a fool! He has been used without even knowing it! A businessman donated a large amount of goods directly to him, so he went on the road in such a high spirits. He completely forgot the church regulations, and only priests can accept donations." Ivan said angrily. In fact, this provision has existed in name only. The order of the shining Knights has long accepted donations, and they are all large donations.

The two priests looked at each other bitterly, feeling sad. Obviously, Claude was worried about their obstruction, so he quietly led the team to take them by surprise.

"What now?" Conley asked. He had to admit that he was inferior to Ivan in dealing with free people.

Ivan walked back and forth a few steps and said, "in fact, you know, our church is not afraid of the migration of free people, just like sheep eating grass. No matter where the sheep go, as long as our priests follow. But now, we can't get away. There are more people in Heibao town!"

"If we collect food now, it will only bring more and more people there. Unless the bishop sends a priest to victor, we really can't send food."

Conley was silent for a moment and said, "can you let the free people back?"

"What do you say?"

Ivan gave Conley a cold look. The position of Guanghui church has always been to protect the people, not to force the people. But how to get those crazy free people out of Victor without coercion?

"Let's get this straight! We can only recover our losses by building a church under victor! I know you have a good relationship with the bishop. It's up to you now." Ivan stared at Conley with burning eyes.

Conley smiled bitterly, "I can only try. To tell you the truth, I'm not sure at all. You may not know that there is a shortage of people everywhere now, otherwise Claude would not be the captain of the paladin."

Conley lowered his voice and said, "the messenger who came here last time was a friend of mine. He told me that most paladins and priests have moved north."

Ivan took a breath of air conditioning. Is it going to change?