Chapter 179

It was the season of blooming mountain flowers. The weather was warm and comfortable, and the reservoir project was finally about to start.

Over the past month, York's motorcade has been led by Randall to Nicole's territory. At least two or three hundred people, at most four or five hundred people, these convoys are full of all kinds of materials. They also drive flocks of cattle, sheep and livestock. They flow continuously, and even the roads are twice as wide. When more than 10000 young people passed by, Victor put down his business and hurried to Nicole's territory.

In order to accommodate tens of thousands of young people, Nicole has already led people to build more than 20 large and small camps. These camps are very simple, with no fences and only low shacks. Each camp is 200 meters apart and is built around a mountain stream for two kilometers. When Victor got down from the carriage, he saw that the once empty camp was full of people, mostly young men and women, as well as some old people and children. At this time, near noon, some people are repairing shacks, chopping firewood and carrying water, and some people are killing sheep, slaughtering cattle, burying pots and cooking in an orderly manner. Victor breathed a sigh of relief.

As the saying goes, tens of thousands of people are boundless, but Victor is used to seeing a prosperous city with a population of millions. More than 10000 people are really not a big scene. But after becoming a lord, Victor deeply realized how big it was to manage people's food, drink and Lazar. On the surface, these people have nothing to do with victor. In fact, Sylvia has handed over the management to victor, who is the top decision-maker here. In his position and seeking his government, Victor is about to preside over a large-scale project. In addition to being excited, he is more worried about trouble. Now, it looks good.

Victor walked upstream along the mountain stream. There were three green brick villas, which were the small manor he built for Nicole. On the way, when the civilians saw victor in gorgeous hunting clothes and elite guards, they knew that he was an aristocrat, so they avoided him and saluted him. After a short walk, Nicole came with a team.

Today, Nicole is wearing a red female hunting suit and calf leather boots. Her snow-white cloak is fixed on her shoulders by Sapphire pins to form beautiful pleats. She is also wearing a water lizard skin belt on her slim waist. She looks heroic and charming. She jumped off her horse and bowed to Victor: "good day, viscount victor." He winked playfully at Victor.

"Good day, viscount Randall." A male nobleman beside Nicole saluted Victor meticulously.

Victor smiled, "Sir Anthony, don't be polite."

"Yes."

Anthony. Lord York, home secretary of the York family, white tower scholar, and Nicole's half brother. Anthony once studied history and architecture under master Edwin. He will design and supervise the sluice on the Jinshui River bank. As the interior officer of the York family, Anthony has a high position of power. Ordinary nobles really don't have to pay attention to him, but Victor is different. Victor not only won Sylvia's trust and favor, but also took out extremely valuable rock brick technology. Although he is not the vassal Lord of the York family, Victor has a great influence on Sylvia in the eyes of the senior leaders of the York family.

Nicole and Anthony's father are just ordinary lords waiting to die. They only have 6000 mu of arable land, a village and a manor. After Anthony became the family home secretary, the conditions of the family improved a lot. At first, Anthony was very dissatisfied with the low born Knight sister and victor. He wanted Nicole to combine with the big knight in the family. Even being a close maid was better than being a lover for victor. But Anthony didn't expect that Nicole was canonized as a fief Baron, with a hereditary territory of 3000 square kilometers, and became the highest person in the family, all because of victor. So Anthony's attitude towards Victor changed 180 degrees. Accompanied by Nicole, he visited victor at the first time and showed humility and courtesy. When his brother-in-law visited, Victor was flattering, and the two sides talked happily.

The three walked side by side and talked as they walked. Victor pointed to the busy people in the camp and asked, "Sir Anthony, it's admirable that you can arrange so many people in order. How did you do it?"

Victor's question puzzled Anthony. He thought about it and said, "I didn't do anything!"

"Ah? You mean these young people are not managed and organized spontaneously?" Asked victor in surprise.

Victor glances at Nicole again. Nicole pours her red mouth and spreads out her slender hand to show that she knows nothing. Anthony shouted to his entourage, "HALS, come here."

A middle-aged man came forward. He was tall, with a face of vicissitudes, a long sword with scabbard at the waist and crotch, dressed in refined iron scale armor, and his action was vigorous and powerful. It was obvious that he was a trainee knight with no hope of promotion.

"HALS is my sheriff." Nicole explained to Victor softly and asked the middle-aged trainee knight, "HALS, answer Lord Randall's question. Who is managing these civilians?"

"Yes, sir." Halsey bowed slightly to Nicole and said, "Lord Randall, there are people and vegetable heads of the stonemason club in each camp. The vegetable head is responsible for food and logistics, and the stonemason will be responsible for leading the civilians to work."

"Autonomy?!" Victor suddenly became interested. He asked, "don't your people participate in management? How to maintain public security? How to distribute food?"

HALS replied, "my Lord, there are only 30 soldiers under my command, and I can't manage them at all. These civilians are honest. They can solve any problems by themselves. We will come forward only when people die. We have to ask the Baron's housekeeper about the distribution of food."

"Nicole, do you have a housekeeper?" Victor asks Nicole.

Nicole gave Victor a white look and said, "how can I say I'm also a baron? Of course I have a housekeeper. Don't you also have Lilia?"

"Well, interesting. I'll see your housekeeper later." Victor gave a dry cough and said as if nothing had happened.

When Victor approached the manor, he found that many people surrounded a small wooden house. They were half kneeling on the ground, clasping their fingers and praying.

"Why are the church people here? Doesn't it mean that the priest of the church went to the entrance of the Everglades in the north?"

Victor frowned. Although he didn't dislike the shining church, he didn't want the church to supervise the affairs of his territory. By convention, there must be a church in the town. Victor didn't rush to build Hekou Town, but chose to build a village, just didn't want the church to settle in Randall's collar too early. The reservoir project was about to start. Suddenly, Victor felt bad when he saw the people of the church.

"When tens of thousands of civilians get together, the church must send someone, which is inevitable. In fact, it is more beneficial for us to have a church to appease the people." Anthony smiled.

The church will spare no effort to safeguard the basic interests of the people, but it will never encourage the people to fight against the Lord. If the Lord is cruel and unkind, the church will do it by itself, and then it will comfort the people to obey the rule of the next Lord. In fact, as long as the Lord does not touch the bottom limit of the glorious code, the relationship between the clergy and the Lord's nobility is still very good, especially when the people are in labor, it is a good thing for the church to coordinate.

"When did the priest come? Will he veto our plan?" Asked victor in a low voice.

Anthony explained: "The day before yesterday, father Miller came with a civilian convoy without attendants or paladins. If he hadn't taken out the official documents of the church, we wouldn't even know that he was the presiding priest here. The church produced half of the food by building the fortress at the entrance and exit of the Everglades, and the construction of the sluice gate and artificial lake was borne by our York family alone, so the church would not interfere 。”

"That's good." Victor nodded and asked curiously, "why is father Miller alone?"

"Who knows? According to common sense, there are more than 10000 people gathered here. The church should never send civilian priests to preside over the educational administration. I guess the church is very short of manpower and materials, so we have to send civilian priests to prevaricate us." Anthony shrugged and said with some dissatisfaction.

"Civilian priests? Are there any noble priests?"

"Of course there are priests of noble origin, but the church is not divided in this way." Anthony paused and continued: "There are two kinds of priests in the church. One is a priest born in a monastery, and the other is a civilian priest. Priests born in a monastery are well-educated. In addition to divinity, they also master a lot of knowledge, so they are not only clergy but also scholars. Civilian priests are especially devout believers. They are given divine grace by the Supreme Lord of glory and have the ability to display God The church promoted these devout believers to priests. Although the church has always claimed that clergy are all servants of the Lord, brothers and sisters, regardless of high or low, Abbey priests have classmates and mentors, and can always get all kinds of support, so they are promoted very quickly, and civilian priests are often sent to a remote place to preside over a small church alone , living a poor life. "

Victor's heart moved and said, "so the civilian priest has the least hindrance to the Lord?"

"It is true that civilian priests have no ability to hinder the Lord, but no lord likes civilian priests. Although it is difficult for monastery priests to fool, they are flexible. When the territory is in trouble, monastery priests can apply to the church for assistance, perhaps food supplies, perhaps military support, or confirm the right of inheritance. Civilian priests can hardly get any support, and they My application is always put on hold. That's why I said that the church sent father Miller to fool us, lest we make all kinds of requests for assistance. "

Anthony said bitterly, "fortunately, father Miller has limited knowledge and will not dictate the project. When the project is completed, I must apply for Nicole to be a priest from a monastery to preside over the educational administration here."

Victor looked at the humble chapel and said thoughtfully, "I think Father Miller is very good."

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"Do you know what you're doing?"

The powerful voice was not loud, but varus had a thrilling feeling. He took a sip of pine nut tea, moistened his dry voice and said: "Marshal, we night owls intercepted an important intelligence some time ago. The crafty Fox of Dodo is planning a plot. They are going to assassinate Viscount Randall and then blame Lord Soren to annoy his highness Sylvia. Therefore, we paid close attention to the collection of intelligence in this regard. There are signs that dodo people are going to buy Sylvia palace with Duke Eriksson's territory So as to attack both sides and annex us Gambis. "

"And then? Are you going to help the dodos complete this plan?" Asked the Marquis of goron coldly.

"Sir, Lord Sauron is a royal nobleman and loyal to the royal family. If he can be promoted to the Golden Knight, it is more in the interests of our augustian family. Lord Sauron is afraid to take that step now because he always feels that he is not well prepared. If we win back the Marquis for him, it will not only help Lord Sauron to succeed in promotion, but also make him feel proud of Augustus The gratitude of the family accepts the scouring of the element sea. Teacher, if Gambis can add another loyal highness, many problems will be solved. " Varus bowed his head, but his voice was very eager.

"Sauron's talent is good, but it's just good. Let alone whether he can step into the peak field. Even if he succeeds in promotion, he is far from being compared with Sylvia. Is your mind full of cow dung to offend a divine knight for a Silver Knight? Also, Williams thinks the throne is more important than the future of Gambis?" Said the Marquis of goron word by word.

Varus smiled bitterly: "We have carefully studied that Viscount Randall is not important to his highness Sylvia. If his highness really loves Viscount Randall, he should stay with him instead of letting him take charge of the territory alone. According to our investigation, his highness Sylvia did not even send family secret knights to protect Viscount Randall, but just made a statement to protect Viscount Randall We believe that the leader of viscount Randall was prepared by his highness Sylvia to fight for the Marquis Sophia. Therefore, we intend to assassinate Viscount Randall first, and then expose the conspiracy of the kingdom of Dodo to his highness Sylvia. No matter whether Lord Soren can be successfully promoted or not, we have no loss. "

Goron took a pity look at varus. Since Ryan died, the owl has been divided into two. Varus, who is responsible for external intelligence, works for Williams, and Marguerite, who is responsible for internal intelligence, is responsible for the queen. However, any action of the owl must be reported to him. Fortunately, it did not lead to a big mistake.

"I also think Viscount Randall is not important to Sylvia. The owl can see it, can't dodo's cunning fox see it? How do you know that the cunning fox didn't mean to let you know the plan?"

Varus was thrilled: "teacher, you mean..."

"Viscount Randall doesn't matter, but the dignity of the Golden Knight can't be provoked. The cunning fox is enticing you to fight! Assassinating an insignificant Viscount is an optional plan in itself. For the cunning fox, Sylvia's break with us is certainly the best. If she doesn't turn against us, the Kingdom of Dodo won't lose anything. I think the cunning fox will probably promote this plan It's to comfort that idiot Friedrich. Of course, now add you idiot! "

Varus was ashamed and said, "then we'll tell your highness Sylvia the Dodo plan."

"No!" Goron stroked the scar on his face and said, "strengthen the monitoring of the cunning fox and don't do anything else!"