Chapter 504

Howard, head of the shining knights, on 11 March 7571 Testier, deputy head stroch Testier, Templar chief turnans and privy council chief frides killed the black hoofed Centaur Khan orogar in the bareto valley.

So far, the Sassanian Empire and the church coalition fought bloody battles for seven years, and finally defeated the most powerful Centaur tribe in the east of the Empire, strangling a terrible threat in the bud.

This is a glorious victory enough to go down in history!

The church is ready to wait until the spring of next year to hold a parade celebration across the kingdoms to show the heads and leather of legendary men and horses to the believers in each parish, so as to publicize the great achievements of priests and knight Lords. But the news of the paladin's triumph seems to have spread to every town in the human kingdom, flying over the water season with ice and snow.

Bards, song and dance troupes and wandering artists in various towns learned the process of the battle of bareto from the hands of local churches and caravans. Under the guidance of church priests, they adapted the feats of priests and knight lords into poetry and drama, and then sang and performed to urban residents.

In rainy and snowy seasons, urban residents with bulging wallets especially like the drama and poetry performances of song and dance troupes. It costs little and can increase their knowledge and make themselves different from the ignorant Hicks. The content of each song and dance troupe's singing and performance is different, but the story material is the same. They are all priests and knights fighting cruel orcs. Add some tearful and blood boiling scenes of love or revenge. Of course, it is also necessary for heroes to recapture the fertile land.

That's what the audience likes to see.

The Allied forces of the shining knights and the Sassanian Empire have flattened the black hoofed Centaur tribe, which has become the most popular and exciting topic at present.

The Lords and nobles of the kingdoms had little enthusiasm for watching new dramas and poems, which was originally the propaganda means for the church to harvest faith. They had already received detailed war reports through the church, and the facts were far more heroic and heavy than exaggerated theatrical performances. Benadicht, deputy head of the shining knights, fell, five silver knights and 31 high-level clergy died bravely, tens of thousands of soldiers and low-level clergy died on the battlefield, and even shepherd frieds lost three sons and a daughter in the war.

It was a victory forged with life and blood, but it was not the focus of the great aristocracy.

Although the war is not over yet, the nature of the war has changed. The overall strategy of the Sassanian Empire changed from defensive attack to pioneering attack.

The shining knights and the Sassanian Empire seem to have opened the prelude to a new era and took the lead in seizing the leading power of the pioneering war.

The Sassanian royal family began to delimit land in the northern wilderness, and the king of Neville was ceremonious, cordial and warm. Victor did not lose his sense of propriety and said sincerely, "Your Majesty, cogston almost blinds me."

Rex pointed his Golden Whip at the purple and gold clock at cogston church and almost lit up Victor's eyes.

According to the size and luster of the purple gold bell, Victor speculated that it weighs at least 7 tons. It is made of gold and refined gold. The proportion of refined gold is 3 / 1000, totaling about 46 pounds of refined gold... Well, this bell is worth 10 million gold sol. The Randall family earns 100000 gold sols a year and saves it for 100 years, which is almost that amount.

Rex was very proud. He laughed and rode side by side with victor.

It was early spring, when the ice and snow melted and the temperature warmed up. The main road was crowded with brightly dressed people on both sides. The front two rows were almost Neville's noble women. When victor and Rex's honor guard approached, some young and beautiful noble ladies took colorful petals from the maid's flower basket and threw them into the motorcade. However, most of the petals fell on Victor's side, and the king of Neville almost became his foil.

This is a treatment Victor has never had in the king's city of Gambis.

Cogston may not be the largest king capital in the human kingdom, but it must be the most densely populated city of knights and nobles. In Neville, almost all lords above Baron settled in cogston, and their children and relatives often saw their king. Compared with the noble children of other kingdoms, they have less awe of the king and more kindness to his majesty Rex. Even if Neville's Knight lady rolled her eyes at him in public, Rex just turned sideways with a smile and let more petals fall on victor.

Victor's eyes were not askew, and a proper smile hung from the corners of his mouth. He was neither indifferent nor enthusiastic. He heard the sound of pulling the curtains in the carriage behind him. I'm afraid Catherine was sitting in the carriage, grinding her teeth secretly.

In this way, the horseshoe stepped on the petals, and Viscount Randall's guard of honor came to the door of cogston cathedral. Rex jumped off his horse and very gentlemanly helped the queen mother of Gambis out of the carriage. Catherine walked gracefully to Victor with one hand on King Rex's left arm and the other with a train. Naturally, she raised her hand to brush the orchid petals off her lover's shoulder, took his arm, turned and smiled at Rex:

"Your Majesty, I am deeply impressed by the hospitality of the neville people."

Rex was thick and thin. Of course, he knew where the Empress Dowager Gambis's vigilance came from, but he still didn't know what kind of etiquette to entertain Catherine August. Finally, he decided to adopt the tradition of high-ranking knights. He only regarded Catherine as victor's cousin's lover and gave her a knightly salute:

"Ha ha, neville people are always enthusiastic... Well, cousin Victor, Mrs. Catherine, if you go to church to pray, I'll excuse you first... Tonight, sadia and I will host a welcome dinner in Rock Castle to meet the two. Encino and Louisa will serve as two liaison officers in Neville."

Two young knight attendants crossed Rex and saluted victor and Catherine respectively. Encino is 19 years old, a junior knight, with soft facial features, brown hair and black eyes. According to Rex's previous introduction, he is the cousin of the moon elf court Baroness and also Victor's cousin.

Louisa, a 25 - year-old senior female knight, was born in a famous Neville family and has the title of court baron. She is sadia Queen Rex's female officer. She has blond hair and blue eyes, gentle and quiet temperament, outstanding figure and appearance among female knights, and she is still unmarried.

The neville people are really enthusiastic.

Victor first saluted the two liaison officers, then gave Rex a knightly salute, and Catherine raised her train and bent her knees. Rex nodded to the Reverend Dane, master Edwin and Baroness Ariel, then stepped on the Wharton thoroughbred horse and led the honor guard to the palace.

Catherine turned her eyes to Louisa, smiled and said, "Louisa, you are my liaison officer, Encino, you follow Lord Randall."

"As you wish, dear madam." The two Knight attendants responded in unison.

"Honey, let's go in." Catherine took Victor's arm and led the people into the magnificent cogston cathedral.

Vispucci, the Archbishop of Neville, personally presided over the prayer ceremony for Victor and Catherine and wrote the visiting documents.

Victor completed the report and donated 5000 gold sols to cogston cathedral. Archbishop Neville did not greet Victor too much, but left Reverend Dane alone.

One is Clement's classmate and friend, and the other is Clement's own disciple. They have many words that are inconvenient to say in front of outsiders. Archbishop Vespucci had to tell Victor through Dane if anything happened.

In fact, Victor has a special identity, but after all, he is a small Viscount Lord. King Rex condescended and personally went out of the city to meet Victor's car. He also organized the noble children of the king's capital to welcome him. It was a special courtesy. Behind this courtesy, it involves the internal contradictions of the church. However, Archbishop Vespucci was no longer dissatisfied with the glorious knights, and he could not let Victor see the jokes of the church.

In fact, Victor received a steady stream of news during his journey. The Sheriff of the northern counties of Gambis organized people to repair roads and bridges, clean snow, lay hay and open the way for Victor's motorcade. They also presented the latest information to empress dowager Wang. Catherine not only read the letters to her lover, but also analyzed the notes for him.

At present, Clement and tamore remain silent. There is only frieds' voice in the Holy See, but the bishops of each diocese have different opinions. Vispucci of Neville is the first archbishop to speak publicly. He expressed concern about the radical war strategy of the shining knights. He believed that the Sassanian empire's policy of moving refugees to the northern wilderness was hasty and reckless. He suggested that the shining knights and the Sassanian Empire adopt a conservative strategy, sit back and watch the Centaur clan fight, train new soldiers first, restore the vitality of the Lord's army and the temple army, and then plot to explore the northern wilderness.

Vespucci is risking his political life. Because of his words and facts.

The Sassanian Empire has millions of civilians, more than half of whom have received standard military training, and the war potential is extremely huge. The imperial army has been limited by sophisticated equipment to maintain the size of 100000 people. Although Lord sassanne lost tens of thousands of cavalry in the seven-year war, with the release of arms export restrictions by the Dodo Kingdom, the sassanne Empire pulled up 120000 elite cavalry. Moreover, Sasan's vassal soldiers took turns to attack, experienced the baptism of blood, and accumulated rich practical experience. Their combat quality is generally higher than that of the vassal soldiers of the southern kingdom.

This war not only did not hurt the Sassanian Empire, but made them stronger in Vietnam. With the power of great victory, Emperor Sasang rewarded the land on merit, enfeoffed the land, the imperial lords were unprecedentedly united, the army morale was high, and the people stared at the fertile Northern Wilderness and looked forward to it.

At this time, if the Sassanian empire was asked to adopt a conservative strategy, could the Frederick royal family give up the opportunity to consolidate the imperial power? Can the imperial Lord promise? Can the vassal soldiers of the Empire promise? What would the people of the Empire think? Emperor Frederick dares to offend the public. The Basilius family absolutely wants to rebuild the iron mountain empire!

Therefore, Vespucci was severely reprimanded by shepherd frieds. When the Sassanian Empire expanded eastward, built fortresses, built the first line of defense, and gained a firm foothold in the northern wilderness, Archbishop Vespucci had to retire and step down.

He has no chance of winning, that is, three or five years at most.

Vespucci knew he was playing with fire, but he had to do so. He was kidnapped by the kingdom of Neville.

It is said that after Clement returned to the Holy See, Rex went to cogston Cathedral every day to chat with the archbishop. Soon, Vespucci publicly criticized the radical strategy of the Sassanian Empire, and the public opinion in the kogston aristocratic circle about sending troops to the Northern Wilderness immediately subsided.

In fact, the purpose of the shining knights is very clear. They want to turn the kingdom of Neville into a second vassal. Once the kingdom of Neville joined the paladin camp, the shining Knights integrated the forces to explore the Northern Wilderness externally and disintegrated the alliance of the three southern kingdoms internally. Without Neville's support, the kingdom of Dodo could only fall to the Knights of glory. Since then, the Sassanian Empire has no worries. It has united the two kingdoms of Neville and dodo to make an all-out northern expedition to recover the territory of the northern wilderness. The six paladins will once again control the power of the shining church.

The question is, can the shining Knights level a bowl of water?

If the Knights of glory grant Neville equal status with the Sassanian Empire, Neville's lords are very willing to join the paladin camp. But it's impossible!

In the eyes of the Knights of glory, the eastern lords of the Empire led by the Frederick family ranked first, the central lords of the Empire led by the moon bear family ranked second, and the Western lords of the Empire led by the Barcelona family ranked third. Neville now joins the Knights of glory and can only be at the bottom.

Can frieds' support for Neville compare with Clement's?

Rex's only choice is to help Clement tide over the difficulties. The specific way is to unify the internal voice, quickly promote the construction of water conservancy projects, let hundreds of thousands of refugees start working, and leave all the clergy under clement.

This requires the use of viscount Randall's authority in the field of hydraulic engineering and new agriculture and animal husbandry to convince Neville's lords and vassals.

In short, even if Victor drew a few circles on the map, Rex could get Neville back on track according to his will. As for Vespucci, it doesn't matter if he falls. Clement will push his disciples to the position of Archbishop of Neville.

Victor was happy to help Rex. Although it would offend the shining knights, he didn't care at all.

The ant army had been raging in the man horse hills for so long that it almost pulled out all the purple sugarcane led by Randall. The tusk legion of the York family was seriously killed and injured, and the shining Knights did not send Temple troops to support from beginning to end. Victor and Sylvia have always hated it.

Now, with the opportunity to undermine the plans of the shining knights, Victor is out of the evil spirit of the past.

Of course, Victor went all the way to Neville to help Clement break the game is not so simple as venting his anger.

The Sassanian Empire followed the footsteps of the shining knights. The paladin family wanted to win over Neville Kingdom, but Neville wanted to hold Clement's thigh... This interesting phenomenon revealed the essence of the problem:

The Church took advantage of the division of the Lord to control secular politics; The knight Lord used the constraints of the glorious code on the clergy to seek the extraordinary power of divinity.

Whoever can mobilize the divine power of the church can prosper. The Lords want to enhance their voice and influence over the church, and Victor is no exception. Therefore, he wants to accelerate the promotion of the tenant system in Neville, which can not only help Clement stabilize the situation, but also enable him to establish new political ideas within the church, so as to expand the influence of the Pope and attract a large number of clergy.

Clement follows Victor's preset path and will soon meet the essential golden regiment. The two sides are interdependent and cooperate closely. The Randall family naturally has more weight for Clement than the Neville kingdom. Because the golden group focuses on the whole human kingdom, not a single kingdom.

Victor thought clearly that he came to Neville kingdom to achieve three purposes: to check the suspected alchemy tower; Promote the tenant system; Design hydraulic engineering system for Neville.

Leaving the cathedral, Victor took out a sheepskin scroll from his pocket and handed it to the liaison officer arranged by Rex, "Your Excellency Encino, please pass this letter to his majesty Rex."

The valet knight took the letter, saluted, turned, mounted his horse and ran to the palace.

"Honey, what did you give him?" Catherine came forward, took Victor's arm and asked curiously.

"A little suggestion about the welcome dinner... You'll know then."

With a mysterious smile, Victor turned to master Edwin and asked, "Uncle Edwin, where are we staying?"

Edwin served as the chief designer of the water conservancy project in the kingdom of Neville as a member of the silver white tower University. He and Victor have been separated for nearly three years. His hair is gray, but his spirit is very vigorous. Facing Catherine, he said respectfully, "Your Majesty, what do you mean?"

"Master Edwin, Victor lives there. I live there." Catherine said with a smile.

There is no concept of embassies among the kingdoms, but large families generally have in laws in each kingdom. Those without in laws are generally small families that are not worthy of attention and can only rent hotels.

Auguste exchanged children with the Rex family. Catherine could live in the Rock Castle, but she was more willing to respect Victor's opinion.

Edwin said, "in that case, please follow me to count dolly de Kaiser's residence. I've always lived there."

Dolly Count de Kaiser? Dolly? She is the biological mother of the brothers nbiser and Fred, the cousin of master Edwin, and the guardian of the family who was driven away by the old Duke of York because of Sylvia... It's all right for Edwin to live in her residence, but if she retaliates against Sylvia and deliberately embarrasses me, I'll be too embarrassed... Victor was stunned and said hard: "I just want to see Mrs. dolly..."

Catherine chuckled, "Mrs. dolly is Angelina's grandmother. I really should see her."

Eh, I almost forgot that I'm still Angelina's guardian... Hey, complicated kinship, even x-3 doesn't work... Victor was relieved, patted Catherine's slender hand and said with a smile:

"Honey, you're right. We'll pay a visit to Countess de Kaiser."