Barony of Dal
Sui Xiong was stunned for a moment before he remembered this place.
It was a relatively remote territory. Sui Xiong originally planned to use it as an experimental site, and sent Kabbalah, the "European Prince" who was best at summoning divine envoys in the church, to be the chief priest.
According to his idea, the local lord belongs to the evil camp and will definitely conflict with Kabbalah from the good camp. When the time comes, Kalaba will inevitably call for help from divine envoys, and he can verify the help of divine envoys to these mid-level priests through practice.
Moreover, we can also use this incident to see how far the divine envoy can be used? By the way, try the advancement of the divine envoy... All in all, there are many things that can be studied and tried.
However, even gods cannot make everything go as they wish. Although Sui Xiong designed things well, things developed differently than he expected. In other words, what Baron Dahl did was completely opposite to what he expected.
According to his plan, Baron Dahl must not be able to tolerate the help and organization of the Church of the Void to the poor, and sooner or later there will be a serious conflict with the Church of the Void. But in fact, after witnessing the combat power of the Church of the Mask of the Void, Baron Dahl almost gave up on the plan to fight with force. After all, for him, even if the poor people in the territory become stronger and difficult to control, they are nothing more than less. It's just some money or cannon fodder, it's not worth the risk of losing troops.
How much is the life of a poor person worth? As long as he kills a dozen elite soldiers, he is worth more than the entire poor people in Dal City combined!
With this idea in mind, Baron Dar began to make peace with the Church of the Mask of the Void. Not long after, as the conflict between the merchant faction and the noble faction became more and more intense, Baron Dahl fell into a dilemma. Baron Dahl did not want to join either the merchant faction or the aristocratic faction. In the end, he gritted his teeth and directly defected to the Void Mask Church and established a small autonomous region.
Speaking of which, he is also a ruthless person. He knows that joining the Church of the Mask of the Void will mean suffering a lot of hardships and losing a lot of profits, but in order to escape the conflict between the merchant faction and the aristocracy faction, he is willing to endure hardships and lose money. Just to complete the atonement ceremony, he gave up half of his life. If the healing spell of the Kabbalah priest hadn't been so good, he might have died during the atonement ceremony.
But he also relied on his determination to let Sui Xiong see his sincerity. So Sui Xiong changed his mind and gave Dal the blessing and protection.
Relying on Sui Xiong's protection, Dalling successfully escaped the great conflict between the aristocrats and merchants that almost turned into a war. Currently, it is changing its policy to develop in a low-key manner and live a stable life.
Probably because he kept a low profile, Sui Xiong even gradually forgot about this territory. If it weren't for Leon's reminder, he wouldn't have thought of Darling.
So he hurried towards Darling, and this time he reached his destination in only a few hours.
Winter has reached the coldest season, and the climate in Dal Territory is relatively cold in this area. Now the entire territory is almost covered in a blanket of white snow.
The chief priest of Kabbalah was sitting in the reception room of Baron Dar's mansion, talking to Baron Dar alone.
The burning wood passed through the fireplace, keeping the room warm at least. Although it was not like other aristocratic mansions where you could only wear a single suit, at least you would not feel the cold.
Kabbalah held the green grass tea in his hand, but had no intention of drinking the tea, just thinking quietly.
Opposite him, Baron Dahl was also thinking. Currently, the two people with the highest status in Dal Territory are like two statues, motionless.
After a while, Baron Dahl sighed and said, "Things... are really difficult to handle!"
"I know." Kaba Liao said, "If it were easy to handle, I wouldn't come to you."
"Heating is a big problem, and I know that. But for the poor to survive the severe cold safely, a lot of fuel is needed no matter what. We don't produce coal here, we can only use firewood. But cutting down a lot of firewood means that There will be conflicts with the druids in the forest..." Baron Dahl shook his head slightly, "With our strength, even if we can defeat them, the losses will be huge. It's not worth it."
"For human life, there is nothing not worth it." Kabbalah advised.
"The lives of the poor are life, and the life of the soldiers is also life." Baron Dahl said sincerely, "Priest Kabbalah, I will not tell you those empty words. Those soldiers were selected and trained at a great cost. Yes, they have always been loyal and brave, and they are the support of my ruling territory. I cannot risk their lives just to help the poor keep out the cold."
The chief priest of Kabbalah frowned and said, "But don't soldiers exist to protect the people? If soldiers don't protect the people, what is the value of their existence?"
"That's true, but how can I say to them, 'The poor need firewood to keep out the cold, and they need to cut down a lot of trees, but there are druids in the forest. Go deal with the druids and let them cut down trees.' ... Is that so? They won’t agree to it themselves!”
Kabala was silent, and after a while, he sighed: "Where did those druids come from!"
This is not a question, just a feeling.
Since last fall, druids have appeared in the forest near the Baron of Dal. They are not the common sect that emphasizes the unity of nature and man, but a more extreme sect that blindly protects nature and believes that people should return to nature.
This sect protects the natural ecology unprincipled and strictly prohibits all behaviors that damage nature. Including but not limited to opening up wasteland, cutting down trees, opening roads in the forest, etc. In the past few months, they had fought several battles with adventurers from Darland. Although neither of them had lost lives, they had suffered a lot of injuries.
In this case, even if the weather is cold, civilians do not dare to go to the forest to cut down trees to avoid being attacked by them.
For ordinary civilians, if they don't cut down trees, they can still rely on buying coal or something to keep warm, or they can simply use firewood sparingly and wear thicker clothes, and that's pretty much it. But the poor people can neither afford coal nor thick clothes to wear. If they can no longer get enough firewood for heating, many people will freeze to death this winter!
Of course, the chief priest of Kabbalah could not allow such cruel things to happen under his eyes, so he took the priests to negotiate with the druids.
The result of the negotiation was obvious, so he came to visit the Lord's Mansion, hoping that Baron Dahl would send troops to assist him and "convince" the group of druids, so that the poor would not survive this winter.
However, Baron Dar refused to send troops no matter what. Although he was also a believer in the Church of the Mask of the Void, he was really reluctant to lose his troops for such a thing.
In this regard, the Kabbalah priest has nothing to do. The so-called kindness means that people can sacrifice their own interests when they are in need, but it does not include sacrificing the interests of others.
He was a good man, so he couldn't convince himself to force Baron Dahl to send troops.
So the matter reached a deadlock. Today is already the third day of their discussion. No matter how well the Church of the Mask of the Void coordinates the distribution, the firewood stored in the slums has been almost used up. This is when the baron took out the firewood stored in the mansion. The result of many relief efforts for the poor.
When things got to this point, the chief priest of Kabbalah was helpless. Just when he was thinking about whether to go to the businessmen in the territory to fight the autumn wind, he suddenly heard words from the bottom of his heart.
Those words were deep and resonant, with a sense of sanctity that made him extremely happy.
[Don't worry, I'm here.]