"This is probably the day I've seen you lie the most," Nightingale said from the mist after Taylor left.
"Who made the comer the high priest of the church?" Roland spread his hands, "How about it, can you tell the other party's lies?"
"No, the scene around him was swallowed up by the Stone of God's Punishment, and I could only see a mass of darkness."
It's a pity that the high priest can't be treated like a noble, Roland thought regretfully. He put the two balls on the table, "You say, this thing is really as magical as they say?"
Morphine can do it to relieve pain. As for making soldiers powerful, it sounds like the effect of adrenaline. The question is to extract these two substances into pills? The church should have conquered the world long ago with this level of technology.
Wait... Roland suddenly thought of a possibility, could it be related to magic
"Can you see the flow of magic power?" He looked at Nightingale, "Is there magic power on these two balls?"
Nightingale observed it carefully, "I can't see the magic power, but it's a bit like the God's Stone of Retribution."
"God's Stone of Retribution?" Roland was stunned.
"Well," she nodded, "you have also seen the world under the mist, only black and white, but that black is different from the darkness formed by the Stone of Retaliation, the latter is more like an empty space, and the surrounding The world is swallowed into it. I don't know how to describe that feeling..." Nightingale hesitated, "It's better to say that there is nothing in the cave rather than darkness."
"nothingness?"
"That's right, it's nothingness," she nodded. "There are also traces of nothingness on these two balls, but they're extremely subtle, and... they're not circular holes, but rather like black filaments flowing."
"Can these nothingness affect your abilities?"
Nightingale grabbed the ball, spread out the fog, and quickly withdrew, "It doesn't seem to have any effect."
"It seems that it is necessary to find a death row prisoner to try these two pills to see the effect," Roland carefully wrapped the balls in paper and put them in his arms.
"I didn't expect the church to be so optimistic about you," Nightingale said gloomily as she sat back next to the prince.
"If the High Priest didn't wear the Stone of God's Punishment, I would bet that nine out of ten sentences were lies." Roland pouted, "The most important point is that what they did and what they asked for were completely incompatible. "
"why?"
"Look at what they want: more churches, more believers, a prince or a king who is supported by themselves, and from now on, they will follow the propaganda of the divine right of the monarch. A stable country is more conducive for them to develop believers and develop their power. Otherwise, churches and monasteries will become targets of looting by refugees and aristocrats under the wars and turmoil every year.”
"But don't they just see how you can bring a stable life to the people?"
"It's not like that," Roland shook his head. "Stability comes from unity or balance. Even if the king eats, drinks and has fun every day, the people of a unified country are better off than the refugees in the war. So it's not surprising that they support the second prince and the third princess. Not surprising, it's weird to come to support me, especially when Garcia is winning."
At this time, if the church fully supports Garcia, I am afraid that the capital and the eastern front will be swallowed by her in less than half a year. By then, 70% of the land in the Kingdom of Greycastle will belong to the Queen of Clear Water. Roland thought that the pressure on him would also increase greatly. Instead of helping the strong, he chooses himself who seems to be the weakest at the moment. It seems that the decision of the church is beneficial to him. Assuming that he accepts their support, the battle between the two kings of Greycastle will become even more chaotic. The direct consequence of the otherworldly version of the Three Kingdoms will be a sharp drop in population, a rapid loss of wealth, the spread of war to the whole country, and a delay in the reunification date. Drag again.
How does this benefit the church? Not to mention the expansion of believers, I am afraid that the churches built in various places will be demolished.
"I don't understand what your nobles think, you always go around in circles," Nightingale sighed.
"Well," Roland replied with a smile, "except me."
"..." The witch narrowed her eyes and glared at the prince for a long time, "Strange, why is this sentence true?"
Three days later, Roland finally evacuated the castle and the fortress library, and took the township on his way home contentedly.
When approaching Border Town along the Chishui River, the scene on both sides of the river has changed. On the open space opposite the town that was burned by Anna, many people are busy dressing up. They should be the serfs who were transported to the town first. On the side near the Extremis Mountains, many simple wooden sheds have been erected, and there are people moving in the wooden sheds. Roland guessed that those people were the family members of the serfs.
These people have been tied to the land for generations, and the children born are also serfs. Because they can't see hope, most of them lead a life of numbness. The tendency for them to work is not the desire from the heart, but the skin in the hands of the slave owners. Whip and noose. Low production efficiency is simply a great waste of human resources.
There is no doubt that slavery is the enemy of industrial production and is a system that must be abolished. But Roland didn't intend to turn them all into free people with a wave of his hand, but to provide a channel so that they could see the hope of being promoted to free people because there is a precedent for the master to let the slave out of slavery because of the kindness of the master. , even if this compromise method spreads out, it will not have much impact, at most, it will make other nobles feel that they are nothing more than good people.
When the time is ripe in the future, if he fully implements the abolition law, the resistance will be much smaller.
The pier was crowded with sailboats, and it was obvious that this small pier could not bear such a heavy transportation pressure. Fortunately, the township has a shallow draft and can dock directly without a dock. It seems that the expansion of the wharf also needs to be scheduled, Roland thought.
After the group returned to the castle, he could not take a rest, and when he returned to the office, he immediately called Barov and asked him to report the situation of receiving the supplies.
The assistant minister was also prepared, he took out a roll of parchment from his pocket and spread it out on the big wooden table.
"Your Highness, the things you brought back to the castle these days really frightened me." Having said that, the folds on his face betrayed his mood, "The twelve apprentices struggled all night before they According to the statistics of the coins, there are more than 14,000 golden dragons in total! Your Highness, this is equivalent to the income of an ordinary town for a year!"
It may have taken the duke more than twenty years to accumulate these golden dragons, Roland thought, because of the looting, plundering and exploitation of the people of the West. You have to turn them into food, steel, and machines as quickly as possible. "What about the gems, jewelry, and crafts?"
"I haven't had time to convert it, but it is conservatively estimated to be around 10,000 gold dragons. If they are sent to the Royal Capital for auction, the price will be higher. Now they are all stored in the basement of your castle," Barov paused, " However, as a result, the room originally used to store food will not be enough, I suggest you expand the castle area and build a warehouse to store other materials." (. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point to vote, you Your support is my greatest motivation. Please come.)