Chapter 124 Returning to the Town

"This is probably the day I've seen you lie the most," Nightingale said after Taylor left.

"Who made the person who came here be 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 God's Stone of Retaliation, and I can only see a mass of darkness."

It's a pity that the high priest cannot be treated like a nobleman, Roland thought regretfully. He put the two balls on the table, "You say, this thing is really as magical as they say?"

Morphine can relieve the pain. As for making soldiers stronger, it sounds like the effect of adrenal hormones. The problem is to extract these two substances and make them 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 power?

"Can you see the flow of magic power?" He looked at Nightingale, "Is there magic power in these two balls?"

Nightingale observed carefully for a while, "I can't see the magic power, but it is a bit like God's Stone of Retaliation."

"God's Stone of Retaliation?" Roland was stunned.

"Well," she nodded, "You have also seen the world under the mist, only black and white, but that kind of black is different from the darkness formed by God's Stone of Retaliation, the latter is more like a hollow, turning the surrounding The world was swallowed into it. I don't know how to describe that feeling..." Nightingale hesitated, "It's better to say that there is nothing inside the cave than it is pitch black."

"nothingness?"

"That's right, it's nothingness," she nodded, "There are also traces of nothingness on these two meatballs, but it's extremely tiny, and...not a round hollow, but like black filaments flowing. "

"Can these voids affect your abilities?"

Nightingale grabbed the ball, spread out the mist, and quickly backed out, "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 test the effect," Roland carefully wrapped the pills in paper and put them in his arms.

"I didn't expect the church to be so optimistic about you," Nightingale sat back beside the prince, and said gloomily.

"If the high priest didn't wear God's Stone of Retaliation, I bet nine out of ten sentences are lies." Roland curled his lips, "The most important point is that what they did and what they asked for did not match up at all. "

"why?"

"Look at what they want: more churches, more believers, a prince or king supported by themselves, and from then on, they will realize the propaganda of the divine right of the king. A stable country is more conducive to them to develop believers and develop power. Otherwise, under the years of war, churches and monasteries will also become targets of robbery by refugees and nobles."

"But don't they just see that you can bring a stable life to the people?"

"That's not the case," Roland shook his head. "Stability comes from unity or balance. Even if the king eats, drinks and has fun every day, the people of the unified country live better than the refugees in the flames of war. So it's not surprising that they support the second prince, and the third princess Not surprising, it is strange to come to support me - especially when Garcia is winning big."

If the church fully supports Garcia at this time, the capital and the Eastern Front will probably be swallowed by her in less than half a year. At that time, 70% of the land in the Kingdom of Graycastle will belong to the Queen of Clear Water. Roland thought that the pressure he would face would also increase greatly. Instead of helping the strong, I choose myself who seems to be the weakest at present. It seems that the decision of the church is beneficial to me. But assuming that I accept their support, the situation of the battle between the two kings of Graycastle will become more chaotic. The direct consequence of staging the alien version of the Three Kingdoms is that the population will drop sharply, the wealth will be lost rapidly, the war will spread to the whole country, and the unification date will be delayed Procrastinate.

How does this benefit the church? Not to mention expanding believers, I am afraid that all the churches built in various places will be demolished.

"I don't understand how you nobles think, and you always go around in circles," Nightingale sighed.

"Well," Roland replied with a smile, "except me."

"..." The witch narrowed her eyes and stared at the prince for a long time. "Strange, why is this sentence true?"

Three days later, Roland finally emptied the castle and the library of the fortress, and set off on the small town with satisfaction.

As they approached Border Town along the Chishui River, the scene on both sides of the river had changed. In the open space burned by Anna opposite the town, many people were busy - judging by their attire, they should be the serfs transported to the town first. On the side close to the Impassable Mountain Range, many simple wooden sheds had been set up, and there were faint activities in the wooden sheds. Roland guessed that those people were the families of the serfs.

These people have been tied to the land for generations, and their children are also serfs. Because they have no hope, most of them live a life of numbness. What tends to be their labor 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 an institution that must be abolished. But Roland didn't intend to turn them all into freemen with a wave of his hand, but to provide a channel for them to see the hope of being promoted to freemen - because there is a precedent for the master to show kindness and let the slaves get out of slavery As a matter of fact, even if this kind of compromise is spread, it will not have much impact. At most, it will make other nobles feel that they are just a good person.

When the time is right in the future, if he fully implements the abolition of slavery, the resistance will be much smaller.

The pier was crowded with sailboats. Obviously, this small pier could no longer bear such a heavy transportation pressure. Fortunately, the small town has a relatively shallow draft and can dock directly without a pier. It seems that the expansion of the pier also needs to be on the schedule, Roland thought.

After the group returned to the castle, he ignored the rest, and immediately called Barov when he returned to the office, asking him to report on the situation of receiving supplies.

The minister's assistant was also prepared, took out a roll of parchment from his pocket, and spread it out on the large wooden table.

"Your Highness, the things you brought back to the castle these days are really frightening me." Having said that, the wrinkles on his face betrayed his mood, "Twelve apprentices tossed all night to get each According to the statistics of traditional coins, there are more than 14,000 golden dragons in total! Your Highness, this is equivalent to the annual income of an ordinary town!"

It may have taken the Duke more than twenty years to accumulate these golden dragons, Roland thought, because they looted, plundered and exploited the people of the western border. I have to turn them into food, steel and machines as soon as possible. "What about the gems, jewelry, and crafts?"

"I haven't had time to convert it yet, but it is conservatively estimated that it is around 10,000 gold dragons. If it is sent to the capital for auction, the price will be higher. Now they are all stored in the basement of your castle," Barov paused, " But in this way, 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." (To be continued.)

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