Chapter 31: Assignment of Tasks
Soon after, another smaller group also arrived outside the city gates.
Jem Watts recognized each other and immediately welcomed them in.
After a cordial greeting, Jem pointed to Charles beside him and said with a smile, "Bishop Safi, I'll introduce you to my friend, Charles!"
He is in charge of the cult crackdown in our Principality of Marton, but his actions have always been relatively secretive, so he is not well known, but his ability is definitely a real expert, and his understanding of cultists is absolutely top-notch! Almost knows cultists as well as he knows himself!
This time, I specifically brought him over, that is, I asked him to combine the previous information and screen out the most likely places in the city where the cult is most likely to harbor. ”
"Oh?"
After listening to Jem Watts's introduction, Safi, who didn't care much about it, couldn't help but flash some curiosity in his heart and looked at Charles.
Meeting his gaze, Charles stood up, stretched out his hand and shook Safi's hand, and said with a very excited expression: "You, hello, Bishop Safi, I have admired your name for a long time, I never thought that I could meet you on this day, it really caught me off guard!!"
It's as excited as seeing an idol.,It's not even a good idea to speak.。
Looking at his excited appearance, Safi couldn't help but be slightly stunned, and then said with a smile: "Where, where, it's too polite, I didn't expect that the Duchy of Marton also has an expert like you to deal with cultists, it's really a blessing for Marton!"
Charles immediately showed a look of shame on his face: "Don't dare to be, don't dare to be, in terms of dealing with cultists, you are the greatest authority in charge of the heresy hunting station, I can be appreciated by His Highness Jem, it is really an honor for me, where ......"
Listening to their business blowing each other, and the idea of continuing, Jem Watts, who knew what the two of them came from, directly felt that the egg hurt very much, a cult leader and the executioner responsible for cleaning up heretics blow each other, is it interesting?
couldn't help but interrupt: "Two, let's talk about this in advance, let's deal with the important things first, and it's not too late to talk!"
After the two looked at each other, they nodded with satisfaction: "It's okay." ”x2
The appearance of appreciating each other and having to have a long talk after the matter is done, makes Jem Watts feel chills.
So he hurriedly waved his hand to Charles and instructed, "Charles, you divide the map into Bishop Safi. ”
"Good. ”
Taking the map handed to him by Charles, Safi did not hide it, and immediately opened it, looking at it carefully with a very serious expression.
The first thing that catches your eye is the various colored circles, the most conspicuous of which is the location of the palace with a big red circle in the middle of the map!
Safi couldn't help but be stunned, judging from the color of the circle, it should represent the difficulty, and the three colors represent the three difficulties, which is not difficult to understand.
But looking at the position of the palace, the big red circle. Safi was still a little incredulous, he really didn't expect Jem Watts to even search the palace, knowing that he hadn't been crowned yet.
His father is dead, but his mother is still alive, and she is the current administrator of the palace!
According to the rules, she will only give up this part of the right after the crown prince is crowned, and Jem Watts's overnight search of the palace is undoubtedly a transgression, which makes people feel like forcing the palace!
So after doing this kind of thing, it will undoubtedly greatly affect his evaluation among the people!
Not conducive to future development.
Give his siblings an excuse.
After hesitating for a moment, Safi asked, "Hmm...... There are a lot of places, but how can there even be a royal palace?"
"There is no way.
My queen mother is not very good at managing affairs, so in the palace where people's hearts are a little scattered, there is indeed a certain degree of possibility that cultists can successfully infiltrate it, so it is necessary to search it too!
I'll explain it to the queen mother myself afterwards, so you don't have to worry about anything. ”
The implication is that even his own mother did not know that he was going to search the palace.
I think it's because I'm a little suspicious of the other party.
After hearing the meaning, Safi could only say that Jem Watts was a ruthless character, and he didn't even believe his own mother when necessary, and judging from the locations that were outlined, there were a lot of suspected magnates among them, this is the appearance of people who are not afraid of offending at all as long as they can achieve their goals, and they are also sure of suppression, both capable and decisive enough, no wonder they can completely suppress their brothers and sisters and sit on the throne of the crown prince.
However, this kind of person does not seem to be the ideal target for the church, and he may turn his face and kick the church out at any time.
In Safi's mind, the ideal goal of cooperation should be someone who is moderately capable, who can stabilize the situation without much success.
Safi's eyes rolled here, and after realizing that there was no good way to do it in the short term, he finally decided to put this issue aside for the time being and make a decision later.
After all, after today's handling of the matter, the power of the church can officially enter the Duchy of Marton, and if this fails, then everything will be meaningless.
So he asked with a puzzled expression: "Since this is the case, how to distribute the goals?"
Jem Watts didn't know that the plastic teammate in front of him was trying to yin himself just now, so he still had a smile on his face and said: "The red ones are the last to deal with together, and the other locations will be split in half left and right, do you choose the left half, or the right half?"
When Bishop Safi heard that he was going to take over half of the task, he immediately raised his eyebrows, and said with a somewhat unhappy expression: "Oh, but this is your highness's territory, and we are just here to help, isn't it not good? After all, the manpower of our church is only about one-tenth of yours, but we are responsible for as much territory as you. ”
Jem Watts explained with a frank face: "That's not to say, your heresy hunting station was established specifically to deal with cultists, and you are extremely experienced in this area, and you probably know better than themselves about the methods of those cultists, and although this group of soldiers under my command is brave, but how can they have those experiences, the casualties are bound to be far greater than yours." ”
In this regard, Safi just shook his head and firmly refused: "But even so, our church should not take such a big risk, after all, I can't take the lives of my priests as a child's play!"
In the face of his decisive refusal, Jem Watts was not surprised, but smiled calmly and wrote lightly: "The area of the parish has been expanded by a third, and the construction cost of the Duchy of Marton is 600,000 gold coins. ”
"Deal. ”
Safi's expression was shocked, he stretched out his hands and pressed them on Jem Woz's shoulders, and said with a solemn face: "In terms of cracking down on cults, we and other members of the church are still very responsible, and we have never slackened over the years, because that is the duty given to us by the Lord, so Your Highness, you are really too outside, what I just shirked is just talking, why do you have to be so outside!"
'Old thing, don't want Bilian!'
As if feeling the determination shown by the other party, Jem Wads's eyes were red, and he hugged Safi very movingly: "This is very touching to the crown prince, our Duchy of Marton and the church have always been good friends, like brothers, this is just a little heart, please be sure to accept it!"
Safi refused with a serious face: "How can this be, such a style does not conform to the rules of our church!"
"No, you have to take it!"
"No, our church ......"
"No, you must ...... today"
Looking at the righteous and turbulent expressions on the faces of the two, Charles silently spat on the ground while people were not paying attention.
The affectionate performance of these two people really disgusted him.
In the struggle between royal power and divine power back then, the forces of the Duchy of Marton and the church used knives to compare several times, and many people died.
If it weren't for other forces, hundreds of years ago, we would have had to die endlessly, and there would have been a friendship with a hammer.
'It's a political game, and the face is indeed thicker than the other, and even I, a sorcerer, can't say such disgusting words. ’
After some pushing, Bishop Safi finally accepted Jem Watts' offer with a shameful face, and chose the site responsible for cleaning up the left half of the city, and Jem Watts also thoughtfully asked a team of soldiers to follow them, ready to help, and incidentally prevent them from fishing.
Before leaving, Jem Watts shook Safi's hand with a serious face, telling them to take good care of themselves, the task is valuable, and the price of life is higher!
The smile on Jem Woz's face disappeared as he watched the team walk away, wiped his hands in disgust, and spat on the ground.
Immediately took a bottle of wine from the subordinates behind him, washed his hands, and rinsed his mouth again.
What he just said made him feel disgusting.
He'd have to throw up if he tried it again.
'Surface teammates!'
He thought indignantly.
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Looking at Bishop Safi, who was full of discomfort and had lice on his body, the priest behind him immediately asked with concern, "What's wrong with you, Bishop?"
"Nothing, just wanting to change clothes. ”
Obviously, like Jem Wads, he was disgusted.
But in the end, he endured it, just took off his coat, shook it, and put it back on.
When everything was back to normal, he looked like he was looking like he was and asked the priest beside him, "Have any of you ever heard of the Charles?"
"Nope. ”
"I haven't heard of it. ”
"No ......"
Looking at the clergy looking at each other in front of him, Safi touched his chin.
He clearly remembered that on the map in his hand, there were several places marked that the church had investigated first.
It was originally used to make a deal with the Kingdom of Marton, but I didn't want to be marked directly, so I had to give up.
It doesn't make sense, if the target on the map is really the guy who guessed it himself with some intelligence. Then he must be extremely professional and experienced in dealing with cultists, otherwise he would never know them so well.
No matter how much this kind of person tries to cover up the news, there will be some rumors to a greater or lesser extent, after all, unless you can kill all the cultists every time, otherwise the news will inevitably leak out......
After thinking about it, he first glanced at the soldiers who had been following him and others not far behind him, and then he ordered: "After today, I want to know all the information about the man named Charr, I think he and our Crown Prince Jem Watts have a big problem. What the hell are they hiding from us......"