Alice didn't know any of this, but when she came, she was told that the lord of the place was a legendary paladin, and that was enough. Paladins are already extremely rare, not to mention legendary-level paladins, they are extremely popular everywhere, and she is really not qualified to put up a stand in front of Yan Xu with a mere senior priest, not to mention that she has already been warned that she needs to maintain a good relationship with the other party.

Thinking about the next various supports of the church, Alice didn't know that the other party was very big, and to become a senior pastor at a young age, in addition to piety and talent to God, a good mind was indispensable, and Alice naturally knew what she should do.

A complete church organization was very tight, and Alice, as the priest stationed at the Castle of the Holy Cross, was followed not only by four paladins who were equivalent to intermediate professionals, but also by more than a dozen monks.

There are generally two kinds of monks in the regular church, one is the black-robed ascetics, who are actually the preparatory holy warriors of the church. Although the church that controls the faith and soul of mortals is conducive to the rule of the aristocracy, there is also a church with ******** ambitions, and the aristocracy's vigilance against the church should not be underestimated.

After many secret confrontations, the two sides reached a consensus that the nobles could not restrict the mission of the church, but had the right to choose the church. Although the Church has the right to preach anywhere, its force is greatly limited, and it cannot have long-range attack weapons and cavalry, and the only force is the Holy Warriors, and the number cannot be too many.

As a result, the power of the Church was greatly limited, especially in number, and the temple below lacked strong protection. After all, the enemies of the church are not only nobles and ordinary people, but also hostile churches and camps are not good, and if they do not do well, they will not only suffer heavy losses, but also reduce the height in the hearts of believers, leading to the loss of faith.

The ascetics are the means by which the Church copes, they are free from all pleasures, they have only a firm faith and penance, and they are ready to take up arms to fight for God. But on weekdays they were all penances in monasteries, with only coarse cloth robes on their bodies and wooden sticks in their hands, and the nobles could not classify them as soldiers. However, these fanatical fellows have no awareness of cannon fodder at all, and they do not hesitate to use their bodies to block the sword as long as necessary, and they are not afraid of death at all, because after death they will return to the kingdom of God and become the Holy Spirit, because they are fanatics.

On the other hand, there were the grey-robed friars, who generally had a good background, either from a noble birth or the son of a merchant, but had no potential to become priests. However, most of the theology of the church was revised by them, and they did not need to preach and manage the believers, so they had a lot of free time, so they were too bored to study winemaking, medicine, architecture, painting, poetry, art, etc., and were indispensable logisticians for mature churches.

This is a healthy and complete church, a bare pole church like Yan Xu has really never appeared, if it weren't for his advantage as a lord, it is estimated that he would not even have a believer.

It's a pity that pastors are not so easy to cultivate, and other people's churches can't be used, otherwise how could Yan Xu let the church of the goddess of harvest easily settle in, just because he is afraid of the outflow of faith, it is better to let a church that meets the needs of the territory settle in and preach first.

Fortunately, Yan Xu's foundation is still the set of oriental gods, there is no need to pray in the morning and evening, just burn incense and worship a god from time to time, otherwise Yan Xu will lose a lot.

Within a few days, the Harvest Goddess Church came forward to hire a large number of people from the nearby nobles and built a trade route to Yan Xu's territory, and then a large amount of grain was transported here, and at the same time, the chamber of commerce of the affiliated church came with it, and also gave Yan Xu a message, if you need to be homeless, just open your mouth.

The Harvest Goddess Church often does charity, and tens of thousands of homeless people are helped every year, as long as Yan Xu can afford it, a year's work can bring him thousands of people.

However, even if Yan Xu can afford to raise so many people, he can't manage it, even if this world manages the people as roughly, but there are thousands of people, just the herald official tax envoy is not a decimal number, not to mention that there must be enough guards to protect the territory, which is not something that can be done in a short period of time.

However, Yan Xu's patience had been exhausted, and after explaining it, he packed his things and prepared to set off on an adventure. This time he was alone, after all, Lao Jian was already planning to retire, Xiao Ming and Xiao Hong's strength was too far away from Yan Xu, Yan Xu's adventure was too dangerous for them, it was better to stay in the territory and continue to receive Lao Jian's training.

What's more, there are more and more things in the territory, relying on Lao Jian and Hami alone is not enough, although Xiao Ming is unreliable, but after all, he is a modern person, and his knowledge and knowledge reserve are not comparable to the people of this world at all, and when he really has to face some situations, his role cannot be replaced.

However, Yan Xu didn't really let it go, after all, this territory was very important to his next plan, so he planned to go to Marquis Bose's territory first to see if he could find some talents.

The king of the world is the largest, and there are seven classes of male knights under the king, but there are two titles that are very special, that is, the duke and the marquis.

The power of the duke is enormous, and it is generally developed from the founding heroes or the great nobles with a long history, and the family history is even older than the state. Coupled with the particularity of this world, the duke's rights are very huge, and the territory is even called a principality, not only has the right to build an army, but also can refuse the king's orders, and has the highest inheritance right under the king's direct bloodline, which can be called a country within a country.

The marquis is between the duke and the ordinary nobles, from villages, castles, towns to cities, from low-level nobles to high-level nobles step by step, when the marquis's strength has accumulated enough, he can get more territories outside the city where the family is located, it can be called a marquis. Although it is not as good as the principality, it is also located in the upper echelons of the nobility and has the right to be a viscount.

The Marquis of Bose, to whom Yan Xu was loyal, was a powerful nobleman with the title of a marquis, so it was so easy to issue a knight's development order, because it would not affect the perfect rule.

The Bosch family is known for its bravery, and in just over a hundred years, it has gone from being a knight to a nation, even the lowest. Therefore, it is very tolerant of brave knights, and a knight tournament is held every year, and the prizes are very rich. The winner of the top prize will not only have the opportunity to join the Bosch family, but also receive a knight's farm. Even if you don't want to join, you can get a prize equivalent to a knight's farm, so it attracts a large number of knights and even warriors every year.

Yan Xu is just looking for some suitable people, and at the same time, he is also trying to show his strength, in case someone has the idea of attacking his territory when he is not there. There may be many people who pay attention to the fortune of a lucky knight, but no one wants to be an enemy of a legendary paladin, because the identity of the other party means that he will always belong to the side of justice, and the existence of any good camp will not easily let go of this opportunity to release goodwill.

The city of Bosch is the foundation of the Bosch family, has been in business for decades, inhabited by tens of thousands of people, because there are no buildings, resulting in a very large area, the whole city from the highest castle as the center to the surrounding expansion, a total of two walls, the separation of ordinary people and people with status, this is also a common practice in this world, class everywhere.

Nowadays, the whole city is full of lights and bustling, many strong men dressed as knights ride war horses, and the retinue behind them follow closely in carts equipped with weapons and armor, which are generally rich knights with knightly collars, otherwise they cannot prepare a full set of weapons and armor for themselves, after all, the value of these is not inferior to a knight's farm.

This shows how expensive a true knight is, not only two or three heavy horses that can afford a fully armed knight's charge, but also leather armor, chain mail, plate armor, shields, knightly swords, spears, chain flails, maces, battle axes, etc., which can be called an arsenal. In order to take care of the horses and maintain the weapons, as well as to be responsible for covering the back in battle, tying up the prisoners of war who were defeated by the knights, etc., it is also necessary to raise several servants and knight squires.

Therefore, even knights with knightly territory are difficult to support all their children to become knights, and generally only choose the eldest son or the one with stronger talents, and the rest will either be knightly squires for the chosen one, or take their own share of property to make another living.

As a result, there are many down-and-out wandering knights, who are generally from knightly families, but have no inheritance rights, and can only rely on their own bravery to get paid, but often these rewards can only barely replace broken weapons and food expenses for a period of time. As a result, they either walked or rode emaciated horses, and some did not even have a decent piece of protective gear.

However, they are quite confident in their own strength, for the peers they met on the road are either snorting coldly or glaring angrily, and for those who are rich, they are full of envy and jealousy.

Yan Xu, who has a rich family background, is naturally the most glamorous, and a silver steel chain armor shines in the sun, which can be seen ten miles away, and it is dazzling to look at it closely.

A mirror shield that can be used as a mirror is placed on the side of the horse, and the refracted light makes this side untenable. A thick golden spear hung on the other side, and as the horses rose and fell, they shimmered with an alluring golden light, and many passers-by were looking forward to it falling.

The war horse under the crotch is even more incredible, it is a thunder pattern wildebeest with unicorn blood sent by the Harvest Goddess Church, the level is equivalent to a high-level warrior, and it is hard to find a thousand gold, Yan Xu likes it very much, and even put on a luxurious horse chain mail made of light steel.

These poor hangers had never seen such a rich and handsome person, and they were immediately stunned, if they weren't close to Bos City, they would have the heart to kill people and rob goods.