On the fourth day of leaving Solburg and returning north, the sky that had been clear for many days suddenly began to fall with goose feathers, and it snowed for a whole day and a night, and the whole world was covered with snow.

In the city of Aosta, Art looked at the unabated snow, and boasted to Robert who was standing beside him: "Father Robert, thanks to your timely advice, otherwise hundreds of us would have been trapped in the deserted wilderness. Delay is a small matter, if the military rations carried by the army run out, starvation will be troublesome. ”

Robert is persuaded by Art to join Art's team. As for Robert, who relied on Art's persuasion, no one knows, but the two have been inseparable for a few days since then.

Art was once again struck by Robert's erudition, and Robert really shouldn't have been a clergyman who spent his days in a monastery or church, but rather a scholar who inquired about the world.

When the two armies returning north arrived two days south of Aosta and were about to set up camp for the night, Father Robert suddenly approached Atte and told him to urge the army to set off immediately, and to hurry back to Aosta in the dark, because Robert predicted that a heavy snowstorm would fall in the next day, and the army would be trapped in the wilderness.

Art persuaded Charis to believe that he would not believe it, and the two armies galloped all night with torches.

Sure enough, before dawn the next day, a heavy snow suddenly fell. Hundreds of people braved the snow and ran tirelessly on the increasingly blurred road for half a day, and finally arrived in the city of Aosta before the heavy snow closed the road......

"Lord Art, these are just the accumulation of my experience over the years, as long as you are good at observation and comprehension, you will find that this world created by God is full of magical powers." Robert didn't think it was so difficult to predict the weather, but ordinary people simply wouldn't be able to comprehend the truth of the world's existence like he did.

Yes, people pay too much attention to the church's commentary on the Bible and ignore what God really wants to convey to the world. Like where does the snow in this sky come from? Why do snowflakes turn into a stream after they fall? How does the water in the lake turn into clouds in the sky? There is a miraculous force behind all of this, and I think this is the true meaning of the divine will that we should be looking for, rather than holding a Bible and misinterpreting God's will all day long. In the presence of the "enlightened" Robert, Art spoke out about the "heresy" that he had not dared to mention to people before.

Robert was deeply impressed by the "heresies" of Arter, "The people of the church, they have lost their most primitive and pure faith in God. God wants to shine the light on the world, but the church has deprived believers of the right to read and understand the Bible, and all Bible interpretations are firmly controlled by the church, and the church that claims to preach the gospel of God has become an impenetrable wall between believers and God. What's more, the greedy leaders of the church actually looted the wealth that believers had worked hard to accumulate all their lives in the name of God, and I heard that some people in the upper echelons of the church suggested selling exoneration charms to believers, so that as long as believers pay enough money to the church, they can absolve believers of all original sins on behalf of God. ”

"Master Arte, when did you say that God became an instrument of the church's enrichment?"

"The leaders of the church really deserve to go to hell!!" The more Father Robert spoke, the more agitated he became, and he pointed the finger directly at the church.

"Shh!!h Father Robert, be quiet! We just say these things when no one is around, but don't spread them around! If you are heard by the people in the church inquisition, you can't help the fire under the cross~" Arteben just felt it, but he didn't expect to ignite the anger in Robert's heart, he looked nervously left and right, and quickly stopped Robert's sensational alarmism.

Robert also found himself too emotional, and lowered his voice, "Lord Art, you're right, I'm too excited. While it is important to search for God's true meaning, it seems even more urgent to save our lives. I'm just going to talk to you about these things, and I'm not going to mention them in front of anyone else. ”

"Father Robert, it's too cold outside, let's go inside and have a glass of wine." The two walked side by side into the barracks with a charcoal fire......

The hundreds of men led by Art and Charles stayed in Aosta for three days, during which time Art did two things.

The first thing to do was to select and recruit a dozen craftsmen and workers of all walks of life in Aosta, including old carpenters who had lost their livelihoods, blacksmith apprentices who had not yet left their apprentices, tailors who had fled, and weavers in bankrupt workshops...... These people, under the skillful "propaganda" of the baggage officer Spencer and the confirmation of the affluent life in the valley by the former Provençal soldiers, gave up the great ideal of "rebuilding their homeland" and rolled up their shabby packages to join the ranks of the north.

Art doesn't care whether this group of people is useful or not, anyway, as long as they have some ability in their hands, they will all be poached.

The second thing was to visit the Comte de Marcello, Vice-Chancellor of the Provençal Court with a gift of great value.

In the past six months, Provence has won a series of victories in the war with the Lombards, seeing that the war that has lasted for several years has the hope of extinguishing, this elite old man who has broken heart for the financial taxes of the principality in the war has a rare smile, after the war, Provence is facing many problems such as the recovery of national finances and trade, as the vice minister of finance, the Count of Marcello of course welcomes people like Arte who can bring about business recovery, so under the effect of the generous gifts offered by Art, the Count of Marcello took a moment out of his busy schedule to meet Arte.

Art did not make any requests when he met with the Vice Minister of Finance this time, because with his own status, it was not yet time to talk directly to the Vice Minister of Finance.

On the fourth day of their arrival in Aosta, the snow had almost melted all over the mountains, and the two armies of Art and Challus set out again after purchasing enough food supplies to support Kitsby in Aosta, after all, there was something important waiting for them in the north, and it was not easy to delay.

Along the way north, this army has never encountered danger again, firstly, because the team with hundreds of heavily armed soldiers is already considered "huge", not to mention those mountain bandits who rely on robbing their homes to survive dare not approach, even the Lombard enemy army will not easily provoke. The second reason is that the war in the north of Provence has basically subsided, and there are Provençal garrisons and militia troops everywhere, and order has been restored.

After the fighting subsided, it was the suffering civilians who benefited the most, and the villages and settlements on both sides of the road that were trampled and burned by the Lombards began to return to their hometowns to rebuild their troubled homes.

After more than ten days of non-stop, the team finally arrived at Kitsby, the last important town in the north.

Art originally planned to recruit a large number of young and strong people in Kitsby City to bring them back to the valley to farm, but the result was not satisfactory, after all, now that the war in Provence is about to subside, these farmers who own land in their hometowns want to return to their homes, return to their own land to cultivate and harvest and return to a peaceful life, so no matter how the recruiters preach, they are unwilling to abandon their homeland again and wander in a foreign land.

In the end, Yate only recruited about 20 bankrupt farmers who were not bound by land to go north with the army......

Leaving Kitsby, you enter the vast wilderness between Provence and Burgundy.

From Solburg in the south to the southern wilderness of Burgundy, this team almost stretched across the north and south of Provence, and it was extremely hard.

By the time hundreds of people arrived at the southern border outpost of the Count of Burgundy, it was already mid-March.

Half a mile later, Art had seen puffs of smoke rising from the border outpost, Simon and Benjamin had received Arts' orders, and the outpost was ready to wash the dust for the army.

In just four or five months, the border post changed dramatically again, with seven or eight huts and thatched huts built in the fence of the residential area sketched by Art, and the fenced market town in the clearing, where passers-by set up stalls, and a large wooden hut that doubled as a storen, inn, tavern, and grocery store was filled with merchants.

In front of the gates of the two garrison barracks at the border posts, barricades were set up, and sentries armed with short spears and broadswords at their waists checked the passing pedestrian caravans.

On both sides of the stream south of the outpost, on either side of the river, on either side of the river, a dozen farmers and peasant women are ploughing the land, taking advantage of the loose soil after the snow melts to prepare for the spring planting......

The wandering knight Rejek, who had just joined the Yate team, looked at the popular and strange small market town in front of him in disbelief and asked, "Lord Yate, this~ is your fief?" I remember when I went south to Provence three years ago, it was still a wasteland, but I didn't expect it to be a border market town! ”

"yes, it wasn't so prosperous when I passed by here late last fall. It seems that our Sir Art not only has warriors who can fight well, but also has no shortage of elite subordinates to build territories. Challis followed suit.

Benjamin, the deputy commander of the border outpost, stepped forward and replied: "Ladies and gentlemen, this place has been personally demarcated by my lords, and my lordship has long expected that this place will inevitably become a place for merchants and travelers to rest and rest, so let us start construction in advance to build some houses, straw sheds, and inns. Now that the war in the south has subsided a little, the merchants and displaced people who had fled the war in the past have begun to travel back and forth between the north and the south, and the surrounding area is full of wilderness and wasteland, so the number of people gathered here has gradually increased. ”

"Really? Looks like I'm going to have to boast about Sir Quayatt again. Challus laughed.

Art couldn't help but feel a pang of joy as he looked at the increasingly prosperous border outpost, this was his legal fiefdom, and perhaps the border trade town he envisioned would rise in the near future.

"Please, folks, cross that stone bridge and return to the Count of Burgundy. I have instructed my subordinates to prepare enough wine and meat soup food, and everyone will rest comfortably here for a day or two~"

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Chapter 210: Border Town