On the third day of the storming of Wincheston Manor, quiet finally returned to the place, and more than 60 prisoners of war who had escaped the execution axes were escorted back to the valley by the Tuán Pài soldiers, where they were to undergo two years of war slavery reform, and were to be used as slaves and slaves under the harsh repression of the peasants, until they could regain their free status and become peasant households or be drafted into the army.

The dead enemies had been buried en masse in two large pits outside the manor, and the military priest Robert simply held a funeral for these yesterday's enemies.

Dead or alive, the enemy had left Wincheston Manor, leaving only the Wells Legion and the civilian serfs of the manor who had been screened behind.

The Welsh Legion had no intention of evacuating, and they even took out food supplies to appease the civilian slaves on the manor, so that these trembling people who had escaped the war bravely walked out of the grass huts where they were hiding.

The village estates around Wincheston also quietly sent people to investigate the vicinity, but they definitely did not dare to get even a step close to the legion's Wài Wéi outpost.

On the steps in front of the gate of the manor, Dunnis, the unappointed political officer of the legion, was impassionedly giving a loud lecture to the dozens of ragged civilian serfs gathered in front of the mansion.

The serfs and civilians standing or sitting at the foot of the steps listened to Dunnis's spitting speech with expressionless faces, but their eyes were always fixed on the two large gurgling white pots beside the steps, in which were peas and wheat paste boiled with a compelling aroma.

Dennis coughed violently, and finally attracted the attention of some people, "Brothers, I just want to tell you that you can only live like animals in the hands of Dean and his son, and with my family, I promise that you can live the best life from now on!" ”

A serf has been standing here for a long time, his snot is about to flow to his chest, he suddenly raised his head and took a sip, and asked: "Big ~ Master, what kind of good life can we live?"

Dennis was suddenly asked, for it was too abstract for these serfs to tell them anything about food and clothing.

Dennis looked left and right, pointed sideways at the two steaming peas and wheat paste, and said, "See those two big clay pots?" Two meals a day. Enough! ”

"You can add some minced meat broth every once in a while!" Dennis added.

Such a good day is much more vivid, and only the guards of the manor and a few freedmen can eat all the food on weekdays, and the minced meat paste is a rare luxury for these poor people.

"If the eldest lord can let us eat every day, we are willing to follow the eldest lord to the territory to be serfs."

Seeing that the guy who had sniffed just now was finally willing to go to the road, a smile appeared on Dennis's face, "No, no, no, you don't need to follow you to the territory, you can stay here and farm for my family." And my family doesn't really like to raise serfs, as long as you are down-to-earth and willing to work, my family will definitely not treat you as slaves all the time. Many of our former serf brothers have regained their freedom and subleased land. ”

As soon as they heard that they had restored their freedom and subleased the land, the serfs muttered a little in their hearts, they had been serfs for many years, and they had never seen a lord who easily restored the free status of serfs, leaving the serfs on the looted land, and letting the family do a good job, and they really didn't dare to believe it all.

Dennis was about to answer everyone's questions, but Daniel, the ideological and political worker in charge of boiling wheat paste, knocked on the clay pot with an iron spoon and reminded: "Sir Dunnis, the wheat paste has been boiled. ”

Dennis was about to wave his hand to signal Daniel not to worry, when the salivating serf civilians suddenly took out the broken wooden cups that had been prepared long ago from their bosoms, and rushed towards the clay pots

Daniel was squeezed out by the serf civilians who robbed him, and looked back at dozens of robber-like serf civilians with his ears and cheeks, and muttered: "A group of hungry ghosts~"

Turning around, Dennis slapped Daniel's head, "It's all said to stay up slowly, what are you anxious about?" Can't you wait for me to finish my words before you put it down? ”

Daniel laughed a few times, "Who knew they were in such a hurry~"

"Okay, okay, tomorrow we'll go to the Southwest Farm, and if you mess it up again, I'll shoot you to death!"

"Yes, yes!"

Daniel replied repeatedly, his eyes glancing at the armoured legionary soldiers outside the gate of the manor, and asked Dennis, "Sir Dennis, why didn't you return to the valley after you said we were all done?" ”

"Back to the valley? The army won't go back to the valley until it's swallowed. ”

Dennis glanced at the legion garrison outside the manor, and then to the north

To the north, the capital of the Count of Burgundy is the city of Besançon.

The palace hall was boiling, and the angry voice of one of the court viscounts of the inner court faction almost roared.

"Ladies and gentlemen, in just two years, he has killed two lords of the manor, slaughtered civilians, plundered villages, and Sir Dean was also a knight of the palace guard who fought for his country."

The court baron drew the Holy Cross on his chest with his right hand, "God, such brutality is unimaginable! ”

"Consider what kind of hell this God-blessed land would become if this devilish beast was allowed to run rampant like this!" The saliva from the mouth of the court viscount was already splashing all over the sky, his facial muscles were constantly twitching, and his hands were constantly waving in the air.

"On behalf of God and justice, I ask the Council of Ministers to agree immediately to send the Janissary Legion of the Imperial Court to Tignaz to exterminate the Devil Baron Atwood Wells and his Legion of Hell!" If this court viscount had a sword at his waist, he would definitely draw his sword and slash.

I have to say that such an infectious speech and vivid body movements are indeed exciting enough, and several lords and magnates in the main hall have blurted out curses at the bloodthirsty frontier baron.

Before the Viscount of the palace had finished his performance, he turned to the lords and magnates of the palace and said: "Our Praetorian Legion, which pays a huge tax every year, should show its role at such a time, and if the Council of Ministers refuses to send troops to the south to kill them, we will stop collecting and supplying the military funds of the Praetorian Legion!" ”

This remark aroused the approval of many nobles, and they were able to find an excuse to owe the court taxes.

It's strange to say, in the past, it was such an earth-shattering turmoil, even trivial things would make the two factions fight non-stop, but today is completely a performance on the side of the inner court, as the opponent of the Earl Balwin sat on the chair in front of the hall and said nothing, and even the people under the command of Earl Balwin remained silent.

This is extremely unusual.

"Earl Balwin, do you think you should agree to send troops to kill those bandits?" Bernard finally couldn't hold his breath.

Balwin moved his buttocks, turned his body to Count Bernard, and said, "Promise God that my ears are choked by the chirping of birds from this clown, and you must let this lively bird rest its mouth and clear my ears for a while."

Bernard was furious by Balwin, "Lord Balwin, this is a meeting of important ministers, we are discussing a shocking case of a private rebellion, please pay attention to your attitude. ”

Balwyn ignored Bernard's words and asked the people in the hall, "I would like to ask our esteemed Earl of Bernard, do you know the cause of the whole thing?" Why do you call this a disturbance? Is it because a Western Frontier Army that appeared in the south for no reason was destroyed? Or was it punished for being a bandit nobleman? ”

Bernard tried to argue, but Balwin immediately waved his hand to stop him.

"Our viscount has been accusing the frontier baron Atwood Wells of killing nobles for no reason with the intention of rebelling, and I don't know what he got from the mouth of a tongue-in-cheek woman, at least not in accordance with the facts I know."

Balwin paused as he spoke, and turned to look at the Minister of Justice in the hall, who slowly walked out and took out a copy of the Bandit Warning Book and the War Mansion Report from his cuff.

"This warning was sent from Tignets County eight days ago by the Southern Border Inspector, Baron Yat, and the warning letter says that Tinets County has been plagued by bandits for several days, and that the county has been plundered by a large number of bandits, all under the banner of the Dean family."

Bernard was about to retort, but the Minister of Peace said: "Of course, I don't want to believe that Sir Dean will openly commit robbery, so I ordered the Border Inspector to invite Dean and his son to investigate, who would have thought that Dean and his son would dare to raise troops to resist." ”

Bernard couldn't listen to it anymore and said sharply: "Please go investigate?" That guy rushed into Wincheston Manor with hundreds of men, and by the way, raided and looted the Dean's farm, I don't know how that could be considered "please". ”

Seeing that the Earl of Bernard was angry, the Minister of Justice no longer fought with him, bowed his head and no longer answered, and Bernard, as the Chancellor of the Exchequer, had cut the Chancellor's financial allocation several times, and if the Chancellor of the Exchequer was forced to be in a hurry, he would probably find an excuse to cut off the financial supply of the Chancellor.

The hall fell silent for a moment, except for a few small nobles in the back row, whispering to each other.

"Since there is such a big disagreement on this matter, then we will decide today's matter, Lord Marquis Cheng Bing. After all, these two people were both knights of the palace guard who were canonized by the Marquis himself. ”

The Marquis of Ivrea, the ruler of the Count of Burgundy, had been bedridden for many days, and had long since stopped paying attention to these things, and besides, there were still a large stack of things that needed to be decided by the Marquis of the Inner Court in front of his sickbed, and the Marquis could not even read this submission for ten days and half a month.

Apparently Balwyn used the "procrastination", knowing that it would not be long before no one would dare to speak for the Dean family again.

Of course, the inner court faction with Bernard was unwilling to give up, and they strongly demanded that the court send troops to kill or at least capture the frontier baron to the court for trial.

However, Balwin was the military lieutenant, and although the military minister was somewhat inclined to defect, he still controlled the Praetorian Guard, and without his orders, the Praetorian Guard could not be mobilized at all.

After a long time of arguing, no consensus was reached, but the Chancellor of the Exchequer Bernard threatened to cut the military budget of the Praetorian Guard, and Balwin threatened that if the military budget was insufficient, the Praetorian Guard would likely mutinier and attack Bernard's Earl's Palace.

In the next day or two, Earl Balwin, in the name of military lieutenant and vice-minister, suppressed the vengeful voices of many court magnates who relied on the profits of the Dean family, and those court magnates privately discussed gathering troops to go south

In the second Sunday of January, the arrogance of the southward expedition, which had been noisy for many days, suddenly died down in the light of the day.

I don't know if it was a coincidence or not, on this day the Bishop of Besançon received two signed urgent letters and a letter of urgent order from the Archbishop of Paris on a fast horse.

Two urgent letters signed by the Baron of the Frontier of the Count of Burgundy, the Knight of the Court Guard, and the Inspector of the Southern Frontier of the Court, Atwood Wells, who faithfully revealed that the Knight of the Court Guard, Dean and his father, Dean Sr., had raised heretics, formed an organization of heretical killers, and killed cultists and nobles, and attached to the letter a list of incriminating evidence and a confession; Another letter, signed by the Bishop of Lucesin in the Count of Burgundy, Olof Hannes, stated that the Dean family was suspected of heresy and offered to provide religious protection to the whistleblower Atwood Wells from being brutalized by heretics and heretical organizations and their associates.

The third urgent letter from Paris sent a cold sweat on the forehead of the Archbishop of Besançon - it was found that there were heretics and heresies in the Archdiocese of the Count of Burgundy, and the Inquisition of Paris had sent the Inquisition to the Count of Burgundy, demanding that the Archbishop of the Count of Burgundy immediately order the arrest of the members of the Dien family, strictly investigate the remnants of the heresy, and wait for the arrival of the Inquisition.

After receiving the three letters, the Archbishop of Besançon had planned to cover up the news and immediately accompany the Inner Court and the Count of Bernard, but he did not want that the letter had just arrived at the Cathedral of Besançon, and the news that the Dean family had raised heretics to establish a heretical organization had spread throughout the court and beyond.

As soon as the three secret letters appeared, another bigger storm swelled up

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