In October, the heat subsides and a light breeze blows through the border fortress town of Tignez, on the southern border of the Count of Burgundy. 77dus

The weather was cool, but the county town of Tignac was in the heat of summer.

From the beginning of July to the beginning of October, when the conscripts began to gather in Tinets County from all directions, in just ten days, more than 600 conscripts had been inhabited in the temporary camp of the Eastern Regiment set up outside the city of Tiniets. Note: Recruitment is mainly based on spending money to recruit professional soldiers, which is different from conscripts for military service. Recruits are usually paid by the government, and most of the recruits are free fighters with their own weapons and armor. ）

However, there are two waves of people who are busier than the recruits, one is the security team and the county garrison soldiers who are responsible for maintaining the security of the county town and the surrounding area of Tinets), and most of the "free fighters" who came to recruit from the legion camp outside the city came to smell the stench of blood and the smell of silver coins, and this group of guys with weapons and armor in their hands is not a good kind, maybe yesterday they were still bandits who carried swords and hammers and axes and made a living by blocking the road......

In order not to let the guys who came to assemble and apply for the recruitment disturb the stability of the county town and the surrounding area, Viscount Pierre sent all the security teams and half of the county garrison to the camp and nearby to maintain law and order or organize inspections of the surrounding country estates, and he was busy all day long.

The other group of busy people were, of course, petty traders and working women, another major component of the camp, whose numbers were already approaching two hundred, and counting. Where there are people, there is a deal, and the palace will not provide food and supplies to these guys who come to recruit until the Eastern Legion is officially assembled into an army, so the recruits must pay their own money bags to support themselves. The poorer "free fighters" would buy grain, bacon, vegetables, and fruits from the city or from small vendors, and make fires in the camps to cook themselves; Most of them handed over a few copper coins in a shed made of tattered felt cloth by the peddlers, and the professional mercenaries with a swelling of money would pay a few more copper coins for the peddlers to bring out a few cups of low-quality ale made by the peddlers and a plate of stewed pork chops with apples.

Not to mention professional women, as long as there is a place where single men gather, their shadows are indispensable no matter what-handed two copper coins, take the plump fat woman who is happy, find a suitable "battlefield", and sweat with fierce ups and downs in the eyes of others or enthusiastic onlookers, and leave straight away with the cover pants after finishing the work......

Art and his party didn't like this scene. Leaving aside the chaotic scene, the smell of feces and urine produced by nearly 1,000 people is enough. It's not Besançon, and no one thinks about the city's epidemics, so there won't be anyone to manage the food and drink of the people in the camp until the army is assembled, and these rude guys are pooping and urinating everywhere, not caring if there is a lot of feces next to their pillows.

"God, this is ~ really stinky! Can't these bastards just run a little farther away to deal with shit and pee? You have to be like a herd of animals! Felix covered his nose and looked at the huge assembly camp, and couldn't help but complain.

Art didn't want to stay a little longer, people in this era just don't have the slightest habit of paying attention to it, and it's just that the crowd is sparse on weekdays, even if everyone dumps feces at will, the stench can still be blown away by the breeze, as long as you don't mind your shoes being stained with dung and mud, you can endure it. But when this kind of personnel gathers, the filthy stench becomes a haunting devil.

"Alright, let's not enter the camp, tell Spencer that we'll find a clean open space to camp ourselves tonight." Art commanded one of the soldiers beside him.

"Buzz and Ron took the soldiers and the baggage team to set up camp, the sentinels let their horses drink on their own, and the crossbow squad was responsible for guarding the sentry."

"Otto and Angus, you two come with me into the city, and we'll go and see if the group of nobles who led the troops have arrived in Tinets."

With that, Art lightly grabbed his horse's belly and walked towards the city of Tignac......

"I knew you would smell blood and come to join the army going south, how can a restless fellow like you stay quietly in his knight's fief and be a down-to-earth lord." In the official room of the lord's hall in the city of Tignac, Viscount Pierre took time out of his busy schedule to receive Yat.

"Mistress Pierre, you seem to have some misunderstanding about me, right?" Art took two pearls of fine color from his bosom and placed them on Viscount Pierre's desk.

Pierre fiddled with the "precious gifts" on the table twice, pinched one of the most shining pearls with two fingers, held it above his forehead, looked at the window carefully for a while, and said with a smile: "I have accepted the things, but you don't expect to use these things to block the ugly words in my mouth."

Art replied with a sense of humor, "Of course, I would like to listen to your kind advice."

Pierre put the two pearls into a wooden box on the table, stared at Art solemnly and said, "Some things can only be told in front of you, which is not good, but you have to listen." ”

"The first thing is about the dispute between you and the Dean family. I don't want to get into who is right and who is wrong, I only care about the outcome. In less than a year, the two of you knights who were knighted together actually began to fight among themselves, and many people died. Lord Marquis is not very satisfied with the two of you, and now the country is in need of soldiers to strengthen the army, and you two knights who have been canonized by Lord Marquis himself are actually busy fighting these three people can't accept it~ No matter what your final victory or defeat is, I don't want this to happen to you again. ”

Art didn't care after hearing this, anyway, he had done it now, and he didn't suffer a loss, as for the marquis's anger, it was not aimed at the two inconspicuous little knights at all, the infighting between the two counts of Balwin and Bernard was the trouble that made the critically ill marquis headache.

"The second thing, about the number of your troops. A knight has close to a hundred standing soldiers, and even a baron with more territories may not be able to maintain such a large army, let alone a small knight. What do you want to do by usurping power and raising private soldiers? ”

"I know you want to say that your soldiers don't take a penny of the palace and the county, and that the number of troops in your hands has nothing to do with others. But Art, let me tell you, you have aroused the jealousy of others, and someone has already told the court, threatening that you want to raise private soldiers to annex other people's territories, and there are even rumors that your ambition is really not small~~~"

Yate was a little excited when he heard this, and retorted: "My lord, in the name of God, my loyalty to the marquis and the court is obvious to all, and the court needs me to defend the border, and I will be summoned immediately; The court needs me to keep the law, and I desperately suppress the bandits; The court needed me to go south to fight, and I didn't hesitate. I think I am worthy of my heart, worthy of the Lord, and even more worthy of God. ”

Pierre laughed twice, "Art, if everything in the world were as you think, God wouldn't need to cleanse the world from sin. As far as I know, your opponents have already begun to collect your guilt. ”

"My guilt?"

"Alright Art, you don't have to pretend in front of me."

"My lord, I don't understand what you're talking about."

Seeing that Art was still pretending to be confused, Pierre felt a little unhappy, stood up and paced to Art, and said slowly: "You still have an unsightly team in the dense forest of the valley, right?" ”

Art wanted to get up to defend himself, but Pierre waved his hand to stop, "Sir Art, while I was watching these little tricks at court, you were still learning how to straddle horses in Lombardy. So don't treat everyone like fools, okay? ”

Art was silent and denied it.

Seeing that Art was unmoved, Pierre listed them one by one.

"May, village of Leval. As soon as you walked away, the rich men who had bumped into you that night were infiltrated and killed by robbers, and the property was ransacked. ”

"In July, Lane Manor was overrun by a group of bandits of unknown origin, and it was a coincidence that the bandits were driven away by you and your troops who unexpectedly appeared after emptying the manor's goods."

"In August, at the critical moment when your border knight was besieged by the Dean family, a group of bandits who escaped from the dense forest valley of the southwest mountains captured the Dean family's farm, and I guess this gang of bandits may have been coincidental to trouble the well-guarded Dean family at this critical moment."

"In September, when a bandit attacked a wealthy manor in the county, your army took the manor by surprise and annihilated the bandits, just as they were about to flee the mountains and forests. Maybe it's a coincidence. ”

Art, who was sitting in the chair, had begun to sweat a thin layer of sweat on his forehead, and he couldn't sit still.

Pierre lowered his voice and continued: "Sir Art, just because no one cares about something doesn't mean no one knows. Some people think that they can act flawlessly, blinding all eyes and blocking all mouths, but they don't expect that there is always God watching. ”

"Sir Art, do you dare to say that the other lords of the county dare to sleep on your side? Do you dare to say that the court and I don't need to be afraid of you? Pierre stopped pacing, his eyes fixed on Art.

After a brief period of panic, Art regained some composure, and said slowly: "I think since you have told me so many things, you must not be afraid of me." Mistress Pierre, perhaps I'm not as bad as you've heard or seen. ”

Pierre stared into Art's eyes for a long time, and Art simply met Pierre's spiky eyes without flinching.

"Okay!"

Pierre finally withdrew his gaze, "I hope you're not as bad as I hear or see." Sir Art, don't make me regret that I recommended you as a knight-apprentice, and I really want you to be a knight loyal to God and the Marquis. ”

"As you wish." Art got up and bowed slightly>>

Submit.

Pierre exhaled heavily, took a deep breath, and said meaningfully, "Arte, the Marquis has authorized me to guard this small county in the south, I have been the magistrate of Tignaz for four years, and I will be able to return to the court in less than a year. I don't expect to accomplish anything in a territory that doesn't belong to me, I just hope that there won't be major upheaval during my tenure. Can you understand what I'm saying? ”

Art nodded heavily, "Thank you, I understand." ”

"Alright, you can go back. In three days' time, the legions will march south from Tignats, so prepare well. God bless you. ”

"God is with you."

With that, Art withdrew from Pierre's office......

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Chapter 174: The Conspiracy Revealed