By the end of the northern crusade against the Norvids, the kingdom of Arisera had been engaged in a protracted war with the Pials for four years.

If it weren't for the Pope's reinforcements, coupled with the struggle for the throne between the three princes, the situation of the Kargise dynasty would have been unstable, and the kingdom of Arisera would have been wiped out.

As for why the Pope did not launch a holy war against the Piars to save a pro-Holy state, the reasons are multifaceted.

One of the most important is that the Piars are far from being able to match the strength of the Norweeds of the north.

If a holy war against the Piyers is launched, the enemy may come up with two or three hundred thousand elite troops to resist the holy world's holy war army.

It was not uncommon for this to happen, and after the Piars invaded the Holy Religious World, the Pope of the time was furious and gathered all the countries, including the Western Kingdoms, which were at odds with each other at the time.

An army of more than 200,000 marched into the East, but after entering the territory of the Piars for hundreds of kilometers, they were met with stubborn resistance from the enemy.

They dispatched an army of 250,000 men to fight the Eastern Crusade Jihad Army in a vast Gobi for a final decisive battle.

In the end, the battle was decided, because the cruelty of the war and the casualties had reached an unbearable level on both sides, and the crusade jihadist army was left with less than 100,000 men, and the Piyards were even more miserable, losing 150,000 troops on the battlefield.

Eventually, the Sultan of the Qagise dynasty, on behalf of the various sultanates, signed an equal peace treaty with the Pope at the time, ending the crusade and jihad.

This war directly led to the wounding of both sides, and there has not been a war between the two sides for 30 years.

And that was 200 years ago, and the church at that time, to be honest, was much more controlling and influential than the church now.

Nowadays, there are still many countries that are reluctant to listen to the church, the most typical representative is the kingdom of Tskema, and most of the kingdoms at that time were based on the church.

At that time, the Holy Church world could not defeat the Piars, let alone the current era of slightly shrinking ecclesiastical power.

Once the holy war against them is launched, then it is very likely to fail, and then the prestige of the pope who launched the holy war will undoubtedly be greatly damaged.

At that time, the nobles will support the king's right to oppose the church because they have lost too much, and then he may become a sinner for the ages of the church.

This time the Northern Expedition Holy War was launched to support the Holy Brother of the Kingdom of Astra, but if you really want to talk about it, it is not necessarily the purpose.

Through this holy war, the Pope hopes to consolidate the attitudes of all countries towards the Church, to increase the influence of the Church, to deter and unite those who oppose the rights of the Church.

Sure enough, after the victory of this holy war, the prestige of the church and the pope has increased a lot, and the bloody emperor of the Rodland Empire, Grein, has also reined in a lot in the country and abolished some policies against the church.

He would rather not have the kingdom of Arisla, a country that supported the Church, than the failure of the Crusade to cause the Church to decline.

In the kingdom of Ratzkma, when the powerful monarch of King Brolin died, leaving the young child of King Hunthard to ascend the throne, Queen Daileen and a series of royalists made certain compromises to the church.

When King Brolin had just died, the church really wanted to fall into the ground, after all, the kingdom of Tskma had always resisted the church like that, and even some nobles directly canceled the payment of tithes.

However, due to the strength of King Brolin and the unity of the domestic aristocracy, the church still did not do anything more extreme.

After all, the White Rose Kingdom and the Cikma Kingdom are in the same spirit, and once the Cikma Kingdom is disposed of, then the White Rose Kingdom will also stand with him.

All of a sudden, there is turmoil between two kingdoms, or two medium kingdoms that are not weak countries, which is fatal to the Church, which is already beginning to weaken its control, and maybe the Rhodeland Empire will take direct action.

Otherwise, in fact, if the Pope wants to deal with the Kingdom of Tskema, it is quite easy, and directly issuing a decree of expulsion from King Brolin can have a huge impact on him.

However, due to the constraints of all parties, he still did not do so.

However, after the death of King Brolin, the kingdom of Tskema was in chaos, the people were panicked, a large number of nobles had evil intentions, Duke Bunkerson was watching from the sidelines, and the heirs to the throne were also staring at the throne.

In order to gain the support of the church, Queen Dai Lin allowed a lot of convergence of interests in the country.

What the Pope meant to the kingdom of Arisella was that it was best to remain in this stalemate until he had truly integrated the Holy Church world and was thinking about other things.

William has been a little anxious in the territory recently, and he doesn't need to deal with too many things after carefully dividing the rights, except for some big things that he is not qualified to deal with to be handed over to William.

There are also military affairs to be dealt with by William, and he has nothing to do.

He accompanies his wife and children all day long, and after throwing Charlemagne into the army, he doesn't need to teach Charlemagne all day long, occasionally go to watch the knights' polo games, go hunting in front of the hunting ground, hold some small banquets for courtiers, or medium-sized banquets for Yanqing vassals.

As for the anxiety, it was brought about by the finances, which were usually in the hands of Baron Reims, but the weekly accounts had to be handed over to William, and every expenditure had to be reported to Wella and the dark daggers of Tuth.

Therefore, William was very aware of the financial situation, but because brothels and casinos were gradually built and opened in the past month or so, merchants gradually became obsessed with it.

A large amount of silver and gold coins and gems flowed into William's pocket through the casino and the chicken yard, and it is roughly estimated that these two industries alone will be able to earn eight or nine hundred thousand silver coins in one year.

It was a very timely nectar for him, who was now in dire need of silver coins.

Not only can it roughly replenish the deficit, but it can also give William a surplus of more than 300,000 silver coins a year.

The most profitable businesses in the world are nothing more than human trafficking, leather and meat business, gambling business, and luxury business.

The first four items William has already operated, and he also has vodka as a spirit in luxury, and now as long as porcelain appears, it is definitely a lucrative luxury item that is more in demand than vodka and honey combined.

After a period of study, Jia Yu finally delivered a piece of porcelain to William.

However, this porcelain bowl did not please William, because he did not have the roundness and smoothness of real porcelain, and the crisp sound of hitting it.

Although this kind of thing is also more precious, it obviously does not meet the standard of white and smooth porcelain in William's heart, and any piece of precious porcelain is worth a fortune.

Therefore, he could only ask Jia Yu to lead the craftsmen to continue to intensify their research, and strive to be able to manufacture complete porcelain as soon as possible.