William is very dissatisfied with the white-eyed wolf behavior of these lords, it is he who has worked hard to improve your living conditions, these monk churches are the ones who really exploit you, and you are still grateful to them!

Angry is angry, and there is nothing he can do about this group of fools.

"Yes, my people are very simple, so there should be no witches!" William showed a sly smile, since you yourself said that the people are simple, then you don't burn witches, where did such a simple people come from.

Helping Dean Cruise stay still, I didn't expect this little baron to be quite cunning.

"The people are indeed simple, but just outside the manor, there is a brothel, and it is hard to guarantee that the chicken girls will not be tempted by the devil to betray the Holy Father! And some wealthy lords who often go in and out may also betray the Holy Father under the bewitchment of the chicken girl! "Help Dean Cruise wittily take aim at the brothel.

It is believed that women are more susceptible to the temptation of the devil than men, and that women who can sell their flesh and chastity for money are more susceptible to temptation, so there are often witches who have been burned to death who have been engaged in the leather and meat industry.

And helping Cruise expand directly from the witch to the person who is tempted by the devil, if he helps Cruise to go his own way, even if William stops it, it will cause more or less turmoil in the territory.

In fact, it's not that he has to get along with William to help Cruise appear to be fine, as long as he is not a fanatic, he will not be desperate to fulfill the Pope's order.

In fact, if he had done a good job of witch hunting here, he would have been rewarded by the higher abbeys, or promoted, or given some title after death, as William knew.

It was a bit of a difficult thing to do, and William looked at Gang Cruise with dangerous eyes, and Gang Cruise looked at him with a fearless expression.

Now that winter is about to begin, a small riot is nothing, but if this farce of witch hunting continues until next spring, it will definitely affect spring ploughing, and no one can afford this loss.

The scene was awkward for a while, and the two looked at each other with needle-to-needle contact, helping Cruise, as an old man, not to fall behind in the face of William's gaze.

"If those ** people are tempted by the devil, then I, the lord, are also responsible, why don't I contribute three hundred silver coins to the Holy Father to pay for their possible depravity!" His eyes softened, and a smile appeared on his face.

William thought about it, the sixty-year-old Gang Cruise couldn't live long, and at this point, it was estimated that he didn't have that much desire for power, and the rest was estimated to be this wealth, so William proposed the price of three hundred silver coins.

As for what is dedicated to the Father, it is pure fart, and what is the difference between offering to the Father and offering it to Him.

Helping Cruise not have a big expression on his face when he heard this, he just said: "Which unclean people should really thank Lord Baron for your hard work, but depravity is depravity, and only fire can wash away sins!" ”

"! This old man is going in! Three hundred silver coins are not satisfied, this is the income of their monastery for three or four months! William cursed in his heart, and he wanted to kill this stinky old man with a sword.

"Hey...... Indeed, but they are my people after all, and I will add seven hundred silver coins to my three hundred silver coins, so what do you think? "William simply made it clear directly, I will give money, you don't burn people!

Helping Cruise's lips squirm and seem to be a little moved, William struck while the iron was hot again: "I heard that you also have an illegitimate son who is a guard in the monastery, and I can grant him a village as a fief and make him my knight and prayer man, what do you think?" ”

"Malegobi's, it's really troublesome to ask for people, this foreign monk is much more awesome than our local monk!" William sneered, he didn't want to divide a village now, wouldn't that give his built territory to others? But there is no way, people have to bow their heads under the eaves, and they must pretend to be grandchildren at this time.

It's not terrible to capture witches, what I'm afraid of is what kind of extortion and robbery this group of monks do in the name of catching witches, which will definitely cause a large panic in the territory and delay the spring ploughing, but if it causes the people to escape, it will be a big loss!

Abbot Cruise hesitated for a second or two, then said with a smile on his face, "If you care so much about your people, and they haven't betrayed the Holy Father, how can I think of them as evil wizards?" ”

"That's the best, I'll definitely keep the people from being tempted by the devil!" William also said with a smile on his face.

Even if he wanted to cut the other party with a thousand knives, William had to greet him with a smile, no way, after all, he had to ask for someone now, but it would be good to wait until the witch was over, and then there would be no need to be so difficult.

Leaving the Abbey of St. Nero, William returned to the manor in a rage.

Lingsi looked at the angry William, she didn't dare to approach at all, and when she saw William from a distance, she immediately ran to the side, but it was Wei Na, who looked at William helplessly.

She patted William's head on tiptoe and said helplessly, "What's the matter?" My lord, what is it that makes you so angry? ”

William sighed and took Wella's hand down, he would never be angry in front of her.

"It's not the monastery yet, His Majesty the Pope has issued an order to capture witches in the eastern part of the continent, now this group of monks has an excuse, I'm afraid that they will extort money from the people, if it causes the people to flee or delay the spring ploughing, it will not be good." William said with a look of resentment.

"In order to keep the monks of St. Nero's Abbey from making trouble, I also paid a thousand silver coins for this, and I also made the son who helped Cruise a knight."

Wella didn't understand this, and in her impression, shouldn't the monks be the servants of the Holy Father in the world, how could such a noble group of people do bad things?

But looking at William with an angry face, Wei Na had no choice but to follow him: "Although these monks are hateful, since they are already like this, it is better to be happy, always with such a sad face will make luck worse!" ”

Looking at Wella, who was just up to his chest, William couldn't help laughing, Wella always made him happy, he liked Wella so much, probably because of the influence of some lolita in his previous life.

More than a month has passed, and the first snow of the year has finally fallen from the sky, and the bitter winter has officially arrived.

During this period, the Earl sent a letter to William, which wrote the reason for Guan Yu's arrest of the witch.

It turned out that His Majesty wanted to launch a holy war against the heretical barbarians in the north before, where gold and furs were abundant, and where the gold circulated by the kingdoms of the Holy Fathers came from, so the Pope had coveted it for a long time, and wanted to call on the kingdoms to wage holy wars.

But the Pope only called, and did not plan to send many people himself, most of the manpower and army had to be made up by various kingdoms, and the Pope still had to take the lion's share, plus the northern barbarians were not easy to mess with, who would do this thankless work.

This is the reason why the Pope issued an order to arrest witches, and it is good that the Kingdom of Cikma is not a few countries that take the lead in opposition, and now it is afraid that it has become a mess with a few countries that take the lead in opposition.

Dressed in thick cotton coats and animal skins, William sat on a sofa made of animal skins with Wella, looking at the books in his hands, and occasionally picking up rich honey water and taking a sip.

At this time, Wella had fallen asleep on his shoulder, and looking at her drooling from her sleep, William couldn't help but feel childlike.

Putting down the letter in his hand, William pinched Wella's nose with his left hand, and after a while, he saw that Wella's face gradually turned rosy.

Wella finally opened her hazy sleepy eyes, glared at William, and suddenly opened William's big hand, and hammered his small fist on him.

"You're so idle! Next time, see how I clean you up! ”

Looking at Wella's puffed appearance, William couldn't help but sneer, and suddenly grabbed her slender and soft waist and held her in his arms.

"How are you going to clean me up?" William put his lips together, whispered in Wella's ear, and said with a wicked smile.

"Don't, don't ...... like that" Wella's face flushed, she really couldn't stand William's teasing like this, and now she felt hot all over.

"It's okay, we'll get married in just over a month, kiss one!" William said with a grin.

While he was flirting leisurely in the castle, the villagers were also warming themselves by burning the bonfire with firewood from the forest.

The warmer months store enough food for them to survive the winter.

Although the people were sheltering from the cold at home, the soldiers still had to train in the bitter cold, which was an order from William to exercise their bodies and willpower.

Of course, they wore not iron armor, but leather armor with warmth, plus cotton clothing.

Even so, William didn't let them train like they did in the summer and autumn, and if they still trained like that at this time, they would be deadly, training for a morning a day, and then disbanding and going back to the barracks, baking a fire or drinking hot bone broth, that's how the army is treated.

In the royal capital, William's negotiated slaves have also arrived one after another, and now more than 300 people have arrived in the territory, and William has placed them in the houses that have been built long ago in the village of Mendes, and also provided them with food and firewood.

Of course, none of this is free, and when the freeze is lifted next year, they will need to pay it back with silver coins or in kind.

And there are still hundreds of slaves to be delivered, and after they are delivered, there will be no shortage of labor for spring ploughing next year, and the population pressure will be greatly eased.