Early in the morning in Nantes, dozens of heavily draped soldiers, and an equal number of knights in gorgeous robes, were waiting at the gates of the city. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Passers-by avoided it, preferring to take a long detour and enter and exit through the gate on the other side rather than stay here for a moment.

The war had just ended, and the blood soaked in the earth had not yet been shed, and the fear of the blade had already been deeply engraved into the hearts of every citizen of Nantes.

The corpses that should have been piled up were only a few days ago, because spring had arrived, the temperature had risen, and Magnus was afraid of a plague outbreak so he kindly let them go to the ground, otherwise, they would still be thrown outside the city indiscriminately.

Human memory isn't that bad.

However, the citizens of Nantes may be overly concerned.

These soldiers are not here to play hide and seek with the citizens of Nantes, and Magnus has been so busy lately that he is almost vomiting blood, and he has no leisure at all; In fact, the soldiers were waiting for someone.

Wait for Father Adolphus to arrive.

Magnus was looking forward to the priest, not for a day or two.

The day after the end of the war, Magnus sent to Orleans to invite the priest over; Then he sent another soldier to serve as a messenger guard, which can be described as full of sincerity, for fear that the priest would be snatched away if he went too late.

Although no one will rob him.

Then, just two days earlier, the priest and his entourage had arrived in Saint-Malo, and the soldiers, who had been watching Saint-Malo for a long time, immediately reported the news to Magnus.

So, why did Magnus greet the priest with such fanfare?

Or how much benefit can the priest give Magnus?

Only a fool would believe that Magnus was really devoted to piety and wanted nothing else, and if the priest was just a real vase with a good appearance, then Magnus would only hold him high and would not have touched him at all.

After all, it's good to admire the vase from a distance, and if you get too close, you will break it if you are not careful.

What the priest can bring to Magnus is the will of the people and stability.

Or maybe it's stable.

The devotion of the people of Europe to the faith is unimaginable to us today, for example, the Europeans of the Middle Ages are by no means inferior to the current Green Cult Saints and Fighters.

In the history of the Middle Ages, we often hear of peasant revolts, revolts against kings, revolts against nobles, and even revolts against merchants, but there was no revolt against the church.

Even the taxes collected by the church were sometimes far greater than the kings and nobles combined.

Or, if he encounters an unscrupulous priest or priest who cheats people out of money and destroys their families, it is only the personal behavior of the priest, because of his ungodly faith, because of his lust, because of the devil's temptation to degenerate, and it has nothing to do with the church.

I really don't know why.

Moreover, the above is not the propaganda of the church, but the spontaneous maintenance of the peasants.

It's like attaching the halo of the protagonist with reduced IQ + people's support.

From this, it can be seen how much benefit the arrival of Father Adolphus can bring to Magnus.

Moreover, the priest was really of good character - according to him because of God's guidance - but what about him! Father Adolphus was not close to women, greedy for money, or fame and fortune, and spent his days either reciting scriptures in monasteries or working tirelessly to preach in the countryside.

It was only after a while, waiting for the Brittany to become acquainted with the priest's presence, that the mere pleasure of having their faith fulfilled was enough to offset the bereavement that Magnus had brought them.

What's more, Magnus actually has other ideas.

That's excess.

Actually, the word transcendence is not a specific word for Buddhism, and the world's major religions, whether they are Christianity or Green Religion, all have specific references to heaven and hell, as well as the miserable spirits of the dead that wander the earth.

In Christian teaching, if a person dies in obscurity and there is no priest to pray for the end, then his soul can only wander the earth.

Day after day, lonely.

Until they fall into hell.

This did not bode well for Magnus's rule.

Then the peasants and townspeople don't dare to speak out anyway, but those knights who have just joined the service, they are completely different.

Those who died on the battlefield were their robes, their brothers, even if they retreated 10,000 steps, neither robes nor brothers, but those were also cavalrymen, people of the same class as them, and after they died, they were thrown into the wilderness, and their corpses were allowed to be eaten by wolves and wild beasts, and even the souls of heroes could not go to heaven, but could only wander the earth in eternal loneliness.

These knights, they had just surrendered to Magnus, and the army's heart was unstable, and the army's heart was uncertain, if they allowed the sad mood of the rabbit to die and the fox's sorrow spread, they would be provoked by someone with a heart in time of war; Although the rebellion is not enough, it can no longer be used as a living force.

That's why Magnus was so eager for Father Adolphus to come.

He is to come through a prayer, a solemn prayer, to all the people of Brittany, not just the knights, but all the people of Brittany; Knights, burghers, farmers, merchants...... He, Magnus is trying to prove that he is a responsible man!

Responsible not only for the living, but also for the dead!

Whoever dies can go to heaven!

…… Well, that's a bit of an exaggeration.

Father Adolphus is not the Pope, Magnus is not Jesus, and neither of them has the right to shout such 'rhetoric'. However, after the prayer ceremony, it can be more or less useful.

For the ordinary citizens and peasants, you can call them weak, or call them self-deception. When they see their dead relatives buried in solemn and solemn religious ceremonies, they will be comforted in their hearts, and then persuade themselves to put aside their hatred and work diligently.

Be honest and obedient.

After all, being alive is never easy; And the living are always more important than the dead.

And those knights, Magnus gave them knighthood, which is the name; and gave them fiefdoms, which were benefits; It's their turn now, and even their dead brother has to give an explanation, and that's grace. Fame, fortune and grace, even if he is a hard-hearted person, he should be a little moved, and there is a feeling of 'death for a confidant' in his heart.

Even if they didn't, with so many things, they could stop their nonsense, at least the military spirit was stabilized.

It's just a ceremony that doesn't cost much money, and it can have the effect of calming the hearts of the army and the people at the same time, and the only thing Magnus has to do is to leave two crocodile tears, so why not?

It's just that good things must be grinded in the end, and the funeral ceremony is in turmoil, and just when Magnus is proud, another big and small 'trouble' is slowly approaching him......

Who knows?