Rumors intensified in Brittany. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

At first, it spread among farmers, and later to the ears of nobles, such as knights, and the content of the rumors became more and more bizarre. For example, there is a passage about Magnus capturing the monks, and several peasants swear:

"I swear to God! I saw with my own eyes that his head had horns like oxen, and his horse spitting sulfurous flames as he ran! ”

It's all about describing Magnus as a demon king.

This is said to be that no one is pushing the flames, and no one believes it.

"Not enough! Not enough! Just now these rumors, the farmers are still suspicious at best, and we have to add fuel to them! ”

In the court, Kurt, the initiator of all rumors, is planning his next move with great interest.

As for Magnus, he could only sit on the throne depressed, seeing how Kurt ruined his reputation, and nodded his head and said yes.

No way, who let him agree to this plan.

So, four Praetorian Guards from England were sent out.

These Janissaries, given to them by Magnus were tasked with quelling rumors, but they were linguistically incomprehensible, could neither understand nor speak Breton; Second, they had long been trained in the barracks to be like wooden heads, so what was Magnus's method of managing disobedient soldiers?

By hitting.

If you fight too much, you will naturally be obedient.

Therefore, the methods of these four Praetorian Guards can be imagined, and everywhere they passed through was a mess, and everyone complained.

Rather than quelling the rumors, they are pouring fuel on the fire.

The peasants' anger grew stronger, and at last it reached Father Adolphus.

Well, the priest didn't know about it at first, after all, he only spoke Latin, and he was protected by Magnus's soldiers on the way back and forth.

Thus, even if the Brittany crowd looked at him strangely, the priest thought that they had been bullied by the former clergy and were prejudiced against the clergy, who had been one of those who had bullied the peasants in the past.

However, one day, several naughty children, all of whom were still children, were not bent over by the burden of life, and their bodies were full of youthful vitality unique to childhood.

In the face of such children, the soldiers did not take much precautions.

Then, the unexpected happened.

The children, who had gotten dung balls from nowhere—perhaps just picked them up, and were all over the streets—tossed them onto the priest's ornate purple robes.

That's a real deal!

Although the soldiers didn't know how much the purple robe was worth, just by looking at the pattern on the robe with gold edges and decorated with tassels, they knew that it was definitely not something that ordinary people could afford.

What's more, purple, which is the color that only the noble-born 'blue-blooded' can use!

In fact, if the priest hadn't stopped them, the urchins would have been hacked to death by the soldiers on the spot.

If something like this happens, how can they explain it to His Royal Highness the Prince!

Again, if it weren't for Father Adolphus's full thrust, not only the children, but also their relatives, and even the village where they lived, would have borne the consequences of the soldiers' momentary anger.

I mean Tu Village.

This is not a rare thing, because it is common throughout Europe to kill people and vent their anger because of a momentary bad mood; In fact, quite a few of the Saxon Janissaries from England thought that His Royal Highness was too merciful to the Brittany.

They should be killed, those who dare to make trouble should be killed, those who dare to disobey should be killed, one out of ten should be killed, and these Bretons should live in fear in this life and in this life, and let fear soak into their souls, so that they will be honest.

The English conquests of Scotland and Ireland, and the Crusades, they did just that.

If you turn the page of European history, you can hear endless wails and cries coming out of a casual page.

These are the souls who suffer.

However, it was fortunate that the priest was there, otherwise Magnus would not have known what to do with this tragedy.

If the soldiers were punished, or the soldiers who followed them all the way from England and never left them, it would only centrifuge the army; But if you suppress this matter and ignore the will of the people, it will really be self-defeating, lifting a stone to shoot yourself in the foot, and stubbornly taking those rumors to the truth.

Luckily, there was a priest here.

Then, it was time for Magnus to face the angry priest.

Naturally, the priest's anger was not directed at Magnus, who was as much a victim as he was, and it was the one who spread the rumors who should be angry.

But Magnus, he only told the priest about the rumors that he had spread among the peasants, but he did not tell the priest that all the rumors except the first one had been concocted by him!

- At least he was watching Kurt concoct it.

How do you explain this to the priest?

Magnus was torn by the question.

Do you want to tell the real truth to the priest?

No, no, no, it's absolutely not a no-no.

The priest thought that the Lord had awakened him, so the first thing he had to do to preach the true Gospel to the Lord on earth was to separate himself from the fallen and greedy Holy See.

The Holy See is full of lies, so the priest swore that he would never lie or lie to deceive people.

Tell the priest the truth, Magnus is really not sure whether the priest is cooperating, or simply turning his face on the spot.

Half to half odds, Magnus didn't want to gamble his future on luck.

Therefore, he can only continue to deceive, and make up more lies for the sake of one lie, but fortunately, the priest can indeed only speak Latin, and he has to rely on Magnus to translate with outsiders on weekdays, and the source of information is limited, and he is not afraid of the lie being exposed.

And, most importantly, even the original fabricator of the rumors, Kurt, who was the mastermind and the person involved, was on Magnus's side.

This makes it a lot easier.

In fact, when the priest saw Kurt in an iron cage (and had been locked up in it beforehand), he did not angrily question him, but first asked religious questions.

It's about 'in the name of Jehovah' and 'in the name of the Father, Our Mother and the Son.'"

This does not need to be translated by Magnus, and Kurt said that his proficiency in the eight Chinese languages is indeed not nonsense, and as a monk who grew up in the monastery, Latin is also a compulsory subject.

The two men, one inside the cage and the other outside, temporarily let go of their hatred and began a heated debate about beliefs, gods, and the interpretation of the scriptures.

It made Magnus gain a lot of knowledge.

For example, in the book of Exodus, the Lord sent ten plagues to save his people and took away all the firstborn of the Egyptians in one night.

It turns out that the slaughter of the city was initiated by God, and it is really a long insight.

At the end, Father Adolphus let out a sigh, not knowing whether it was admiration or regret.

He said to Kurt:

"Since none of us can convince anyone, then only let the Lord judge all things, may the merciful Lord cleanse us of our sins in the flames, I beseech the God of Fire."