Eventually, Magnus decided to put the church on hold for now. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Others often say: take one step, look at ten steps. But it's not a good thing to see too long and too far, the earth revolves around the sun, the world is always changing, and the plan made now may be useless in a few days.

Besides, the church doesn't go out of its way just because a grand ducal has changed its lord. It is possible in wealthy areas, such as Italy, southern HRE, or the Bishopric of Reims in France, but in a bitter cold place like Brittany, the church really does not look down on it.

This means that Magnus has about two years to raise the reputation of Father Adolphus.

Two years was the time when Magnus estimated the Duchy of Brittany to become rich.

After all, in this age where being able to eat two meals a day is happiness, the vast majority of people do not have any savings in their lifetime; A bumper harvest of grain in one year can be said to be food and clothing, and a bumper harvest in two years is enough to be called wealth.

And then, even for the church, it's a face.

-- The strength of the church comes from the support of the peasants. If a lord disobeys the will of the church and the church excommunicates him, the rebellion of a peasant with a fanatical faith is enough for the lord to drink.

On the other hand, once it loses the support of the peasants, the church is like a lion that has lost its minions - perhaps even worse than that, the lion that has lost its minions still has brute strength, and the church that has lost the support of the peasants has no strength to fight back in the face of many greedy or hateful opponents.

What's more, there are also those kings, once the church loses power, these kings who have long been unpleasant to the church will definitely not mind stepping on the corpse of the church with 10,000 feet, digging a pit and burying it, and then happily opening champagne on the grave to celebrate.

Magnus raised Father Adolphus' fame, not only for the priest, but also for himself.

Since the priest is doing such a good job here, protecting the people of Brittany, what do you mean by changing the bishop? Isn't the priest a member of the church?!

Someone must have deceived the Holy See, it must be the man in front of us, who wants to rob us of our money and want us to live back to our old poor days!

He's a demon in disguise! Burn him!

……

Etcetera.

Don't think that the peasants are so simple, once they touch the interests of the peasants themselves, especially the peasants who have always been bitter and have a good meal with great difficulty, they don't even need to agitate, whoever dares to snatch their bread will dare to rebel!

In this way, the church could not move the priest, so the two sides could only compromise, each took a step back, and Magnus gave the pope some kickbacks, although the church lost face, but finally got the inside; Moreover, in the final analysis, the priest is still from the church, and as long as the propaganda is good, it is also good for the church that God blesses the saints from heaven and the like.

Why do you have to fight to the death and let outsiders pick up the cheap for nothing.

As long as the Holy See is not a fool, he will certainly choose this way.

Not bad, not bad.

Magnus nodded vigorously, smug about his intelligence, it was amazing that I could come up with such an idea!

Odega, who was standing behind him in a serious way, was quite puzzled.

In front of Magnus, there was Alphonse, who was dressed brightly and his hair combed straight and bright, and at a glance he knew that he was proud of the spring breeze.

Alphonse had come to report on the clean-up of the collapsed tower.

In fact, Magnus didn't even know the name of the tower, who cares if it didn't fall; It doesn't matter if the place is all in ruins, Magnus doesn't feel distressed at all.

But before the Duke of Brittany died, he piled all the savings of the dukedom into the tower.

This was a great fortune, and a rough estimate was worth several thousand pounds of silver.

For Magnus now, this money is simply emergency money.

Giving new knights a monthly stipend, buying seeds, and buying cattle and livestock...... All of these costs money, and a lot of money.

The fifteen thousand pounds of silver brought from exile in England were not even a third of what was left after the war, and Odegar took care of the small coffers, and even slept with his eyes open in the middle of the night, for fear that Magnus would continue to lose!

If he doesn't get some income in, every time he goes to Odegar to get money, just looking at Odegar's resentful little eyes, Magnus himself can die of shame.

And gold and silver, the melting point of gold is 1000 °C, the melting point of silver is 900 °C, as the saying goes, real gold is not afraid of fire, just using oil - edible oil, this year only edible oil - can not burn them.

Of course, considering that the gold coins of the Middle Ages must not be 24k gold, the melting point of the alloy is reduced due to the mixing of impurities, and it may be reduced to the point where the gold can be melted......

But melting is melting, you can't vaporize gold, right?

As long as the gold is not vaporized, it is just a little troublesome, and the gold is purified again.

If you want to talk about trouble, I dare say that as long as gold is involved in this world, absolutely no one will feel troublesome.

After all.

"Gold! Yellow, glowing, precious gold! With just a little bit, the black can turn the black into white, the ugly into beautiful, the wrong into right, the humble into noble, the old man into a young man, and the coward into a warrior. ”

These are Shakespeare's exact words, which are enough to highlight the gold worship in the human heart.

"You have to keep an eye on the digging soldiers, if you find out that they have hidden gold, you will ...... the end."

"Yes! Lord Duke, I assure you that if someone dares to hide gold, he will be taught a lesson that he will never forget! ”

Alphonse hurriedly swore an oath.

Magnus looked up at him, but didn't speak.

In fact, as far as Magnus knew, Alphonse himself had hidden some gold and silver coins while excavating the ruins of the tower.

Fortunately, he didn't dare to hide too much, at most it was one or two pieces that rolled out of nowhere on the edge, and Magnus was really too lazy to bother with him, just just knock it twice.

Well, to tell you the truth, it's just a change of position, let Magnus dig up the ruins himself, and occasionally dig out a gold or silver coin, and there is no one around, so it's strange that he can't be greedy.

And, by any measure, Alphonse should now be considered a benchmark for Magnus in Brittany.

Since he was crowned as a knight of Alphons, he was given a fiefdom; Magnus was pleasantly surprised to find that the Brittany who had surrendered had conscripted peasant soldiers, exercised, trained, shouted slogans, and even worked hard to eat.

And the citizens of Nantes, although still not out of the shadow of the death of their loved ones, but according to Alphonse, they felt a spirit that they had never had before.

That's hope.

The long, dark, unchanging life finally sees hope.

A hope that can climb up and become a superior person.

That's a good change.

Magnus was convinced.