With the exception of the lands in the north controlled by the Duchy of Pande, the rest of the empire was repeated, with large numbers of Templars and thousands of soldiers scattered throughout the empire, whether it was the plains in the center, the remote coastal towns in the west, the endless steppes in the east, or the ambitious cities in the south......

These heralds had only one task over a period of several months, and that was to announce the orders of the church, and for former church members like Michael, they would give a detailed explanation of the reasons and sincere invitations, and for other nobles and knights, there was often only one way......

"xxx, the Pope has ordered to go to the imperial capital after gathering in the xx castle or city before the xx day"

With a simple sentence, the knight would drop a spear with a scroll tied to it, and immediately hurried to the next territory

The scroll is divided into two parts, one is a letter from the Pope declaring the Light a false god and announcing the beginning of a holy war to the followers of the Most High God, and the other is ...... It is also nominally a devout follower of the supreme god, the current emperor, the edict of Bernadotte II Rolfe

In the edict, he ordered all the nobles of the empire, whether they were believers in the supreme god or not, to join the war, simply put, someone gave out people, and without anyone contributed money and horses, his reason was also very simple, as the emperor he could not attack a certain nobleman for no reason, but as a believer he must resolutely defend the glory of the supreme god from being desecrated

For a time, the continent of Nice was in chaos, and at the same time, a large number of knights and noble soldiers continued to concentrate and concentrate again for the same reason, and finally converged into a flow of countless people who slowly flowed to the imperial capital

Even the Southern Lords, who have always been unruly and demanding greater autonomy, led by the Duke of Blue Shield's family, had to send a large number of personnel and materials in the name of God......

For the Church and Rolf, preparations for war were already in their final stages

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"Your Highness, this is the latest news we sent from the Imperial Capital Intelligence Network, and after mutual verification with the previous three pieces of information, I can assure you that there should be no problem in terms of authenticity."

The huge palace of the Duchy of Pande was empty at this time with only two figures, all the servants were driven out from afar, their arms clasped tightly to their bodies, Joe Victor stood in front of Leo with his head bowed respectfully, without a trace of emotional fluctuations on his face, standing there like an eternal rock!

Without speaking immediately, Leo crossed his legs, the silver scepter lay flat on his body, one hand holding a small, short scroll and reading it word by word, and the other hand tapped the armrest of the throne familiarly, and after a few minutes, he carefully rolled up the sheepskin and stopped his fingers and asked

"So our people can already be sure that the church and Rolf have indeed made the decision to go to war, right? Mr. Victor"

"I'm afraid you're right, Your Highness, I'm sorry, this is a conflict with the information we received before, and it was wrong to estimate that there are still 2 to 3 years to prepare, and I will take all the responsibility for this"

After saying it at a glance, Joe quietly waited for Leo's disposal, as Leo's intelligence chief, he would not prevaricate and justify with various reasons, for intelligence work, any embellishment will affect objective judgment, as Leo's hidden fangs in the dark, he must completely cut off all his emotional factors that can affect these from the beginning

"Disposition? No, Mr. Victor, on the contrary, I have to thank you for your efforts to learn about this very quickly, so that we can also start to speed up our preparations, and not be in a hurry at that time, even our carrier pigeons have to fly for three days over a long distance, you have done a good job, but I expect you to do better in the future~! ”

"Yes, Your Highness, thank you for the compliment, I need your next instructions!"

Not sad or happy, without any change in his face, Victor asked

"Wait a minute, you go to the butler Old Garin, and withdraw a sum of money from my private property, how much is it...... Within 200,000 gold coins, you can decide for yourself, if you exceed this amount, ask me to explain the reason, and then, whether you are bribed or coerced, I want you to scatter your manpower and find out as soon as possible how many nobles the other party can attract to participate in this war, no matter how big or small, as long as it is related to the church and Rolf, whether it is the size of the army, the number of knights, the participating families, etc...... All of them can be investigated! How many pigeons do we have newly trained? ”

Knowing oneself and knowing that the other is invincible, Leo is still familiar with this truth, and I think that in this world, there should not be a second person who attaches great importance to intelligence work like him, and spares no effort to invest manpower and material resources in it

"We have secretly set up a breeding base on the land you have allocated, and now we can use more than 100 pairs of carrier pigeons, but we need to let these little ones fly a few times before using them to ensure safety."

"I don't care about these details, Mr. Victor, what do you need I can give you, all you have to do is to complete my request perfectly, is there any problem with these?"

"No Your Highness, soon you will know everything you want to know, give me some time, even if you want to know about the Emperor's dinner in the future, it will only be a few days later......"

After finishing speaking, Qiao rarely hesitated slightly, but was quickly discovered by Leo and asked

"Is there anything I still need to know? Mr. Victor"

Leo's acumen made Joe couldn't help but subconsciously shiver, and without any hesitation, he pressed his voice to a very low voice

"Your Highness, those people ...... Those who have been trained according to your orders are now basically usable, do we need to ...... now?"

"No, it's not time yet, Mr. Victor, though I established them, but...... Phew~ You know, what an unwise idea to put your hopes in those who are destined to hide only in the shadows, I always think that relying on a group of sneaky killers can never really win, Mr. Victor, I think, you can understand what I mean, eh? ”

Slowly shook his head, leaning back in the chair, Leo's face changed several times, and finally temporarily pressed the thought, and at the end he warned Joe a few words, subconsciously maybe Leo himself didn't notice it, he always had a deep wariness of this extremely deferential person in front of him, this is probably the same opinion of all leaders about this kind of person......

"As you wish, Your Highness, if there is nothing else, please allow me to retire temporarily, many things must be arranged as soon as possible!"

"Go, go and accompany your sister before you leave, you have been back lately, and the maid has told me that Claudia has learned a few new tunes, and I think she must be more than willing to play them to his brother herself......"

Nodding silently, the heartfelt smile on the corner of Joe Victor's lips, who turned to leave, did not hide Leo's eyes

Ordered the guards to call Fin and the others, and while waiting, Leo sat on the throne with half-squinted eyes, and countless thoughts turned in his mind for a short time, and finally clenched his fists and shouted in his heart

"Since you want to fight a religious war, then come and let me experience for myself, the 'Crusades' that belong to this world!"

(To be continued.) Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info)