It was dark, and the woods on the side of the road looked particularly gloomy. A light breeze blew, the branches and leaves swayed like a group of demons dancing, and the guards around Victor immediately surrounded the lord, the spears were stretched out, the shields were erected, and the entire team instantly turned into huge hedgehogs.

Victor saw the nervous reaction of the guards, and he was amused, and his gloomy and worried mood improved a lot.

Under Victor's arrangement, everyone witnessed the ferocious wolf, and more than one. Now, not to mention the ordinary guards, even Nelson is very nervous.

If a movie is made with the holy warrior as the protagonist, then the captain of the bright and righteous Claude led a large number of people through hardships and trekked more than 800 kilometers to reach the land of hope. He met the guards led by the lord, and then the lord told the paladin that there were terrible monsters in the territory, and if the monsters were not destroyed, the people would not be safe. So the great Claude Paladin began a bloody battle against the ferocious and cunning monster in order to protect the people, and finally destroyed the monster, only to find that the baron was the one behind it. Tsk, such a movie must be very popular! Unfortunately, the reality is that good intentions often do bad things. Victor thought sarcastically.

Yesterday, in response to the impending tide of displacement, Victor had just made his deployment when he received a letter from Baron Eskerry. After reading the letter, Victor was stunned. In the letter, Eskerry told Victor that a large number of displaced people had moved to his territory under the organization of the Church, and asked Victor to take care of the matter or Eskery would seal the border. The implication is that if Victor keeps the outcasts in Escre's territory, then Eskeri will no longer allow Victor's convoy to pass through his territory.

Escree is the gateway to Blackcastle, and since Eskerry and Victor have always had a good relationship, Victor's convoy has never been taxed by him. Therefore, this group of outcasts Victor has to be accepted if he does not take it, he is too dependent on the trade of Blackcastle Town.

In addition, the people of the church stirred up in it, which made Victor feel deeply frightened and inexplicable, the church has been trying to ensure the survival of the people, how can it organize so many free people to send them to death? It is impossible for the church not to know that there is not enough food in this territory. Could it be that those who calculate themselves have already bought off the church?

With such doubts in mind, Victor redeployed. Originally, in the face of a small group of displaced people, a few alchemy war mastiffs could completely control the situation. But now that a large wave of homeless people is pouring in an organized manner, it is not something that just 5 alchemy mastiffs can stop. Victor immediately led the guards to block them at the border, and used the deterrence of the ferocious wolves to make them camp in the designated place.

As Victor had predicted, the organizers of the exiles did not dare to risk their lives into the depths of the territory, so they had to obediently set up camp. But there will definitely be bold freedmen who will try to sneak into the heart of Victor's realm, when they will face the fierce wolves, and the survivors will flee back to the camp with solid news, so the rest will not dare to move.

"My lord, are we really going to feed those people? That's more than 1,000 people! more than our people. Nelson said sullenly to Victor. He could accept raising dozens of people for nothing, but when he thought of feeding so many people, he was very unhappy.

Victor sighed: "We must feed them, we can't watch them starve to death, otherwise these people will bring us even more losses if they storm our villages and camps." ”

Victor knew very well that only basic survival guarantees could keep these homeless people in order, and they would not dare to act rashly under the deterrence of ferocious animals.

"My lord, I'm afraid we won't be able to raise so many people! Can we hire freedmen to work for us like other lords? Nelson suggested in a low voice.

Nelson knew that the current income of the territory was okay, especially the products of several specialized villages were selling well in Blackcastle Town, and if more people were engaged in production, then the more than 1,000 people could be completely digested. It is better to hire them and let them feed themselves than to let them eat white rice.

Victor shook his head: "It's not that simple. In fact, land and population were equally important to the lord. But you see how the House of York converted the freedmen? There were more than 20,000 freedmen living in Blackcastle. Instead of pulling these people directly into the territory, the Yorks raised the freedmen in the shanty towns of Blackcastle by donating food to the church. The Yorks established three organizations, the Masons Society, the Caitou, and the Hyenas. The Masons and Caitou were responsible for recruiting people from among the freedmen to work and selecting the hard-working ones to become their own people, while the lazy ones continued to rely on the help of the Church. The hyenas also maintained the order of the freedmen and prevented the eliminated people from causing trouble. ”

"The stonemasons, the cabbage, the hyenas are like a sieve, sifting the freedmen over and over again. Provide qualified lords for the House of York. But all three of these organizations were free people's organizations, and no matter what they did, the church could not blame the House of York. ”

"The conversion of the House of York to the Freedmen was difficult and slow. Those who are successfully promoted to the rank of lord will cherish their identity and naturally have a deep sense of identity with the York family. ”

Victor thought very thoroughly, thanks to his life on Earth. In that highly civilized world, countries were very cautious about the problem of refugees. Even in the countries of Our Lady, refugees are hosted in camps, not directly into their cities and villages. Even so, the selected refugees pose a lot of social problems. The most ironic thing is that the most developed country has been constantly creating refugees but has never taken in refugees on a large scale. This shows how intractable the refugee problem is.

In Victor's view, these influxes of freedmen are actually refugees, and with his current ability, he can't accept them at all, and forcibly accepting them will only capsize. What's more, someone had obviously dug a hole for him, and if he jumped stupidly, it would be a donkey kicking his brain.

"Our production system can really accommodate these people. But we must not do that!" said Victor firmly, "They are not here to beg for a living, but for the division of work." As soon as we start hiring these people, more people will come here, and we must not give them any illusions!"

Nelson looked at the guards around him, and he could only sigh when he couldn't speak.

In the face of this crisis, Victor did not abolish the division of work, but reaffirmed to everyone his determination to adhere to it. The panicked villagers immediately calmed down. Internal stability is especially important at critical moments, and Victor cannot break his own foundations.

"My lord, I'm afraid more people will join that camp. When the time comes, our burden will be even heavier. Nelson said worriedly.

Even if he is not sensitive to domestic affairs, Nelson understands that more and more people eating white rice will definitely drag down the entire territory, but he is at a loss for this. Nelson wanted to use violent means to drive these people away, but with the paladins staring, it was destined to be only an idea, not to mention that Victor would not agree to him doing so.

A haze flashed in Victor's eyes, the originally small group of homeless people could only choose to return the same way under the threat of the ferocious wolf, but now with the Holy Warrior to disrupt the situation, they have one more choice. Victor could imagine that more and more freedmen would enter that camp to watch, and his burden would increase. At this juncture, he was unable to recruit more people to engage in production, and even the plan to recover Pinghu Village was put on hold. The most terrible thing is that the holy warriors can't be withdrawn now, otherwise the thousands of displaced people will become his burden, and he can't get rid of them. It's a dilemma that can't be solved.

"We have only one choice, and that's drag!" Victor sighed.

"Drag until they despair, drag until they leave on their own, drag until the news of the ferocious wolf spreads throughout the town of Blackcastle. Before that, we only provided a small amount of food, as long as you didn't starve. We also have to send frequent convoys to Blackcastle to buy food, and escort those who are willing to leave. ”

Victor didn't know if he could drag it out, but he had already done what he had to do. In addition to intimidation, rescue, blockade, repatriation, and dissemination, he also needs to seek outside help. It wasn't for nothing that Victor had the paladins set up camp in that area. There was the confluence of three fiefdoms, and in addition to Eskeri and Victor, there were also Viscounts of Buryatia. When more and more people gathered, Victor couldn't bear it, and the other two lords couldn't sit idly by, although they were the fish in the pond that were affected, but who made them and Victor neighbors.

Victor rode his war horse and stared in the direction of Castle Black, he had a feeling that the key to quelling this turmoil was not in the territory, but in the church. Now, the first thing he had to figure out was who was calculating him, was this organized move arranged by the Church, or was it the personal act of the paladin?

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"Stupid, idiot, is this a paladin? Not even an old farmer! Conley, you are fully responsible!" said Father Ivan, a burly warrior, at Father Conley in the central church.

Father Conley was scolded by Ivan for half an hour, and even if he was sprayed with saliva, Claude poked out such a big basket, and he was Claude's boss. But now, Ivan called him to take full responsibility, and Conley immediately jumped.

"As the presiding priest of the church in the civilian area, you don't know about the migration of more than 1,300 people, and you don't know such a big movement? Now, something went wrong, and you ran over and put the blame on me? I told you not to even think about it!"

Ivan said, he did come to shake the pot, but this pot is not easy to shake. Ivan was very annoyed with Claude, and the paladin often came to him with trivial matters, and in the end Ivan simply refused Claude's request to see him, and did not want to hear about him. Unexpectedly, in two days, Claude's left the town of Black Castle with more than a thousand people.

"Claude is your subordinate! not mine! he does it privately, and you can't escape it!" shouted Ivan.

"We're all brothers in the same church, what's the point of passing the buck to each other? Let's think about how to solve the problem!" Conley said with a sad face, "It's strange, it's normal for free people to flow. But they all flow from barren places to rich places, and some of them go to remote places? There are so many people at once? Why on earth are they?"

Conley's submission calmed Ivan, and he snorted, "What else can I do for it? ”

With that, Ivan briefed Conley on what he had learned.

Conley was dumbfounded, and it took him a long time before he said, "Baron Victor is going to be bad!

"It's not just him who's going to be bad, we're going to be bad, and the stupid freedmen are going to be worse!" said Ivan, angrily.

Victor didn't have that much to eat, and if a large number of freedmen starved to death, as the presiding priest of the Glorious Church, they would not be able to escape the blame.

"No! where did Claude raise food? That's 1,300 men, and they can't be fed by digging wild vegetables!" Conley said with a frown, clearly sensing that there was a conspiracy in it.

"So, Claude is a fool! He doesn't even know that he's been taken advantage of! A merchant gave him a large amount of supplies directly, and he went on his way in high spirits. Completely forgetting the rules of the Church, only priests can accept donations. Ivan said indignantly. In fact, this rule has already existed in name only, and the Knights of Radiance have long begun to accept donations, and they are all large-scale donations.

The two priests looked at each other dumbfoundedly, and they felt kinship. Obviously, Claude was worried about their obstruction, so he quietly led the team to set off and caught them off guard.

"What now?" asked Conley, who had to admit that he was inferior to Ivan in dealing with the freedmen.

Ivan walked back and forth a few steps and said, "Actually, as you know, our church is not afraid of the migration of free people, just like a flock grazing grass, no matter where the sheep go, only our clergy can follow. But now, we can't get out of it. There are more people in Blackcastle!"

"If we gather food now, it will only make the people there gather more and more, and unless the Bishop sends a priest to Victor, we really can't send food there. ”

Conley was silent for a moment and said, "Can you get those freedmen back?"

"What do you say?"

Ivan gave Conley a cold look, the position of the Radiant Church has always been to protect the people, not force them. But how do you get those crazy freedmen to leave Victor Territory without coercion?

"Let's get straight to the point! Only by building a church in Victor can we recoup our losses! I know you have a good relationship with the Bishop, and it's up to you now. Ivan stared at Conley with burning eyes.

Conley smiled wryly: "I can only try." To be honest, I'm not sure. You probably don't know that there is a shortage of people everywhere right now, otherwise you wouldn't have let Claude's stunned young man be the captain of the Paladin. ”

Conley lowered his voice again and said, "The last messenger who came here was a friend of mine, and he told me that most of the paladins and priests had been transferred north. ”

Ivan gasped, is this about to change the sky?