Shepp, a young country clergyman, was well aware of his country's financial crisis, but he didn't pay much attention to it.

He had already been introduced by Abbot Dora to the priest of Count Edric's family, who had made a wish to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, but the priest of his family, because of his age and problems with his legs and feet, did not want to accompany the Count on the long journey that was timed by the years. Therefore, he agreed to recommend Shepp to accompany the Count to the Holy Land, on the condition that Shepp would in the future support his nephew as the abbot of a monastery in the Earldom of Edric.

Shepp naturally agreed to this condition, this matter is not difficult, he is no longer the only son who is favored in the rich butcher's family, and he is incomprehensible to the world, after the cultivation of the bishop of Tournest and the monastery, he has deeply understood the profound truth that if you can't get along with the unspoken rules, you can't get along with yourself.

This quid pro quo is, in his opinion, very cost-effective.

It's just that Tournest was so badly damaged by the attack of the northerners that several warehouses where goods were stacked burned down, including the woolen warehouse. He didn't get the woollen material he wanted to buy as a gift to the priest in Turnest, so he had to buy some pepper instead.

In addition, he bought a cloisonné enamel box, also known as openwork enamel, in which the craftsman coils copper wire into shapes on the utensils, and then fills the enamel material into it to make a variety of bright and pleasing colors such as red, green and blue. It is an extremely ancient craft, and an enamel cup was unearthed in England, a product of the Roman Empire, with Hadrian's Wall carved in relief. In the Middle Ages, the enamel process was introduced to China through Arabia, and the copper tire cloisonné enamel process reached its peak during the Jingtai period of the Ming Dynasty, and was named cloisonne.

He asked for the box to be marked with the Holy Land and Count Edric, a gift he had prepared for the Count to hold any gifts the Count might receive in the Holy Land.

He had carefully put away all these valuables in his suitcase.

The box also contained some of his personal clothing: two outer robes and four underwear. In the era when there were no chemical fibers and no textile mills, cloth and clothing were hard currency. Grandmothers' clothes are often passed on to their granddaughters, and generally frugal people make new clothes that are pressed at the bottom of the box, and they are willing to take them out and wear them for a day during the New Year. Cloth is an important part of the bride price and dowry, used to help newlyweds start a family, and cloth is also a unit of measurement for taxes and a decent gift. The poor are poorly clothed in both the East and the West, and the wearing of a pair of trousers by a family is by no means confined to one place, or even in ancient times.

Even in the days when the Rothschilds were baronized, a new shirt every day was used by the public to describe the luxury of the chaebol.

The dyes used to dye cloth and the alum used to fix the color were not bargains in the era when there were no chemical dyes.

Therefore, these things, which may be disdained in the eyes of modern people, are a lot of wealth in Shep's eyes, and they must not be thrown away.

Then he stuffed a silver bowl and a small leather money bag into the chest.

He tried to stuff another silver candlestick, tried several times, and found that it didn't work.

The silver candlestick had to be put in a separate bag with other things.

He was busy for hours trying to pack, and he didn't really have that much to pack, it was because he didn't want to stop.

If he stopped, he would be reluctant to leave.

He just accompanied Count Edric, and even blindfolded the earl, and made a monk in Earl Edric's territory, can he live so comfortably in Brad's territory?

Will he still have a warm kang to sleep on?

Can he still yell at the lord, albeit the acting lord?

Can he still eat noodles?

Can he still do basically nothing and just sit back and collect the trust and worship of the peasants?

He took no less than "another bucket", to be precise, several times the latter, but the evaluation among the peasants was the same as "another bucket".

On the one hand, because the devil's industry, which is also industry, brought in a lot of money far more than he could receive in agriculture, so he had no need to extort the peasants, and on the other hand, the peasants did not know that the Baroness had changed people, but felt that since he came, the taxes had been less, the marriage tax had been exempted, the harvest had increased, the work was easier, and the lord had been exempted from servitude, and he had given him a lot of wage-paid work......

As the income of the peasants increased, the burdens were lightened, and the offerings given to him were naturally generous, and the winners of the lottery usually did not care about the tax rate, as did those who received additional income.

In the land of Earl Edric, will there be such a good thing?

He knew the answer in his heart.

But no matter how much he delayed, there was a limit to what he could do, and he finally packed up and went to say goodbye to the devil.

He walked through the corridor and saw the devil coming towards him.

Sunlight poured into the building through the bladder skin and horn flakes set in the windows, casting a pale gold on the Baroness, who was dressed in a very simple and modest burlap tunic with no jewels on her body, a pair of loafers at her feet, and a roll of paper in her hand.

"May a woman be honest and self-controlled, adorned with decent garments, and not adorned with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing." Somehow the words of this holy book jumped into his mind, and he immediately forgot about it, because the person who came was the devil, not a godly person.

He opened his mouth and said to the devil, "I'm leaving here......

These were the things he had wanted to say day and night since he came here, and when it came to the end, he found it difficult to say them.

However, it is not possible to stay, and the chimneys are getting more and more day by day.

Ignoring the Baroness's astonishment, he continued: "Count Edric invited me to him, and it was introduced by Abbot Dora, who was my teacher......"

"But," the devil shook his head, refusing to accept, "you can't go." He made a blocking gesture.

"It was Abbot Dora." Shepp emphasized again.

"You can't go, you are needed here."

"Count Edric needs me more." He pronounced the word count with an accent, the devil's attitude, it seemed that it was not as tough as he thought, maybe things would be resolved well today, he thought.

But the devil was not pleased to do what people wanted, and he did not give in to the name of the earl.

"You're wrong, it's here (accent here) that needs you." The devil repeated, "You can't go. He smiled and waved the scroll of paper in his hand, "What is needed here...... You, the most honorable new Bishop of Tournest. ”

This sentence is said very softly, gently, and elegantly...... But when it reaches the ears of the young clergyman, it is no less than a thunderbolt on the ground.

Shepp was stupefied when he heard it: "What! How is this possible? ”