Although the name United is good, however, people with feelings for the Empress's dynasty prefer to call it its original name, Turnest under Siege.

"It was an epoch-making painting," they said, "not to mention the merits of the technique, the combination of colours and the use of light and shadow, and there is no painting more wonderful than this one in terms of history alone!" The future Empress and the Pope are in the same picture! And the Grand Master of the Knights! And also...... If a stone bullet had landed at the right time......"

"Then we can live a good life!" Others said, "Without them, we would be free to live our little lives!" At that time, people were pious and good, and the king had no sin at all (children have no sin, and no one can point out the wrong), and there were many gentlemen and nobles, knights who cared for women and children, unlike now! There are no generations of nobles, no ancestral knights, everywhere there are arrogant and rude nouveau riche! Ah, I wish the Lackadian stone projectiles had flown more accurately! ”

"Your ancestors may be among them!"

"Die under the stone bullet of truth, even if you are a ghost, you will be happy."

“……”

"I wish I could live in that era, the era of 'kings and nobles sharing the world', where the nobles could not confiscate their property or punish them with capital crimes, no matter how they broke the law. Ah, I hope to be a small citizen in that era of prosperity and peace. ”

Someone else fairly commented: "As long as you are not blinded by love, as long as you are not brainwashed by authoritarian education, as long as you are not a complete layman in the art of painting, you can see how clumsy the technique of this painting is, how vulgar the symbolism is, and how rough the paint used is." They didn't use the Benge school of light and shadow (which we taught in the first grade), and the paint they used was so crude that it was not even worthy of the 'Danse' shoes, and for these two reasons alone, if the painting had been given to my teacher as an assignment, it would have been rated as a failure. Behold, they are all drawn of the dignitaries of the city, and I have checked it, and even the little girl carrying the bread basket is the deputy minister of logistics of the new dynasty! It's as if there are no civilians involved in the defense of the war! Moreover, the painter also put the Pope in the middle and the Empress in the front, and the compliment is simply disgusting! Also, what about the most revered king of the time, His Majesty? The siege of Tournest was only lifted after he had given his aid, and these men painted themselves like heroes who had lifted the siege! The whole painting dresses them up as heroic and loving, and what about the valian, loving king? Their disobedience was there from that moment! This is a group of self-righteous villains who steal the credit of His Majesty the King! ”

Fortunately, the two painters who proudly displayed their painstaking work to the public in the Cathedral of Tournest that day were unaware of their posthumous comments.

After the first wave of enthusiastic applause and the excitement of the emotions aroused by the painting passed, another wave of applause rang out.

This time, the applause was poured out under the leadership of the bishop.

The Bishop stepped forward and thanked the two painters on behalf of the city of Turneste, for he had invited them to do some artisan work, but they took the wages of the craftsmen and offered them the master's work to him and the city. It is true that he had instructed them in some painting techniques before - it was given to him by the Great Demon King, who pre-made a small model of the figure to be painted, and then placed it in a box with holes, and repeatedly adjusted the position of the model and the position of the lighting, so that he could see the appearance of the finished product in advance before he put pen to paper, and choose the best among the many layout schemes, which was a popular group portrait painting technique in the Renaissance. But he taught these techniques without expecting that they would dedicate him such an unexpected masterpiece.

He still had in mind the portrait centered on the saints, but the two painters took the heroic people of the city as the center of their portraits.

He also praised them for opening up a third way beyond sabotage and competition: cooperation.

There is a comparison of the two paintings next to it, and anyone can see that the painting in the middle is the result of the two of them working together.

This collaboration has brought them great fruit—now the bishop has hired the two of them to continue their work together on the frescoes for the rest of the cathedral, and says that if they have a subject different from his, they can tell him as much as they like; The leading figures in the city looked at the heroic figure in the painting, recalled the battle, and were grateful to the two painters for fixing the scene, and many people invited them to paint for their family after the church painting was completed; Seeing that their aim of pleasing the bishop had been achieved, the merchants of St. Omer generously offered to pay in advance the deposit they had hired for the painters.

But the young bishop did not fully say how much this painting moved him, and he was wrong because it was a deep stimulus to him that he was reminded of the whole battle of Turnest and the aftermath of the war.

The servants and priests who served around the bishop found that he had eaten less and had more time to think these days, not because he sat motionless behind his desk with a scroll, but on the contrary, he was often out and about, even wandering around the new town, which had been reduced to ruins. As always, he laid his hands on those who blessed him, and accepted their greetings, and if it were not for those who were particularly close to him, he would not have seen that he was different from the past.

He was most worried about his loyal knight, and he finally asked the bishop directly what he had been bothered about lately.