269 Encounters in a foreign land

If the Great Demon King had known what happened to her first believer in the Eternal City, he probably wouldn't have let out such an emotion.

When the lookout alouded the outline of the Eternal City on the distant horizon at the top of the mast, the new archbishop of Neustria secretly breathed a sigh of relief. When the navy was established, Her Majesty made an agreement among the sailors that the seizures of the sea, after deducting one-tenth of the church tax and one-tenth of the disability pension, would go to the prince and half to themselves, and that the captain, helmsman, and other technicians could take an extra share of their own. When this rule was made, it seemed reasonable, and no one thought it would cause any trouble. But when you really practice it while sailing...... Especially after they grabbed, oh no, just in time to stop the two pirate ships that had just returned with a full load, everyone's morale was too high......

After getting used to selling the pirates, they also had a bright eye on the poor people who had been rescued, and the archbishop took great pains to persuade them to return to their homes by citing reasons such as "we will have to pass through this area to replenish water and make good friends with the locals" and other reasons to persuade them to return to their hometowns, and he was going to pay them a little money for the journey, but Francis reminded him that without the money they begged all the way back to their homes. There are travel expenses, they can't do it, because they eat fat halfway and are caught as fat sheep by the noble knights in their hometown...... Well, he's been doing that a lot of things in the past.

The archbishop, taking into account Francis's experience in violent robbery on land, adopted his offer and gave only a small piece of bread to each of the people. Or taken from pirates. Thankfully, those people were medieval people, and there was not a single traveler among them. He knew the conduct of the church by heart, and he was overjoyed when he was born. I didn't dare to worry about this, and I didn't think that the property that entered the church's big mouth could be returned to me, so I drew a cross and recited God's name and walked away.

After dividing up the pirates and pirates' property, several lookouts had the accident of "mistaking a merchant ship for a pirate ship", but fortunately, Francis's eyes were not blind, and he used his own telescope to confirm and then repeatedly stopped decisively, otherwise the "Flying Santsina" would probably have become a notorious pirate ship. Knowing the sailors' intentions, the archbishop was very worried about this—he had gone to the Eternal City to receive the bishop's shawl. It's not about accompanying the Navy on the sea to earn military expenses! He had to do everything he could to get to the Eternal City! When they arrive, these guys must not degenerate into pirates!

What if the Eternal City hadn't arrived, and his men had completely forgotten about the lessons of the crash course in religion and were only full of maritime law enforcement?

Though...... He had not expected the Eternal City to grant him the bishop's shawl for the sake of his devotion to the gods......

But! Looks always have to be done!

One less flaw, one less excuse to be blackmailed!

With such worries in mind, he gave a sermon to the crowd on the ship, laid out the facts and reasoned, analyzed and analyzed, and finally let the pirates. No, the sailors of the Neustrian royal navy figured out that "if you do something wrong now, you may be doubled by the Eternal City, and this will not be worth the loss". After that, they finally restrained their behavior and practiced the oars wholeheartedly.

There was the joining and teaching of northerners who were accustomed to ocean voyages. It was not long before this exercise bore fruit that Her Majesty desired, and the speed of the ship increased, no matter what wind blew on the sea. The Flying Santsina is a true devil's ship - it took about the same time to reach the Eternal City as expected. I was not delayed by the pirate sales harvest all the way on the road.

The Flying Santsina had finally arrived in the Eternal City before the people on board had fallen completely, and this was by pirates, to the relief of the new Archbishop of Neustria, who had not yet received his shawl. Although it is unlikely that the navies of the countries will chase after the buttocks, but the pirates under his command, oh, the sailors are used to talking nonsense in the Eternal City, then it will be a big trouble, at least it will cost a lot of gold to settle it.

After weighing it in this way, when he learned that the Eternal City was in sight, he put down a large stone in his heart.

However, probably because he was in the service of the devil and not the gods, the new archbishop had not had time to set foot on the sacred land of the Eternal City, and new troubles came to his door.

The number one person in the Eternal City, the papal envoy, Petrus, whom the new archbishop had come into contact with. Baptista, the guy at both ends of the rat, didn't make much of a good impression on him, he didn't want to come to the Eternal City before, partly, albeit for a trivial reason, was that he didn't want to be with this petrus who had betrayed his teammates. When Baptista met again, Joseph, the former Bishop of Turnest, relied on him, but he might as well go to a parchment to rely on...... If he hadn't thought that he could have the support of the Holy See, the former bishop might not have jumped so fiercely, openly and repeatedly contradicting Archbishop Joseph, but his body was not cold. Baptista could not wait to shake hands with Archbishop Joseph and the current Bishop of Tournest, and demanded that the vast fortune of the former bishop and current abbot on suspicion of blasphemy be confiscated into the Holy See as a substitute for the tax payable by Tournest.

If politics is an art comparable to cooking, Petrus. Baptista is a chef who can cut tofu on three sides with a knife, which not only enriches the treasury of the Holy See, but also takes care of the face of the Church in Neustria, and will not be thrown by the passionate people of Turnest, which can be called the best solution, and it is the best solution to the former bishop who once believed in him, and the hard work of accumulating all his life, without leaving half a cent for his own relatives, all became the taxes in place of Turnest, and added luster to the report card of the envoy's tax collection.

Such a solution, the archbishop Joseph and the young bishop at that time could not think of a better solution, so the savings of the previous bishop for most of his life, and even some of his family's original estate, were filled into the blood basin of the Holy See in such a grand manner. Of course, the papal envoy and his party were thin-staffed and unfamiliar with the Neustria place, so in the process of raiding the house, the Neustrian natives were familiar with the local situation, especially the situation of the former bishop (I already knew that guy was colluding with the devil!). That's why I don't have a good relationship with him! The archbishop Joseph gave a lot of help, and the bishop deserved to take a little money from the devil's ill-gotten gains!

The ending of the former bishop Joseph had already made the young bishop very emotional in the square, and after learning that a gold bracelet from the butcher's family had appeared on the wrist of a woman close to Archbishop Joseph, he felt even more sad about the death of a rabbit and a fox - although, as a murderer who actually killed the former bishop with the help of the power of the devil, this sad feeling always seemed a little funny......

It was for this reason that the young archbishop did not want to see the Neustrian people, the Church, and his good friend Petrus. Baptista! He didn't want to see him, just like most people don't want to see vultures and hyenas circling around dead bodies! Although Petrus. Baptista is well versed in current affairs, and is not an ascetic who is rigid in his mind and insists that he cannot go beyond the thunder pool (otherwise he would not be able to become an envoy of the Pope), but if he had a choice, the young archbishop would rather see his dear, pious cousin who is as devout as his mother, than this drooling political hyena!

However, when he saw what the Eternal City had sent to meet him, he immediately remembered his good friend Petrul. Baptista too.

The people who came from the Eternal City, there is no worst, only worse. As the old saying goes, you have to throw it around, and this compares the young archbishop to Petru. Baptista is a vulture, and a hyena is infinitely missing!

Because of the people who came, he didn't want to see it at all, he didn't want to see it at all.

There are four ancient Chinese sayings to describe happy events in the world, namely "a long drought and a rainy day", "when the title of the gold list is inscribed", "a candle night in a cave house", and "a hometown where you meet your old acquaintance". Later, there were good deeds, adding two words to the end of each sentence to turn the happy event into a taste, and the four sentences that were changed were "a long drought and a few drops", "when the gold list was nominated, it was not hit", "the night of the candle in the cave room-not raised", "the old acquaintance in another country - the enemy".

Unfortunately, it was this last case that the young archbishop encountered.

Strange land, old acquaintance, enemy.

And not the kind of enemy who was chased down the street with a knife by his father or himself for the pork business or the church tax, it was the kind of ...... He didn't talk to anyone, he didn't even want to think about it. Baptista, how ...... that How harmless to humans and animals!

It was because of this man that he had to return to the former bishop Joseph, whom he knew was hateful, and was finally sent to the territory of Brad's devil by Joseph, a former bishop who suspected that there was one more of his in the world.

Although with the passage of time, various divine turns in the situation have caused his whole person's body and mind and vision to change drastically, and his understanding of the world has completely turned upside down, from a person who is afraid of being involved with heresy to a consciously and voluntarily devilish believer, but his feelings for that person have never changed.

It was a feeling of hatred.

Pure hatred, as well, creepy. (To be continued......)