It is the season of mountain flowers, the weather is warm and comfortable, and the reservoir project is finally about to start.

For the past month, the Yorks' convoy has been passing through Randall's territory and heading towards Nicole's territory. These convoys ranged from two or three hundred men to four or five hundred, loaded with all kinds of supplies, and drove herds of cattle, sheep and livestock, and the rivers were so endless that even the roads were doubled. When more than 10,000 young people passed by, Victor put down his business and hurried to Nicole's territory.

In order to accommodate tens of thousands of young people, Nicole has already led people to build more than 20 camps of all sizes. The camps were rudimentary, with no fences, only low shacks, 200 metres apart, built along the left and right sides of a mountain stream, stretching for two kilometres. When Victor got out of the carriage, he saw that the once empty camp was full of people, mostly young men and women, but also some old men and children. At this time, it was almost noon, some people were repairing the shacks, chopping wood and carrying water, and some people were killing sheep and slaughtering cattle, burying pots and cooking, which seemed to be in order. Victor breathed a sigh of relief.

As the saying goes, there are tens of thousands of people, and there are no boundaries, but Victor is used to seeing a bustling city with a population of one million at every turn, and more than 10,000 people are really not a big scene. But after becoming a lord, Victor deeply realized how much it was to manage the people's eating, drinking, and Lazar. On the surface, these people have nothing to do with Victor, but in fact, Sylvia has handed over the management to Victor, and he is the top decision-maker here. In his position, Victor is about to preside over a huge project, and in addition to being excited, he is more worried that there will be chaos. Now, it doesn't look too bad.

Victor walked upstream along the mountain stream, where there were three blue brick villas, which he had built for Nicole. On the way, the commoners saw Victor in a gorgeous hunting costume and the elite guards knew that this was a noble lord, so they avoided him and saluted him. Not long after leaving, Nicole came with a team of men.

Nicole is wearing a red women's hunting outfit today, calfskin boots, a snow-white cape fixed to her shoulders by sapphire pins, forming beautiful pleats, and a lizard skin belt tied around her waist, looking heroic and moving, she jumped off her horse and bowed to Victor: "Good day, Lord Viscount Victor." As he spoke, he winked playfully at Victor.

"Good day, Lord Viscount Randall. A male nobleman next to Nicole saluted Victor meticulously.

Victor laughed, "Sir Anthony, don't be polite. ”

"Yes. ”

Lord Anthony York, the House of York, a White Tower scholar, and Nicole's half-brother. Anthony had studied history and architecture under Master Edwin, who would design and supervise the construction of the Temperance Gate on the banks of the Jinshui River. As the internal affairs officer of the York family, Anthony is high and powerful, and ordinary nobles really don't need to be taken seriously, but Victor is different. Victor not only won Silvia's trust and favor, but also took out extremely valuable rock brick technology, although he was not a vassal lord of the York family, but in the eyes of the top management of the York family, Victor's influence on Silvia was great and should not be underestimated.

Nicole and Anthony's father was just an ordinary lord who ate and waited to die, with only 6,000 acres of arable land, a village, and a manor, and after Anthony became the family internal officer, the family's conditions improved a lot. At first, Anthony was very dissatisfied with this lowly knight sister getting involved with Victor, and he preferred Nicole to be united with the big knight in the family, even if it was better to be a personal maid than to be a lover to Victor. But what Anthony didn't expect was that Nicole was canonized as a feudal baron, with a hereditary territory of 3,000 square kilometers, and became the highest person in the family, and all because of Victor. So Anthony's attitude towards Victor has changed 180 degrees, he was accompanied by Nicole, he visited Victor as soon as possible, showing humility and courtesy, and when his uncle visited, Victor was also flattering, and the two sides talked very happily.

The three of them walked side by side, chatting as they walked, and Victor pointed to the busy people in the camp and asked, "Sir Antony, it is really impressive that you can arrange so many people in an orderly manner, how did you do it?"

Victor's question made Anthony a little confused, he thought about it and said, "I didn't do anything!"

"Huh, are you saying that these young men are unmanaged, and are self-organized?" asked Victor in surprise.

Victor glanced at Nicole again, and Nicole pursed her red little mouth and spread out her slender hand to show that she didn't know anything either. Anthony shouted to his followers, "Hals, come here." ”

A middle-aged man stepped forward, he was tall, with a vicissitudes of life, a long sword sheathed at his waist and hips, and he was dressed in fine iron scale armor, and his movements were vigorous and powerful, obviously a probationary knight with no hope of promotion.

"Hals is my sheriff. Nicole explained softly to Victor and then asked the middle-aged midshipman, "Hals, answer Lord Randall's question, who is in charge of these civilians?"

"Yes, sir. Hals bowed slightly to Nicole and said, "Lord Randall, every camp has people from the Stonemasons Guild and Caitou, Caitou is responsible for food logistics, and the Masons Guild is responsible for leading civilians to work. ”

"Autonomy?!" Victor was immediately interested, and he asked again: "Aren't your people involved in management? How to maintain law and order, and how to distribute food?"

Hals replied, "My lord, I have only thirty soldiers under my command, and I can't manage it at all. These civilians are quite honest, they can solve any problems themselves, and we will only come forward if someone lives them. The distribution of food is to be asked to the Baron's butler. ”

"Nicole, do you still have a butler?" asked Victor to Nicole.

Nicole glanced at Victor and said, "How can I say that I am also a baron, of course there is a housekeeper, aren't you also Lilia?"

"Well, interesting, I'm going to meet your butler in a moment. Victor coughed dryly and said casually.

When Victor and his party approached the manor, they found a large number of people surrounded a small wooden house, and they were half-kneeling on the ground, fingers interlocked, praying.

"Why are the people of the church here? Didn't you say that the priest of the church went to the entrance of the Swamp to the north?"

Victor frowned, although he did not dislike the Church of Radiance, he also did not want the Church to oversee the affairs of his territory. Traditionally, there must be a church in the town, and Victor did not rush to build the town of Bayou, but chose to build the village, because he did not want the church to enter Randall's territory too early. The reservoir project was about to start, and suddenly he saw the people of the church, and Victor suddenly felt bad.

"When tens of thousands of civilians get together, the church will definitely send people, and this is inevitable. In fact, it is more beneficial for us to have a church to appease the people. Anthony laughed.

The Church spares no effort to defend the basic interests of the people, but it will never encourage the people to oppose the lord, and if the lord is cruel, the Church will do it itself, and then it will persuade the people to submit to the rule of the next lord. In fact, as long as the lord does not touch the bottom of the Radiant Code, the relationship between the clergy and the lord and nobility is still very good, especially when the people are in labor, and it is a good thing to have the church to coordinate it.

"When did this priest come, will he veto our plan?" asked Victor in a low voice.

Anthony explained: "The day before yesterday, Father Miller came with a convoy of civilians, without an attendant and without a paladin guard, and if he hadn't taken out the official documents of the church, we wouldn't even know that he was the presiding priest here. The construction of the fortress at the entrance to the Everglades gave out half of the food, and the construction of the Temperance Gate and the artificial lake was the sole responsibility of our York family, so the Church would not interfere. ”

"That's good. Victor nodded, and asked curiously, "Why is this Father Miller alone?"

"Who knows? It stands to reason that there are more than 10,000 people gathered here, and the Church should not send a civilian priest to preside over the affairs of the church. I suspect that the church is now very short of manpower and supplies, so we have to send civilian priests to prevaricate us. Anthony shrugged and said with some dissatisfaction.

"Commoner priests, are there noble priests?"

Of course, there were priests of aristocratic origin, but the Church was not divided that way. Anthony paused, and continued: "There are two kinds of priests in the church, one is the priest who came from the monastery, and the other is the commoner priest. The monastic priests were well educated, and they had a lot of knowledge in addition to theology, so they were not only clergy but also scholars. Plebeian priests, on the other hand, were particularly devout believers, who were given the grace of the supreme Lord of Glory and possessed the ability to perform divine magic, and the Church promoted these devout believers to the rank of priests. Although the Church has always claimed that the clergy are all servants of the Lord, brothers and sisters, regardless of high or low, the monastic priests have classmates and mentors, and they can always get all kinds of support, so they are promoted very quickly, while the civilian priests are often sent to some remote place, preside over a small church alone, and live a poor life. ”

Victor's heart moved, and he said, "So the civilian priest is the least obstructive to the lord?"

"It is true that a commoner priest is not capable of hindering a lord, but no lord likes a commoner priest. Although the abbey priests were difficult to fool, they were flexible, and when the territory was in trouble, the abbey priest could ask the Church for assistance, perhaps in the form of food supplies, perhaps military support, or confirmation of inheritance. Civilian priests, on the other hand, received little support, and their applications were always put on hold. That's why I said that the Church sent Father Miller here to fool us into asking for help. ”

Anthony said stupidly, "Fortunately, Father Miller has limited knowledge and will not dictate the project. When the project is over, I must apply for a monastic priest for Nicole to preside over the affairs of the school. ”

Victor looked at the humble chapel and said thoughtfully, "I think this Father Miller is very good. ”

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"Do you know what you're doing?"

The deep and powerful voice was not loud, but Varus had a thrilling feeling, he took a sip of pine nut tea, moistened his dry throat, and said: "Lord Marshal, our night owls intercepted an important piece of information some time ago, the cunning foxes of Dodor are planning a plot, they are going to assassinate Viscount Randall, and then blame Lord Sauron, with the intention of provoking His Highness Sylvia. As a result, we hastened to gather information in this area, and there are signs that the Duoduo intend to use Duke Erickson's domain to buy off Her Highness Sylvia, so as to annex our Gambis on both sides. ”

"And then, are you going to help the Duo people with this plan?" asked the Marquis of Goron coldly.

"Teacher, Lord Sauron is a nobleman of the court and loyal to the royal family, and if he can be promoted to the rank of Golden Knight, it will be in the interests of our Auguste family. Lord Sauron was hesitant to take that step now because he always felt unprepared. If we reclaim the title of Marquis for him, it will not only help Lord Sauron advance to the ranks, but will also allow him to accept the Elemental Sea with a sense of gratitude to the Augustian family. Teacher, if Gambis could add another loyal Highness, many problems would be solved. Varus lowered his head, but his voice was particularly eager.

"Sauron's talent is good, but it's just good, not to mention whether he can step into the pinnacle realm, even if he succeeds in promotion, he is far from being able to compare with Sylvia. For the sake of a silver knight, to offend a god knight, your mind is full of cow dung, or does Williams think the throne is more important than the future of Gambis?" said Marquis Goron word by word.

Varus smiled bitterly: "We have studied carefully, Viscount Randall is not important to His Highness Sylvia. If His Highness really favors Viscount Randall, he should keep him by his side, instead of letting him be in charge of the territory alone, according to our investigation, His Highness Sylvia did not even send a secret knight of the family to protect Viscount Randall, but only made a statement to protect Viscount Randall. We believe that the Viscount of Randall was prepared by His Royal Highness Sylvia to win over the Marquis of Sophia, so we intend to assassinate Viscount Randall first, and then reveal the conspiracy of the Kingdom of Dor to His Highness Sylvia, whether His Excellency Sauron succeeds in advancing or not, we have nothing to lose. ”

Goron gave Varus a sympathetic look, since Ryan's death, the night owl has been split in two, Varus, who is in charge of external intelligence, works for Williams, and Margaria, who is in charge of internal intelligence, is responsible for the queen, but any action of the night owl must be reported to him, and fortunately, it did not cause a big mistake.

"I also don't think that Viscount Randall is important to Sylvia. Can the night owl see it, but can't the cunning fox of Duoduo see it?How do you know that the cunning fox didn't mean to let you know about this plan?"

Varus was shocked: "Teacher, you mean ......."

"Viscount Randall doesn't matter, but the dignity of the Golden Knight is not to be provoked. The cunning fox is trying to lure you into making a move! Assassinating an insignificant viscount is a dispensable plan in itself. As far as the cunning fox is concerned, it is of course best for Sylvia to break with us, and if she does not turn against us, the kingdom of Duoduo has nothing to lose. I think the foxy fox is pushing this plan mostly to comfort Friedrich's idiot. And now, of course, you idiot!"

Varus was ashamed of himself, and said, "Then we will tell Her Highness Sylvia about the plans of the Duoduo." ”

"No!" Goron stroked the scar on his face and said, "Strengthen the surveillance of the cunning fox, and don't do anything else!"