What the more evil enemy is, the lord doesn't know yet.

But he sensed that the goddess's phrase "our territory" had something else......

We?

The goddess of order can use this word, and it means that she is planning to bind her relationship with this adult?

In this way, he, the 'messenger of the goddess of order' boasted by Amy and Sarah, has been recognized by the goddess herself?

The lord suddenly had the feeling that he had become a god himself—after all, the title 'messenger of the goddess so-and-so' usually appeared in cults.

But at the same time, Yunomia's wording also implies great danger.

After all, in the territory occupied by Li Ang, the only place that could be called 'our territory' by the goddess was actually the eastern region of the Lion Kingdom, that is, a large area from Changhe Town to White Deer Castle.

This is basically telling Leon that there are terrible heretics planning to do things in Leon's territory.

The goddess has such a clear warning, and it is natural that it should be taken seriously.

Therefore, Leon did not delay in the territory of the Bacchus Empire any longer, he directly appointed Anson as the temporary consul of Karen Deerburg, asked Jocelyn to help Anson manage military affairs, and then led his troops back to Changhe Town.

The main reason why Anson was in charge of Karen Deer Fort was because Anson was also here to manage the prevention of the Red Death.

Although there is a vaccine, there is still no cure if people are infected before they get vaccinated, and it will take a long time for the people of the Lion Realm to be universally vaccinated.

During this period, it is necessary to pay more attention to the prevention and control of the Red Death, and we must not relax for a moment.

Anson, the most knowledgeable and skilled doctor in identifying infected people, must stay in Karen Deer Fort to continue to prepare for the prevention and control center and establish multiple border checkpoints along the border between the two countries. Until the vaccine becomes more widespread in Leon's domain, he must ensure that the Red Death in Bacchus does not spread north of Karen Deer Castle.

There are now more than 10,000 people around Karen Deer Castle, but fortunately, these people are basically all former slave rebels, and most of them are strong men.

The lord was kind to these people, not only giving them a way to live, but also giving them food, so they were actually very easy to manage, and they were also very cooperative with Anson's series of projects to build checkpoints.

Amy takes most of the villagers of Fedne to the Shieldwind Fortress, where Leon gives her a mission to rebuild the Shieldwind Fortress.

Speaking of which, the Shield Wind Fortress was originally burned down by Amy...... Now that it is rebuilt by Amy's organization, it can be regarded as a kind of fate.

The occupation of these two territories was actually planned by Leon from the beginning, and it was also a condition that had been negotiated with Alina before.

At that time, Alina was holding the banner of Emperor Marius, representing Emperor Marius himself, and the conditions confirmed with Alina were naturally equivalent to the approval of the Bacchus Empire, which could be regarded as a transaction.

For the Lion Kingdom, this means that Leon has 'captured' the frontier territory of the Bacchus Empire, expanded its territory for hundreds of miles, and gained the dominance of the Lion Kingdom in the face of the Bacchus Empire.

Not only that, but it also 'deployed heavy troops' at two choke points to 'threaten' the Bacchus Empire at all times......

This kind of posture is a must.

Emperor Marius naturally did not really regard Li Ang as a mortal enemy, he also needed to recuperate, and would not provoke a war during this time, and the border was estimated to be able to maintain peace for a long time.

And the Lion Kingdom, from the king to the lord, must have nothing to say about Leon's 'exploits' - Leon has conquered these territories alone, and has not let anyone reinforce them at all, so they naturally have no reason to meddle in these new territories that Leon has obtained.

They could only praise the kingdom for producing a more powerful general than Count Oden, and in order to ensure that Leon could withstand a possible counterattack from the Bacchus Empire, the kings and lords of the Lion Kingdom would not come to pull Leon back at this time - otherwise Ulrique himself would not be happy if the good situation was ruined.

Therefore, the lord will say that he is a loyal and good general of the kingdom, and the king will not deal with him at this time as long as he is not stupid.

Moreover, maybe he will really be made a marshal - if you want to fight against Bacchus, you will have to attack from Leon's territory, and in this case, it is a bit unreasonable not to let Leon be the marshal.

However, the great battle between the lord and the snake worship cult in the territory of Bacchus did not actually reach the Lion Realm - in these years, there were no telephones, no Internet, not even newspapers, and any news that appeared relied on people's word of mouth, which was quite inefficient.

Moreover, those who know these things are very busy now, and they don't have the heart to praise the great deeds of the lord in the Lion Realm.

Most of the villagers in the village of Fedne are engaged in civil engineering and real estate construction in the place where the birds don't, which is hundreds of miles away from any village and town, and there is really no place to brag about it.

Sarah has been spreading the word all the time, but she is mainly spreading horse pox, and popularizing the Red Death vaccine is her main task at the moment.

Some people say that Count Leon can use ancient magic, the sky and the earth will collapse with a wave of his hand, and he can cause a landslide by stomping his feet casually, and he can also swallow clouds and mist, and swallow tens of thousands of troops of the Snake Worship Sect with one mouth......

They even speculated that Leon was a Sindari elf, as the lord was said to have led an army of Noldor elves.

I don't know who came up with this statement, but to be honest, it's really close to the truth.

Therefore, the current lord has become the biggest enemy of the entire Bacchus Empire, both in terms of fame and actual territory.

Or, rather, an opponent - a large part of the Bacchus who hate the Serpent Cult do not see Leon as an enemy, but they also understand that there is no affection between countries, and Leon is the lord of the Lion Kingdom, and can only be an opponent after all.

Emperor Marius also openly stated in Siyuan City: "With a terrible opponent like Leon peeking at the borders of the empire, all the Bacchus must unite and rebuild the empire into the strongest country in the shortest possible time!" ”

As a result, the lord became the driving force for the rebuilding of the entire Bacchus Empire, and also became the shield of Emperor Marius - even the fact that he had abandoned Siyuan City was not mentioned by anyone, and in the face of a terrible opponent like Leon, the Bacchus people were indeed much more united than before.

At the end of February 356, Leon returned to Changhe Town.

During the period of the lord's absence, places such as Changhe Town and White Deer Fort have gradually become stable and prosperous.

Today, not only is there no voice against Li Ang in Changhe Town, but even the bandits are basically extinct.

Of course, this stable and peaceful situation has a lot to do with the fact that Lord Fu Sete used Forsette to get rid of most of the people with ulterior motives at once.

When there are no longer people in the territory who are doing things behind their backs, and everyone is focused on earning money and farming and construction, local security will naturally be much better than in other places.

In fact, the more the population is not the better, the more the population that obeys the management, the better, and it is not for nothing that the goddess of order calls Leon's territory 'our territory'.

The town of Long River is now very orderly, because the unruly has been killed by Forsert, and even the people who owe money and the beggars who do not want to work have been expelled by Eric......

Expelling those who make trouble, naturally in order to get more people available. If a territory is in good order and security, there will always be many people who are willing to obey the management.

During this winter, many people moved to Changhe Town from all over the country.

Pande Bank's lending business also gradually became popular during this period.

Lesri had been worried that the bank would absorb too much of the deposit and not be able to lend it, which would cause the bank to be crushed by the interest on the deposit, and eventually form a run and bankrupt the lord.

But in fact, all of the bank's savings have been loaned, except for the 20 percent reserve.

In addition to the forced lending during the previous tax period, these loans were actually borrowed by civilians and merchants who moved to Changhe Town.

Those who have just moved in will always be short of money, and it is better to borrow from a bank than to borrow from a private loan shark, and the interest rate on a loan from Pender Bank is a gift from God compared to the usury between private individuals in these years, the difference between two cents a month and fifty percent a month......

And, most of the time, when people come to a bank for a loan, they don't actually do it in a regular way of borrowing.

Anson, for example, had made one of the largest loans in Karen Deer Castle, but it was not in any currency such as the Dinar - and it was before the Lord Lord had opened a branch of the Pander Bank to Karen Deer Castle.

When the lord returned to his realm, he left the first horses used for stallions in Karen Deer Fort - while it is true that most horses do not die from the Red Death, they will eventually weaken for a while.

Alice was one of the strongest of the horses, and she was still too weak to ride for two days, except for Jocelyn's massive beast that jumped alive from head to tail......

After the horsepox vaccine was spread in the area of Boshi City and Karen Deer Castle, General Creon recalled the main force of the Knights of the Radiant Cross as quickly as possible, intending to quickly organize the production of the horsepox vaccine in Boshi City and Dilingang and other places.

However, there was a shortage of horses near the city of Knowledge, so General Creon went to Cullen Deer Castle with the intention of buying three hundred horses from Anson...... Or rather, he originally wanted to borrow three hundred horses.

The horses left behind at Fort Karen were recovering from the pox, which is when the pox was scabbing over, and it was the most appropriate time to use it as a vaccine carrier, and the vaccine from these horses had been shown to be safe for humans.

The Bacchus Empire has always lacked large livestock such as cattle and horses - the Bacchus Empire has no horse farmland, and the only large pasture in the country is under the high mountains in the southeast of the Bacchus Empire, that is, hundreds of miles east of the village of Fidnne.

But it was not a grassland, but a wetland meadow, suitable only for pigs......

Most of the soldiers in Bacchus' main army were infantry, not because they didn't like horseback riding or had no knightly tradition, but simply because they did lack horses.

Only elite guards such as the Shadow Centurion, Ring Centurion, and Imperial Knights were eligible to use horses, as they were originally centurion-level leaders and rank military attachés before Emperor Marius initiated reforms.

The price of horses in the territory of Bacchus is more than three times that of the Lion Kingdom.

Therefore, three hundred horses is actually a lot of money for the Bacchus, and if you count the dinars, it is about four hundred thousand.

General Creon was a poor man, and of course he couldn't afford to buy it with so much money, so he was going to borrow it.

To tell the truth, Creon is indeed a cunning general - the lord has just left Cullen Deer Castle on the front foot, and he runs to Anson on credit, obviously thinking that Anson, an honest boy, is easier to deal with than the lord.

But Creon probably didn't expect that many times it was the ass that decided the head...... If he really talked to Li Ang himself, maybe he would really borrow it, and it is estimated that Li Ang would not ask him for money.

After all, the lord did not care about the interests of the Red Death when facing the Red Death, and in the eyes of Li Ang, the prevention and control of virulent infectious diseases knew no borders.

But Leon had just left, and now Anson was acting consul.

And Anson is not the owner of these horses - the owner of the horses is Leon. Anson also knew that once he lent it out, he might not get it back, and as an archon, he couldn't let the lord suffer.

So General Creon had no choice but to do it in the name of buying, and he knew that such a kind person as Anson would definitely be willing to sell, as long as Leon didn't suffer a loss.

But because he had no money, General Creon offered to pay the money on credit - Emperor Marius would definitely pay it back anyway, and His Majesty's credit was still very good.

To be honest, Creon probably still has the idea of buying it for zero yuan...... Anyway, now he is nominally an enemy with Leon, and taking away a few hundred horses can be regarded as dealing with the enemy.

However, Creon probably did not expect that when he was a conscientious doctor, Anson was of course willing to provide any support he could provide for the control of the Red Death without compensation;

But as an archon, Anson quickly learned to change his mind and bargain......

Probably this has something to do with the lord's words and deeds all along, when he first met Anson, Anson took a vote of the man to protect Lai Silky for a week and confiscated the money, so the lord has been reminding Anson that this is not the style of the Knights of the Radiant Cross......

So now, as a reserve knight ready to join the Knights of the Radiant Cross, Anson has gradually learned what it takes to be a knight of the Radiant Cross - to collect money, and it is quite expensive.

Three hundred horses, each of which was valued by Anson for 1,500 dinars, plus the corresponding manual and technical guidance, for a total of 500,000 dinars—and then Anson himself acted as an intermediary and granted General Creon the first credit loan of the Pande Bank, and asked for a loan on the credit of Emperor Marius.

I don't know if this is a national debt, anyway, General Creon agreed very happily, in his opinion, this is no different from credit.

For this reason, Creon also specially brought Alina to sign the loan, which had just been brought back from the port of Imperial Landing by Sigismund, and was investigating the strange rituals of the nine hundred and ninety-nine men.

At this time, Alina was still the envoy of Emperor Marius, and she had not seen Emperor Marius since she left Siyuan City, so the identity of this envoy was naturally not withdrawn.

Finding a loan from the lord of the Lion Kingdom is considered a foreign matter, and Alina can make decisions on these matters in place of Emperor Marius.

And in order to control the Red Death, Alina, naturally, like General Creon, doesn't care how much it costs......

So Emperor Marius, who was far away in Siyuan City, received a large debt bill.

Although His Majesty the Emperor thinks that this loan is cost-effective, the problem is that this operation makes him very uneasy - this loan is 500,000, and this red death vaccine needs to be popularized by the whole people.

For the first time, Emperor Marius felt that his country might go bankrupt before it could be rebuilt......

Of course, this kind of thing cannot be continued, and Emperor Marius is very sober-minded.

He felt that it was of course necessary to get horses to make a vaccine against the Red Death, but there was no need to buy horses if there was a shortage of horses......

Isn't there a lot of horses in the Duchy of Dexia next door?

In addition, Governor Kairos chased the monster in that temple all the way to the border of Dexia.

Due to the previous civil unrest, there are many illegal armed forces also roaming around the border, which is also a hidden danger and needs to be addressed......

Therefore, the nimble Emperor Marius sent people to instigate a group of illegal armed forces in the name of the goddess of justice in the name of 'eliminating the culprits of heresy', and encouraged these unstable elements to enter the Duchy of Dexia to eradicate heresy.

And the shadow wolves under the command of General Sulla secretly followed the group of illegal forces into the territory of Dexia, and followed those illegal forces to get the horses of the Dexia people......