Chapter 164: Paladins Need Faith
The appearance of the homeless people shocked many nobles, but after thinking about it, they were a lot more relieved.
In recent years, the imperial court has conscripted soldiers almost every three or five days, and there are not enough farmers in the farmland, but the annual tax is much higher, and some of the old nobles cannot afford to pay taxes, so they have to sell their land to the nobles from the imperial city.
Therefore, at this time, there were homeless people entering, and some of the minor nobles were not only worried, but were happy to see it.
"Young Master William, you are a nobleman, there is no need to learn any planting techniques like those farmers." Seeing that the little master of his family lit the lamp and boiled wax, the servant Bard was very worried, "You are a person who wants to become a paladin, and you are going to scold us if you learn from these marquises." ”
William put down the book and frowned, "The paladin hasn't recruited an apprentice for three years, and even if he becomes a paladin, he will go to the front line to die, and he is willing to do it or not." ”
"But in that case, I'm afraid it ......," Bard knew too.
But the young master of his own family was born to a concubine, and his status in front of the marquis was not high, if he could become a paladin, maybe the resources of the follow-up family would be tilted to the young master of his own family.
Originally, among the nobles, the young master lived a very humble life, and the marquis hoped that someone in the family could enter the paladin and become a close minister of the imperial court, and there were many competitors for the young master of his own family.
Looking at Bard's worried look, William sighed, "Actually, I did this for a reason, you don't know, the person who teaches these farmers is actually a paladin, I can't miss this opportunity." ”
Paladin!
Bard looked at his young master dumbfoundedly.
"How could a paladin go to farm?" Bard didn't understand, "Is it a practice?" ”
"I think so, you don't understand, I heard that he studied under Lord Armand in the South, this Lord is now in Autranstor, defending against the monsters of the South, if I can join them and become a paladin, it will be much safer than going to the North."
Armand's Paladin Legion?
Poor Bard wasn't impressed, but he had heard that Otransto had paladins.
It's just that they don't know that the Paladin Legion that everyone says by word of mouth, in fact, the only paladin recognized by the royal court is Armand.
The rest are brave people who can use paladin skills, but have not registered with the Imperial Court at all.
"Then young master, you're doing the right thing." Bud patted his chest, "But you don't need to come to this kind of thing at all, let the little one help you, what do you think?" ”
"How's that going to work? If you want to apprentice, you must be sincere! William refused Bard's help, "I must impress him and become a true paladin." ”
Xue Yiming looked at his group of apprentices speechlessly, yesterday's apprentices were all farmers, and today's apprentices have become all nobles.
Ahem, or rather, servants of the nobility.
There was a servant standing beside each aristocratic boy, and even an older middle-aged man, looking eagerly at him.
Do you look that good? Or do you think your outfit looks good?
In order to make more farmers believe in him, and agreed to let him teach planting skills, Xue Yiming wore the equipment of a paladin and held a paladin's weapon, showed these farmers his skills on the first day, and killed a D-class poisonous snake.
"The Legend of the Fairy Tree"
All of a sudden, the news of the paladins coming to teach the art spread throughout the city of Idel, and the first day it was the farmers who came to learn the cultivation techniques, and the further they went, the more nobles came.
Looking at these knowledge-seeking eyes, Xue Yiming was really miserable.
He is a person who wants to become a big landlord, how can he show his skills to these "landlords"?
"Your idea is good, but it's not like this, if you don't loosen the soil, you just dig a hole, and the plant can't grow." Xue Yiming personally demonstrated, until the servants beside those noble young men did it.
One of the teenagers, clumsy watering, looked at his clothes, he was supposed to be a nobleman, not a servant.
Xue Yiming noticed this NPC, leaned in and asked, "Everyone else has asked the servants to water it, why did you come by yourself?" ”
"If I want to be a paladin, I can't let a servant help me practice my sword, I think I'll do this myself, maybe you'll take me as an apprentice for the sake of my efforts." William replied sincerely.
"What's so good about being a paladin?" Xue Yiming thought that the other party was an NPC, so he replied according to the plot, "Now most of the paladins in the imperial city are at the border, and they may die at any time, and the paladins must have faith to do it, do you believe in the goddess?" ”
Worship the Goddess?
William shook his head.
He knew that it was only by believing in piety that he could be empowered by the goddess.
But don't all the devout people around him become paladins?
Now the people of Gaia are suffering, and they have never seen the goddess help, and even the priests of the temple will be worse than their own nobles, frantically intercepting the wealth of the people.
He, like most of the minor nobles, was extremely disappointed in the goddess.
"I'm not afraid of death, if I can die on the battlefield, my mother may be a little better, I practice swords every day, and learn all kinds of martial arts, if I need to believe in it sincerely, I ......" William frowned, "But you say, is there really a goddess in this world?" ”
"Yes, I'm from Sigmar, and the goddess of Sigmar is something I've seen with my own eyes." Xue Yiming scratched his head, "Otherwise, you can go to Sigma to have a look, maybe you will believe in her." ”
Receiving this reply, William nodded vigorously.
Similarly, Xue Yiming also mentioned it to those nobles who came to join in the fun.
But apparently the nobles knew what the temple was all about.
Even many people know that paladins recruit paladins not based on faith.
As long as you recruit people, you can also mix in if you give money.
This kind of thinking is not something that Xue Yiming can change, the farmers are easy to deceive, because they themselves have a natural worship of power, and the nobles, in their eyes, power is a layer of curtain, and after seeing through it, they will find that it is just a castle in the air, and they can't tell when it will break.
By the seventh day of the event, there were three times as many Gaias entering the Sigma Peninsula as before, and by the tenth day, there were about 7 million Gaians on the Sigma Peninsula who had come to pay homage to the goddess Gesia.
This kind of population movement is not a small number in Gaia, but for some reason, the nobles invariably chose to ignore it.
There are even quite a few nobles who go to Sigma in person, intending to find out.