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Chapter 10 [I say, the Pope's opinion]

[I say, the Pope's opinion]

Let us pull our eyes a little to the battlefield thousands of miles away to see what happened here.

Pope Fischer Brusgue IX is speaking loudly on the podium, but how many people in the audience are listening.

At the beginning of the Holy King's Western Expedition, because the Pope asked all countries to gather troops to join as soon as possible, otherwise they might be punished with fines and seizing titles, so although they were reluctant, all countries sent lords to lead them. The respective knights joined the army.Due to the limited time given by the Pope to the countries, the lords who are far away can only go to the front line with only a few knights and some dry meat and dry food, although their servants will follow under the leadership of the retinue knights And to replenish their soldiers and supplies, but due to various reasons such as the long distance and inconvenient information transmission, many lords have only received one or two replenishments so far, so they have to continue to follow the Pope's army.

After finally stopping at the Isthmus of Tratus, the coalition forces that entered the stage of strategic confrontation finally had a chance to stop and replenish, but new problems followed one after another. Due to the long supply line, many supplies were lost on the way. The consumption is almost the same, and some lords who are not so far away from the country are okay, because they have joined the coalition for a short time, and there are still more supplies left, and the speed of replenishment from the country is still within an acceptable range. The lords who followed the coalition army at the beginning of the expedition were already in a dilemma of lack of supplies. The lords and their knights could only kill some mules that were not strong enough to use as rations. Eat some, but the lords and their knights have to eat meat every day, otherwise how can they maintain effective combat effectiveness.

In fact, this kind of situation is not without a solution. In wars, it has always been a very common thing to "borrow food" from villages and towns along the way. It's reasonable to have all the people arrested, anyway, that's what the nobles and gentlemen in the past did.

What, you said to use money to buy food with those mud legs?It is an honor for you, the noble lords, to ask you to requisition military rations. You dare to talk about money. When I have money, I will naturally consider this matter for you.

This is the reason why the vast majority of lords support the war. They don't care about the motivation of the war itself, and they don't care who they are fighting. They only care about whether participating in the war can gain benefits, and how much benefit they can get.

Yes, that's right. In essence, these lords are not much different from those merchants.

But this Western Expedition is different. Pope Fischer Brusgue IX launched this war in the name of jihad. He brought a large number of journalists with him in the army. Record all kinds of behaviors, and then send them back to their respective countries. Although cameras have not yet been developed in this world, due to the wild development of magic science, something similar has been developed. Reporters use magic quartz to record some important things. The scene, and then sent back to domestic newspapers.After layers of polishing by the editors of the newspaper, the public will finally see the various important performances of the Pope's coalition forces.

But because of this, the coalition forces can’t do too many things that sound unreasonable. If they want food, military rations, or replenishment of soldiers, they have to spend money honestly to buy them. When noble gentlemen spend money, they can't wait to split one gold coin into eight gold coins.Oh well, the gentlemen won't spend the money themselves, but their men will.

The Earl of Eaton is such a lord. He was sent by the king to respond to the "jihad launched by Pope Fischer Brusga IX who is glorious enough to live forever" at the beginning of the coalition's departure. The reason why the representative of his country is him It was just because the other two old bones who were qualified to be marshals were both sick, so according to the order, he was forced to become marshals.

Damn, why are you sick? Those two old guys went hunting together the week before, so they were clearly pretending to be sick.

And no matter what, he shouldn't be the earl leading the team. There are obviously so many marquises in the country.

After complaining at the beginning, Eaton put away his thoughts. Regardless of whether he likes it or not, the errand is always there, and the king can't easily withdraw his life just because he is not happy. Instead of complaining, it is better to think about it. How to get more benefits in this war, at least you have to be a marquis when you go back, otherwise what's the point of putting your life on hold.

But the more they fought, the more angry they became. Except for the first few small battles where he took the lead and captured some prisoners, the rest of the time, they were all confronting the opposing coalition forces on the Isthmus of Tratus. The Pope forbade They easily left the defense zone, which made him lose the chance to go to the surrounding villages in the name of patrolling.

However, the Pope himself took the personal guard army and some loyal dog legs to plunder some small city-states everywhere. These non-lineal lords could only guard the line of defense here, but the Pope took the entourage to grab a basin. The pot was full, a lot of food and treasure, and countless slaves were sent back one by one, and sometimes they were even escorted.

Yes, you heard that right, the things that the Pope himself robbed were delivered by those who don’t benefit from them.

What is killing and punishing one's heart, this is called killing one's heart and punishing one's heart, they take advantage of all the benefits, and only think of them when doing dirty work.

Eaton is discussing with several lords who also come from remote defense areas or have difficulty in supplying supplies.

"If you want me to say that some people just want to eat all the benefits by themselves, and they don't want to take the blame."

The military reporters did not dare to take photos of the Pope's troops, but they had no scruples about them, the miscellaneous troops responsible for escorting the spoils, so after their operation, these troops that didn't get much benefit became something wrong. If you dare to go to the frontal battlefield to meet the enemy, you can only rely on looting the village's self-pocketed waste models.

"Who said it wasn't? Some people brought this matter to the Pope, and they only sent dozens of slaves and sent them away. I think they are saying that these reporters were clearly arranged by the Pope. to divert attention."

It was Earl Mephisto who took the call. Like Eaton, he joined the army at the beginning of the war. His consular district had a bad harvest this year, and he was almost eating people. If it wasn't for the sponsorship of the lord next door Well, even his team might not be able to bring them out. What he originally thought was to make money from the war, and maybe he could solve his own difficulties a little bit.

It has been less than half a year since the results came out, and the most valuable things we got are some captured inferior weapons, some of which are simply modified farm tools. As for the food, except for a little bit distributed according to the population reported in the expedition report.

The rest basically rely on local materials. He has already killed many injured mules and horses. Anyway, there is no medical treatment here. If they can be cured, they can only be used as donkeys. No matter how poor the earl is, he can’t use donkeys. For military horses.

In fact, it is possible, but this Earl Mephisto thinks that he is not miserable to that extent. Nobles will always have useless persistence in places that are not necessary. Ordinary people can't understand it.

And as for slaves?The great Holy Emblem Army came to liberate the poor people oppressed by heretics, how could they catch slaves?
In the name of redemption, doing the work of a slave trader, even refusing to get his hands dirty, this is the pope.

Of course, no one dares to say such an extreme statement. Although the pope cannot completely control the politics of various countries, the kings dare not lose face by letting one or two small lords step down. Neither is the pope.

In the past, there was a king. When he was young and a prince, he made insulting remarks and comments on the Pope. As a result, the succeeding Pope did not do anything after he learned about it. He just waited until the prince succeeded the king. At the coronation ceremony, he made things difficult for him so much, and said to the public that it was just that he was in a bad mental state that day.

Well, who knows what outrageous things those people in the Holy See can do?

"I see. This. I'm afraid it's a pill."

Mephisto smiled wryly at Eaton, chewing the dried meat in his hand.

Probably because there were too many people discussing below, the Pope couldn't hold back his face, and he winked at the people next to him.

Next to the pope is the metropolitan. It stands to reason that a battle of this scale should bring the cardinals, but the pope doesn't want these cardinals to have the opportunity to gain military exploits, which will expand their influence, so he retreated. Secondly, some metropolitans were brought along. Most of these metropolitans were relatively young, and they were just used to help the Pope.

A metropolitan looked down at the lords in the audience, probably planning to catch a typical example.

"I can't see me, I can't see me, I can't see me."

Mephisto lowered his head, put down the jerky in his mouth, and muttered in his mouth.

But unfortunately, things backfired. After going around, the bishop's eyes fell on Mephisto.

Mephisto is notoriously unlucky in the circle of lords he knows. The more he wants nothing to happen, usually it will happen. His friends call this Murphy's Law, and even suggest that he do the opposite. fortune teller.

"Mephisto, what are you talking about?"

Sure enough, he still didn't hide, and Mephisto's friends snickered aside to see how he would end up.

Forget it, it's just a bishop, and it's not the pope who ended up on his own, so there's nothing to be afraid of.

Mephisto raised his head, looked at the metropolitan who was much younger than himself, and showed a contemptuous smile.

"I said, the Pope has a good opinion."

The Metropolitan, who was still half-conceived, was a little bit overwhelmed. He wanted to explode all of a sudden, but was held back by the people next to him.

The Pope looked at the lords under the stands and shook his head.

"Forget it, let's come here today, the meeting is over."

(End of this chapter)