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Chapter 73 Confronting the Knights of the Temple of Light

What is the chain reaction of the king's patience?
The temple and the cooperating nobles are becoming more and more domineering. In places that Beichen can't see, the temple has no way of escaping the law of momentum.

On this day, the Knights of the Temple of Light passed by Taylor Manor, and saw that the lights in this unremarkable small castle were on, and there was no black cloth hanging outside the manor, indicating that there were no dead people.

So they felt that they had something to do, so they wanted to enter the manor in the name of searching for witches.

Lacey stood at the gate, behind him were the ten knights and thirty attendants sent to him by Aurora before the winter.They rode wildebeests and ground dragons, fully armed and awe-inspiring.

The bright attire of the Knight of the Temple of Light was instantly reduced to a rookie in front of the Beichen Knight.

The Knights of the Temple of Light said under the banner of the temple that they wanted to search the manor, "We are here in the name of the God of Light to fight against the witches who spread the plague. If you dare to defy God's will, we have reason to suspect that you are hiding witches."

Lacey looked at these pretending knights coldly, "The Taylor family doesn't believe in the God of Light. Your priest and the pope know very well what the source of the plague is. It's best not to implicate us Beichen by fabricating witches to divert public grievances, otherwise my wife and The master doesn't mind bloodbathing a few temples of light to appease their anger."

The knights and attendants behind Lacey held up the crossbow. This is the magic crossbow. Aurora made it by exploiting the labor force of the students of the Magic Academy. A magic crossbow.

Facing that sharp, never-before-seen weapon, the Knight of the Temple of Light felt his scalp tingling, this was the first time he had encountered such a difficult nobleman.

But they were indoctrinated into the idea that the plague was caused by witches, and they were in a dilemma for a while.

Lacey said again: "No matter what you do in the temple, don't even think about implicating Beichen. If you insist on breaking in, don't blame us for attacking you instead. Also, the nearby villages are covered by us. Get out of your game of sniping witches."

Seeing that Lacey was confident, the knights of the Temple of Light attacked them in turn. They were very angry, pointed their swords at Lacey's nose and said, "We are the spokespersons of God. If you, Beichen, don't believe in God, you are heresy."

"Heretic?" Lacey smiled, and the knight behind him also drew his sword, turned his wrist, and made a beautiful swipe of the sword, and knocked with skill.

The sword of the knight of the Temple of Light was dropped directly. For the knight, it was a shame and a shame that he couldn't even hold the sword.

"How dare you do it?"

Lacey was not afraid at all, and said lightly: "You are not polite first, I said, get out."

A magic continuous crossbow shot at the feet of the knights of the Temple of Light, and there were two loud bangs in a row. The wildebeest raised its front legs in fright, and threw the two knights down without any regard for how the two knights called, and ran away. Going so far, you can't come back after chasing.

Among the eight light temple knights, none of the three could make a move in front of each other.

Unable to fight, and unable to speak out, he could only leave in despair, intending to report to his superiors before making a conclusion.

After the Temple of Light and the nobles knew the reaction of Taylor Manor, they were a little ashamed and angry for a while, but they didn't dare to act rashly. In fact, their intention was only for the common people and the peasants to be quiet, and they had no intention of rubbing against other nobles.

But the Taylor family was so uncooperative, and they were very annoyed, and they were unwilling to do something to suppress the opponent's arrogance.

Since the Taylor family doesn't believe in the God of Light, they must belong to the evil gods. When they go back, they must publicize their belief in the evil gods. The plague must be the woman Aurora, no, it was spread by the witch.

The next day, Lacey sent a letter into the palace.

Those knights who were angry and said they wanted to take revenge on the Taylor family stopped. It wasn’t that they didn’t want to take revenge, but His Majesty had spoken. If the temple spread the plague under the guise of witches and made troubles on the border, he wouldn’t mind giving the people another belief. .

This is a letter written by Miguel in advance, not only telling His Majesty the seriousness of the matter, but also adding that if the temple becomes larger because of this incident, the Pope may fight against the imperial power in the future.

The pope of the present church is not a charitable person.

If the king had a clear head, he should know that the reason why the peasants and free people rioted was that the nobles were unwilling to open granaries to relieve the disaster.

Hunger, poverty, and sickness, as long as anyone has a little mercy or conscience, throwing out some rye porridge and water will not cause riots.

Nobles and temples are not good birds, they only value immediate interests, and the king is no different. Although he is still a qualified king, he does not have the domineering and political skills of King Qin.

Does he dare to set up a position like Doctor Yushi?He dared not, because the nobles would unite against him.

If the aristocratic circle really join forces, the king is not their opponent.

It's a pity that these nobles are too lazy, otherwise it would not be impossible to support a puppet king a year.

Aurora is not a good person when she asks herself. If other nobles join forces to mess with her, then don’t blame her. Recently, Aurora bought a lot of privacy about nobles with a value of [-] likes. Few have done anything against the law.

If they dared to take this step, she would dare to file a lawsuit, and dare to let Lingmin Yiqi go to the battlefield.At that time, it is not certain who is the defendant and who is the plaintiff.

Aurora has already started preparing for the cultivation of legal talents this winter.

A letter made the king come to his senses and re-examine the Temple of Light. If he was sick, would the church's merciful pretense not save him?
So the king began to rectify the nobles, telling them to be generous and not to be stingy, otherwise it would cause a catastrophe, and he would not be able to support them.

And Lacey was a little trickier.

Someone came to ask Lacey to make bread again.

Lacey didn't refuse all of them, but what he charged was food. He explained to the public that the bottom of the place where the food was stored was flooded. In order to prevent starvation in the manor, he charged food as a fee.

Once the news spread, the nobles wanted to find out the truth. If the management of the Taylor Manor had a hard time, they might take advantage of the opportunity to see if they could buy the bread recipe.

Facts have proved that even if Taylor Manor is short of food, it is not short of money.

Trying to buy a bread recipe is wishful thinking.

And Lacey is rich enough, he first took a few orders, and later found that there were many homeless people outside the manor, so he used this charging method as an unsafe excuse, and claimed that he would not open the store until the winter passed, and the banquet reservations would not be accepted. There is no need for food, I am afraid that the rioters will think that the manor has a lot of food to loot the manor.

He also pretended to be mysterious and asked people to go outside to buy food in some remote places, and finally closed the door.

Later, even the aristocrats themselves had a shortage of inventory. As a result, they didn't realize the seriousness at all. They didn't give up and went to lobby Lacey many times to secretly give the formula. They could cover up and help get more food.

Lacey refused to enter, and thanked guests behind closed doors.

After five consecutive months of snowfall, famine began in the imperial capital.

People can't see the end of winter, and they all feel that the end is coming. The killing of so many witches did not quell the plague, and now it is a long snowy day.

Linong really couldn't stand it anymore. There were several nobles living in the imperial capital, and their territories were all attacked and looted by Linong.

At this time, soldiers could not be sent to suppress it, and many local temples also suffered.

After all, the temple likes to play the big role, always pretending to be merciful, distributing food, and not robbing the temple.

When the news reached the imperial capital, there was an uproar.

Several nobles in the ransacked territory dare not go back, hoping that after the winter, His Majesty can borrow troops to suppress it.

They gloated over food shortages in Taylor Manor in the imperial capital before, but they stayed in the manor in a daze, and never heard of dead or sick people being thrown out.

As for Beichen's territory, no one knew how Beichen was doing because the traffic was blocked and the other party hadn't written a letter asking for reinforcements.

On the other hand, their homes were stolen, their servants were sick, and they walked away, and His Majesty looked down on them.

Far away, Aurora knew the situation in the imperial capital through the system, and she laughed at those who were incompetent and insisted on causing trouble, loser.

The peasants and freedmen in Beichen Territory are indeed in a food crisis, but they have a deep fear of Miguel and at the same time have enough confidence in Aurora.

Sure enough, when the three village chiefs reported that they hadn’t eaten, Aurora opened the granary. There was a fixed quota, and each person received the amount according to the number of adults and children in the family. If there were babies in the family, they could get an extra portion of fish. Go back to the stew.

Li farmers received it for free, while free people paid for it with work. As much as they received, they had to do as much work to make up for it.

As soon as this policy came out, the free people all envied the slave peasants who ruined Beichen, why were they not so lucky.

Sometimes life needs some comparisons to be motivated.

The free people see that the slave farmers are doing well, so they want to work hard, hoping that one day they will be treated similarly to them.

The snow is already five or six meters deep, and it is very loose. Once people step on it, they basically sink down.On such a road, only wildebeests can run on it, but wildebeests cannot be harnessed to sleigh carts, and their noble bodies cannot be used to pull goods.

Therefore, the problem of transporting food must be solved.

Aurora simply organized the leaders to shovel the snow and shovel out a road. Otherwise, there would be more than a month before the snow stopped. Wouldn't it be that the knights would deliver goods every time?
And snowboarding doesn't work either. When someone learns it, summer will come.

In order to eat, no one dared to delay, and everyone dispatched to shovel the snow.

Everyone works together and is very efficient.

On the newly shoveled snow road, the ground dragon carts pulled the grain to the door of each house.During the special period, Aurora was afraid that the village chiefs would embezzle it for selfish reasons. After all, even a little bit of selfishness would not be obvious.

So I would rather work hard on delivery, and run a trip every week to distribute food.

Those poisonous potato powders also took the opportunity to distribute a small amount, and every household was told to eat only a little bit every day. Adults can wrap their stomachs, but children can't eat it.

The potato flour is all finished, and it is beans, soybean flour, rye...

The food reserves are enough to last for three or four months, and the firewood for heating is not enough. Aurora made a calculation and divided the charcoal.

The distribution of charcoal is more discreet.

The result of the system detection is that winter is over, and it will probably not end until the end of early summer.

At that time, when the snow melted, it was a new challenge.

Aurora organized the villagers to come together on their own, and distributed a basket of charcoal to every five households.

Charcoal is resistant to burning, but if neglected, it is easy to cause carbon monoxide poisoning, even if the fireplace is not ventilated, and the windows and doors in the house cannot be blocked.

When I sent it out, I deliberately promoted it again.

Seeing that it is still snowing during the planting season, Mrs. Taylor is very worried about the grain for the next year.

"It's okay mom, I have a plan." Aurora said.

When he turned around, he asked if the system task rewards could be issued in advance.

System: [What do you want to do? 】

"One season of crops is missing, what can I do, of course, is to speed up the crop harvest, how many improved sweet potato seeds you gave me?"

System: [Winter hasn't passed yet. 】

"Is the crisis over? Be flexible, as long as you give me the reward of the task, I will immediately spend 200 million love points to buy cotton seeds."

The system was completely moved by Aurora's words, [Are you really going to spend 200 million love points? 】

"I'll keep my word."

The system has calculated Beichen's material reserves, and it is more than enough to survive the winter. 【Deal】

Now that the sweet potato seeds are in hand, there is another job to do.

Fu Gui's greenhouse is basically completed, only the glass is installed.

The structure of the roof has been done.

On the day when the snow was slightly less, Aurora organized people to move the glass, and then used pulleys to slowly install it on the roof, and installed it piece by piece.

The entire Fugui greenhouse was soon completed, half of which was bathed in the sun and half in the shade, which was very suitable for the growth of Fugui.

But Fugui can't move in yet, because Aurora needs to grow sweet potato seeds and cotton in advance, and transplant them outside when summer comes.

Fugui Conservatory is equipped with an earth dragon, and once the fire is lit, the whole space becomes as warm as spring.

Ogri's eyes were full of surprises. As the chief designer of the territory building, he also participated in the construction of the greenhouse. Although there are many places where the purpose is not understood, it is only when it is really used that it realizes how great the design is.

"So the windows of the school also need glass?" Ogri has already imagined how well the house will be lit in the future.He also has glass crafts, which were given by Aurora, but he didn't expect that they could be used in architecture.

The imperial palace of the imperial capital also uses colored glaze, but there is no such a large piece of glass. This is more transparent than colored colored glaze, and it is great to see the beautiful scenery outside.

Ogri couldn't express his excitement in words. He couldn't wait to get the school built, and so could the clock tower.

Coming to Beichen was the most correct decision in his life. If he could, even as the son of a knight, he hoped that he would come to Beichen to develop. There is no future for him to live in the emperor, and he will fight with others every day to the death.

But young people like competition and career, and Ogri can't persuade him to come to the countryside to develop.

The greenhouse was officially completed.

Miguel organized people to move the soil into the sunny area of ​​the greenhouse, and Aurora was going to use the greenhouse to grow seedlings, and then transplanted after raising the seedlings.

Let those who have been experimenting for two years to plant, they have already achieved some results, but it is not enough, and the main time is not enough.

She couldn't wait for the local potatoes.

Aurora still has some cotton seeds, but there is no way to keep the sweet potato seeds, so they are basically going to be planted. If they are planted next year, they will probably all rot.

(End of this chapter)