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Chapter 559 It would be unreasonable if I didn't bury him

The most important thing for maritime trade is to have a ship. If there is no ship willing to transport your goods, the goods cannot be shipped out to sea.

The inland sea was once divided among four powers. The east was ruled by Hedem of the Ghazi Empire; the south was dominated by Hayreddin of the Kush Kingdom; the northwest was controlled by Pietro of the Tarragona Kingdom; Paolo of Venice strictly guarded the coast of the Kingdom of Sardinia, while competing with Pietro in the west for the southern port of the Kingdom of Gaul, and competing with Hedem of the Ghazi Empire in the east for the sea area west of Constantinople.

Along the coast of the Kingdom of Sardinia, only Paolo's fleet could do bulk cargo business, and he only did business with fellow Venetians. Merchants who wanted to import and export goods could only endure the exploitation of Venetian middlemen.

During the Battle of Recovering Constantinople, Hedem's fleet was destroyed by sharks flying in the sky, a power vacuum appeared on the sea, and the Venetians began to move eastward.

Therefore, the Venetians are short of money and began to increase their exploitation last year.

Taking this opportunity, the newspaper in Bern spent three pages exposing the crimes of the Venetians.

In this context, the death of boys and girls takes on a political and economic dimension and becomes a symbol.

Sardinia has long suffered from Venice.

With the help of the radio, the long-accumulated resentment throughout the kingdom erupted in just a few days. Merchants from all over the country either took action themselves or hired professionals to destroy the Venetians' shops.

The local lords then followed suit and "protected" the Venetian property.

The seven largest political forces in the Kingdom of Sardinia were called the "Seven Sisters". The royal capital of Diplomat, the Duchy of Liguria, the Duchy of Milan, the Duchy of Turin, the Duchy of Florence and the Golden City all sent representatives to Bern to attend the funeral.

Even Valentine, Pope of the Church of Light, rushed to Bern.

Valentine stayed in the church in the city, and for this reason, a young man with a Citrus Island accent was kicked out of the guest room by the priest early in the morning.

Nowadays, hotels in the city are full, and many residents who have vacant rooms in their homes have started homestay businesses to take in one or two out-of-town visitors.

Many people read the story of Mariodo and Gianozza in the newspapers and were moved by their love and final fate, so they came to see them off for the last time.

Frederick was in a bit of a dilemma. The atmosphere was already like this, and it would be unreasonable not to bury those two.

"Brother, do you need accommodation?"

If it weren't for the wrong language, Frederick would have thought he had just walked out of the train station in Weissenburg.

He turned around and saw that it was a roadside chapel.

The chapel is just a two-story building, no different from the house next to it. The first floor is the lobby and the second floor is the residence of the clergy.

Ordinary residents rarely go to cathedrals on Sundays. They usually gather with their neighbors for team building in the chapel.

Frederick asked along the street, but because of his Citrus Island accent, no one was willing to let him stay overnight.

The old priest in the chapel was not worried about these things. Seeing that the young man had nowhere to go, he let him stay here.

Frederick thanked the old priest and walked into the chapel carrying his huge backpack.

The old priest is called Benito, he is in his eighties and is from the south. He started working in this chapel at the age of twenty and has been working there for more than sixty years.

There are two nuns in the chapel, both of whom are orphans adopted by Father Benito.

Frederick put his luggage in the corner of the lobby, and then folded paper flowers for the funeral with two maids.

The Pope assigned tasks, but the three people in the chapel were old, so Father Benito was looking for strong laborers to do the work.

While folding the white paper into flowers, Frederick thought to himself, it would be unreasonable if he didn't bury those two people. Wouldn't all his work be in vain?

The two nuns, Ada and Elena, are in their fifties. They don't work fast with their hands, but they talk a lot.

They first asked where Frederick was from, how many people were in his family, and what he did for a living.

Fortunately, Frederick was abducted to a black factory and was quite familiar with the affairs of the civilians on Citrus Island, so he answered the questions properly.

Then the two nuns started chatting among themselves.

Ada said, "Did you hear that someone sneaked into the coffin room again last night?"

Alina shook her head and said, "Oh, those outsiders are really something. The little girl has passed away, why do they go to see the body?"

Some people from other places heard about Gianozza's beauty, and some mentally ill people wanted to see the body.

Now the church was surrounded by the city defense army and the Capuleti and Monteci families, so as not to disturb the two people in the coffin. Ada said, "That's not what I'm talking about."

"Let me tell you, someone discovered the secret passage of the church last night and sneaked into the church through the secret passage."

"There was no one in the church at night, but everyone who entered last night was knocked unconscious and thrown outside the funeral hall. They were only discovered early this morning."

Alina asked in surprise: "Who could have done this?"

Ada pointed to the ceiling and said nothing.

This time Alina was even more surprised.

Frederick was calmly picking flowers, as if what happened last night had nothing to do with him.

Gianozza has been lying in the coffin for many days. Although his body has entered a state of extreme dormancy, it is still consuming some energy.

Last night, Frederick fed her a bowl of saturated sugar water through nasogastric tube to prevent her from starving to death.

At that time, several dandy-looking men came to the funeral hall, speaking obscene words. Frederick knocked out all their teeth and threw them out the door.

At noon, Father Benito brought back lunch from the tavern next door, a plate of fish fillet noodles with red tomato sauce and a glass of orange wine for each person.

While eating noodles, Father Benito sighed and said, "Oh, how has the church become like this?"

The two maids knew what was going on without asking for details. Ada said, "It's not the first day you've known this."

Alina also said: "Just take care of yourself."

Frederick asked curiously, "Father, what happened?"

Father Benito said helplessly, "Valentin is asking two thousand ores for the funeral this time."

Frederick's mouth twitched. Priests presiding over weddings and funerals are supposed not to charge a single penny. They only collect donations afterwards, and it is up to them to give more or less.

This is the truth. In fact, the amount of the "donation" is almost clearly marked with a price. There is only a low price and no upper limit.

The gold content of the Sardinian Kingdom's Aure gold coin is the same as that of the Rhine Confederation's Florin gold coin, both of which are 3.5 grams of gold.

In other words, the Pope's appearance fee is equal to the previous four-year income of the Wessen family, which can now buy 20 high-horsepower steam tractors in the city of Wessenburg.

Father Benito continued angrily, "Valentin saw that the Monteci and Capuleti families were going to be extinct, so he planned to cheat them out of money, one thousand each."

Frederick felt that since his family had spent so much money, it would be unreasonable if the two did not complete the funeral process and fill the soil.

He pretended to be surprised and asked, "Will the two families pay for this?"

Benito sneered and sighed, "Alas, Valentine is obsessed with money."

"He also said that if the money is enough, the God of Light will be happy to resurrect the two children."

"What else can the two fathers do? Pay the money. What if he really comes back to life?"

There are many legends about people coming back to life from the dead in the Church of Light. Now Baron Montechi and Baron Capuleti regard these stories as the last straw, and naturally they pay large sums of money.

Frederick's heart tightened. He had met a master. He could see that these two were faking their deaths!

His recent experience told him that the church was very adept at performing "miracles", and others could not help but believe it.

So he planned to make a big scene this time to build momentum for himself and prepare for future work.

Now, professional charlatans are trying to intercept us, and we can’t tolerate this!

The Pope is a professional at this kind of thing. If he really "resurrected" Mariodo and Gianozza in public...

Frederick didn't dare to think further. The Pope's authority was established, and it might involve disputes between theocracy and secular power, and might even trigger a religious war.

Moreover, given the character of those people in the church, it is a foregone conclusion that they will impose taxes on believers under some pretext.

Frederick had to take the initiative, so he asked Father Benito about the funeral procedures.

(End of this chapter)