Lord of Industrialization

The area 20 to 30 kilometers south of Boyheim City is dotted with many gold mines, large and small, and there are many mine caves. Many years ago, tens of thousands of people lived around the gold mines.

After decades of war, this is also the place where the most intense competition has occurred.

The place that should have been farmland was overgrown with weeds and dead silent. A gust of wind blew through, and gray human bones were faintly exposed among the grass.

As soon as the convoy arrived, everyone felt very depressed, especially the magicians, who had an unknown feeling of palpitations and shortness of breath.

The roads and bridges in this area were seriously damaged. A bridge that was barely open to traffic more than ten days ago had a pier collapse not long ago. Frederick and his party could only wait in a nearby village for engineers to repair the bridge.

There are only about a dozen households in this village. In addition to farming, there is also a blacksmith shop. People pick up discarded weapons and armor from all around, re-smelt them into molten iron in the iron-making furnace, and then make them into new swords for sale.

When setting up camp, an officer told Da Franche and the others the history of this place: "This place is the southern gate of the city of Boyheim. Over the past few decades, it has experienced eight battles involving more than 100,000 people. The fallen Dharma God Sword Master Five in total, thousands of people fought countless battles, countless nobles died here, and countless people became new nobles due to their military exploits. "

"There was an attack and defense battle between magicians that lasted for five days and five nights, so that the surrounding magic was disordered and uncomfortable, and animals did not dare to come near."

Da Franche sighed: "How many people must die here?"

"No one knows." The officer shook his head. "The battlefield was not cleaned for the last battle, but the next battle happened again, and no one kept statistics."

"There have been many great plagues here before. The living people ran out of the military camp, but the dead stayed in the military camp, with no one to bury them."

The officer pointed to a nearby creek and said, "I heard that the bottom of the river here is covered with bones. From time to time, human bones can be found. The old wells are also filled with bones, so we can only use new wells."

All the businessmen heard this with horror.

The language of the villagers in the village is highly similar to that of the Piast Kingdom. However, the language of the residents of the previous places such as Budwis City, Stowe Barony and Iron Ore Town was the same as that of the Rhine League and the Osmaga Empire. It is difficult to distinguish between the two languages. Communicate effectively.

Therefore, when the villagers saw so many people suddenly appearing outside the village, they hid in their homes and piled all movable things behind the door, fearing that someone would break in and steal things.

Fortunately, the church was open, and Frederick visited as the head of the Holy Knights of the Church of Light. Father Boger received Frederick.

Father Beauger was very old, half of his teeth were missing, and his eyesight was not very good. He was the only one in the church.

He said to Frederick: "In the past, when the army passed by, they would either steal things or rape them. The villagers were afraid. This was not disrespectful to the grand leader."

Frederick said to him: "It doesn't matter, I can understand."

"The day after tomorrow is Sunday, and I think holding a church service can bridge the gap between us."

Boger looked embarrassed, hesitated for a moment and then whispered: "I'm sorry, I'm old and frail, and I haven't conducted a liturgy for several years."

It is the duty of the priests to preside over liturgical services. He has not organized team building for several years. To say the least, it is dereliction of duty. If he wants to go on the line, it is blasphemy to the God of Light. As the leader of the Holy Knights, Frederick has the right to put him Put it in the fire for purification.

Of course Frederick would not burn him, but asked with concern: "Didn't the church send young monks to help you?"

According to tradition, small churches in villages usually have only one priest. When the priest is unable to work due to old age and other reasons, the superior church will send a young monk to work with him. After a few years, the priest dies, and the monk will take over. Become a new priest.

This tradition has continued since the founding of the Church of Light to this day, and the process has been perfected. There is no reason why Father Boger does not have a successor.

Father Boer shook his head helplessly and said, "Oh, the village is too dangerous. No one wants to come. They are all hiding in the city."

"Many people died in the war, and young people were taken to serve as soldiers, so no one became monks."

"The bishops of the diocese are also running away. When I go to the church in Boeheim City, no one wants to pay attention to me. The rest just focus on encircling the ownerless land."

"I'm still here in this village, so it's hard to say anything else. Some villages haven't had a priest for more than ten years."

Frederick did not expect that the situation would deteriorate to this point. It seems that the war also caused serious damage to the local church organization.

There are many young monks in the seminary in Oak City, but they do not belong to the Archdiocese of Bohemia and cannot be easily transferred.

Although Father Arms has gone to work in Weissenburg in the Rhine Archdiocese, his organizational relationship in the church is still in the Archdiocese of Bohemia.

He could serve as the Minister of Education in Weissenburg, and handle more education funds in one year than many nobles would earn in a lifetime, but he had no right to preside over even the smallest religious activities.

According to the procedure, the archbishop of the local diocese needs to send a document to the Holy City. Due to the serious shortage of people, support from other dioceses is needed. Then the cardinal meeting in the Holy City discusses where to transfer people. After the Pope agrees, he sends it back to the archbishop and asks him to take the document. Negotiate details such as the number of people with the archbishop of the relevant diocese. After the discussion is completed, they jointly send a document to the Holy City. Finally, the Pope entrusts the Council of Cardinals to issue relevant documents. Only in this way can large-scale cross-district transfers be completed.

The reason why it is so troublesome is to prevent a situation like the current one, where after the local church organization suffered heavy losses, Frederick next door could not easily reach out.

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Frederick really wanted to intervene, but the process and the relationships to be established were extremely troublesome, especially since it was easy for some people to set up obstacles in some ways. To be on the safe side, he had to spend a lot of money to establish relationships.

But the temptation to add sand here was too great, so Frederick decided to tell the professionals and pay for it himself.

Frederick had a plan and asked, "What do you think about building a cathedral nearby and collecting the remains around and burying them in the cemetery?"

Father Bozhier said, "If you are willing to pay, then of course it's good."

"Not only around, many mines are full of corpses and need to be cleaned up."

Frederick nodded.

If he wanted to expand his influence here, the best way was to build a wonder, and a wonder that stood on the moral high ground.

It would be enough to build an ordinary church here. The key was to collect the remains, which required a lot of manpower and material resources.

Frederick naturally paid for it, and those who were willing to do this job must be people from the lower class, which was equivalent to raising a wave of reputation.

However, there was not an inch of land here that belonged to him, and he had to solve the land problem first to build a church and a cemetery.

To solve the land problem, he had to go to the city of Boheim.