Goddess Wanhua Mirror

"Hello! Foreign travelers, I am Mayen, the agent of the lord, and I welcome you."

"Mr. Mayne, please correct me. We are not tourists from outside. We are locals. My name is Lude. I am the priest of the God of Medicine Sect in the town. I was invited to Oyster Harbor to help the locals fight the plague. I know My current appearance should not match the rumored Lude, so I specially asked Viscount Maple and Earl Lumley for two letters of certification on the way back, and the letters are here, you can take a closer look."

As Lude said, he took out the letter and handed it to Dikas who was on the side. Seeing this, the black dog quickly took it with both hands, and then sent it to Mayne on his behalf.

Mai En took the letter, first looked at the same inscribed seal, saw that it was indeed genuine, and then looked back at the text.As a result, the originally haughty expression became more and more serious, and his brows almost wrinkled together.

"saint!?"

End of this chapter

Maien knew what a "saint" was, but because of that, when Lude took out two hard-to-forge certification letters saying that he was one of them, Maien suddenly felt a little confused.

The small eyes were full of big doubts.

Anyone in this world who is not a three-year-old child or an idiot with congenital intellectual defects knows what "saint" means. It is a super honorary title that can only be obtained by very few people who can make great achievements.

In Mayne's memory, he should have heard no more than ten names of saints.And he still remembers that he had the honor to watch the inauguration ceremony of the Saintess of the Holy Cult of Light more than ten years ago. Standing at the outermost edge of the Sun Square, nearly 1000 meters away, he paid homage to the saints of the previous generation.

That was the closest he could be to a saint in his capacity.

But I never thought that today, more than ten years later, I would be lucky enough to meet another saint face to face. The distance between the two sides was less than five meters, and I was even standing three steps higher than the other saint.

There is a high probability that the two lords' personal letters cannot be faked, and judging from the information he has collected, the God of Medicine Sect does have a very good relationship with the two nearby northern tycoons.

But Mai En never expected that the rumored priest Lude would rejuvenate and become a saint recognized by many parties.This kind of tycoon would come to live in a remote northern town like Pine Tree Town, which seriously violated his basic common sense, so his mind was quite confused at the moment, and even with the previously envisioned coping plan, he could not become difficult to implement.

Mayen and his party arrived in Pine Tree Town half a month ago. Among the more than 100 entourages they brought, the ones who were truly loyal to the lord himself may add up to less than ten, and the rest were him, Mayen. Ma Tsai.

So this territory belongs to his three-year-old distant nephew purely in name, and as a consul authorized by the lord, he has great power and no one can restrain him. Everything is up to him.

When Maien arrived in Pine Town, he was first surprised by the prosperity of the area.He originally thought that this place was a backcountry with no shit, but the actual situation is better than he expected, with thousands of permanent residents, a large area of ​​fertile land and a ready-made town, and it is located on an important traffic node , Myen used his ass to imagine how much lure there would be!

The only problem is the local God of Medicine Sect. More than [-]% of the locals are followers of this sect. At the same time, the sect still owns a lot of land and real estate in the local area, which are not owned by the lord.

Myen was very unhappy that such a big "worm" squatted on his territory, but the other party was a religious person after all, a privileged class who was fully capable of being on an equal footing with the nobles, and judging from the collected information, this Priest Lude has a wide network of contacts, and knows many bigwigs around him. He is new here, so he may not be able to beat this guy.

So what Mayn thought at the beginning was whether he could "make friends" with this Master Luther, and let everyone join forces to make a fortune together.We must know that it is not uncommon for local priests and rulers to work together to oppress civilians.And since Lu De has so many properties in his hands, it is said that he is still selling medicines, so he is definitely not a person with a pure heart and asceticism.

So, after Mai En arrived in the town, he first forcibly confiscated the tavern run by the former mayor's family in the name of the lord, and used it as their residence. , this part will not be touched for the time being, it can be regarded as showing goodwill to the God of Medicine, and then promulgating multiple tax orders in succession, eager to start making money.

However, on the third day after the order was issued, Lu De brought his people back with an extra layer of "saint" halo on his body, which caught them by surprise.

But although he was uneasy in his heart, Maien still maintained the pride and calmness of a nobleman on his face.Although he is not the one with the title, since he is the baron's uncle, he can naturally be involved.

"Believe me, I've read it. I'm sorry, Master Lude. My subordinates are stupid and failed to recognize you. Please allow me to apologize to you."

"Haha! It's nothing. Now that you've confirmed it, can I let all my companions who are still waiting outside the town come in? Some of them are locals, and some dwarf brothers came to support from the Steel Whip clan. Yes, everyone has been away from home for a few months, but now they are all eager to return!"

"Uh...that's of course no problem."

"Charlotte, signal."

"Okay, Master."

Hearing Lude calling himself, Charlotte, who had been prepared for a long time, immediately took out a half-foot-long stick from her arms, and then raised it above her head in the air.All the people present only heard a "bang", and saw Bangbang shoot a dazzling red light spot into the air, floating high in the air.

Lude looked up at the color of the flare, then turned to look at Charlotte beside him.

"Why did you hit red?"

"Take, I took it wrong..."

A few minutes after the signal flare was lifted into the air, there was a loud shout of killing from far and near to the south of the town.Lude motioned for Charlotte to stop his violent brothers of the same race, while he looked at the bewildered Myen, with an awkward but not polite smile on his face.

"That... that kid made a mistake just now. It should have been a green signal to announce safety, but it turned red by accident. Don't worry, Charlotte has already gone to stop it. It's not in the way, it's not in the way."

"..." xN

As soon as Lude finished speaking, the shouting and killing behind him died down. After a while, Charlotte led a large group of dwarves over.Looking at these soldiers of his lover who were armed to the teeth, his eyes almost popped out.

You must know that the dwarves are recognized as the strongest infantry in the world. Adult dwarves are several times stronger than humans, and they can walk like flying with a full set of heavy armor weighing hundreds of kilograms and a warhammer.

The group of dwarves in front of them numbered at least more than 200. Although they didn't wear armor, they all held a huge warhammer.If this shit really started to fight, the gangsters under Meyen would definitely be beaten to pieces in minutes.

What does this Lud mean?Is he protesting against me?

The expression on Mayne's face was cloudy and cloudy for a while, and he didn't quite believe the "mistake" Lude just said.No matter how you look at it, it seems to be intentional, in order to show him the force that he has as a local snake.

It's a good thing that he can still put on an innocent face. This city really doesn't look like a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy. The "man in the middle" in that skin is definitely a shrewd and ruthless old fox!

End of this chapter

In Mayne's eyes, at this time, Lude must be secretly smirking in his heart, feeling very proud that he successfully carried out the threat of force.

But in fact, although Lu De did not have a good impression of him, the mistake just now was indeed caused by Charlotte's slippery hand, and it was not a premeditated behavior.

However, the explanation was useless at this time, and the two sides exchanged a few words of politeness. Luther took his leave and returned to the temple first, and then visited in person in a few days. Charlotte took the dwarves to stay in the town for one night, and set off tomorrow morning. go home.

Back to the temple where he had been away for many days, as soon as Lude entered the door, he didn't care about taking a break, so he winked at "Aina" beside him and asked her to help him find the mayor Rom.The Snake Lady immediately understood, turned her head and turned to the basement, and met Aina who had come back earlier to complete the identity transfer.

Soon, the real Aina called the old Rom. As soon as the two sides met, Rom was surprised by Lude's rejuvenation, but Lude noticed that the other party was very depressed when he came in, as if he had encountered a lot of troubles Son.

"Master, you are back!"

"What's the situation in the town now? What's going on with Myen and his gang? I need to know the details."

Seeing Lude asking himself about the situation, Old Rom poured out his bitterness with aggrieved face, and accused Lude of the atrocities of Mayen and his gang.

This group came to Pine Tree Town half a month ago. The townspeople gathered together and read out the king's canonization decree to everyone, announcing that they would take over everything as the lord.

Maien first revoked Rom's position as mayor, forced his family's inn to be used as a residence, then disbanded the self-police regiment and confiscated their weapons. Only a small number of members were absorbed into the lord's guard.

Although these measures made some villagers find it difficult to accept, but the authority of the nobles was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the villagers did not dare to speak out against the ruler.

After the disbandment of the police regiment, the lord took over the security management of the town with the troops he brought, but the villagers soon discovered that these so-called "lord soldiers" were themselves the most serious disruptors of law and order.

In any case, the self-police corps are all village braves selected from the local young adults. Regardless of their combat effectiveness, at least they will not harm the villagers.

But these foreign scumbags are different. They are as arrogant and unreasonable as hooligans. They steal valuables, drink and fight, and moleste women. It can be said that they have no military discipline at all, and the townspeople have a very bad impression of them.

Especially Monk, the self-proclaimed captain of the guard, this giant man who is as strong as an ogre, has no scruples in rampaging in the town, galloping on the street, wantonly beating those townspeople who dare to disobey him.

It seems that for the sake of standing up, this guy deliberately troubled Ron, the former head of the police group, gathered a group of horse boys, and beat Ron and several other members of the former police group violently in the street, almost causing death .

If Shanisi, who stayed behind, hadn't rushed to the scene in time and rescued the seriously injured villagers with magic medicine, several new monuments would have been added to the cemetery outside the town!

Just three days ago, Consul Mayen suddenly issued a tax decree, collecting seventeen kinds of taxes in one go and paying them within one month.Someone who is good at mathematics did a rough calculation. On average, each household has to pay [-] silver coins.

For the people at the bottom, this is not a small number.

And Mayne's real purpose is obviously to take away from these pioneers the fields they have developed in the past five years, turning them from self-cultivating farmers into tenants hired by the lord.

After listening to Rom's narration, Lu De thought that this group of talents was really "awesome" enough to make the town like this within half a month.

Because the hotel run by the old Roman's family was forcibly confiscated, even his wife and daughter-in-law were forced to stay to cook and wash clothes, so the old man was able to know something about the lord himself, and Lude just wanted to know.

"Have you seen the lord himself?"

"I've seen it, a three-year-old doll, not even as high as the table! He just showed up on the first day, and after that, it's that Mayne who is in charge."

"What about the lord's family? It won't be just that Maien, right?"

"That's not true. The lord still has a sister, and the old lady is still alive, but it seems that she has been greatly stimulated, and her mental state is not very good, and she has been lying in bed for recuperation."

"Other than that? Among the servants, are there any loyal to the lord?"

"Uh... Yes! But there are only a few, and they are all disabled with missing arms and legs."

"Disabled?"

Hearing Rom mention the disabled, Lude suddenly remembered what he had heard about the old Cork knight. Among the ten soldiers he led, three survived, but all became disabled in the battle.

If nothing else happened, these disabled people should be the surviving subordinates of Old Cork, and they also came to Pine Tree Town.

The situation is roughly understood. The current Baron Cork was taken advantage of by his distant relative Myen because of his young age. He occupied the dove's nest in the name of taking care of him, and led a group of subordinates to bully the orphans and widows.

King Dulan is also Ma Daha, he just conferred a title, and he didn't say he sent someone to supervise him, which fully reflects the unreliability of the feudal society!

Of course, the complaints are the complaints, it is impossible for Lude to sit and watch Meyen and his group do whatever they want in their "lair".

"Old man, please help me inform the town tomorrow that I, Lude, are back and will hold a crusade the day after tomorrow. Let's stabilize the emotions of the villagers first, and the matter will be left to me."

"Okay! With your words, I feel relieved."

After coming back for a short rest, Lude announced his return to all the townspeople with a long-lost evangelistic meeting, and showed off his new image by the way.

Since the temple has not been expanded so far, it cannot accommodate thousands of townspeople at all, so the evangelistic meeting is still held in the square in the town.Relying on the old Roma's family, almost everyone in the town came on the day of the evangelistic meeting, and even the farm work was thrown aside first.

Such a big battle naturally alarmed Mai En and the others.

Mine took it for granted that this was also Lude's demonstration, in order to show his control over Pine Town.Although his teeth were itchy with hatred in his heart, he still took his son and a group of young horses to cheer for Master Lu.

"Father, isn't this guy too arrogant?"

"Hush~ Keep your voice down! How can you deal with these magic sticks? You idiot, don't always think about fighting and killing, just learn from your father and me, and use your brain first!"

Glancing at his son fiercely, Mai En said in his heart that besides his big body, his brain seemed to be full of muscles. He always thought that he could solve all problems by brute force, and made trouble for himself.

The father and son were muttering softly, when Lu De stepped onto the high podium, and the townspeople saw the young priest, and immediately cheered like a landslide and tsunami, like a large-scale star chasing scene.

"Fathers and folks in Pine Town, I miss you so much..."

End of this chapter

It was said to be a crusade, but what Lude held was more like a work report, mainly to summarize the anti-epidemic actions in Oyster Harbor for nearly three months.

Although the plague incident mainly broke out in Oyster Harbor, it caused a lot of shock to the lords in the northern part of the kingdom.

So Lu De took advantage of the opportunity to send out an invitation, saying that his Brewster College would set up a special epidemic prevention subject, and doctors from all over the world were welcome to come to study.

Viscount Maple of Oyster Harbor was the first lord to join, and then Earl Lumley responded positively, planning to select [-] young apprentice physicians from the territory and send them to study in Pine Town.There was no need for Lude to mention the tuition fee, so the earl generously gave a thousand gold coins.

With these two taking the lead, I believe that as the news continues to spread, other lords will also choose to send people to study, which will help quickly improve the school's reputation.

At the evangelistic meeting, thousands of people concentrated their attention and listened with great interest, because Lu De was not just giving a dry report, but more like telling a wonderful and interesting story. The language was quite humorous, and the content was full. All of them are dry goods, so they are very attractive.

In many cases, it’s not that old farmers don’t like learning, but that the boring classes are boring. As a lecturer, you have to be able to chatter so that everyone is not sleepy!

Among the crowd, Mayne frowned the whole time. On the one hand, he felt that Lude's evangelistic meeting was different from other churches he had heard before, but he had to admit in his heart that it was indeed very interesting and easy to understand.

But compared to what Lude said, what really disturbed him was the sincere love for Lude from the local townspeople.

The reason why Mayne was able to lift up the lord and turn the baron who really had the right to rule with mana into a rubber stamp he could manipulate was because the lord was surrounded by his people, and these horsemen only obeyed his orders.

But the problem now is that the thousands of local townspeople are obviously more willing to listen to the priest than to him, the consul.The method seemed familiar, but the person who was evaded was replaced by him, Maien.

As the saying goes, one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers, and Mayen can accept cooperation with Lu De on a relatively equal relationship, but he cannot tolerate the other party becoming the "overlord".

"I have to think of a way..."

After the evangelistic meeting, the townspeople dispersed in twos and threes. For them, Lude's return was probably the only good news in the last half month.Although everyone didn't say anything, they were all looking forward to it in their hearts, hoping that Lude could uphold justice for them and take care of the new lord.

The blacksmith Bank also took several of his children to the evangelistic meeting. On the way home, his youngest daughter Nina ran ahead, humming the song "I Love Washing Your Hands" that she learned at the evangelistic meeting just now. .

Bank looked at the healthy and lively Nina, and couldn't help thinking back to the time when he and his children first moved to Pine Tree Village two years ago.

At that time, Bank's wife had just passed away, and his daughter suffered from the same asthma as the late wife. If Mr. Lude hadn't acted out of righteousness, their family would not have the happy life they have today.Bank didn't say anything, but he always kept this kindness in his heart, and he always wanted to repay the priest.

Walking, the family arrived at the door, but at this moment, Bank suddenly noticed a few figures flashing in the alley next to him.Seeing this, Bank hurriedly wanted to step forward to hold his daughter, but unfortunately he was a step too late, and several people who rushed out directly stood between him and his daughter.

"Yo! Brother Bank, you're back!"

"What are you doing!?"

Seeing the big men rushing out and surrounding his daughter, Bank's eyes widened with anger, but he was unarmed at this time, while the villains on the opposite side all had weapons on their waists, so Bank could only hold back his anger , First protect the two sons who are still behind him.

These guys in front of him are all familiar to Bank. They are currently "Pine Town Guards" in name, but in fact they are the horsemen under the consul Mein.

Bank was an urbanite who had lived in a big city before, and he had a lot of contact with people from all walks of life, so just looking at his style and means of acting, he guessed that this Lord Mann was probably the leader of the underworld in the past .

Because aristocrats with a little family education may be cruel, selfish and unreasonable, but they should at least be decent in their words and deeds.But this Master Mane is different. He has no scruples about using many methods that normally cannot be used in the face of the public.

As soon as this group of people came to the town, in the name of the lord, they forcibly imposed a lot of exorbitant taxes and plundered the property in the hands of the townspeople.The tavern of the former mayor's house was robbed by them in the name of temporary requisition, and Bank was also targeted by them.

Just three days ago, the villain in front of Bank, who claimed to be Saduo, came to his door with a piece of overlord clause, saying that the Consul Mayne had heard that Bank was the best human blacksmith in the town, so he would give him a The opportunity to serve the lord, let him not be ungrateful.