rise of empire total war

Chapter 226 Going to the Countryside
(The domestic horror game "Hong Kong Strange Records" that I have been paying attention to has been released. I really want to play it, but it needs to be updated, woo woo woo)
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A group of knights were strolling along the small path in the countryside. The young knight at the head held the reins tightly, looked at the scattered farm tools in the fields around the road, and chatted with the middle-aged knight beside him from time to time.

If you look closely, you will definitely be able to recognize the identity of the young knight who is the leader. Yes, he is the supreme ruler of the current Winster Kingdom, the co-lord of all Winster and Cunya, Richard De Stuart.

After handling the arrangements for the soldiers of the First Legion, Richard left Nord City with Magnus and his loyal early general guards, and went to the countryside to personally inspect the knights and soldiers of the Legion as they gained land. How will it behave afterwards.

Although Richard did not deliberately conceal his identity, he did not deliberately make his image too ugly. Instead, he wore the most ordinary knight's armor. However, even so, his noble status as a knight could still attract him. Attention.

Walking on this path, Richard could see pedestrians in twos and threes from time to time. Some of them were traveling businessmen walking together, carrying bloated luggage and leaning on sticks, and wearing bulky pointed leather shoes on their feet. Some of them were traveling to Farmers in nearby cities sell their crops and buy necessary daily necessities.After seeing Richard and his group, these people would subconsciously hide on the side of the road to make way for Richard and others. Their eyes showed a look of indifference, suspicion and vigilance, but some people would take off their hats and salute them.

It is impossible for Richard to meet a caravan with livestock here, because caravans generally do not choose to walk on country roads that are not in good condition. They prefer to take paved roads that lead directly to towns with prosperous trade.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, Richard saw a village. The village was not large in size. There were only a dozen farmhouses as far as the eye could see. What was even more striking was that the villagers in this village were all gathered in the village. In the open space, a man in black robes was surrounded, and he didn't know what he was doing.

Out of curiosity, Richard drove his horse along the country road into the village, and then he quickly understood why these villagers gathered—it was to preach.

The black-robed man surrounded by the villagers is a missionary priest. He is leaning on a cross-shaped cane in his hand and holding a Bible in the other hand. He is talking to the villagers and preaching God. teachings.Looking at the pastor, Richard always felt a little familiar. If he remembered correctly, that person seemed to be an entourage of Cardinal Peter Scanrel.

Richard didn't disturb their preaching site, just stopped to watch for a while, then led the guards back along the original road, bypassing the village and continuing on.Looking sideways at the villages that were getting further and further away, Richard felt a little emotional. He didn't expect Bishop Peter to move so quickly. While preaching in cities and towns, he actually began to develop to the common people in the countryside.

It is worthy of being comparable to the existence of a cult!

Richard is not worried about this at all. This is not Europa. The Pope and the Holy See do not exist. Even the cardinal obeys his orders, so he is in a sense considered the leader of this world. The only religious leader of Christians.

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Before dusk that day, Richard did not return to Nord City, but went directly to the nearest town to spend the night. This town has self-government rights. It has no secular feudal lords. militia captain.Just like the free city in history, once the serfs and citizens under the nearby lords fled into this town, they no longer had to worry about being caught back.

The medieval adage "the air of the city makes me free" applies here as well.

These autonomous towns actually exist in Winster and Cunya, needless to say in Cunya. The autonomous towns in Winster were all established in the Jutian era. As a price, they Taxes needed to be paid enough to satisfy the king.

Richard had only heard of the existence of these autonomous towns, but had never really seen them. Today, he finally saw them.

Before entering the town, they paid the toll to the guards standing on both sides of the city gate according to the custom. They were also specially told not to ride horses in the town, especially not to fight with weapons. The former was fined, while the latter would be directly arrested and imprisoned by the law enforcement team who heard the news.

Having said that, the law enforcement team would not dare to take action against noble knights like them in a real fight. Richard firmly believed in this.

Of course Richard didn't want to make trouble in this town, so he dismounted with the knights of the guards and walked on the crowded streets holding the reins.Although it was approaching dusk, the pedestrians on the street were still crowded, but they still consciously avoided after seeing Richard and his party, and made way for fear of touching the brows of these knight masters and getting beaten in vain. .

Richard accepted passers-by's avoidance calmly, and at the same time observed the pedestrians on the street. These people had indifference and alienation in their eyes, avoiding as if avoiding the plague, obviously unwilling to interact with Richard and the others.

If I guessed correctly, I am afraid that the residents of all the autonomous towns treat the secular nobles with a repulsive attitude.

After walking on the street for a while, Richard randomly found a hotel to spend the night, and handed over the horses to the receptionist outside the store. Richard pushed open the door of the hotel, and a wave of heat rushed towards him, accompanied by There was also the pungent smell of alcohol, sweat smell, foot smell, etc., which made Richard almost stagger, but he quickly stabilized his figure and walked in calmly.

The first floor of this hotel is used as a tavern, which is full of people, and among them are scantily clad girls with wine glasses. From time to time, they are eaten tofu by men with unclean hands and feet, and then make Richard goosebumps. screamed.

The entry of Richard and others was only noticed by a few people, and more people were still immersed in alcohol and food, and those guests who noticed Richard and others quickly turned their heads back when they saw their clothes , pretending not to see.However, those scantily clad girls didn't care about this. A dark-skinned girl walked over and was about to lean on Richard, but was stopped by the guard knights. Richard waved his hand to signal that The knight stepped back, and with a smile on his face, he picked up a money bag from his waist, and said to the somewhat surprised girl: "Go and tell your boss to open six rooms for us. The money is the deposit. If there is any money left It's all for you."

"Understood, my lord, please wait a moment." Seeing Richard's generosity, the girl burst into a smile, and hurried to handle it after speaking.

Richard was not afraid that this girl would dare to take the money and run away. No one with a brain would do such a stupid thing.

(End of this chapter)