European Emperor Cultivation System

Chapter 57
The leading soldier led Li Peijun's horse to the lord's residence, and the others followed closely.

"Your Excellency, what's your address?" Li Peijun became very interested in the identity of this soldier.

The soldier grinned, rather embarrassed, "Don't say anything about your Excellency, I'm just an ordinary citizen, just call me Paissant."

"Oh, Mr. Possang, nice to meet you." Li Peijun replied.

"No way, no way, I don't dare to climb up to Mr. Viscount." The flattered Paissant declined instead and became humble.

Along the way, Li Peijun not only chatted with Possant about Hafleur’s situation, but also observed the surrounding environment by himself. The environment of this small seaside town was exactly as Li Peijun had expected before. The roads were not specially paved and scattered along the street. Horse manure was trampled into part of the city.

Distributed along the street are rows of simple wooden dwellings, without special decorations and carvings, everything is arranged according to the simplest operation, and so are the shops. The whole city has no special flavor, except for the central A raised piece of landscape.

"Just go up this slope, everyone, please follow me." Passant enthusiastically guided the way, after all, it was a great honor for common people to have a relationship with nobles in the Middle Ages.

Compared with Rouen, Harfleur is really not a star and a half. It took only three to five minutes for a few people to come in from the gate of the city, and they had already reached the center of the city. Li Peijun followed the undulating terrain and slowly climbed up. What came into view was a monastery, which was probably the only unique place in the whole city.

The monastery is also the only rammed-earth building in Harfleur. Although it still looks as fragile as paper, it is already the strongest here compared to the houses outside that can be burned to nothing. The fortifications are gone.

Li Peijun gestured to the size of the monastery again, compared with the overall plan of the city, this monastery alone has already accounted for nearly one-fifth of the territory of the whole city, and I don't know whether it should be said that the monastery is too big , or the whole Hafleur is too small.

"Hello, Father Marcel, the new viscount has arrived."

The crowd had already arrived at the monastery gate, and Possant knocked on the door. The monastery did not have a special wall like a castle, but used mounds to raise the terrain decently. After all, theological places were not specially designed for war.

"Is the lord's residence in the monastery?" Li Peijun was a little curious. Apart from this monastery, he didn't seem to have seen any redundant buildings.

"Yes, sir, but don't worry, the monastery will arrange the best accommodation for you." Posang smiled apologetically and knocked on the door again.

Father Marcel opened the door, saw the new lord head on, and greeted him warmly.

"Lord, if you are not welcome from afar, please come with me." Marcel warmly greeted everyone inside, and Posang continued to follow.

The entire monastery is not a huge whole, but divided into many scattered houses. Marcel led Li Peijun into it, and pointed to a place that was not too remote.

"Look, Lord Viscount, that's the house, where your residence is."

Marcel pointed to a two-story house not far away, which looked like a folk house. Except for a little richer decoration, it was the same house outside.

"This..." Li Peijun couldn't believe that this kind of residence could be the residence of a fief lord. According to his own impression, no matter how bad this residence is, it must be similar to the style of Baron Mona's inner castle. The appearance in front of him is even worse. Not as good as some of the nicer hotels in Rouen.

"Don't be deceived by its appearance, my lord, it is a place blessed by the gods." Marcel said a few words of reassurance, and then led everyone to move forward.

"Living in the monastery is naturally blessed by God." Li Peijun retorted silently in his heart.

Pushing open the oak door, the furnishings inside are not bad, and all the necessary facilities are available, but as Marcel said, the interior decoration of this residence has the style of a lord, the kitchen, storage room, prayer room, Li Peijun felt relieved that he had everything he needed, such as a private bathroom.

"Very good, not bad, Father Marcel, I am very satisfied." Li Peijun said in amazement after watching all the interior scenes.

"Happy to serve you." The priest bowed, and Passant followed suit.

"Okay, let's call the nobles in the city for a meeting, but I believe they should have received the news in advance." Li Peijun thought that the first thing after taking office was to establish prestige and win people's hearts.

There are quite a lot of sleeping quarters, and there are more after one person has one room. Li Peijun arranged Catherine in the room at the end of the corridor, and made his own room next to Catherine, and the rest were randomly allocated. Nader ended up choosing the one closest to the landing.

After dealing with everything, Li Peijun looked up at the half-hanging sky. There should be a few hours before sunset, so he began to think about going to other places.

"Let's move around freely, and take a look at the situation here." Li Peijun suggested, and everyone agreed in unison, and let Possang continue to lead the way.

"Wait, you can't bring this." Catherine took off Li Peijun's saber, worried that this guy was just going to cause trouble.

In the Middle Ages, the sword was the life of a knight. Although Li Peijun resisted in every possible way, he finally disarmed obediently.

"It is reasonable to say that citizens are not only temporarily recruited into soldiers during wartime. Why is this also the case in peacetime?" Li Peijun asked curiously.

Possant looked helpless, "This period is very special. There are often pirates invading here, so everyone spontaneously took turns to be on duty. It just so happens that it is my turn to be on duty today. It just so happens that you, my lord, are also here today." There was a little pride in Sang's language.

"The builder of this city was a devout believer. After he was appointed here, he started to build the current monastery. The farmers and businessmen in the vicinity slowly gathered to form the current Hafleur." Passant recalled Speaking of the history of the city, Li Peijun listened with interest.

"That nobleman has a fanatical pursuit of religion. He gave the priests a lot of preferential treatment, and even locked his residence in the monastery, just hoping to have a further dialogue with God."

"After the lord died, the succeeding lord almost copied the policy of the predecessor, and it has been like this for decades." Possant paused for a while.

"Of course, I heard it all from my grandpa. Haha, my grandpa traveled across the ocean from England to settle here when he was young. He was good at business, but he was often treated coldly. Most of the money he got from business It also fell into the pockets of the clergy, hehe, it's ridiculous."

Possant suddenly realized that something was wrong, and immediately stopped talking at this point, and kept slapping himself across the face.

"My lord, I didn't do it on purpose. I have been a devout believer since I was born, and I always have the highest respect for God. I have never doubted my sincerity for a moment." Possant's tone was a little excited, after all, he Just insulted the clergy in front of the lord.

"It's okay, Mr. Passant, you don't have to do this." Li Peijun's words comforted Passant, and his expression slowly returned to normal.

Li Peijun once again stood on the high ground and had a bird's-eye view of the whole city. Except for the city gate he entered, the city walls in other places were really unbearable.

"Is that the city wall?" Li Peijun called Paisang to stop, and pointed to another city wall.

"Yes, my lord." Passant replied affirmatively.

"Oh my God." Li Peijun was at a loss for words.

(End of this chapter)