Lord of Glory - Chapter 179

[Chapter 180 Archbishop Collection]

“Grand Duke, this is an invitation letter.” In the castle of Wiena, the capital of the Duchy of Kasmi. As the successors of Marquis Carmon who died in battle, the Minister of Finance Frederick and Carmon were excitedly holding a letter of faith and pushed away the guards guarding the door, rushed in and shook the letter in his hand directly. Sitting on a chair, Grand Duke Victoria, who was playing with a quill, said so.

“Retreat.” After the Grand Duke waved his hand to make the guards who were very embarrassed to retreat, he took the letter and opened it. Shaking his head, looking at this person who is similar to Carmon, but does not have the heroic younger generation between his eyebrows, he sighed helplessly. But in Frederick’s eager gaze, after the Grand Duke opened the letter and glanced at it quickly, those small eyes instantly widened! “Philip’s invitation! Let’s fight the Nubian kingdom together? Is this guy crazy?”

The excited archduke was more excited than Frederick at the moment, and he immediately realized what kind of opportunity this was! Opportunity to defeat the kingdom of Nubia, the most threatening kingdom today, from the competition in this land! What will be obtained is countless fertile black soil, a large amount of food and a batch of weapons!

However, this excitement disappeared in a blink of an eye. The Grand Duke’s round eyes narrowed gradually. A voice couldn’t help asking himself: “Is this a trap?” Well, this is the trap of Nubia and Malta, a trap to let yourself go out of the city and be annihilated by the Nubian Knights! Then carve up your own territory and plunder your subjects and gold coins!

“No, it is impossible for someone like Philip to be an ally with an enemy who is temporarily stronger than himself. This will only accelerate the destruction of his kingdom… If it is true, the three-nation alliance, Nubia will only be able to capture it! The Grand Duke who made up his mind turned to look at the excited Frederick, and couldn’t help laughing: “After all, you are in charge of finance. If half of the duchy’s army is dispatched this time, how many days will the food and gold coins be able to support it? You Feel free to give me Philip’s invitation letter in person, there should be an arrangement.”

Hearing the grand duke’s ridicule, Frederick’s young face showed a smile, and he immediately told confidently: “Although we resisted the invasion of the two countries a year ago, we also lost a lot of material and gold coins. Fortunately, this spring The harvest is good, and the demand for bread and dried meat is enough for 10,000 people for four months. As for gold coins, the suzerain Engelland Empire, Emperor Caesar III allocated 50,000 gold coins for aid because of the invasion a year ago. This is thanks to the great duke and the nobles who dealt with them.

For these fifty thousand gold coins, plus this year’s harvest and the good trade of spices, raw silk, linen, and pig iron. Don’t worry about military pay. The only thing that is a little worrying is that if the ratio of veterans to recruits is 1 to 3, and an army of 10,000 or so is discharged, then the rest of our principality will be all recruits. ”

Hearing Frederick’s generous remarks, the Grand Duke nodded in satisfaction. He also understands these situations, but not so thoroughly. Now this remark makes the Grand Duke feel at ease. He simply said: “Don’t worry about weapons and equipment. In a few days, you will take my letter and go to the south to find those old guys from the Commercial Union and say that they owe me Victoria’s favor. These old guys will bring us Plenty of brand new armor. So extravagant that those militiamen can wear helmets.”

“So good…” Frederick, who was a little surprised, couldn’t believe it. However, the Grand Duke continued to say, “I will ask someone to go to the Engran Empire to find an old friend. He has a group of mercenaries. A huge mercenary group of 3,000 can completely eliminate the emptiness of our country’s domestic defense after the expedition.” ,

After speaking, the Grand Duke saw the stunned Frederick, and suddenly sneered: “What are you doing? Let’s go to work, we are going to fight!” “Oh! I’m sorry…” Frederick immediately turned around and ran out . The Grand Duke, who was left alone, smiled and turned his head to look at the scenery outside the window. He couldn’t help but sigh with emotion: “When Nubia perishes, Carmon, I will definitely avenge you.”

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Soon after, news spread that the Principality was about to go to war again. In addition to the configuration, without the need for armor and weapons at their own expense, a large number of men who are eager to break into a career despite their family’s advice still enlist in the army. But Palatine, the clone who had just become the bishop of the archdiocese, left his jurisdiction at this moment and came to the most extensive church in the center of the duchy, the Archangel Sinad Church.

There is a church as majestic and tall as a castle, with its spires pointing to the top of the tower in the sky. There was a sound of bells ringing in a radius of ten miles, and at the luxurious gate, beautiful nuns lined up to welcome them. All this, let the clone Paladin step by step, shocked by such luxury. Gently lifted the curtain of the carriage, the clone Paladin dressed in a purple robe, and stepped out of the carriage with a scepter of sterling silver and gold in his hand.

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Obviously, such a young archbishop made the nuns at the door stunned for a while. But the next moment, these women who had nothing to do with the nuns except for their clothes immediately flattered and flattered. If it was a normal man with strong vigor, he would have a gun in his hand, and his swords would be drawn!

But it is a pity that Paladin has reached the ** part of the inverted tree, not only does not care about men and women at all, but even physiologically has surpassed living things and reached a new existence, naturally it will not be affected by these low-level people. What ** are humans provoking.

“Oh, may God be with you! This is the new colleague, Paladin, Flamel. Come on, everyone is not here yet, come in.” When Paladin pushed the nuns away indifferently At that time, the priest in the church was instructing the priest to do something. The old man, also wearing a purple robe and a purple scarf that symbolized the identity of the archbishop, immediately greeted Paladin very familiarly. Then he drove away the annoying nuns inconspicuously, took Paladin’s hand and walked towards the gate.

“Respected elder, I came here when I heard the call of the Archbishop of the Bishops’ Conference. Are you the Archbishop?” “Me? No, no, I am just like you. I am the Archbishop of Hadowicz Archdiocese. I just arrived not long ago… Let’s not talk about it, I will speak louder when I see the Archbishop. Because I’m already old, it’s hard to hear the voice… Hey, even the faithful servant of God, Can’t escape death?”

Listening to the chatter of the archbishop, Palatine silently followed him into the church. One word, style! On the very wide church, there are silver inlaid seats and rows of candlesticks inlaid with gold. The twelve large chandeliers on the head are actually all high-quality magic cores with high prices! Each one has a sky-high price of ten gold coins! This release of light will cost at least five hundred gold coins, five hundred gold coins!

“Who is it, I heard footsteps.” Suddenly, a fragile voice that was almost inaudible came slowly. Paladin took a closer look, but saw an old man with gray hair and empty eyes without focus, sitting under the 20-meter-high statue of Inos, as if he might die at any time. As soon as he saw this old man with ordinary appearance and ordinary clothes, Paladin who had remained calm before, his brown pupils immediately shrank rapidly!