"It's probably the most I've seen you lie in a day," said the nightingale as Taylor left.

"Who made the one the high priest of the church," Roland spread his hands, "how about it, can you tell the other party's lies?"

"No, the scene around him was swallowed up by the Divine Punishment Stone, and all I could see was darkness. ”

It's a pity that the high priest can't be treated like a nobleman, Roland thought regretfully. He placed the two balls on the table, "You say, this thing is really as amazing as they say?"

Morphine can do it if you can alleviate the pain, and as for making soldiers powerful, it sounds like an adrenaline effect, the question is to extract these two substances and make pills?

Wait a minute...... Roland suddenly thought of a possibility, could it be related to magic?

"You can see the flow of magic, right?" he looked at the nightingale, "Is there magic on these two balls?"

Nightingale took a closer look, "I can't see the magic, but it's a bit like the Stone of Punishment." ”

"The Stone of Divine Punishment?" Roland froze.

"Well," she nodded, "you've seen the world under the mist, it's only black and white, but that black is different from the darkness formed by the Divine Punishment Stone, which is more like a void that swallows the world around it. I don't know how to describe it......" Nightingale hesitated, "it's not so much pitch black as there's nothing in it." ”

"Nothingness?"

"That's right, it's nothingness," she nodded, "and there are also traces of nothingness on these two balls, but they are extremely subtle, and they ...... It is not a circular hollow, but rather a flowing black filament. ”

"Can these nothingnesses affect your abilities?"

The nightingale grabbed the ball, unfurled the mist, and quickly retreated again, "It doesn't seem to have much effect." ”

"It seems necessary to find a condemned prisoner to try these two pills to test the effect," Roland carefully wrapped the pills in paper and tugged them into his arms.

"I didn't expect the church to think so highly of you," Nightingale said as she sat back beside the prince, a little depressed.

"If the High Priest hadn't worn the Stone of Divine Punishment, I'm willing to bet nine out of ten would have been a lie. Roland pouted, "The most important thing is that what they do and what they ask for are not at all right. ”

"Why?"

"Look at what they want: more churches, more believers, a prince or king who will be propped up by themselves, and henceforth sit on the propaganda of divine kingship. A stable country is more conducive to their development of believers and influence. Otherwise, churches and monasteries would have become targets for looting by refugees and aristocrats. ”

"But aren't they just looking at you to bring a stable life to the people?"

"Not really," Roland shook his head, "stability comes from unity or equilibrium, and even if the king eats and drinks every day, the people of a unified kingdom are better off than refugees in war." So it is not strange that they support the second prince, it is not strange that they support the third princess, and it is strange that they come to support me—especially when Garcia is victorious. ”

At this time, if the church fully supports Garcia, I am afraid that the royal capital and the eastern front will be swallowed by her in less than half a year. At that time, 70% of the land of the Grey Keep Kingdom will be in the hands of the Queen of Blue Water, and Roland thinks that the pressure he is facing will also increase greatly. Instead of helping the strong, choose the weakest self at the moment, and it seems that the decision of the church is beneficial to itself. However, if you accept their support, the situation of the battle between the two kings of the Grey Keep will become even more chaotic, and the direct consequence of staging the otherworldly version of the Three Kingdoms will be a sharp decline in population, a rapid loss of wealth, and the spread of war throughout the country, and the unification date will be delayed again and again.

What's in it for the church? Not to mention expanding the number of believers, I'm afraid that the churches built everywhere will be demolished.

"I don't understand what you nobles think, it's always twisting and turning," the nightingale sighed.

"Well," Roland replied with a smile, "except for me." ”

"......" the witch narrowed her eyes and glared at the prince for a long time, "strange, why is this also true?"

Three days later, Roland finally emptied the castle and fortress library, and set out on his way home on the town to heartedness.

As we approached the border town along the Chishui River, the scene on both sides of the river had changed, and in the open space opposite the town that had been burned by Anna, many people were busy—they should be the serfs who had been transported to the town first. On this side of the Desperate Mountains, a number of improvised wooden huts had been erected, and there were faint people moving in the wooden sheds, and Roland guessed that those people were the families of the serfs.

These people have been tied to the land for generations, and the children born are also serfs, and because there is no hope, most of them live a numb life, and they tend to work not with heartfelt desires, but with whips and nooses in the hands of slave owners. Poor productivity is a great waste of human resources.

There is no doubt that slavery is the enemy of industrial production and belongs to the system that must be abolished. But Roland did not intend to turn them all into freedmen with a single stroke of his hand, but to provide a channel through which they could see the hope of being promoted to freedmen, because there was a precedent for the good intentions of the master to free slaves from slavery, and this compromise would not have much effect if it were to be passed on, and at most make the other nobles feel that they were nothing more than a promiscuous.

When the time is ripe in the future, he will fully implement the abolition law, and the resistance will be much smaller.

The vicinity of the pier was crowded with sailboats, and it was clear that the small pier could no longer handle such heavy transport pressures. Fortunately, the town has a shallow draft, so you can dock directly without the pier. Looks like the expansion of the docks needs to be on the agenda as well, Roland thought.

When the group returned to the castle, he did not care about resting, and when he returned to the office, he immediately called Barov and asked him to report on the receipt of supplies.

The assistant minister was also prepared, took out a roll of parchment from his pocket and spread it out on the large wooden table.

"Your Highness, the things you brought back to the castle these days really frightened me," that being said, the folds that overflowed his face betrayed his mood, "The twelve apprentices tossed around all night before they counted all kinds of coins, totaling more than 14,000 golden dragons!"

It probably took the Duke more than twenty years to accumulate these golden dragons, Roland thought, from looting, plundering, and exploiting the people of the West. They themselves have to turn them into food, steel, and machines as soon as possible. "What about the gems, jewelry, and crafts?"

"I haven't had time to convert it yet, but it is conservatively estimated to be around 10,000 gold dragons, and if it is sent to the royal capital for auction, the price will be higher. Now they're all stored in the basement of your castle," Barov paused, "but in that case, there won't be enough room for storing grain, and I'd suggest you expand the castle area and add a warehouse to store other supplies." (To be continued.) )