Chapter 38: Faith
Ansaya is one of the vassals of the Vatimio family, barely a minor nobleman, with an unhereditary lordship, a lower-class aristocratic vassal subordinate to the Vatimio family, essentially a merchant with money, who has made a great contribution to the Vatimio family and a relative master-servant contract.
When the Vatimio family decided to import food and various supplies to the Midland royal capital, Ansaya was also among the forces under the order, but he and the other leaders of the forces felt that this order was unreliable, and it could even be said to be unbelievable and inexplicable.
The royal capital of Midland is known to have been captured by the Kusha Empire, and the heretics of the Kusha Empire, they are all demonic, it is estimated that there may not even be a living person in the entire royal capital...... Perhaps, but those people were prisoners of war, so what did it matter to them?Or was it the Kusha people who were given food and supplies by the Vatimio family??
But this possibility is definitely not large, after all, the Vatimio family is considered a top noble, what can they get after defecting to Kusha? It is impossible to even retain all their original status, so unless it is at the last moment, or everyone in the Vatimio family has a hole in their brains, it is impossible for them to defect to Kusha's side.
Although these forces are full of doubts, and they don't know how to use to cross the attack of the lords on the road, the rampant bandits, the large number of rebels, and the most terrible of the pagan Kusha army, before they can reach the royal capital of Midland, but what is the point of going to the royal capital like this?
But an order is an order, no matter what these small forces think, at least on the surface, they each arranged for the lowest level of personnel to start collecting supplies, and then arranged for some people who were not valued by them to participate in this order, of course, the formation of the smallest caravan, basically belongs to the kind of failure, the annihilation of the whole army has nothing to do with the overall situation, and it is not even painful at all.
However, to their surprise, the Vatimio family, who originally thought they were sacrificed, actually sent a large-scale merchant group to gather, and the person who led the team was the first heir of the Vatimio family, that is, the elder brother of Farnase, and the most exaggerated thing was that the number of men, coolies, men, etc. with the team exceeded 1,000, and there were nearly 10,000 horses pulling wagons, transporting enough food for 200,000 people to eat for three to four months, but the accompanying escort knights and soldiers added up to only about 100 people.
Although the more soldiers in the team, the more food will be consumed on the road, and the less food will be sent to the royal capital, but these soldiers can ensure the safety of the trade route, such a large-scale merchant group, to transport so much food, at least five hundred to one thousand cavalry troops, with twice the number of auxiliaries, this can ensure basic security, at least do not have to worry about bandits and rebels, and the lords on the road attack.
But such a number of troops is really meaningless for the invading army of the Kusha Empire, the Kusha army that is raging in the land of Midland has at least 200,000 people, as long as the Kusha army finds traces and is crushed by the army, what is such a number of troops and merchant groups?
Everyone thought that the head of the Vatimio family was crazy, and they all waited to see the complete failure of this business group's big operation, such a large-scale business group, although it was not a big break for the Vatimio family, but one of the first heirs was another matter, once something really happened, the Vatimio family would definitely have a big upheaval, and it was even possible to decline.
And the first heir of the Vátimio family on this trip is none other than Farnase's eldest brother Zulzhio, he and Farnase's personality is completely different, to be exact, he and the current head of the Vátimio family are carved out of a template, serious, calculating, political creature, high noble, perhaps the only difference is that he has greater ambition in his heart.
Originally, the person in charge of this operation was a core subordinate of the Vatimio family, but when Zulzhio learned about Hao Qi's existence, and through his own connections and intelligence network, he knew what Hao Qi was doing in various lords along the way, and some details got a few words from Kusha, which made Zulzhio make up his mind to get the command of this operation from his father, and even added some of his caravans to the merchant group in order to increase the weight.
A god who walks on the earth, compared to the ethereal, not credible religious gods at all, such an existence that shows the power of the gods is more worth looking forward to, Zulzhio himself is the chief financial administrator of the French King's Office, and is the president of the Vatimio Bank, although he has not yet inherited the title, but he is already a human being, a person at the pinnacle of this world politics, but his ambition is greater, he does not believe in holy religion, but he is the high-level of the Dharma King Hall, he does not believe in the so-called gods, and he has not seen any things or characters beyond the mundane in the Dharma King Hall, but deep down he actually longs for the existence of gods, because that is the transcendent road。
And now, he saw the existence of this road, and on this road there was a man who was as dazzling as the blazing sun, and he was like a god walking on the earth, who single-handedly changed the situation of war on the continent, and the unstoppable Kusha Empire came to a halt, and the remaining lords of Midland obeyed, and the kings and nobles who entered the capital of Mitland from the outside were silent for a while, and all because of the power of one man, just like the gods who walked on the earth.
Zulzhio no longer only wants the worldly power and wealth of mankind, he wants more of an extraordinary way, a path beyond the mortal, whether it is strength, or lifespan, or even the sublimation of life, he wants, of course, to get it must pay, he naturally understands this truth, so he has made a certain decision, once the time is right, he will definitely serve this god who walks on the earth.
He even guessed that his father thought the same way, otherwise it would not be possible to make the current move, which can be regarded as a big gamble, the only difference is that his father has always been very timid, and he is still watching the glory of the entire Vatemio family, but he is different, he can gamble everything for this, even his own life!
"Ready to go!" Zulzhio said majestically to the people around him as he sat on his fine mount, and then his gaze kept looking into the distance.
Let me see, the gods who walk on the earth, are you really the Lord I should serve......
Zulzhio set off, leading a huge merchant group, transporting an exaggerated amount of grain, with only a small number of guards, and thus set off from the territory of the Vatimio family, and on the castle where the caravan departed, the head of the Vatimio family and the master mother looked at the huge merchant group that was leaving, and after a long time, the master mother said softly: "Is it really no problem? With only such a small number of guards, and it has to pass through the occupation area of Kusha......"
The head of the Vatimio family shook his head, and he suddenly spoke: " He walked naked in the moor, and the bandits, and the rebels, and the wild beasts, and the demons, saw him, and they were ready, and when the night came, they would devour him, and the Lord kept watching, and watched the stones of his toes pierce, and saw his body scratched by thorns, and saw that he was troubled by fatigue and hunger, and the Lord stretched out his hand, and gave him a piece of bread and fresh water, and pointed to the wasteland, and said, Go on as if in my country, and the robbers, and the rebels, and the beasts, and the demons, and they all turned a blind eye to him......
This is a classic passage of the Holy Religion of this world, describing the great authority and power of the gods, and at this moment the head of the Vatemio family read it, the meaning was already very obvious, and he continued: "O Zulzhio, my eldest son, has the best talent of the nobles, and is the Vatimio who is most like me, in fact, he has always had ambition and dissatisfaction in his heart, just like all Vatimio, but most of us Vátimio bury this emotion in the deepest part of our hearts......"
"He chose to express his heart in the act of an ascetic, to express the devotion of the believer to the god who walks on the earth, and we just have to watch, to see if it is the god who walks on the earth, to see if the bandits, the rebels, the beasts, the demons will turn a blind eye to Zulzhio, and this will determine many, many things, and it will also determine the faith and destiny of our Vatimio family......"
On the other hand, as the high-level of the Dharma King Hall, he naturally knows the significance of his trip, although this business group action is just a simple business act for Hao Qi, but for people in this era, it is actually easy to guess the representative significance of Zurzhio's behavior, and the small number of guards that the business group follows are actually just symbolic, and now he is like an ascetic in the holy scriptures, going to the wilderness naked, and all the wilderness malice is coveting him.
And everything on his trip, whether it is the encounter, the treatment, or the horrors hidden in the dark, the ending of this trip will change many, many things, and the magnitude of the change is so great that Hao Qi could not have imagined it at all.
This...... It is no longer a simple commercial act, this scene has been like a myth, deciding whether this walking on the earth is a religious picture of man or god.
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