Under the castle, Alison gave a slight salute to the baron and led the servants to follow them towards the gate. Behind him, several knights stepped forward and hung the three hemiplegic cultists on the cross, piled them with pine branches, and then

A fire was started by pouring kerosene on it.

"Ah~"

Hearing the screams behind her, Alison couldn't help but turn her head and take a look. She saw that the fire in winter was getting thicker, and the cross was emitting inexplicable fluctuations, mixed with many evil spirits and burning in the flames.

"The Barony was not so chaotic under the benevolent government." Seeing Alison looking behind her, Veroni couldn't help but said, "If something like that hadn't suddenly broken out yesterday and affected the entire territory, those cultists wouldn't have suddenly

pop up."

"What happened?" Alison frowned slightly when she heard this.

"You don't know?" Veroni was slightly surprised when she saw this, "I was still thinking about what happened in Janik, and I want to ask you for details."

"So what happened?" Alison looked at her confused.

"It's not urgent. Let's go have a cup of coffee and warm ourselves up first." Veroni glanced at her and then led the way.

They came to a small living room, and a maid brought coffee. Alison, the Baron and Veroni sat face to face on chairs. Veroni looked at the three servants standing behind Alison, "Are you reliable?"

"The kind that signed a contract." Alison nodded.

"Yes." Veroni nodded, then took a sip of coffee, "How is this castle?"

"Very good." Alison looked at the baron sitting opposite and stared at her and praised.

"But you can't peek in here," Veronie said.

"Ahem~" Alison just picked up the coffee and almost choked, "Teacher, are you kidding me? I only said this when the Baron was here. In fact, I like villas with big windows where the sunlight can shine in.

."

"Do you think it's ridiculous? The mentor is so mean." Veroni laughed when she heard this. "In fact, the mentor believes in you, and the baron will also believe in you because of the mentor. But those people below, especially today, we

At least seven forces with malicious intentions towards the territory have been discovered."

Alison was slightly startled when she heard this, Qigu, may I ask how big your barony is.

From Alison's point of view, this place is almost like a township. Four neighboring villages are put together to form a township. Well, there are more than a dozen stalls nearby, forming a town where you can go to a big market.

Just such a broken place, and seven forces are targeting it?

Seeing Alison's surprise, Veroni's smile also showed a lot of helplessness, "Not everyone can rush to the capital and the city. Some of the weak ones will be satisfied if you let them rule a village."

Alison nodded slightly, then looked at her instructor, "You continue."

"Due to sudden changes, the territory has become crisis-ridden, so even if you are my disciple, you cannot convince everyone, especially since I will assign you some tasks to face the baron directly in the future, in order to prevent the knights from thinking that I am incapable of doing things.

Zhou, so we will conduct a contract ceremony later, and all those who seek refuge with Baron Sarin must sign a contract." Veroni looked at Alison, "So I want to say hello to you in advance."

"Servant contract, the kind that obeys orders?" Alison looked at Veroni and asked.

"No, I said that you will not be treated like Simon Knight when you come here. It is an equal contract." Veroni smiled and said, "It stipulates that you cannot hurt each other. It is a constraint on both parties. Only in this way can you quickly

blend in here.”

Alison nodded after hearing this. The contract sounded pretty good. They were not allowed to harm each other, so there was no way that Baron Salin was using the contract to harm her.

"Okay." Veroni couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that her disciple agreed to this matter, and then looked at the baron beside her, "The rest is between our master and disciple, you can go and do your work.

.”

"Then we'll meet at lunch." Baron Salin nodded to the two of them with a smile on his face, and then walked out of the small living room.

"He is very happy that you can sign the contract, because it means that you are not hostile." Veroni looked at the back of Salin as he left, turned to Alison and said worriedly, "You must know that the so-called nobles can be easily wiped out in the war.

"

"Is there going to be a war?" Alison asked.

"Yes, because the Red Moon Season ended early, the expedition team did not have to worry about sleeping in the wild. The Grand Duke launched an attack yesterday." Veroni looked at Alison and said slowly, "He defeated the 130,000 soldiers of several Dukes.

The army then captured the Murin Palace of the Archduke of Jaxon, occupied the territories of several nearby earls and a dozen barons, and forced the Duke of Cammon and many great nobles to flee for their lives. Then they advanced all the way south, and reached the Rhine that night.

Riverside, but fortunately Duke Caimon used a curse and placed ten ghost ships in the Rhine River to block the river, making it temporarily impossible for the pursuers to pass, and began to build a camp south of the river."

Alison was dumbfounded after hearing what Veronie said. When she was bored in the town of Janik, she also looked at the map. The Namlin Palace is nearly a hundred miles away from the royal capital, and the Rhine River is three hundred miles away.

It should be very difficult to rush on the road, and you still have to attack the city.

Are the friendly forces a little too useless?

Alison sighed slightly after hearing this, but still comforted her, "That being said, the Grand Duke won't be able to defeat him for the time being."

"He can't beat him, but that doesn't mean there won't be chaos here in the south." Veroni stirred the coffee in the cup with a spoon, then picked it up, took a sip and put it down again, looked at Alison and said, "Listen,

Did you say a centralization order?"

Alison shook her head slightly when she heard this.

"That is the model of the empire. They develop the commercial economy, promote the popularity of metal currency, change the traditional physical transactions and labor into currency, and enter a monetary system, and they will control the price of commodities to make the land of the nobles unable to keep up.

That thing called inflation, anyway, the pure income from land will depreciate more and more, and it will be unable to maintain the lives and armaments of the nobles, forcing them to eventually sell the land, and eventually the territory will become a whole." Veroni frowned and said.

.

"If I remember correctly, except for a few cities, all other cities belong to the nobility, right?" Alison looked at her mentor, "Don't worry, nobility can receive business taxes."

"So this centralization order is very scary. It encourages some people to establish towns in other places outside the castle, or to put forward demands for autonomy in the original towns, and finally obey the orders of the Grand Duke directly."

Veroni looked at Alison after hearing this, "As for how to accomplish this method, whether it is negotiation, gold coin purchase, or armed riot, it is all legal under the Centralization Order."

"There is no tax, and some people are not looking directly at the town. They also want the castle, because the centralization order does not say this is illegal." Veroni took a sip of coffee:

"In normal times, according to the noble laws, other nobles will definitely come to intervene, but now, businessmen, mercenary groups, and even serfs in many places have had this idea, and with the support of the Grand Duke, some forces that were originally waiting and watching will also become restless.

Get up, after all, according to the centralization order, killing your own lord is not only guilt-free, but you can also become a mayor or councillor. With this encouragement, you can think about what the situation will be like in the territory."

Alison raised her eyebrows when she heard this, saying that the serf who was not allowed to grow fruit trees organized a bureau and asked everyone to support him in killing the baron, so that he could become a town councilor or something.

Shrimp and pig heart!

This feeling was similar to the book about legalizing sexual intercourse that she had read before. All human desires were stimulated without the suppression of laws.

The territory will be in chaos.

No wonder that as a disciple of Veroni, she also signed an equality contract, because she was afraid that she would be covered by someone else's yellow robe.

Alison took a sip of coffee, looked at the worried failed witch in front of her and consoled her, "When I came that day, I saw that the Baron seemed to have many professional knights, like some small fish and shrimps. I felt that it was impossible.

To shake the Baron's dominance."

"Then he has to be in the territory." Veroni looked at Alison, "Have you ever heard of the lord summoning order?"

"I've heard of this." Alison nodded.

"After Duke Caimon fled to the Rhine River, he would issue a summons order for the lords in the name of the palace minister, summoning the seven southern dukes to send troops. After receiving the order, the dukes would summon their earls, and the earls would summon the viscounts and barons, and we

As a baron, you must send at least 46 people."

Veroni's face darkened when she said this, "In normal times, a few knights can lead a thousand peasants in a local lord war, but the disastrous defeat in the royal capital will make them realize that the peasants can only fight in the village. The real battlefield is

, you must be a professional. I think this request will be famous in the summoning order. However, in fact, it is also possible to directly recruit farmers to go there, but without the protection of professional knights, such nobles basically cannot come back, because the territory will be extinct.

There is actually quite a lot of land that has been taken back."

Alison's mouth twitched when she heard this, "There are not many professional knights in the entire earldom who can gather as many professional knights as Baron Sarin, right?"

Veroni smiled slightly when she heard this and said, "Speak less, not even the whole kingdom."

"They all trained hard under my supervision before they could break through the professional ranks. Although the knights in other territories also trained, most of them could not persevere. On this battlefield, the Baron has the highest theoretical survival rate, but if I don't go, he will still be able to break through.

Don’t worry.”

"But the order to centralize power has irritated everyone in the territory. If I go, no one will be able to suppress it."

"So I want to leave the safety of Baron Salin to you. When you go to the battlefield, you must not be too far away from him. Even if the enemy cannot defeat him, you can take him to escape. As long as we return to the territory, we can fight again

Rise up.”

"Speaking of which, you actually advanced?"

After Veroni said a lot, her eyes fell on Alison again, "Which attribute are you full of?"

"Spirituality," Alison said.

Veroni nodded, "When did you get promoted?"

"yesterday."

"Then did you notice anything unusual?"

"No, I fainted after I was promoted because I was drugged when I went back." Alison shook her head slightly, then looked at Veroni, "What happened?"

Veroni looked at Alison's eyes carefully, and seeing that she didn't seem to be faking, she sighed, "Yesterday, some kind of will must have descended. The entire southwest border fell into darkness, and everyone in the territory was spiritually drained.

I don’t know what this is doing.”

"And because of the coming of that will, the Red Moon Season ended early, which also led to the outbreak of war in the kingdom."

"Is there such a thing?" Alison was slightly surprised, "The scene must be spectacular, right?"

"It's spectacular, but it also caused a lot of trouble. Some cultists thought that it was their own evil god who inspired them, and they jumped out one after another to take responsibility for this incident and create some trouble on the way."

"Dang-dang~" At this moment, a servant knocked on the door, "The Baron is calling you."
Chapter completed!