Chapter 336 [Darling's Confidence]

The Cathedral of the Temple of Light in the imperial capital. At the beginning of the founding of the Roland Empire, His Majesty, the founding emperor of the Roland Empire, in order to repay his great help to conquer the world, the Temple of Light was established as the state religion of the empire and ordered the construction of a majestic and magnificent temple cathedral in the imperial capital. This temple cathedral has a history of 1,100 years.

——This is written in the official Scriptures of the Church.

However, those who are familiar with the history of the Roland Empire know that the existing cathedral of the Temple of Light is not the one built when the country was founded a thousand and one hundred years ago.

During a major civil strife in the Roland Empire hundreds of years ago, the capital encountered a war that had never encountered since its founding. The disaster brought by that war not only destroyed the royal family of the Roland Empire at that time, but also caused the entire empire torn apart, and the huge empire almost collapsed.

The ancient temple of Light was also burned by war in the war.

Later, the great Duke of Augustine, the distant royal family member, inherited the throne during the war, or was forced to the throne that was regarded as a crater by others. However, he did not expect that the distant Duke of the royal family member, was wise and powerful. Historically, he had a certain demeanor of the founding emperor. He fought south and north, and relying on his own to promote the military meritorious officials of the Luolin family, actually pacified the world again, revived the Roland Empire and created the "Augustin Dynasty" until today.

The Luolin family, a martial-honored family of the empire, also rose to prominence under the Emperor Zhongxing.

In the process of re-pacifying the world, it is said that the Temple once again gave strong support to the emperor. Moreover, after the world was pacified, the emperor of the Zhongxing Empire clearly realized that the empire was initially determined and the foundation was stable. The most urgent task was to maintain the stability of the empire and rest for a period of time. In order to maintain stability, it was necessary to win over all the forces that could be won over and make them their own supporters.

For this purpose, the emperor of the Zhongxing Empire attached great importance to the Temple of Light. In order to show goodwill and to exchange for the maximum support of the Temple, he ordered the reconstruction of the Temple of Light Cathedral at no cost.

The rebuilt Cathedral of the Temple of Light covers a larger area than before, more majestic and more magnificent! Moreover, the Emperor Zhongxing was very smart. In the process of this large-scale construction, he made the most of the large number of prisoners of war he obtained in the war. He made a promise to the tens of thousands of prisoners of war who were charged into the coolie camp: once all the projects in the imperial capital are completed, all the sins of these prisoners of war can be exempted from and they can return to their hometowns to live.

The empire came to peace after many years of war. People yearned for stability. The emperor of the Zhongxing Empire undoubtedly won a bet. Tens of thousands of prisoners of war worked hard in the imperial capital for three years, renovating and repairing the many places that were burned by the war in the imperial capital, including the imperial city, the church, the government offices of various imperial governments, and even rebuilt four blocks of houses.

Three years later, the Emperor Zhongxing also readily fulfilled his promise, wrote the imperial order with his own hand, pardoned all prisoners of war, and released all prisoners of war to return home!

This history is considered a good story in the later history books of the Roland Empire. This emperor who revived the Empire had a loud nickname in history books: "The Trustworthy Augustine".

Everyone who keeps his promises likes. This trustworthy emperor not only targeted prisoners of war, but also made many other promises very simply, including marrying one of his sisters to the Imperial Marshal who helped him pacify the world, the patriarch of the Luolin family, and generously conferring most of the land in the southern Cote province of the empire to the Luolin family as territory.

A smart and generous boss who keeps his promises will naturally win the loyalty of many people, so this emperor of the Zhongxing Empire has a very high evaluation in history books, almost catching up with the founding emperor.

However, in Chen Daolin's opinion, after reading the general history of the Roland Empire, Chen Daolin discovered that the emperor of the Zhongxing Empire had done another extremely commendable thing:

When rebuilding the imperial capital, the emperor came up with a huge plan and made a large-scale construction despite the opposition of most of his ministers.

This huge project not only absorbed tens of thousands of prisoners of war left in the war, but even in order to fill the hole in the lack of manpower, the emperor ordered the recruitment of nearly 100,000 refugees who had lost their homes, lost their industries and were displaced in the war!

Chen Daolin believes that from an economic perspective, this move is simply extremely smart!

This is simply a standard "work-for-relief" template!

Tens of thousands of prisoners of war and hundreds of thousands of refugees, such a huge force, if you are not careful, it will cause a huge disaster.

Chen Daolin, who is familiar with the history of the Celestial Empire, is very clear that most of the so-called peasant uprisings in all dynasties were caused by refugees in wars. Refugees and refugees were just a word different, and the boundaries were also very fragile.

In the wave of displaced refugees, if survival is not guaranteed, then in despair, once the provocation of some ambitious people occurs, it will easily turn into a prairie fire and burn everything!!

The Emperor Zhongxing used labor for relief and absorbed 100,000 young and strong refugees. These refugees who had lost their homes and industries only wanted to have enough food. As an emperor, he did not need to pay a copper wage. As long as he could make these people full and not starve to death, he could use their labor at will at will.

As a refugee, the biggest desire is to avoid starving to death. As long as you can have a bite of food, most people will not rebel.

In this way, I made the most of the more than 100,000 labor, built many basic projects for myself, and firmly held this very dangerous force in my hand.

After a few years, the empire had completely stabilized, and the emperor gradually released these workers and returned home... and at the same time, he also left a great reputation in history books.

Chen Daolin was really amazed by this ability to do business.

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At this moment, Chen Daolin looked like he was not as embarrassed as a prison escaper.

Although his clothes were covered in stains, even because he had been soaked in the ditch for too long, his whole body smelled foul.

But standing in this cathedral, he leisurely put his hands behind him, strolling in the corridor in the middle of the church, and carefully admiring one of the most famous buildings in the empire.

The main hall of the Temple of Light is huge enough to accommodate thousands of people. The area is even larger than the main hall in the palace. Looking up, the ceiling of the main hall of the church is arched, and the lowest place is at least ten meters away from the ground.

On the round arched ceiling is a huge relief painting, with clouds and mists on it, and occasionally there are all kinds of myths and legends recorded in the Temple of Light.

In the relief, between the clouds and mist, the carved sky was spread by starlight. Chen Daolin looked at it for a while and sighed: "I actually used real gems as stars, such a big hand..."

He was a magician, and he couldn't see that the relief was just a decoration on the round vaulted ceiling. Although it was obviously from the hands of the master of art, more importantly, there was a illumination spell hidden in it. Even at night, the hall was still bright, and the stars decorated with gems in the sky emitted a peaceful and bright light.

On the left and right walls are also huge five-colored glass windows, and murals are intertwined on the walls. At first glance, they are all written by masters from different periods in the history of the Roland Empire. There are God's love for the world, the theme of God's punishment of sinners, and many are allusions and legends of famous predecessors and sages in the history of the church.

Chen Daolin walked over with his hands, carefully observing and savoring them one by one. When he saw what he was immersed in, he would even whisper and cheer in a low voice.

"What's the matter with the master? Why is he still in the mood to watch the paintings at this time?"

Xia Xia shrank in Barossa's arms. After all, she was young. Xia Xia was just an ordinary little girl. Unlike others, she was very skilled. In this cold season in the early spring, she soaked in the canal for a long time. At this moment, Xia Xia was so cold that her lips turned purple. She curled up in Barossa's arms, holding the elf girl tightly.

Barossa shook her head. Although she looked a little worried, her eyes looked at Chen Daolin very soft and peaceful. For the elves, no matter what, as long as they escape house arrest and are with Chen Daolin, everything is enough. Whether it is suffering and frozen, flowers and food, or soaking in the stinky ditch, there is no difference between them. As long as this man is by his side, even if he is in the fire, he will be at peace.

After all, werewolf Chuck is an orc. The orcs have never been known for their minds, so they are just sitting in the last row of churches, carefully wiping the knife in their hands, looking up from time to time, and looking around vigilantly - around everyone, there were more than a dozen church clergy in black robes, vigilantly monitoring them.

Captain Hook was covered with scars, his clothes and flesh were scattered by the iron fence hooks in the ditch, and many places were covered with blood and blood. However, the tough man on the sea just sat there quietly, his eyes carefully sweeping around the clergy.

Hook noticed that although these clergymen were all wearing black robes, he had already found that under the black robes of several people, there was a shiny soft armor exposed!

There is only one kind of armored person in the church: the Holy Knight!

There were these legendary sacred knights around to monitor them, and Hook was not surprised: in the middle of the night, a group of fugitives broke into the church, holding sharp blades and looking fierce. The church would naturally dispatch these strongest armed forces to prevent them.

In fact, what Hook really couldn't understand was: Why do these church people let themselves escape into the church?!

In fact, when Chen Daolin came out of the ditch and said he was hiding in the church, Hook even thought he had heard it wrong, or: This magician master is already crazy?

The current identity of these people is the emperor's criminal offender, and they escaped by killing the palace guards. How could the Temple of Light protect them? I'm afraid that as soon as I run to the church, I will be arrested and sent to the government.

But a few people took advantage of the night to the nearest of the Cathedral of the Temple of Light in the imperial capital, and were immediately stopped by the clergy guarding here.

When he was surrounded by a group of holy knights, Hook was desperate to pull out his knife and fight to the death.

And his magician master just called the leader of the leading Holy Knight and whispered in the other party's ear. The leader of the Saint Knight changed drastically, and then quickly put himself and others into the church. He even carefully ordered people to guard outside the parish and not to disclose the news.

Although there are more than a dozen holy knights in the church at this moment, and the eyes they cast are not friendly.
Chapter completed!