Cthulhu Gonfalon Chapter 151:
Baron Dahl?
Sui Xiong was stunned for a moment before he thought of this place.
It was a relatively remote territory. Sui Xiong originally planned to use it as an experimental site to send the “European Prince” Kabbalah, who is the best at summoning divine envoys in the church, to be the chief priest.
According to his thoughts, the local lords belonged to the evil camp and would definitely clashed with the Kabbalah of the good camp. At that time, Calabar will inevitably have to call divine envoys to help, and he can verify the help of divine envoys to these middle-ranking priests through practice.
Furthermore, you can also use this incident to see how far the envoy can be used? By the way, try God’s Envoy Advanced and so on… In short, there are many things that can be studied and tried (qíng).
However, even a deity can’t do everything well. Although Sui Xiong has a good design, the development of things (qíng) is different from what he expected. In other words, Baron Dahl’s approach is completely contrary to his expectations.
According to his plan, Baron Dahl must not be able to tolerate the help and organization of Masked Void Church for the poor, and sooner or later he will have serious conflicts with Masked Void Church. But in fact, after witnessing the fighting power of the Masked Void Church, Baron Dahl almost gave up his plan of armed confrontation. After all, for him, even if the poor in the domain become stronger, it is not easy to control, nothing more than less. Some money or cannon fodder is not worth the risk of losing troops.
How much is the life of the poor? As long as he died ten or so elite soldiers, he was worth more than the poor people of Dal City combined!
With this thought, Baron Dahl began to repair with the Church of the Void Mask. Then, after a short while, as the conflict between the merchant faction and the aristocratic faction became more intense, Baron Dahl fell into a dilemma. Baron Dahl didn’t want to join the merchant faction or the noble faction. Eventually, he gritted his teeth and went directly to the Void Masked Church and started a small autonomous region.
Speaking of him, he is also a cruel person. He knows that it takes a lot of hardships and losses to join the Void Masked Church, but in order to escape the trend of merchants and nobles, he would rather suffer and lose money. Just to complete the atonement ceremony, he gave half of his life. If the healing spells of the chief priest of Kabbalah were not good enough, he would only die in the atonement ceremony.
But with his own determination, he also showed Sui Xiong’s sincerity. So Sui Xiong changed his mind and gave blessing and protection to Darling.
Relying on Sui Xiong’s protection, Darling successfully escaped the battle between the aristocratic faction and the merchant faction, which had almost developed into a war, and is currently changing the policy to develop in a low-key manner, and live steadily (日rì) child.
Probably because of being too low-key, Sui Xiong even gradually forgot about this territory. Had it not been for Leon’s reminder, he hadn’t thought of Dahl Ling.
So he hurried towards Darling, this time reaching his destination in just a few hours.
Winter has reached the coldest season, and the climate in Darling is relatively cold in this area. Now the entire territory is almost covered in a piece of white snow.
The priest of Kabbalah is sitting in the reception room of Baron Dahl’s mansion, talking to Baron Dahl alone.
The burning wood through the fireplace keeps the room warm at a minimum. Although not like other noble residences, you can only wear a (body shēn) single coat, but at least you will not feel the cold ((逼bī)bī )people.
Kabbalah was holding grass tea, but he didn’t mean to drink tea, just thinking quietly.
Across from him, Baron Dahl is also thinking. At present, the two men with the highest status in Darling are like two statues, motionless.
After a while, Baron Dahl sighed and said: “It’s (qíng)…it’s really hard to handle!”
“I know.” Kabbah said, “If it is easy to handle, I won’t come to you.”
“Heating is a big problem, and I know that. But for the poor to survive the severe cold, a lot of fuel is needed no matter what. We do not produce coal here, but only use firewood. If you can cut down a lot of wood, It means that there will be conflicts with the druids in the forest…” Baron Dahl shook his head slightly, “With our strength, even if we can defeat them, the loss will be great. Not worth it.”
“For the sake of human life, nothing is unworthy.” Kabbalah persuaded.
“The life of the poor is the life, and the life of the soldiers is also the life.” Baron Dahl said sincerely, “Priest Kabbalah, I will not tell you those empty words (tào), the soldiers are all expenses They were selected and trained at a great cost. They have always been loyal and brave, and they are the support of my rule. I can’t take their lives at risk in order to help the poor keep out of the cold.”
The chief priest of Kabbalah frowned and said, “But don’t soldiers exist to protect the people? If soldiers don’t protect the people, what value is their existence?”
“That’s right, but can I say to them,’The poor people need firewood to keep out the cold, they need to cut down a lot of trees, but there are druids in the forest. Go and deal with the druids so that they can cut down. Tree bar’…Is that the case? They would not agree to it themselves!”
Kabbalah was silent, and after a while, he sighed: “Where did the druids come from!”
This is not a question, just emotion.
Since last fall, druids have appeared in the forest near Baron Dahl. They are not the common sect that emphasizes the harmony between nature and man, but a more radical sect that blindly maintains nature and believes that people should return to nature.
This sect protects the natural ecology unprincipledly and strictly (forbids jìn) all behaviors that destroy nature. Including but not limited to opening up wasteland, cutting down trees, opening roads in the forest, etc. In the past few months, they have fought against Darling’s adventurers several times. Although they have not lost their lives, they have been injured a lot.
In this (qíng) situation, even if the weather is cold, civilians dare not go to the forest to chop down trees, lest they be attacked by them.
For ordinary civilians, if you don’t cut trees, you can buy coal or something for heating, or you can save on firewood and dress thickly. But the poor can neither afford coal nor have thick clothes to wear. If they can’t get enough firewood for heating, they don’t know how many people will freeze to death this winter!
Of course the chief priest of Kabbalah could not (allow yǔn) allow such cruel things (love qíng) to happen under his nose, so he took the priests to negotiate with the druids.
The result of the negotiation was obvious, so he came to visit the Lord’s Mansion~IndoMTL.com~I hope Baron Dahl will send an army to help him and “convince” the group of druids so that the poor will not survive this. winter.
However, Baron Dahl refused to send troops. Although he is also a believer of the Church of the Void Mask, he is really reluctant to lose his strength for this kind of thing (qíng).
In this regard, the chief priest of Kabbalah has nothing to do. The so-called kindness means that people can sacrifice their own interests when they need it, but it does not include sacrificing the interests of others.
He is a good man, so he cannot convince himself to force Baron Dahl to send troops.
So the matter (情qíng) has reached a deadlock. Today is the third day of their discussion. No matter how the Void Masked Church manages the distribution, the firewood reserves in the slums are almost used-this is still the Baron The result of putting out a lot of firewood stored in the mansion to relieve the poor.
At this point, the chief priest of Kabbalah was also helpless. When he was wondering if he was going to find the merchants in the territory to fight the autumn wind, he suddenly heard words from the bottom of his heart.
The words were deep and deep, with a sense of sacredness that made him extremely happy.