When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

Chapter 729: Rapid City in 1448 (Part )
With a swish sound, the tip of the pen cut a big hole in the fragile paper.

Looking at the dried ink on the pen tip, Horn shook his head slightly as if he remembered something.

He looked up at René who was standing beside him: "René, do you think my methods are too drastic?"

"If your actions have actually strengthened the power of the Holy Alliance," René replied calmly, "if this has harmed the interests of Meliati and the nobles, then it means that they themselves are an obstacle to victory. You are not wrong."

"Yes, some things are always unavoidable." Horn himself understood this.

It has been three days since Horn returned to Rapid City from Summer Green City, but he is still troubled by the previous argument with Meliati.

This is not a quarrel between a young couple, but an internal dispute between two giants in Qianhe Valley.

In Horn's original plan, Meliati and her army were an indispensable force.

After all, before the development of the demon-eating bacteria vaccine is completed and the spiral gun becomes popular, Horn still needs a large number of melee combat troops.

In Horn's opinion, the trained mountain knights were excellent hand-to-hand combat troops. After two months of training in formation and discipline, they were even stronger than the Salvation Army in hand-to-hand combat alone.

In addition, over the past year, Meliati has also been replacing the armor and horses of the mountain knights, imitating the Wangxian cavalry and starting the cavalry phalanx reform.

The only thing they lacked was probably the extremely high morale of the two Salvation Army regiments brought about by their revolutionary enthusiasm.

After these days of arguments, Horn has come to understand Meliati's thoughts a little bit.

Perhaps Meliati herself did not realize it, but she did regard the Thousand River Valley as her own home, and Horn could share power only because he was her father's prospective son-in-law.

Meliati couldn't accept her father's inheritance falling into the hands of others, not even Horn.

The co-emperor is no longer enough for Meliati, and she wants to gain the right to speak over Horn through the Battle of Gravel Plains.

Because Thousand River Valley and Holy Alliance are only temporary countries so far, but they will inevitably be forged into real countries in the war.

At that time, whether Thousand River Valley belongs to the Holy Alliance or the Holy Alliance belongs to Thousand River Valley will become debatable.

Putting down the hard-rubber fountain pen that the dwarves had specially made for him, Horn stood up, stretched, and slowly walked to the window.

Horn is now in an old aristocratic tower in the port area of ​​Rapid City.

However, after several wars, the owner of this tower had long been drowned in the flames of war, and it was converted into a mansion for visitors to stay.

Looking out through the cross-petal-shaped round window, you can overlook most of the port area.

Horn's fingers unconsciously stroked the stained glass window frame, and the rippling waves of the canal in the distance danced like golden lines on the glass.

The port area, which was piled with charred wood and broken bricks three years ago, is now swallowing up a dazzling torrent of wealth.

The clockwork crane hummed, lifting heavy cargo the size of a carriage onto the deck.

Behind the dock paved with green bricks and stones, twelve red brick warehouses are lined up along the river.

Behind the red brick warehouses, separated by a few low shops and houses, is the exchange rebuilt in the shape of a U-shaped four-layer mortar.

The Rapid City Exchange is the only exchange that integrates stock, bond and commodity trading, and is also one of the locations of the Holy Maiden Bank.

Brokers wearing fashionable round felt hats, woolen vests, and with stereotyped contracts and bonds tucked under their arms, shuttled between the Corinthian columns of the exchange like worker ants.

The queen bee of this group of worker bees is Catherine, the president of the Holy Lady Bank, mayor of Rapid City, and sheriff of Lower River County.

Her "1448 Port District Vision Plan" has been realized by now for more than half, and the remaining part will definitely be completed before the end of the year.

Looking up at the blue sky, Horn temporarily put aside the dark clouds of Meliati and turned his attention to the white cloud of Rapid City. "René, get ready. I want to go out for a walk." Horn reminded, "Don't arrange too many people."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

The previous assassination attempt in Tiannv City was still fresh in René's mind, but he did not dissuade him.

Horn was not afraid at this moment.

Because he knew that in the shadows invisible to others, Solan was constantly moving around to protect Horn's safety.

After the situation in Black Snake Bay was basically stabilized, the transfer and deployment of the witches began according to the original plan.

First, Solan of the Shadow Society resigned from his position in the God's Punishment Army and brought his men into the Night's Watch system to be responsible for the personal safety of key political figures such as Horn.

Next, the mechanical soul Novia rushed from Black Snake Bay to Mayo Town and the Holy Mechanical Court, and began to deeply participate in the research and design of a series of clockwork technology and engineering.

"Phoenix" Seromis took the initiative to apply and entered the St. Tange Military Academy.

According to Horn's promise, after three years of apprenticeship, she will be able to serve as the chapter master or deputy chapter master of a chapter.

As for Otatila, it seems that she is still persuading local witches and collecting witches from other places to join the Holy League.

Of course, they will not be awarded the title of "Saint" before making significant contributions. Before that, they are only called high-level miracle nuns.

It didn't take long before Horn and René, with their hats lowered, walked on the busy streets of Rapid City, protected by three or five gendarmes.

Since Rapid City is an old city being renovated and has limited funds, it is not as orderly as the Holy See.

Therefore, the streets and buildings are still distributed like a spider web, with wide and narrow streets and alleys, matched with tall and short tower houses.

A new bronze statue has been erected next to the fountain - it is a statue of a businessman holding a scale and an abacus, and the base is engraved with "Dedicated to all souls who dare to calculate."

Standing in front of the fountain, Horn couldn't help laughing.

If this happened in the past, such an anti-feudal bronze statue would have been smashed by the knight in no time.

After losing the suppression of the church and the nobility, these citizens fully liberated their nature, especially after the great debate on the Doctrine of the Mean in Pravda.

Logically, rural people should prefer the Holy Way sect, but the fact is that although the Holy Way monks mainly focus on rural areas, the real bases of the Holy Way sect and the Juanos are in urban areas.

Rural areas have become the main base for pension insurance.

After passing the statue, Horn continued forward.

There were tin signs hanging on the shops along the street, and blacksmiths were sitting at the doorsteps with bare arms, hammering at iron blocks. The flying iron chips even fell onto Horn's shoes.

Horn's ears were filled with the shouts of shipowners and brokers, the calls of trackers and boatmen, the hawking of vendors, and the hissing of ropes.

Dock workers, craftsmen, citizens and construction workers hurried to and fro on the streets, while beggars and pickpockets fled with the bread in their arms after being driven away by the night watchmen.

Standing on the curb of the sidewalk, a young man with a suitcase hanging on his chest was selling medicine and candies while waving the latest "Magdi Business Daily" in his hand.

Porters pushed carts and transported mortar, spices, paper and ink, sugar, and grain to the canal on another track next door.

One of the most important projects in the 1448 Port Area Vision Plan is the construction of a double-track canal and lock system on the site of the Cross District.

(End of this chapter)