When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

Chapter 892: Common Hands and Master Hands

The obsidian-carved witcher chess piece jumped diagonally a few squares, pushed a farmer chess piece down, and got stuck between the king and the queen.

But the next second, the bishop chess piece carved from red agate was knocked away head-on by the obsidian soldier.

Jinigis smiled, picked up the bishop chess piece, and threw it accurately into the chessboard: "Got a piece."

Sitting opposite the king was a beardless middle-aged monk who looked to be about forty years old.

The skin on his cheeks was loose, so he must not have been slim before.

Generally speaking, one must have lost a lot of weight in a short period of time to have skin like this.

Facing Jinigis’s proud words, the monk was not accommodating: “You seem to have a son, but I, the witcher, have intervened between the king and the queen, and have locked up your two knights.

A small defeat turned into a big victory, and I should have a son."

"We still don't know until the end, Mr. Priano." Instead of being annoyed, Jinigis burst into laughter.

The one who dared to talk to Genegis in such a tone was none other than the new Pope Priano.

Genegis was the successor to the old king, and Priano was the successor to the old pope.

But the two heavyweight players from the northern region are now gathered at the border of Leia - Thousand River Valley.

Pugliano picked up a chess piece on the chessboard, moving it left and right without putting it down, as if he was not paying attention: "Are you confident about the idle piece in the game?"

"Although the Mad Pope has the support of the Franks, it is not enough for him to recruit nearly 40,000 troops." Jinigis rested his hands on his knees, "People and money can't appear out of thin air. Where do you think these financial revenues come from?

This madman borrowed all the money of local citizens and forced merchants and farmers to continue paying money and grain in exchange for gold and silver.

Look at what he once said, that when the Saint came, no grain was collected, but various internal taxes and bonds hollowed out the farmers and citizens, didn’t they?

He was also tense inside, like a shaky dam in a flood, but Pravda didn't write about it.

All I did was to dig a pinhole in the dam, but the big hole was created by them on their own initiative."

Stopping his knight in front of the Jinigis farmer, Priano retracted his hand and asked, "How much damage will Rapid City cause to the Holy Alliance?"

Jinigis put his index finger on the tip of a chess piece's head and said with a half-smile: "If the border knights are stronger, the damage will be greater. If the border knights are weaker, the damage will be less.

However, as you said, this is a spare move and I don't expect it to have much effect.

To be precise, I even feel a little regretful. I didn't expect Kenk Town to fall into our hands so easily. We shouldn't have led the Norns here."

Although Jinigis said so, in Kenke Town, in addition to the withdrawing Holy Alliance troops, there were still a large number of guards fighting in the streets with holy guns.

Even facing the counterattack of the Holy League army, Catherine was desperate and tried every possible means to help, and took Yihe to the front line.

"But the Norns have already appeared at the border, right?"

"Yes, I'm afraid we'll have to hand over several mountain counties to them after the war."

Originally, Jinigis was struggling to hold on, trying to bring in the Norns to stir up trouble.

However, they did not expect that not long after the plan was implemented, they accidentally captured the town of Kenke.

With the cooperation of the border knights who broke through the Xionggan Castle in the north, the war situation made a great step forward.

At this time, Jinigis and the Border Knights were advancing from the north and south. It was only a matter of time before they captured the Thousand River Valley. It was not as hopeless as before.

"The Norns got the upper hand." Jinigis couldn't help but sigh at his fate.

Priano lowered his head, seemingly observing the chessboard, but his mind was drifting somewhere else.

As a pope born in Eagle Foot Bay, his political foundation is naturally firmly rooted in the northern Leia people.

In the final analysis, church politics is closely integrated with kingdom politics, and the situation before the Hundred Years' War where the church suppressed the kingdom is no longer the case.

In other words, John's appearance was the church's last chance to revive its former lofty status, but unfortunately it also failed.

Then the popes would have to feign flattery with these secular nobles, or even be controlled by them.

An example is Grandivar in the south, where the church was almost completely controlled by the royal power.

The cooperation between the old Pope and the former King of Leia was based on the premise that the Pope wanted to get rid of the control of the royal power and the Leia people wanted to suppress the development of the Franks.

If one day the Leia people also want to control the church, then the Pope should move to the Kingdom of Norn.

"What are you going to do next?" Priano asked the question again.

Speaking of this, the two of them couldn't help but look solemn. You know, Leia used the power of the whole country and the entire church to suppress the Thousand River Valley.

Even so, the finances of Leia and the church have been tightening drastically in the past six months.

Qianhe Valley, with only one territory, has been able to hold on until now and even has the ability to launch a counterattack.

Jinigis's plan to destroy Thousand Valley in half a year has come to nothing.

He originally took the Thousand River Valley as the starting point, leaving enough room for error for the future conquest of the Garden of Thorns and defense against the Franks.

As a result, all the fault tolerance was used up right from the start, and the army was stuck in the Thousand River Valley and unable to move.

If the Pope had not offered assistance and stood on the side of Genegis at the critical moment, he would have wanted to negotiate first and then turn around to attack the Garden of Thorns.

"Under the Holy Father's luster, heroes are as numerous as herrings at the mouth of the Lower Ibe River." Jinigis moved a chess piece forward one square, as if to crush something. "In this battle, be careful not to be arrogant or impatient."

"Please rest assured, as long as you can win this battle, the Holy Lord will definitely protect you from the attack of Fran. Your status will not only be that of a king, but even that of an emperor."

Jinigis really wanted to say that it was a pipe dream, but since the person in front of him was a big money man, he couldn't say much.

If he could capture the entire Thousand River Valley before the Holy War Treasury ran out, he could continue attacking the Garden of Thorns.

It would be too difficult to attack again given Leia's devastated financial capabilities.

One of the main reasons why he kept the Osra family army was to wipe them out in the unfamiliar environment of Thousand River Valley after the war.

"I can tell you something." Pugliano sat in front of the chessboard and moved the Pope's chess piece one square to the right. "It's not me who wants that madman's head."

"You're joking. Who can drive you?" Jinigis lowered his head, as if thinking, but he clenched the sergeant chess piece in his hand.

"Yes, yes." Priano shook his head as if he was shaking an invisible triple crown.

"You are joking. Could it be that the Holy Lord came down to earth and told you in person? Just like that Holy Grandson?" Jinigis clapped his legs and laughed.

“Hahahaha.” The new Pope followed suit and laughed, but no matter how you looked at it, it looked extremely bitter.

Amid laughter, the door of the prayer hall burst open and a monk and an attendant squeezed in.

The two men quickly walked up to their respective masters, bent down, and whispered in their ears for a while.

"What was I supposed to be?"

"So that's what happened."

"But, Your Highness..."

"Go away. I've already told you not to disturb the chess game between me and His Majesty." Jinigis rarely gave a cold reprimand before driving the two attendants away.

Sitting in front of the chessboard, Pugliano and Ginigis were still laughing and chatting.

But if you have sharp eyes, you can see that His Royal Highness's ears turned red and Priano's body was trembling slightly.

"Whose turn is it?"

"I think it's me?"

"Ohhhh, it's me. It's me."

"Hey, Your Majesty, what are you doing with my chess piece?"

"Yes, really?"

The two of them stared at the chessboard for nearly ten minutes before Priano reluctantly stood up and said, "Forgive my age and lack of energy. Your Highness, please go back."

Jinigis said without further ado: "Then I will not bother you any more."

Surrounded by his attendants, Jinigis walked out of the prayer hall.

Before the door closed, he heard the sound of the chessboard breaking and chess pieces flying to the ground.

"Emeric, you..."

The door shut out the Pope's angry curses.

"Call the nobles to a meeting." Jinigis took several deep breaths, and in the blink of an eye, a bubble appeared at the corner of his mouth. "The idler has turned into a lifesaver..."

(End of this chapter)