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Chapter 568: The Legacy of Rome

Craftsmen in this era are basically passed down from father to son, and they start learning from a young age. Richard also wanted to train craftsmen before, but most of the ordinary civilians in this era are illiterate, so it takes longer to teach them skills.

Now with the funding from the Roman emperor, Richard was able to obtain a large number of craftsmen. Coupled with the full support of the Vares family, thousands of craftsmen of various kinds were soon sent to the Rhine Province through caravans.

At the same time, the enthronement of the Roman emperor also arrived.

Richard was also very surprised to learn that Aleiya was so capable. Aleiya's actions directly accelerated the development of Rhine Territory by several years.

The arrival of these craftsmen greatly increased the construction speed of the territory. At the same time, the arrival of these people also improved the production of various items in the territory.

Many material territories can also produce on their own.

In addition to these craftsmen, Richard also paid great attention to the arrival of the Vares family. After all, this was the first high-ranking official of the empire to defect to him, and the arrival of the Vares family also brought a lot of management personnel.

With the addition of these managers, Richard's work was immediately reduced a lot. At the same time, Richard also began to train his own team.

Richard selected some smart children and asked the Vares family and some polytheistic priests to teach them cultural knowledge.

He couldn't always rely on the polytheistic priests and the talents of the Vares family. This would be detrimental to the development of the territory and would also make it easy for them to gain a lot of power.

So Richard needs to train more talents to dilute them.

So, a simple school was built in the Rhine Province.

In addition to these people, Richard also bought food from other nobles. Although the Roman Empire lost the Carthaginian colony in North Africa, these nobles still had a lot of food.

As the population of the territory grew, Richard's food supply became a little tight. In order to develop the territory, a large population was necessary, and with a large population, more food would be consumed.

Richard took out a large amount of precious metals to buy food. When the nobles saw that Richard was using gold to exchange for food to feed the exiles, they all thought he was a fool. How could any noble care about the lives of these exiles?

By trading gold, Richard quickly harvested a large amount of grain. At the same time, he also marked the manors of these nobles.

Now the gold is only temporarily stored in the manors of these nobles. After the collapse of the Roman Empire, the gold will naturally be taken back.

Richard developed a territory construction plan, and at the same time, in order to obtain slaves, food and livestock, Richard prepared to plunder the Germanic people in the north.

In the past, the Germanic people kept moving south to plunder the Gaul region. The Roman Empire's legions were corrupt and only had the power to defend. They had no ability to plunder the Germanic tribes, but Richard was different.

The army under his command is not those corrupt Roman legions, not to mention that he has more than a dozen extraordinary people whose strength has reached the pinnacle of the human world.

However, Richard did not send out the army immediately. He planned to build the city wall first, and then plunder after the wall was built, so as to avoid the territory being full of loopholes when the Germans retaliated.

Before the looting, Richard sent out the Germans of the Foreign Legion to gather intelligence. These were the only Germans under his command who were suitable for this task.

As for whether these Germans would tip off others or send false information to Richard because they are of the same ethnic group, it cannot be said that it is impossible, but the possibility is very low.

The Germanic people now have no concept of nation or country, and they still live in tribes. But this does not affect the Germanic people's looting of Germanic people at all.

Germans accounted for nearly half of the empire's foreign legions, but when fighting against the Germanic barbarians, these Germans in the foreign legions did not hold back at all.

In addition, Richard can use mental power to monitor, so he is not worried at all that these Germans will deceive him.

Soon Richard selected a dozen smart Germans to go north. At the same time, Richard was also seizing the time to build the city wall.

After a large amount of food was spread out, the project progressed very quickly. Richard used rammed earth and rock structure on this side of the wall.

The inner part of the city wall is made of rammed earth, while the outer part is made of rocks. This city-building method is different from that of Rome or even the whole of Europe. It is the wall-building technology of the ancient East.

However, in order to speed up the construction, Richard simplified a lot of steps. The rammed earth was not steamed or sifted, but was directly compacted. In order to meet the construction deadline, he had to do this for now and build a better one later.

The rammed earth walls were built with rocks and ancient cement. Many magnificent buildings were built during the Roman Empire.

For example, the Arc de Triomphe, the Pantheon, the giant Colosseum, and the elevated aqueduct, all of which used Roman cement.

Roman cement is a very good building material, the main material is volcanic ash. First, limestone is calcined to obtain quicklime, then the quicklime is mixed with water to make mature lime, and then volcanic ash is added to finally form concrete similar to cement.

The hardness of this concrete is not as good as modern industrial cement, but in this era, it is already considered black technology.

In this era, only the glutinous rice-water mortar from the ancient East can be compared. The hardness of the mortar is higher, while the corrosion resistance of Roman cement is better.

Of course, these two materials have one thing in common, which is that they are expensive.
Glutinous rice paste mortar is basically using grain to build houses, and the grain consumption is very alarming. The price of Roman cement is lower, but volcanic ash is hard to find. Fortunately, the Roman Empire no longer has the ability to build large-scale buildings, and the price of volcanic ash is not that expensive. Aleiya still bought enough volcanic ash.

After the volcanic ash and limestone were transported to the Rhineland, craftsmen from Rome began to calcine the limestone to make cement.

While Richard was building his territory, the situation in the monotheistic religion became even more chaotic.

The Roman Church also has saints, and there are more than one of them. Each of these people in the church who are called saints is not a simple person.

It is precisely because of these very few saints that the Roman Church was able to defeat polytheism and suppress other branch sects, becoming the largest and most important monotheistic sect.

Although the Arian sect had Saint George, it did not have an overwhelming advantage. Moreover, the Roman Church hated the Arian sect so much that it sent the saint directly to Milan to completely eliminate the Arian sect.

In order to deal with Arianism, the Roman Church went all out, and finally the saints of both sides fought outside the city of Milan.

The power of St. George shocked several saints of the Roman Church. In order to counter his power, the Roman Church took out all its secrets.

The three holy relics of the Scarab, the Spear of Longinus and the Holy Grail plus three saints were able to barely stop the outburst of St. George.

Saint George, who was infused with the blood of God by Richard, is very powerful. If he were not restricted by the rules of the world, his power would definitely reach the fourth level.

Outside Milan.

Sand and rocks were flying on the flat ground and the wind was howling.

A powerful divine force surrounded George, and his body was lifted up by this force, floating several meters above the ground.

The Arian bishops and priests behind him widened their eyes when they saw this scene.

This is truly extraordinary power.

Even though these people knew that the church possessed some powerful forces, they did not expect that someone could actually fly.

The expressions of several saints of the Roman Church were extremely solemn, and they also sensed that powerful force.

At this moment, the divine power in Saint George almost solidified into substance, and his appearance even changed a little, becoming very similar to the holy image preserved by the Inquisition. Some people even had the urge to kneel down and pray.

"This is the power of the devil!" said an old man in the lead with a serious expression.

"The Lord never asks believers to bow down and worship idols."

"This demon has stolen the Lord's power and disguised himself as a saint, wanting us to submit!"

"We must remain firm in our faith in the Lord and not be deceived by Him!"

As his voice fell, a faint golden light emanated from his body. At the same time, the two people behind him immediately followed.

With the combined efforts of the three, golden light soon enveloped the area, but even with the three working together, they still couldn't defeat St. George.

On this day, both the Roman Church and the Arians saw the power of the saints.

The light released by the four saints completely destroyed the surrounding forest trees, leaving shocking traces on the ground.

If the four men's powers were not greatly limited, this entire forest would have been destroyed.

In the end, St. George outsmarted the three saints of the Roman Church and they were forced to leave temporarily.

Through this struggle, the Roman Church was horrified to discover that the Arians actually possessed the power to compete with the church.

When the Arians saw how St. George had shown his power and defeated the Roman Catholic Church, they became more confident, and some suppressed branches of monotheism joined the Arians.

The power of the Arians expanded rapidly, but unfortunately, although the Arians repelled the Roman Church, St. George was unable to attack them.

While Arianism was fighting against the Roman Church, Gnosticism was also expanding rapidly. Gnosticism had already infiltrated from the Balkan Peninsula to Italy, with Arianism being the first to bear the brunt.

The differences between Arianism and Gnosticism were even greater. Arians revered the Creator of the Old Testament, while Gnostics revered the Savior of the New Testament and viewed the Creator as a fallen evil god.

(End of this chapter)