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Chapter 583 Rookies pecking each other
Richard was very supportive of Dranos's actions and personally helped them formulate a set of guidelines, such as adding agriculture to the gods of the Druid faith. The original god of forests and hunting became the god of agriculture and hunting.

Agriculture was put first, and hunting was retained because it also provided the ability to domesticate livestock, both of which were the most needed abilities for farmers.

If something can help them get a good harvest from their farmland and make their livestock and sheep grow better, who will these farmers believe in and why do they need to make a choice?
At the same time, Drenos also adapted the myths of the Druid faith, adding myths that help farmers have a good harvest, making farmers believe that they can have a good harvest if they believe in them.

In addition to these, Dranos changed the hunting festival in the Druid belief into a harvest festival. Every year after the grain harvest, a grand harvest festival celebration will be held.

At the same time, the abilities of druid priests began to shift towards agriculture.

The importance of agriculture in this era is self-evident. Now that the druids have deeply involved in agriculture, Richard can foresee that the druid faith will develop rapidly.

In addition to the druid faith, other polytheistic beliefs in the territory have also quietly increased.

At the beginning, Richard accepted many polytheistic priests and polytheistic temple guards, all of whom were polytheistic believers.

Because polytheism was banned by the emperor and the Pantheon was closed, these polytheistic priests did not dare to openly form religious groups or build churches.

Now these polytheists only perform idol worship on a small scale, mostly in their homes.

Monotheism is not very wary of the Celtic pantheon. After all, the Celtic pantheon is too weak and can be easily dealt with. However, polytheistic beliefs are different.

They came to power by eliminating the orthodox polytheists. After coming to power, how could they not be vigilant against the comeback of polytheism?

However, due to the internal strife in the monotheistic religion, Richard did not pay enough attention to it and did not discover the polytheistic beliefs.

Richard has strict restrictions on matters of faith, and no beliefs can affect the implementation of government orders and his rule.

After a large number of exiles carried out construction, the Rhine Province has changed a lot. When he first came here, the only three towns left were also in tatters.

The Roman roads built during the Roman Empire have long been abandoned. The roads have become rugged and muddy when it rains.

The towns are also dilapidated. The three towns together have only two or three thousand people, and this includes the surrounding rural areas.

The Germanic barbarians plundered here too much, and the province of Gaul was badly ravaged by them.

Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many Franks bringing their own weapons and food to form an army to fight the Germanic barbarians. You know, the Roman Empire couldn't even pay the regular army's salary, let alone the Frankish militia.

As a result, even though they had no money, no military pay, no weapons or supplies, these Franks were willing to fight against the Germanic barbarians.

It is because the Franks live here that if they want to survive, they must fight against the Germans.

These Franks learned the technology and knowledge from the Romans, and have developed quite well here. They have farms, pastures, and fertile land, and they live a good life.

As a result, when the Germans came, they burned farms, looted food and livestock, and even took people back as slaves. After decades, how could the Gaul region not be ruined?

Many people who came to the Rhine Province were unwilling to cultivate in remote areas because they were worried about the invasion of Germanic barbarians. At that time, those villages farther away from the town would inevitably be looted. Therefore, many people would rather stay in the town and become soldiers and tenants of the town hall than go to remote areas to become free people.

In fact, they didn't know that Richard had established a defense line in the north. Although the defense line could not completely prevent the invasion of the Germanic barbarians, a large-scale invasion would be discovered at the first time, and a small group of dozens of people would be no match for those inspectors.

The remote areas of the Rhine Province did not have to worry about being looted by Germanic barbarians, but the problem they had to face was the invasion of wild beasts.

There are fewer people in remote areas, so there are more wild animals active and you need to be careful about wild animal attacks.

Richard's trade with the Franks and the Visigothic Kingdom was very prosperous, and a caravan would travel back and forth between the two places every month.

Originally, the three caravans under Alea were on the verge of collapse, but now due to lack of manpower, the three caravans have become six.

These caravans had easy access to the Visigothic Kingdom and the Franks, where goods from the Rhine Province were highly sought after.

These caravans not only transported supplies, but also had the mission of gathering intelligence, drawing maps, and familiarizing themselves with the roads.

There are people in the caravan who are responsible for recording the road and drawing the checkpoints along the way. At the same time, they will spy on information such as troop deployment, food and supplies, equipment and machinery.

In addition to these, the caravan would also select some people who were easy to bribe, deliberately try to please them, and obtain various military secrets from them.

Richard planned to take action against the Franks after the grain harvest, to defeat them in one battle and then control the entire Gaul province.

By then he would become the true Governor of Gaul.

The Franks and the Visigothic Kingdom of this era were just beginning to move from barbarism to civilization. Many of their systems were imperfect, and Richard's caravan could easily obtain the intelligence they wanted.

When Richard saw the troop deployment of the Franks and Visigoths, as well as the logistics, food, equipment and supplies, he was shocked.

The Franks' military system still had strong barbarian characteristics. The logistics and food supplies of these armies were incredibly poor.

They were not as regularized as the Roman Empire. But such troops could fight back and forth with the Roman legions.

It has to be said that the Roman army was truly corrupt.

When Aleiya's caravan returned to the territory with a batch of Roman Empire's standard equipment, Richard realized that he had underestimated the parasites in the Roman Empire. Sure enough, the technology of drifting was common to the East and the West.

The equipment of this batch of 1,000 people, including armor, shields, weapons, javelins and other complete sets of equipment, was completely new, but was sold directly at a low price by the Roman nobles.
As for what the Roman legions used, these Roman nobles simply changed this batch of equipment into wear and tear, or directly distributed a bunch of rags to the army.

These nobles didn't care about the fighting power of the Roman legions at all. In their opinion, if everyone did the same thing, they would suffer a loss if they didn't get greedy.
As a result, the Roman Empire's legions became what they are today. No wonder they were unable to defeat the Visigothic Kingdom and the Germanic barbarians.

It was all thanks to Aetius's ability that he was able to defeat the Germanic barbarians and the Visigothic Kingdom.

The current battlefield is almost just a fight between noobs.
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