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Thus, the little wave of evil demon trial that had just been stirred up in Viscount Lanwan's territory disappeared.

In fact, Charlotte could fully understand Fado's lack of subjective initiative.

As a country pastor, Fado had no connections or support in the church. He boasted to Charlotte that he was a student of Archbishop Contao, but he had only seen Archbishop Contao from a distance. For someone like him, being the chief pastor was already the best he could do, and there was almost no chance of promotion. Fado was well aware of this.

Perhaps, when he asked Charlotte for the head of the necromancer, Fado had some ambition to climb up the ladder. But after failing, Fado calmed down and realized that even if he handed over the head of the necromancer, it would only be a favor to his boss. With his background, his hope of being reused by the church was still very slim. So, Fado returned to his previous professional attitude - continue to slack off.

Anyway, in such an unappreciated corner of Viscount Lanwan's territory, no one in the church would care about Fado no matter how badly he did.

There is no praise for a good job, and no criticism for a bad job. It is difficult for any working person in a position like Fado to have any desire to strive. It would be better for him to farm and raise chickens every day and collect a salary without doing anything.

This is misfortune for Fado personally, but it is luck for the entire Viscountship of Lanwan.

Because there was no interference from the church, the Viscountship of Lanwan was able to smoothly follow the development track planned by Charlotte.

Cecilia, who was in charge of the government affairs of Viscount Lanwan, sent a letter to Charlotte, in which she reported on the main government affairs in the days since Charlotte left.

First, Black Wolf recruited more than thirty fierce wolf warriors and more than one thousand mountain slaves from the Campey Mountains for Charlotte. Shortly after bringing the people back, Black Wolf entered the Campey Mountains again.

Although she despised Black Wolf's despicable behavior and unscrupulous style of doing things, Cecilia had to admit in the letter that this guy was really desperate. The Kanpei Mountains in winter were full of dangers. The tribesmen and wild beasts would not care about any morality and rules for food. Most people would never want to enter the Kanpei Mountains again after coming out. However, Black Wolf had been in and out of the Kanpei Mountains three times this winter.

"Just like his name, he is definitely the hardworking, vicious, cunning old wolf in the wolf pack who is unwilling to give up his position just because of his old age."

Cecilia commented on Black Wolf in her letter.

It can be seen that Cecilia still dislikes this man, but the little girl has also realized the value of people like Black Wolf. As a civilian leader, Cecilia is also gradually maturing.

The second thing is about the Ai Ye Alliance.

Fife finally responded to Charlotte's occupation of Ambrato, but did not send tens of thousands of troops to recover the lost territory as the envoy named Cleon said. Instead, he only ordered all member city-states of the Aiye Alliance to ban trade with the Viscount of Lanwan.

To this, Charlotte can only say - it doesn't hurt.

Why did those merchants from the Sokya region come to the Viscount Lanwan Territory to do business? Was it because the Viscount Lanwan Territory had some specialties? Or was it because the Viscount Lanwan Territory had some thriving market? None of them.

It’s just because the Viscount Lanwan’s territory happens to be located at a transportation bottleneck.

Those merchants who do not need to go through the Lanwan Isthmus will naturally never come to the Viscount Lanwan Territory, and those merchants who must go through the Lanwan Isthmus will not be able to find a second way to bypass the Viscount Lanwan Territory.

The Aiye Alliance is not a country, nor is it a territory belonging to a certain lord. It is just an alliance composed of many city-states. The administrative orders issued by Feidi have little binding force on merchants from other city-states.

Just as Charlotte guessed, Cecilia said in the letter that after Feidi's order was issued, the number of merchants in Viscount Lanwan's territory did not decrease significantly, and even increased a little. The latter was probably due to the increasing improvement of the casino.

These merchants told Cecilia that even if they were discovered by the city-state of Fife, they would argue that they were doing business with the Earldom of Quick Forest or the Kingdom of Lesare and were just passing through the Viscountdom of Lanwan.

The city-state of Fife could not do anything about these foreign merchants. They could not create a second land transportation line from the Sokya Peninsula to the Kingdom of Lesare and the Earldom of Quik Forest, nor could they punish these foreign merchants easily, as that would only intensify the already increasingly prominent contradictions within the Ai Ye Alliance.

The third thing Cecilia reported was about orichalcum.

Charlotte's improved mountain copper smelting furnace has been tested in practice, and the mountain copper smelting efficiency in Ambulatu County has been improved by at least 1,000% - it used to take more than ten days to produce one furnace, but now it can produce at least one furnace a day. Facts have proved that as long as the original foundation is poor enough, then every improvement will be revolutionary.

In addition to high production efficiency, the improved smelting furnace has another benefit, which is that the mountain copper produced by it almost does not need secondary smelting. Charlotte guessed that the pale mountain copper smelted by the Ambratu craftsmen was probably a defective product because the furnace temperature was not high enough, resulting in many impurities that could not be removed. Now that Charlotte has taken out a furnace with a higher temperature and more stability, she can naturally get that kind of golden mountain copper in one go.

In this way, the efficiency of producing mountain copper in Ambulatu County will be even more impressive.

With the improvement of efficiency, the copper produced could not be stored in the warehouse all the time. In the letter, Cecilia happily told Charlotte that she had found a buyer for the copper in Ambratu County - Pinrus City.

To the west of the Viscount Lanwan's territory, there is a roughly rectangular cape that almost forms a 90-degree angle with the Lanwan Isthmus. This cape is called Cape Pinlus, and there is a city on the cape called Pinlus City.

Pinlus means gate in Lesare language. Why is a cape called a gate? Whose gate is it?

To explain this problem, we have to talk about the geographical location of Cape Pinrus. To the south of Cape Pinrus is the Yuzhu Sea that leads to the ocean, and to the north is an inland sea called the Taohu Sea by the locals.

Cape Pinrus is like a gate, blocking the Taohu Sea and Yuzhu Sea, leaving only a narrow gap for the two oceans to flow. This gap is the Pinrus Strait.

The Pinrus Strait is a major transportation route, with a narrowest point of only a few hundred meters, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack. However, the Pinrus people recently seem to feel that this dangerous terrain is still not safe enough, and they plan to build fortresses, floating bridges and chains on the Pinrus Strait for military defense and customs collection.

This kind of military engineering requires many extraordinary materials, and mountain copper is one of them.

Cecilia signed an initial copper trade agreement with merchants in Pinlus City. Charlotte had no objection to this self-assertion, because this was the development policy she set before leaving Viscount Lanwan - cooperate to the west and attack to the south.

To the south of Viscount Lanwan's territory is the Sokya Peninsula, and to the west is the Kingdom of Lesare. Pinlus City is a city under the Kingdom of Lesare.

Although the Kingdom of Lesare has been declining since being punished by the Pope, and the domestic situation has become increasingly bad in the past two years. But it was once a great country after all, and its foundation is not comparable to that of the Viscount of Lanwan. Charlotte now has hundreds of people in his hands. If he dares to provoke the Kingdom of Lesare, he will be courting his own destruction.

Therefore, when facing the Kingdom of Lesare, Charlotte can only try her best to establish good relations with it.

Selling mountain copper to the Kingdom of Lesare was not only an additional source of income for Charlotte, but also a good start to diplomacy.

Overall, Cecilia's letter brought Charlotte three good news.

As for the unstable factor that Charlotte was most worried about - Stanley Mellorfield, Cecilia did not mention it in the letter, and Charlotte could only assume that there had been no conflicts between the two of them so far.

During her stay at the Riverside Castle, Charlotte was not idle. In addition to adding a few cats and dogs to the Riverside Castle, Charlotte also recruited a group of crow breeders to train carrier crows at the Riverside Castle.

Charlotte wants to build a crow communication network in places where she often needs to send messages.

The ravens in this magical world have many advantages over the pigeons in Charlotte's previous life, such as higher intelligence, easier to tame, better adaptability to harsh environments, easier to raise, larger size, stronger load-bearing capacity, etc. These advantages make the reliability and delivery volume of ravens higher than that of pigeons, and the cost lower, making Charlotte's idea of ​​building a ravens communication network feasible.

However, some of these problems are still difficult to avoid for animal messengers. For example, carrier crows, like homing pigeons, can only travel on fixed routes, and in many cases can only travel one way.

Therefore, if you want to build a crow communication network, you must set up a crow shed as a node in every place where you often need to send letters, and train crows on the spot.

The Riverside Castle is the fourth raven node set up by Charlotte, the first one. The second one is naturally in the Viscountry of Lanwan and the County of Ambulatu, and the third one is near the Oak Castle of the Earl of Quick Forest.

Supervising the craftsmen to set up the Crow Shed in an abandoned watchtower in the southwest section of the riverside castle wall, Charlotte walked down the arrow tower with a piece of parchment and went straight to Jose Melfield's study.

Rosie was playing with Sean in the garden, and only Jose Melfield was in the study. After the Duke of Greenfield "recovered", Rosie's power was taken back. Rosie had mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, she felt a little lost, but on the other hand, she felt relieved. The position of the Grand Duke of Greenfield was really not something that ordinary people could hold.

"Charlotte, what do you need?" Jose Melfield put down the work in front of him and asked when he saw his daughter come in.

"Father, do you recognize these things?" Charlotte handed the parchment to Jose Melfield.

Jose Melfield took the parchment and opened it, only to see a line of strange symbols drawn on it. He looked at it for a while and asked in confusion, "What is this?"

"I don't know either." Charlotte shook her head.

"Then why do you ask me about it?" Jose Melfield asked curiously.

"I saw this in the corner of the castle over there." Charlotte pointed in the direction she came from and said, "It looks like some kind of secret code, so I copied it down to ask my father."

Jose Melfield frowned when he heard this: "Take me to see it."

Charlotte brought Jose Melfield to the abandoned watchtower that had been converted into a crow shed, and then Duke Greenfield saw the exact same symbol in the corner of the watchtower.

These symbols were basically the secret codes of the Silver Star Hermitage. Of course, they were not carved by the Silver Star Hermitage members, but Charlotte asked Renee to carve them secretly at night a few days ago. Charlotte didn't know what these secret codes meant. Linda only remembered a few of them. Charlotte felt that they were like words, so she randomly arranged them to make them look like that.

If someone from the Silver Star Hermitage were to comment on this, they would probably say, "There are at least seven grammatical errors in this sentence."

However, for Charlotte, it didn't matter what the code meant. What Charlotte really wanted Jose Melefield to see was only the independent symbol at the beginning of the code.

It was a symbol with a circle and a cross made up of four straight lines on the top, and a rhombus with curved edges on the bottom. Charlotte naturally recognized the pattern of the circle and cross on the top. It was the holy emblem of the church in this world, called the "wheel star", symbolizing the sun and light.

This symbol, which is closely related to the holy emblem, seems to be the symbol of the Silver Star Hermitage. According to Linda, the shadow wizard used this symbol to identify himself when contacting Allen Fehrenbach.

"Does father recognize these symbols?" Charlotte asked again, looking at Jose Melfield who was squatting and observing the secret code.

Originally, Charlotte just wanted to give Jose Melefield some reminders through these symbols. However, when Jose Melefield touched the symbol composed of the "wheel star" and the curved diamond with his fingers, he gave Charlotte another unexpected answer.

"If I remember correctly, this should be the emblem of Pope Saint Roman." Jose Melefel replied in a deep voice.

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Volume 78: Chapter 70 Chapter Ethel's heart is known to everyone

Pope Roman, the inventor of the holy anointing oil, a sacred tool used by the church to test qualifications, was recognized as a saint by the church after his death, so later generations are accustomed to calling him "Saint Roman" when they mention him.

Every saint in the church has an emblem that represents his or her identity. The emblem of Saint Roman is a wheel star with a curved diamond.

Why did the Silver Star Hermitage use the emblem of Saint Roman to represent their identity? Could it be that all the people in this hermitage were followers of Saint Roman?

But the problem is that Saint Roman is an ancient man from the Wimbledon Empire. Now the Oran Empire has replaced the Wimbledon Empire for a thousand years, and Saint Roman has been dead for at least a thousand or several hundred years.

After such a long time, there are still believers of Saint Roman in the church and among the monks?

The saints of the church are not the Confucian saints of Charlotte’s previous life. There are at least 800 saints certified by the church in this world, if not a thousand. The value of these saints is relatively low.

Many church saints may win a lot of "fans" because of their virtues and deeds during their lifetime, but after their death, as time goes by, these people gradually become symbols in the church story manual, and it is difficult for them to have any followers.

Why should Saint Roman be an exception?

While Charlotte was still pondering, Jose Melfield had already taken action.

The Duke of Greenfield reversed his previous friendly attitude of negotiating with Allen Fehrenbach on an equal footing, and successively arrested several priests and priest apprentices suspected of killing innocent people, looting property, and raping and robbing. Among them, several people with conclusive evidence were directly sentenced to death by hanging without informing the church.

After hearing the news, Alan Fehrenbach hurried to the riverside castle to visit Jose Mellerfield, but now Jose Mellerfield ignored him.

Charlotte could probably guess why Jose Melfield's attitude had changed so drastically.

The Duke of Greenfield had a miracle that was passed down from generation to generation, called the "Golden Ear" or the "Ear of Stealing Secrets". Even within the Melefield family, very few people knew about this miracle, but Charlotte, with her convenient identity, did know a little about it when she was a child.

The ancestors of the Melfield family said that the "Golden Ear" could spy on all the secrets that have happened in the world. Of course, there is inevitably some suspicion of bragging in this.

As far as Charlotte knows, the "Golden Ear" will not actively tell others any secrets. It is just a question-answering machine. The person who uses the miracle holds the "Golden Ear" in his hand and asks questions in his mind. The "Golden Ear" gives answers in the mind of the questioner, and its answers are only "yes" and "no". Moreover, the "Golden Ear" may also talk nonsense. For example, someone asks the "Golden Ear", "Is Charlotte a lecher?" If there is someone else named Charlotte in the world, then it is very likely to answer "no".

Therefore, it is very risky to pry into all the secrets of the world.

In addition, those who ask questions to the "Golden Ear" will have to pay an extremely heavy price.

The day after showing the Silver Star Order's secret code to Jose Melfeld, Charlotte noticed that her father was missing one of his loyal guards who had followed him for many years.

Charlotte estimated that Jose Melfeld had most likely asked his guards to ask the "Golden Ear" a question like "Is the assassin who assassinated the Duke of Greenfield Jose Melfeld related to the church?" and received a positive answer.

However, in view of the insufficient evidence at hand and the nonsense nature of the "Golden Ear", Jose Melfield did not directly break off relations with the church. He simply captured some marginal figures to crack down on the church.

A few days later, Jose Melfield had basically arranged the internal affairs of the principality and then decided to set off for Platinum City.

Charlotte, Rosie, Sean, and Andre, who had been locked up at home these days, went with Jose Melfield, along with hundreds of knights, knights' squires, cooks, servants and other entourage.

With so many people traveling together, they naturally had to choose a carriage as their means of transportation. Some servants were not even qualified to ride in a carriage and could only walk, so the speed of travel was very limited.

When Charlotte returned from Platinum City, she took a giant eagle and flew day and night, and it took only five or six days to reach the destination. However, this time, after five days, she had not even completed one-third of the journey to Platinum City.

Charlotte, who was bored from riding in the carriage, called her little knight Anna Durant to play some games. The taste of a young girl is fresh and delicious, but Anna Durant is a virgin and probably lacks experience in masturbation. She is always at a loss at the critical moment, which makes Charlotte always lack the sense and neither get up nor down. So Charlotte called Beatrice Durant to the carriage and asked her to teach her daughter some knowledge of the boudoir and demonstrate it by the way.

After a few days of gaming, Charlotte's gaming experience was indeed improved qualitatively.

Another evening, the convoy arrived at a large village and set up camp outside the village. The knights and manor owners of status in the village came out to pay homage to the Duke of Greenfield. Jose Melfield was relatively easy to talk to in this regard. When he encountered such a situation along the way, he would meet with all of them if he had time, and today was no exception.

Charlotte had nothing to do, so she took Renee out for a walk.

While taking a walk, Charlotte suddenly noticed that her brother was sitting by a ditch, holding a piece of dry grass in his mouth, looking at the afterglow of the setting sun in the sky, his silhouette looking lonely and desolate.

"Brother, what are you thinking about?" Charlotte sat next to Andre and asked.

Charlotte thought her brother had gone mad from the confinement during this period of time—even when traveling, Jose Melefield had the guards watch over Andre and not allow him to move freely—and she wanted to comfort him. But when Andre opened his mouth, he said, "I was thinking about Mary."

"Ah? Who is Mary?" Charlotte was puzzled.

"Oh, she is Viscount Chester's niece. You may not have seen her." Speaking of this topic, Andre suddenly became excited. "If you have seen her, you will definitely be impressed by her. She is a lively and beautiful girl like a butterfly. I met her in the evening that day. There was such a brilliant sunset and sunset glow in the sky..."

"Stop, stop, stop," Charlotte paused her brother's vivid description with a pause gesture and asked incredulously, "Andre, how long has it been? How did you get involved with Viscount Chester's niece again?"

"What do you mean by getting together?" Andre retorted, "I just admire Mary's charm."

"Does she also covet your beauty?" Charlotte asked again.

"Why is it beauty? Don't say it so harshly." Andre was even more dissatisfied.

Charlotte rolled her eyes. "What else can I say? Talent? Brother, why don't I remember you having that kind of thing?"

"How come I don't have any? I even wrote poems..." Andre muttered weakly.

"I swung the sword of ice and snow to split the pale wilderness. I laughed in the sky, and the thunder passed by..." Charlotte chanted.

“Ahhh… Stop carrying me!”

Andre screamed and rushed over to cover Charlotte's mouth.

Charlotte put out her hand to block her brother's attack, but she didn't carry him on her back.

"Those were poems I wrote many years ago. How come you still remember them?" Andre complained.

Charlotte shook her head and replied, "I memorized the masterpiece you wrote when you were thirteen or fourteen."

"Why are you carrying that kind of thing?" Andre's face flushed red. He couldn't understand how there could be someone as boring as Charlotte in the world.