OBS Chapter 156 New Development Direction
Chapter 156 New Development Direction
The next morning, John left the city of Niland with the White Wolf Knights and the artillery unit, leaving only the infantry regiment stationed here to eliminate the remaining Yoda forces and ensure the safety of the construction workers who arrived later during the process of building the fortress. About a year later, this place will become another Franche-Comté territory.
In the middle of the army, John's carriage was guarded by the White Wolf Knights, and behind it was Matilda's carriage. As for her, John planned to send a hundred-man team of White Wolf Knights to escort her to Windham. Of course, he couldn't personally escort her thousands of miles for a girl he just met. John would definitely not do such a dog-licking behavior.
After entering Franche-Comté, there were more people on the road. Most of them pushed carts full of crops to sell in major cities, and some drove ox carts and horse carriages on the avenue. Thanks to John's comprehensive infrastructure construction in the territory, otherwise so many vehicles would definitely cause medieval traffic jams in other territories.
When people saw the White Wolf Knights riding their horses, they consciously dispersed to both sides of the road, leaving the wide road in the middle for the White Wolf Knights. When they saw a carriage with John's family emblem printed on it appear in the team, the crowd burst into warm cheers.
Even Matilda in the carriage opened the window because of the noise outside. Outside the White Wolf Knights' escort, people stopped to watch the White Wolf Knights returning in triumph. Although they didn't know where these knights had gone, they understood that every time the White Wolf Knights were dispatched, it meant that something threatening the territory was about to be eliminated.
In their eyes, John was the incarnation of God sent by Heaven to save them, and those White Wolf Knights in silver-white armor were angels who guarded the people in the territory and saved them from their original suffering.
Lively and full of hope, this is Matilda's first impression of the residents. Matilda has lived in the Yoda Capital for a long time. As the pearl of the Yoda Empire, although the capital is very prosperous, numbness has become the expression on the faces of most local citizens.
As the war continued, the citizens went from being excited about the beginning of the war to looking forward to the end of it, and finally to being numb about their future lives. However, Franche-Comté was located in the border area where the war was most frequent. According to Matilda's common sense, the people here should be suffering more than those in the capital far behind, but now the opposite result made her a little confused.
Amid the cheers of the people, the White Wolf Knights entered the Count of Franche-Comté Castle. The citizens in the city were no longer surprised by the frequent conscription of the White Wolf Knights. Although they were not as enthusiastic about the knights as the people outside the city, the enthusiasm of the children for the knights was not diminished at all. These children, who were still in their innocence, ran around the team from time to time, and some even followed the knights with wooden swords, as if they were also one of the knights. As a result, they were dragged back home by their parents who came and rushed over.
However, John did not have time to observe the scene outside. What he was more concerned about was whether there was anything major happening in the territory this week.
After returning to the office in the castle, John breathed a sigh of relief while looking at the documents on the table. Fortunately, this week was another peaceful week.
John first picked up the top document, the main content of which was about the recent indigenous uprising. With the support of artillery, Charlie led the Black Watch to defeat the indigenous army and killed the apostle known as the Son of God. He found Behelet among them and stored him in a cloth bag on the table.
As soon as he heard that Behelet had been found, John couldn't wait to open the cloth bag and take out the stone with facial features inside. As Behelet gradually dissipated in John's hands, the number of Behelet in the system task (2/10) also increased to 3/10), and John was one step closer to obtaining Warhammer Total War.
The next few documents were reports on some things in various territories. These things had either been resolved or required John's approval. After carefully reviewing the contents of the documents, John signed and stamped them as usual, and then lay on the table thinking about the next developments.
Currently, John has to face two major issues. The first one is about the fortification construction of Nilan Territory, and the second one is about obtaining the task of Warhammer 3.
The construction of Niland Territory must be the first thing to be resolved. After all, this time the territory has been seized to the homeland of the Yoda Empire. As long as Emperor Yoda is not suffering from Alzheimer's disease, he will definitely react. At that time, he may ask part of the Yoda Legion on the southern battlefield to move north to put pressure on John.
However, there is one advantage to occupying the Territory of Niland this time, which is that there is an additional trade route with the Kingdom of Barden. In the past, caravans could travel to Barden via the forest paths in the Forest Territory. Now, since the newly occupied Territory of Niland borders the southern part of Barden, caravans from Franche-Comté can first go east to the Territory of Niland, and then go north directly to the southern part of Barden. The journey is as long as taking the route through the Forest Territory, but because it is traveling on the plains, the speed can be greatly increased.
Now cross-border commercial trade has gradually become another pillar industry in John's territory. As John establishes connections with surrounding countries and opens ports, more and more foreign merchants settle down in John's territory, bringing with them various artifacts, animals and plants, and some technologies, such as the shipbuilding technology of Ys. In the document report of Beigang, John learned that the shipyard is working hard to research and develop the galleon with the help of the shipbuilders of Ys. Next year, John will be able to welcome the first independently developed galleon in his territory.
Moreover, with the opening of the northward route to Balden, John can also choose to purchase stones in Balden to build the Niland Territory, which will speed up the construction in disguise and achieve multiple goals at one stroke.
Now that he had a clue about the development of the territory, the next question was how to find the apostles in a short time. Although John had tried his best to look for them within his own territory, the apostles seemed unwilling to settle in a war-torn area. John searched the territory thoroughly, but found no apostles, not even a single strange creature.
"Do we really have to wait until the main storyline begins to start looking for them?" John complained distressedly. After all, if he waited until then to hunt down the apostles, it would not only take more time, but also according to the combat effectiveness of those apostles in the future, his soldiers would probably suffer heavy casualties.
After thinking about it, John looked at the statue of the French King's Hall next to the table and suddenly had an idea.
Apostles are usually cruel, with monster faces and brutal personalities, which makes people think of them as cults. Although the apostles in Midland today are not like the main storyline where they occupy a mountain and bully the people every day, there are always a few who can't control their desires and secretly do some anti-human things.
Once witnessed, whether these apostles are found in human or monster form, they will eventually be classified as cultists and reported to the Inquisition in Midland. However, these Inquisitions cannot and will not accept them. First, they do not have enough manpower to do these things, and second, the local lords will not tolerate an army of outsiders wandering around in their territories. The only thing they can do is to put the "cultists" escorted here by the lords of various places into prison, and find a day to try and execute them.
What John had to do was to use his position in the religious knights to compete with the Inquisition for work. Anyway, those people in the Inquisition were just freeloaders and they wouldn't dare to catch any real heretics. It would be better to let the Crusader Knights go out and do the work for them, which would not only give them face, but also help John gain favor in front of the French King's Hall.
By the way, if there really is an apostle who can help John speed up his progress, after all, most of the hidden apostles are not very strong. If they were strong, they would have gone down the mountain and started killing people like that native apostle.
Of course, John couldn't do it in his own name. The last time he got close to the French King's Office, it caused all kinds of unnecessary troubles. If he did it again now, there was no guarantee that Windham's group of idle ministers would criticize him again.
Then it’s time to take out your universal vest in the French King’s Hall, Pros, it’s decided that it’s you!