Chapter 38 Lysa's Exploration and Taran's Performance
Lisa shuttled through the jungle as nimble as a butterfly. After purchasing a low-level ritual vessel from the Torch Church, she began to wander around the more remote areas of Crescent Moon Territory.
It’s a pity that I can’t buy high-level ritual objects. I guess I have to order that kind of thing from the Holy City of the Torch Church.
The golden eyes gave her vision far superior to that of ordinary people, and she didn't need to find the hideout directly, she just needed to find the traces.
As long as they are alive, they will always leave traces, no matter how careful these evil cultists are.
After all, as long as a person is alive, he or she needs to eat, drink, defecate and urinate, which will inevitably lead to the consumption of materials.
In the past, because of her noble status and bloodline, no one dared to assign her such a difficult task, but that didn't mean she couldn't do it well.
She had never slacked off in the practice of her craft, and the jungle, filled with beasts, insects, and vines, was no different to her than wandering around her lair.
In fact, there are not many remote places where people can hide, and Crescent Moon Collar is not particularly big, so she just needs to search for them one by one.
When she thought about getting the "reward" when she returned, she felt a little hot.
The Crescent Territory is about 3,000 acres. With the current productivity, this amount of land can support 12 armored knights. However, since this place is relatively remote, the previous baron who died at the hands of Rand and the baron before that who died at the hands of the Rensar army were not particularly good at management.
Today only five villages remain, and a town that serves as the ostensible administrative center.
Just as Lysa was trudging through the dense forest looking for clues to the Cult of the God of Struggle's hideout, Taran looked at Ellie and Olenna nervously, who brought Rand's handwritten letter.
Now that Rand asked him to manage the town, he was really flattered. He worked hard every day, his nerves tense, for fear of making mistakes and disappointing Rand's expectations. He didn't expect that he, a former bandit leader, would be entrusted with such an important task.
At least managing a relatively prosperous small town was something he had never dared to dream of.
Taran's office was in a small courtyard that he had people vacate. As for the castle where the baron used to stay, he did not dare to enter without permission before Rand gave clear instructions.
As for the fact that he joined the den earlier than these two beauties but his current status is not as high as theirs, he has no complaints at all. Everything now has already made him flattered.
After receiving the letter, he read it carefully and asked Ellie for help on the words he didn't recognize. After confirming that there was no ambiguity, Taran solemnly confirmed, "The Lord Emissary wants me to face the Emissary of the Torch Church on his behalf, right?"
Ellie nodded and said, "Rand wants you to play him and not let the messenger see the flaw."
In fact, there is no flaw. This messenger definitely does not know Rand or Taran.
Olena also spoke up at this time: "If there are any issues that are really uncertain, you can delay and discuss them with us after the messenger leaves."
Taran thought carefully about what he could and could not do in order to fit the image of a qualified barony ruler.
Looking at Taran who was lost in thought, Ellie asked in confusion: "Did you misunderstand something?"
Taran bent down a little and asked, "May I ask what you may ask?"
Ellie rolled her eyes. “You’re overdoing it. Just act like yourself.”
In the eyes of outsiders, the Crescent Moon Territory is now occupied by unknown bandits due to war. When the Frost Moon Kingdom is free, this place will be just a tiny place that can be conquered in the blink of an eye.
The Torch Church messenger came here just to prevent these robbers from destroying church assets without any tact.
And such a bandit should naturally not look too much like a politically skilled aristocrat.
All I can say is that Taran is the most suitable actor for this role. Rand is too young and doesn't look like the character.
And Taran was indeed a bandit when he was young, so as long as he plays the role in his true colors, there won't be any flaws.
Taran naturally followed suit. He knew very well that these two beautiful women who had always stayed by the side of the messenger of God must understand the messenger of God better than he did.
And after their explanation, he felt it made a lot of sense.
Taran straightened his robe and gave some instructions to his men, and soon the messenger of the Torch Church arrived.
The messenger was dressed in a fiery red robe and had red accessories on his body.
A gilded belt was worn around her waist.
Although they were all wearing red clothes, they looked much warmer and gentler than the blood-red clothes of the followers of the God of Struggle.
The messenger came to the hall holding a wooden staff and performed a relatively universal etiquette.
He was not surprised that Taran did not live in the Baron's castle. It was normal for a greenwood who had never been a noble to be in awe of the symbols of nobility.
However, these were not within his consideration. He only needed to ensure that the church obtained the property. After the greetings, he said, "Hello, will you interfere with the church's mission?"
Taran's not particularly old face slightly relaxed, and he looked at the messenger somewhat mercenarily: "What good is there in not interfering with you?"
The messenger was still not surprised. After all, although such scenes were rare, he had seen them before.
Mr. Taran was very considerate of the Church of the Torch by not directly robbing its property.
The messenger saluted again, it was completely acceptable to give the Taran bandit some assets, otherwise he would become angry and suffer greater losses.
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So he replied, "Our church is willing to donate all the church properties in Crescent."
The church has quite a bit of land in Crescent Moon Territory, but it is completely fine to donate it all to Taran now. Once the Frost Moon Kingdom has time to wipe out this group of bandits, they can naturally take it back.
Now, there is no need to talk about any big principles with the robbers. All we need to do is to protect the core assets of the church.
Taran followed Rand's will and naturally did not want to provoke the Torch Church now. Seeing that they were willing to make such concessions, Taran decided to stop while he was ahead.
The income from the church's real estate is quite a lot. Before, people were afraid to touch it because they were afraid of being held accountable by the church. Now that they have taken over the real estate, it is enough to feed many villagers.
That's great.
As for the issue of missionary work, only freemen and nobles were qualified to believe in religion.
The faith of the Cult of the Goddess of Plenty will only be spread to the most loyal members of the den.
At least that was the case at this stage. As for how the sect would develop in the future, that was decided by the Lord God, and he had no right to comment.
After the messenger left, Ellie and Olenna came out from behind the scenes, expressed their approval of Taran's performance, and prepared to leave.
Before they set off, Rand pitifully asked them to go back quickly.
Although they feel they would be exploited if they go back, they also don't want the development of their base to stagnate due to slow business processing, so that the plan cannot be advanced in time.
After leaving Taran's yard, the messenger of the Torch Church did not intend to return to the Holy City of the Torch Church immediately for reply.
He came here with another mission, which was to find someone.
The Torch Church headquarters has lost a top-level paladin with great talent. According to the bishop in charge of that paladin, he was lost.
Although he also didn't know how an adult top-level paladin could get lost.
But since the church had assigned him a task, he would naturally not neglect it, so he decided to explore this Crescent Moon Territory, perhaps there would be clues.
During the heyday of the fiefdom system, a baron had about 3,000 acres, 3,000 men, 12 knights (armored cavalry), 12 retainers (medium cavalry), and 75 infantry (25 of whom were responsible for guarding the house). This standard applies to the early Middle Ages (also to the Five Dynasties in China), and it was doubled in the late Middle Ages. In fact, a great baron could have more than 40 knights, close to the standard 50 knights of a standard earl, and a small baron had at least 4 knights, which is one-third of the standard (I suspect that the oldest fiefdom in the era of Charles Martel the Hammer was one baron and four nights). The barons of the Greek state established by the Fourth Crusade also had about 25 cavalry, which should be the original state of the baron.
(End of this chapter)