"Ham, take your men to search this church. Remember to destroy the statue of the goddess to avoid any mistakes." Redel gave the order despite the tingling in his brain. Then, without resting, he took the rest of the men and began to clean up the battlefield, especially to bury the bodies of the miners properly.
More than 40 people died in the attack on the church. Redel couldn't help but sigh. Although he had already valued these clergymen very much and brought all the captured crossbows, the opponent's strength still exceeded his expectations...
Fortunately, everything is over! After cleaning up the things here, it was already evening. Ham and his men had already counted the finances of Count Joyce. Boxes of gold coins and treasures filled the entire treasury, which was dazzling to see.
Redel began his usual action, which was to gather all the poor people and miners in the town together and divide the treasure and Joyce's land.
"Are you really going to divide it all?" Ham couldn't help but ask. When he was in the baron's territory before, he felt a little incredible when he saw Redel dividing the property. This was worth at least tens of thousands of imperial gold coins! "Of course, according to Lord Lin, these riches were squeezed out of the poor by the earl. Now I am just returning it to them." Redel said very solemnly, and after a pause, he continued to speak. "Otherwise, can we take all these things away?"
This is obviously unrealistic...
Redel knew that although he had captured the count's castle, he could not defend the castle with just a few scattered soldiers, let alone fight against the regular army. He could only keep running and moving.
Carrying these treasures would only slow down their movement. Wouldn't it be better to have extra bags to hold food and clothes?
Ham looked at Redel's guards with both admiration and pity as they opened boxes full of gold and silver and distributed them to the miners and the poor.
Many people were afraid to accept the kindness of Redel and others, and even suspected that they had some ulterior motives. Redel didn't care, as trust always takes a process.
Under the temptation of real benefits, the vast majority of miners and poor people chose to accept their kindness.
Joyce's wealth seemed to be huge, but many of them were treasures that could not be valued. After the rest was divided, each person could only receive about thirty silver coins. As for the miners who participated in the battle, they received a gold coin as a reward for their heroic actions.
Redel's generosity was also the reason why these people were so morale-boosted that they dared to destroy the statue of the goddess.
After dividing the earl's gold and silver and bringing the two sides closer together, Redel used his trump card, which was to hold a large bonfire party, where everyone gathered together to denounce the harsh treatment by previous supervisors and nobles.
For example, Baron Elvis was greedy and stingy. The manor he built was extremely luxurious, but he was only willing to give the miners who risked their lives to dig ore in the mine a few pieces of black bread and hard-to-swallow wheat porridge. Even eating half full was a luxury.
Another example is a cruel official who got drunk and whipped himself in public for no reason...
There were so many similar sufferings that even if one talked about them for days and nights, they could not finish describing them. Those high and mighty noble lords did not treat them as human beings at all. The various exorbitant taxes from the territory and the church almost crushed them. Just staying alive was a luxury.
At first, the poor people in the earldom only dared to stand far away and listen, but soon they became more and more angry, and finally joined in with curses...
Many poor people and miners ate "delicious" white bread for the first time, and they could also gnaw on a leg of lamb, or drink some "noble" red wine, and experience the luxurious life of the aristocracy.
"Lord Redel, were you the one who summoned divine punishment today in the church?" A young miner couldn't help but ask while the bonfire party was going on.
Ham and the others looked over at once. The scene in the church was beyond their comprehension. Continuous lightning bolts fell from the sky, almost breaking their eardrums, and instantly split the bishop, who they thought was too powerful to be defeated, into a charred corpse. In the minds of Ham and the others, only divine punishment could describe such a horrific scene!
"No, that's not a divine punishment. It's the application of the laws of electromagnetism..." Redel hurriedly explained.
But everyone present was completely confused. The accumulation of electric charges and the potential difference were far beyond the scope of their brains' comprehension.
Most people firmly believe that Redel must have been blessed by God!
Some miners from the barony even boasted about how Redel led them to kill the evil overseer, how they raided the barony at night and killed Baron Elvis in his sleep, and then they continued to advance triumphantly, scaring the Great Earl Joyce so much that he fled, not even daring to return to the castle.
Amid the boasting of the crowd, Redel's cheeks flushed red, and his face showed a bit of the embarrassment of a young man. Some of these deeds were indeed his work, but many of them were not his credit...
Especially when dealing with Joyce, he, who lacked leadership experience, often asked the mysterious wizard for advice. Even the method of calling on everyone to complain was taught to him by the wizard.
"You must have received guidance from the true gods!" a miner shouted excitedly. Since it was Redel who told them that the so-called Moon Goddess [Ella] was just a false god who used faith to fool them. She was no different from the terrifying and evil evil gods and demons in the legends, except that she was hidden more deeply.
Then Redel must have been received by the true God, or received divine revelation in a dream, to know all this.
Hearing this, Redel fell silent, because until now he still hadn't figured out who the mysterious and powerful wizard was, and why he chose him.
He only knew that the other party's profound knowledge was as vast as the ocean, and could even bestow magic on him. If the other party had not claimed to be a wizard, he would have been like these people, thinking that he had received true divine revelation.
However, in Redel's eyes, Lin En, who knew everything and displayed various magical powers, was no different from a god, and a god who was willing to save them, the humble miners...
(End of this chapter)