Chapter 861: The Border Knights have invaded?
The thrush sings, and the sky becomes white.

When Horn and a group of guards raised their heads, they could see the unique calls of black whistling thrushes piercing the sky.

As your eyes follow the whistling thrush, you can see wooden houses and huts scattered among the hills and valleys.

In Langsand County, timber-framed houses, which are clay houses with wooden frames, have become popular in rural areas.

That is, first use wood as thick as an arm to build a frame, like a hollow house, and then fill it with soil.

As for small towns and cities, they are gradually evolving towards brick and tile houses or even mortar houses.

But in the mountainous counties, wooden truss houses are still only found in urban areas.

There are only a few such houses in the countryside, such as the village church, barn and the home of the armed peasant.

If the Holy See lived in the year 1453 of the Imperial Calendar, then Longsand County and Lower River County lived in 1449, and several mountain counties were still living in 1444.

No wonder the people of Upper River County, even though they have fields and dams built at home, still want to run to Plain County.

Looking at his “hometown” which was desolate in the silence, Horn felt somewhat helpless.

Who doesn’t like a better living environment and higher salary levels?

The income from farming those few acres of thin land is not as good as working as a porter in a factory for a day. So why bother farming?
The accumulated rainwater reflected scattered golden light, and the fences cut out paths between the wheat fields and the puddles.

When they occasionally looked up, they could see dozens of white-armored cavalrymen lined up in a row in the distance.

They were dressed in the uniforms of the Holy Alliance, with sabers on their waists and a long holy gun hanging behind them.

After such a long time, these farmers have more or less figured out what the holy gun is.

The moment they saw Horn and his group, they took off their straw hats and waved them with awe and admiration, as a salute to the “soldiers”.

Horn also smiled and waved back. He turned around and said to Bonard beside him: “As for whether Andre is a qualified subordinate, he is definitely not.

If you ask whether Andre is a qualified legion commander or county governor, then he is indeed better than I thought. “

After Black Champion controlled the flood, he rushed to the front line without stopping.

Subsequent relief issues, including the logistical supply of the Iron Fist Legion, were all handled by local priests and religious orders.

Horn had just come out of the convent’s headquarters in Honey River Township. Combining the testimonies and investigations from various parties, it can only be said that the priest convent in Upper River County is doing an extremely bad job.

Few of them are corrupt, and it’s not that they shirk responsibility or are perfunctory, but they are just too rigid.

These monks were promoted from monasteries or unappreciated priests, and due to the tendency of censorship, their moral standards were not low.

But this leads to a problem, that is, shouting slogans is better than doing practical things.

Most monks would go to the countryside every now and then to shout slogans, demanding that they stabilize their permanent lease rights and rebuild the 100-household districts.

They gathered together and the patrolling monks read out the meaning, importance, and how to establish the hundred-household district.

After finishing the talk, I began to wait for the villagers to automatically build the 100-household district.

But to say that they are formalistic is not really the case.

They were also very anxious and had tried all sorts of methods, often even investing their own money, but to no avail.

In other words, whether it is the villagers or the monks, they still follow the old feudal dynasty ways.

The so-called centurionization and freedom were new demands of the new lords, and they just did as they were told.

Don’t know how to do it? Can’t do it? Then just take your time and try to find loopholes. They are too familiar with it.

They are all familiar with path dependence.

The Cheka can still do anything about the itinerant monks’ formalism, but can the Cheka still do anything about these villagers’ formalism?
To sum up, although the name has been changed to Priestly Order, the style of operation is still that of the church.

On the contrary, after Andrei arrived, he sent out soldiers, wielding whips, to force the villagers to establish military settlements and open up wasteland.

If there were no military settlements, Upper River County would probably be even more desolate than it is now. This Andre War Captain first predicted the Leia people’s reinforcements and then stabilized the situation in Upper River County.

It has to be said that Andre did play an indispensable role in the situation in Upper River County.

André Marseille, whose birth year is unknown, sometimes claimed to be thirty-three and sometimes thirty-five.

As for why his birth year is unknown, it is because Andre is an orphan and cannot remember his own age.

Even his last name “Marseille” was not his real last name but was added later based on the Marseille Regiment he served in.

In the Marseilles Regiment in Franchampagne, there was a large number of poor soldiers who originally had no surnames but were given the surname Marseille.

Just like the Holy See and Chikari, there are a bunch of loyal orphans with the surname Galar.

Andrei was abandoned by his parents and grew up in a monastery.

Thanks to the “benevolent state” policy of the previous King of France, the orphan actually learned a lot of words in the monastery.

However, although he grew up in a monastery, he was out of place in it.

According to the intelligence Horn obtained from the French spies, Captain Andre was a gangster who had been hanging out in the underworld since he was thirteen or fourteen years old.

Later, he learned a breathing method from somewhere and had an extremely high talent. At the age of fifteen or sixteen, he had already mastered the three-stage breathing method.

In the neighborhoods around Champaign, this level of skill is enough to make him a small leader of a street gang.

However, just as he captured the Tongluo district, Prime Minister Lorenzo issued an order for compulsory conscription.

In all urban areas, those who have reached the fourth level of breathing techniques or above will be directly awarded the rank of sergeant and then forced to join the army.

Coincidentally, the day before the decree was issued, Andre had just been promoted to the fourth level of breathing method.

If it were Horn or Jinigis, they might not be able to pass the test. The second-stage breathing magic legion is recruited at discretion.

It must be said that after Horn knew Andre’s background, he vaguely understood his logic.

He has the personality of a street thug with a fiery and reckless temper.

After joining the army, although the intelligence in the spy’s hands had some blacked-out parts, it was much clearer than before joining the army.

In his first year in the army, he suppressed bandits and robbers, led by example and gained merit, becoming the captain.

The following year, he suppressed the uprising of the nobles. He disobeyed orders, fought in the dark and beheaded the enemy leader, causing the enemy’s morale to collapse, and was awarded the position of centurion.

In the third year, he was demoted to the lowest position for embezzling military pay, but that year he gained ██ merits in the war with the ██ Kingdom and was promoted to centurion.

In the fourth year, he was stripped of his military rank again because he did not return home after having sex with a prostitute, which caused chaos in the legion during the king’s inspection.

For the following twelve years, it was almost a cycle of “achievements – promotion – greed/lust – demotion”.

At one point, Andre even became the adjutant of the Marseille Corps commander, but he was wanted for embezzling military pay to give pensions to his subordinates and having sex with the Corps commander’s wife and daughter.

With the help of a group of his old subordinates, Andrei fled to the Thousand River Valley and became a boatman.

Later, when the Thousand Valley War broke out, Andre chose to join the Holy Sun Army out of simple moral values ​​and his uneasy heart.

Starting from scratch again, with no ceiling for military careers as a civilian, he actually made it to the position of chapter leader.

However, it is hard to say whether it will happen again in the future.

Valentyl should have met Andre for three to five days at this moment. I wonder how things are going over there?

But no matter what, Horn is still meeting with local representatives one by one to reorganize these priests and religious orders.

But on the evening of this day, when Horn was about to return from visiting Honey River Township, he heard an unimaginable piece of news:

“The Border Knights are breaking in?!”

(End of this chapter)