Chapter 729
Of course, there are still some difficulties in getting wizards involved in the specific breeding work, such as Anderson, who is in charge of the breeding, who happens to be a clergyman.
Due to well-known reasons, the relationship between the two groups is relatively tense. If they are allowed to come into contact because of work, it is hard to guarantee that they will cause trouble.
It is best to keep them from coming into contact in terms of procedures.
Paul instructed the newly established Ministry of Magic to solve this problem.
This is a small secret department, at least it is secret at this stage. Wizards and magic are objective things, and as he understands more and more, Paul feels that the actual scale of this group is not small, so it is necessary to set up a full-time agency to handle related affairs.
Originally, he intended to let his most trusted wizard Ladi Setia be in charge of this agency, but was firmly rejected by the wizard lady. He had to let Cecil select the most tight-lipped person from the Intelligence Department to be in charge, and select people from the wizard group who came to take refuge as subordinates.
The head of the Ministry of Magic must undergo regular or random mental examinations by Ladi Setia.
Hansel told Paul about his experience in Jingyao, the capital, including the fact that he was invited by King Rodney XVIII. The king asked him what he thought of Paul and his reply to the king, and Hansel told him everything.
He looked at Paul with cautious eyes, as if to find out whether the lord would be dissatisfied with his reply to the king. When he saw that the other party just smiled and shrugged his shoulders, Hansel breathed a sigh of relief.
"His Majesty will send some young generals to the Northwest Bay. He hopes that you can command them like your own soldiers and let them be stationed at the forefront against the orcs."
"To exercise grassroots experience? We can arrange positions for them."
"Her Highness Catherine will come to the Northwest Bay with them."
Paul nodded. It seems that Alda will welcome a hostess.
"Well, there have been personnel changes in the royal government recently."
"Is there anything special to pay attention to?"
"The Chancellor of the Exchequer promoted a guy named Trevor Stuart as one of his deputies!"
Paul noticed the disrespect in Hansel's tone, and doubts appeared in his eyes.
Hansel introduced: "The Stuart family has always been famous in the financial world of Jingyao."
The so-called "finance" in this era is actually - lending!
Hansel's face flashed a trace of disgust: "Although many people are in this business, the Stuart family is particularly unscrupulous. But there is no way, the royal government needs such a money bag now."
Paul heard that this prominent reputation is obviously negative.
"Trevor talked to me privately. He is very interested in our Northwest Bank and bond issuance. Oh, and your insights on the nature of money. According to him, he always had some unformed and unsystematic concepts lingering in his mind. Until he heard your high-sounding remarks from others, he felt that the sky suddenly cleared up. He regretted that he was not there to communicate with you in person at that time."
"It's just that he thinks your current approach is still too conservative. If you are willing to cooperate with the Stuart family, he is willing to provide us with more financial support and... more creative ideas he has come up with."
Paul spread his hands, "For such people, we should stay away from them!"
He did not intend to respond to Mr. Trevor's invitation.
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In the corner bay, Niceburg was in the most critical moment.
As the largest city in the region, Niceburg has a significant effect on population absorption. In addition to the urban area protected by the towering city walls, there are also large buildings outside the city walls.
Before the arrival of the Crusaders, Niceburg had urgently built a temporary wall to protect its periphery, but it was soon breached by the Crusaders, and all the building areas outside the wall fell into the hands of the enemy.
The Crusaders made sufficient preparations to capture this large city. Huge catapults were arranged around Niceburg. Soldiers placed huge stones in bullet bags, turned the winch to pull the long arm back to an almost horizontal position, and then suddenly released it. The bullet bag quickly rose and threw the stone out. Accompanied by a terrifying whistle, the stone bullet hit Niceburg like a meteor.
As a long-range weapon, the catapult has poor accuracy and can hardly hit any precise target it wants to hit, but when there are many of them and the entire city is targeted, it is terrifying.
Almost no civilian buildings in the city can withstand the huge stone bullets falling from the sky. Countless houses were destroyed, and the miserable situation of those who were hit by the boulders was even more shocking.
In addition to throwing stones, the actual attack on the city has not stopped. Whenever the stone bomb offensive paused temporarily, the soldiers of the Crusaders pushed siege towers, ladders and other equipment, and launched attacks under the cover of arrow towers, each time more fiercely than the last.
With the fall of major ports on land, the navy of the Horn Bay Alliance was greatly weakened due to the loss of reinforcements from land, and was defeated by the Crusaders' fleet in succession.
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The navy, once the pride of the alliance, had to retreat part of its forces to the last port, that is, Niceburg, and let the crew go ashore to help defend the city. The other part was broken up into small-scale pirate gangs, desperately harassing the Crusaders' passing ships at sea.
Small -scale disturbances cannot prevent the increasingly large maritime power of the escort army -some come from the support of the Holy See, and some come from recruiting rebellions.
The fleet of the escort army surrounded the port group, because the port had a large iron chain blockade, they could not rush in for the time being.
Whether it is on land or on the sea, the communication between Nisburg and the outside world has been completely cut off.
The people inside don't know how the allies in other places are, they may still fight.
Maybe it has fallen into the enemy's iron hoof, and the entire Protestant League has only the place where Niceburgh is left.
The whole city is shrouded in a doomsday atmosphere. The people in it can insist that it is entirely because of the fear of punishing the church after the city breaks.
After the start of the war, the Jiao Bay Church has made various ruthless words in order to deter the Protestant League, but now it has become the "pillar of the soul" of the Nisburg people.
All strong men were mobilized, and they were stationed on the city wall day and night to resist the guardian of the nursing army. Those women with good physical strength were also arranged for various logistics work.
The old and weak and disabled gathered in various churches, praying day and night to pray that the Lord of the Light was redeemed, and punished the degeneration of the act of violations in the name of the Father outside the city.
Perhaps because of their prayer prayer, miracles really happened.