February 16th, clouds.

Without the burden of infantry and military rations and supplies, all the fast-paced Besanson interview teams arrived at the western border of Jona Province in less than five days and entered the territory of the capital Besanson.

In addition to Att, Caitlan and Banting, the team that met with Besanson also had a twelve-man Baron Guard led by the priest Robert and Ron, the seventeen-man task force led by Stanley, and Caitlan and Banting's servant guards, a total of fifty people, all of whom were riding horses and armed with weapons, and the team's tail was accompanied by more than ten pack horses.

In addition to carrying the food and fodder consumed by the audience team, these pack horses were more expensive goods specially brought to Besanson by the three lords. After finally coming to the capital, they would definitely bring generous gifts to those powerful people who were about to become important officials of the Belgian Kingdom. In this regard, Yat is also unavoidable, and he has the most things. Half of the pack horses are the goods carried by Yat, because he also has the most people to visit.

When the team passed through Val City, Yat stopped for a long time, because there were eighty or ninety prisoners sent from the East to defend the city in Val City. There were originally more than one hundred people sent from the East, but in the past few months, some people ran away one after another, so there were still eighty or ninety people left.

Yat kept its promise and announced the restoration of their free status. These people were all deported prisoners with weak combat power. Yat entrusted the garrison commander of Val City to place them on their behalf, either to dismiss or to retain the garrisoned castle.

After crossing Val, everyone turned into ruins and rubble, and the closer they got to Besanson, the more corrosive it became.

War is a demon that devours all the good things. In just half a year of fierce fighting, the wealth in the capital area has razed the ruins of the scorched earth.

The fertile land in the past was full of moldy crops. Men were forced to fight and die in the battlefield. The elderly, women and children stayed in their hometowns and became the targets of slaughtering and venting anger during wars and fights. These golden waves of wheat in autumn were harvested and turned into moldy weeds in the fields. The prosperous villages, towns and castles and castles, all of which were charred and desolate. The stone walls were smashed, wooden houses were burned, and mills were demolished. It was difficult to see a complete building along the way except for the church.

After the war was suspended, the surviving farmers began to return to their homes. They knelt in front of their houses that had turned into flat ground and cried bitterly, and then dragged their weak bodies to rebuild their homes...

Sir Banting rode on a tall horse and looked at the farmlands on both sides of the road from time to time, old farmers were hunched over or simply lying on the ground. "What are those untouchables doing on the ground?"

"Mr. Banting, these farmers are picking up the food that has not yet been rotten in the fields to satisfy their hunger. The war comes too fast. Farmers don't have time to harvest the food in the fields. These things are rotten in the fields~" Ron answered Banting's question in a deep voice. He was too familiar with such a scene. No matter who wins and loses the end of the war, these untouchables will be the ones who will fail in the end.

"These are definitely inferior and chaotic people who support the Western Army, and deserve to starve to death!" Banting was born as an Earl's Nephew, inheriting the Lord of his father, and of course he would not sympathize with these inferior and inferior people at all.

Yat was worried that Banting's words were a little irritating. After all, Ron was a pariah, but he accidentally looked back at Ron and found that there was no abnormal movement on Ron's cold face. "Sir Banting, these farmers will be the leaders of the New Bo Kingdom in the future. If they starve to death, they will damage the national strength of Bo Kingdom."

Banting didn't think that dying some untouchables would damage the national strength of Bo, but he didn't dare to directly refute Yat's words and stammered them.

When Yat walked past the old farmer next to the road, the old farmer looked up at the passing people, with a dodging awe in his eyes, but he could also see a hint of murderous intent of hatred.

"Maybe the relatives of this old farmer were killed by people like him, maybe his home was burned by people like him, maybe he had also been bullied and exploited by people like him..." Yat thought to himself, looking at the old farmer for a moment, then turned his head and kicked the horse and continued moving forward.

After walking for a while, the group arrived at a temporary outpost next to the road. It was close to the city of Besanson and its defense became more and more rigorous.

Ronzer immediately informed the team of his identity and handed the palace document book to a small officer in charge of the outpost to check. The little officer was probably not literate. He just glanced at the seal at the end of the document book and immediately bowed to Ron to pay tribute, then ran to the Aters and others bowed and saluted, and stepped forward to hold the reins of the Aters war horse. "Sir, the city of Besanson ten miles ahead. Should I stop and rest at the outpost and continue to rush?"

Yat glanced at the temporary outpost that controlled the road, which was a few broken wooden houses spliced ​​together with wooden boards. There was really no place for people to rest. "Forget it, we have to rush to the palace to report our lives, so we won't rest."

The little officer nodded repeatedly, "Sir, please walk slowly, remind all the adults that the city of Besanson and the surrounding area are not very stable. Recently, Western army killers have often lurked everywhere to attack officers and powerful people. You must be very careful. In addition, recently, the palace has called refugees from all over the country to return to their hometowns to farm. The central army command tent has also strictly ordered the army not to disturb the people. The central army's military legal team often patrols nearby and asks all the soldiers to take control of their soldiers so that they will not be sued by those unkind military soldiers."

Yat glanced at the little officer. He was worried that the brave cavalry in his team would plunder the surrounding civilians, so he spoke to remind him.

Yat admired Flander's cousin more and more. At least he knew how to clean up the decay as soon as possible and restore the country's strength as soon as possible.

"Thank you for your reminder, we will pay attention."

As Yat said, he took out a few copper pants from his arms and threw them to the little officer, "Stay the road, change defense and take it to a glass of beer." He lifted the reins and continued his journey.

"Thank you for your reward..."

If Ast thought, along the way, you can see refugees returning home one after another, and some people wearing official costumes register the refugees returning home on the roadside, so that they can return to their original village manor as soon as possible to continue farming.

When they arrived at the city of Besanson, countless refugees gathered under the already dilapidated Dongcheng wall to receive the clear soup and wheat paste distributed by the palace. Most of them were refugees who did not have any grain and grain plantings to avoid war. After hearing the call from the palace, they returned to their hometown one after another. They were waiting for the court's relief and resettlement.

"Oh my God! Is this still Besanson? It's just hell!" Sir Banting didn't care about the refugees returning home. His eyes were full of broken walls and scars.

During the two months of offensive and defensive battle, Besanson City was beaten to pieces. Not to mention other places, there were three collapsed gaps in the Dongcheng City Wall in front of you. Through the gap, you can also see the houses, mansions and shops on the inside of the city wall that were smashed and burned black.

It is not much better to go inside the city. The Liberty Town, which was originally built on the city wall, has long been flattened, and the burned and smashed siege equipment is scattered everywhere. Many civilians are removing the abandoned and broken siege equipment from wooden boards to build sheds or to serve as firewood for warming up at cold nights.

If the civilians who dismantled the wooden boards pay a little attention, they will definitely find that the wood used to make siege equipment is probably the beams or panel walls of his house outside the city...

Without further ado, the group of people passed the soldiers guarding the East City Gate to investigate and entered Besanson City. At this time, Besanson City was also in dilapidated. It was obvious that the East and West armies had had a fierce battle in the city.

There were not many free citizens in the city. Those free citizens who originally lived in the city had already fled to the west before the Eastern Army besieged the city because the Besanson court at that time widely publicized rumors that the Eastern Army massacred the city.

The citizens who left behind the city and escaped the war were completing the temporary labor entrusted by the palace - transporting the dead and ruins from the city outside and abandoning them in return for receiving a thin meal of wheat from the palace, so many people scrambled to serve.

When Yat and his party passed by, they saw several carriages leaving the city. Most of the carriages were broken and broken, and one of them was peeled and beaten to pieces. It seemed that they were hiding in the city and resisting the Western Army.

There are soldiers wearing armor and holding spears and axes on the streets and alleys of the city. These should be the soldiers of the newly-organized Imperial Guards Army in the capital. Yat knew the burqa on the soldiers, and they were soldiers affiliated with the Longxia Army.

The patrol soldiers who entered the city were also very alert. Along the way, two waves of people had already stepped forward to inquire and informed their troops that they must immediately enter the barracks in the city for foreign troops to station in accordance with the military orders, and soldiers were not allowed to go out at will.

In fact, Flander always maintained a strong vigilance mentality. The entire city of Besanson was responsible for patrolling the Longxia army. The palace where Flander entered was also his Hundred Guards as eunuchs. Yat could understand that after all, the war has not yet subsided and danger is everywhere.

After taking the army into the barracks in the church square in the city, Banting went directly to find the new residence of Earl Ballwin, after all, he was a retainer of Earl Ballwin's inner-domestic residence; Ron sent to the court with the letter of obedience and meritorious book submitted to the court, waiting for the court to arrange an audience; Att and Kettleland took Robert and a small number of guards to find a hotel to rest, bathe and change clothes.

After the war, it was not easy to find a hotel in the broken city that was still open, but not easy did not mean that there was no one. Before Yat left camp, Stanley had already visited the city with a few contingent soldiers, so Yat went straight to a hotel west of the church square after going out.

The owner of this hotel is Emery, who is the fat man who was beaten by the drunkard Angus back then. Emery now has a secret identity - Yat in the Northland Hawkeye, who is the intelligence supervisor of Besanson City.

After the battle of the Successors began, the intelligence network that Yat worked hard to establish in the north was almost completely destroyed. Hawkeye, who was employed by Yat to collect intelligence information, died or fled due to the war, but Emery survived strongly.

Half a year ago, Emery helped Stanley's contingent collect information from the Western Army and lurked. He buried his wine and goods under the stables in the backyard of the hotel, then closed the hotel and fled to a monastery outside the city to hide. Half a month ago, the Restoration Army captured Besanson, and Amery ran back to the city and opened the hotel.

Emery was good at socializing. After returning to the city, he immediately used wine and money to make friends with some officers from the Restoration Army. With the protection of these people, he quickly recruited some bankrupt citizens to rebuild the hotel in the dilapidated house.

When Yat and his men arrived, Emery was already waiting at the door of the store, and the contingent captain Stanley was also accompanied by his side.

After a long time no see, the owner of this hotel shop is even more bloated. It is obvious that he is living a very comfortable life in the monastery outside the city.

"Dear Lord Yat, I would like to express my highest respect and blessings to you." Emery ran to Yat's horse and bowed deeply, with an extremely sincere respect.

Yat jumped off his horse and pointed a little on Emory's head, "Thank you for your kindness, God bless you, my friend."

Emory raised his head in fear and fear. The amazing 'big figure' in front of him was too polite to him. "Please, Lord Yat, I have prepared the room for you."

Yat and his men walked into the hotel. The hotel was very dilapidated, and there were traces of burning and destruction on the roof. Several of the most obvious places were smeared with clay. The first floor of the hotel was filled with guests. Most of them were soldiers and officers. I think that during this war, only these soldiers who could enjoy wine and meat were left.

After five or six days of bumping on the horse's back, everyone was very tired. Yat came to the quietest and cleanest room specially arranged by Emory. The bartender had prepared a bathtub full of hot water for Yat. Yat took off his clothes and took a comfortable bath. This was the first time he had enjoyed a hot water bucket in recent months...

For dinner, the hotel owner personally cooked a long table full of food and the best wine for Yat and others in a separate room on the second floor.

The food on the long table is not luxurious, including beef bacon pie, fatty pork pie, fat sheep boiled in water, barley, radish, onion, and pork ginger. The main food is wheat bread and a few fine wheat white bread for the nobles to enjoy. With a large bucket of wine, the delicate minded Emery also specially asked Ron and prepared a baked bun for Yat.

Emery was also willing to prepare food that was not luxurious but absolutely sumptuous during the war. For those who had been fighting in the East for half a year, such food was enough to make them saliva. After Yat and Katland said a few simple words, everyone feasted.

The wind blew the rest, and a large table of food was quickly wiped out by seven or eight hungry men, and then burped away.

After returning to the room, Yat called Ron, Stanley and the hotel owner Emery called over to discuss the secret matter.

After the crowd arrived, Yat patted his belly, which was bulging, and got up to look at the people in the room, "Everyone is all people I trust."

Yat paused, "I guess this time the palace will honor my viscount's title, my territory fiefs will continue to increase, and our power will continue to expand."

"As the expansion of our power, our horizons should be broader and broader. In order to broaden our horizons, we must get more and more timely news. From the important laws and decrees of the Belgian Kingdom to the trade in southern goods in various places and the prices of food and food. And these things need to be heard by the eyes, and this is the eyes and ears."

"But this battle of successors almost destroyed the eyes and ears we had laid out before. The hawkeye we placed in various places died or fled, and basically lost contact. Today I called you to discuss how to rebuild our eyes and ears."

"Father Robert once said that I weaved a spider web in the entire Belarus. I think this statement is very interesting. Father Robert was right, I just wanted to weave a spider web that covered the entire Belarus."

"Now the entire Belarus is still in chaos, and there are no fixed forces in all parties. I will take this opportunity to install Hawkeye at various critical nodes."

"Our focus is on three places-the court of Besanson, the Earl's Mansion of Ballwin and the City of Dijon."

As soon as Yat said this, everyone was shocked. Before Yat Eagle Eye was just arranged in various cities, but now he pointed clearly, and it seemed that his goal was quite large.

"Flander had just entered the palace, and the inner guards of the palace must be served by the guards led by Earl Longsha, but the servants of the inner court would probably still be recruited from all over the place, so the first Hawkeye started with these servants of the inner court; the same was true for the Earl Ballwin's residence. The slaves in the original residence were all killed by the Western Army, so he would definitely recruit them. The matter in Dijon was a little difficult, but you can refer to the previous experience of setting up Hawkeye in Besançon and mainly inquire about the Burgundy."

"The rebuilding of the spider web is left to you three, with Ron as the main one, Stanley and Emery as the auxiliary one. After the spider web in the North is built, Emery is responsible for daily jurisdiction."

"I plan to give you 200,000 Finneys and give you three. You will complete this task within half a year."

"Emore, there are many free shops and hotels in Besançon City now. You can find a large enough shop to build the largest hotel in Besançon, and then recruit more wild orioles, eat, drink and have fun, and the name is Red Moor."

"The Moulin Rouge is an openly luxurious hotel brothel, but it is actually the center of my spider web in the northern part of Burgundy. In the future, the information you collect and convey will be called the eight-clawed spider."

"In addition, you try to recruit some pigeon trainers to convey messages to us."

"Sir, it may be unstable for the carrier pigeon to convey the top secret information. Once the carrier pigeon is intercepted or the carrier pigeon is lost, the letter will easily be exposed..." Stanley pointed out the shortcomings of the carrier pigeon.

Yat waved his hand, "Of course, in order to prevent top-secret news from being intercepted and obtained by the carrier pigeon, we must use ciphertext."

Everyone has never heard of something strange like "ciphertext".

"The so-called ciphertext is a symbol that others cannot understand except ourselves."

"Last year Bishop Orov sent me two Bibles copied by the Diocese of Lucesen, which were personally supervised by Bishop Orov. The two books are exactly the same. From then on, Besanson leaves one and Ron leaves one. You correspond to the words you want to pass on to a certain word in the Bible, and then write the page number, line and order of the word on the secret letter. Three sets of numbers represent a word..."

"This kind of secret letter can only find the corresponding meaning in these two Bibles..."

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Chapter 372 Reconstruction after the war
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