Crusader Kings: Prisoners of War

Jeanne nodded slightly to Orville and bowed: "Thank you for your understanding. I will not force anyone to choose their own beliefs. I believe that everyone will naturally choose to believe in the God I believe in, and the world will become more harmonious and beautiful. I will not use violence or coercion to achieve this, and I will also restrain others from doing so. This is certain."

The second half of the sentence may be a bit controversial, because the world has never been truly peaceful. On the contrary, the believers of the Eternals have fought countless times for conflicts in doctrine and interests, and the world has not necessarily become peaceful or chaotic because of this.

But getting back to the point, Orville is still relatively relieved about Jeanne Dacre. At least she will not cause the indescribable chaos of the Palfy people, so it's up to her to do what she wants.

During this period of time, he has fully realized the other party's moral character and ideological realm. Not to mention compared with the same era, even compared with the historical vertical, it is quite high.

During the siege of Paris, the enemy would pray for the soldiers on both sides at the same time, and the discipline of the soldiers was very strict, almost to the point of not violating the slightest. Jeanne did not think that the Roman soldiers themselves were wrong, but those who started the war were wrong, so she repeatedly asked for preferential treatment of the prisoners, at least not to abuse or kill the captured Romans at will after surrendering, which was not like the thoughts of the ancients.

When she met ragged or hungry people on the road, she would try to help them or at least comfort them. It was not a show. Orville could see that the other party really thought so from the bottom of his heart.

Obviously, the treatment in Rome and Gaul was not bad, but she always wore the most ordinary clothes, and did not have any expensive jewelry or huge personal property. Apart from horses, weapons and armor, the most valuable personal belongings of the other party should be a small silk flag with a cross and several Celtic symbols embroidered on it.

As the saying goes, kindness does not command the army and justice does not command wealth. There is still some truth in this saying. The Romans with the highest moral standards that Orville has seen so far should be Belisarius and Tia, but even they will do some things that they have to do, such as bloody suppression, such as sacrificing the interests and even lives of a small number of people, because they are soldiers and will also participate in political activities.

Because they are not involved in politics and business, which have gray and black areas, the other party is particularly spotless.

After Joan of Arc helped him turn the situation around, King Charles VII of France in another time and space also gave her territory and identity, but she handed all the territory to her brothers to manage, and did not show the slightest greed for the fiefdom, and even did not show any affection and nostalgia for the luxurious life of the court nobles. From a moral perspective, she basically has no shortcomings.

It is definitely difficult to evaluate whether this can be called a perfect person, but Orville asked himself that he could not do this anyway, and Orville always respected such people.

In name, the other party was his attendant, but Orville never treated her as an attendant. He basically received her as a guest and staff, and her freedom was almost unrestricted, except that she had to be accompanied by Roman soldiers.

For a defeated general without citizenship, this was a great courtesy, so great that some people in the army suspected that Orville was interested in Jeanne Dacre, and some people secretly criticized him, but the extent was limited to this.

The main point of the military gossip: Orville was the son-in-law prepared by Emperor Vespa for Princess Tia, so he was able to enter the family of the Flavian royal family. Combined with Orville's life trajectory, this statement has quite a lot of supporters, and royal gossip is loved by people in any era.

After all, Orville is a member of the royal family, and he was a senior officer at the level of legion commander in his early twenties. He can be regarded as a young talent. There are actually quite a lot of people who are interested in Orville, but he has never even paid attention to them, and he is rigid to a certain extent.

Although the Flavian royal family has not released any relevant news so far, these big-headed soldiers will not think too much about the matter. Most of them simply think that this is a manifestation of Orwell's wife being in charge of him.

Relatively speaking, the power of the upper-class women in Rome is relatively large, and the proportion of henpecked women in the upper class is also larger than that in the lower class. To be serious, this is because the wife's father or brother is also in the upper class, and the wife has the power of her natal family. In many cases, men have to weigh the pros and cons before doing things, so the proportion of henpecked women is slightly larger.

However, specific issues need to be analyzed specifically. Soldiers generally believe that Orwell's behavior has nothing to do with political and economic issues. It is simply that they can't afford to provoke Tia, the tigress in the army. The two sides are not at the same level in terms of force and strength.

Now Orwell's behavior, in the eyes of some soldiers, shows that after Tia left, Orwell has let himself go and does things more freely, so the soldiers are waiting to see how Orwell will explain to the other party after Tia comes back.

Orville was speechless when he first heard the news, but he didn't try to explain. On the one hand, the more he explained, the worse it would be. On the other hand, it was better this way.

If this matter is taken to a larger level, it can be dragged into absolutely correct topics such as politics and stance. Now the soldiers have taken the initiative to limit the topic to the level of love between men and women, which saves a lot of effort and time to explain these things.

As for the remaining things, time will naturally prove everything. Orville has never done anything, so he is not afraid of rumors. There are many such rumors around him. The nobles in Rome have never seen him with noble ladies before. He communicated with them, and liked to run to his military camp farm whenever he had nothing to do. There were rumors that he had a problem with his special taste.

At least Orville's sexual orientation in these rumors is normal now. That time he couldn't help but complain about himself and curse others. He didn't have to rush to refute every rumor. He had always been too lazy to pay attention to these things and just kept silent about it. own things.

But this time the situation is slightly different from before.

Domitia insisted on moving with Orville from Trier to the city of Caen. During this period, she was not idle. She recorded all the rumors in the army. At the same time, she had other things to do. If you have nothing to do, run to Orville.

The euphemistic name is to visit his brother, but in fact he is taking the opportunity to write a "daily note" to Orville, preparing to save it and report the situation to Tiya in the future.

Orville was unaware of these things. If he had discovered them, he might have chosen to curb the spread and adaptation of these rumors.