Lord of Industrialization

The most important thing for maritime trade is to have a ship. If there is no ship willing to transport your goods, the goods cannot go out to sea.

The inland sea was once divided by four forces. The east was dominated by Hedem of the Ghazi Empire; the south was dominated by Hayreddin of the Kingdom of Kush; the northwest was controlled by Pietro of the Kingdom of Tarragona; Paolo of Venice strictly guarded the coast of the Kingdom of Sardinia, while competing with Pietro in the west for the southern port of the Kingdom of Gaul, and competing with Hedem of the Ghazi Empire in the east for the sea area west of Constantinople.

Only Paolo's fleet can do bulk cargo business along the coast of the Kingdom of Sardinia, and he only does business with fellow Venetians. Merchants who want to import and export goods can only endure the exploitation of Venetian middlemen.

In the battle to recover Constantinople, Hedem's fleet was destroyed by sharks flying in the sky, and a power vacuum appeared on the sea, and the Venetians began to move eastward.

Therefore, the Venetians were short of money and began to increase their exploitation last year.

Taking this opportunity, the newspaper in Bern spent three pages to expose the crimes of the Venetians.

In this context, the death of the boy and girl was covered with a political and economic color and became a symbol.

Sardinia has suffered from Venice for a long time.

Under the influence of the radio, in just a few days, the long-accumulated resentment of the entire kingdom broke out. Merchants from all over the country either took action personally or hired professionals to destroy the shops of the Venetians.

The local lords followed up and "protected" the property of the Venetians.

The seven largest political forces in the Kingdom of Sardinia were called the "Seven Sisters". The capital of the Kingdom of Diplomat, the Duchy of Liguria, the Duchy of Milan, the Duchy of Turin, the Duchy of Florence and the Golden City all sent representatives to Bern to attend the funeral.

Even the Pope of the Church of Light, Valentine, rushed to Bern.

Valentine stayed in the church in the city. For this reason, a young man with a Citrus Island accent was driven out of the guest room by the priest early in the morning.

Now the hotels in the city are full, and many residents with vacant rooms at home have started homestay businesses to accommodate one or two visitors from other places.

Many people read the story of Mariodo and Gianozza in the newspapers, and were moved by their love and their final encounters, and came to see them off.

Frederick was a little embarrassed. The atmosphere was like this, and it would be a bit unreasonable not to bury the two.

"Brother, do you need a place to stay?"

If it weren't for the wrong language, Frederick would have thought he had just walked out of the train station in Weissenberg.

He turned around and found that it was a chapel on the side of the road.

The chapel was just a two-story building, no different from the house next to it. The first floor was the lobby, and the second floor was the residence of the clergy.

Ordinary residents rarely go to the cathedral on Sundays, and usually they have team building with neighbors in the chapel.

Frederick asked all the way on this street, but because of his Citrus Island accent, no one wanted him to stay overnight.

The old priest in the chapel didn't worry about these things. Seeing that the young man had nowhere to go, he let him stay here.

Frederick thanked the old priest and walked into the chapel with a huge backpack on his back.

The old priest is called Benito, he is over 80 years old, from the south, he started working in this chapel at the age of 20, and it has been more than 60 years.

There are two nuns in the chapel, both of whom are orphans adopted by Father Benito.

Frederick put his luggage in the corner of the lobby, and then folded paper flowers for the funeral with two nuns.

The Pope assigned tasks, but the three people in the chapel were old, and Father Benito was looking for strong laborers to do the work.

While folding white paper into flowers, Frederick thought that it would be unreasonable if the two were not buried, wouldn’t his work be in vain?

The two nuns, Ada and Elena, were in their 50s. They didn’t work fast, but they talked a lot.

They first asked Frederick where he was from, how many people were in his family, and what he did for a living.

Fortunately, Frederick was abducted to a black factory that year, and he was quite familiar with the affairs of the civilians on Citrus Island, so he answered in a decent manner.

Then the two nuns chatted among themselves.

Ada said, "Have you heard? Someone sneaked into the coffin again last night."

Elena shook her head and said, "Oh, those outsiders are really stupid. The little girl is dead, why do they go to see the body?"

Some people from outside heard about Gianozza's beauty, and some of them wanted to see the body.

Now the church is surrounded by the city defense army and the Capuleti and Monteci families, so as not to disturb the two people in the coffin.

Ada said, "That's not what I'm talking about."

"I'm telling you, someone found the secret passage of the church last night and sneaked into the church through the secret passage."

"There was no one in the church at night, but everyone who entered last night was knocked unconscious and thrown outside the coffin, and was not discovered until early this morning."

Elena asked in surprise, "Who did it?"

Ada pointed to the ceiling and said nothing.

Elena was even more surprised now.

Frederick was folding flowers calmly on the side, as if what happened last night had nothing to do with him.

Gianozza had been lying in the coffin for many days. Although her body had entered an extremely dormant state, it was still consuming energy.

Last night, Frederick fed her a bowl of saturated sugar water through nasogastric feeding to prevent her from starving to death.

At that time, several dandy-looking men came to the coffin hall with obscene words. Frederick knocked out all their teeth and threw them out.

At noon, Father Benito brought back lunch from the tavern next door. Each person had a plate of fish fillet noodles with red tomato sauce and a glass of orange wine.

While eating noodles, Father Benito sighed and said, "Alas, how did the church become like this?"

The two nuns knew what was going on without asking for details. Ada said, "You've known this for a long time."

Elena also said, "Just take care of yourself."

Frederick asked curiously, "Father, what happened?"

Frederick said helplessly, "Valentin asked for two thousand ores to preside over the funeral this time."

Frederick's mouth twitched. Priests presiding over weddings and funerals should not charge half a copper coin. They only collect some donations after the event, and they can give as much or as little as they want.

That's the reason. In fact, the amount of "donation" is almost clearly marked, with only a low price and no upper limit.

The gold content of the ores of the Kingdom of Sardinia is the same as that of the florin of the Rhine Alliance, both of which are 3.5 grams of gold.

In other words, the Pope's appearance fee is equal to the income of the Wessen family for four years in the past. Now you can buy 20 high-horsepower steam tractors in the city of Wessenburg.

Father Benito continued angrily, "Valentin saw that the Montechi and Capuletti families were going to be extinct, so he planned to cheat them out of money, one thousand each."

Frederick felt that if the family had paid so much money, it would be a bit unreasonable if the two did not complete the funeral process and fill the soil.

He pretended to be surprised and asked, "Will the two families pay this money?"

Benito sneered and sighed, "Alas, Valentine is obsessed with money."

"He also said that if the money is enough, the God of Light will be happy and will resurrect the two children."

"What else can the two fathers do? Pay the money. What if they are really resurrected?"

There are many legends of people coming back to life in the Church of Light. Now Baron Montechi and Baron Capuletti regard these stories as the last straw, so naturally they pay a lot of money.

Frederick's heart tightened. He met a master. He saw that the two were faking their deaths!

The experience a while ago told him that the church was very good at performing "miracles", and it was hard not to believe in them.

So he planned to make a big scene this time to build momentum for himself and prepare for future work.

Now, the professional charlatan wants to intercept, which is intolerable!

The Pope is professional in this kind of thing. If he really "resurrected" Mariodo and Gianozza in public...

Frederick didn't dare to think about it. The Pope's authority was established, and it might involve disputes between theocracy and secular regimes, and it might even trigger a religious war.

Moreover, with the nature of those people in the church, it is a foregone conclusion that they will impose taxes on believers.

Frederick must take the initiative, so he asked Father Benito about the funeral process.