The witch thought I am a Demon God

It is really strange that a letter applying for the appointment of a knighthood actually attracted two replies from different parties.

Ivita asked Griffin Knight to open these two letters.

Griffin Knight read these two letters, "This letter comes from the Ambrose City Meeting——"

"Dear new lord Ivita, some of the ears of the Children of the Forest that you enclosed with your letter have been identified by our professionals as indeed belonging to ogres, centaurs and tauren."

"But this does not necessarily prove that the children of the forest formed an army and acted. This should be just a group of monsters wandering around."

"Hundreds of years of experience tell us that these monsters have no social structure or anything that intelligent creatures should have. Wisdom is an exclusive thing given to humans by God. Monsters without faith cannot acquire wisdom that rivals humans. "

"So you don't need to worry about this. But the Ambrose City Council is very happy that the Western Territory is guarded by a powerful nobleman like you who is an explorer."

"We are convinced of your record and have prepared a canonization ceremony for you."

"Please take your attendants to the city of Ambrose, and we will give you the courtesy that such a powerful nobleman deserves."

"In this precarious time, it is an opportunity for a powerful noble like you, who is born from a commoner, to show off your skills. Please lead your army into Ambrose. This is a virtuous act that the God of All Things will bless you."

Griffin Knight looked up at the people from the Ivey TC City Council with a strange expression, as if he thought you were from a civilian background. Probably because you told the city council that you were a former explorer. "

"People on the city council got this wrong."

Ivita smiled. "It seems that the Ambrose City Council very much hopes that the nobles who guard the Moro Baron Territory will be from common people."

"Moreover, they also want my friendship. No, they should want my army."

"Read the next one."

Knight Griffin said: "This letter comes from Viscount Winchester in the East—"

"The new lord of Baron Moro, I admire your talents, but you said that the Children of the Forest have an army?"

"You are so exaggerating."

"Well, anyone who wins a battle will have some bragging rights. This is the right of the winner."

"Bring your people to Winchester, and I will hold a canonization and allegiance ceremony for you."

"What I want to tell you is that my army needs someone as talented and young as you."

"The most beautiful woman in Winchester, my sister is still unmarried. I don't know how many talented young people are pursuing her. Maybe you can win her heart?"

"I also want to tell you that Grand Viscount Ambrose is dead, and your act of begging a dead man for canonization is an invalid act."

"The Ambrose family has become extinct. I am the patriarch of a branch of the Ambrose family. I have the right to inherit the position of Grand Viscount. Stay away from Ambrose City, a place that has lost its status as the capital, and come to Winchester. Be loyal to me and you will get what you deserve."

Knight Griffin probably felt that Viscount Winchester was exaggerating, so he said with some embarrassment: "Viscount Winchester has always been a war maniac with obsessive-compulsive disorder."

"Proud and arrogant, he attaches great importance to the honor among knights, and he is very talented in war."

"That's the kind of person he's talking about."

"His army has privately fought many times with some small lords on the edge of the Lombardy Principality on the Lombardy Plain in the south of the Ambrose Basin."

"I heard that if the Duke of Lombardy had not been able to control the independent lords everywhere, Viscount Winchester would have been in trouble."

After listening to Knight Griffin's description, Ivita nodded. He roughly understood the character of Viscount Winchester.

"Now it is obvious that whether it is the representative of the city capital, the city council of Ambrose, or the Viscount Winchester, the representative of the nobility, they all want to win over us."

"the reason is simple."

"Probably because when we applied for canonization, in order to increase our persuasiveness, we mentioned part of our record."

"This makes both parties think that I am a very powerful lord."

"At least there's value in competing for me."

Griffin Knight lowered his head and asked: "Then which side do you want to choose, sir? Where do you want to go?"

"Where you go to receive the canonization represents which side you join."

"This is not an arbitrary choice."

Iveta rubbed her brows, of course he knew he couldn't choose casually.

This is like the Thirty Years Reformation War in Europe, where you must be forced to choose a side.

Unexpectedly, after arriving in the Ambrose Basin, I would have to make a similar choice.

However, Ambrose's dispute was not due to religious cognitive conflicts, but because of the fight between urban capital and feudal nobles.

"Why did Ambrose's urban capital and feudal nobles conflict to this extent?"

Ivita asked doubtfully, while glancing at the old witch, "Is there someone provoking it? Or is it for some other reason?"

Griffin Knight shook his head, "Sir, I don't know."

This is also normal.

It would be abnormal if all the minor nobles on the border of a country knew the cause of the conflict between the central factions.

The old witch said to Ivita: "Your Majesty, my apprentice was really wronged. She is just a kind witch."

Ivita was speechless.

Griffin Knight couldn't help but look away, because the combination of the words "kindness" and "witch" made him, a warrior who was not sensitive to diction, feel embarrassed.

Ivita said: "Tell me something."

The Great Witch of Hearthstone immediately said: "According to previous correspondence between me and my beloved disciple, the conflict between urban capital and feudal nobles has always existed."

"And with the first two serf uprisings of Ambrose, this conflict was amplified many times over."

"The nobles hated the city and hated the serfs escaping to the city. As a result, the nobles could only keep making concessions to the serfs in order to stabilize the situation."

"And the cities also hated the nobles and tried to infringe on the city's freedom again and again."

"And these contradictions all exploded with one bill."

The old witch looked at Griffin Knight. "What do you think the bill is?"

Griffin Knight looked confused. "Has any bill been issued that made the nobles angry? How come I didn't know about it?"

"Because your Morrow Barony has not made much money from agricultural products before." The old witch sneered: "So of course you don't know, but most of the nobles in Ambrose are barons. These baronies in the East are His greatest source of wealth was selling grain.”

"So a [Corn Price Reduction Act] brought out all of Ambrose's contradictions."

Ivita asked: "Grain Price Reduction Bill? Will a country really use legal means to force the price of grain in its own country to drop? Whose idea was this?"

"Who told the Grand Viscount to do this?"

The Great Witch of Hearthstone is a bit awkward. "The idea came from Ambrose Capitalists."

"At that time, grain prices in Ambrose were too high for a period of time, which led to famines in local poor areas and starved to death many independent workshop apprentices, small workshop craftsmen and independent small businessmen."

"The nobles would rather let the food rot or export it at a high price than sell it to poor urban areas."

"Ambrose's urban capital, in order to obtain sufficient labor, stood on the side of the poor and put pressure on the nobles to lower the price of grain."

"However, urban capital soon discovered that lowering grain prices also lowered their employment costs."

"Then it's just a constant attempt to lower grain prices."

"They also spent money to convince my beloved disciple to blow pillows next to the Grand Viscount all day long."

"As a result, the price of grain has dropped from 6.5p per bushel to 2.9p per bushel now."

"Then, the Grand Viscount died mysteriously, and my beloved disciple was framed as the witch who killed the Grand Viscount. This is all a shameful slander."

Griffin Knight listened clearly.

It turns out that the conflict in this country was actually due to the promulgation of a bill.

Ivita looked at the old witch suspiciously. "Do you believe your apprentice? Are you sure that what your apprentice said in the letter is true?"

The old witch who was still pretending to be sad and angry suddenly became serious. After thinking seriously, she said decisively to Ivita: "I don't believe it. I suspect that she is at least partially lying."

"..." Griffin Knight.

Griffin Knight always thought that the old witch and her apprentice had a good relationship, otherwise they would not talk about her apprentice to Lady Ivita all day long.

Unexpectedly, such a good relationship cannot be exchanged for trust.

Ivita was not surprised at all by the old witch's answer. If she could trust others, then there would be a ghost. "If this is the case, as long as the nobles and the city council have a good talk, the matter can be solved immediately, but this is the most impossible thing."

"City capital wants to lower the price of grain, but the low price of grain hurts farmers. If the price of grain drops too much, the nobles' estates will not make money."

"And the nobles want to raise the price of grain, but the price of grain hurts workers. If the price of grain is too high, it will lead to large and localized famine."

"It just so happens that at this time, the Grand Viscount died mysteriously. No matter what the truth behind the death is, the long-standing conflicts between the two sides are about to explode."

Ivita's heart sank. The most terrifying thing was that the forest people also intensified the conflict.

He remembered that before his death, the Forest Duke used the priest's prophecy system to curse all the farmland in the Ambrose Basin.

Ambrose's conflict over the Corn Bill would soon become more intense with the famine.

This was also a major reason why he had not planned to let Baron Moro operate agricultural products before.

Ivita looked at Knight Griffin, "As far as Griffin is concerned, which side should we choose?"

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