The Earldom of Beishan in the Principality of Mia covers an area of 2,000 square kilometers, equivalent to a prefecture-level city in China, and it is also the largest earldom in the Principality of Mia.
There are mountains on the north and south sides, and a fertile river valley in the middle.
The mountains on the north and south sides are called Nanshan and Beishan respectively, and Nanshan is higher.
There is a natural separation between high mountains and flat lands, which can create a sense of mystery for people on the plains, and is suitable for building religious sites. For example, there is a temple built on Nanshan in the Earldom of Beishan.
In a country with a feudal system like the Tianlan Empire, the local lords have a high degree of autonomy, and the sense of national identity can only be maintained by religion in addition to the lords' loyalty to the emperor.
The Tianlan Empire believes in a religion called Sea God Sect, which is unique to the Tianlan Empire, and the religious holy place is in the capital of the empire.
The priests sent by the Holy See of the Sea God to various places have a high status in each place. In addition to managing the local church property, they are also important staff members of the local rulers.
As a feudal country at the European medieval level, the Tianlan Empire does not have a sound legal system.
The religious teachings are unified across the country, and there are a few basic rules. Once the teachings are violated, it will be the anger of both humans and gods. Artemis fell on this point.
Therefore, the priests in various places are equivalent to the role of a judge in the political power of each place. The priests have the final say in deciding whether a person is guilty or not.
The southern mountain is covered with temples and many church properties, while the northern mountain is the seat of the duke's mansion.
The Duke's Mansion is a castle on the hillside, with several flags of the Principality of Mia planted on it. The flags have a pattern of griffins with white stripes on a blue background.
That night, the Duke's mansion was decorated with lights and festoons, and the Duke of Nemea hosted a banquet to entertain the imperial envoys.
The main course of the banquet was the griffin shot down by Lin Shuo.
Anyway, for official matters, Miao Chengyun, the head of the regiment, dealt with Nemea, and Lin Shuo, a foodie, turned a deaf ear to it and focused on dealing with the griffin meat in front of him.
I haven't seen this thing anywhere else, eat it fresh.
Meals here are divided into meals, and the main dish in front of Lin Shuo is a section of the middle wing of the griffin.
Don't look at it as just a section of mid-wing, it's already as big as a sheep.
Lin Shuo carefully cut a piece of meat with a knife and fork, put it in his mouth and chewed it, and his heart was beautiful.
The griffin meat itself is very fragrant, and the cook here is good, one bite of the meat is oily, and it is swallowed before chewing.
Not only delicious, but also smooth.
So Lin Shuo put down the knife and fork, and directly used both hands to pick up the big "chicken wing" and gnawed it.
Lin Shuo is currently the deputy head of the group, sitting next to the head of the group Miao Chengyun at this long dining table, and the two of them are actually in front of Nemea who is sitting on the main seat.
Nemeya was making out with Miao Chengyun, but when he saw Lin Shuo eating like this, the corners of his eyes trembled, and he was speechless.
Can you not hate it, this is his beast, it grew up together from a young age, it looks like master and servant are brothers.
It's like Lin Xiaoba was roasted, and the murderer ate the roasted wings in front of Lin Shuo.
If he were to change places, Lin Shuo could beat the kid to pieces, and he had to use a spoon to collect the body.
But Nemea didn't dare, because Garcia told him that these guys should not be messed with.
Not only can they not be messed with, but they must be properly arranged so that they can spread good words to the emperor's ears, so that they can secure the throne of the duke, and then they can launch the unification war of the principality.
You can't lose the big because of the small, so since a griffin was shot to death, you might as well take it out to entertain the group of people and show your sincerity.
I have made it like this, and my heart is bleeding, I want to cry but I have no tears, the other party must be a little more sensible.
As a result, the deputy of the envoy group, a small official from the fifth rank, who was bigger than the sesame seed, gobbled up a piece of griffin wing, pushed the empty plate, and said lightly: "It tastes good, let's have another plate .”
His Excellency the Duke almost fell down in one breath, and his eyes went black for a while.
He couldn't bear it anymore, he pinched the edge of the dining table, his face was ferocious, and his hands were trembling.
There are more than ten thousand voices in his heart telling him, quickly turn over the table, and then smash these bastards to ashes!
And at this moment, a tender white hand on the left stretched out and held down Nemea's hand that was about to lift the table.
Sitting on the left hand of Nemea is Amphitrite, the priestess of the Principality of Mia and the chief staff member of the Duke's Palace.
This priestess, Lin Shuo had noticed her a long time ago.
At present, there are quite a few people at the dining table, Nemea is the main seat, the right row is the envoy group, and the left row is the people from the Duke's Mansion.
Lin Shuo was sitting in the second seat on the right. Although the people in the Duke's Mansion on the opposite side looked strange, it was obvious that most of them were warriors.
These warriors are strong and weak, but the weakest must have the level of the eighth realm of cultivation.
The strongest one is the one sitting directly opposite Lin Shuo at the moment, the bearded man who is the second on the left, and the scale of energy and blood in his whole body is no less than that of Yang Baokun. He is a real master of the nine realms of cultivation.
However, no matter how strong these warriors are, Lin Shuo's spiritual sense will tell the truth, but there is another person on the opposite side, which Lin Shuo can't see through.
That is the priestess at the first place on the left hand, who is faintly visible in Lin Shuo's investigation of divine sense, and her spiritual practice is as good as Su Nianqiu, the eldest wife of the Lin family.
However, although Lin Shuo's spiritual sense could not be detected clearly, his eyes could still see clearly.
This is a relatively petite woman by Daxizhou's standards.
He is about 1.7 meters tall, with a blue priest robe, blond hair and blue eyes with small facial features, very big eyes and long eyelashes, blinking flickeringly. The appearance looks very immature, only seventeen or eighteen years old.
However, Artemis can learn from the past. Lin Shuo knows that all the women in Daxizhou have a deep spiritual cultivation, and all of them have the ability of Aunt Miao Xueping. They look very tender, but the ghost knows how old they are.
The woman reached out and held Nemea down, and said with a slight smile, "Your Excellency, it's okay if the guests are not full. Serve another plate to the deputy envoy."
The priestess' voice was gentle and friendly, and she might have also used the secret technique of calming the mind, which made Nemea calm down quickly.
He glanced at the priestess gratefully, and then laughed heartily: "I, Nemea, respect the man who can eat meat the most, and he can fight if he can eat it!
Unexpectedly, the deputy envoy looks like he is not physically strong, but he can eat a lot, and he really is a hidden master.
Come, serve the deputy envoy! "
After Nemea finished speaking, she lowered her head and began to eat with a knife and fork.
There was also a plate of meat in front of him, but Lin Shuo could tell by smelling it that it was not griffin meat, but beef.
It seems that this man can't bear to eat his own animals.
Miao Chengyun leaned over at this time, and reminded softly: "You are almost ready, don't really annoy them, we have no advantage here."
Lin Shuo ignored him.
Indeed, if you fight here, the overall strength of the opponent's team is slightly better than your own. There is no information about the specific routes of these people, and they are the home field, and there are many people guarding outside.
Once you really turn your face, it's easy to be overwhelmed and walk around.
But now this matter, Lin Shuo felt that he could afford it.
Because in terms of fighting, after Miao Chengyun and Zhang Jin grew up, Lin Shuo had an opponent.
But when it comes to eating meat, Lin Shuo has no rival in his life.
After finally coming to Daxizhou, you can eat griffins that you can't find in other places, so you have to work hard.
Tonight, you can't finish without eating.
And Lin Shuo was right, the more he ate with peace of mind, the less he dared to turn his back on the other party.
A griffin is more than ten meters from head to tail, standing six meters tall at the shoulder, and is about the same size as an African elephant.
Of course, as a flying alien, its body is very light. An African elephant of the same size weighs more than seven tons, but it only weighs two tons, about four thousand kilograms.
There were a total of thirteen people at the dining table, and everyone except Nemea shared a portion of meat in the first round.
Most of them are warriors who cultivate strength, and their appetites are much larger than ordinary people, so after the first round, six or seven hundred catties of meat are gone, and most of them are full at the same time.
After Lin Shuo ordered another portion of meat, the bearded man opposite him also ordered one.
According to Nemea's introduction, this man's name is Hercules, a master of swordsmanship, and also the military commander of Nemea's subordinates.
This person is like a hill just sitting, one person can occupy the space of two people, if he stands up, it will block out the sky and block out the sun, he is 2.3 meters tall.
Putting this height in other places, you have to check for gigantism, but among the males in Daxizhou, there are many martial arts fighters over two meters high, which is not very rare.
Just now, he and Lin Shuo served the same main dish, which was a section of griffin's mid-wing.
In terms of Lin Shuo's body size of more than 1.8 meters, this mid-wing is equivalent to a sheep.
But to Hercules, it was just a small piece of chicken wing, which would be gone after two bites.
Hercules knew that it was the lord's beast, and the lord took it out to entertain the guests, so he just ate it and tasted it.
However, after listening to what Lord Nemea said just now, and looking at Nemea's expression before, Hercules is not a simple-minded person who can achieve the position of military commander of the Principality of Mia.
Wen Xianyin knew the meaning, he knew that the lord must be very dissatisfied with the mission, but it's just not easy to get angry.
The king humiliated his ministers to death, and the dignity of the lord must be maintained by his subordinates, so seeing that Lin Shuo wanted to continue eating, he would continue to eat.
It's obvious that it's not easy to lose face, but comparing this kid in terms of appetite, it can be regarded as an outlet for the lord.
As for Nemea, who was sitting in the chief seat, watching the movement, she secretly praised Hercules for being sensible.
The griffin died, and Nemea was really reluctant to part with it. Originally, she wanted to cut off part of the meat, firstly to entertain guests, and secondly to win over his subordinates.
He had specifically ordered the kitchen to be good with the knife, and the cut griffin meat would be filled with beef, and then the whole body of the griffin that had been with him for decades should be buried.
But now that things have developed to this point, Nemea can see that these bastards really look down on him, the duke, from the bottom of their hearts.
So it's not enough just to win over and buy, and at the same time, they have to build up their prestige, and they have to suppress their arrogance no matter what.
Let them know that they are afraid, and then go to buy them, and use both threats and temptations, so that it will be effective.
He asked the cook to come over, and asked them to leave a skeleton for the griffin, and cook all the meat for the two to eat.
He couldn't believe it. With Hercules' size and appetite, he couldn't convince Lin Shuo, a short and skinny man.
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So that night, Lin Shuo finally had a full meal.
In the past, the Lin family ate beasts of different species, because the meat of beasts of different species has a higher energy density.
But nowadays, there are few wild beasts, and even if they are caught, they have to be kept in the research institute for Yang Tuo and the others to study. Lin Shuo can't eat them.
In terms of diet, Lin Shuo could eat a cow at every turn, and he could still be full, but this kind of fullness was a full stomach.
The stomach is full, but the body is not full, and the muscles of the whole body are still thirsty for nutrition, but limited by the energy density that beef protein and fat can provide, so it can only make do.
Especially recently, after he came back from Queen Mother Xi, his body was baptized by Queen Mother West's power, and some changes are quietly taking place.
This change made his whole body's energy and blood scale stronger, and at the same time, his body's thirst for nutrition was also increasing day by day.
Recently, Lin Shuo ate beef, just like ordinary people eating meal replacements for weight loss.
Meal replacements can fill the stomach, but the calories are not enough, no matter how much you eat, you will feel full.
In the two months after he came back, Lin Shuo ate this way one cow a day, and lost five catties instead.
This meal of griffin meat tonight will feel different after eating.
It's like laying tiles in my stomach, that feeling is real.
Moreover, this meat is digested quickly by itself, and the whole body will soon feel warm, which makes me a little excited, and the more I eat, the better I get.
Now that the boss is in charge, Lin Shuo doesn't care, and kills as many as he comes.
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