Gao Wen didn't walk this fast.
Although Rebecca seemed a little anxious along the way, Gawain still arranged the itinerary according to his own pace. He let the team stop at every town they passed, and after the stop, he would arrange for soldiers to sneak in disguised as travelers or mercenaries. Crowds, to spread the news of "The Founding Duke Gawain Cecil is resurrected" and "Grand Duke Gawain will arrive in Saint-Sunil City in the near future", and will also buy local bards and rogues to spread similar content But the more bizarre version - the funding he got from Viscount Andrew was enough for him to complete these things.
Originally, Gao Wen was still worried that neither he nor Rebecca had any experience in dealing with snakeheads, and would encounter difficulties when doing these things, but he did not expect that Knight Byron, who was traveling with him, showed extraordinary abilities. The strength of this middle-aged knight may not be considered high among his peers, but his ability to deal with those social idlers is impressive. Basically, after arriving in a city, he will be able to deal with those "rats" in a short time. Get on the line, and before the soldiers spread the news, all kinds of gossip about the southern border began to spread at the bottom of society...
Gawain thought of the origin of this Byron knight—according to Rebecca, Byron was not a serious nobleman, but a mercenary who traveled all over the world. Viscount Sill took in and was able to join the knight class. Now it seems that the experience of this former mercenary gentleman has not been wasted.
The other person who helped me a lot was not beyond Gao Wen's expectations. Amber was really good at dealing with those rogues, and should I say whether she had a high professionalism or a high level of business... Gao Wen gave this The half-elf lady used a little money to buy those bastards, and after she finished her work, she came back with more money...
Of course, this kind of behavior was strongly condemned by the well-educated Rebecca, and in order to maintain his tall image in front of future generations, Gawain had no choice but to hold Amber's head down and ask her to promise to return all the stolen money. Go back and promise never to do it again.
This made Amber extremely hurt, as if the value of life had been denied—Gao Wen felt that it was probably impossible for this elf shame to establish a normal three views.
Apart from stopping and stopping all the way to let the rumors ferment, Gao Wen's other purpose is not so easy to say: he needs to understand the world better.
It's not because there is a 700-year generation gap between the memory in his mind and the current era, but because he himself is not from this world at all. The picture seen in the sky can only be used as a map after all, and the inherited memory lacks sufficient sense of substitution and flexibility—this is after he tried to search the memory several times but wasted effort because he did not understand the corresponding "keywords" I realized it, so for the current Gao Wen, the most urgent need is to understand the world.
The process went fairly smoothly.
He saw the poor and backward southern countryside of the Ansu Kingdom, the bustling central city, the mountains and jungles, and the fortresses built by humans. Overlook maps blend together.
Through judging some details, he confirmed that the "latest" overhead map in his mind should not be outdated for too long. It was recorded about ten years ago—that is what he saw when he was hanging in the sky. last glance.
For this slow-paced world, maps from ten years ago are perfectly fine to use.
As for whether there will be any problems in Tanzan Town after leaving the southern border for so long, Gawain is not as worried as Rebecca. He believed in Hetty's ability, and he was basically sure that Viscount Andrew would earnestly implement the content of the deal—not because he believed in the viscount's character, but because he believed that interests could firmly bind the other party to the Cecil family. . Before leaving the southern border, he arranged for Knight Philip to spread all kinds of gossip. In addition to letting everyone know about the resurrection of Gawain Cecil, the news could also make the surviving Cecil citizens become everyone's favorite. The focus of attention also left Viscount Andrew, who had taken in those citizens, no choice—he could only continue to raise those refugees until Gawain Cecil returned from the king's capital and everything settled down. Genius will do.
No matter how long the journey took, the journey would have its end. Two months after leaving the southern region, the majestic city walls of Saint-Sunil City finally appeared before Gao Wen and his party.
This is a city built on a plain, and its scale is far beyond the comparison of those poor and backward southern cities. The white city walls and neat bright blue roofs are the biggest features of this city, so it has the "holy white" City" and "Blue Top Crown".
Since Charles I, the founding king seven hundred years ago, led the people to reclaim the fields on this plain and build the city with earth, the city has undergone countless expansions and renovations, and the most primitive earth and stone walls have long since disappeared. , only a few monumental walls were left in the old part of the city, and the newly built megalithic city wall was ten times larger than the original one. , the bricks and stones are poured with molten copper and lead, and inside such a thick and solid city wall, a crystal blessed by the earth element is buried every 100 meters to ensure that it will not crack and disintegrate—its luxury level, The ancestors who pioneered this far back then probably could not have dreamed of it.
Standing under the city wall of Sunil, Gawain looked up at the stone bricks gleaming in the sun, and found that there were no corresponding details in his mind.
This city is completely different from the small city that Gawain Cecil remembered.
With legal documents and reliable proof of noble status, Gao Wen and his party entered the city without any setbacks.
His Majesty Francis II, the king who ruled the entire Ansu Kingdom, was waiting for these visitors from the south in his palace—Silver Fort, especially waiting for the arrival of a special guest from seven hundred years ago.
In fact, he had been waiting for many, many days, and he was even on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
The old ancestors are too fucking tossed. This time the king said that he will not take you to play like this-the secret reports from all over the south and the intelligence from every town along the way from south to north are almost non-stop, official information from officials at all levels and The gossip collected from the folks can be piled up on the desk more than one meter high, and there are at least more than one hundred versions of the content—not including the dialect version, and no matter which version it is, its core content is about that. The old ancestor suddenly uncovered the coffin and led the descendants to the capital, but only these news kept coming in every day. The old ancestor himself...
Why don't you come!
The plan made after first receiving the secret letter from Viscount Andrew has long been abandoned, and the coping methods discussed with the trusted advisers have also failed one by one during the old ancestor's travels and swaggering through the city. Now Gao Wen Everyone knows Cecil's return—Of course, considering the efficiency of information dissemination in this era, it is an exaggeration to say that everyone knows it, but at least the business travelers and little nobles who have the ability to inquire about the news must be human beings. Everyone knows about this.
Then what Francis II can do becomes very limited.
Sitting in the Silver Fort, he received the returning legendary Grand Duke in a fair manner, talked with him in a fair manner, and then sent the living ancestor away in a fair manner.
At the very least, every link that will attract people's attention must be aboveboard.
However, Gawain didn't intend to let His Majesty the king off so quickly—or, his goal in the first half has been achieved, and now he wants to test the attitude of the king and the attitudes of those around the king, so he didn't keep a low profile Instead of letting the convoy go directly to Silver Fort, not long after entering the city, he ordered all the soldiers to take out the flags that had been prepared in the car.
The emblem of the Cecil family and the sword and shield emblem of the Ansu royal family are drawn on the flag. The two emblems are juxtaposed together. It is exactly what Gawain restored from memory. The flag used by the Grand Duke during his lifetime.
Even if there are only twelve big soldiers, they must step out of the guard of honor.
The Cecil family has indeed weakened, but even if it has weakened to this point, this family that once followed the previous king to expand the territory and establish the clan with martial arts still retains the last bit of pride, defending the people and the land, and it is absolutely unstoppable on the battlefield. Uncompromising—Rebecca, who is only seventeen years old and only knows how to fireball, can be said to be the weakest generation of lords in Cecil's history. They were able to lead the last few family soldiers to guard the castle and let the last civilians break out, relying on the glory that has been passed down to this day.
Therefore, the Cecil family has the poorest and weakest fiefdom in the southern border, but they still cultivate the best fighters in the southern border.
Even if only a dozen or so of these fighters are dead.
The soldiers raised the flag and rode in two rows on horseback. Looking at the emblem fluttering on the flag, they seemed to be infected as well, with their heads raised high. Behind them, Rebecca and Gawain had also passed away. Get out of the car, ride on the horse and go forward with the soldiers.
Byron led the way at the forefront. This knight who was born as a mercenary and a half-ordained monk tried his best to make himself look decent like a real nobleman, so as not to humiliate the face of the family he was loyal to, but Gao Wen drove his horse to him and told him in a low voice: "Relax—put those manners aside, when we came here, some people even had logging axes on their backs."
And at the end of the line, in the carriage that should have been taken by Gawain and Rebecca, there were Miss Thieves and Betty, the little maid who was dozing off.
"Aristocrats are really sick creatures, aren't they?" Amber looked out of the car and poked Betty's arm.
Betty's head moved little by little, as if she was nodding, but suddenly a small snot bubble popped out.
Amber blinked and looked at Betty, and suddenly noticed the frying pan she was putting on hand. Suddenly, she thought of playing a prank. She used her excellent skills as a thief and quietly approached the frying pan...
Betty suddenly picked up the frying pan and hugged it in her arms, staring at the astonished Amber: "No! The master said, this is mine!"
Amber: "...?"