After seeing off Princess Sylvia and her party, Lorist returned to busy administrative affairs. To his surprise, Sambawood sent him the news of the surrender of the Kingdom of Shayslan. In September, Sambawood led the The Sea Legion went out to fight, but after arriving, they only fired a round of shelling, and the Kingdom of Shayslan raised the white flag. It is said that they were paralyzed by the pyramid of human heads, and no one dared to resist.
Even the cousin of Luther III of the former Kingdom of Haneyabada, the current queen mother of the Kingdom of Shayslan, the mother of the little king was given a cup of poisoned wine by the uncle Wang who led the army back, and then beheaded Sent in a crystal box as an apology. Accompanied by this head, there are two million gold blessings and rare treasures worth one million. The accompanying hostage is the little king's half-brother who is seven years old...
How should this matter be handled? Lorist has a headache. There is no such precedent. If a kingdom surrenders to a family, it will be regarded as a fairy tale. However, the Kingdom of Shayslan lived alone overseas, and had never been looked down upon by the countries of the Galintia continent. Moreover, the Chickard Chamber of Commerce also handed over the maritime spice trade route leading to the Kingdom of Shayslan to the Norton family. Then it was only natural to bring the Shayslan kingdom under the family's jurisdiction.
This time, it was Torin and Toker, father and son, who escorted the transport ship back. As the logistics director of the Sea Legion, the old Torin reported to Lorist in detail the situation of the Shayslan Kingdom. In the hands of Uncle Wang Shahem, while the little king was still underage, he was regarded as a puppet of the kingdom, and he deeply hated Uncle Wang who poisoned and beheaded his mother...
Alas, palace fights are everywhere! Lorist sighed, and announced the decision to deal with Shayslan Kingdom. He didn't want to disperse his energies into the internal strife in this archipelago kingdom, and what aroused his interest was the spice specialty of Shayslan Kingdom. People in the North now have better living conditions and are used to eating meat, and there is no shortage of beef and mutton. The return of these spices can be regarded as a profitable source of wealth for the family territory.
Lorist is planning to build another maritime merchant fleet and open up a maritime commercial route to the Kingdom of Shayslan. It is spice. As for the power struggle within the kingdom, the family does not need to participate, as long as the Shayslan Kingdom guarantees the supply of spices.
"My lord, what about the little hostage and the woman's head that came this time?" Old Tolin asked.
"Let's send this woman's head back to the little king. It's not disgusting to put a human head in such a beautiful crystal box for nothing." Lorist waved his hand: "That little hostage is old." If he is too young, he will be sent to Nicole Academy for a few years, and then sent to Chenxi Academy after he is sensible. The knight's annuity. After all, we have sent two million gold blessings to our family, so don't treat him badly. In addition, it can be regarded as a spare tire, in case there are any changes in the Shayslan Kingdom in the future."
"Yes, my lord."
After dealing with this matter, Lorist began to plan where the Flying Tigers should go to train. The Feisabrun family's surprise attack to occupy the Dajinchuan area and establish a province made Lorist's mind tighten. Now he can't judge whether the combat power of his family's Flying Tiger Legion is better than that of the Feisabrun Family's Field Ranger Legion. In terms of type, the rangers of the Feisabrun family are typical light cavalry, similar to the scout light cavalry of the Norton family, coming and going like the wind, advancing and retreating freely. Only by gathering heavy troops to compress the battlefield space can they force them to fight head-to-head, just like the last time the King City sent troops to deal with the two ranger regiments led by Viscount Christopher. …
The Flying Tigers of the Norton family, although they are also cavalry, tend to be medium or heavy armored cavalry. For impact, there are chariots and steel crossbows for long-distance attack, steel armored spear cavalry for charge, and thunderbolt catapults for siege and fortification. It can be said that the Flying Tiger Army is a field attack army that moves quickly.
If the Flying Tiger Legion is likened to a spear, then the Bear Knights commanded by the family's Golden Knight Terman is like a big hammer, no matter how strict the formation is, it will be smashed by it. Its defense is astonishingly unimaginable. The Flying Tiger Legion of Tiger Ross is dressed in steel armor, and the front of the horse is equipped with a leather horse jacket inlaid with steel armor pieces. The Knights of the Angry Bear wore steel wire armor on the inside and fine steel armor on the outside, and their mounts were covered with steel vests. The rider and horse weighed more than a ton, and they were simply invincible human tanks. Except for the large siege crossbow that can pose a certain threat to it at a distance of 50 to 60 meters, it is generally helpless to shoot directly with a longbow...
If it weren't for the fact that war horses with good endurance, high load and fast sprint were hard to come by, Terman's Knights would have already had a regiment, and it would not have grown to more than 10,000 people until now. However, if compared with the field Ranger Legion of the Feisabrun family, Lorist found that if the two sides formed a hedge, no matter if it was the Flying Tiger Legion or the Angry Bear Knights, they would crush the Ranger Legion. But the problem is that Grand Duke Feisabrun is not a fool, but an old fox. He will only deal with the Norton family's Flying Tiger Legion and Angry Bear Knights in a way that is beneficial to the Rangers.
Rangers are light cavalry, no matter the steel armored cavalry of the Flying Tiger Legion or the heavy armor knights of the Angry Bear Knights, chasing them will only be a waste of effort, maybe they will be attacked by surprise after they are exhausted. But if you don't chase those rangers, you will be harassing them like flies, which is annoying even if they don't cause much damage. There are only those who are thieves for a thousand days but not those who are against thieves for a thousand days. Keeping a long-term vigilance will only reduce the energy and vigilance of the soldiers, which makes it easier for them to be successfully attacked by rangers.
In fact, the best way to deal with rangers is to scout light cavalry. Do you want to form a scout light cavalry regiment? Lorist only flashed this idea in his mind, then dismissed it again. Princess Sylvia visited the Northland for nearly a month, and the Volibear Intelligence and Investigation Bureau of Tagle sent a large number of intelligence investigators pretending to be grooms and servants to contact the princess's entourage and get a lot of information. One of them is that the Grand Duke Fesabrun broke up the captives of the savage tribes and incorporated them into the army. One was to assimilate them, and the other was to make up for the consumption of the family's armed forces.
Compared with these savages who have lived on horseback since childhood, the scout light cavalry of the Norton family can rely on excellent equipment and long-term training. In addition to the lack of suitable long-range weapons that can be launched immediately, the formation of a scout light cavalry regiment again may be opposed by his retainers. After all, in order to form the Flying Tiger Legion, the Rock Legion, and the Guards Legion, the reorganization of the family's armed forces has exceeded the budget by more than 3 million gold this year. Even if the Kingdom of Haneyabada is destroyed and the capture is rich, it cannot afford such a toss. Or let Master Sid and the others develop excellent horse-riding long-range weapons first...
Lorist doesn't think that his family will clash with the Feisabrun family in the next two years, and the arms agreement has just been signed, so these two years will definitely be a period of peace. In addition, if he goes to participate in the Knights Tournament next year, it is very likely that he will marry the Feisabrun family. If you marry Princess Sylvia as your wife, then the Feisabrun family will become an ally with their own family, and the Field Ranger Legion will be no threat to him.
Thinking of Princess Sylvia, Lorist didn't know what it was like. All the retainers who knew about it agreed with it very much, even Governor Hansk of Hilovas Island and Governor of Haneyabad Archipelago Xi Ked wrote a letter hoping to do his best to facilitate this marriage, thinking that it would bring great benefits to the Norton family. But in Lorist's eyes, he always felt weird. He always regarded Princess Sylvia as a cute and beautiful little sister, and never thought that he would be attracted by Princess Sylvia...
For Lorist, the only benefit of Princess Sylvia's visit is to make his own harem, Miss Dina, completely calm down. Because Miss Dina found that, no matter from any point of view, no matter in terms of identity or beauty, even fighting spirit rank, temperament and family background, her two sisters were far behind Princess Silvia, even There is no qualification to be jealous. Because almost all the retainers of the Norton family approve of the marriage between Lorist and Princess Silvia.
Miss Dina resentfully stopped the tossing about putting her younger sister on the throne of the headed wife of the Norton family, and announced that she would retreat to be promoted to the silver rank, and then become the first female knight of the Dina family. Lorist almost laughed his teeth out. He only heard that the promotion from the silver rank to the gold rank requires retreat and hard training. He has never seen black irons need to retreat to advance to the silver rank. Isn't this too much? The angry Miss Dina rushed forward viciously and even bit Lorist a few times before venting her depression...
Lorist, who drew his sword and looked around in a daze, had no choice but to let Tiger Ross lead the Flying Tiger Army to hunt those herbivorous monsters in the barbarian plains. He also sent Hughes Great Swordsman to accompany him. If you want to move, you will stay in the normal nest in the family territory to celebrate the new year.
Sometimes I feel very sad when I think about it. After returning to the family territory for nearly ten years, Lorist has been running around for the development of the family without resting for a moment. Staying at the Rock Castle for the New Year this year, but I feel a little uncomfortable. In particular, the three allies went to Morente City with Lorist this year, and they will no longer come to the Rock Castle to gather this winter, which made Lorist feel deserted. Rist wanted to go to the barren plains to stay with the Flying Tigers to hunt monsters.
Lorist, who had nothing to do, cleaned up the family territory in winter, focusing on those underground gang organizations that had just sprouted. Anyway, those who live in the winter stay at home and nest in the winter, and catch one. Pull out the gourd belts and pick up the roots. There are no less than twenty family knights implicated in this winter purge operation, and all of them have been demerited and inspected. Among them, three Silver Knights were stripped of their titles by Lorist.
As the criminal director of the family territory, Christon submitted the report on these underground gang organizations to Lorist, pointing out that most of the members who participated in these gang organizations were those who were idle and usually aggressive. family members or family knights, or serving officials of the town garrison. Some retired family fighters also joined or formed these underground gangster organizations. They never made big mistakes, but kept making small mistakes. After a long time, they became a force that frightened the good leaders. They consciously or unconsciously monopolized some profitable industries in their localities. , and then slowly develop.
Director Christon believes that formulating a comprehensive criminal law as soon as possible is the real and effective means of combating these underground gangsters. Strengthening the training of the urban patrol team and expanding their power to fight crime is the only way to avoid the recurrence of these underground gangster organizations Best way.
Lorist simply handed over the formulation of the criminal regulations of the family territory to Director Christon, and asked him to take the criminal regulations formulated by the former Krissen Empire to find Miss Teresty at Nicole Academy. There are many old scholars there, and they can let them According to the criminal regulations of the old empire, a new criminal regulation suitable for the territory of the Norton family should be formulated. I believe those old scholars of Nicole College will be very interested.
The year 1776 of Gallinte Athon passed so calmly, except for a group of nearly 2,000 prisoners who were dispatched to the Haneyabad Islands, the Norton family territory was still a thriving scene.
After the rainy season in March, Tiger Ross led the Flying Tiger Legion back from the barbaric plains and brought back more than 100,000 corpses of herbivorous monsters. Lorist inspected the Flying Tiger Legion and found that the soldiers were very tough due to a winter's experience in the barbaric plain. He was very satisfied with the result.
When April came, the good news continued. With the help of his grandfather-in-law great swordsman Injerek, Fatty Shi was successfully promoted to the golden rank. El, who was also in retreat, and Pachko, who was retreating in Fenglin Villa, also became The new Golden Knight of the Norton family. Three more Golden Knights under Lorist, and the Norton family now had fourteen Golden Knights.
But there is also bad news. The two Silver Knights, Pete and Vasimma, failed to be promoted. They need half a year of training to recover from physical and mental damage. In addition, Dolles, Jim, and the former bandit Ovekis the beard are still practicing in retreat... .
For Lorist, Fatty Shi's promotion to the golden rank meant that he could be the hands-off shopkeeper again, and he could entrust all the trivial administrative affairs in the territory to Fatty Shi. As soon as the mood was good, after working hard on the three Dina daughters, the young aunt Diliana got pregnant with satisfaction, and Lorist was expecting another child.
After Fatty Shi went out to take over the affairs of the family territory, he learned what happened in his retreat for more than a year. He was very embarrassed about the current situation of Chenxi Academy. After all, everyone came out of Chenxi Academy. At the same time, he greatly appreciated Lorist's promotion of Dawn College to settle in the Northland. He believed that this was a major event related to the fate of the Norton family in a hundred years, and planned to use the power of the family to build Dawn College as soon as possible in the next year. , so as to start enrollment as soon as possible.
Regarding the marriage between Lorist and Princess Sylvia, Fatty Shi had a different view from other retainers, and maintained a cautious attitude. He thinks that the marriage between the Norton family and the Feisabrunn family is not all good. Instead, he thinks that he should be vigilant against the actions of the Grand Duke of Feisabrunn. The opponent of the Norton family must pay close attention to it.
On April 15th, the Norton family held another family meeting in the Rock Castle. Fatty Shi, as the chief knight of the family, arranged various goals to be accomplished this year. The next thing to prepare was for Lorist to go to Windbury King City to participate in the Knight Tournament hosted by the Grand Duke Fessabrun. Lorist's purpose is to bring Princess Silvia back to the family territory...
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