"My lord, the Earl of Churchwick must know the details of our Norton family. He seems to be afraid of you. But what I don't understand is that the little prince of the Duchy of Forondo, the great swordsman and the dead golden knight They don't seem to know about it. Didn't you taunt them after killing the golden knight and want to take revenge? I saw that Earl Dalek of the Principality of Sabaji wanted to stand up, but was killed by Earl Churchwick Hold him down so he won't move..."
It was Schwader who said this, and now they are on their way back to the hotel. After Lorist killed the golden knight named Henryman in one move, Schwader found that everyone at the banquet was stupid. With dead fish eyes, he stared at the corpse on the ground almost in disbelief.
With one move, he passed by, and his Adam's apple was broken. How keen bodywork, sharp eyesight and lightning-like movements are needed to make a gold three-star knight inevitably die. Not to mention Baron Felim and Baron Shaheen, even if they have the confidence to defeat that Henryman, it will take at least a few hundred moves, and maybe they have to pay a price of flesh and blood...
There were also three great sword masters present. Grand Duke Fesabrun was shocked, Limad great sword master was terrified, and Hugh sword master Hughes was appreciative. As he often sparred with Lorist, he saw it very clearly. Just when the golden knight named Henryman charged forward like a mad tiger, and the sword was gone, Lorist took a small step forward. It was this small step that caused the Golden Knight to be thrown into disarray, because he lost the target of his planned sword fall, and didn't even have a chance to change the direction of the sword, so he could only watch helplessly as his long sword brushed against Lorist's. The body passed by, watching Lorist's right hand touch his Adam's apple, as if he had sent it up by himself, with a bang...
This is the first opportunity, Great Swordsman Hughes looked at the figure of Lorist in front of him and sighed very much. The Great Swordsman who has reached this step can almost be considered to have reached the half-step peak level. Lorist is only thirty-four years old. Successful promotion to the golden rank at this age can be regarded as a genius for cultivating battle qi, but this adult of mine is a pure monster. Now he has almost reached the half-step peak. It is obvious that he will become a Juggernaut, Juggernaut.
Jost forcefully dismounted his horse and let the mount take a few steps to catch up with Lorist: "My lord, did you notice at the banquet just now that the Earl of Churchwick was talking about the war between the four duchies in the middle and His Royal Highness?" , has always placed the four principalities in the middle of the country in the position of the weak who are wronged and helpless to fight back, instead of being complacent like those fools in the Principality of Forendo, as if they are appealing, I think Schwader's words are very Yes, that earl must know our family well."
"Hehe, you found out too? How about this, after you return to the hotel dormitory, you bring some guards to invite him over. I still have something to ask him." Lorist said.
After killing that Henryman Golden Knight, Lorist smiled and asked that little prince Doc if he wanted to send someone to take revenge? The little prince was so frightened that he kept shaking his head. Lorist felt that it was meaningless, so he resigned to Feisabrun. And Grand Duke Feisabrun also knew that Lorist had sent someone to book a hotel at the south city gate as a place to stay, so Grand Duke Feisabrun did not keep any guests, but sent Lorist and his party out. Passed the gate of the Rose Palace.
Not far from the south gate, there is a hotel named Anna's house. It has five floors. The first floor is a tavern, and the upper four floors are hotels. It is also a very famous place in Windbury.
It's a pity that this hotel named Anna's house is not famous for its facilities and services, but a tragic story. During the reign of King Christen V, Windbury City was still a newly developed livestock trading city. On the former site of this hotel, it was originally a dilapidated grocery store. The owner had a dumb daughter, a very gentle and kind girl. , often adopted stray cats and dogs, and sent food and clothing to those orphans.
Later, Anna grew up and married a very hardworking young man. The couple lived their happy life by relying on the grocery store. Due to the kindness of the husband and wife, the two of them took in more than a dozen homeless children, which made them a little overwhelmed, so they took out their parents' life savings to build a two-story building, selling wine on the bottom and cooking on the top. hostel. Because of their hard work and honesty, the business of this hostel is very good, and Anna also has more capital to adopt those orphans, cats and dogs.
Due to the good business, the couple decided to expand, so they spent money to build this five-story building as a hotel. As a result, because of this five-story building, they were targeted by the greedy nobles. Those nobles sent people to arrest Anna's husband and put them in prison. He charged them with inexplicable crimes such as smuggling and harboring, and finally sent people to threaten her. Anna, pay an imperial old man's head gold coin to buy the five-story building.
Anna had no choice but to accept the price, and sold the building worth nearly a thousand for an imperial old man's head gold coin, just to save her lover. But unexpectedly, it was his husband's tortured body that was thrown out of the prison. Anna went crazy, holding her lover's body and sitting in front of the city lord's mansion for three days and three nights, finally wailed and hit the stone base of the flagpole and died.
At that time, there were thousands of people surrounding the square of the City Lord's Mansion. Anna was surrounded by food brought by well-meaning people, but she didn't drink or eat, and no one could persuade her. All the merchants and citizens of Windbury City united and demanded that the mayor must give Anna an explanation. The mayor shrank in fear and closed the gate of the mansion to be a tortoise. Just when the caretaker was negligent, Anna stood up, wailed and suddenly slammed into the base of the flagpole, bleeding from her head and dying.
This was the only citizen riot recorded in the history of the former Krissen Empire. Angry citizens and businessmen burned down the city lord's mansion and hanged the fat pig-like city lord. When the news reached the imperial capital, the furious Christen V ordered a thorough investigation. The ridiculous thing is that the first noble envoy sent was bought by the nobles of the territory, and the responsibility was pushed to the dead city lord. However, the businessmen and citizens of Windbury City did not buy it, and continued to strike, and even organized the Windbury City Self-Defense Force, causing great noise.
The first envoy of the nobles ordered the nobles in Winston Province to dispatch private soldiers to suppress the civil unrest, but many nobles refused this request. They believed that the fault of this matter was not the rioting people, but the greedy the nobility. In the end, the two sides confronted each other under the city and the incident was reported to the imperial capital again. The angry Christen V ordered the dispatch of the Royal Knights, and appointed the head of the Knights as the final executive officer to deal with this matter.
When the Royal Knights arrived at Windbury City, the Self-Defense Forces opened the city gate and surrendered, and submitted a letter of request, describing the whole incident, and demanding that the nobles be severely punished.
The Royal Knights, who stood on the side of the royal family, used this reason to massacre the nobles in Winston Province. At that time, almost two-thirds of the nobles in Winston Province were implicated in this matter and were deprived of their territories and titles. The instigator was ransacked Genocide, the first noble envoy was also hung on the gallows.
In the history of the Cresson Empire, the so-called Windbury City riot was actually a contest between the royal family and the territorial nobles. It is true that the royal family cannot interfere with the rule of the territorial nobles over their own family territory, but they will never allow the territorial nobles to extend their hands into the royal family's territory. At that time, Windbury City and several large cities were under the direct control of the royal family. The commercial activities carried out by nobles in these cities can be reduced or exempted from taxes as nobles, and their occupation of the properties of merchants and citizens is tantamount to touching the cheese of the royal family. Christen V keenly took advantage of this incident to carry out a major investigation of all the big cities, expelling the commercial operations of countless nobles in these cities. For the reason of prosperity.
Today's Anna's house, this hotel is run by the descendants of the poor couple's relatives. Even in the Iberian Kingdom established by the second prince, no nobleman was willing to take the idea of this hotel. The building is an inauspicious place, so Anna's family basically operates people from small caravans and mercenaries. The nobles avoid this place, and it is considered a loss of status to go in and out of this place.
In recent years, Anna's family business has also been bleak, and it can only be considered barely maintained. Lorist didn't care, and booked this hotel as his residence when he arrived in Windbury King City.
"My lord, Knight Tagle and Brother Reddy have been waiting for a long time." Schwader came in to report.
"Oh, let them come over right away." Lorist wiped his face with his hands: "By the way, let the servants bring over the tub and hot water, I want to take a bath."
Tagle and Reddy came very quickly. They arrived at Windbury King City two months earlier than Lorist. One was to arrange the Volibear intelligence station here, and the other was to see the Grand Duke of Fessabrun Do you have any bad intentions in holding this knight tournament
"How are things going?"
Reddy took a step forward: "My lord, the three underground gangs in Windbury City have been integrated into one, and their backers are gone. The new boss has sworn allegiance to Volibear."
Lorist sniffled: "The smell of blood on your body is a bit strong."
Reddy shrugged, this action was learned from Lorist: "No way, there are too many people who don't know how to praise and know what to do, so I have to send them back to Sigvar's Paradise to rest in peace."
Lorist turned his gaze to Tagle.
Tagle replied: "My lord, the backer of the Rynica gang is Visinka Viscount, a nobleman in the southern province, and a leader of the queen's faction. He is very trusted by the queen. Five days ago, Lord Reddy helped him fall from a horse and injured his skull. The queen thought it was her father's grand duke who made a mess, and the father and daughter are currently at odds. Rynica helped Visinka, thinking that they could make a fortune by themselves. Lord Reddy went there last night I tried to persuade them, but the effect was not good. There are less than seven or eight leaders of the Rynica gang who are still alive, and the remaining thirty-four were all killed by Lord Reddy."
"Is there any special move by Grand Duke Fesabrun?"
"No, we have conducted a careful investigation this month, and we have not found any special actions by the Feisabrun family. The Grand Duke should really want to hold this knight tournament well. He spent nearly 50,000 Jinford bulldoze The original slums in the royal city were destroyed, and four large wooden square arenas were built there. It is estimated that the knight tournament will be held there. Our intelligence investigators already have a group of servants mixed into these four arenas , Everything there is under our surveillance, and any abnormal changes will be discovered and reported by them."
"Good job. How did the queen and the nobles react to Grand Duke Feisabrun's actions?"
"Except for the queen and the grand duke who once took more than 10,000 gold points from the grand duke, the other nobles were very obedient and cooperated with the grand duke to organize this knight's tournament. They didn't have any money, but they also sent The stewards at home went to help the Grand Duke, and some nobles also went out to search or buy supplies under the orders of the Grand Duke.”
"Then is the intelligence site in King Windbury arranged?"
"Arranged three, they don't know each other, so that the intelligence that comes from the future can be viewed in correspondence with each other. But we still have a problem, we can't arrange the letter eagle station in the city, because it is easy to be discovered or Breeding disputes and attracting those greedy nobles, I am worried that they will forcibly buy our letter eagle. The best way is to arrange the letter eagle station outside the city. The dead Visinka had a manor outside the northern city , can be used as a very suitable Xinying site, but we can't get it without revealing our identity..." Tager replied.
Xinying is a plan to use falcons for long-distance mail delivery proposed a few years ago. After several years of hard work, a batch of excellent messenger falcons were finally obtained, named Xinying. If a letter eagle site is set up in Windbury King City, then it only takes one day for information about what happened here to be sent to Lorist who is far away in Beihai City. And if you send a letter on horseback, wait for ten days.
"Aren't there any nobles in the royal city who love our Norton family?"
"My lord, we didn't find out. The nobles here are a group of brainless guys. They don't care what's going on outside, they just stare at their one-acre three-point land. For the impression of our Norton family, they still stay in the A few years ago, when we conquered Wangcheng and captured the second prince, it was fear, or it could be distrust, and we were afraid to avoid it.”
"Forget it, I'll think about it again. Where is your next plan?" Lorist asked.
"According to the original plan, we have finished here and we are going to the Principality of Melain." Tager said.
There was a knock on the door, and it was the hotel servant who brought the cleaned tub and hot water. Reddy took the tub and put it in the room, and helped pour hot and cold water.
Lorist stripped off his clothes in front of Tagle and Reddy, got into the tub, and splashed water on his face. Reddy took a clean linen towel and wiped Lorist's back.
"Okay, Reddy, just wipe it off." Lorist took the towel and covered his face: "Tager, just now I saw a few people from the central region at the welcome banquet of the Grand Duke Fessabrun. The nobles of the Four Principalities, I am very interested in their purpose and origins, you should check them out these few days. After the Knights Conference is over, you go to the Central Four Principalities first, and after you have arranged an intelligence website there, you can go to Mei Principality of Rhine.
I have a feeling that the Four Principalities of Central China may be our family's obstacles in the future. We have to take precautions first, and the sooner we get to know them, the better. By the way, I have asked Jost to invite the Earl of Churchwick of the Duchy of Handela, he seems to know our family well. If you come, Tager, you will act as an attendant, and carefully observe what kind of person he is. I hope he will be wise enough not to refuse my request..."
"Yes, my lord, as you wish."
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