For the Grand Duke of Feisabrun, it is very normal to make such a request. Two noble families are married, and the woman does have the right to ask the man to expel or exile his former concubine, so as not to hinder the newlyweds and the future family inheritance rights. , At the same time, it can also avoid the hostility and harm from the illegitimate son in the long growth period of the legitimate son born to the regular wife.
Just like when the former third prince Antinac of the Krissen Empire married the precious daughter of Grand Duke Melain, the third prince exiled his four former concubines, one of whom was the daughter of a minor nobleman, who was the daughter of the third prince. The prince gave birth to an illegitimate child. She refused to leave because of her credit for giving birth to a son for the third prince. In the end, in order to ensure the success of the marriage with the Meilein family, the old emperor ordered someone to pour a glass of poisoned wine on her, and sent someone to send the two-year-old illegitimate son away, and his whereabouts have never been known since then...
The official marriage of two aristocratic families not only means that they are well-matched, but more out of the interests of the family. The first two requests made by Grand Duke Feisabrun were for his own family, so Lorist would have to pay two to three million gold dollars to marry Princess Sylvia. Only the last request is for Princess Sylvia, and I hope she can have a good time in the Norton family and avoid other women from being jealous of her.
Lorist remained silent...
Grand Duke Feisabrun was very happy: "Come here, bring some wine and food. I want to have a few drinks with Locke."
"Sorry..." Lorist said, "Your Highness, I can't do it."
"Well... what did you say?" The Grand Duke turned his head slowly and slowly in disbelief, his fingers were still pointing forward to summon the servants, but he was as stiff as a dead branch and couldn't be retracted.
"Your Highness, I cannot fulfill your third request." Lorist raised his head, looked at Grand Duke Fessabrun and said firmly.
Grand Duke Feisabrun stared at Lorist's face tightly, and it took a long while before he let out a hoarse laugh: "Hehe, hehe, Norton... Earl... My lord, you, are you joking with me, aren't you?"
Lorist shook his head: "What I said is true. To me, when I took them in as my concubines, they were my women, and I was their man. Norton family men did not abandon The habit of my own woman. And I believe Sylvia will understand my thoughts."
"Bang!" Grand Duke Feisabrun slapped the long table beside him fiercely, and the poor long table immediately fell to pieces and fell to the ground. The Grand Duke stood up like a suppressed volcano: "Whether Sylvia understands is her business, but this is my request, the request of the Feisabrun family, are you going to refuse?"
Lorist also stood tall and showed no sign of weakness: "I care about Sylvia, not the Feisabrun family. I have already promised to meet the first two requirements of your family, but I will never allow Feisabrun to meet you." The Brun family has reached into the Norton family to interfere in our family's internal affairs, you have no right to ask me to exile my woman!"
Grand Duke Feisabrun was trembling with anger: "You, you asked our family to marry Sylvia, and those women who refused to give up on you, this, is this what you said you care about Sylvia?"
"Is it contradictory?" Lorist smiled: "I care about Sylvia, that's why I married her as my wife. She will become the mistress of the Norton family, and she will have everything she should have. But at the same time, she must Follow the tradition of the Norton family. If she wants to become my wife, she must learn to take good care of my woman, which is her responsibility as the mistress of the Norton family."
Well, Lorist is brazenly making it clear that he wants to open a harmonious harem.
"You, you, you are shameless!" The Grand Duke Feisabrun was so angry that he almost spat blood on Lorist's face. What did he take the Feisabrun family for? The most precious flower in our family is married to your Norton family and you have to learn to take care of your woman. Is this the responsibility of the mistress? How unreasonable! If this spreads out, where will the Feisabrun family's face be hanged? We are not those down-and-out aristocratic families! We are the Feisabrun family, the lions of the Northeast Prairie!
The Grand Duke Fesabrun glared at Lorist, his aura continued to rise, his right hand was already firmly grasping the long sword hanging on his waist, as if he really wanted to pull out the long sword and split Lorist in two Half.
Lorist's hands seemed to be hanging down easily, but his feet were already in place, ready to receive the thunderous blow of Grand Duke Feisabrun at any time. If the vision and aura could be materialized, then the space between the Grand Duke Fesabrun and Lorist would already be filled with thunder and lightning, and sparks would fly everywhere.
"Lord Norton, exile your concubine and your illegitimate children, this is the request of our Feisabrun family, and it is also the condition that you must fulfill in order to marry Sylvia. A chance to express your sincerity. If you can't do it, I will think you are provoking the patience and tolerance of the Fisabrun family. As her grandfather, I will never allow her husband to have another woman with kids…”
Grand Duke Feisabrun finally suppressed his anger, and after a long silence, he spoke again.
"I'm sorry, Your Royal Highness, I said that I can't do it. This is not a question of whether I can marry your family, it is related to the most fundamental sense of responsibility as a man, to exile my own women and children, this is a Shame on a man. I would never do that."
Grand Duke Feisabrun suddenly lost his aura, sat back on the chair in a somewhat disheartened manner, and waved his hands: "Lord Norton, you go back. I hope you can think about what I mentioned after you go back. These three requirements. Only if you fulfill it will I agree to marry Sylvia to you."
Lorist took three steps back, made a half-bow with touching his chest, and was about to turn around to leave, but stopped again: "Your Highness, please think about it carefully, if I give up in order to marry Sylvia Those women and children of mine, then who can guarantee that I will give up Sylvia for other women in the future? So... "
Before he could finish speaking, Grand Duke Feisabrun was already furious. He grabbed some ornaments on the desk next to him and threw them at Lorist: "Get out! Get out!"
Lorist ran away with his head in his arms...
Running out of the Rose Palace and seeing El and the others waiting at the door, Lorist was startled suddenly, stopped, and touched his chin with his hand: "No, why didn't that old man Fesabrunn draw his sword and cut me? That's strange." .Even if I got angry and said the wrong thing in the end and made him angry, I just smashed things instead of drawing a sword. Didn’t this old man always have a bad temper? He is still a third-level swordsman, so he shouldn’t be afraid of me? It’s weird …”
But at this time El and a dozen guards came up with their mounts, Lorist could only go back to the hotel with a full stomach.
Earl Kenmes was sitting in the lobby of the hotel waiting for Lorist's arrival. When he saw Lorist coming in, he jumped up and grabbed Lorist's arm: "Is the Duke of Fessabrun looking for you because of Celie?" Princess Weiya's marriage?"
Loris nodded.
"Is it done?"
Lorist shook his head and shrugged again: "I don't think so, because I didn't agree to his three requests."
Earl Kenmes was taken aback: "Three requests, what did he ask for?"
"Firstly, the Grand Duke asked our family to assist him to invest in the establishment of ten workshops in Muyeyuan Province, requesting that within two years the daily necessities in the Fisabrun family territory can be self-sufficient..." Lorist recalled road.
Earl Kenmax jumped up again: "No, absolutely not, this is almost breaking the root of our Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce! Locke, you don't know that the most needed thing on the grassland is daily necessities. Although the profit in this area is small, it can The volume of transactions is huge. The Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce has now monopolized the market for daily necessities in Muyeyuan Province and Donghuang Province. Two-thirds of the annual dividends and profits come from here. The goods that other merchants come in are not as good as ours. The quality is good, and without our price concessions, it has long since disappeared. Doesn’t the Grand Duke of Fesabrun now occupy Jinchuan? Gold is produced there, and I am trying to increase the price a bit to squeeze more oil and water... "
Earl Kenmax was suddenly discouraged: "It's more important to marry Princess Sylvia. Let's talk about it. The old fox, Grand Duke Fessabrun, obviously doesn't want us to make money from his family territory, or he doesn't want us to make money from his family territory. I fell in love with the profits of daily necessities trading, so I asked you to help them open so many workshops... It doesn't matter, without the profits in this area, I can think of other ways to increase the profits of other commodities... "
"The second request is that he asked our family to provide him with 10,000 sets of the standard equipment worn by the guards around me..." Lorist continued.
Earl Kenmax exploded again: "It's too much, this old bastard is insatiable..."
The standard armor equipped by the 3,000-man guard battalion around Lorist is indeed different from the armor of the family's armed soldiers. Although the armed soldiers of the family are equipped with fine steel armor, their defensive power is still slightly inferior to the standard armor equipped by the guard battalion. It is the same style, but the color is different. The standard equipment of the armed soldiers of the family is lead gray, while the standard armor of the guards The battalion is equipped with blue-gray, which is also the color of the standard equipment unique to the guards around Lorist.
Earl Kenmes, Baron Felim and Baron Shaheen all thought that the Norton family was armed with the same fine iron armor as they did. After all, they couldn't tell the difference between the two metals by color, and they didn't have the same armor as Norton. How much family armed soldiers come into contact with. But they do know that the equipment of the guard camp is the best in terms of defense, and Lorist told them the same thing. Such a set of standard equipment is worth about 180 Gold Fords, and the family only made about 3,000 sets. Then two sets were made and presented to them according to the style they chose.
Now Feisabrun's grand opening requires 10,000 sets. The Earl of Kenmax was indignant: "Is this old man crazy? The lion opened his mouth wide, so he is not afraid of choking to death. The 10,000 sets are almost two million gold dollars. Is he selling Princess Sylvia? The third prince back then It only cost two million gold coins to marry the daughter of Grand Duke Melain, which is the head of the old man of the empire, and it is only seven or eight hundred thousand gold dollars. How can he say that he wants you to spend such a big price to marry Xi Princess Livia, that's why you refused, isn't it?"
Lorist replied, "I agree to both requests."
"Uh..." Earl Kenmes was choked, and it took him a long time to calm down: "Sex, okay, okay, your Norton family is bold, and you can agree to such unreasonable requests. Then the third one Isn't the request even more absurd?"
"No, his third request is for me to exile my concubines and their children, so that I can get his consent to marry the two families..."
Earl Kenmes was silent, and patted Lorist on the back after a while: "I really want to say that you are a fool, you agreed to such difficult and unreasonable requests, but this is the most difficult request in the eyes of others. The simple and reasonable request was rejected by you. I don’t know what to say to you, but I suddenly breathed a sigh of relief in my heart. I think Felim and Shaheen felt the same when they heard it. I won't worry that the alliance between our four families will be torn apart by the increasingly powerful Norton family... "
Lorist smiled wryly: "But now I don't know how to explain to Princess Sylvia."
Earl Kenmax also smiled: "Locke, all I can say is that my condolences will change, and we will always watch the excitement behind, applauding and cheering for you..."
"My god, is this what you guys did for me as my allies? It might as well be terminated."
"No, you are the leader of our four families, and you are the one who proposed the alliance of the four families, so if we don't quit, you can't terminate the contract, unless you want to lose face of the Norton family and give up the glory of the nobility." Ken Earl Max said solemnly.
"How can there be such a thing, I don't believe that I can't solve the covenant..."
"My lord, there is a messenger from Grand Duke Feisabrun asking to see you outside." A guard came in and interrupted the laughter of the two.
"Huh? Ask him to come in." Lorist was very curious. Why did the Grand Duke Fessabrunn send a messenger over just after he came back
The messenger is just an ordinary guard, not a nobleman: "My lord, I am here to inform the Grand Duke of something. Because the Grand Duke is not feeling well, the banquet scheduled to be held tomorrow to celebrate the success of the Knight Tournament will be cancelled. , please forgive me, my lords."
Earl Kenmes was stunned: "No way, no matter where the knight tournament is held, a grand banquet will be held after the end to entertain all the knights and nobles who participated in the competition. This is a tradition. How can the Grand Duke just cancel it?"
Lorist sneered: "Grand Duke Feisabrun's spirit is a little too small. Look at the knight tournament he held this time, not to mention the archery and swordsmanship competitions. Our Norton family won the first place. Immediately." The Tiger Ross won the championship, Baron Felim was second, Baron Shahin was fifth, El was seventh, and none of the rest were from the Feisabrun family. Except for the successful holding of this conference, Feisab The Lun family doesn't have a knight who can make a move, so what can he celebrate
If he successfully marries with our Norton family, he can still make a big splash. Now that I have rejected his request, how would he want to see us knights who have won the championship show off our power at the banquet and show off the momentum of our four major families in the Northland? ? So I simply canceled the banquet and saved a lot of money... I now understand why he didn't draw his sword and fall out with me when I refused his request. Hehe, it turned out that he was still thinking about our family signing a contract with him. I am afraid that I will cut off the supply of armaments to him... "
"Will you break this arms deal?" Earl Kenmes asked.
"No." Lorist shook his head: "This is an agreement signed before, and we will implement it according to the agreement. Because it is related to the integrity of the Norton family, and it is not based on my personal preferences.
All right, let's pack our bags tonight and leave here tomorrow morning. We have a lot of banquets, and at worst, we will celebrate by ourselves when we return to the Northland. I believe that once the news that the Grand Duke is not planning to hold a banquet spreads, everyone will be disappointed, and there may be some minor disturbances. Believe it or not, the Grand Duke will send troops into the city tomorrow to drive away those wandering knights, we'd better leave early. "
The next morning, Lorist and the others left the Windbury King's City. Since they brought nearly 200 members of the Knight Bonova family who had joined Baron Felim, the journey was a bit slow. After assembling the multi-corps led by Yuri, they walked for another six days, and the Northland was already in sight, and they could cross the Hendryford Cable Bridge tomorrow.
A wisp of smoke and dust rose in the distance, and the three fast horses rushed over, seeing Lorist's three riders jumping off the horse: "Knight Shredder ordered us to report to Your Excellency that Princess Sylvia came to Rock Castle five days ago. "
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