The Grand Duke Fessabrun got up early and slept less as he got older. However, the Grand Duke himself never thinks that he is old. Although he is nearly seventy years old, he is still a third-level great swordsman. His physical function is like that of a man in his fifties. A maid in the palace let herself relax twice.
The reason for not being able to sleep may be that there are too many things to worry about. Sandy hasn't come back yet, I don't know what happened? The spies who went to the Principality of Sabaji sent a report saying that at the end of last year, Sandy and two other great sword masters went into the swamp area of Bailu Lake to search for the Norton family boy, but there is no news yet. What is the boy's name? It seems to be the swordsmanship champion of the last knight tournament. Poor Ginoyd, just died under the sword of that kid. I originally wanted to cultivate him vigorously. It is rare for the Feisabrun family to have such a talent, but he fell into the hands of the Norton family. The Grand Duke remembered Just a belly full of fire.
Sandy should be fine. Anyway, she is a third-level great swordsman. When she was just promoted three years ago, even she was surprised. The Hubet tribe in Jinchuan and Jinchuan is not easy to mess with. There are seven grassman priests who are equivalent to great sword masters. He joined hands with Sandy to trap and kill six of them. Then he dispatched an army to launch a surprise attack when the people of the Hubeite tribe were in panic, annihilating the Hubeite tribe in one fell swoop, and captured the big and small Jinchuan.
As a third-level great swordsman, Sandy should be able to walk sideways in Galintia. As long as you don't provoke those old monsters, even if you encounter other third-level great swordsmen, you can retreat unscathed. If you haven't come back, you should have encountered something or had a good time and forgot the time. Women are so self-willed, the Grand Duke shook his head, no longer worried about Great Sword Master Xiandi. Of course, the Grand Duke never dreamed that Lorist would make a move, taking his lover, Great Swordsman Sandy, and making him a prisoner of His Highness the Second Highness.
The family territory is also safe and sound. Christopher is sitting in the Dajinchuan area. Currently, castles and fortresses are being built to re-plan the infrastructure in the Dajinchuan area. The 200,000 young men and women who were forced to relocate from the former Principality of Melain the year before last have already settled there. This year, they plan to relocate another 300,000 people from Donghuang Province, making the Dajinchuan area a new place for the Feisabrun family. The most solid base camp.
As for the lack of manpower in the Eastern Wilderness Province, we can replace it with the young and strong men and women who migrated from Winston Province. Together with those naturalized savages, it can still ensure that the number of people in the Eastern Wilderness Province reaches about 500,000. Now Sylvia is in charge of the construction of hydraulic facilities and land reclamation in the Eastern Wilderness Province, and hopes to make the food grown in the family territory self-sufficient in this year and next, and there is no need to buy a large amount of high-priced food from the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce. Although there is no shortage of meat such as cattle and sheep in the family territory, it would be too extravagant and wasteful for all the citizens to eat meat. It is enough to let them have miscellaneous grains to fill their stomachs.
You must know that cattle and sheep are the hard currency for the Fesabrun family to buy a large amount of materials from outside. Although the family has occupied the Jinchuan area and has a stable gold mine income, mining gold mines also requires capital. Besides, gold is easy to store and can be used at the most critical moment of the family, but cattle and sheep are different. The number of cattle and sheep reached more than 100,000 in the annual tribute collected by the family from those subjugated grass barbarian tribes. This is almost free capital. The Feisabrun family uses these cattle and sheep to exchange a large amount of supplies from the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce every year, and then uses the supplies to exchange cattle and sheep from the Caoman tribe.
Just thinking of Princess Silvia, Grand Duke Feisabrun's face darkened. How well-behaved Sylvia was when she was a child, why did she become more disobedient as she grew up? He even fell in love with the boy in charge of the Norton family with his own will. What's so good about that boy, he didn't pay attention to me, the grand duke. Although that kid is indeed Sylvia's best marriage partner in all aspects, it's a pity that that kid is not in the same line as the Fessabrun family. On the contrary, the Norton family is also a potential enemy of the Fessabrun family. Thinking of that kid rejecting his request face to face, Grand Duke Feisabrun felt like being slapped in the face...
The rumors are unbelievable, don't look at the fact that many nobles are talking in private that the new Norton family boy, Lorist, is a man who loves his family and has no ambitions. An alliance of four northern lands was formed in order to protect themselves. If other aristocrats had such powerful family arms, they would have monopolized the northern land and even peeked at the world in order to go further. However, Grand Duke Fesabrunn didn't think so, carefully deduced every step Lorist took, and the Grand Duke was secretly surprised in his heart.
Although Grand Duke Feisabrun didn't know the words of building high walls, accumulating food widely, and slowly becoming king, he still didn't underestimate Lorist's arrangements over the years. The Northland has become a monolith, and the Norton family and his three allies They have accumulated extremely powerful strength, and they are in a position where they can attack, retreat and defend, so that after the news that the four northern alliances dispatched troops to destroy the Principality of Madras in one fell swoop the year before last, the Grand Duke Fesabrun was shocked but not Surprisingly, the four northern alliances do have the power to destroy the country.
No wonder that kid dared to refuse his request, it was his confidence. Whether it is personal cultivation or family strength, the Norton family is not inferior to the Feisabrun family, on the contrary, it is much higher. Grand Duke Fessabrun sighed deeply. He really wanted to use Sylvia to tie the Norton family together and influence the Norton family through the marriage of the two. At least he would not let that kid spoil his good deeds. . It's a pity that the kid was too strong, or knew his plan, so he simply and rudely rejected the third request...
Now the Norton family is about to turn against the Feisabrun family. After the last batch of arms deals were completed at the end of last year, they only maintained the most hypocritical politeness on the surface. For example, the Earl Kenmes of the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce wrote to himself at the end of last year, expressing his apologies for various reasons, with one purpose. All commodities have been greatly increased to two or three times this year. The family occupied the big and small Jinchuan areas and got rich and slaughtered themselves as a big winner.
It is precisely because of this that the Grand Duke of Feisabrun is deeply disturbed. The four northern alliances know that the Grand Duke of Feisabrun and the four central duchies have joined forces to destroy the Principality of Melain, and opened up a trade route to the four central duchies. Then why is the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce still unswervingly demanding a substantial increase in commodity prices? Are you not afraid that the Feisabrun family will turn around and order from the four central duchies? One must know that the rock salt produced in the four central duchies is not much worse than snow salt...
This shows what? Obviously, the four major families in the Northland probably want to stretch their claws on the Kingdom of Iberia. Perhaps the demise of the Principality of Madras gave the four alliances of the Northland great confidence, so that they did not take the Feisabrun family Put it in your eyes. Everyone knows that the Kingdom of Iberia relies on the Feisabrun family, and taking action against the Kingdom of Iberia is declaring war on the Grand Duke of Feisabrun.
What Grand Duke Feisabrun regrets now is that he was too slow to deal with the nobles in Iberia last year, wasting a lot of time in vain. Fortunately, two of the four major families in the Northland had replaced their territories last year. The Grand Duke estimated that they would settle down this year, and it would be next year. Or they should send envoys to test it out earlier. Even if they spend an extra two million, it should still be an insurance policy for this year's peace, Grand Duke Feisabrun thought.
I hope that Winston Province can be completed according to my plan this year, so that next year I will have the confidence to deal with the four northern alliances in Winston Province. The time is too tight, and this year I will complete the three places. The construction of the castle fortress, the training of the garrison in charge of defense, and the relocation of most of the residents of Winston Province are all complicated and timeless!
At this time, the two maids on the bed who had been tossed and fell asleep by the Grand Duke last night finally woke up. Seeing the Grand Duke Feisabrun standing in front of the window in a nightgown and sighing, they hurriedly got up and brought hot water. The new Cheng Yulu shyly waited and wiped the Grand Duke's body, and let the Grand Duke have enough hand addiction on the two of them by the way. He was about to say good morning to the old and vigorous Grand Duke Fesabrun, but the Grand Duke shook his hand and refused. The Grand Duke picked up his saber and went out to start his morning exercises.
When Lorist rode his horse towards the Rose Palace, Grand Duke Feisabrun was enjoying a hearty breakfast in the study after taking a bath and changing clothes, reviewing some documents and dealing with some administrative affairs of the kingdom. When the first warning horn sounded, the Grand Duke just frowned. He thought that it was likely that the thousands of soldiers who had been gathered in the large school field for training had made a fuss.
Because those thousands of people were selected from the private soldiers left by the nobles in the southern provinces and the garrison of the traditional territorial nobles who were destroyed by themselves, they all awakened their fighting spirit, although most of them were bronze and black iron, but the day before yesterday While guarding against the Ranger Legion's expedition, those who are interested must think that this is an opportunity, so they incite these people to mutiny or something.
It doesn't matter, just stay and lead the guards around you to kill a group of them. If you kill those soldiers, they will be obedient and obedient. If you tell them to go east, they will not dare to go west. The Grand Duke of Fesabrun always Use iron and blood to rule the army, otherwise, how could those savage cavalry who are perverse and violent by nature obey his orders obediently? Without him, a big stick in one hand and a carrot in the other, those who obey the order will benefit, and those who do not obey the order can just say one word, kill!
However, when the bells of the enemy's attack in the royal city rang together, Grand Duke Feisabrun's expression finally changed. This was not a mutiny. If there was an enemy attack, who could it be
Just when the Grand Duke Feisabrunn sent people out to find out what happened, and summoned the palace guards to arrange defenses and prepare to take people out of the palace, there was a loud bang, and the two gates of the Rose Palace were blocked. The person kicked away, and a somewhat familiar voice sounded very arrogantly: "His Royal Highness Feisabrun, the distinguished guest is here, so hurry up and greet him!"
"Who dares to be so rude!" Grand Duke Feisabrun was furious. He went out of the palace to see, but it was Lorist standing in front of the two kicked down gates showing off his power. A loyal royal palace guard fell to the ground with blood splattered and struggled for his life. Thirty or forty people were already lying on the surrounding ground...
"You step back..." Grand Duke Feisabrun's heart was bleeding. The guards around him were the elite armed forces of the Feisabrun family. After the knight's tournament held the year before last, Grand Duke Feisabrun learned from Lorist. Two thousand soldiers who have awakened their fighting spirit were drawn from their own family armed forces to form a bodyguard battalion around them, and these guards were allowed to stay by their side for two or three years, and after a period of training by themselves, they were transferred to the family armed forces Among them, each one is a hundred-man squad leader. It not only increases the loyalty and sense of honor of the family's armed forces, but more importantly, enhances the combat power of the family's armed forces, making one's own command more handy, as if using one's fingers.
"Hehe, His Royal Highness, Norton Lorist is here to visit!" Lorist did not chase down these retreating little fish, but greeted Grand Duke Feisabrun in a flawless manner.
Although Grand Duke Fessabrun's face was as heavy as water, there was a storm in his heart at this moment, Lorist? How did he come here and call on the door so arrogantly. The Grand Duke recalled the scene of Lorist killing the gold three-star knight with one move at the banquet that day, his eyes were full of fear and vigilance. If he had a sword in his hand, it would not be difficult to kill a three-star gold knight with one move. After all, the Grand Duke was also a third-level great swordsman. But with bare hands, the Grand Duke believed that he would never be able to kill his opponent as quickly and neatly as Lorist...
"You, how did you come here?" Grand Duke Feisabrun put his left hand behind his back and made a few secret gestures while acting as a guard.
"Haha, His Royal Highness, of course I came to visit with my family armed. The Kingdom of Iberia has no king, so naturally it should perish. The Alliance of the Four Northern Lands came here for this purpose. Come on Come on, His Royal Highness, we can sit down and discuss how to deal with this matter..." But looking at Lorist's sword-holding posture, it doesn't look like a serious discussion at all.
"You, you are dreaming, this Grand Duke will never allow the Kingdom of Iberia to perish!" Grand Duke Feisabrun was furious.
"Really?" Lorist laughed. "It doesn't matter what you say about it, I say it. Old guy, your first frontier ranger regiment is finished, wiped out, and no one slipped through the net, otherwise you think How did we get here? Stretch your ears and listen carefully to the cheers outside. It's the victory cheers for the city of Windbury falling into our hands. You're done, old man, drop your sword and surrender, for Celie's sake For Wei Ya's sake, I will let your Feisabrun family survive, as long as you are obedient and obedient, hahaha... "
Lorist laughed triumphantly, and Grand Duke Feisabrun was standing in front of him. At this moment, he assured that the old guy would be hard to fly. As long as the Grand Duke Fesabrun falls into his own hands, hehe, all the problems will be solved.
"Fart!" Grand Duke Feisabrun shouted loudly: "Boy Norton, I will never let you go. The Feisabrun family is not at odds with you. If you want me to give up my sword and surrender, you will die. With a sword in my hand, the Grand Duke will definitely fight to the death with you!"
"Really?" Lorist sneered, "Don't give up the sword? It doesn't matter. When labor and management hit you and give up the sword, when you lie at my feet, I look forward to you saying something tougher. Look at the sword!"
Lorist turned against the guest and rushed forward.
"Clank!"
There were three sharp sword strikes, and Grand Duke Feisabrun jumped three meters away.
"That's right, old guy, your basic skills are much stronger than your old concubine's. It seems that it will take a little more effort to take you down..." Lorist praised.
"What do you mean?" Grand Duke Fessabrun didn't dare to be careless, and slowly circled Lorist with his sword, as if looking for a good time to take the initiative to attack.
"Don't you understand? That old concubine of yours, Sandy Great Swordsman, hehe, it's also a third-level sword master. I haven't done ten tricks under my command, and now he's a prisoner in the imperial capital." Although Lorist is sure to win The Grand Duke Fesabrunn, on the surface, talked and laughed freely, but he still raised his vigilance. It would be a joke if the boat capsizes in the gutter. After all, the Grand Duke is also a long-established third-level swordsman. Surprise yourself.
"You, you are talking nonsense!" Grand Duke Feisabrun lost his footsteps when he first heard the bad news.
Lorist didn't take advantage of the fire: "I'm talking nonsense? Hehe, I really thought that our Norton family was easy to bully, knowing that Reddy was my first disciple, but still dared to chase and kill him personally, I really thought that I, Lorist, was easy to provoke Don’t you think I’m a sick cat if the tiger doesn’t show off its power! And your plans in Winston Province, do you think that our four Northland alliances are blind and blind? It’s a good idea to make Winston Province firm and clear, Become the main battlefield for us to deal with... Hehe, I bah!"
"Bully, bully too much! I, I will fight with you!" Grand Duke Fessabrun's face was flushed with anger, and the anger in his eyes was staring at Lorist as if it were real, and he rushed forward while cursing. .
"Good time!" Lorist yelled inwardly, getting ready for the stormy attack of Grand Duke Feisabrun.
Unexpectedly, Grand Duke Feisabrun rushed forward, but retreated sharply, and shouted violently: "Fire the arrow!"
Following his shout, nearly a hundred longbowmen suddenly appeared in the secret place of the palace, and arrows shot towards Lorist continuously like a rainstorm...
"Damn!" Lorist yelled, I didn't expect the old guy to have such a trick, it's too shameless, he is the three great sword masters! How can you be so self-willed and depraved and use longbows to plot against people
But Lorist has no choice but to deal with nearly a hundred longbowmen first, and many of them are of the silver rank. The long arrows he shoots are fast and fierce, accurate and ruthless, and Lorist jumps up and down. , Hidden here and there, managed to get close to these longbowmen, rushed into the crowd and killed them before killing them, but at this time, the Archduke Fesabrunn was lost...
There was a neighing sound of war horses in the distance, and Lorist jumped up to the roof of a hall to look at the place where the war horses were neighing, only to see Grand Duke Feisabrun with dozens of guards riding away. The Rose Palace galloped towards the south gate. The old man glanced at Lorist from a distance before pulling his horse away.
Not good, this old man wanted to run, Lorist flew down from the main hall, and rushed towards the south gate.
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