No matter how lively and fierce the fighting in the south of the mainland is, it will not affect the various forces in the north of the mainland. As some officials and knights of the family said in private, after the former Krissen Empire collapsed due to the three kings fighting for the throne, the flames of war have been burning for more than ten years, and now it is finally the turn of the central and southern regions of the mainland to fight with each other.
Lorist is also not interested in focusing on these two wars. Now he is busy moving from Rock Castle to Bear City in the south of the Northland. Things are very busy and complicated. Don't look at Lorist who usually reprimands Fang Qiu and commands thousands of troops in a logical manner, but when it comes to such a family matter, he just feels overwhelmed and at a loss what to do. Fortunately, Princess Sylvia was there, showing the demeanor of being the mistress of the Norton family. She directed all the servants around, packed what should be packed, and abandoned what should be abandoned, and quickly cleaned up neatly and refreshingly. leave.
Lorist happily praised Princess Sylvia's orderliness, but Princess Sylvia didn't care about it: "I used to do a lot of relocation like this, so there's nothing to make a fuss about."
On September 21st, Lorist arrived in Bear City with the various administrative departments of Rock Castle. From this day on, Bear City has once again become the capital of the Northland, and the Norton family ruled the center of the entire Northland.
In terms of geographical location, Angry Bear City is just a flat city, and there is no geographical advantage to rely on to make it a city that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Hundreds of years ago, there was only a small stone hill with a height of less than 100 meters. An unknown nobleman built a simple fortress on this small stone hill as his family's castle. After several changes of owners, this humble city was gradually transformed into a stone castle. Until a hundred years ago when the Lukins family came here after being canonized as the Grand Duke of the Northland, the first Duke Lukins couldn’t get used to living in this gloomy stone castle, so he invited two famous architects at that time to build this simple castle. With the stone castle as the center, the largest city in the North was re-planned and built.
After a hundred years of development, this city named after two master architects has become the first large city in the Northland with a population of more than 100,000, and the southern part of the Northland has also developed into the essence of the Northland because of this city. Before Lorist returned to the family territory, it used to be the most prosperous and lively place in the Northland. Compared with this city, Maplewood Villa in the Norton family territory is just a small manor castle in the most remote countryside.
No wonder the contemporary Grand Duke of the Northland, Duke Lukins, found the wrong enemy and regarded Lorist as a big fat sheep, so that the Lukins family became history in the Northland. After defeating Grand Duke Lukins, the capital of the Northland ushered in the wolf-like second prince. The founder of the Iberian Kingdom did not hesitate to occupy the property and property of the loser Lukins family. And under the pretext of recovering from illness, he escorted Grand Duke Lukins to the Royal City of Windbury. The poor former Grand Duke of the Northland was suddenly attacked by horse bandits after he left the Northland, and his whole family was killed. The century-old Lukins family of the former Krissen Empire died.
After Lorist once again defeated the second prince and the 100,000 coalition troops of the nobles of the Northlands and swept the Northlands, four alliances were established. Gildusk City also became the residence of Baron Shaheen, and the Grand Duke's Mansion became his residence. Where to stay. It's just that the capital of the Northland became much dilapidated and dilapidated after Lorist's two attacks, and all the rich people went to the Norton family's territory. Although Baron Shaheen is in charge of the city, his income is not much, and he cannot make ends meet, so he doesn't care much about the management of the city.
After the territory replacement, Baron Shaheen was promoted to earl, and the family territory was replaced by the province of Dremke. The capital of the Northland finally fell into the hands of Lorist. Relying on its superior geographical factors in transportation links between Northland and other provinces, Lorist decided to move the ruling center of the Norton family here, and ordered Master Silobal to re-plan and design this century-old city to make it revitalize life.
Lorist was very dissatisfied with the design blueprint that Master Xi Luoba presented for the first time for this city named Angry Bear City. Even though the city's population was less than 30,000 at that time, Lorist believed that with the presence of himself and the family's various administrative departments, this place would soon become lively again.
But at that time, Master Xi Luoba was in a dilemma, because the original design of this northern capital could only accommodate 100,000 people at most, and the area of the old city was only that big. Lorist said it would be easy to do, and build a central castle in the center of the city as the administrative center of the Norton family and the place where he lived, just like a rock castle. Inside the protection of the city wall, several residential areas are planned for the rich and nobles to live in, and the rest are divided into squares, commercial areas, military camps and other facilities. As for the civilian residential area built outside the city wall, it is equivalent to doubling the size of the city and avoiding the trouble of rebuilding the city wall.
Now the east side of the city is connected to the two established noble districts, separated by an artificial canal more than three meters wide. Looking from a distance, the dust was flying, and it was obvious that the nobles who had bought land were building their own manors. Cars and people are coming and going on the avenue, showing a lively and extraordinary scene.
The new central castle of Raging Bear City has more than doubled the area of the original Northland Grand Duke's Mansion. The original Grand Duke's Mansion was designed as a garden-style manor, but now Master Siluoba built a five-story castle building as the family's administrative office center according to Lorist's request, and cleverly kept the garden of the original Grand Duke's mansion. The case of landscape design connects the two as one. In consideration of safety, Lorist's residence was arranged on the small stone hill 100 meters high, and a new castle was rebuilt there, connected with the administrative center in front by the city wall, just like the center of Angry Bear City appeared. A small fortress city.
By the time Lorist and the others settled down, it was already the beginning of October, and Lorist also started to get busy, busy meeting those nobles who had rushed to Raging Bear City early to congratulate them. On October 17th, Lorist's cousin, the golden knight Chrisya, brought her family to Bear City.
Chrisya took her mother and two younger brothers back to the Northland this time. Before Lorist crossed over, in the memory of Little Locke, the owner of this body, this second uncle's wife, aunt, was a frail and sickly beauty. , now it looks similar to how she remembered it, but she is much older and has a lot of problems. She is afraid of the wind, the cold, and the light. After a few chats, she felt uncomfortable and went to rest. During the Civil War.
It was the first time I saw two cousins, Lorist, one was twenty-eight years old, two-star silver, obviously not as talented in cultivation as Chris Ya, and the other was twenty-two, two-star bronze, which was even worse . But Krisya said that he was talented in writing and could be converted to a civilian official in the future.
Chrisya has changed a lot, she is pale and thin. Lorist had a keen sense that something was wrong. So he asked about the Second Highness. Chrisya was unwilling to say more, and finally expressed helplessly that she had already broken up with the Second Highness, so she resigned from the position of commander of the guards. Bringing her family here this time is to return to the family, and she doesn't want to go back to the imperial capital again.
Why? Lorist wondered, why did Second Highness break up with Chrisya? Didn't he know that such a move meant that he would no longer have the support of the Norton family in the future? It will even attract the hostility of the Norton family. Not to mention Krisya's father, Lorist's second uncle who died in battle as the former deputy head of the Royal Knights, but Krisya has followed His Royal Highness loyally for nearly twenty years, not only for him Charged forward, and was his lover, how could such a long-term relationship be broken at will
It's just that Chrisya refused to explain the reason for the breakup, and she also had a disheartened expression on her face. She said that she was exhausted physically and mentally, and she just wanted to live a secluded life when she returned to the North to return to her family. Bringing the whole family back is for the sake of her two younger brothers. Because of her, it is impossible for the two younger brothers to get a good growth environment and development opportunities in the imperial capital. Now that the Norton family is in full swing, she wants to hand over her second brother to Lorist, and the younger brother to go to Chenxi Academy. Although he is a bit older, the younger brother is still very smart and eager to learn, and he will be successful in the future.
Although Lorist was curious, he couldn't force it without Chrisya's words. As for the arrangement, it was very simple. Eleven manors with beautiful scenery around the Bear City were selected by Princess Sylvia and four concubines. There are still six left, just let Chrisya choose one. Even though Krisya only wanted to live in seclusion and did not say she was willing to work for the family, but after all, she was the only Golden Knight among the family members, so she should be given a manor.
Lorist didn't doubt that Chrisya was arranged by the Second Highness to come undercover in the family, and using such a cruel trick as breaking up to go undercover in the family would only make people laugh. Seeing Kristina's haggard look, she was clearly emotionally shocked, otherwise she wouldn't have said that she wanted to live in seclusion. As for the arrangements for the two cousins, it is also very simple, the older one will go to the Guards Camp, and the younger one will be sent to Chenxi College to transfer.
Two days later, Lorist forgot about Chrisya. In addition to ordering Tagle to send people to the imperial capital to find out the details, Lorist was busy receiving those nobles who came to visit. After reaching sixteen, his face was stiff with laughter. The day of the big wedding has been fixed, November 8th. Therefore, there was an endless stream of nobles who came to congratulate and give gifts. There are also many businessmen who bear the honorary title of nobles of the Antinac Kingdom on their heads to solicit connections, and ask Lorist to expand the two noble districts again so that they can also buy land and build manors there.
Fatty Shi came over and told Lorist a dumbfounding fact. The Norton family issued an announcement last time, that is, nobles from other countries can spend a sum of money to convert this noble title into the honor of the Norton family. Noble status, so that you can build a manor in the Noble Special Zone. But the money was a bit expensive, and many businessmen were unwilling to pay, so they took advantage of the loophole. After all, the Norton family also belonged to the Antinac Kingdom, so they went to the imperial capital to buy the status of nobles with honorary titles, because The price was reduced by half, so the Second Highness earned over a hundred thousand gold merits for nothing, while there were nearly a hundred more honored nobles from the Antinac Kingdom in the Northland.
Fatty Shi said that the third noble district can be sold. In order to teach those who are greedy for cheap, the plots of the third noble district are only available to those merchants who have transformed into the noble status of the Norton family. To be eligible to enter the auction, one has to take care of the family first, even if they belong to the same kingdom, there is a difference between closeness and closeness. Of course, if the honored nobles of those kingdoms want to buy them, the land will be gone, but those small villas can be sold, and this is the only chance for those guys to save themselves in the noble special zone. Of course, compared with those nobles who bought land and built manors, they would feel that their status was a lot lower, and this was also a lesson for them.
Lorist nodded, and agreed to Fatty Shi's disposal plan. I was wondering why there were so many honored nobles from the kingdom. I thought they came from the imperial capital. This is how feelings are. No wonder I was overwhelmed in the past ten days.
In the last three days at the end of October, the two emissaries of the Feisabrun family, Grand Steward Aridok and Napler, appeared before Lorist again. They brought a reply from the Duke of Feisabrun, and the armistice agreement was signed. For three years, the Grand Duke has signed, stamped and pressed his fingerprints on it. However, Chief Steward Aridok's face was very ugly. When he handed over the agreement, he sneered that when the famous Rock Legion of the Norton family turned into a local garrison.
It seems that the Feisabrun family has discovered the word garrison added to the flag of the Rock Legion stationed on the border of the southern province. This is because the Norton family armed forces have taken advantage of the loopholes in the agreement, but they have nothing to do. Lorist didn't blush, and said with a smile that the Rock Legion was originally a local garrison. It used to be stationed at the Rock Castle, but now it's just a different place for defense.
The two envoys didn't expect Lorist to be so brazen, insisting that the Rock Legion was a local garrison army, their faces turned blue with anger. This time they have two missions in addition to submitting the armistice agreement. One is to ask for the redemption of more than 40,000 soldiers of the Third Frontier Ranger Legion. Last time they redeemed the family knights and those from the Feisabrun family. This time, they believed that the armistice agreement had been signed, and Lorist should allow the captured and surrendered soldiers of the Third Frontier Ranger Regiment to redeem their freedom and go back to reunite with their families. .
Lorist rejected the proposal of the two envoys without even thinking about it. Just jokingly, the more than 40,000 people can form another border ranger army as soon as the Archduke Fesabrun is released. No matter how foolish he is, he will never agree Require. Fortunately, the two envoys probably understood that this request had touched Lorist's bottom line, so they stopped forcing it.
The second mission was to meet Princess Sylvia. They said it was an order from the Grand Duke, and they sent something to Her Royal Highness.
Out of curiosity, Lorist sent someone to find Princess Sylvia, and together they went to see what gift Grand Duke Feisabrun had brought her.
Unexpectedly, after opening the three tightly covered four-wheeled trucks, Princess Sylvia hugged Lorist and cried when she saw the things on the trucks. The used toys, clothes, daily necessities and furniture decorations in her boudoir, even a small rug and a small cushion were brought over. In addition, there are more than a dozen servants who have taken care of and watched Princess Silvia grow up since childhood.
Princess Sylvia held back her tears after crying for a while, thanked the two envoys, ordered the servants of the castle to pull all three large trucks to the back, and rewarded the dozen or so wagons with a bag of gold coins. The servants who took care of her daily life since she was a child, refused their request to continue to follow her, and then went back to the back garden.
Lorist ordered his servants to settle down the two envoys and those servants and welcomed them to the wedding between him and Princess Sylvia. After that, he hurried to the back garden, only to find that Princess Sylvia had lit a fire. Throw the contents of the three vans into the fire and cry as you go.
Lorist asked her what was wrong, and Princess Sylvia threw herself into his arms and cried, "Locke, you are the only one I have now."
Lorist had mixed feelings, and suddenly understood, and hugged Princess Sylvia tightly.
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