Grand Duke Feisabrun accepted Lorist's banquet invitation very simply, without even asking why Lorist wanted to entertain him, and he was so big-hearted that he only brought an attendant over in a big way.
Lorist felt that he was a villain in vain, and he struggled for so long. Lovers don't worry that they will harm him at all. Think about it, too, if he entertained the Grand Duke Fessabrun in order to be unfavorable to him, then the reputation of the Norton family would be ruined.
Not to mention whether anyone will trust the reputation of the Norton family in the future, maybe most of the family knights under him will betray them. In the world of Galintia, the reputation of a family is the most sacred honor. At least most of the nobles, knights and lords hold the same view. Even some nobles and knights sacrificed their lives for the honor of the family.
Just like Lorist, in order to maintain the Norton family's oath of loyalty to the Christen royal family, he had to serve the Second Highness. Even though the current Norton family has surpassed the Antinac Kingdom in strength, Lorist still has to be obedient The Grand Duke of the Northland of the Dang Kingdom, and the Second Highness have nothing to do with each other.
In Galintia, keeping promises and being loyal are still the traditional virtues advocated by the nobles. Even if the nobles secretly intrigue and undermine each other, at least they must say their actions are fair and aboveboard. In the nearly thousand years of mainland history, there were very few rebels, and all of them were nailed to the shelf of shame, and they all became negative teaching materials. The tradition of the Gelinthians is so strange. If the upper lord is unfair, the lower lord can rebel, but cannot rebel.
Well, all of this is the fault of this sinister and cunning old fox, why did he accept my banquet so carelessly without asking why? Could it be that he really doesn't worry about me harming him, or does he look down on me, and doesn't believe that I have the guts to touch him? Lorist gritted his teeth and blamed all the imaginable reasons for the fault on the old man who came to the banquet, but he still had to put on a smile and enthusiastically welcome the Grand Duke Fessabrun into his tent.
What Lorist set up was a private banquet, that is to say, a banquet was set up in the big tent. It was just him and Grand Duke Feisabrun, and he did not plan to have a whole army feast to celebrate. This is because he feels that he already has five children, so Princess Silvia's pregnancy is not a big deal. Secondly, he was worried that a banquet held by the whole army would make people in the family misunderstand, thinking that he really paid attention to the difference between the son-in-law and the concubine. After thinking for a long time, he decided to invite Grand Duke Feisabrun to a private banquet and tell him the news instead of spreading it everywhere.
Seriously, this is the second time that Lorist and the Grand Duke Fessabrun have met in private. The first time was in Windbury King City. Lorist privately discussed with the Grand Duke Fessabrun to marry Sylvie Regarding the matter of Princess Ya, because Lorist refused to agree to the third condition proposed by the Grand Duke Fesabrun, which was to exile his concubine and illegitimate children, the talks fell apart, and Lorist left angrily. Then a year later, Lorist led the four northern alliances to drive the Grand Duke Feisabrun and his family's armed forces back to the family territory, forcing him to sacrifice Princess Sylvia in order to reach an armistice agreement.
Then His Royal Highness went to the Eastern Wasteland Province. Grand Duke Fesabrun bowed his head and surrendered to the Second Highness. He became a member of the same kingdom and camp as Lorist. Lorist had to admire the thick-skinned old man. With a strong ability to adapt, I feel more and more scruples about this old man. After dispatching troops to the four principalities in the central region, although they belonged to the same camp, Lorist had never had any personal contact with this old man. Every time the Second Highness held a military meeting, a large group of people gathered together.
Perhaps the Grand Duke Fesabrunn thought that Lorist had suffered a bit from the night attack two nights ago and wanted to ask himself for it. After all, both he and Lorist were responsible for maintaining a certain degree of security against the three forward defensive positions of the Principality of Handra. Offensive posture to put pressure on the defender. The fact that Lorist failed in the night attack has long been known to the Grand Duke Fesabrun. However, the old Jianghu encountered new problems, and he could do nothing about these three defensive positions of the Principality of Handela. He could only comfort Lorist to take his time and not to worry.
Lorist didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he had to make it clear that today's banquet was to tell the good news to Grand Duke Fessabrun, because Sylvia was pregnant, so he was invited to celebrate in private, not because of the failure of the night attack or something.
Sylvia is pregnant? Unexpectedly, the old man Fesabrun cared more about the news than Lorist. He was so overjoyed that he didn't even drink any wine and kept walking around the table, and kept saying that Sylvia must be careful and take care of herself. What, I started thinking about where to find an experienced midwife for Sylvia...
Weighing to death, this is thinking too far, right now, Sylvia's belly is not yet conceived, and it will take at least half a year for the child to be born. It was not easy for Grand Duke Feisabrun to realize that he had lost his composure. The old man blushed and sat down to drink again. However, the old man might have been a little over-excited, and instead toasted Lorist, he got himself drunk as soon as he was happy. Lorist had to send someone to escort him back.
Two days later, Lorist received an invitation from the Grand Duke Fesabrun, and thought it was a reply, so he took Genorio and two people there. Unexpectedly, when I arrived at the gate of Dazhai, the military camp over there, I found that the entire military camp was decorated with lights and festoons, looking beaming. Curious, Lorist grabbed the guards and asked what happy event happened.
The soldier replied, it seems that it is said that the granddaughter of the Grand Duke Fesabrun was pregnant. His Royal Highness was very happy and spent three days of celebration out of his own pocket, so there was a festive atmosphere in the barracks. I heard that there are rewards for money, and everyone is very happy to wish the Grand Duke's granddaughter to be pregnant every year...
Pfft, Genorio next to him sprayed on the spot, but Lorist didn't know what to say, old man, if you want to celebrate, you should make it clear, this word of mouth has become a joke. But Lorist won't bother with these gatekeepers, he just stands ruthlessly at the gate of the barracks, okay, old man, do you really want to make this a big deal, you can't celebrate here and I'm silent on the other side, right? Turning around, he ordered Genorio to go back and send an order to Tiger Ross, so that there would also be a three-day celebration, and the rewards would be doubled, all paid by Lorist himself...
In the end, even the Second Highness who was in Pedro City knew that Lorist had grown the stomach of Princess Sylvia, the granddaughter of the Grand Duke Fesabrun, and made the whole army celebrate wildly for three days. So the Second Highness also sent Lorist a rich gift to express his expectation for the future successor of the Norton family. Lorist felt as if he had been pushed out of the way, and almost everyone regarded the child in Sylvia's womb as the future heir of the Norton family.
However, as a result of this matter, the relationship between Lorist and Grand Duke Fessabrun has greatly eased. Grand Duke Fessabrun will come over every now and then to ask Lorist about the new situation of Princess Sylvia. Or discuss the situation. Lorist found that the old man was quite self-aware, knowing that Sylvia didn't like his grandfather very much, and cared very much about the fact that he sent himself to the Norton family back then, so the old man collected some precious medicinal materials from him. They were all brought to Lorist, and then handed over to Princess Sylvia in the name of Lorist.
For example, Grand Duke Fesabrun heard from the locals that there is a kind of red-lipped fish with golden scales in the Nibaraku River. The swim bladder of this fish is a very valuable anti-pregnancy medicinal material in pharmacy, but it is very rare in recent years and it is difficult to catch it. arrive. So the Grand Duke Fesabrun recruited a large number of craftsmen to start building boats on the Nibaraku River, and his purpose was to fish. As a result, the Principality of Handela got the news and misunderstood it. They thought that His Royal Highness wanted to launch an attack from the waterway, so they added a garrison army at the bend of the middle river to take strict precautions...
Through the scout's reconnaissance, Lorist was keenly aware of the increase and change in the defense of the Principality of Handa's troops, and after a little thought, he understood what was going on. So he invited the Grand Duke Fesabrun to come to discuss, preparing to put more defensive pressure on the Principality of Handra.
Lorist's decision was very simple. He ordered the Kenmes family's 20,000 heavy armored soldiers to defend the camp, and then ordered the Felim family's Pegasus Legion to cover the entire battlefield. The commanding Flying Tiger Legion and the Fesabrun family's reserve army crossed the Nibaraku River, and they planned to build a southward road leading to the hinterland of Delama Province in the virgin jungle on the other side of the river...
This is actually the second of the three strategies that Lorist dedicated to the Second Highness, the plan to divide the troops and make a detour. However, what Lorist is doing now is not to really make a detour, but to increase the defensive pressure on the Principality of Handela. , forcing it to recruit again to form a garrison army to defend along the river, increasing the consumption of various materials for its armament supply and reducing its ability to fight protractedly.
Don't look at Lorist's majesty, two legions crossing the river to scout and ride everywhere, trying to build a road on the other side of the Nibaraku River to attract the attention of all parties, but in fact he is currently busy with his work, giving himself and Feisab The Lun family is coming to earn money. The job of building roads is fishing one day and drying nets two days, but he is very active in organizing and commanding the Flying Tiger Army and the Reserve Army to hunt...
The Nibaraku River can be said to be a natural dividing line between the four central countries, dividing civilization and wildness into two halves. On the side of the river are fertile farmland, well-groomed orchards, and peaceful villages. On the other side of the river are primitive jungles, endless swamps and endless barren mountains. Even the hunters of the four principalities in the middle of the country generally only dared to hunt within ten miles of the river, and did not dare to venture further.
The Principality of Fulundo had made an idea of the land on the other side of the river decades ago, and planned to develop the land there. It recruited nearly a thousand poor people to reclaim the wasteland on the other side, and set up several reclamation villages. But they didn't expect that in winter, the monsters in the wilderness on the other side of the river would attack those settlement villages in groups in search of food. If the Nibaraku River was not a non-freezing river, maybe those monsters would still be there. Cross the river and attack the villages here.
After the rainy season, people rowed boats across the river to take a look, only to find that those settlement villages had already been wiped out, and all the villagers had been lost to the monsters, leaving only a messy trace and bloodstains to warn the newcomers. After this incident, almost all the residents of the four central duchies regarded the other side of the Nibaraku River as a treacherous path, and even called the other side of the river the Demon Plain...
According to the hunters of the four principalities in the middle of the country, the wild wolf is the most frequently encountered monster on the other side of the river. This is a very cunning monster. Seduce the hunters who cross the river deep into the jungle and become their prey.
This kind of giant wolf, which is bigger than a calf, is the overlord of the demon field. The gregarious wild wolf is the most dangerous and the most vengeful. When he was young, Grand Duke Handela once led a large team across the river to hunt, but unfortunately encountered A pack of more than twenty wild wolves, after killing twenty, escaped three or four, and then these wild wolves gathered together like calling friends to attack the hunting team of Grand Duke Handela day and night. , until Grand Duke Handela crossed the river and fled back, the hunting brigade of nearly a thousand people only fled back more than 300 people...
To Lorist, he didn't care about the overlord of the Demon Plain, the wild wolf who could understand human language. Originally, hunting was just a helpless move. Although the food and salaries of the army stationed here were provided by the Second Highness, the meat was very scarce, and the food and grass supplied were only enough for the soldiers to just eat. It was impossible to eat well. And the dried meat that Lorist asked the family to transport from the north also increased the cost a lot due to the long distance. It's like Grand Duke Fesabrun, who ordered his family to drive a large number of cattle and sheep from the grassland to the front line, but only after arriving at the front line did they find that the cattle and sheep had lost weight so badly that the fat cattle were skinny and boneless.
Therefore, Grand Duke Fesabrun recruited craftsmen to build ships not only to catch the rare golden-scaled red-lipped fish, but also to supplement meat for his own legion. Lorist put the idea of obtaining meat on the monsters in Moyuan on the other side of the river, which naturally won his strong support.
For the Flying Tiger Legion, hunting monsters is a long-standing job. From fighting the tide of monsters in the Norton family's territory to hunting in the barren plains in winter, more than a million monsters died under their hands. For the barbarian cavalry, the rock bear with thick skin and flesh as strong as a bull, the fierce and strong saber-toothed tiger, the daunting giant boa constrictor, and the giant swamp crocodile covered in iron armor are all monsters that they cannot deal with. Even the wild wolves, even though they were familiar with the nature of wolves on the grassland, these giant wolves, which were one size larger than the prairie wolf, could still cause heavy casualties to them.
But once the Flying Tiger Legion took action, the wild cavalry of the Reserve Legion was an eye-opener. Those monsters that they had to run away when they met all became targets in front of the steel crossbow of the chariot, and became the source of all kinds of meat. For two months, all kinds of monster meat in the two military camps piled up like a mountain, and finally a regiment of soldiers had to be dispatched to make these fresh monster meat into various types of jerky that can last for storage.
At this time, the Flying Tiger Legion and the Reserve Legion had already swept over half of the Demon Plain, and were gradually moving south. The Principality of Handela was naturally very nervous when they found that the enemy's scout cavalry appeared on the other side. Busy people built guard towers and beacon towers along the river to give timely warning when the enemy crossed the river. Unaware that Lorist on the other side was busy hunting monsters, he had already forgotten about his other errand.
Now Lorist is focusing on the fur on the monster's body, which is a lot of money. The Galint subcontinent does not produce cotton, and all kinds of furs are used to keep warm in winter. Although Lorist has opened up a large pasture in the west of the Northland, where nearly a million cattle and sheep are grazing. But generally the fur of cattle and sheep is not a good material for keeping warm and cold in winter, but the fur of some monsters is the best choice for winter.
The fur of some rare monsters is worth thousands of gold. In addition to meat and fur, the materials on some monsters also have excellent medicinal value, and the prices on the market are very expensive. Lorist made a rough calculation, and the hunting in these two months was almost equivalent to nearly one million gold fords for him, and this was excluding the part that was distributed to the Grand Duke of Fessabrun. Unexpectedly, there would be such extra money to be earned by coming to the war, and Lorist enjoyed it even more, even ignoring the front-line intelligence inquiries sent by the Second Highness from Pedro City, and regarded hunting as a proper job.
In the blink of an eye, it was October, and the Grand Duke Fesabrunn sent a dozen or so messengers to call Lorist back from the Demon Plain. As soon as he entered the gate of the barracks, Lorist saw Grand Duke Fesabrun rushing up to meet him, and told him the news that Grand Duke Handra had sent an envoy privately and had already stayed in the camp for four days.
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