"Why did Knight Berunek spend three years recuperating in Beiye Town?" Lorist asked.
Lorist took Soderkamp directly into an open two-wheeled carriage, which was driven by steward Kedan himself, and drove the two Northland steeds pulling the cart towards Beiye Town at a gallop.
"My lord, because there is no pharmacist in our family's manor castle. And the head of the Donbassen family in Beiye Town is the only first-level pharmacist in our family's territory. Lord Berunek's medical treatment is all The Donbassen family is in charge." Steward Kedan replied.
"The Donbassen family? Tell me about their origins." Lorist said.
Steward Kedan said while driving: "My lord, when our Norton family recruited garrison members, the first generation head of the Donbassin family was a pharmacy apprentice. He joined the garrison team. After his family improved and his savings So he sent his son to study with his former pharmacy teacher. Ten years later, his son became a first-class pharmacist and returned to Beiye Town, and replaced his father as a guard. Then relying on family inheritance, he suddenly The children of the Bassen family have all become pharmacy apprentices or pharmacists."
"Our family once recruited people from the Donbassen family, but they were rejected. The family didn't care about them because they were the only pharmacists in the territory. We just reached an agreement with them. When the family soldiers are injured They must give priority to providing treatment services. This is how we have cooperated with the Dombassen family for more than two hundred years, so Knight Berunec has been living in Kitano Town for the convenience of treatment after he was injured."
"What's the current situation in Beiye Town?" Lorist asked again.
"My lord, the current Beiye Town is governed by the families of four guards. For more than two hundred years, the families of the guards in Beiye Town have also experienced many turmoil. The garrison in Beiye Town is controlled by the four largest families in Beiye Town, the Hassan Family, the Morin Family, the Donbassen Family, and the Chubim Family. He used to be a member of the Molin family. This time, the Molin family united the three families to strongly support Mo Luosinger, and the condition was that Mo Luosinger became the head of the Norton family. The vassal knight family, and entrusted Beiye town to them as a knight leader, thus making Beiye town out of the nominal control of the Norton family."
Among the territorial nobles of Galintia, it is very rare to confer a knighthood on the family knights under them. This is very different from the world of lords in the middle ages that Lorist knew in the previous life. The knights and knights fought and annexed each other, gradually expanding the territory.
In Galintia, the nobles of the territory did not grant fiefdoms to their family knights, but an annuity or a knight manor. This also has something to do with the fighting spirit rank of the family knight. Family knights of the silver rank are more of an annuity. Only after decades of loyal service to the family can they be awarded a knight manor, and this knight manor becomes the hereditary ancestral property of the knight, and his descendants will Automatically has the title of knight. So in Galintia, becoming a family knight of the nobles of the territory means becoming a quasi-noble class.
Territorial nobles recruit a family knight with a gold rank or a silver knight under him to be promoted to a gold rank, then the territorial nobles have to consider whether to grant them a knight manor. Generally speaking, a knight manor includes a castle, a thousand acres of plantations, and a hundred acres of grazing land or forest lakes. Except that there are no villages and towns, this is also a disguised knight collar.
Even though Lorist recruited so many friends to be family knights, after they settled down in the Northland, Lorist had to consider how many knight manors to build in the family territory. But Lorist planned to leave these matters to Fatty Shi, so he didn't have to worry about it.
There is also the matter of granting a territory to a family knight under him. Usually, this family knight has made great achievements or has been promoted to be a great swordsman. Prince Xiang had two great sword masters under his command, and they were awarded a town as a knight leader respectively. Another reason is the expansion of the territory. The high-ranking nobles bestow low-level titles and territories on their own family knights, making them their vassal families.
For example, the four major families in Beiye Town, as guards, want to get Beiye Town as a knight leader, which reveals their naked ambition and intention to fight against the nominal lords of the Norton family. Once they succeeded, they would be able to get rid of their status as commoners and jump up to the quasi-noble class. Even though they were still vassals of the Norton family, they would have greater autonomy, and they could even ignore the orders from the Norton family and act on their own.
"Daydreaming." Lorist commented coldly. The steward of Kedan talked about all these things, and he was able to understand the plans of the four major families. It seemed that he had indeed done a lot of work and preparations.
Although the city walls of Beiye Town can be seen from the family's manor castle, it still took about forty minutes to arrive at Beiye Town in a carriage. The gate of Beiye Town was open, and four listless guards were chatting with each other with their spears. When they saw the carriage approaching, they planned to intercept it, but they waved their hands when they saw that the driver was Kedan, who was in charge. Let the carriage enter the gate of the town.
"My lord, when you inherited the title and family territory last night, none of these garrison members from Beiye Town came. If you meet those members of the garrison when you visit Lord Berunek, please restrain yourself a little, even if you are affected Be patient even if you are wronged, after all, this is the site they have operated for many years..." Manager Kedan reminded very tactfully.
Lorist snorted softly to show that he knew what was going on, and sat in the carriage and began to look at the situation in Beiye Town.
Like many small towns, Beiye Town only has two gates facing east and west. An avenue connects the two gates and divides Beiye Town into two halves, the north and the south. In the middle of the avenue is a small square, and to the south of the small square is the lord's mansion of wood and stone structure. The house built of logs and rocks has a rough and unrestrained style. It's just that in recent years, members of the Norton family have never entered Beiye Town, and the lord's mansion looks dilapidated and decayed due to lack of care.
To the north of the small square is a gray stone hill, and the top of the stone hill is the water source of Beiye Town—the Stone Hill Fountain. People dug several water tanks on the stone hill, and the fountain water flows along the water tanks to all directions of Beiye Town, which is convenient for people to get water.
Lorist noticed that many of the houses on the side of the stone hill were made of stone, and the streets were obviously much cleaner, and there were even a few shops. On the south side, that is, near the lord's mansion, many houses are made of messy materials, and there are even shack structures.
"My lord, most of the people who live in the stone houses in the north are guards and their relatives. In the south, you are referring to the survivors of family soldiers after the war. Although they are related to those guards, they are not welcome. Beiye Town is inferior. In addition to these survivors, there are also some descendants of losers who have fought for power in the garrison for so many years. They have the lowest status in Beiye Town, and many of the soldiers recruited by the family in the past came from these people." Manager Kedan Explained to Lorist.
"How many people are there in Beiye Town now?" Lorist asked.
"The family did a census a hundred years ago. At that time, the total population of Beiye Town was 3,459 people, and the number of people living in the family's manor castle was 1,842 people. There are more than 1,000 people. Since then, the family has never done a population census. Now there are more than 2,700 people in the family manor castle. Based on this, it is estimated that there should be more than 5,000 people in Beiye Town. But according to my observations, the total number of people in Beiye Town It should be around 7,000. Like the four major families that control Beiye Town, each of them has a total number of more than three or four hundred people. In addition to the family members in the garrison, they can also pull out nearly a hundred private soldiers. It is also the biggest reason why the four major families can control Beiye Town."
"How do these four big families get their financial resources?" Lorist asked again.
"My lord, they have occupied half of the fertile land in Beiye Town, and the 200-member garrison of the four major families accounted for more than 80 people. Those families that lost their membership in the garrison either fell apart or became theirs. Farmers, farming for the four major families or working as private soldiers. Secondly, they organized smuggling, because the family refused to grant them a caravan pass, so they had to carry out smuggling activities. The main commodities they sold were private salt and Poached furs... Your Excellency, we have arrived, and Lord Berunek lives in the lord's mansion." Steward Kedan stopped the carriage, jumped out of the driver's seat, came to the back and opened the door of the carriage.
Lorist and Suedkamp got out of the carriage.
The gate of the lord's mansion was closed. Steward Kedan came to the side door and called a few times, and a young man came out from inside.
"Cassie, take the carriage to the backyard, and I'll take you to see Lord Berunek." Steward Kedan said to the young man.
"My lord?" The young man was startled, looked at Lorist, and took care of the carriage in silence.
"My lord, go this way." Steward Kedan led the way, entered through the side door, walked through a corridor and a courtyard, and arrived at a small courtyard on the left side of the lord's mansion.
"Master Belunek is staying here to recuperate, my lord." Steward Kedan said.
Lorist stepped forward and pushed open the courtyard door, and at a glance he saw the white-haired young man sitting on a recliner in the courtyard trying to stand up.
"It's you...Brother Dali...." Little Locke's memory appeared in front of his eyes like lightning. A young white-haired knight threw the seven or eight-year-old Little Locke high, and then gently caught him. Little Locke smiled. The white-haired young knight is the most admired knight squire of his father, and also the big brother that Little Lori likes to pester him to play with him. Little Locke always calls him Brother Dali, because he can make little Locke Throw it high, with great strength...
The white-haired Berunek tried twice more, but found that he was really unable to stand up from the recliner, so he had to sit back on the recliner again: "Little Locke, long time no see, unexpectedly meeting again, you have become a lord, I should call you an adult."
"Well, I haven't seen you for more than ten years. You disappeared when I was ten years old, and I cried a lot at that time." Lorist came to the recliner, found a stool and sat down.
"Yeah, I was young at that time, and I always wanted to go out and have a look, so I left the family territory to travel abroad. It's just that I didn't expect to come back five years later, and found out that you were exiled to Morente City to study." Bei Runek laughed.
"Brother Dali, what's the matter with your body?" Lorist asked.
"My lord, you can call me Baker. You have grown up and become an outstanding lord. If you call me brother Dali, you will be laughed at." Beirunek said seriously.
"As for my body, it's already ruined. Didn't you just see that I didn't even have the energy to stand up, alas..." The white-haired young knight was very frustrated at the moment.
"But Dali... Well, Brother Baker, I've never heard of the fact that you haven't had the strength to stand up after three years of recuperation. Can you tell me about your injury?" Lorist asked.
"At that time, I was more than ten steps away from the third young master's mount. No one expected that there would be a northern demon bear in the woods on the edge of the pasture in the territory. The four-meter-tall demon bear suddenly jumped out of the bushes. They rushed out, and everyone was stunned. The third young master's horse stood upright in fright, and the third young master fell off the horse's back in a hurry, but one foot was pinned in the stirrup. The horse turned around and dragged the third young master I ran wildly. When I saw something bad, I threw the spear in my hand and nailed the startled horse to the ground."
"But in this way, the bloody smell stimulated the devil bear, and he went straight to the dead horse. One of the third young master's feet was still pinned to the stirrup, and he was pinned down by the dead horse and couldn't move. All the guards around him ran away. I Reluctantly, I had no choice but to throw the sword in my hand, intending to stop the demon bear first, but unexpectedly, the sword pierced the demon bear's ribs, angered the demon bear, and ran towards me. I and The devil bear circled around for a long time, and a move was accidentally blown away. Seeing the devil bear pounce again, I found that there was a spear thrown away by the guards when they fled, and hurriedly gathered the last fighting spirit on the spear tip, Stabbed the devil bear to death, and then I passed out."
Berunek said it easily, but Lorist could imagine the danger of facing the devil bear at that moment. The Northern Demon Bear is the most ferocious beast among Demonic Beasts. Generally speaking, when a Silver Rank encounters a Demon Bear, it is best to go for the best strategy, otherwise the winners between the two will most likely not be human beings.
"After I woke up, I realized that three days had passed. Master Donbassen said that if I didn't wake up, I would really be hopeless. Because I was hit by the magic bear's palm, all the ribs on the right side were broken, and the internal organs were displaced and shattered. Lord Baron ordered me to come to Beiye Town to recuperate, so that Master Donbassin could treat me. It took a year for my injury to stabilize. It’s just that the injury recurred frequently in the past two years, and my whole body was weak. It was impossible to practice fighting qi. Yesterday, I I want to participate in your succession ceremony, my lord, but I vomit black blood when I move around for a while... My lord, sometimes I often think why I didn't die with the devil bear, it's so simple, and now I'm just suffering..."
Lorist frowned tightly: "What did Master Donbassin say?"
Berunek leaned on the recliner and said helplessly: "Master Donbassen said that he can't do anything, because my situation is that the internal organs are displaced and the organs are broken, so the physical trauma is healed very quickly, but the internal recovery is slow." It’s very slow, especially not for strenuous exercise, and even brisk walking must be prohibited. In order not to affect the recovery of the internal organs, I can’t even eat bread and beef, so as not to burden the body, I can only drink two bowls a day with some salt I can only drink a small bowl of broth for three days... My lord, I have had enough of these days... "
Lorist expressed deep sympathy, grabbed Belunek's hand and gently stroked it to express comfort, but secretly felt his pulse...
Lorist's face suddenly turned red, burning with anger, bursting out with murderous aura, his voice became extremely cold, creepy...
"Damn..." Lorist said.
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