"Where are you going?"
"Hechingen."
"Oh, I'm going to Constance." The fat businessman pressed his hat down. "Damn the war. The ticket price from Mingxing City to Constance has increased so much."
"Are you okay?" Ask smiled and said, "Safety is the most important thing after all. If it didn't have connections in both Swabia and Bavaria, this team wouldn't dare to do cross-border passenger transport, right?"
"I hope we don't encounter any war, otherwise it would be a shame for me to pay such a high ticket price." The businessman naturally understood what he meant. The empire has been in turmoil recently, and the soldiers he encountered were all unreasonable.
It's okay to collect some tolls, but I'm afraid that the other party will suspect that you are wealthy and kill you for your money, which is not worth it.
Since this trip was to the Duchy of Swabia, Ask found a private car team with connections.
As the carriage was small and there were so many people, it was very inconvenient to live in the room, so he had to let the girls stay in the Hearth Island while he stayed outside alone carrying the ancient books.
The convoy was swaying and bumping along the way. This area originally belonged to the Noric Province of the Western Solomon Empire. The empire had fallen only a few hundred years ago, and the inter-provincial roads had been damaged beyond recognition, with potholes and gravel everywhere.
After a lot of shaking, the convoy finally arrived at the city of Stuttgart, but was stopped by a group of soldiers.
The people in the car looked outside in fear and found that there was a fishbone emblem on the soldiers' cloth armor.
Those were the family soldiers of Count Eberhard of Württemberg.
Eberhard I, nicknamed Count Fishbone, is currently competing with the House of Sorento for a large territory in the Duchy of Swabia.
In name, the current feudal lords of these two families are Duke Conrad, the lord of the Duchy of Swabia and the Duchy of Franconia.
However, as the Griffin family has developed to this day, only Duke Conrad is left, and the other branches have all died out.
Conrad, the old griffin, is also infertile and currently has only one daughter, who is married to Count Frederick, the current head of the Soren family.
So the Sauron family began to make preparations, waiting for the day when the old Griffin unfortunately passed away, and then they would start to inherit the Griffin family's political legacy and the principality's territory.
They even changed their family flag from hunting dogs to falcons, adding the wings of the Griffin family, and from then on they called themselves the heirs of the Falcon family and the Griffin family.
Unexpectedly, the old griffin actually had a relationship with the Vatican. Not only did he try to create an heir through in vitro fertilization technology, he also openly rebelled against Emperor Otto.
As a result, other lords in the Duchy of Swabia also began to get agitated. Among them, Count Fishbone was the most excited one, and his reason was very simple:
The current Duchy of Swabia nominally belongs to Duke Conrad of the Griffin family.
As a result, Duke Conrad rebelled.
His Majesty the Emperor will certainly deprive him of his fiefdom.
As the family of the old griffin's son-in-law, your Falcon family is definitely not qualified to inherit.
Wouldn't the vast land of the Duchy of Swabia belong to the virtuous? As long as I take advantage of the quagmire of the war in Franconia, I can quickly conquer and occupy the surrounding territories.
Then he publicly declared his allegiance to the Emperor's camp.