"Anyway, that's about it," the Duke of Bavaria said finally.
"Hmm." Bruno, the Dragon of Imagination, murmured.
He used his shallow mind-reading ability and found that the Duke had not told any lies. The Lord of Sealed Furnace Fire beside him also had no expression, obviously agreeing with the Duke's statement.
"So, let me confirm, this is what happened..." The Fantasy Dragon began to recount the story from the beginning:
…
Year 221 of the Sixth Era, Duchy of Lorraine, Grand Palace of Aachen.
The Duke of Bavaria is visiting the Emperor to discuss the recent movements of the Wolf family.
Since the founding of the Saxon dynasty, most of the nobles knew that the two prestigious families of Wolf and Griffin had become a major threat to the Dragon family.
The reason is that they own too many principalities.
In the feudal Holy Solomon Empire, how to prevent other families from becoming more powerful is something the royal family always considers.
On the one hand, emperors mostly only exercised the power of enfeoffment, but rarely used the power of transferring or releasing fiefs, which could easily cause rebellion among vassal states. On the other hand, even if emperors did not offend vassal states, once their power grew, they would begin to harbor thoughts of rebellion.
Generally speaking, he will rebel after he becomes stronger, and if you weaken him, he will rebel in advance.
Otto I's policy was not to enfeoff great nobles, but instead to enfeoff a large number of middle and small nobles. As a result, there were various viscounts, barons and knighthoods directly under the royal family, which were sandwiched like fragments between the territories of the major duchies.
In response, the great nobles were also actively annexing the territories of the surrounding smaller nobles to counter the emperor's policy of reducing the power of the vassal states, especially the wolves and griffins.
As a result, by the time of Otto II, the current emperor, the Griffin family had only its fiefdom but no successor. As a result, one of the two main threats was gone, leaving only the Wolf family, which occupied Lombardy and Burgundy.
In order to deal with them, the Saxony family chose to join forces with the Weisbach family, the arch-enemy of the Wolf family, and their relationship has become increasingly close in recent years.
The Duke of Bavaria even planned to send his young second son Henry to the Royal Military Academy for study next year. On the one hand, he would act as a hostage, and on the other hand, after graduation, he would become His Majesty's Blade Knight, thus serving as a bridge between the Weisbach family and the Saxony family.
After all, the entire Duchy of Bavaria will be inherited by the eldest son Ludwig in the future.
After settling on Henry's admission, the Duke and the Emperor had a few more drinks at the family dinner, and they began to happily discuss the long history of the alliance between the Swan and Dragon families.
Gradually, they talked about how the ancestor of the Weisbach family, the Sealed Furnace Fire, followed the ancestor of the Saxony family, Emperor Henry I, to fight against the rebellious Lion Duke of the Wolf family.
As a result, the revolutionary friendship between the two families became much stronger, after all, their ancestors had fought together.
The Duke of Bavaria was also a little tipsy. When he could no longer handle the alcohol, he said goodbye to the emperor and slowly returned to his room.
As a result, at the door of the room, he ran into Queen Theophano.
Theophano was a princess of the Eastern Solomonic Empire. According to the royal family genealogy, she should be the niece of Theodora's grandfather, which means she was the distant aunt of little Hera. However, she married early, and Hera had never met her.