The advantage of choosing a remote manor with a single house and a single house is that it can be built at will without being complained by the neighbors for disturbing the people in the middle of the night... Well, I mean that the military facilities and military training are slightly strengthened so that they can be ignored.
According to the agreement between me and Oros, in order to participate in the next event, I do have to integrate the strength of my subordinates. Wushuang Wushuang sounds very cool, but in fact it is another way of saying a bare commander.
And for the sake of high-intensity combat in the future, coupled with the increasingly troublesome status quo, it is indeed time to reorganize the combat power of the "Lan" flag under the opponent.
Well, the Lanziqi is Roland Lan's Lan, not the Donglan Royal Family where Renee is, but my Roland's private power, or - family.
If we put our allies together, the combat power is quite objective, but many of them belong to a certain country or alliance, but not many can be completely attributed to my personal name.
It includes the seven original sins (eldest sister is sleeping with lust, arrogance and disobedience, laziness is not born), my crimson hound (many of them work in Donglan, most of them are still in the underground world), and then there are a series of similar The existence of retainers, such as personal advisors Dimirette, Olivia, and the group of engineers and alchemists under his command, the Chamber of Commerce left by Eliza as a gift, the Great Druid Storm Eagle and the darkness that has escaped the restrictions of duties Elf Diana, Yawen, Momo, Victoria, um, and "wait".
"...Why did I wait?" some kind of half-dragon man complained.
"... It's not that you have become more and more associated with the word harmony recently. Sooner or later, you will be able to attract the holy light of harmony with just your name."
With my status as the god of the law and my relationship in the past, I can indeed mobilize legal professions such as Snowhoof and Lilith, but strictly speaking, they are not under my control. Their allegiance is to the Law Church, and as Law enforcement and judicial, they should also remain neutral.
As the descendant of Lan, I can indeed order Dong Lan's Aurora Knight and Sluwell's Royal Knight, but strictly speaking, before the loyalty sequence of these warriors, there are still two kings, Renee and Grena. , I am not suitable for frequent and direct mobilization of them.
In fact, before every transfer, I would ask Renee and Grena to lead the team personally. This is not only an experience for the young kings, but also a kind of respect for the royal power.
Of course, with the establishment of the Lan Alliance, as a core member of the Lan Alliance, the invisible power of my subordinates will also increase, but the combat power of my direct subordinates may decrease.
On weekdays, there are not many people under my command. If you want to start a war or deal with a war, you can only rely on your personal appeal. This is not my personal status quo, but a common problem in this era.
Even if you don't want to admit it, in fact, the human foundation of the world of Ashe is still nobles and knights. The severe environment has taught weak humans to hug together to keep warm. The lords formed a kingdom or empire together by allegiance to the kingship.
Of course, there are also parliamentary and republican countries, but they either have a small territory, such as one city and one country, or they have special circumstances, such as the unity of theocracy and ethnic mixing, but the mainstream is always the feudal feudal lord system, which is the old As a reactionary landlord landlord and country gentleman.
I did not try to have a bourgeois or proletarian revolution as often in novels, because such a social system and concept are in line with the current social reality. The wheels rolled past me.
The weak serve the strong, and the strong protect the weak. When severe living conditions require such direct survival rules, the aristocratic class that has mastered power will naturally always exist. Become a noble or lord.
In the current era of feudal kingship, even the king of a country is often only the largest lord of the country. His power comes more from authority. In fact, his direct subordinates are only his family's territory and the knights who are loyal to this family, um, It is a royal knight. In most cases, a royal knight is a private knight who is loyal to the royal family, but since the royal family is the master of the country, it is no different from being loyal to the country.
Well, after saying so much, it has probably been seen that the country of this world and the modern country of the earth are completely two concepts. In a sense, the country of Ashe world is composed of countless "families", the knights' Allegiance is often aimed at the family, not the so-called country, and it can even be said that the concept of a pure country has not been formed.
And the composition of this "family" does not depend solely on blood, common ideals or common goals are also possible. In order to resist the tyranny and genocide of the Raff Empire, countless races and peoples hid and moved in the Shining Mountains, and when they really When the empire was driven away, a family with the "white eagle" as the emblem became the master of the mountain range, and the descendants of those remnants became the new race, the tin flames, and the descendants of the eagle were loyal to the times.
It is completely different from the Frank family. They are a group of scholars who study ancient arcane arts and astronomy. They conduct team research under a genius named Frank. After a long period of time, they live together and intermarry , but has become a legendary family of astrological masters who have appeared from generation to generation.
The country is the union of the family. The local knights are loyal to the local lord, the local lord is loyal to the royal family, and all idle knights are loyal to the royal family. The demise of a country is often the demise of the royal family of that country, so sometimes extinction is more dangerous than foreign enemy invasion. .
Therefore, I can say that the country of Lan has not perished before I perish, and the loyal royal knights and warriors of the country of Lan are now also following me in the form of undead. Then, in the public opinion, our northern land The Lan family, didn't they perish either
"This, I really don't know? Why don't you ask Cavans?"
In a sense, there is really no precedent for the two of us. There is no precedent for the dead and the living, who are thrown into hell.
But Renee's Donglan royal family, the Lan family, and Sluwell's royal family, can only be regarded as a tributary of our original Northland Lan family, which was admitted by their founders when they raised the flag.
If I directly admit that Renee and Grena are members of the Lan family in the North Land, I am afraid that they will have to be placed under me, not only as the original owner of this land, it will become embarrassing to get along with the two princesses in the future. , it might even cause a war on orthodoxy among future generations, which is obviously something I don't expect to see.
No matter what happened before, now that I am walking in the world as Roland Lan, it can naturally be seen that the Beidi Lan family still exists, or at least it can be seen as the revival of the Beidi Lan family.
Best and the others have complained to me a few times in private. They expect me to re-raise the Lan family's flag. Even if the country is destroyed, the family will still be there. Family.
On another level, this is indeed a necessity after the establishment of the Lan Alliance. I expect that the Lan Alliance will be a parliamentary alliance of nations, but it must be the royal family of each country that can qualify as a member of parliament, and I participate in it in my private name. , obviously not in the right name.
Well, to be honest, what I couldn't bear the most was that I never thought that these old skeletons and zombies would be so boring and gossip that they could force me into a forced marriage.
"His Royal Highness, you are over three hundred years old. The old king next door has five generations of grandchildren. You are still an old bachelor. The old man is ashamed of the teachings of the previous king!"
"... Who is the old bachelor! Do I have any women who have a relationship with my father? I already have a girlfriend! Eliza, the great lord of the devil, the marquis of the sea of fire, super powerful, you are not afraid!"
"...What happened to the demigods and the demon lords? The Lan family wants a mistress, not a thug, even if a demon marquis can't give birth, I'm scared. Your Highness, think about it, if you die, the rest of us Who is the old guy loyal to? The Lan family has inherited it for more than 2,000 years, and it cannot be broken in our generation. Miss Eliza can indeed be a lover, but the Lan family needs to be a mistress who can produce offspring."
I'm still annoyed at being forced to marry in person, but in a sense, as my elder Sir Ferdinand, who has been loyal to the Lan family for generations, he can indeed play the role of my father. .
But if it's just these, I can still accept it, and I didn't have many living people before, but in this life, with the addition of Dimirett and the others, there are more and more living people, and some things have become troublesome.
"His Royal Highness, even the long-term mercenaries under the big merchants are also loyal to the merchant family. There are more and more people under you. Even if you don't care about yourself, you should think about them. At least there is a place to pay after the sacrifice. Jin, the family can arrange pensions when they are old, this is no worries."
"Yes, Your Highness, you must at least think about your subordinates, and at least give them a chance to become nobles. Those strong people don't care about this, do the grassroots warriors and teenagers care? Even those dark elves also want to I want a stable family."
Only since our return to the North, when we were able to walk in the sun, have these knights been chattering in my ears.
I can understand their feelings. I returned to my homeland but the personnel were different. I hoped that the Lan family would be revived, and that the family I was loyal to would be passed on. In the end, someone’s words made me make up my mind to rebuild the Lan family.
"Actually, I think that Her Royal Highness Renee is very good as the future mistress of the Lan family, and it is completely possible to separate the family and return to the original family. Even the palace can use the original one, which is simply perfect."
Ahem, that's not it, this bastard was thrown from the third floor window by me, and later found out that he actually accepted Renee's favor! Then I fined Renee a thousand sword swings.
"His Royal Highness, even if it's for our sake, with the Lan family, we can all adopt a son and pass on martial arts and honor, so that our family will not be cut off, and our family will also have the meaning of inheritance!"
Looking around, the fire of the soul is full of expectations, not one or two undead knights, but all the undead knights.
Being accepted by the living and being able to pass on their family with their adopted sons is a beautiful dream that the royal knights of the Land of Lan never dared to dream of. Now it is only one step away from their dreams. How can these royal knights who value honor and inheritance be patient? bear it.
"You are going to take your adopted son and rebuild the family. I will not affect it."
"His Royal Highness, to whom will the new family pledge allegiance? To whose descendants will our adopted son and his descendants pledge allegiance."
Well, in a sense, this is that the state officials do not set fires, and the people do not dare to light the lights... It seems that something is wrong there.
Even if it is just for the sake of the loyal knights who have followed me for so long, it is necessary to rebuild the Lan family. Anyway, it is just a name change or something, and it will not affect my own affairs. In the end, I agreed.
But don't say, just announced the news, the work enthusiasm of both the living and the dead has increased by at least 50%... I have to sigh, this is still a feudal society, and traditional concepts are indeed deeply rooted.
"It seems that common ideals are very important, but a long-term meal ticket is indeed needed for material protection..."
At this time, for the big trouble that is about to begin, the power I muster is all the new Lan family has.