The Heavens: The Magical World Begins with The Lord of the Rings

Chapter 240 Grand Banquet (Watch it later, too late to update.)
"Lord Gao Yuan, I think the recruitment and training of soldiers can be temporarily delayed. The lords in the canyon and their vassals must follow your instructions to organize soldiers to harvest the mature grain of this season." Nai Lord Stoker proposed to suspend the plan to recruit soldiers, "Besides, they are busy planting potatoes and corn that are easy to ripen. Without the help of those soldiers, they will not be able to complete the task you assigned."

"I have already thought of this. I understand the difficulties of the adults. At the same time, I also know that recruiting soldiers on a large scale will definitely attract the attention of people outside the canyon, and it is bound to attract attention in the canyon and among your people. cause unnecessary panic."

"The war has not really started yet, and the canyon will not be the first one to bear the brunt." Gao Yuan agreed to Sir Nestor's request to suspend the recruitment of soldiers, "At that time, we will have enough time to recruit and train soldiers. It’s too hasty! We really should give priority to the harvest of autumn grain and the sowing of potatoes and corn.”

"The recruiting and training of soldiers can be postponed, but the preparation of materials before the war must not be stopped." Gao Yuan suddenly changed the subject and looked at the lords with a serious expression, "When the war begins, we want to prepare for the war again Materials, I am afraid it will not be as simple as it is now."

"The continuation of the war will consume a lot of military materials, but the preparations for the war materials cannot be completed overnight, and can only be carried out step by step." Gao Yuan explained, "It is not advisable to use up the river to catch fish. We don't know how long the war will last. So we need to maintain maximum war potential for the Valley."

"We don't know when the war will start, so the preparations for the war preparations are now urgent, and now we must start slowly!"

"I believe that everyone here is unwilling to see that the Vale of Arryn has become devastated before the war officially begins!"

The cold corridor fell into a dead silence again, and the valley lords could almost foresee what the Vale of Arryn would look like after the war ended.

The lords here have been fighting like this for thousands of years. When you declare war on your enemy; They began to summon their vassals.

These lords do not keep too many troops in peacetime, because it takes a lot of money to support those troops.Therefore, when those vassals are summoned by the lord they are loyal to, in order to respond to the lord's call, they often temporarily recruit soldiers from the fiefdoms they rule.

The people who were recruited were naturally the civilians living in their fief.When the young and strong labor force among the civilians was recruited by the lords to participate in the war in large numbers, the production work of the agricultural organization on the fief naturally stagnated.

The large number of young and strong laborers being recruited is only one aspect of it. What is really terrible is that they will also take away a lot of food.

And the remaining food is often only enough for the old, weak, women and children to survive for a month or two.

This is why in the European continent in the Middle Ages, a famine broke out every time after a war.

To be honest, this is the first time I have seen a lord like Gao Yuan who has made various preparations for the upcoming war before the start of the war.

His far-sightedness has strengthened the determination and confidence of everyone present to follow him.

Seeing that the lords fell into silence, Gao Yuan said with some dissatisfaction: "Now is not the time for me to give orders to you. Everyone can put forward any ideas candidly, just like Mrs. Anya and Sir Nestor."

"Your preparations for the war are perfect, Mr. Gaoyuan!" Bronze Jon's tone revealed respect, "My colleagues and I have no other opinions. Under your careful planning and arrangements, we are confident Defeat any enemy that comes."

Gao Yuan was at a loss for words when he heard the words. He didn't know what to say for a while, so he smiled wryly and said, "The night is dark now. I believe that after this day's journey, all the lords are exhausted physically and mentally."

"Earl Radford's face is full of tiredness. I think today's talk will come to an end. Everyone go back to the room early to rest."

"Miss Mia Stone has already prepared the respective rooms for everyone in the Eagle's Nest City. I have to go back to rest. Tomorrow, I will hold a banquet in the Eagle's Nest City. To celebrate my official appointment to the Eastern Region All the nobles in the canyon will come to participate in the position of guardian, and I will be very busy at that time." Gao Yuan dismissed the canyon lords with some helplessness in his tone.

The next day, Gao Yuan held a grand banquet in Eagle's Nest City.

In order to show that Gao Yuan attached great importance to this banquet, and to show respect to all the guests who came to this banquet, Ms. Mia Shidong almost emptied the cellar of Eagle's Nest City.

Since a grand banquet is going to be held, it is natural to serve the guests with drinks.However, there are not many drinks stored in Eagle's Nest City, so she organized a team of soldiers from Sky Fort to hoist up the large amount of drinks that were originally stored in Sky Fort with hanging baskets. took her all morning.

When the banquet was about to start, the seven halls of the Eagle's Nest City were full of people, but there were too many people attending the banquet. The Eagle's Nest City, which was originally big enough to accommodate 500 people, was now full of people. up.

The continuous stream of people continued to climb up from the Longtian Castle, and no one continued to climb up from below until the castle accommodated 600 people.Those who could not squeeze into the hall gathered in the garden of Eagle's Nest City at this moment. Mia Stone, who had been prepared for this, also placed food and drinks here.

Not only were all the nobles, large and small, present in the canyon, but even the servants who followed the knight were brought up by their knight master.They also want to bring these fledgling boys a long-term experience, and at the same time let them get acquainted with the new canyon guardian. If they are lucky, they may even be favored by the canyon guardian, so they join the Eagle Among the guards of Nest City.

The original guards of Eagle's Nest City were all driven down the mountain by the new guardians of the canyon.On their way from the Gates of the Moon to the Eyrie, they met the disarmed and dejected guards, led by the former captain of the Eyrie, Ser Vardis Egan.

According to the gossip, Ser Barristan, Captain of King Robert's Kingsguard, read to Lady Lysa and Lord Robert the appointment of the Guardians of the Gorge.That Sir Vardis actually stood up and publicly declared that he refused to accept the new guardian of the valley to settle in the Eagle's Nest City, and burned the king's letter of appointment in front of the guardian of the valley.

I heard that they had a conflict with the new canyon guardian last night.They don't know the specific process of the conflict, and those servants who served the guardian of the canyon and the Duke of the Eagle's Nest in the Eagle's Nest City are tight-lipped about it.

However, the fate of Sir Vardis and others is already known. The guards of Eyrie City headed by Sir Vardis will leave the Vale of Arryn as sinners, and they will be warned never to set foot in the Vale again.They were allowed by the Guardians of the Canyon to wear black and join the Night's Watch.

It was a great favor to have them join the Night's Watch, where they could retain at least one last honor.If it were other lords, I'm afraid they wouldn't even be given the chance to put on black clothes.No lord would tolerate someone challenging his authority, let alone his first day in office.

According to a nobleman who is familiar with the Eagle's Nest, there are usually 67 guards in the Eagle's Nest.But now, except for the seven guards, including Sir Vardis, who have gone down the mountain in desperation, they have never seen any guards in the Eagle's Nest City.

"In the conflict that happened last night, those guards must have paid a heavy price." Said the nobleman familiar with Eagle's Nest City.

I just don't know whether it was the canyon guardian who killed the eighty guards alone, or whether the canyon guardian did it together with those great lords.

They also saw those great lords in the Eagle's Nest City today. They stood there holding wine glasses, talking and laughing as usual, and they didn't look like they had gone through a fierce battle last night.They didn't even change their clothes, they were still the same as what you saw in Moon Gate Castle the day before yesterday.

After a fierce battle with a disparate number of people, even though these great lords are all excellent in martial arts, it is impossible for the guards who are also proficient in martial arts to cause them no harm, and even their clothes are not stained with blood.

Just when everyone was wondering about it, a new gossip suddenly spread among the nobles in groups of three or four.According to the gossip, the ones who clashed with Sir Vardis and other guards last night were not actually the great lords headed by the guardian of the canyon.

In fact, the sixty guards who disappeared were all killed by the canyon guardian alone.It is said that the new guardian of the valley was holding a flaming sword in his hand, and faced all the guards of the Eagle's Nest alone.

Even in the case of a huge disparity in numbers, the Lord Guardian of the Canyon still won the final victory, and the guards of Eagle's Nest City ended in complete defeat.

This tragic battle took place in the Moon Gate Hall of Eagle's Nest City. According to legend, the hall still smelled of blood at this moment. The dark red blood left by the dead guards seeped into the hall. In each bluestone floor tile.

The servants who were in charge of cleaning up the bloodstains used water and steel brushes to rinse repeatedly for the whole morning, but failed to clean up the bloodstains in the hall.These were all witnessed by the nobles staying in the Moon Gate Hall, and I heard that they didn't even have the heart to enjoy the delicious food in front of them at the moment.

Everyone smiled knowingly after hearing this gossip. Gossip is gossip after all. No one would really believe such absurd news.

Even if he is still staying in the Moon Gate Hall at this moment, he has seen with his own eyes the nobles who still have bloodstains on the bluestone floor tiles.

The new guardian of the valley has a sword that shoots fire out of nowhere; single-handedly defeated and killed sixty armed guards of the Eyrie.Each of these gossips is more unreliable than the other. Look at the man standing on the high platform, raising his wine glass and giving a speech. Does he look like a demon who just slaughtered sixty guards yesterday?

Sometimes human beings are so strange. Even though you put the truth in front of them, they still refuse to believe that everything is true.

They would rather believe that all this was done by the other ghosts than believe that the sixty guards of Eagle's Nest City who disappeared were all killed by Gao Yuan alone, even if you told them the truth directly.

Because the gossip was too absurd, the people at the banquet gradually stopped discussing it.

After an impassioned speech, the first thing Gao Yuan had to do was to announce to everyone his first appointment after taking office as the Guardian of the East.

"Guardian of the Gate of the Moon, Chief Steward of the Vale of Arryn, Viscount Nestor Royce, please step forward and wait for the appointment of the guardian of the valley!" Mia Stone's crisp voice echoed in the hall.

Sir Nestor, who could no longer hold back his excitement, hastily squeezed out from the crowd.

Under the envious eyes of everyone present, he strode through the crowd to the center of the hall, quickly lowered his head and knelt in front of Gao Yuan on one knee: "Guardian of the Gate of the Moon Fort Nestor Roy Si is willing to serve you, Lord Gaoyuan Duke!"

"In the name of King Robert Baratheon I, Guardian of the East and High Lord of the Eyrie, I hereby appoint Viscount Nestor Royce, Guardian of the Gates of the Moon, as the eternal Moongate The Baron of Fort!"

Gao Yuan walked down the high platform to Sir Nestor Royce, and pinned a Royce family crest engraved with the Moon Gate logo on Sir Nestor's chest.

"Lord Nestor Royce, you are now a hereditary title. Your title will be inherited by your legitimate son after your death; the Gate of the Moon will also serve as your family's castle, which has always been owned by the Lord of the Gate of the Moon. The Yisi family will continue. Please also ask you and your descendants to never forget your responsibility as the guardian of the Lord of the Gate of the Moon Castle."

Sir Nestor raised his head and looked at Gao Yuan with red eyes, and solemnly assured Gao Yuan: "Lord Gao Yuan, I, Nestor Royce and the Royce family of Gate of the Moon Fort will never forget your teachings. As the guardians of the Gate of the Moon, my son and I will always guard the safety of the Gate of the Moon, and will always defend your name as the Guardian of the Canyon and the Duke of the Eagle's Nest City."

"Lord Gao Yuan, as long as you still need the loyalty of the Royce family of Gate of the Moon Castle, we will do our best to give you everything, even if it costs us our lives." Sir Nestor began to ask the gods Make an oath, "Until the end of my life and the end of my blood, I, Nestor Royce, solemnly swear in the name of the old and the new."

Gao Yuan smiled and nodded: "I hereby accept the allegiance of the Royce family of Gate of the Moon Castle, Sir Nestor Royce!"

"Sir Nestor, I once promised you that you will always have a place by my side!" Gao Yuan continued, "Now I have to promise your family again, as long as you the Royce family of Gate of the Moon Fort Still one day be true to me, and the heir of your blood, Sir Nestor, run through him, and one day still have a place at my hearth and at my table."

"In the name of the old and new gods, I solemnly swear."

(End of this chapter)