Rise of the Lord of Mount and Blade

But…Richard actually cares more about Duke Auriel. The cooperation between him and the Duke privately confirmed is almost dispensable. The Duke has no reason to insist so much. There is no one among the nobles. For true friendship, everything is based on interest.

What benefits can Richard bring to him? Even Richard couldn’t even think of it himself, but he remembered the guess that Basilio told him when he was in Gabe Manor.

Let him be your son-in-law?

How is it possible?

Richard, a person with a mental age combined with a thirty-forty year, is impossible to endure himself as a superfluous son-in-law-unless he is really desperate.

……

The time soon came to the day of February 1. According to the rules of the Noble House, nobles below the earl title were not eligible to participate in the Noble House meeting, so Richard decided Instead of going to the Noble House with Basilio to attend the meeting, he stayed in the royal hotel for the whole morning.

During this period, Richard relied on the system in his mind to check the location of the Raima caravan, and found that they are now in the position of Ebar and are constantly moving towards the position of Touraine. Richard thought about it. Thinking, Raima should be ready to come to Touraine Kingdom’s most prosperous city. He is going to stay here until the caravan arrives, and then pack Asimira next to him into the caravan.

Wonderful, the plan works.

Although Richard did not go to the Noble House, news from there was spread to Richard from time to time under the arrangement of Basilio. According to Basilio’s news, the meeting of the Noble House first explained that the kingdom’s past The annual summary, and the description of the war between the Kingdom of Bailey and the Kingdom of Trokia, and finally the discussion about the canonization of the new aristocracy of the newly conquered Niang.

And Richard’s guess is correct. During the discussion time, the nobles, the royal powers, and the middle set up sect competed for the positions of the five earls of Niang, but because the Duke of Oriel and the nobles The agreement, and the support of many members of the noble faction, Richard was firmly elected as the lord of the Mein.

Richard’s election not at all received too much opposition. Those royal party members saw that the Duke of Valantia and the aristocratic faction united to push Richard up, and suddenly felt that it was not worthwhile to offend the two forces at once. , I’m afraid this will also push Duke Olsson Lelis, who belongs to the set up Sect, to the nobility, so he acquiesced.

After Richard, the positions of the remaining three earls were even more contended for Heaven and Earth turning upside down. The reason why there are three earls, the remaining one is naturally handed over to the future duke. Compared with the election of the earl, the duke is obviously more intense. The aristocratic faction and the royal party both wanted the Duke of Niang and himself to be in the same faction, in order to strengthen their own power and increase the weight of speaking in the aristocratic court, so they did not compromise at all.

The quarrel lasted until the adjournment of the afternoon that day. During the adjournment, the leaders of the royal party invited the aristocratic leaders to discuss in a different place. When the adjournment time is over, the parliament continues, and the high-levels of the two sides seem to have reached an agreement. , The aristocratic faction chose to retreat and handed over the position of the Duke of Niang to a member of the royal family elected by the royal party.

Of course, everyone knows that the king Your Majesty, who is nearly half a hundred years old, paid the attention of making that member of the royal family a duke.

Richard guessed that during that period of intermission, it was probably the high-ranking officials of the royal party who got the king’s signal and persuaded the aristocratic bigwigs with some benefits that outsiders didn’t know about. If the other party gave in, otherwise, in the case that the set up Sect did not participate, and the strength of the two parties is evenly matched, they may be able to quarrel for several days.

But this is not good news for Richard. The immediate lord is a member of the royal party who does not deal with his apparent faction. He is worried that he will be targeted by the new duke after he goes to Fiefdom. Directly under the lord, the immediate boss wants to target Richard but with no difficulty, and as long as he does not show a weak spot that Richard can catch, then Richard can’t help him.

As soon as I think of this, Richard is a little worried, but there is also good news. Among the four earls of Niang, one of the four earls is a member of the aristocratic faction, or the one with a clear-cut flag, like Richard. This is more likely to be targeted by the new lord than the hopelessly muddled in the set up Sect boss.

At that time, Richard only needs to let himself go, try not to attract the attention of others, and let the poor aristocratic member attract firepower for him, so that he can develop quietly.

But it is said that, the specific situation depends on the personality of the royal family member. Richard only hopes that this new duke belongs to a very buddhist family. Isn’t he fragrant to make money together with Qi?

He doesn’t want to become a count when he is either being watched by others or designing others every day. How tiring to live, it is better to be a viscount with low influence.

……

After Basilio came back, he summed up the content of the meeting with Richard, and then said to Richard a bit sourly: “I didn’t expect to send you to the border It has not been half a year since you inherited the title of Viscount, you can actually be promoted to earl based on your own ability-you know, our family can go to this day, and the price paid is more than you.”

How about I am the protagonist? Richard thought to himself, but on the surface he was calm, shrugged helplessly, and said, “This can only be said to be good luck. You know, war can make an unremarkable Knight quickly become a respected nobleman. , And my starting point is a lot higher than those of the Knights, and the results are naturally more generous than them.”

“Your tone is really unpleasant.” Basrio was gnash the angry. Although there are elements of jealousy in his teeth, he also feels a little delighted. After all, Richard is still incomparable with outsiders with his younger brother who grew up with him.

Furthermore, the fight against other family brothers just for the family property did not happen to them. This is also a tradition that benefited the Vareen family-in this era where most places use the system of feuding inheritance. Although the Vareen family, which strictly abides by the eldest son inheritance system, lacks a lot of the brother’s anti-scene, there are also extremes where the younger brother wants to murder the big brother.

Richard is different. He has always behaved like a buddhist, and he is not greedy for knighthood, so the relationship with the big brother is pretty good, and now this younger brother can become an earl, with the same status as himself , Basilio’s heart is also very happy.

As he said in the Gabbey Manor before: Only family members are eternal.

“Cough cough, but you also participated in the war against Trokia Kingdom, didn’t you get any benefit?” Richard lightly coughed, changing the subject.

“No.” Basilio shook the head and said: “You know, our war with the Trokia has been at a stalemate and there has been no breakthrough progress, so nothing has been gained. “

Richard nodded, this is, compared to the Bailey battlefield, the Trokia battlefield is more difficult, and there are more nobles participating in the battle.