Tales of the Reincarnated Lord

Chapter Three Hundred and Fourteen

Father Silvia is here, what's the matter?

"Shuade, the agreement that we signed with the Fisabrunn family for the replacement of standard equipment will take a few years to complete?" Lorist's first thought was whether the agreement between the two parties had changed.

"My lord, we have completed this year's transaction, and there is only next year's left." Sward replied.

Time flies so fast. It is the fourth year in a blink of an eye. The agreement signed at the beginning was five years in total, and the agreement will be completed tomorrow.

"What's going on with the Sablon family in recent years?"

Swords shook his head: "My lord, the biggest market for the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce and the Fesabrunn family to trade is in Makinohara, where the governor is Viscount Christopher. They understand very well, but they can’t go deep into the Eastern Desolation Province, where is the territory of the Archduke Fesabrunn. We can only learn some very rough information, and no detailed information can be obtained. The family once sent a team of spies pretending to be traders into the Eastern Desolation Province, but was soon expelled.

In the past few years, the information we have learned is that the Grand Duke Fesabrun reorganized the two legions under his command and integrated the garrison. The two legions are known to have 46,000 men each, and the other three are reorganized. A garrison regiment, plus a personal guard regiment and a guard brigade next to him, the total strength reached more than 136,000. The current deployment of the Fisabrun family’s forces is three garrison regiments deployed in Muyeyuan Province, Eastern Desolation Province and Southern Province.

The Sirius Legion of Muyeyuan Province is commanded by Viscount Christopher, and the Tiger Howl Legion of the Eastern Desolation Province has taken turns to hit the Northeast Prairie. In recent years, the grass barbarians on the grasslands have been hit hard. According to the report of the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce According to the report sent by Libel's intelligence investigator, nearly a hundred tribes have been annihilated in the past three years, and nearly 150,000 have been captured, most of them women and children. The non-Grand Duke Sablon had them betrothed to the soldiers under his command as wives and concubines. According to the captain, all of them were monogamous and concubine..."

Lorist sat upright: "How many people are there in the two provinces under the control of the Fesabrun family plus the southern province?"

"My lord, the Eastern Desolate Province and Muyeyuan Province seem to be less than 800,000, and the Southern Province is dilapidated, with an estimated population of less than 150,000 to 600,000..."

Lorester stood up and walked around the room twice with his chin: "Strange, the Fei Sablon family has less than one million people under its jurisdiction, and his ratio of soldiers to civilians is too high, close to seven to one. Fei. What is Grand Duke Sablon thinking?"

Sward rolled his eyes next to him: "My lord, I have to remind you that our family includes Hilovas Island and Hanea Bada Islands, and the total population is only 1.6 million, but our family The total number of armed forces is close to 300,000."

Lorist waved his hand: "They are incomparable to our family. The next thing our family has to deal with is the Principality of Madras and the Kingdom of Iberia. In my plan, I will recuperate for another year next year. We want to fully attack and annex these two countries in one fell swoop. But we did not expect that Grand Duke Fesabrun would integrate so many armaments. Is this old fox always on guard against our family? It seems that our intelligence will turn to in the future. Eastern famine province."

Princess Silvia arrived as expected, and, as expected, Count Kenmez was graciously accompanying her.

After settling in, Lorist held a grand welcome banquet for Princess Silvia.

I haven’t seen it for a few years, and Princess Silvia’s birth is even more beautiful, like a blooming lily, bright and inconspicuous, in the midst of expectation, smiling and beautiful, even Lorist can’t look directly at the dreamlike A pair of green emerald eyes...

At the banquet, Princess Silvia said generously that the purpose of her trip was to prepare to purchase standard equipment from the Norton family again, and to send an invitation to Lorist on behalf of Grand Duke Feisabrun. Grand Duke Feisabrun is preparing to hold a grand knight tournament in Windbury, the royal city of the Iberian Kingdom, in May next year to select talents for the kingdom. Princess Silvia was specially sent to invite Earl Norton to participate...

Lorist heard that Princess Silvia’s first thought in his mind was fraud. Who in the Iberian Kingdom didn’t know that the four major families in the Northland, led by the Norton family, jointly sent troops to capture Windbury King City and captured it. The king, the second prince Iberia of the former Christian Empire, was then sent to the capital of the Antinac Kingdom and became the sacrifice of the death of the third prince. Now Grand Duke Feisabrun will hold a knight tournament in Windbury next year and invite Lorist to participate. Whether there is any calculation Lorist has to consider carefully.

Lorester was not afraid of any conspiracy such as the grand banquet set up by Prince Fesabrun, if he really wanted to go, he could easily get out of it by himself. . What's more, as the head of the Norton family, the most powerful earl in the North, he will at least bring the Great Swordsman and a corps with him if he is going to participate in the knight tournament. Te also has the confidence to break the siege.

It's just that Lorist thinks it's boring to participate in some Cavaliers conference, he is not interested in participating. A nasty sentence, he believes that if he participates in the competition, no knight will be his opponent, unless Grand Duke Feisabrun personally mounts and confronts him. As a third-level swordsman, he may be able to fight Lorist several hundred. round. In this case, it is better to stay in the family territory and enjoy the happiness. At this moment, Lorist has a lazy cancer attack, and I really don't want to leave the family territory to run around next year.

But now it is at the banquet, Lorist is embarrassed to directly reject Princess Silvia's invitation, although the Earl Kenmesi next to him has already vowed to participate. But Princess Silvia didn't take him to heart, but politely expressed her welcome, turned her head and stared at Lorist. Lorist had to say that he would consider attending if the family territory affairs were not busy next May.

Princess Silvia was very dissatisfied with Lorist's answer, pursed her mouth, and got a temper. Even the atmosphere of the banquet was a bit embarrassing. Lorist had no choice but to end the banquet hastily.

As the host, after the banquet, Lorist invited Lord Silvivia not to go to the study. This was originally a polite remark. Unexpectedly, Princess Silvia gave Lorister a white look and went to the study first. Following her were her godmother Sandy Great Swordsman and the deadly Count Kenmes. Lorist shrugged his shoulders and followed.

In the study, Earl Kenmes was still shopping for treasures in the wine cabinet, while Sandy Great Swordsman was sitting on the sofa in the corner, and Schward was making tea for her. Princess Silvia stood at the desk in anger, staring at Lorist with wide apricot eyes...

Lorist smiled bitterly. The girl's temper was really hard to figure out: "Your Royal Highness, don't be angry, look at the many documents on my desk, like a mountain, it's really busy."

"Huh!" Princess Silvia turned her head, ignoring Lorist.

"By the way, your Royal Highness, last time I went out and brought you a gift, I hope you like it." Lorist raised the ultimate goal, and sending a gift might calm Princess Silvia's anger and dissatisfaction.

In the drawer on the left side of the desk are five exquisite boxes wrapped in purple satin. The bottom one is the largest. Loris took it out and opened it. The inside was black velvet, and a pair of platinum woven necklaces were placed on it. , The center of the necklace is a green jade as big as a thumb. The green one is so clear and crystal clear. Next to the necklace are a pair of bracelets of the same jade and a pair of earrings.

I have to, the nature of women and dragons are the same, they like shiny items. As soon as this pair of jewelry was taken out, it attracted Princess Silvia's attention, and even the Great Sword Master Sandi couldn't help standing up and walking to Princess Silvia to carefully appreciate this pair of exquisite and extraordinary jewelry.

"Oh my God, Locke, where did you get this, a precious treasure that is invaluable!" Count Kenmes exclaimed.

Lorist sniffed. How should he answer? This is my own trophy, the jewelry of the princess of the Kingdom of Hanea Bada. There are four boxes of jewelry of the same quality in my drawer, but this pair of jade jewelry is the most expensive, estimated at 200,000 gold fortune. If it hadn't been for Princess Silvia's charming green eyes, Lorist would really not remember the jade jewelry in his drawer.

Well, don't you know that this pair of jade jewelry was taken from the dead princess. The jewelry in the four boxes was taken from the corpses of other princesses. It is precisely because of this that these pieces of jewelry were hidden in a drawer by themselves and were not given to those women...

"He was robbed." Lorester, of course, robbing a kingdom is also a robbery.

"En? You are a fool!" Count Kenmes was angry: "Is there any fool who would take such expensive jewelry on the road? Is this kind of jewelry hidden in the family treasure house as a family heirloom?"

"Really, I didn't lie to you." Lorist and sincerely: "I robbed a kingdom."

"A ghost believes you." Count Kenmes: "There are four boxes in your drawer. Take them out and have a look."

The jewelry in the four boxes is not as complete as the jade jewelry, but it is also a very exquisite and precious treasure. Earl Kenmes, Princess Silvia, and Sandi Grand Swordsman admired them with joy.

"Brother Locke, I think..." Count Kenmes hesitated.

"Okay, you can choose which one you want. By the way, Sandi Great Swordsman is the same. You can choose a box, and the jewelry inside is yours. You have a share, one person has one jewelry, fair. Let's go." Lorist knew exactly what Earl Kenmes was thinking, so he gave him generously. Anyway, in addition to that pair of jade jewelry, the jewelry in other boxes is worth tens of thousands of gold fortune. The most important thing is that Lorist has a taboo about the jewelry taken off by these dead people, which is also considered as the influence left on him in the previous life, and the Earl of Kenmes didn't care about this.

Princess Silvia did not expect that Lorist would give him such an expensive gift, or such a treasure, this is a smiling face like a flower: "Big Brother Rock, thank you for your gift, I like this pair of jade jewelry very much."

Lorist laughed and said: "You like it, as long as you don't get angry."

Next, Lorist is going to push back the invitation to the Knight Tournament in May next year, taking advantage of the time when Princess Silvia received the gift and she was in a good mood: "Well, your Royal Highness, I'm worried about the family territory in May next year. There will be many things, so..."

"Brother Rock, I'm twenty-four years old..." Princess Silvia was shy.

Yep? What's the matter with twenty-four? I'm thirty-four... Lorist didn't react.

"Oh, you were only twenty last time I saw you, now you are twenty-four. Time flies. In a blink of an eye, Her Royal Highness is twenty-four, and she was promoted to two gold stars. It's so talented. It seems that thirty is expected Promoted to three-star gold." Lorist said with emotion.

Princess Silvia was angry and slammed on Lorester's feet: "I will be twenty-five next year, so my grandfather is going to hold a knight tournament, do you understand it! Wood!"

"Yeah!" Lorist was caught off guard, crying in pain.

Princess Silvia angrily hugged the box containing the jade jewelry out of the study. The Great Sword Master Sandy came to Lorist and smiled: "The girl has been practicing in retreat for the past four years, and she has finally been promoted to the second gold star. , Grand Duke Feisabrun specially organized a knight tournament for her. The girl has always insisted on coming to you to invite you to participate, understand?"

Seeing Sandy's Great Swordsman out of the study, Lorist returned to his senses and turned to look at Earl Kenbus, only to see him holding a bottle of wine and drinking with a frustrated expression.

"What do you look at, no, I didn't expect Princess Silvia to fall in love with you!" Earl Kenmes gasped with red eyes.

"I..." Lorist pointed to his nose in disbelief.

"I, I, you, don't you understand such obvious hints? Your Royal Highness is right, you are a root of wood..." Earl Kenmax slumped on the sofa: "Obviously I am more handsome than you, and more temperamental. Hello, your demeanor and cultivation are better than you. Why does the princess like you?"

"Hey, I'll give you one hand. Let us compare ten of you. With only three tricks, I can guarantee that all ten of you are on the ground." Lorister jumped and sat on the sofa and reached out to touch it. Feet: "The feet under this girl are so heavy, it hurts..."

"You deserve it, you can't hear such obvious hints. Her Royal Highness is already twenty-four. I know why Archduke Fesabrun will hold a knight tournament next year."

"No, you mean the knight tournament held next year is to find a husband and son for the princess? Isn't this a tournament to recruit relatives?" Lorist.

"Competition for marrying? Well, you use the word very cleverly, that's what it means." Count Kenmes.

Lorist was curious: "Isn't Princess Silvia the granddaughter of Grand Duke Fesabrunn? Is she still afraid of not finding a marriage partner? Why do you want to recruit a husband in a knight match?"

Count Kenmes looked at Lorister contemptuously: "You are a bun, you are a bun, do you think that the noble princess is so easy to find a marriage partner? Tell you, this is actually more difficult than our marriage. Although pursuing the princess There are many, and there are any titles, but can you just rely on titles? There are several dukes in the Iberian Kingdom, but are they worthy of princesses? They are all nobles, even princes are useless...

Like Grand Duke Feisabrun, there are a lot of considerations to find a marriage partner for Princess Silvia. The identity of the other party and the strength of the family must at least be right, otherwise it will become a joke of the nobility circle. As a princess, she is most suitable for marriage with the heirs of the duchy, princes and the like, or powerful nobles, like you. Grass, this fellow is really the most suitable marriage partner for Her Royal Highness..."

"Yes, but I am ten years older than her..." Lorist.

"What does it matter when you are ten years old? Do you know how old Melaine's daughter and the third prince were when they were married? Fourteen years old!" Count Kenmes.

"Grand Duke Melain's daughter and third prince?"

"The three princes of the former Christian Empire had the same problem. They could not find a marriage partner of the same status. The eldest prince and the second prince had poor reputations. The powerful aristocrats did not want to be married to the royal family. The status is low. So the first prince and the second prince have illegitimate children outside, notorious. When the third prince was thirty years old, the darling daughter of Grand Duke Melaine had grown up and was willing to marry the royal family, so the third prince was established as an empire. The heir is for this reason. It is also true that the eldest prince and the second prince dissatisfied. In fact, the previous emperors of the Christian family did not have any queens and only established the imperial concubine to inherit the throne..."

"Why the powerful nobles don't want to be married to the royal family?" Lorist was puzzled.

"Simple, because after getting married with the royal family, one is rejected by the noble circle. After all, the royal family is naturally opposed to the powerful aristocracy. The royal family always hopes to reduce the power of the aristocracy~www.readwn.com~ for fear of threatening it, facing a strong royal family. Nobles like to protect themselves. The ancestors of Baron Felim are an example. No one wants the same fate. The second is that the aristocracy is afraid of strong alliances. The powerful aristocracy and the royal marriage will easily expand their power and infringe the interests of other aristocrats. The third is elephant. Like Grand Duke Melaine, the three kings of the Christian Empire competed for the throne. In order to preserve the orthodox inheritance of the throne of the three princes, the Melaine family invested most of the family’s resources and consumed a lot of strength. Seriously now, Mei The strength of the Ryan family has been greatly reduced, and it is very difficult to protect itself..." Count Kenmax explained in detail.

"What if Grand Duke Nafie Sablon held a knight tournament and couldn't find a marriage partner of equal status?" Lorist asked again.

Count Kenmes shrugged: "That's the best thing to do. Find a real winner to be the marriage partner of the Princess. It doesn't matter if your status is low. As long as you become the son-in-law of the Fesabrunn family, your Royal Highness All the children born were named Feisabrun."

"So Locke, don't let the princess's affection for you be disappointed. In any case, you will go to the knight tournament next May. Don't let the princess find a son-in-law!"

……(To be continued.)

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