Chapter 227

Ice and snow melt and everything recovers.

Unconsciously, the footsteps of the earth season entered the city of brinor. This beautiful city has experienced the scouring of rain and snow and become a new look. Although the fresh air is still chilly, it is refreshing. Residents have left their warm homes and took to the streets to awaken the vitality of the king's capital.

The arrival of the land season marks the end of the annual "holiday". Now it is time for the royal nobles to start working. Their first job is to participate in various gatherings and inquire about information in social entertainment, so as to determine the direction of development and drilling this year.

Small carriages shuttle back and forth in the streets of the noble district. Well-dressed gentlemen meet or encounter in the streets. They greet each other and talk about how to get the banquet invitation from the Marquis Leopold's house intentionally or unintentionally. If someone modestly expresses that he is going to the Marquis house to attend the meeting, he will immediately attract envious eyes.

The families that can settle in the royal capital aristocratic area are the leaders of Gambis upper class society, but they are also divided into three, six, nine and so on.

Among the royal nobles, except the representatives of the major lords' families, the rest are court nobles, and the court nobles are actually the vassals of the royal family, but they are different from the vassals of the Lords.

The vassals of the Lord are composed of vassal lords and ordinary vassals. Their land is called fiefdom and can be inherited. Court nobles are all nobles. They have no hereditary territory, but they can manage the land of the royal family, which is called a manor.

Take Gambis as an example. The second son of a lord's family is loyal to the Augustus family through the selection of the Royal Legion. The royal family will immediately canonize him as a court baron or viscount, but this title is purely a symbol of status, neither hereditary nor territorial. The court Baron carefully trained his descendants to continue to work for the royal family. After several generations of unremitting efforts, his family may be granted the title of court earl, and the title of court Earl can be inherited. From then on, the court count family moved into the royal capital aristocratic area and obtained the right to manage the manor.

Unlike the fiefs, the ownership of the fiefs belongs to the royal family. The court count family only manages the territory for the Lord. They have to use the output of the manor to support the soldiers of the Kingdom and turn in a certain amount of property. The rest is the income of the family. If they cannot complete the task, they must fill the gap with their salary, otherwise they will be scolded by their superiors and reduce the area of the manor. The most serious consequence is to be demoted. This is actually a leasing relationship.

Court nobles always strive for rent reduction, at least not rent increase, through various means of communication. Therefore, the banquet held by the royal nobles is very important to them.

The greatest pursuit of the court nobles is to seek a hereditary fief, become a new Lord family, or completely integrate into the blood line of the Auguste family. Like goron Marquis Auguste married King Ryan's aunt. He also had a hereditary Marquis leader in the north of the kingdom. Of course, his territory is no different from that of the Auguste family. In fact, in order to maintain the purity of blood, the royal family has always had few children. Ryan has only one son and one daughter, and Williams has only one son. This is a prosperous royal family. Some royal families pass it alone for several generations, and even break the generation. If the royal family of Gambis is cut off, the descendants of Marquis golon will bear the important task of continuing the royal blood.

Marquis is the highest hereditary title of court nobles. They often hold important positions in the court.

Marquis Leopold, as the new Chancellor of finance of Gambis, holds the quota of the manor and is a hot figure among the royal nobles. The dignified court nobles all hope to curry favor with the rich minister, and the invitation from the Marquis de Leopold itself is a manifestation of ability and skill. Those families who are not invited will inevitably be looked down upon, and exclusion and suppression will follow.

When Lord Caixiang held a banquet, the royal nobles sharpened their heads to get an invitation, but they were surprised to find that few families were really invited. This is not a normal phenomenon. Even if Marquis Leopold is the confidant of Archduke Williams, he can't offend too many court nobles at the same time. If they can enter the Marquis house, they will be surprised to find that this is by no means a simple banquet.

It was getting late and the lights were on.

The dinner hosted by the Marquis Leopold has ended, and the distinguished guests turn from the living room to the main hall of the Marquis's house.

More than 800 square meters of luxury hall is paved with red Tung wood floor. The floor made of Tung wood is very common, but if each Tung wood has been soaked in water for more than 100 years, its value cannot be measured by money. Two long red Tung wood tables were placed around the hall, filled with all kinds of wine and delicacies. Gold vessels contain 30-year-old dum wine, and silver plates contain Green cherry preserves, cream salmon pie, honey pine nut cakes, as well as brightly colored sarong fruit and cream lettuce salad. In this season, only the Royal crystal greenhouse can provide fresh fruits and vegetables.

The well-dressed attendants stood at the long table like sculptures, ready to serve delicious food and wine for the distinguished guests at any time. Unfortunately, only young men and girls visited here occasionally. Even if they took it, they tasted it. They soon returned to their seats. Tasting food is also respect for the host. Noble children will not be rude on this occasion.

The distinguished guests were divided into two groups. The charming ladies and celebrities dressed up, sat in the rest area on the left, whispered with round fans, and laughed like silver bells from time to time, attracting young nobles to pay attention to them frequently. The well-dressed gentlemen are in the rest area on the right. They get together in twos and threes and talk cordially. In just a quarter of an hour, I don't know how much consensus and tacit understanding have been reached.

If you carefully observe, it is not difficult to find that both male and female distinguished guests have their own core. The Marquis Leopold, the master here, spoke with a middle-aged aristocrat, the Marquis bastern, the palace minister. Marquis gerrywald, vice president of the Senate, was accompanied by Marquis Ludwig, the interior official, and a handsome young nobleman was surrounded by several young talents. He was the only son of Marquis golon and the great Knight of silver Count Auguste. Among the female guests, two ladies with outstanding appearance and temperament were flattered by everyone.

In contrast, Victor's corner was a little deserted, accompanied by only a brave young aristocrat. However, from the ears of the male guests, we can see that Victor is the focus of attention here. The beautiful women don't need to be as reserved as the male guests. Their hot eyes almost ignite Victor, and the ambiguous topics related to him are whispered.

"Victor, I didn't expect you to be more popular than I expected. Will you first invite Countess Caroline to the first dance, or the Marquis carrie?" The young nobleman joked lightly.

Victor looked up at the lady opposite, his scalp tight. He didn't know most of the female guests in the hall, but from their manners, we can know that Countess Caroline and Marquis Carrie are the two in the middle. They talked about the court etiquette training of the little baron. Although their voice was as thin as a mosquito, who didn't know that the popular shooter could hear the sound of a needle falling on the floor? Moreover, the two beautiful ladies cast "grudge" eyes from time to time, just like the lover abandoned by Victor. Although they wore gold masks when they taught the little Baron, Victor could recognize their voice and body.

"Your Highness Williams, please do it to the end."

Victor shook his head. He came to Wangdu for more than a month and has not been harassed. Now can he not know whose credit it is?

Williams looked at Victor with appreciation, shook his head and said, "count Caroline is the half sister of a highness in Neville. Mrs. Carrie is a noble daughter of the suss family. They are all great Knights of the silver class. They heard that I had a farewell dinner for you and came to see you off. As the protagonist of the dinner, you can't be rude." The implication is that I've been blocking you for a month, but these two women are too big for me. Please ask for your own blessing.

Williams took a plate of Cream Honey lettuce salad and handed it to victor. He smiled and changed the subject. "This cream is really good. I heard that the method of making cream came from the man horse hill. Victor, have you heard who invented cream?"

I didn't invent it! I copied

Victor picked up a lettuce salad with his fork and said softly, "cream and honey are only seasonings after all. Their value is to make the main dish more delicious." He put the salad in the mouth and said with a smile, "lettuce is the main dish here."

"Ha ha! Well said!"

Williams laughed and patted Victor on the shoulder.

Marquis Leopold held this banquet in honor of Williams to entertain victor. No matter how sincere Victor's words are, as a representative of the York family and Sylvia's lover, his statement is the result Williams wants to see. In the hall, there are not only the top giants of Gambis, representatives of major lords, but also nobles related to other kingdoms. Although most guests could hear their conversation, Williams also had to laugh loudly to express the close relationship between the royal family and the York family.

The atmosphere in the main hall became more harmonious with Williams' hearty laughter.

Victor was well informed and interesting. The more Williams looked at him, the more he liked him. He smiled and said, "Victor, you are about to leave Wangdu. I have prepared 20 training potions and 20 energy potions for you as a gift."

The function of the training potion is to purify the knight's blood, help the noble children awaken their fighting spirit, and have a certain chance to make them become trainee knights. However, the trainee Knights promoted with baptism potion can never go further.

Energy potion can restore fighting spirit, but taking energy potion will destroy the balance of the four systems, but reduce the knight's combat effectiveness. Moreover, the effect of taking energy potion for the first time is the most obvious. Continuous taking not only has no effect, but also leads to poisoning. It takes ten days to take it again. The real purpose of energy potion is to help trainee Knights impact the knight realm. Because the trainee Knights themselves do not achieve the balance of the four systems, if their fighting spirit is exhausted when stimulating the element level, using a bottle of energy potion will greatly increase the possibility of successful promotion. Of course, knights promoted in this way can hardly become silver knights.

Energy potion and training potion have the same disadvantages, but for those small families, it's better to have Knights than not. They don't hesitate to serve the royal family in order to obtain promotion potion. In short, these two drugs are strategic resources for the royal family to win over the people and expand their strength. Minsk County in the north of Gambis is an important producer of pharmaceutical raw materials. The royal family built Minsk fortress group and deployed heavy troops to firmly control pharmaceutical resources.

The price of both drugs is more than 1000 gold sol. Williams sent 40 drugs at a time, which is very generous. Unfortunately, Victor is useless, and the York family has a similar formula. In fact, this kind of medicine is rarely used by large families with long history. The resources occupied by the Lord are limited. If too many potential knights are created, it will be a huge burden on the family. They want more powerful Knight blood than man-made knights.

"Your Highness, can I exchange these potions for a small request?" Said Victor sincerely.

"Say!" Williams waved his big hand and said proudly.

As long as I don't want money and materials, I promise everything I can!

Victor smiled: "Your Highness, I threw myself into the air when I visited Archbishop Lazarus several times. Maybe my status is low... I'd like you to introduce me."

Williams breathed a sigh of relief, hesitated and said, "this is no problem, but I can't guarantee anything?"

If you want to teach helpers, you have to talk about it yourself!

"It doesn't matter. I just want to listen to the bishop."

"You can visit Archbishop Lazarus at any time," Williams said with a slight jaw

"Thank you, your highness."

Victor was delighted that he wanted to visit the Archbishop not for help, but for another purpose. However, the Archbishop kept avoiding, so he had to ask Williams for help. Now with the promise of the Archduke, the later things will be easy to do.

It's easy to earn a favor without spending money. Williams is also in a good mood. For a time, the host and guest enjoyed themselves.

"Victor, I recently received information. King dodo executed Duke Eriksson, the Duke of Eriksson was demoted to Viscount, and the Eriksson family handed over the surplus territory to the kingdom of dodo. His majesty Friedrich granted the territory to three powerful lords, among which Viscount Negus was also a great wind knight, and his territory just borders your territory in the north . you must be more careful! " Williams took a sip of the rum and said with the a hint.

Victor frowned. At the beginning, Austin invaded Randall's land. Sylvia thought that the dodos played tricks behind it. Although there was no conclusive evidence, it was most beneficial for the dodos to provoke the relationship between the York family and the royal family. The intelligence Williams said just confirmed this. Seeing that they could not win over, Dodo people began to be wary of York family going north and installing a wind knight. What they think is also aimed at Victor and Sauron.

Victor didn't worry about the occurrence of armed conflict. Dozens of alchemy war mastiffs could make dodo people in trouble, but the relationship between the two sides became tense. The free civil and commercial team went all the way north, and there were no trading objects and supply points along the way.

However, these are future troubles.

Victor said, "Your Highness, Lord Sauron's territory also borders the sphere of influence of the dodos."

"I want to recall Sauron. He is indispensable to the royal guards. As for the leader of viscount Sauron, his brother Baron Burroughs is in charge for the time being. The defense of the man and horse hills is still the responsibility of the governor of the man and horse hills." Williams shook his head.

At this time, the melodious piano played the prelude to the dance.