Chapter 217： dinner two

The next day, Paul and Mellon took Bryce and Victor to the residence of Duke Ferdinand for a banquet.

At this time, the Duke's mansion was magnificently decorated, and yesterday's welcoming officer was busy at the door, entertaining the guests who gathered here.

In addition to the lords from all over the world, there were also many famous people in Center City, big businessmen in the business world, heads of various guilds, and even people wearing church costumes who came to the banquet.

Paul stopped a man dressed as a priest and asked, "Excuse me, are you the priest in the city?"

When the priest saw Paul's attire, he knew that he was going to the Duke's mansion for a banquet. He was probably a lord from other places, so he didn't dare to neglect him.

"Yes, I am a priest in the Cathedral of Center."

"Then you know Dean Leonard... Oh no, do you know Bishop Leonard?" Paul suddenly remembered that there was an old man in this city. If he remembered correctly, the bishop of the Northwest Bay Diocese should be in center city.

"What is this lord's name...?"

Bryce took a step forward and said, "These two are Earl Paul Greyman of Arda and Earl Myron Garnard of Bairding!"

The priest was immediately in awe, "So it's the two Earls. I know Bishop Leonard, and I listen to his teachings in the church every day."

"Is Bishop Leonard also here?"

The priest said with some embarrassment: "My lord bishop can't come, he has been feeling unwell recently... Wait, Arda? Isn't that the place where your lord bishop served as the abbot before? Could it be that you are the lord there?"

Paul nodded, "Exactly."

The priest looked around and whispered to Paul, "Master Graeman, since you and His Excellency are from the same hometown, let me tell you the truth."

Oh? Paul was surprised, could there be something hidden.

The priest said in a low voice, "Bishop Leonard is not very interested in this kind of occasion, so he made an excuse not to come."

"Oh! It suits his character very well."

Paul and Bryce nodded together, more than disinterested, the staid old dean has always been very disgusted with extravagant occasions. There is so much going on in the duke's mansion, so it's strange that he can come to support him.

"Mr. Priest, please!"

"My lord, please!"

Paul, Mellon and the others entered the gate of the Duke's mansion, and walked for a while in the courtyard as large as a square before arriving at the main building.

After entering, go straight to the main hall along a wide corridor. The ceremonial officer at the door took the name badge handed by Bryce and called out loudly:

"Count Paul Greyman~to—"

"Lord Myron Garnard~to—"

The hall was bustling and noisy, and the arrival of the two did not attract much attention.

But the duke's younger brother, Viscount Henry, who was in charge of hosting the birthday party, was always paying attention to the arrival of every guest.

"welcome!"

Viscount Henry walked quickly towards the door, and embraced the two with open arms.

"I went to visit you two last night. I didn't expect you to go out. What a coincidence. Let me treat you well today to make up for the regret of last night."

Paul and Myron quickly exchanged some polite words with him.

Henry led the four of them to the arranged seats, and Paul and Mellon found that there were already several "neighbors" sitting here - several lords from the territory next door to them.

That is, the masters who refused to save him when the pirates invaded last year.

Earl Price Parker, probably in his fifties, with gray hair and kind eyes, said in his letter at that time, "When the rebel party is in trouble, it is the responsibility of guarding the land. How dare you leave the fief without authorization, and wish you could come to express your condolences...", rambling Just don't mention rescue.

Earl Molly Malcolm, probably in his thirties, was resting with his eyes closed, and looked calm. At that time, he wrote in his letter that the pirates would leave after they had made enough money from the commoners, and that it was enough to persuade Paul to guard the castle. The so-called " He is strong, he is strong, and he is horizontal, he is horizontal."

Earl Winifred Heller, about forty years old, wearing a pair of glasses and dressed like a scholar, said at the time, "Tell the pirates 'Come with your means of destruction, we will take half of the people If I kill you, half of the people are left, we will not surrender'", a person with a strange concept of 'non-violent non-cooperation'.

In addition to these three, there were also a group of vassals under them sitting nearby, all of whom were viscounts, barons and other lords, and Paul didn't bother to recognize them one by one.

"Nephew Paul! Nephew Mellon!"

"Hello, Earls!"

"long time no see!"

Seeing Paul and Myron's arrival, they all stood up to greet them. Even if they didn't know the Greimans well on weekdays, they still had to put on a show in public, not to mention that there was Earl Garnard by Paul's side.

Paul and Mellon answered one by one with a little embarrassment. In fact, both of them inherited the title because of family accidents. They used to deal with this group of people from their parents. They didn't communicate much with them and were not very familiar with them.

If it was their sons present, maybe the scene would be better, but unfortunately the juniors are all in other halls Those who enter the main hall are the lords and their attendants.

"Nephew Paul is really a young hero. He wiped out the pirates in one fell swoop, and the entire Northwest Gulf was appeased! Nephew Mellon was also calm and calm in the face of the vassal's rebellion, and wiped out the gang of Xiaoxiao in an instant."

Price Parker suddenly praised Paul and McLone. His territory was also close to the sea, and he benefited a lot from the Arda Navy's elimination of pirates.

Macron smiled slightly, and said a little shyly, "Everywhere, Paul helped me quell the rebellion."

Paul said with something in his words: "Yes, thanks to everyone's encouragement and guidance, I can eliminate the pirates!"

Everyone didn't know if they understood or not, and they didn't look embarrassed at all.

Molly Malcolm suddenly said with a smile: "The two of you have done a lot of business at home recently..."

Hearing what Malken said, the others also pricked up their ears and looked at Paul in unison.

In the past six months or so, several new products that have been on the market, such as porcelain, paper, and canned food, are all produced in Arda and Bairdin, and according to their inquiries, the source is the Greiman family.

Based on the point of view that the wealth in the previous life should not be exposed, Paul quickly waved his hand: "Where is it! It's just to make a little money."

"Earn a little money? Earl Greyman, can't you say that? I'm afraid you're too soft to count the money every day?"

Do they know how popular those commodities are? Not only in the Northwest Gulf, there are caravans passing through their territory to and from Arda and Bairding every now and then. There were not so many caravans in the first half of last year, but gradually more caravans in the second half of the year. Even if the tariffs they set are very high.

This shows that even after paying a large amount of tariffs, the profits of these goods are still very high.

How does this not make people jealous?