When Downey Jr. returned to the castle, he told his mother, Lady Madeleine, about Hope Ryan as his personal servant. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Well, this kid hasn't visited me in the castle for a long time, so let him wait for you in the castle this time, Donnie, little Ryan saved your life, don't treat him as a random subordinate. ”

Madame Madeleine had no opinion, and her youngest son, Donnie, was sixteen years old, and when he became an adult, he would eventually leave the little Grand Collar with wings...... Even if she didn't want her youngest son to leave, he wouldn't tolerate Donnie continuing to live in the castle once Conor was gone and Edward became lord, because everything in the realm belonged to the eldest son.

If little Ryan has been by Donnie's side, she will be much more relieved, unlike the naughty and active Donnie, little Ryan has shown her amazing intelligence, sensibility, and calmness since he was a child, so that he can follow Donnie's side, and go out to explore in the future, and always avoid many setbacks and dangers.

Madame Madeleine nodded, and Baron Connor had no opinion, a personal servant, not a knight's squire, and little Ryan was clever and clever, and loyal at critical moments, just in time to assist his mischievous and uneasy son.

"It's been four years, and I'm back again!"

Zhou Ming, who was standing at the gate of the castle and carrying a package of change of clothes, couldn't help but sigh in his heart when he stepped into this castle after a four-year absence.

Perhaps, from this day on, I will either stand on the high spire of the white tower of the castle and look down on all beings, or I will fall straight from that high spire and fall to the earth forever.

Or, shattered bones.

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After entering the castle, in the servant's living area on the third floor of the main building of the castle, the housekeeper assigned Zhou Ming a single room with an area of about ten square meters, with a good environmental layout, a comfortable single bed, a small fireplace for heating in winter, a set of oak tables and chairs, and a window facing Rose Town, which can take in the scenery of the town below the mountain.

After a few days of servant etiquette and skill training, Zhou Ming quickly changed into the servant's special shorts and dresses (shorts are usually worn when they work, and they are worn when distinguished guests visit), not to mention, after these servants' clothes are worn on him, his appearance and temperament immediately become different from before, and he is really a bit presentable, as if they were tailor-made for him.

After officially taking up his post, Zhou Ming's daily work is also very easy, one is to take care of Downey Jr.'s daily life, and the other is to accompany him to study, accompany him to classes and travel, and ensure his personal safety.

In terms of taking care of other people's daily life, almost no one is better than Zhou Ming.

Little Downey has a bad taste?

Simple, frying, cooking, frying, eating raw, roasting, pickling, fermenting, no one in this world can be said to be better than him, and he can even give you a more than 300 days a year that is not the same, the same kind of ingredients, give you a whole eighty different dishes, and I am afraid that you will be confused.

Of course, if Zhou Ming has this spare time, of course, he can conduct in-depth research on cooking, and for Little Downey, his specialty cream cakes, fruit pies, egg tarts and biscuits of various flavors can be easily leveled.

There is also a shower bathhouse for the convenience of Downey Jr.'s daily bath, a flush toilet for going to the toilet, and a warm kang for heating in winter...... And so on these things not only found it very convenient for Downey Jr., but also for the lords Baron Connor and Madame Madeleine, so they asked Zhou Ming to get a set for them, and it quickly became popular in the castle.

However, these are just small episodes that happened during the process of waiting for Downey Jr. in the castle, and what really made Zhou Ming feel that he had gained a lot was the valuable knowledge he learned from Master Ellen during the study process with Downey Jr.

Bachelor Ellen, a little old man in his early fifties, with a gray beard, a slightly chubby figure, wearing a wide-sleeved gray robe, had been a bachelor in the royal court for several years in his early years, held a high position, and was well-informed, if he had not been slandered by political enemies and driven out of the royal capital by the king, he would not have been in the miserable situation of tutoring a baron's second son.

When it comes to those years in the royal court, Ellen Bachelor always can't help but miss and long, in front of Downey Jr. and Zhou Ming, boasting about what he said to the king, drinking with the prince in private, discussing literature with the beautiful queen in private, and so on...... Of course, the most bragging is still when he was young and handsome, and he had a leg with many upper-class ladies......

Zhou Ming was too lazy to debunk how this Ellen Bachelor, who couldn't see a little handsome, attracted those beautiful and charming upper-class ladies, what he was most interested in was the power structure and internal disputes of the upper echelons of the kingdom, how they were constituted and handled.

"Our Warris Kingdom is just a small marginal country in this vast land, in addition to the royal county directly under the royal capital, there are fourteen sub-feudal counties around, and below each county, there are about ten viscounts or baronies, and the barony is further down, it is directly divided into knights' fiefs, which are the smallest first-level fiefdom units, generally only one village and thousands of acres of land. ”

"The Holy See rules the granting and inheritance of all kingdom thrones and even the imperial throne, the king rules the granting and inheritance of all counts in the country, the count rules the inheritance of all viscounts and barons in his fiefdom, and the baron only rules the inheritance rights of the knights in his fiefdom, as for the knight's right to confer knights, only the baron can increase the number of knight fiefs in his territory with the consent of the superior count or after receiving the reward of the knight's quota. The same is true for counts, and the increase in the number of lower titles must be approved or rewarded by the upper nobles. ”

"If there is a contradiction and conflict between barons and barons, and between counts and counts in the kingdom, what should be done?" Zhou Ming asked.

"It is up to the aristocratic court to deal with it, just as the court of the barony can adjudicate the contradictions of all the lords, the contradictions between the barons and the barons can be decided in the courts of the upper counties, the conflicts between the counts and the counts can be decided in the court of the nobles of the kingdom, the conflicts between kingdoms are decided by the ecclesiastical courts, and as for the contradictions within the church, then let God decide. ”

"Since there is a noble court, what about the law? Is there some law in every court?" Zhou Ming asked again.

There are a total of 155 articles in this law, including the land rent and miscellaneous taxes that should be paid by peasants, the commercial taxes that should be paid by traveling merchants, and the punishment measures prescribed for thieves, thieves, swindlers, murderers, robbers, robbers, and other criminals who destroy the property of the people in the territory...... As for the Earl's Court and the Court of the Lord's Court, the laws made by the Scholars and the Lords were more complicated, and some issues were even subject to arbitration and voting, divided into different factions......"

But.

When there are huge differences in some practical interests, and the aristocratic courts are unable to arbitrate and mediate, the use of force may become the last way to resolve the dispute.

Just like the "Elk War" between Baron Connor and Baron Garcia, the reason why he did not go to the Earl's Court to apply for arbitration was not precisely because he knew that he could not negotiate, so he used a war to solve it?

"It seems that compared with the careful and strict legal provisions, the strongest rational fist in this world should still be the strongest fist......