Chapter 251: Screening
Many of these traditional Chinese delicacies, although many ingredients cannot be found here, but even if only the ingredients that can be found are used, and enough to make this group of local bun aristocrats eat with a mouthful of oil.
William said that they were dirt buns, but they were not deliberately belittled, but they really hadn't seen so much food, which was not to blame them, it was purely because the food culture of this world was the same as Western Europe in the previous life, which was too not rich.
The court musicians played beautiful music, sometimes elegant, sometimes wild, and the hired dancers changed their steps as the tune of the music changed.
Sometimes graceful, sometimes glamorous, they wore uniform white dresses, and danced gracefully in the audience like noble ladies.
The nobles and knights watched their performances, and their faces couldn't help but be stunned, and they basically kept stuffing food into their mouths while looking at them intently.
And their wives were a little ugly on the side, after all, women are jealous creatures, and their husbands looked at these dancing girls so openly in front of them, which made them very angry.
At this moment, a row of servants carried large trays into the hall, and before everyone could see what was brought in, a refreshing smell of meat filled the air.
Smelling this fragrance, the nobles and knights were eager to see what kind of food it was to be able to emit this fragrance.
However, for the sake of face, they still did not leave their seats and quietly waited for the arrival of food.
But the little children, the children of the nobles and the knights, when they smelled the scent, could not bear it anymore, and began to make a great noise in their mother's arms, which made the faces of the noblewomen and the knights and ladies full of embarrassment.
And William's original knight's family, although there were some expectations, but they didn't make a lot of noise like those children.
Because their father, as William's knight, often had lunch with William, and the eldest of them often ate with William because he was trained by William.
Therefore, not only are their family conditions superior to those of other knights, but their family assets and knowledge are more than those knights' families.
As the servants placed the trays on their tables one by one, they could see what was inside, and the mere smell of the trays made their salivations flow.
They couldn't help but look at the golden lamb roasted on the table, and they couldn't help but show a look of astonishment on their faces, and they also raised this lamb in their territory, and ate mutton a lot, but they never felt such a desire to eat mutton.
When the first nobleman cut the mutton from the tray with a knife and stuffed it into his mouth, the intoxicated expression on his face immediately made everyone understand the deliciousness of this dish.
The arrival of this roasted whole lamb brought the whole banquet into the **, the clowns put on an ugly and funny performance, and the troubadour sang his self-proclaimed masterpieces with emotion, but few people could understand them.
The dancers stepped on the rhythm of the musicians and danced their bodies desperately, and if they could get the favor of any of them and become his mistresses on this occasion where the nobles gathered, it would undoubtedly be a step up for a dancer.
Finally, the grand banquet ended in the middle of the night, and the banquet that had been held since the morning lasted for nearly ten hours.
Basically every nobleman was drunk, and was carried back to the bedroom that William had arranged for them.
At noon the next day, William asked Vidal to inform the Count's knights that they should assemble in the barracks and await William's lecture.
And like them, there were the mercenaries under Baron McLin, among whom William had to select two hundred sword and shield infantrymen.
As a supporter of the elite army policy, William of course wants to select the best 200 people among the more than 500 people.
In autumn, when the sun is still a little hot, the withered yellow leaves are caressed by the autumn wind on the ground, and if it is seen by some great poets, it may be another masterpiece that has been handed down to the world.
The knights stood in the sun, their foreheads sweating slightly, because today might be the day when William made official arrangements for them.
After all, once a prince and a courtier, they didn't know if William would continue to keep them after becoming the new Earl of Denlenburg.
Because after the new nobles inherited a territory, it was very common for the knights of the previous lord to be driven away, so they couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive.
After all, being able to be loyal to an earl is a very good errand in terms of affordability and reputation, and the knights of the earls are much better than the knights of the barons.
Their estates are generally more fertile than those in other regions due to their proximity to the earl's domain.
If they were driven away and deprived of their fiefdoms, they would be reduced to wandering knights, and they would never want to live such a life.
Therefore, each knight secretly decided in the letter that he must surpass the other companions, and be able to make the Earl look down on him and keep himself in the realm.
After waiting for more than half an hour, William appeared in the barracks with his knights as a baron.
These knights are elite and well-equipped, but their fighting skills, physical fitness, and teamwork have also been honed over the years.
If nothing else, the most important discipline and coordination skills on the battlefield alone are enough to shake off these knights of the Counts of Loire for several streets.
After all, when it comes to large-scale battlefields, individual force is no longer so important, and iron-like discipline and tacit cooperation are even more important.
William, wearing a suit of chain mail, stood at the front of the barracks, looked at the sparse knights standing there, and shouted loudly: "All the knights, line up in a phalanx!" ”
As soon as the words fell, the knights began to form a group, and although it seemed a little chaotic at first, it was only because they did not have this training regularly.
With simple command and combat experience, they quickly found their position and stood in a phalanx.
Willian is still quite satisfied with their training, although the discipline and cooperation are not strong, it can be trained the day after tomorrow.
Now he was looking for knights who had good obedience and were very qualified in terms of physical fitness, combat experience, and quality.
Rather and he planned to eliminate eighty of the more than one hundred and eighty knights, leaving only one hundred knights, and those vacancies, William planned to recruit qualified knights among the wandering knights.
After all, William had never intended to leave the knights in the quarry and let them train on their own, and his skill and discipline even exceeded the requirements for personal strength and equipment.