Chapter 170: The Situation
"I will be responsible for you to the end, and no one can snatch you from me, you believe in my strength!" William touched Lingsi's head and said domineeringly and gently.
Listening to William's unreasonable words, Lingsi lowered her eyes, did not resist, her face was slightly happy, she did not speak, but nodded slightly.
Seeing that Lingsi also began to accept him slowly, William nodded with satisfaction and accepted her service.
The feast did not end, the whole feast lasted for three days, even if the nobles went to sleep, but the servants began to be busy from the morning, and when the nobles woke up, the feast was to be held here.
William didn't leave immediately after getting dressed, but waited for Wella to get up, he didn't want Wella to wake up and find no one around, he didn't want Wella to try that sense of loss.
"You go out first, give me the basin, and I'll help Weta clean her body later!" William took the basin and clothes and said to Lingsi.
After a while, Wella came to her senses and got up from the bed.
"Shhh
Wella felt the pain and gasped and frowned.
"Be careful!" William pressed Wella, who wanted to get up: "Lie down for a while, I'll help you clean up!" ”
As he spoke, he took out a towel soaked in warm water from the basin and began to help Wella clean her body.
"You rest a little longer, I have to entertain the nobles who have arrived!" William said as he covered Wella.
"Oh, my dear colleagues, how was yesterday's banquet?" Dressed in a gorgeous aristocratic robe, William walked down from the second floor and said to the nobles in the hall.
"Very good, Baron William's banquet was very rich, thank you for your hospitality!" The nobles put down their food and thanked William.
Although they had been eating, it was not a formal meal, but whether they had stuffed a little food into their mouths, after all, William had not come out yet, so it was a bit rude to eat in such a big gulp.
"I haven't even had breakfast yet, let's move on!"
William laughed and sat down at the table.
The table was filled with a wide variety of food, including beef broth, roasted whole lamb, honey, various fruits, air-dried meat, white bread with feta cream, cabbage and boiled apples.
However, instead of eating the greasy things, William picked up a boiled apple and ate it, although William didn't like to eat it either, but compared to the other greasy foods, this one was the best for breakfast.
When the other nobles saw William begin to eat, they all returned to their seats and began to feast.
After eating, William proposed to go out hunting, and in the winter the forest was full of hungry prey, and at this time hunting could find some prey.
The nobles took a few knights and squires, took a few hounds from the manor, and hurried to the forest outside the village.
The squires went in search of prey, and the nobles gathered and began to gossip.
"My vassals, I have something to tell you!" The Count said suddenly.
"The Earl of Cunsville thinks we have treated him harshly, and has spoken ill of us to his feudal lord, the Duke of Bunkerson, and at the same time, the Duke of Bunkerson seems to have reached a certain consensus with the Kingdom of Ribhorn recently, and the church seems to be supporting the Duke of Bunkerson in the shadows!"
The Count then told them what had happened during this time.
The Church was angered by the decree issued by King Brolin when he ascended the throne that the Church could not own more than one-third of a territory, nor could it own more than one-tenth of the amount of agriculture and animal husbandry of the local lords, and at the same time could not substitute for the lords to exercise judgment over the common people.
However, this move was also a helpless move, originally not all the nobles of the Kingdom of Tskma supported King Brolin, and only one-third of all the nobles supported him, while the other part remained neutral.
He issued this decree in order to win over the neutral nobles in the country, and in fact his goal was indeed achieved, and basically all the neutral nobles thought of him because of this decree.
The purpose of this decree was to limit the power of the Church, and it was not uncommon for the Church to be too powerful in a territory, such as the Kingdom of Ribourne, where more than forty percent of the land in the country was under the control of the Church, and the authority of the king was even less than that of a regional bishop.
The nobility of the territory was also greatly constrained by the power of the church, and the authority of the king and the whole state and the nobility was greatly affected.
And these things are all worn to the surrounding ten brother countries, and many times a state power is not mostly fighting abroad, but fighting against the power of the church.
Because most of the kingdoms on the continent did not believe in the Holy Religion from the beginning, after the fall of the Dells Empire, the Loerd people occupied most of the old land of the empire, and other peoples also took a piece of the pie and established their own kingdoms.
The Holy Religion began to appear after the establishment of these kingdoms, and later because of several large-scale wars, it took more than a thousand years for the Holy Religion to spread to all the kingdoms.
Moreover, although the kingdom here also has the saying that the monarchy is divinely ordained, the king's autonomy is very high, and in the kingdom where the church is not strong, there is no need for the local bishop to crown the king at all.
For example, in the Kingdom of Tskema, the struggle of several generations of kings and the strict defense of the church power made the domestic church power not huge, so when the king succeeded to the throne, the old king crowned the new king.
But looking at the kingdom of Riborn, if their king wants to succeed to the throne, he needs to be crowned by a pope or a regional bishop before it can take effect.
This time, because the Earl severely injured the Earl of Chainsville, the strength of the Duke of Bunkerson was reduced, and at this time, the king happened to issue a decree restricting the church, which directly caused the church to be dissatisfied with King Brolin.
The purpose of the two sides is basically the same, of course, it is a hit-off, the autonomous ability of the Kingdom of Ribone has become dispensable under the erosion of the church, and after the church feels dissatisfied, of course, it must stand with the church.
Therefore, the Duke of Bunkerson is uniting the Kingdom of Ribon with the Church to put pressure on the Kingdom of Tskema to give up their support for King Brolin and hand over the throne to Duke Bunkerson.
However, the king is not a vegetarian, his queen Dai Lin is the princess of the White Rose Kingdom in the northwest, and the current White Rose Kingdom has no heirs in the past, and the only daughter is married to the Tskema Kingdom.
Therefore, the son of King Brolin will be the king of White Rose and Tskma, so in this matter, the Kingdom of White Rose clearly supports King Brolin, and the two countries will be a huge and powerful country after they merge.
However, despite the support of the White Rose Kingdom, the Ribon Kingdom and the Duke of Bunkerson still do not intend to calm down, after all, the power of the church is also among them, and the strength of the church is estimated to be stronger than most kingdoms.