Chapter 65: The Opening
"Well, master, this recipe is ......"
"You just say the price, you don't have to tell me the formula!" William picked up the glass of water on the table and interrupted.
"Okay master, the price of the recipe is five hundred silver coins per serving, and it takes half a year to complete, so it takes three thousand silver coins to cultivate a berserker!"
"Poof!" William spat out the water in his mouth, "What? Three thousand silver coins for one person? β
William's eyes widened and he didn't care about wiping the water stains on his body, and said in surprise.
"Wori, what the is this so expensive?" William is also drunk, no wonder there is a duke, but there are only eighty berserk guards, it turns out that he can't afford to spend this money, eighty people are 240,000 silver coins, and this Duke of Zen Ketu is also rich!
William thought about it, this price is too expensive, now he earns 20,000 silver coins a month from trading with both sides, and vodka can also bring more than 1,000 silver coins in Denglenburg, which adds up to 21,000 silver coins a month!
That is to say, a month's income can't afford to train ten berserk guards, and the kingdom's war horse market will be saturated one day after William's dumping, and it is estimated that there has been no such income for a long time at that time, so how can you afford to raise these berserk guards?
This kind of cost performance discouraged William, but his pursuit of strong soldiers has reached a pathological point, which can be seen from the fact that he had to use all top soldiers in his previous life.
William thought about it again and again, and decided to train ten berserk guards, and took out five thousand silver coins every month to cultivate, he gritted his teeth and could still afford it, and it was a big deal to stop when he ran out of money in the future!
After receiving William's order, Banstesk ran around the next day to find medicinal materials and minerals, but fortunately, all that was needed were expensive and not scarce materials, and it took a few days to get all the materials, and when he returned, he could officially start cultivating.
Early the next morning, the opening ceremony of the athletic conference was officially held in the arena in front of the main castle, and the general attack in the arena could accommodate more than 10,000 people, except for the knights who came to participate, it was all kinds of people.
There are priests, merchants, and aristocrats who do not participate in the competition, and even some mercenaries come to join in the fun, in short, the number of commoners is actually not much, most of them are citizens with some money.
With a long, low trumpet sounding through the air, the current King Brolin appeared on the highest stage of the arena with his queen.
There were also the bishops of the Tskema region, the king's courtiers, the dukes and counts, the foreign envoys and nobles, and finally the presidents of the top guilds.
The current king did not succeed to the throne for a long time, and he took over the throne after the old king died of illness after being injured on the battlefield, so he was quite young.
It is said that he was only twenty-six years old, but although the king was young, his true kingly nature was already revealed, and with a wave of his hand in the air, the sound of trumpets and music came to an abrupt end, and the whole arena became more lively because of the king's appearance.
The little king's hasty succession to the throne was naturally not enough to intimidate the dukes and the arrogant generals, and the nobles were somewhat suspicious of his rule, so he urgently needed a competitive tournament to show his strength and consolidate his authority.
As a staunch supporter of the little king as a prince, the Count of Loire had been summoned by the king yesterday and was now following the king all spring with a few men at his side.
There was a brief burst of cheering, and everyone listened in silence as the king on the high platform was about to speak.
King Brolin coughed lightly and said, "Knights present! Warriors of the Holy Father! Today, I, the rightful ruler of the Kingdom of Tskema, King Brolin, am here to hold this grand athletic event! The voice was loud and full of justice, and of course, William could not hear it here, he listened to the retellings of the various clerks.
"Thank you, Father's warriors, for following my call to be here, and you will receive the honor you deserve in this arena! Do you see the treasure over there? King Brolin pointed down.
I saw two guards struggling to carry a large box, as the king's voice fell, the guards opened the box, and there was a golden light shining inside, and the gold coins were lying quietly in it, shining, and everyone saw it with a salivating look.
"A thousand gold coins! A whole thousand gold coins! It's not silver, it's gold! Equivalent to 10,000 silver coins, do you want to do so? Then go get it! Knights of the Kingdom of Tskema! Crush all the enemies that stand in your way! β
"Whew!!" The whole field was suddenly cheering, stimulated by money, the knights basically lost their minds, even some barons were no longer calm in the face of the whole thousand silver coins.
After the knights cheered, King Brolin continued: "Some people may say that your kingdom of Tskema still dares to say such arrogant things? Just defeated, didn't it? At this time, you should recuperate honestly, and dare to be so arrogant! β
"To these remarks, I, King Brolin, just want to say that you are wrong! I don't want to give any explanation for the defeat of this war, but! Someday! I will take the army, the beasts to wash away the shame of some time ago!! β
King Brolin shouted this passage hoarsely, and the clerk in charge of conveying it below was also very dedicated to learning from the king, and roared to convey this passage to everyone.
For a while, the scene boiled, except for the envoys of the victorious kingdom of Lilled, everyone was in excitement, including which civilians and wandering knights who had little to do with the kingdom of Tskma.
I believe that after this passage, as long as the king has a little strategy, the generals in the kingdom who have not yet fallen to the king of Brolin will immediately want him to be loyal!
This kind of morale-boosting method is very much worth learning from William, and the FΓΌhrer's success has a certain relationship with the speech.
The king revived the humiliation of defeat and succeeded in provoking the shame of the nobles at home.
Although they sometimes fight for their own interests and are not directly ruled by the king, when people from other kingdoms mention them, the first thing that comes to mind is the Kingdom of Tskma, and the label of the Kingdom of Tskma has always been attached to them.
Compared with the medieval aristocracy of William's previous life, who had no sense of national honor, the aristocracy here is undoubtedly a group of nationalists.
Although they are very tolerant of countries of the same faith, they can be harsh when it comes to hostile countries and people who contradict their beliefs.
The king took advantage of their feelings and directly made everyone feel good about him, at least in the hearts of most nobles, the king was a person who was affectionate and righteous, and attached great importance to dignity and valued force.
Such a person is undoubtedly the best candidate for the king in the eyes of feudal military landlords such as nobles.
In any case, after this economic conference, King Brolin's throne is stable, and there are already many nobles who support him, and this time it has captured the hearts of lower-class nobles and knights, can it not be stable?
After the cheers, King Brolin waved his hand, "I announce!" The Knight's Athletic Tournament has officially begun! β
At this moment, the royal flag hanging at the top of the castle fluttered in the wind, grinning, as if to indicate that under the rule of King Zaibrolin, the kingdom of Cikma would reach its peak.
William, who is not at his peak, does not know, he only knows that the time to brush up his reputation has officially begun, as long as he performs well enough to win this championship, then there will be troubadours to sing about his bravery, and then turn over his previous examples.
Then his fame is not limited to the small city of Denlenburg, the entire kingdom and various territories, more than two million people know his name.
The fox of Denlenburg, William the Mad the Madman, the champion of the athletic tournament, the wise man of the young, this is an intangible treasure and a legacy that you can leave to future generations.
After the announcement began, King Brolin left the high platform with the noble bishops and envoys, after all, there were too many people for them to wait, and they would not be able to attend the final battle until a large part of it had been eliminated.