William nodded after hearing this, Charlemagne's speculation was very correct, the kingdom of Astra, as the top power in the north of the continent, could not swallow its anger when its majesty was provoked.

Even for the sake of their reputation on the mainland, they couldn't do that.

If the kingdom of Astra goes to war, then it means that his two powerful states, the principality of Larnia and the principality of Kubu, as well as the compatriot Camelot, will also participate in the war.

In addition to Astra, those two states were also very powerful, and with the addition of the Kingdom of Camelot, the number of regular troops they were able to mobilize even exceeded 30,000 and nearly 40,000.

This is a force that is several times more powerful than the most powerful thing in the original Tskma Kingdom, this is the top power in the northernmost part of the continent, and it is the top kingdom in the entire continent, the power of the Astra Kingdom.

However, even if it is such a force, against the Norwid barbarians, they may not be able to take advantage, after all, although the number of Norwid barbarians is not large, only about a million people, but they can't stand up to them, almost all the people are soldiers.

They rely on their physical fitness to be better, almost every man can fight on the battlefield, in this way, this is tens of thousands, or even nearly hundreds of thousands of troops, if they fight hard, it is not impossible to have 200,000 men go to the battlefield.

If faced with such terrifying numbers, even the kingdom of Astra will suffer.

Although the 17 million citizens of Astra are also huge, as a farming people, the Kingdom of Astra cannot afford to arm so many regular troops.

Not to mention hundreds of thousands, even if it is a regular army that allows the Astra Kingdom to arm 100,000 to the teeth, it will drag down the finances of the Astra Kingdom.

Even the richest and most commercially developed kingdom of Lundil on the road, the annual income of tens of millions of silver coins can barely arm an army of more than 100,000 people.

This is also the reason why the Guardians of the Holy Grail of the Astra Kingdom's ace infantry have grown from only three signatures to four thousand in eight years.

The same is true of the Knights of the Holy Grail, whose two-thousand-strong Knights of the Grail has only grown to two thousand five hundred in eight years.

It's not that they don't want to expand their strength, it's not that the number of people who can enlist in the army is not enough, as the country of knights, there are not a few knights who have reached the standard of entering the knights, and the same is true for the Holy Grail Guardians.

But you must know that there are many things that the knights in the knights of the knights have not mined, their equipment has to be prepared by the royal family, the servants have to be supported by the royal family, and even the royal family is responsible for distributing their salaries.

And the Holy Grail Guardians are even more so, training, venues, food and drink, these expenses are not small, not to mention the huge number of regular troops.

William nodded, agreeing with Charlemagne's speculation, and was very satisfied, he said: "But the only thing we can do now is to wait, where our interests are not entangled to the point of life and death, we don't need to do anything until it affects us or the kingdom of Astra has not expelled us from the price that makes our hearts move!" ”

William patiently explained to Charlemagne.

William's current territorial income can almost be said to be as rich as a country, if nothing else, as early as six years ago, William's annual income has exceeded that of the royal family.

Now William's domain, due to the development of commerce and eternal night, has a considerable income.

Every year, William was able to obtain about 2.4 million silver coins, which was eight times the income of the royal family of the Kingdom of Cikma, and even the Kingdom of Astra earned less than four million silver coins per year.

William's income mainly comes from several sectors, one is the territorial commercial tax, William has been very encouraging commercial development over the years, especially the commercial cities in William's territory, which have reached as many as six, providing William with huge tax revenues.

In addition to this, there were tolls and transaction taxes on the territory, and transactions made in villages and estates were also taxed to William.

In this way, the commercial tax could bring William about 800,000 silver coins a year, which was about one-third of his annual income.

In addition to the commercial tax, there were William's own private industries, such as William's vodka and honey industries, plus William's dumping of these two luxury goods, large quantities of fine and expensive armor, as well as the surplus inland grain of Denlenburg, and William's own taverns and chicken yards, which also stood at one-third of William's income, 800,000 silver coins.

In addition, there is also the agricultural tax of William's domain, which has developed rapidly over the years, and the lower area has doubled significantly, followed by a bumper harvest and surplus of grain, and then dumping to the periphery, which is also about 800,000 silver coins, accounting for one-third of the income.

Of course, he also spent a lot of money on the maintenance of the stone roads, castles, towns, cities, fortresses, turrets, taverns, hospitals, and other buildings.

The soldiers' salaries, the knights' salaries, their food, the orcs' food and drink, and William's reward whenever a child was born, as well as the training of the cadet knights, the food and equipment of the militia, and the dairy and meat products that were mandatory for the boys and children.

The construction of the armor, as well as some other miscellaneous expenses, are not small expenses, and William can save about 500,000 silver coins every year.

However, he has quite a lot of food, so to speak, if the entire territory is not harvested, then his grain can supply more than a million people in the territory for five years, which shows the amount of his food.

After all, food and food are the root of everything, and gold cannot be compared to food in times of famine.

And just when William was preparing to stand still in the territory and wait and see.

William suddenly received news that the cattle of a village were always missing inexplicably, and the disappearance was also very strange, which made our lords seem to be panicked, and the village elders hoped that you could send a small army to help them, Lord Earl.

Because the previous militia and reserves have already failed, they don't even see the shadow of each other, which is a very strange method!

William's important courtier, the intelligence chief, Tus, came to William's study and reported the incident to him, and the spies informed him of the situation, and the loyal Tus immediately reported the situation to William.

However, with the cooperation of Tus and Ariel, they finally figured out each other's identities preliminarily, and it seemed that they were a knight wearing smock armor, as for their identity, age, and appearance, they didn't know anything.

This mysterious and cunning knight is making waves in William's territory, but he is also turning the militia and reservists around.

Falling into this knight is very cautious and cunning, and there are some unknown tricks.

After hearing this, William narrowed his eyes and said, "This time...... Let's give the knights of the Inner House a trip! ”