Chapter 63: The Royal Capital

There were nearly 300 knights in the whole of Denlenburg, and they marched to the royal capital with a large share of wealth and baggage.

When passing through the mountains and forests, although they met a lot of robbers and bandits, none of them dared to make a move, and no one dared to provoke more than 200 knights.

In this way, the knights laughed and laughed with their acquaintances, and after a month, they finally arrived at the royal capital of the Tskema Kingdom...... Blijek City.

As the capital of a country, the city of Brijec is very large, with a population of 70,000 or 80,000! The daily cargo throughput and the amount of household waste generated are also enormous.

The city wall of more than ten meters high protects the entire royal capital intact, and because of the competition meeting, the people of the kingdom have planted a red background sword and brown bear flag representing the royal family on every dozen battlements on the city wall.

Although the cultural, political, economic, and war patterns of this world are similar to those of the Middle Ages in the previous life, the population base and productivity here are obviously much stronger than those of the real Middle Ages.

The cultural level of this world looks like the early Middle Ages, but William clearly remembers that the royal family mobilized more than 1,000 troops in the early Middle Ages, and the territory of the country was not large.

And although the countries of this world are similar in culture and technology to the early Middle Ages, they can mobilize far more troops than those royal families in previous lives.

Those royal families in the previous life were put in this world, and they were only the strength of a viscount and earl, and the royal family here is the real giant, just the royal family, not counting the troops that the following vassals can mobilize, at least nearly 10,000 people!

For example, in the war with the Kingdom of Lillard some time ago, the royal family took out 4,000 people in one go just for the armed infantry, including 500 heavy infantry in heavy armor, and as for the knights, more than 600 were dispatched, not counting the mobilized light infantry.

Although the kingdom was defeated, the strength of the kingdom can also be seen from these, as for the Lillard Kingdom, their strength is not weak, and the Kingdom of Tskema is not much different, if it were not for the old king who fell ill and fell into a coma on the battlefield, the victory or defeat of this war is still unknown.

"It seems that my strength is still not good!" William looked at the walls of Takamatsu and sighed in his heart.

William thought that he had a lot of income now, the strength of his soldiers was good, and the gap between the strength of the royal family and the royal family was not too big, it seemed that he was thinking too much, and now the strength of himself and the royal family is simply the gap between elephants and ants.

After clearly knowing the strength of the royal family, William smiled bitterly, his original impetuous heart began to become calm, and the ambition in his heart was much smaller, and the idea of rebellion was temporarily suppressed in his heart.

Let's develop lewdly first!

The soldiers guarding the city stood on both sides of the city gate, and even when they saw such a large group of knights, they did not come forward to investigate, after all, there were too many people entering the city during the athletic conference.

It is conservatively estimated that there are no less than four or five thousand knights who are attracted by the athletic conference, in fact, there are not many people who serve the lord among these three or four thousand, only one or two thousand people are loyal to the nobles, and the others are some wandering knights, who are attracted to the athletic conference to see if they can be accepted as knights by the big man.

Don't look at these knights pouring into the royal capital, but there are very few people who can shine in the athletic conference and be favored by the nobles to be knighted, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are rare.

But the knights still flocked to it, even though they knew very well that they were difficult to be looked at, but it was their only way out.

Oh no, in fact, there are many ways out, such as becoming a guard knight of the church, or joining a caravan, hehe, these are not as good as being a knight under a nobleman except for guarding knights.

As for the Guard Knight, it was a bit more difficult than becoming a noble vassal.

After the knights of Denlenburg were settled in the city, they all began to act separately, after all, no one had ever been to such a large city a few times, and it would be a great loss not to have a good stroll.

William and the three of them walked on the road with a smile and a smile with the knight with Mendes, there was actually not much excrement and urine on the road, after all, it was such a big city, and the sanitation was quite reasonable.

There are as many knights as dogs in the current royal capital, but they are almost everywhere, and when you walk down the street, you can see many knights with swords.

"Tut-tut, it's really worthy of being the royal capital, much more prosperous than our camp of the Kriza people!" Although he had been to the royal capital several times earlier, he was still amazed by the prosperity of the royal capital.

They wandered along the road, and many speculative merchants also set up stalls on the road during the time of the athletic meeting, and there were a variety of goods on them, many of which William had never seen before.

Even vodka from the Menders region was sold at individual stalls, and William tasted it and found that it was actually real!

For a moment, William thought that his secret recipe had leaked out, but when he thought about it, vodka has always been a bestseller like this, and he has not received any alcohol similar to vodka, it should not be a technical leak, it should be a good thing done by second-hand dealers such as scalpers.

When everyone was tired of strolling around the streets, someone suggested going to the tavern to sit down, and as for the money, of course, it was Baron William, who had a lot of money!

After a few drinks in a casual tavern, the knights began to wrestle with others in the tavern ring.

The vicinity of the ring was full of people, their faces flushed with wine glasses, and they cheered hoarsely for the people they supported, and it was estimated that they had pressed a lot of money.

Whenever someone fails, there are people who curse angrily, but there are also those who cheer for it.

The cursers, don't think about it, must have lost money, and as for the cheerers, it is estimated that they have won, but it is not excluded that sincere supporters are not excluded.

William watched all this with great interest, pushed away the waitress who had been sticking to him, and took a small sip of the ale in his glass.

The malt wine is not bad, although it is not as good as vodka, but it is also the best in the ale, I really can't stand the waitress who has been sticking to my side, a silver coin was thrown over, and the other party left satisfied.

These waitresses are not hired by taverns, but women who come here spontaneously, most of them are forced by life, although many are debauched by nature.

As long as a few copper coins can have a night of joy with them, usually this kind of woman under the influence of this kind of environment few people can maintain a simple character, so many people are very disgusted with them.

Disgust is disgust, but they are also often the most well-informed, second only to ** and intelligence mongers.

At this moment, William found that the champion in the ring had not been changed for a long time, and usually this kind of champion was often replaced, after all, after breaking with a few people, there would be a feeling of detachment, and it was difficult to stay forever.

However, the person in front of him broke this common sense, in William's impression, he had already broken with more than a dozen people, and the last one to break with him was a knight, but he still seemed to win without pressure, and won a lot of money.

William couldn't help but be interested, the strong man was a few points taller than William, estimated to be one meter nine, this kind of height in this era is simply a god and a demon, the muscles on his body are very thick, and the knotted green tendons look powerful.

William narrowed his eyes, he was twenty years old this year, and compared to strength, he didn't seem to lose after eighteen, including Norwen Limu.

William walked through the crowd, and the knights of Mendes were at the front, and when he found William, he quickly bowed in shame, more than a dozen knights did not break a civilian who seemed to have no identity, and he lost so much money, it was a lifelong shame, even if this civilian looked very strong.

Seeing that more than a dozen knights were saluting this person, it was obviously a big man they couldn't afford to provoke, and the ruffians who wanted to get angry because of William's cutting in line also felt like they had gotten into the crowd.

William nodded in return, and then said to the strong man: "Seeing that you look strong, why don't you come and break your wrists with me!" ”

The man looked at William's height, which was not much shorter than himself, and hesitated a little, after all, he had broken his wrists with more than a dozen people, even when the beast was exhausted, and now he was not in a good state, and if he broke it again, he might lose!

So he hesitated for a moment, and then refused: "Forget it, I've won enough money, I don't want to win your money anymore!" ”

"Whew!" William smiled contemptuously: "You still want to win my money?" Lend you two hands! See? That's fifty silver coins, and if you win, it's yours! William took the money bag from his waist and shook it, and the sound of silver coins clashing was very pleasant.

William actually has a bit of a collecting penchant, which is a rarity in this era, and of course he has to be put in a pocket.

Everyone present involuntarily drowned a mouthful of spit, fifty silver coins is money that many people can't earn in a lifetime, even these ruffians have to accumulate for more than ten years, many people looked at the money bag in William's hand with red eyes, and wanted to do it.

However, looking at the group of mighty knights around him, he had to dispel this seemingly tempting but deadly idea.

Not only the others, but the strong man couldn't wait to snatch the money bag, just kidding, fifty silver coins, can this be compared with the bets of the previous copper coins? If you don't agree, you're a fool!

William moved the money bag back and said, "Don't worry, my money is not easy to take, if you lose, make me a slave!" ”

"No problem!" The strong man only had this bag of money in his eyes, and he didn't seem to hear what William said, if he knew that the person in front of him earned nearly 100,000 silver coins every year, he wouldn't be crazy!

"That's good!" William smiled, as long as the other party agreed, William was also very confident in himself, and the other party had already broken wrists with more than a dozen people, if he couldn't win, wouldn't it be too much to say.