Chapter 178: Raid Plan
"He's good, but I still don't believe in him, and if I can, I'd like to have another Count and Count Denlenburg to act together!"
Queen Dareen still stood by his opinion. ★ New 'thinking' road 'Chinese 'literature' network ★
At that moment, a guard outside the door knocked on the door of the study.
Although the conversation was disturbed, the king and queen did not show an angry gesture, knowing that no one would dare to disturb them without important matters.
"Come in!" The king said loudly.
One of the guards pushed open the door and stood in the doorway.
"A messenger claiming to be Baron William, to whom the Earl of Denlenburg belongs, has come outside the palace with a letter from Baron William!"
"Baron William of Denlenburg?" The king understood immediately, nodded and said, "Very well, bring him to me!" ”
"Look, I don't know what this Baron William is writing to me for!"
Before the messenger could enter, the king and queen began to chat.
Half an hour later, the messenger finally passed through the tedious and luxurious corridors of the palace, passed through several gardens, and reached the outside of the king's study.
"Your Majesty, the man who claims to be the messenger of Baron William has arrived!" The guard knocked on the door and spoke loudly so that the people in the study could hear clearly.
"Come in!"
The guard pushed the door open, saluted, and quickly withdrew.
"You are Baron William's messenger?" King Brolin asked curiously.
Only then did the messenger sent by William react, and a clever one hurriedly said with trembling: "Yes, Your Majesty, I am the messenger sent by Baron William, and this is my credential!" ”
As he spoke, he handed over the document in his hand, and a maid stepped forward to take it and handed it to the king.
The king glanced at the pattern, and then at the messenger, who looked dusty, and was wearing a chain mail that was already stained with a lot of dust, and it was a heavy cavalry veteran.
Looking at the pattern on it, he put it down again, glanced at the excellent equipment on his body, nodded, and said, "I believe in you!" ”
There are not three hundred but two hundred barons in the entire kingdom of Tskema, and although they are not all under the rule of the king, their coats of arms are generally included.
There are so many coats of arms that the king certainly can't remember every one of them, and these coats of arms will be recorded on a bestiary for the royal family's reference.
Of course, William, as a baron who had a direct encounter with the king and made a deep impression on the king, was of course remembered for his coat of arms in the past.
So the king confirmed the identity of the messenger by simply glancing at the coat of arms on the document.
"Your Majesty the King!" As he spoke, the messenger handed the maid a small cylinder that he was carrying behind him.
"This is a letter from our Lord Baron to you, he only said that I must hand it over to Your Majesty, as for the contents of it, I don't know!"
"Hmm!" King Brolin casually agreed, and after confirming that the wax at the seal of the cylinder had not been opened, he nodded and opened the cylinder.
He took out the parchment inside and began to read the words on it, and as he read it, King Brolin was clearly in a good mood and had a smile on his face.
He handed the parchment to Queen Dai Lin, and said with a smile: "Baron William has another business to do, he hopes to be able to spread out business in the royal domain, in exchange for us not to levy checkpoint tax, in return, he gave us 20% of the income as a share!" ”
"According to him, his honey business can earn 12,000 silver coins a month, and 2,400 silver coins a month, which is more profitable than the vodka business he gave us!"
King Brolin's eyes narrowed when he said this, and he was very happy that such a benefit would bring him some help.
"Alright, you go out first, and tell Baron William that I agreed to his request!"
After the messenger went out, Brolin said happily to Queen Dareen: "Look, this William has given us another box of surprises, two thousand four hundred silver coins a month, and the annual income of our entire kingdom is only four hundred thousand silver coins, which can relieve us of a lot of burden!" ”
"Even if they fail, these shares will make up for our losses, in short, I believe in this Baron William, he will definitely be able to help the Count of Loire to complete this task!"
At this time, the messenger sent by the king had already arrived in Denlenburg and was received by the count.
Looking at the letter in his hand, the Count knocked on the table, this messenger was not just an ordinary messenger, but a close minister of the king's side, and also had the title of baron, although only a court baron without a territory.
"So we're going to continue attacking this well-defended city after suffering so much damage?"
The count's face was not very good, even though he was a die-hard supporter of the king, but he did not want himself and his vassals to continue fighting after a brutal war.
"I'm sorry, Lord Count, this is the case, this is an order from His Majesty, but don't worry, after you contribute to this city, His Majesty will be exempt from all taxes in the Denlenburg region, including the expensive war tax!"
"At the same time, the iron ore in the king's hands will send 1,000 kilograms of iron to the Denlenburg region every year, which is one-thirtieth of the output of the entire kingdom, and there will be no shortage of iron in the Denlenburg region at that time!"
After the baron finished speaking, the earl's face was much better, these two prices made the earl very satisfied, although the earl was a diehard supporter of the king, but he also needed some benefits, and he also had to think about himself and his family.
Although he had no heirs, not even direct relatives, but there were still a few relatives in the end, and after his death, the Earl of Denlenburg was estimated to have appeared among those few people, and since the Earl's health deteriorated at the Battle of Lomi Valley, he promoted these relatives, hoping that one of them would inherit the successor of his title.
"Very well, I will do my best to complete the task assigned to me by His Majesty in the past, please go back and tell His Majesty the King!"
After sending the king's envoys, the count gathered all the nobles and arrived at Denlenburg and began to announce the task given to him by the king.
"His Majesty means that he hopes that we can quietly pass through the territory of the Sicekels to take the kingdom of Ryborne in Lauchlinburg in Sekes!"
"Because we have reached a peace agreement with the Chekels, and there are some trade contacts during this time, it is up to William to settle this aspect!" The Count looked at William, who was the only one here who had a good relationship with the Checkels.
"Laughlinburg is located in the basin, it is the largest grain producing area in the kingdom of Ruiborn, and the church also occupies more than fifty percent of the land here, and the income is quite huge, and Laughlinburg has also become very prosperous because of the production of grain, so there are all kinds of merchants in the city, and the citizens are relatively rich!"
"Therefore, His Majesty wants us to be able to capture this place, occupy the entire basin, and then use this basin in exchange for some price to make the church and the kingdom of Ribborn give up their support for Duke Bunkerson!"
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