As William explains, the ceremony will take place over four days, with 20,000 tables of flowing water, theatrical performances, exotic gladiator competitions and naval fleet performances, magical African giraffes and lions, and lively hunting.

Not a day was idle during the whole triumphal ceremony, and if he wanted to participate in all the interesting activities, he only had to prepare a huge stomach, nothing else, all the items were provided by William, and they were free for the nobles and soldiers.

The citizens of Paris were also fortunate to enjoy this benefit, and many poor people who were not invited also ate a lot of wine.

Because the banquets were held in the wilderness, it was impossible to carefully check the identities of the guests, and William and Hubert were also boisterous people, and liked to be surrounded by crowds to eat.

After the dinner, in the midst of the crowd's eyes, Duke Hubert set out on his way home.

According to the custom of the triumphal ceremony in ancient Roman times, unlike the usual guards to open the way, the elephant herd with torches tied to their backs opened the way for Duke Hubert during the triumphal ceremony, which was quite lively.

Interestingly, in ancient Carthaginian, elephant was pronounced Caesar.

On the second day, William also held a grand celebration of the Crown, in which the Duke Hubert showed off their trophies and a very magical animal, the Gascony black pig, while celebrating the victory in quelling the Aquitaine rebellion.

This huge, black hair, black and ugly animal immediately caused frequent sideways glances from the citizens present.

The Gascony Black Pig is a breed that is naturally bred in the Gascony region of southwestern France.

Gascony's black pork is smooth and delicious, and the black pork ham made from it dissolves in the mouth, which is known as a rare delicacy. The French Gascony Black Pig is known as one of the top ten luxury pork in the world, and most of it is made into high-grade ham.

For this kind of regular ingredients, William has also heard of it for a long time, but because of government affairs and war, he has no time to look for it.

Now that it was hard to see this very delicious black pig from Gascony, William wanted to enjoy the taste of this luxury pork.

"Hubert, do you still have this Gascony black pig in stock? I am going to raise these Gascony pigs in a centralized manner for the nobles to enjoy. William suggested to Duke Hubert.

"Your Majesty, these Gascony black pigs were captured by us in the baggage camp of the Gascony rebels, there are more than a hundred in total, except for twenty that were eaten by us, there are still more than eighty Gascony black pigs left, which are still stored in the baggage camp." Hubert replied.

Speaking of the delicacy of Gascony black pig, Duke Hubert also had a good aftertaste and said: "The pork of this Gascony black pig is indeed different from other pork, not only the pig is lubricated and delicious, especially the thick fat on the back, it is more suitable for making black pig ham, which dissolves in the mouth, which is a rare delicacy!" ”

"Since this Gascony black pig can be praised by Lord Hubert, it should be a delicacy in the world." William also smiled and agreed.

As far as William knew, there was a tradition in ancient Rome that had to be observed that those who could afford it built public places at their own expense and gave them to the state. Because according to the logic of ancient Rome, if a person was strong enough to perform a triumphal ceremony, then that person must also be able to build a public place.

William was going to take out 10,000 pounds of silver and gold coins to build a Norman royal library, the Norman Royal Library.

However, when William proposed this idea, Duke Hubert did not agree, saying: "Although I am not the organizer of this triumphal ceremony, I am the protagonist of this triumphal ceremony anyway, and in any case, please allow me to contribute three thousand pounds of silver and gold coins to finance the construction of the royal treasury." ”

The Duke of Hubert was the Duke of Anjou, and his fief was on the banks of the Loire, including the three territories of the Count of Anjou, Tourbeau and Vendée, of which the Count of Anjou and the Vendée were directly governed by the Duke of Hubert, and the Tourbus was canonized to his eldest son Lambert.

In particular, the Counts of Anjou, a feudal state in western Europe, located in the lower reaches of the Loire River in present-day western France, is an important wine region despite its distance from the Atlantic Ocean, but still favored by its maritime climate.

The Loire Valley, where the Anjou country is located, is characterized by a variety of topography, a wide variety of grape varieties and different winemaking methods, which give rise to a wide variety of wines.

The rosé wines produced here are particularly famous, with the Anjou rosé and the Anjou Cabernet being the most popular, with the former being fruity and semi-dry, and the latter being fuller and fuller.

As the Duke of Anjou, Hubert was able to donate 3,000 pounds of silver to build a library of books because of the abundance of red wine in his estate on his estate.

Of course, three thousand pounds of silver was not the limit for the Duke of Hubert, for he also controlled the waterways of the Loire, from which he could extract a portion of the tax on the passage of the waterway. Although a large part of this tax was to be paid to William, more than two-fifths of the waterway toll tax still belonged to Hubert. Hubert relied on the Loire waterway levy and could earn more than 8,000 pounds of silver a year.

Unlike other kingdoms and vassal states, the nobility relied on the right to occupy the territory and other rights, and operated jointly with William, and shared taxes, which was a very common and common phenomenon in the Norman kingdom.

At that time, whether it was the king, the duke, the county and other nobles, they all relied on tax contractors and large contractors to collect the taxes of their territories, and there were very few who could directly establish tax agencies to collect taxes.

But on William's side, it's different.

As early as 1038, when William first took charge of the Duchy of Normandy, he consciously established an extremely advanced tax system and tax system, and directly collected all kinds of taxes from the entire Duchy's territory.

From that time on, it was customary for the Normandy nobility to exchange the various tax privileges in their domains with William, and to cooperate with William's tax authorities, so that they could collect the taxes together and share the profits.

Although it is necessary to pay a third or even more than half of the tax to cooperate with William's tax agency, depending on the situation, it is still very cost-effective to pay it to the tax contractors and aristocratic large contractors.

Handed over to the tax contractors and the big contractors, not to mention whether they have the ability to collect the taxes, even those taxes that are collected, the tax contractors and officials must first swallow most of the taxes, and very few are handed over to the nobles.

William also highly admired this model of cooperating with the aristocracy to collect taxes and distribute profits, because it was equivalent to indirectly recovering part of the nobles' taxes and ruling rights, which was extremely beneficial to improving the royal power and strengthening the centralized rule.