The grand banquet with a wide variety of exquisite delicacies was held as scheduled, and all the nobles who received the invitation, squeezed out a little entanglement between their teeth, and rushed to Herusbeck Castle.

In fact, the nobles were very happy to be invited to the banquet by me, as I said before, in this era, everyone believes in the concept of beggar-thy-neighbor survival, regardless of whether that person is related to their blood relatives or not, and there are only two choices in the face of the race for survival: life or death.

If the neighboring lord is strong, he will clamp his tail and be a man, carefully protect his territory, and dare not be careless for a moment.

If the neighboring lord is strong or simply a soft egg, then these seemingly polite nobles will calculate the land and population of their neighbors day and night, and have a good appetite to devour them, and it would be better if they could still abduct his wife and daughter to their own bed to play.

Due to my strong intervention and rise in the Rhineland, the surrounding nobles have already seen how powerful the Count of Nijmegen is with the support of strong financial resources, not to mention that there are still the Emperor and the Pope standing behind, two god-level bosses, so most people can be well-behaved and pretend to be kittens, wagging their tails at me cutely and begging for mercy, for fear that they will become the appetizer of this unconventional new earl, until the Duel of Robert Knight.

As the lords of all sizes who belong to the same aristocratic class, they are very disgusted by my overly arrogant and unreasonable, and the behavior of breaking the rules of the game, or it can be said that they are angry, but whoever has the big fist has the right to speak, and the law of the jungle is especially respected in the cruel and bloodthirsty Middle Ages.

Most people wisely chose to remain silent, put on the disguise of hypocrisy and flattery, and came to the feast held at Herusbeck Castle, because the banquet not only had something they had never seen before, and all kinds of delicacies from the mountains and seas could be feasted upon, but it was also a good opportunity to exchange information in private, and to connect in series, so as to save their own retainers from secretly joining forces, since they blindly worshiped their own strength, and the stupid earl was so generous, then the nobles had no choice but to obey their fate.

"My lord, I don't understand why you are doing this, it is a waste of food and exposing the defense of the castle, every nobleman who attends the banquet is allowed to visit the castle, which will put itself in danger, in case the nobles start a rebellion, we are like dancers stripped naked, there is no room to fight back except sobbing."

The bull stood behind me, his right hand never left the long sword hanging from his waist, the newly made French robe he was wearing made him very uncomfortable, he always subconsciously kept rolling up his sleeves on his arm during the banquet, and his words bluntly refused the secret send-off of several heroic aristocratic girls, and the ale in front of him did not move all day long, and nervously stretched himself into a constricted spring, just as he also did not like his new name on official occasions, Baron Pluto Booth, He saw the surname as a sanctimonious disguise, a tool for the nobles to bluff.

"Look at the scene of the staggered banquet in front of you, how many people are clowns who secretly harbor ghosts, come to listen to the truth of the castle with the purpose of participating in the banquet, and exchange their own information with acquaintances who are also not kind, maybe the other party was still an enemy who was adjacent to him yesterday and fought with his head and blood, but today he called his brother and brother hugging each other to pull the relationship, and under the mask is a cruel face with grinding teeth and sucking blood."

I turned the glass wine glass given to me by the merchants in my hand, and the pale yellow malt wine contained in it was like a flowing ball of gold, reflecting the subtle and brilliant brilliance in the shaking of the hand, like the strange time and space in the eyes of a drunkard.

"After this period of forced development and operation, Hrushbeck is now the emerging commercial center of this area, and almost all the merchants of the Low Countries will first stand here to inquire about the latest business news, and then transfer them to all parts of Germany, so these nobles who have been slowly raised by me will definitely buy more or less things to go back, to supplement their dilapidated castles, or to pass the long night with wine, and my merchants will gradually go deep into every noble territory with them, Report to me every move they make, and this war is doomed from the beginning. ”

"Would a businessman be so obedient and willing to be a spy? My lord, I don't think those Jews covered in patina can be honest at all, others don't know, our agent, the old liar Isaac, has recently been swindling around the German principalities with your funds, and maybe the same obscene merchants as him will act as double spies for the sake of profit, betraying information to our enemies, please think twice. ”

The bull approached me uneasily, his eyes scanning the aristocrats who were clinking glasses as loudly as they were in the vegetable market, as if everyone were terrible spies.

"Why don't we take advantage of everyone's presence and catch the thieves behind closed doors?" As he spoke, he asked me with a covert killing gesture.

I looked at the two big-shouldered and round-waisted nobles who were competing in the open space of the hall, in the medieval banquet, not every lord was a vassal and elegant rich man, compared to the bards with high prices, and the circus troupe that was difficult to invite, the main entertainment at the aristocratic banquet was to hug a plump woman who had been hunted for beauty, looking for a place to have fun, or two strong men and ugly men who couldn't find a girl and had nowhere to vent their excess energy, holding weapons and ping pong. In the beastly roar of the boring crowd around him, he vomited blood and begged for mercy before stopping.

is similar to the drunkard who would rather have stomach bleeding than fight for wine at the wine table now, and he has to fight for such a dishonorable career.

"The merchants may not all be sincere to help us, I thought of this at the beginning, but their caravan has long been mixed with our people, it may be the lame farmer who helped him drive the carriage, it may be the honest apprentice who can't even count the numbers, or it may be last night, he just Yunyu Wushan fat *** Who knows which one is the nightingale caught in my hand, Kohler's specific list of this kid didn't even tell me, all closed and mysterious as the leader of the behind-the-scenes forces."

I looked at Kohler, who was wrestling his wrists with a bearded man with deep scars on his face not far away, he was slightly stunned when he saw my attention, and the other party seized the opportunity and almost pressed his hand on the table, the crowd let out a burst of exclamations, fortunately he gritted his teeth and stalemate, and then slowly forced the other party into a corner, and finally shouted victory.

Some of the onlookers cheered, some scolded, and the loser reluctantly took out copper coins and paid them to the person who won the bet, so angry that he had to vent on the full cup of ale, scolding why Lady Luck did not favor him today.

"He? Kohler made birdcages now? ”

The bull put down the cup that was about to be raised to his lips and said something in surprise.

A spy hidden in the shadows among the people is an unsightly errand. Almost all the nobles have a group of spies of varying numbers who carry out all kinds of dirty deeds behind their backs, but they will never admit that they have these invisible people who are recognized by the mainstream as Satanists, otherwise it is a blatant betrayal of God, and will be declared heretic by the Holy See and abandoned by everyone, and those who control the dense network of nightingales are called birdcages.

The birds seem to live freely in it, but they can't always fly out of the palm of his hand, and can only fly in the restrained space.

"Hmm!"

I quietly stared at the bull who was staring at Kohler, and suddenly gave me a strange idea from his eyes, but its evil direction forced me to give up the idea of continuing to dig deeper.

Power, power, why do all those who have tasted your wonderful taste want to stop working hard, even if they are in front of their closest comrades-in-arms, they will draw an insurmountable gap in their hearts because of you.

"When enough territories are annexed, and the output can support a considerable number of cavalry, I am ready to start expanding the number of cavalry, from the current thirty to a hundred or more, and then you will be the commander of the cavalry, and without my orders, you can transfer a third of them at will, and among the people under my command, you are the only one who can do such an important job."

I took a sip of the sweet and sour ale, but the taste was so bitter and hard to swallow at the moment, I never thought that no matter how simple human nature was, there would be a day when I would be blackened by this filthy world.

Although the bull did not clearly show his jealousy of Kohler, the inexplicable dissociation in his dodgy eyes said it all, greed is indeed the deadliest plague spread by Satan to the world.

I don't know when the banquet ended, but the noise in the hall and the violent clash of flesh in the depths of the corridor, the symphony generally came and went, and did not stop until the second half of the night, and the next morning the castle was full of attendants who were jumping around looking for their masters, and there were far fewer maids who should have gone out to work long ago.

The lords of the distant road invited the merchants who were stopping in Herusbeck to set out with them, so that they could not only take care of each other, but also meet the food and clothing along the way, and the lords who were relatively close to them seized the time to take their families and wander around the markets that had not yet been built, and bargained with the vendors who sold their goods regardless of their status.

I sent cavalry to patrol back and forth, to deter those nobles who intend to bully the market and kill people and goods, not to mess around, you must know that the brain nerves of this group of rough people, like the long swords on their waists, are not flexible, and it is very common to rob them if they can't get them.

On the fifteenth day after the feast, the fourth day before Pentecost, our spies, who were doing business in Brabant, sent back the news through carrier pigeons that the Robert Knights, in his family, had united with several close relatives and decided to launch a lord's private war against us, numbering as many as five hundred, and having ten knights, who should have been on the road for five days, judging by the flight time of the carrier pigeons.

It stands to reason that there is no possibility of war between two lords who are so far away, and difficult supplies and unfriendly noble castles along the way will kill them, so everyone is generally more inclined to reach a settlement through church-led negotiations, but since the enemy can gather forces so quickly and blatantly, and attack from afar, it shows that they have communicated and understood with some people before departure, or some kind of alliance that does not necessarily have a written contract, and the purpose is very simple, It is to divide up my territory and my treasury.

The so-called revenge for the family and the maintenance of the glory of the knights are all high-sounding excuses, and the plundering of Chiluoluo is the key to the rare unity of these nobles who are tearing each other apart behind their backs.

"Send a message to all the nightingales and tell them to spread the news through covert means, and be sure to exaggerate the enemy's strength so that the fools who are about to make a move will not be able to resist jumping out on their own."

I instructed Kohler, who was smiling lightly at the corners of his mouth, who was now completely absorbed in the game of the Dark Lord, and the bull stared at me intently, as if he had heard nothing, and did not ask me why he did so, as he usually did, I turned to him and said, word for word, "Look at it!" That's what makes it all available! ”