Chapter 21: From the Duke
"What? King Murzid? ”
One day, the Count of Little Tang was inspecting the city to observe the completion of the 'sacraments', and the results were naturally very satisfactory to him: since the implementation of the 'sacraments', the streets have been much cleaner, and no one can be seen defecating in the open anymore. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
I'm so witty.
Count Tang silently praised himself.
"What's going on? Isn't Ireland without a king? And where did this King Murzid come from? ”
"Huh?!" The knight of Alcoba was stunned for a moment, then laughed embarrassedly, touched his helmeted steel head with his hand, and said: "This is the custom of our side, the duke is also called the king, and the independent principalities are not kings!" ”
How can there be such a strange name.
Little Count Tang thought, you call the duke a king, is that really? What about the king? Do you want to call him the Great King? And the emperor, isn't that the king of kings?
Well, that's what they really call it.
Count Xiao Tang was discouraged, but after so long, Count Xiao Tang has deeply realized a truth: never compare names with natives, otherwise you will always lose.
Have you seen sixteen louis? Look at the King of France, oh no, look at the Great King of France.
"Well, what is the matter with this 'king' of Murzid' sending an emissary?"
On the way back, Count Don asked the Knights of Alcoba. Although he and the Duke of Murzid were neighbors, Desmond was so poor that rich neighbors looked down on poor families, and the two families had never had much contact
"I think it's probably here to collect taxes."
Riding on his horse, the knight of Alcobar approached Count Don as close as possible, and whispered that the knight did not want the ordinary people on the street to know the news, otherwise a certain mud-legged man heard that there would be an additional tax increase this year, and it was inevitable that there would be another incident.
"Taxing?" Count Xiao Tang frowned: "We have nothing to do with this Duke of Murzid, why should he tax us?" ”
The knight smiled awkwardly again and said, "That...... Lord Earl, in fact, we really have a relationship with him. ”
Count Don Jr.: "......"
Okay, you hang up and you talk, I want to see what you can pull out today.
"The 'King' of Mulzid is the lord of the Duchy of Munster, and the Duchy of Munster includes three counties, namely Munster, Ormond, and Desmond. So, according to the law, you should actually be a vassal of the 'king' of Murzid. ”
The knight of Alcoba paused after speaking, showing an embarrassed expression, to be honest, the following words are not him, nor should anyone in this world say them, these words will reveal a big secret: "In addition...... The Duke of Murzid is also your 'physical' uncle. ”
The 'body' of the Knights of Alcoba was said lightly and quickly, and now it was the time when the streets were noisy, and the little Count Don missed out as soon as he was distracted, which was really gratifying, gratifying.
"Congratulations to you big-headed ghost!" Earl Tang Xiao said angrily: "What kind of bird thing is this, what is the Duke of Munster and the Earl of Munster, and what is my de jure lord, what a hanging thing!" ”
Count Don, calm down, this is not a bird thing.
For the sake of understanding, you can imagine for yourself, it is probably the relationship between the city and the district, the Duchess of Munster is this city, and the counts are the subdivisions of the city, so the mayor should be the immediate boss of the district heads.
"Calm down, Lord Earl! We can't afford to offend the 'King' of Murzid! When the knight of Alcoba saw Count Don like this, he immediately persuaded: "This 'king' has an army of more than a thousand men! ”
"How many 'armies' are you talking about?"
Little Count Tang was stunned again, he extremely suspected that there was something wrong with his ears, and immediately asked.
"A 'great army' of more than a thousand people!" The knight of Alcoba solemnly repeated word by word, but then he was afraid of frightening Count Tang, so he immediately added: "But Earl, you don't have to worry too much, we can fight seven or eight hundred people if we grit our teeth, and we may not necessarily lose if we really want to fight......"
Hahaha, I'll just say, I must have heard it wrong before, how can there be more than a thousand people under a duke.
But there are really only more than 1,000 people in Nima's beep!
Count Xiao Tang was shocked and shocked, and he was almost knocked out of the game before he came back to his senses. More than 1,000 people, what is this concept? For example, there were more than 40,000 teachers and students in the university that Count Tang attended before he crossed over (not including dogs......
In modern labor-intensive jobs, such as the express delivery industry, there are 400,000 employees in SF......
To be honest, if SF Express is moved to ancient times, people don't need to do any express delivery companies, and they will directly conquer the world to establish the Dashun Dynasty, and at that time it will really be the mission of SF Express.
Believe me, this is definitely not a dream, 400,000 trained, literate, coordinated, and hard-working grassroots organizations, no matter which era is put into the hands of any emperor, that guy will definitely be able to laugh stupidly on the spot.
In addition, in practical terms, more than 1,000 people are nothing! Do you know how many people unite under the banner of Count Don Jr. to 'do the sacraments' every day? Saying it scares you to death!
Therefore, countrymen are rare and strange.
Count Don looked at the knight of Alcobar with extremely pitiful eyes, this knight is good at everything, but his thoughts are still stuck in the previous era, but this can't be blamed on him, he is already in his forties and almost fifty, and there is no way to accept it.
As soon as Count Don despised the knight of Alcobar so much, his mood was inexplicably much better, and he would even return to the castle to look at the envoy from the dukedom, looking at this guy whose smell was no different from that he had just been fished out of, and Count Don was not angry...... Well, I'll be honest, Count Don Jr. was really angry.
"Where did this come from?!"
At that time, although Count Xiao Tang did not speak, his eyes clearly revealed such a message. The surrounding knights have long covered their noses and hid far away - after the double baptism of Count Don and Priest Philip, this group of originally savage fellows have already liked the clean smell, and now let them smell the long-lost, they really can't stand it!
Several signals were given to Priest Philip, but the priest, who was severely lacking in discipline, pretended not to see; Thinking about asking the Alcoba knight to help him again, the guy he beeped turned around and ran!
I had no choice but to pinch my nose by myself.
"You, I don't know what's going on?"
The 'shitman' said, Archduke Mulzid said, you are very bad Earl Don, ah, very inappropriate, you see, the whole of Ireland knows that you are rich and rich this year, so why don't you want to share the blessings? Ah, even if you don't share the blessings, then as a nephew, you must always think about your uncle, why don't you know how to worry about your uncle as a nephew? But it doesn't matter, my uncle knows that you have always been filial, and if you don't think about it this time, you must have forgotten it, so your uncle sent someone to remind you, and it doesn't take much, you eat meat and uncle drink soup, and give a hundred and eighty thousand gold coins.
Count Don Jr. was speechless.
What does it mean to be rich and rich? Now that the crops have just been planted, it will be several months before the harvest, and the peasants will have to subsidize the sacraments themselves by Count Tang, who has been losing money! Give it back a hundred and eighty thousand, why don't you rob it! You can't even grab so much!
So Count Xiao Tang said: "No land, no compensation, no courtiers, no harmony, no tribute, the Son of Heaven guards the country, everyone dies together." ”
Well, there's no need to talk about it.
This person is also simply, as soon as he saw that the conditions could not be negotiated, he just turned his head and left, the subtext was 'you call me quickly, you call me quickly', Count Xiao Tang sneered behind his back, who are you scaring about? Whoever shouts you to turn back is your grandson.
But......
"Your envoy stays!" Count Tang jumped up from the ground, this time he didn't care about the smell of all over his body, and even his name changed from '' to 'messenger', and he chased after the messenger in three steps and two steps, grabbed a piece of grass behind him and asked, "Dare to ask your envoy, where did this grass come from?" ”
“…… You're so funny about me! The envoy didn't speak, but his sad and indignant expression undoubtedly showed his attitude, what do you say is going on with this little Earl Tang?! If you don't want to give money, forget it, and after a fight, you will be honest yourself, and you have to give the money while crying and kneeling, but now you hold on to it and ask what is going on with a piece of grass!
But Little Count Tang doesn't care, with this grass, let alone crying and kneeling and pretending to be a grandson, even if it is not a problem to pretend to be a son, as long as there is this grass, Nima will pretend to be a grandson with you today, and tomorrow you will always kneel in front of me and call me grandpa!
Just because of this grass, its nickname is the king of grass!