Although Arold was more wary of the power of the nobles, he also understood that the nobles were very strong in terms of wealth and military strength, and if they could add a restriction on their use, it could also become a big help for Mecklenburg, so he came up with a way to refund the fee, as long as the nobles served in the military when Arold needed, then they could get half of the refund, and when the war was over, the nobles could get the other half of the refund, which ensured that the nobles served for Arrod, which can be said to be a disguised guarantee.

Why did Arrod go to such great lengths, it was because the heavy cavalry of 100 people, the cavalry selected could only be strong and strong, and accepted the so-called noble honor spirit like brainwashing since childhood, which made the noble children indeed more tenacious than ordinary soldiers when fighting, and the contempt for ordinary soldiers from the bones became the source of their strength.

The Bo Ge family's ranch is in a river valley area in Mason, they provide other nobles with high-quality war horses and other horses, which is the way the family survives, but war horses are usually expensive and the wealthy aristocratic families prefer to breed and breed themselves, so the Bo Ge family's wealth is not very much, so they can only turn part of the river valley into fertile land and hand it over to tenant farmers to rent and plant, and a babbling stream flows through the center of the river valley, providing rich water and soil fertility for the land in the river valley. The Borg's manor house is located here, with walls made of sturdy but jumbled stones, pointed roofs, and an observation deck, which can provide basic defenses for the estate, but at most only a few thieves should it be invaded by a large army. The Bogo family would then move to Fort Mason, where the castle would provide shelter for the nobles of the realm.

On the periphery of the main building is a fence made of wood, which was built to prevent the horses in the manor from getting lost, and the stables of the Bogo family are on one side of the main house, as a family mainly domesticated horses, war horses are their important family property, just like other families, livestock and people live under the same roof, strangely theft was very common in Europa in the Middle Ages, perhaps because of the lack of resources.

"It's about to rain and Steve directs the servants to lead the horses back to the stables. Hurry up. Don't grind. Benjamin Sr., the father of Steve, the patriarch of the Bogo family, said like a hard-working old butler, but a dark cloud did appear in the sky.

"Okay." Steve clapped his hands, he was just fiddling with vegetables from a plot of land in the estate. Hands covered in mud. He tossed his Germanic robe aside. Revealing his undershirt and trousers, and now hearing his father's words, Steve draped his robe over his body. The sword leaning against the fence was hung on his waist, and then the servant led a brown steed over, and Steve jumped on the steed with agility and kicked the horse in the belly with his heel, and the horse galloped away in the valley to gather the free-range horses together, and then found the strongest head horse, and when the head horse was led to the stable, the horses would follow behind, although the water and grass in the valley were abundant, but in order to raise a war horse that could support the heavily armored cavalry, it was necessary to feed more protein oats or wheat, Only in this way can a really good horse be bred, and therefore the war horse is a very expensive strategic material.

"The Duke is going to take away a few of our good horses again, and this is the good season for horses to mate, which is really unlucky." When Steve drove the horses into the stables and just stepped into his family house, it was pouring rain in the sky, and although the roof was covered with thick thatch, there were still a few drops of rain seeping down the cracks, Steve couldn't help but complain.

"The palace can use the war horses of my Boge family, this is the glory of our family." However, Benjamin Sr. didn't care, he thought that if he could serve the Duke's family, then one day his family would be taken seriously, and it was not impossible for him to soar, and Benjamin Sr. even hoped that he could add a German word to the center of the family's name in his lifetime.

"Glory, glory, we are all going bankrupt, but the Duke has not given us anything at all, and we will not even be able to afford oats if we continue like this, so how can we raise good horses?" Steve sat on the wooden chair angrily, and the money that the court took away the Bo family's war horses was all on credit, which made the Bo Ge family's use nervous.

"Don't talk about it, let's go to Fort Mason tomorrow and find the palace minister, Lord Wendell." Old Benjamin thought for a while and said to his powerful eldest son, even if the nobles have no money, they are a worm, the merchants will not give them too much credit, and the Bo Ge family already owes a lot of foreign debts to repay, they are not big nobles who own a principality, there is nothing to mortgage.

"That's all I can do, but when I took my horses to the market in Mason town, I heard a lot of rumors." Steve picked up a shriveled apple from the wooden table, put it in his mouth and chewed it, his brow furrowed, but he had long been familiar with the hard life and ate it in three or two.

"Oh, what rumors?" Old Benjamin asked curiously.

"The war in Northern Europe." Steve said with a slight smile that there were not many opportunities to show off in front of his father.

"I know, didn't the Duke win, God forbid the victory, otherwise those terrible northerners would have killed them." Old Benjamin made a cross on his chest, the horror of the Vikings he had seen as a child, the Viking warriors who raged along the river, ransacked and burned villages and towns, and only survived by hiding in fortified castles.

"Yes, but it is said that Lord Abel was cowardly and unscrupulous in the battle, and the nobles almost lost the battle under his command, but thanks to the timely rescue of the Count of Mecklenburg, the battle was saved." Steve said to his father.

"Duke Abel is too young to lose a battle or twice, but what I care about is behind this rumor." Old Benjamin is an old man, even if Duke Abel loses once or twice, it will not affect the prestige of the duke, but the rumors in the duchy are fatal. This is clearly provoking the previous relationship between the Herman family and the Wendell family, simple but very vicious.

"My father, you mean that someone is manipulating rumors behind their backs." Hearing this, Steve couldn't help but get serious, and he thought carefully about the rumor that this time was indeed very strange, and soon after Duke Abel returned to Fort Mason, the rumor suddenly spread.

"It seems that the struggle within Mason's court will become more and more intense." Old Benjamin sat in his wooden chair, his sparse silver hair hanging down his cheeks, his cloudy eyes with a hint of shrewdness, and he rested his hands on the armrests like chicken feet, leaning back slightly.

"So who should we turn to?" Steve cautiously asked his father.

"Nope. Now is not the time. Let's wait, Baron Valk is a precedent, standing on the wrong side will lead to the demise of the Zhì family. Old Benjamin waved his hand to his eldest son and said, Baron Valc stood firmly on the side of Count Lauz. An alliance against Duke Abel and the Wendell family. But it turned out to be a complete failure. Not to mention the death of his own son, the confiscation of the family property in Mason, and the poor Baron Vark was exiled alone. Even his patron, Count Lausitz, did not help him, and it is said that he fled to other principalities, who would have thought that the courtiers who were once at the heart of the court would end up so miserable.

"Well, actually, I think I should follow the Wendell family." Steve agrees with his father's decision, but he feels that under the banner of Duke Ebel, the Bogo family has no future for development, and only by following the emerging power Bogo family will have more room for development.

"I understand that Baron Wendell has a good son, but I have seen too many new families rise and fall, and they are like shooting stars on a midsummer night, and only those old families that have stood the test of time rely on, such as the Hermans." Old Benjamin is the patriarch of the Bogo family, he must plan for his family's 100-year plan, if the whole family is staked for the sake of temporary interests, then the Boge family will have disappeared in the long river of history.

"Choose your companions and friends carefully." Steve silently recited his family's motto, which every man in the Bogo family should remember in adulthood, passed down by word of mouth from generation to generation.

As Bogo's father and son said, rumors spread across Mason's land, and Arold's Brotherhood of Blood Drops certainly did not ignore it, in a low-slumped wooden house, with a candle lit on a wooden table in the center of the room, and four cloaked men sat around a wooden table in a dark, damp room, and the other three looked at the gray cloaked man sitting with their backs to the doorway.

"Lord Harvey, Colonel John Berg was very angry that he was killed, and he was sure that this incident was related to Count Lautzitz, and asked why our spy network did not give warning."

"I know, I'll explain this to Arrod, but have you traced the recent inflow of funds from Count Lauzitz?" Wearing the gray cloak is none other than Harvey, Arold's spy leader, and the other members are mid-ranking members of the Blooddrop Brotherhood.

"I don't know what's going on lately, Mason's Assassin Guild is against us everywhere, three low-ranking members have disappeared this month, and we have no way to track down Count Lauzitz's people, we suspect that this is related to the Assassin Guild." The Blooddrops grumbled to Harvey.

"Don't make excuses, are you all itching? Still want his family to be expelled from Mecklenburg, in any case we have to trace the source of the funds of Count Lauzitz. Harvey slammed his fist against the wooden table and scolded his men.

"Yes." The blood droplets hurriedly lowered their heads, but one of them spoke.

"Lord Harvey, it's not a way for us to track down like this, why don't we build Lord Yì and assassinate Count Lautz directly."

"Of course I know that killing Count Lautzitz is the best way, but Count Lauzitz has always been in seclusion, we have no chance at all, and there is an assassin guild against us, there is no way to complete the assassination operation with you alone, if you don't succeed but are caught by Count Lauzitz, then wouldn't it make Arold very passive, and the crime of assassinating the Count is not light." Harvey shook his head, it was really unwise to assassinate Count Rauzitz without complete certainty, after all, Count Lauzitz was a side branch of the ancient Herman family, and if he angered the other members of the Herman family, even Duke Abel would not have good fruit to eat.

"Well, if Count Rauzitz's funds come from an enemy country, then there is an excuse to expel Count Lauzitz, and we will arrange someone to track it down, but Lord Harvey's Mason's Assassins' Guild still needs you to negotiate."

"Yes, I'll go." Harvey nodded, he had not received any valuable information from Lady Yolanda lately, Count Lauzitz had more resources than she could use when he had plenty of money, and he could only make a difference by cutting off the source of funds, and he couldn't buy nobles, villains, and assassins without funds. (To be continued......)