Chapter 394: The Northland Lan Family
The advantage of choosing a remote manor with a single courtyard is that you can build a large estate at will without being complained by neighbors to disturb the people in the middle of the night...... Ahem, I mean that a little bit of military facilities and military training can go unnoticed.
According to the agreement between me and Oros, in order to participate in the next events, I do have to integrate the forces of my subordinates, and the military general sounds very cool, but it is actually another way of saying the commander of the light pole.
And for the sake of high-intensity operations in the future, coupled with the increasingly troublesome current situation, it is indeed time to reorganize the combat power of the "Lan" character banner under the opponent.
Well, Lanzi Banner, it's Roland. Lan's Lan is not the Donglan royal family where Renee belongs, but my Roland's private power, or family.
If we put our allies together, the combat power is already quite objective, but many of them belong to a certain country or alliance, but there are not so many that can be completely attributed to my personal name.
It includes the Seven Original Sins (Elder Sister Adultery. Sleeping, arrogant, disobedient, lazy and unborn), my Crimson Hound (many of whom are in Donglan, most of them are still messing around in the underworld), and then there are a series of retainers-like deposits, such as personal advisors Dimiret and Olivia and their gang of engineers and alchemists, the Chamber of Commerce that Eliza left as a gift, the Grand Druid Storm Eagle and the dark elves Diana, Yawen, Momo, Victoria, well, and "wait".
“…… Why I'll wait. Some kind of half-dragon man grumbled.
“…… It's not that you've been more and more associated with the word harmony lately, and sooner or later, you'll be able to summon the light of harmony with just your name. ”
With my identity as the god of the law and my relationship with the past, I can indeed mobilize the law professions such as Snowhoof and Lilith. But strictly speaking. They are not under my control. Their allegiance is to the Church of the Law, and as enforcers and judges, they are indeed expected to remain neutral.
And as the last descendant of my Lan, I can indeed order the transfer of the Aurora Knight of Donglan and the Royal Knight of Sluwell, but strictly speaking, before the allegiance sequence of these warriors, there are also the two lords of Renee and Grena, and I am not suitable for frequent and direct transfer of them.
In fact, before each transfer. I will ask Renee and Grina to lead the team in person, which is not only an experience for the young kings, but also a kind of respect for the royal power.
Of course, with the establishment of the Lan Alliance, as a core member of the Lan Alliance, there will be more and more invisible forces under my command, but the direct combat power of my subordinates may decrease.
There are few people under my command on weekdays, and if I want to start a war or deal with a war, I can only rely on my personal appeal, which is not my personal situation, but a common problem of this era.
Even if you don't want to admit it. But in fact, the human base of Ash's world is still nobles and knights, and the harsh environment has allowed weak humans to learn to huddle together to keep warm. The nobility ruled over the people of the territory and also had the duty to protect the people, and countless lords were formed into a kingdom or empire by owing allegiance to the royal power.
Of course, there are also parliamentary and republican countries, but they are either small in size, such as one city and one country, or they have special circumstances, such as theocratic unity and mixed nationalities, but the mainstream is always the feudal feudal lord system, that is, the landlords and squires who were regarded as reactionaries in the old days.
I did not try to make a bourgeois or proletarian revolution as the time-travelers often appear in novels, because such a social system and concepts are in line with the current social reality, and forcibly implementing an "advanced" system that does not conform to reality will only let the wheels of history roll over me.
The weak serve the strong, the strong protect the weak, when the severe living conditions require such direct rules of survival, the aristocratic class that has mastered the power will naturally always exist, and the original nobles will also become nobles or lords after gaining power.
And in the current era of feudal kingship, even if the king of a country is often only the largest lord of the country, his power comes more from authority, in fact, he is directly subordinate to only his family's territory and knights loyal to this family, well, it is a royal knight, in most cases, a royal knight is a personal knight loyal to the royal family, but since the royal family is the master of the country, there is no difference between loyalty to the country.
Well, having said so much, it has probably been seen that the countries of this world and the modern countries of the earth are completely two different concepts, in a sense, the countries of the Ash world are composed of countless "families", and the allegiance of the knights is often directed at that family, not the so-called country, and it can even be said that it has not formed a pure concept of a country.
And the composition of this "family" does not rely solely on blood, common ideals or common goals are also possible, once in order to resist the tyranny and genocide of the Raf Empire, countless races and people hid and moved in the Glitter Mountains, and when they really drove out the empire, a family with the emblem of "White Eagle" became the master of that mountain range, and the descendants of those remnants became a new race, the Tin Flames, and the descendants of the era of allegiance to the Eagle.
Completely different, however, is the Faran family, a group of scholars who study ancient arcane and astronomy, who have studied as a team under a genius named Faran, and after a long time, they have intermarried with each other, but they have become a legendary family of astrological archmages who have appeared for generations.
The state is the union of families, the local knights are loyal to the local lord, the local lord is loyal to the royal family, all the idle knights are loyal to the royal family, and the destruction of a country is often the death of the royal family of which country, so sometimes the heir is more dangerous than the invasion of foreign enemies.
Therefore, I can say that before I was wiped out, the land of Arashi did not perish, and the loyal royal knights and warriors of the country of Arashi have now followed me as necromancers, so in the popular opinion, is our Northland Lan family not perished?
"Well, I really don't know? Why don't you ask Cavins? ”
In a sense, there is really no precedent for the two of us, and there is really no precedent for this dead and alive person who has gone to hell.
But Renee's Donglan royal Lan family, and Sluwell's royal family, can only be regarded as a tributary of our original Northland Lan family. This is what their founders admitted when they raised the flag.
If I directly admit that Renee and Grena are members of the Northland Lan family. I'm afraid they will have to be placed under me. Not only as the original owner of this land, but it will be embarrassing to get along with the two princesses in the future, and if I don't do it, it will also lead to a war about orthodoxy among future generations, which is obviously something I don't expect.
And no matter what happened before, now I'm Roland. Lan's identity walking in the world can naturally be seen as the survival of the Northland Lan family, at least it can be seen as the revival of the Northland Lan family.
Best: They have complained to me privately a few times, and they expect me to be able to re-establish the banner of the Lan family. Even if the country is destroyed, they hope to be able to bring up the battle flag of Lan in a dignified manner and revive the Lan family in the north.
On the other hand, this is indeed necessary after the establishment of the Lanmeng, and I expected that the Lanmeng would be a parliamentary alliance of states, but it must be the royal families of various countries that can qualify as members, and I am obviously not justified in participating in it in my private name.
Well, to be honest, the most unbearable for me. I really didn't expect these old skeletons and zombies to be so gossip and boring, and they could actually force me to get married.
"Your Highness. You are more than 300 years old, and the old king next door has five generations of grandchildren, you are still an old bachelor, and the old man is ashamed of the teachings of the previous king! ”
“…… Who is the old bachelor! Do I have a woman who has a hairy relationship with my dad? I already have a girlfriend! Eliza, the Demon Lord, the Marquis of the Sea of Fire, super powerful, are you afraid! ”
“…… What about demigods and demon lords? The Lan family wants a hostess instead of a thug, even if it is a demon marquis, he can't give birth, I'm afraid of a hair. Your Highness, you have to think about it, if you hang up, who are we old fellows loyal to? The Lan family has been inherited for more than 2,000 years, and it can't be broken in the hands of our generation. Miss Eliza can indeed be a lover, but the Lan family needs a mistress who can give birth to offspring. ”
I was still very annoyed that I was forced to marry in person, but in a sense, Sir Ferdinand, who had been loyal to the Lan family for generations and was my elder, could indeed play the role of my father, and I couldn't even get angry if I was angry.
But if that's all, I'm still okay with it, and I didn't have many living people under my command before, but in this life, with the addition of Dimiret and them, there are more and more living people under my hands, and some things are getting troublesome.
"Your Highness, even the long-term mercenaries under the big merchants are also loyal to the merchant family, and there are more and more people under your command, even if you don't care about yourself, but you have to think about them. At least there is a place to pay the pension after the sacrifice, and the family can arrange the pension when the old man is old, which is worry-free. ”
"Yes, Your Highness, you should at least think about your subordinates, and at least give them a chance to become nobles. Those strong people don't care about this, don't those grassroots fighters and teenagers care? Even those dark elves also want a stable family. ”
It was only since we returned to the Northlands, when we were able to walk in the sun, that these knights kept chattering in my ear.
I can understand their feelings, returning to their homeland but no one is the same, hoping that the Lan family can be revived, hoping that the family that I am loyal to can be passed on, and in the end, someone's words made me make up my mind to rebuild the Lan family.
"Actually, I think Her Royal Highness Renee is very good as the future mistress of the Lan family, and it is completely okay to separate the family and return to the family. Even the palace can use the original one, it is simply perfect. ”
Ahem, it's not this, this bastard was thrown down the window on the third floor by me, and it was found out later that he actually took Renee's benefits! Then I fined Renee another thousand for swinging my sword.
"Your Highness, even if it is for our sake, with the Lan family, we can all go and accept a righteous son, inherit martial arts and honor, so that our family will not be cut off, and our family will also have the meaning of inheritance!"
As far as the eye can see, the soul fire is full of anticipation not one or two undead knights, but all the dead knights.
Being able to be accepted by the living, being able to inherit their family with their righteous sons, is a beautiful dream that the royal knights of Arashi no Kuni never dared to dream of, and now they are only one step away from their dreams, how can these royal knights who value honor and inheritance endure it.
"You go to collect the righteous son and rebuild the family, and I don't affect it."
"Your Highness, to whom does the nascent family owe allegiance? To whose descendants will our righteous sons and their descendants be loyal allegiously? ”
Well, in a sense, this is that the state officials do not set fires, and the people do not dare to light the lights...... Something seems to be wrong there.
Even if it was just for the sake of the knights who had been following me loyally for so long, it was necessary to rebuild the Lan family, anyway, it was just a change of name or something, and it wouldn't affect me to do my own thing, so I finally agreed.
But not to mention, just by announcing the news, the motivation of both the living and the dead has increased by at least 50 percent...... I also have to sigh that this is really still a feudal society, and traditional concepts are indeed deep-rooted.
"It seems that common ideals are important, but it does require a long-term meal ticket for material security......"
And at this time, in order to start the big . Trouble, the power I summoned is all that the newborn Lan family has. (To be continued......)