Under the envious and eager gaze of the civilians, the carriage drove through the city gate towards the city lord's mansion.

This is the European Middle Ages, and the castle lord's mansion sounds like a mansion, but it is actually a castle in the middle of the city, or hidden in the center of the city.

The whole Black Iron City, from the appearance of a hollow-shaped city, outside the city is farmland and mills, the outer city is inhabited by civilians, and the inner city is the Earl's Castle, the three are separated.

Without saying a word all the way, under the escort of thirty court knights, Wang Xu came to his castle.

The castle is very large, and the last owner of the castle was the famous Marquis of Wolfheart,

It's just that this guy is unlucky, in the battle for the crown prince thirty years ago, he stood on the opposite side of the current king, and as a result, after the current king ascended the throne, he demoted him from a marquis to a viscount under the pretext of disrespecting the king's order, and sent him to the cold Porsi plain.

Since then, Black Iron City has become the direct domain of the royal family, and until Wang Xu appeared, the nobles in the imperial city were still gearing up to turn Black Iron City into a noble fief again through the exchange of interests.

"Steward Karpas, how many people do we have now, and it is not a small problem for such a large castle to be repaired."

Standing in front of the castle, Wang Xu looked at his butler, a middle-aged man in his fifties with elegant manners.

The housekeeper Karpass, brought by Wang Xu from the imperial city, is himself the second son of a baron family.

According to the rules of the nobles, everything of the nobles will be inherited by the eldest son, and the best outcome for the second son is to take the war horse and armor given by the family and become a wandering knight.

In addition, there is another kind of work that will not make these noble second sons feel embarrassed, and that is to act as a butler for those with high titles.

Many second sons of families who like literature and do not like martial arts and have no inheritance rights will become the stewards of those with high titles, and because they themselves are born in aristocratic families and have received higher aristocratic education, they have the right to dialogue with nobles at the level.

The difference between a noble butler and a commoner butler is that he also sends an invitation letter, and the commoner butler can't even enter the other party's house because he is a commoner.

The aristocratic butler, on the other hand, can become the guest of the other party and talk and laugh with the host, which is the difference in class.

"When we came out of the Imperial City, His Majesty gave us 30 court knights, as well as four maids. Among them, court knights can be in charge of patrolling the castle, and maids can make you look more decent.

However, these people are not enough to keep a castle running, and we need at least five hundred soldiers, thirty maids, and even gardeners, tailors, cooks, grooms, doctors, blacksmiths, and a few freemen. ”

Hearing Karpass's words, Wang Xu frowned slightly, and asked rhetorically: "I saw that there are many soldiers stationed on the city wall, at least three or five thousand people, just take them over, why do we still need soldiers?" ”

"That's different, my master."

Karpas smiled and replied, "The soldiers guarding the gates are only inferior soldiers, and the defenders of your castle must be the best of the best. Under the leadership of a knight, the personal guard of a noble lord can often defeat ten times as many enemies as himself. And those ordinary soldiers, whose role on the battlefield is more to follow you to launch a charge, and their combat effectiveness is only a little stronger than that of the militia, and they are not considered professional soldiers. ”

In the Middle Ages, there were three types of soldiers: militiamen who took up arms during war and returned home to farm after the war, regular soldiers who were paid to participate in small training, and Guards who trained every day to defend castles.

The treatment of the three is one after another, especially the castle's personal guards, who have better weapons, stronger physiques, and more combat experience.

They are true professional soldiers, stationed in castles when defending, riding horses to kill enemies when attacking, each of them is proficient in two or three weapons combat, and can switch between infantry, archers, and cavalry at will.

"It's really troublesome, I'll leave it to you, let Knight Captain Crane come and see me."

Wang Xu was not very interested in how to manage the castle, he was more interested in the power of the knight class than being an honest count.

In this world, knighthood is no longer an honorary title, but a name of a rank.

A full-fledged knight has at least a thousand catties of power, of which a silver knight can exceed two thousand catties.

Further up, the Golden Knight has a strength of more than 5,000 catties, proficient in various killing techniques, when the wizard first invaded, many first-order wizards who were caught off guard were killed by the other party.

If it weren't for the Golden Knight, the knight's path would have come to an end, and it wouldn't have been so easy for the Blackman Wizard Academy to take over this world.

"Your Excellency, you call me?"

A middle-aged man wearing silver plate armor, like a blonde lion, came to Wang Xu.

This person is Wang Xu's knight chief, the silver knight Klein.

Among the silver knights, he is also relatively powerful, with a strength of nearly four thousand catties, and he can smash open the city gate with one shot, and he has a great possibility of becoming a golden knight in the future.

Before he did not follow Wang Xu, he was the vice-captain of the king's palace guard, known as Klein the Golden Lion.

"Crane, how do you usually train, can you put on a show for me?" Wang Xu didn't go around in circles, and asked Klein directly.

A trace of dissatisfaction flashed in Crane's eyes, and he bowed his head and said, "My lord, I am a warrior, not a clown performing acrobatics. ”

"I know, but I also know that you have always wanted to get a knighthood, according to your knightly talent, it is not difficult for you to start a knight family, but to become a nobleman, IMHO, the Iron Cross Kingdom has not fought a war for more than twenty years, and according to the current situation, the possibility of war is also very small.

According to the royal law, it is forbidden to be knighted during non-war periods unless there are special circumstances, and I think even if you become a golden knight, the possibility of being crowned a nobleman is very low. Of course, if you just want to be a knight, or seek an honorary title, then I don't have to say anything. ”

There are two kinds of titles, one is the title of real power, which has territory and can be passed on.

One is an honorary title, a title that has no fiefdom and no real power, and ends in one generation and cannot be inherited by the heirs.

What is really difficult to get is the title of real power, because every time a real power nobleman is canonized, it is a kind of weakening of the royal family.

As for honorary titles, those things are all over the streets, because canonization of low-level honorary titles does not even need to be reported to the imperial city, and many businessmen will buy an honorary title to play with.

For example, in Black Iron City, there are at least hundreds of honorary lords, more than a dozen honorary barons, and even a few honorary viscounts.

These people, in the eyes of the commoners, are also nobles, but in the eyes of the real nobles, they are not regarded as nobles.

Even in some social occasions, it is common to see a baron with real power who will be an honorary viscount, and reprimand him behaves like a son.

Crane is a Silver Knight, and is likely to be a Silver Knight, and there is a high probability that he will be canonized as an honorary knight in the future.

But again, the probability of him being canonized as a nobleman is very low, after all, there are golden knights every year, and if they are all canonized as nobles, the royal family will not have to do anything.

"Smile, your expression is too serious, my Mr. Golden Lion."

Looking at Klein's serious expression, Wang Xu said pointedly: "I think that if you can satisfy me, you may be able to become Baron Crane, or even Viscount Crane, I think I should have this right." ”

Klein's eyes shrank, and in the rumors of the outside world, Wang Xu was the illegitimate son of the king, and he was very favored.

If Wang Xu can intercede for him and create a skirmish on the border to accumulate military merits for him, the possibility that he will become a baron in the future is extremely high.

Of course, Wang Xu is not an illegitimate child at all, in fact, his true identity is much higher than that of an illegitimate son of a king.

The Knight Plane is just one of the hundreds of small planes under the jurisdiction of the Black Mang Wizard Academy.

The so-called King of the Iron Cross is nothing more than a second-order wizard, a descendant who remains in the knightly plane.

Not to mention the Iron Cross royal family, even the second-order wizard, he had to smile when he saw Wang Xu, after all, judging from the current situation, Wang Xu, the disciple of the Black Mang Wizard, was not the first second-order wizard to climb high.

"There are two kinds of exercises I practice, one is the advanced exercise of the Iron Cross Breathing Method, the Iron Eagle Breathing Method, and the other is the Iron Cross Royal Spear Technique, please allow me to demonstrate it for you."

Faced with the temptation of a knighthood, Crane's seriousness could no longer be maintained.

He didn't want his descendants to be knights who were dogs, he was eager to create his own noble legacy, and there was an opportunity he had to seize.

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