Chapter 453: The Legend of the Knight King (26) Knight Circuit Court
After the Battle of Bosold Mountain, all the barbarian forces in the north of Anged were scattered, and Arthur took the opportunity to use the surrender army as the vanguard, so that King Sark was never able to gather the remnants of the defeated army, so he had to withdraw from Anged and escape into the wilderness. In this way, the northern barbarian forces, which had threatened the north of Anged for 2 years, were completely defeated.
With the stabilization of Anged and the collapse of the barbarians' siege of Karachi on three sides, and the pressure on the north was relieved, Arthur organized an army to launch a decisive battle against the barbarians after returning to Karachi.
The decisive battle took place at Karachinar, south of Karachi, hence the name of the Battle of Karachinar, through which King Arthur inflicted heavy losses on the barbarian armies that had been besieging Karachi.
Subsequently, Arthur launched a victorious pursuit of the barbarians, on the one hand, he drove the barbarians back to the south of the mountain, and on the other hand, he returned to Sunifo to recapture the colonial stronghold that had been occupied by the barbarians for almost three years. After the recapture of the stronghold, Arthur appointed Kai, the Knight of the Round Table, as the main person in charge of the local reconstruction, and then returned to the court.
So far, this time, the barbarian invasion that began in 1669 and ended completely in 1672 in the Great Calendar, lasting a total of 3 years.
After returning to the army, Arthur returned to Madeira after a three-year absence, and found that Lancelot had managed Madeira in an orderly manner, and even the Knights' Hall had come out of the difficult situation of capital turnover before he left.
Seeing Lancelot's excellent completion of the tasks assigned by him, Arthur excitedly patted Lancelot on the shoulder and announced to everyone that Lancelot was "the second best knight among the Knights of the Round Table." ”
After returning to the division, Arthur first took over the government affairs that he had not seen for 3 years, and after clarifying the government affairs, Arthur began to continue his interrupted "knight training plan".
The first point of the "Knight Training Program" is that the number of knights needs to be expanded, so that Arthur will have more and more reliable helpers.
Therefore, Arthur began to promote and expand the knights' hall, promoted the knights who had performed well in the past three years from knight apprentices, promoted 20 knight apprentices, awarded them the honorary title of official knights, and allowed them to join the Knights of the Round Table, so that the Knights of the Round Table had thirty-two knights.
With the addition of knights, the former knight-knight system became a bit bloated, so Arthur proposed to create a new position above the knight chief, and make the knight chief a subordinate status that could be granted to others.
Perhaps Arthur remembered what the barbarians called him on the march, so Arthur set up a knight king above the knight chief, and Arthur himself was the first knight king.
After proclaiming himself the Knight King, Arthur awarded the position of Knight Captain to Lancelot, as a sign of recognition of Lancelot's achievements in taking care of Madeira in recent years;
As for the second point of the "Knight Training Plan", Arthur's original plan was to build eight knightly halls in the main cities of the Duchy of Merochu, just like Madeira, and then create a pleasant new atmosphere in the city.
However, Lancelot succeeded in dissuading Arthur for two main reasons: first, even if the Knights of the Round Table had just expanded, they would not be able to support all the main cities to establish the Eight Knights' Palaces, and second, if they did so, the Knights' Palace's finances would definitely go bankrupt immediately.
After two days of discussion by the Knights of the Round Table, the knights finally came up with a feasible alternative, that is, to make a knight's circuit court and patrol around the Duchy of Merochuo, on the one hand, to fulfill the knight's virtue of punishing adultery and eliminating evil, on the other hand, to promote the reputation of the knight, and on the other hand, to save more money than building a knight's palace.
In order to quickly establish the reputation of the Knight Circuit Court, Arthur decided to lead the first Knight Circuit Court by himself, which is expected to be governed in the Duchy for 3 years.
This is the superficial reason why Arthur is setting up the Knights' Circuit Court, but in fact, there are more than that, the real reasons why Arthur did not tell the knights are mainly two:
First, Arthur always believed that knights should be associated with adventure, or punish adultery, or march to war, rather than being trapped in the palace and dealing with all kinds of tedious government affairs. As early as a few years ago, Arthur was tired of the cumbersome and intriguing of government affairs, and found that after entrusting government affairs to Lancelot, he could handle it well, so Arthur simply let it go.
Second, Gowall's revenge has not yet been avenged, Arthur set up this knight's circuit court to prepare to use this court to reason with those suspects and nobles.
Whenever he thought of Gowall, Arthur felt a pang of powerlessness in his heart, and regret for not being able to fulfill his promise, but fortunately, he sacrificed his last chance to summon Mentor Merlin, so that Mentor Merlin could find Gowall's daughter......
Strange, what's the name of Gowall's daughter? I think it's called Morgan, but it feels like it's called Mogaus or Morgana? Forget it, it doesn't matter. Mentor Merlin tells Arthur in his final call that he has managed to get back Morgan/Morgoth/Morgana and take her to safety, and that's fine. After all, Arthur only helped her because she was Gowall's daughter, and Arthur himself didn't care about her.
After two months of preparation, Arthur decided to set off, and on the eve of his departure, Gawain, the Knight of the Round Table, secretly approached Arthur.
"My uncle, my lord, the great Grand Duke of Merochu, the patriarch of the family of Merochou, the knight king of martial arts and noble virtues, as your courtier, your clansman, your knight, I have a heartfelt word to say to you. ”
"There will be nothing to hide between the knights," Arthur vaguely guessed what the other party wanted to say after Gawain said this lengthy sentence, because the rumors had not reached his ears at all after returning.
"O my king, your heart is as wide as a blue sky, and your soul is as pure as a white cloud, so you trust Lancelot so much, but I fear that Lancelot will betray your trust, usurp your authority, rob your wife, and destroy your inheritance. ”
Arthur said in his heart that Gawain wanted to say that this was indeed what Arthur had since his return, and after his return, Arthur often heard rumors in Madeira such as "Lancelot wants to usurp power" and "Lancelot and Gnavel are having an affair", but after testing that Lancelot is still a real knight with a sword in the stone and a magic mirror, Arthur put these rumors aside.
"Knight Gawain, you think too much, as long as Lancelot is still a real knight, then he can't do such a thing. And both the Sword in the Stone and the Magic Mirror tell me that he is still a real knight, so I think this is just some contemptible rumors, Knight Gawain, don't believe these messages, let your eyes be confused by rumors, if the knight is blinded by bias, it is like the sky is blinded by dark clouds, and everything is wrong. ”
Gawain also wanted to argue again: "But Your Excellency, there are clouds in the divine realm, and only weapons and fame are not fake, you always let Lancelot supervise the country, and leave the palace for a long time, and have no heirs with Grand Duchess Gnavel, this is ......"
"We're still young, and our days are still long, what's the hurry? Knight Gawain, if you just want to tell me that there is no real evidence, you can leave now, or you want to launch a formal charge against Lancelot?"
Gawain really didn't have any real evidence, seeing that Arthur had such a firm belief in Lancelot, Gawain couldn't persuade him, and after sighing, he left Arthur.
The next day, Arthur took Ranmaroch and several other knights to form a knight's circuit court and began to carry out circuit law enforcement in the Duchy of Melochu.
In the process of enforcing the law, Arthur's most common encounter was that the lord oppressed the peasant soldiers who returned from military service. Wasn't the war with the barbarians over?so the peasants began to return home, only to be squeezed by the lords in various ways (if any) of the windfalls, if any, they had gained from the war.
In response, Arthur enforced the law impartially and awarded a lot of his wealth back to the peasants, who were at least happy when they got the money, even though many of them were later subjected to retaliatory measures by the lord.
Counting Arthur's contact with the soldiers during the march, Arthur's reputation among the people became higher and higher, especially those who participated in resisting the barbarian invasion, and they were all using their imagination to spread Arthur's benevolence, wisdom and prestige, which was almost comparable to that of the ancient saints.
In the village of Luofeng in the south of Angard, the peasant soldier Days had returned to his village at this time, and now he became an avid fan of Arthur, as long as he talked to the villagers, he never left Arthur.
"Baron Luofeng of our village is already the most merciful in this ten miles and eight miles, but compared to His Excellency King Arthur, he can't beat the horse!"
After returning to the village, it happened to be the slack period, and Days happily volunteered to promote Arthur's name among the villagers. And since the villagers have basically never gone out to see the world, they are happy to listen to Dyce's nonsense.
"What is King Arthur's name? Isn't it Lord Arthur?" asked one of the villagers.
"Actually, I don't know, but those barbarians call it that, so I call it with them, and besides, isn't the title of King Arthur better than His Excellency Lord Arthur I!"
Looking at the nodding villagers, Deis seemed even more happy, and after boasting about King Arthur's troops, he began to boast about how King Arthur could manage Madeira in an orderly manner: "When the inhabitants of Madeira farm, everyone can have an iron hoe to plow the land! Everyone has a cow! You can eat meat every week!"
The villagers were shocked by the sound of "wow", this is really the greatest, wisest, and most benevolent lord of all time, and they also fantasized that if Arthur could come to govern them, then they could also live a life of plowing the land with an iron hoe and eating meat once a week.
With a gloomy face, Baron Lovon listened to his butler's report on the matter of Dyce, and he couldn't figure it out, although Archduke Arthur was noble, he was a complete fool, and he didn't see how he governed Madeira, how could the soldiers who had stayed with Arthur volunteered to be a troubadour to promote Arthur without any money after he returned?
According to the news obtained from Baron Lofon's gathering last month, former peasant soldiers like Days in his village are not alone, and there are many others like him.
The trouble is that Baron Luo Feng is not good enough to stop them, praise the nobles, or the nobles above your lordship, this is the absolutely right thing to do.
"Your Excellency Arthur I can't have infected them with your own stupidity, is it? I used to pay for the troubadours to boast about me, but now His Excellency Arthur I doesn't even need to spend money, and it's strange that some of them are fleshy. ”