Chapter 12: The Blood of the Gods
Let's put it this way, the king gave birth to more than ten sons, and it is impossible for every son to be a king, and most of the sons who did not become kings were canonized as dukes, marquises, and counts, and then the many sons born to these dukes, marquises, and counts either inherited the title of their father, or they threw themselves into the ranks of other nobles and served as knights.
Well, this should be the first generation of knights.
After a long time, the blood of the gods has further spread out, and no one knows whether a farmer's ancestor is a nobleman or not.
In short, for the time being, so many countries have been established, destroyed, established, and destroyed, and most ordinary people have more or less the blood of a certain god in their bodies.
After being trained in various strengths and skills of the knight squire, some of the knight squires were lucky enough to activate the thin bloodline and make meritorious contributions, so they were naturally canonized as knights by the superior lord.
Of course, after a long time, various techniques and training methods to activate the bloodline slowly took shape, and they were attributed to one of the foundations of the aristocratic inheritance, which was called the knight training method.
To put it bluntly, for nearly a thousand years, there is no new god.
Therefore, the royal family members of those countries now do not have much mellow blood, and like other nobles, they all rely on the knight training method to activate the bloodline and enhance the power of the bloodline.
It was with the knight training method passed down from his ancestors that he finally activated his bloodline, and only then did he inherit his father's family business.
As for what kind of story there is, the Knight of Temos will definitely not say, after all, the knight training method can be said to be the foundation of a family's existence.
The title may be lost, but if there is a knight training method, then one day, there will be a descendant who activates the bloodline and becomes a knight again.
Hearing this, Zhou Mingyue asked curiously: "Are there any nobles who have not activated their bloodline?" After all, those princes are ......"
Zhou Mingyue didn't finish speaking, after all, he didn't know if there were any taboos in it.
Knight Temos didn't seem to be the kind of guy who regarded the royal family as orthodox, and when he heard Zhou Mingyue's words, he smiled freely: "This must be there, after all, not every prince can become a king." ”
After listening to the explanation of the Temos Knight, Zhou Mingyue understood a little.
To put it bluntly, there are two kinds of nobles, the first is the knights of Temos, Viscount Hanks, and other nobles who have activated the bloodline, they have strong combat power and can lead the army to charge, and they are known as sword-wielding nobles.
The second is that he failed to activate the bloodline, but inherited his father's title, territory, and was called a well-dressed nobleman.
There is actually not much difference between the sword-wielding nobles and the well-dressed nobles, and the well-dressed nobles can also lead troops to fight, anyway, as long as they have knights under them, but their status is still lower than that of the sword-wielding nobles of the same rank.
In addition, this is clearly stipulated in the Noble Inheritance Act, which is used throughout the continent.
The sword-wielding nobleman is hereditary, while the well-dressed nobleman is the first rank of the hereditary.
In other words, the son of a sword-wielding nobleman inherits his father's title, and his territory will not be reduced by the superior lord.
But when the son of a well-dressed nobleman inherits, the title will be lowered by one level, and the territory will be reduced accordingly, until the successor with the activation of the bloodline appears, but the title that has been cut will not be replenished by the territory, and the successor can only rely on the efforts of the successor to improve his military merits.
In fact, after this provision was implemented in parallel with the primogeniture, the number of nobles was controlled within a reasonable range, and it would not lead to a rapid increase in the number of nobles in a country, which would lead to instability in the country.
After all, activating the bloodline is a matter of character, and the descendants of the lucky family have activated the bloodline from generation to generation, and the unlucky family has not activated the bloodline for several generations, and it is almost a commoner.
Of course, the most important point is to ensure the strength of the country, after all, in such a medieval battlefield, no amount of well-dressed nobles can compare to a sword-wielding nobleman.
The Temos knight drank wine and went to rest, but Zhou Mingyue lay on the bed without the slightest sleep.
Obviously, as I said before, I still underestimated the world.
Originally, he thought that it was just a place similar to the Western Middle Ages on Earth, but what he never expected was that there were so many supernatural things here.
Looking at it this way, the more than 200 peasant soldiers that he relied on were nothing in front of those knights.
Of course, the more this happened, the more he was determined to follow Viscount Hanks to the jungle.
The War Workshop is not producing the same number of peasants now, but what about after it is advanced?
Two days later, under the leadership of Viscount Hanks, many knights gathered into an army of more than 3,000 people and marched towards the border.
In this army, Lord Viscount dispatched a thousand people, and the Viscount personally went into battle, plus 5 domestic knights who did not have fiefdoms, which can be regarded as the main force of the formation.
Viscount Hanks is directly next to the border, and Hanks Castle is only about three days away from the border.
Zhou Mingyue didn't let the peasants carry him with a cool pole anymore, it was too eye-catching.
He bought a variegated pack horse from a merchant who traveled with the army, and although it was not as tall and strong as a war horse, it also separated him from the common soldiers.
Besides, even if the army is defeated, he can escape with horsepower, right?
If you don't win, you will lose first, which is the style of a generation of famous generals.
Riding a variegated pack horse, standing on the side of the road, watching the endless stream of soldiers moving forward, Zhou Mingyue wanted to chant a poem!
"Northland Scenery ......."
Just one sentence, he stopped cooking, this season is not suitable, autumn has just arrived, and the millet has not been confiscated.
But a few of the peasants in the marching column got up and sang something, and then it spread, and almost all the peasants were singing.
To the effect that the millet was to be harvested, I went to war, robbed a lot of gold and silver treasures, went home and married a big girl with yellow flowers, gave birth to a bunch of little rabbit cubs, and so on.
This song is down-to-earth, Zhou Mingyue sighed faintly.
Three days later, arrived at the border.
Beyond the borders of the Kingdom of Flor, it is not directly connected to other countries, but a wild land that does not care about anything.
During the period when a large number of barbarians were inhabited, these barbarians were based on the tribe based on the social model, and they fought each other for many years, and from time to time they invaded the surrounding countries to threw and soak grass.
The Kingdom of Flor was one of the victims.
Therefore, the Kingdom of Flor was in favor of the subordinate nobles sending troops to fight the barbarians.
Viscount Hanks had already sent troops to the barbarians many times, and he also had experience, and after the arrival of the army, the knights who had gone out to scout returned to report the information.