The side islands were attacked once. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

This is quite common, the Dragonfire Islands have never been a peaceful place. Although these attackers are still dressed as pirates or thieves, but there are many soldiers and mages raised by the lords, but now the side island is not a fat fat but a hard bone, there are more than 20,000 Normans left on the island, to the heartache of Baldwin and Leona, some of them were actually purchased from the merchants by the knight Xiu and the mage Gavin, they were all serfs on the land of the Norman nobility, but it is said that their masters have now begun to grow herbs instead of wheat, and it is no longer necessary to take care of that kind of herbs, when Dylan's merchant group came to discussOf course, they were glad that the lowly ones were able to exchange silver plates, gold cups, and armor for themselves.

It should be mentioned that the Norman kings were most proud of maintaining the tradition of martial arts of their predecessors and rejecting the extravagance that had spread from the southern kingdoms. But these seem to have become a thing of the past with his passing, and the new king, John, was a lover of art, Beauty and power, although he had to succumb to Norman women for the purity of his offspring's bloodline, but Norman women, like Leona and Princess Diane, they were like shrubs growing in the rocks, even if they were beautiful, they could not get rid of the roughness and sharpness brought by the wind and frost, but those maidens from warm regions were different, they were as soft as small flowers that bloomed behind the palm of the hand of the stream, crystal clear, small and lovely, as if they would break at the slightest touch, and the new king took them with him, and dressed them with precious stones and silks, and they entered and exited the royal court with gilded carriages, and the horses in the carriages were purchased with great money from the southThey were docile and slender-limbed, and they were best cared for in the stables, and they almost squeezed out all the rough horses that the old king had left behind, and could only gallop and run on the battlefield.

The new king apparently knew very well that he was not a king who could be embraced by the Normans, and he did a great deal for this- For example, if he had removed almost all of the ministers, because he suspected that they were either supporting the king, or supporting the king's daughter, or were secretly in league with Princess Diane and Dylan, if he hadn't still needed Dylan's mage to guard Thundercastle for him, and his caravans to bring him boxes of gold, perhaps Dylan would have died, or maybe he didn't think he could do it- He had longed for the position that had once belonged to his brother, but when he did sit on it, he felt that it was a nailed iron chair used to punish mortals, and everyone would be willing to add a burning torch underneath, and he did not trust those who were capable, and only willing to hire some villains who were willing to be subservient to him and flatter, and those villains became ministers, in order to get more favor, they imitated the new king's every move like a mirror, and turned the solemn Norman royal city into a comical circus.

The gold poured out of their hands like a stream of water, and in order to make up for the shortfall in the chests and books, they instigated the new king to steal the assets of their ministers in a near-plundering manner, forcibly conscripted their knights, swallowed up their lands, and constantly spread rumors that an upright and loyal man wanted to rebel. What these clumsy villains didn't expect was that this was the Normans of the Highlands, not the weak southern kingdoms, and that in the beginning, a few ministers who were still lucky with the new king had lost everything and had their heads beheaded. The owners of the towers immediately retreated to their domains in tacit and quiet accord, instead of flattering and bribing them with fear, as they had done, and when they again urged the new king to punish these arrogant fools with humiliation and anger, John, who knew very well how much power he had, flatly refused.

These powerful lords, which even Lao Wang could not fully control, were originally a sharp sword that could cut off his neck at any time. John knew that they were silent when the old king died unexpectedly, only because they were unhappy with a woman on the throne, not because they liked John more than Leona, and to put it bluntly, if Leona was a man, then John would have been content to be a duke a long time ago.

After his dizzy mind was cleared up a little by those small, gentle hands, John realized that he had made a mistake, but he was already a Norman king, and remorse and apology were of no use to those people, just as you can't compete with the claws of a great bear with a dexterous tongue, and he thought of Fouquet again, and maybe he could give himself some help. In order to defend Thundercastle, Dylan took away many spellcasters who should have been around him, so John snubbed him for a while ago, and I think he should have understood by now - when John was a duke, he could have been a friend, but now that John was the king of Norman, he should abide by the duties of a courtier, at least, he should make due compensation to John for his illegitimate child.

John wanted an army, a mighty army, all equipped with steel armor and weapons, even if there were not enough Normans in the Highlands, or he couldn't trust the knights who had once belonged to the lords, he wanted to recruit mercenaries, and as far as he knew, there were a few places where the number of mercenaries was staggering, and after several weeds, all the good guys were strong and strong - but he didn't want to use his own money.

He must admit that he was startled when he saw Fouquet, who had become so thin that when he walked and knelt down, the new king thought he heard the sound of bones clashing with each other.

"What's wrong with you?" asked John, "you look like an outcast. "And it's the one that's dying.

"I'm sick. Fouquet replied simply, the skin on his cheeks quivered as he spoke like a piece of parchment that had been scraped too many times, as if the bones would break through the skin in the next moment, and his beautiful green eyes became dull and silent, if they had been like an emerald before, now they were like a piece of frosted glass, foggy, and his face did not symbolize the wrinkles of aging, but the dull lead gray was so close to death.

The new king, John, hesitated for a moment, but still told him his plan, to his delight that Fouquet also thought it was very good, and he took out some of his property, but he also told John that these assets were a drop in the bucket for an army, so what else could he do to get the money faster? The new king finally agreed to lease all his lands to the temple and sanctuary of Gredi, a king could have more territory than any other lord, and the tens of thousands of serfs, some of whom he sold, leaving only a third of the original number, because the herbs needed for the temple and sanctuary of Gredi did not require much manpower.

Naturally, his ministers were eager to follow the new king's example, which in their eyes was simply beneficial and harmless. (To be continued.) )