This half is the content that Luo Ming guessed with a sword, and the remaining half is the specific content of the assessment.

He narrowed his eyes and scanned the text on the letter.

"Princess Victoria, the sole legitimate heir of the Holy Duchy of Lothar, blessed by the goddess of springs, sends greetings to the loyal knight Romin and wishes him the blessing of the goddess. ”

The goddess of spring water blesses and is sacred...... This is really a heavy article, and it is loud. If one day I can add such a sentence before my name, I will definitely feel very comfortable.

Calming down, Luo Ming then looked down.

"You are hereby called upon to dedicate your strength to the Principality with a sacred duty of allegiance.

As compensation for your time, you will be exempted from your personal shield money this year, and you will be paid a salary commensurate with your status and aptitude during the call-up.

The details are as follows: ......"

Under the feudal system, a low-ranking nobleman had an obligation to serve his higher-ranking nobleman for a free period of time every year, including sending troops to fight wars or helping with government affairs.

However, this system has many inconveniences, for example, if the free help time is 30 days, then the lower nobles are likely to work in these 30 days, or after the 30 days are over, they will leave what they have not done and go home on their own.

Back then, there was an unlucky ghost lord who gathered all his forces and confronted the rival lord.

One of the unfortunate man's subordinates, on a whim, calculated the date, and found that he had been out for more than thirty days, and he felt that he had fulfilled his duty, so he simply took his part of the army out of the battlefield and went home directly.

This subordinate robbed one of the lord's cities on the way home to pay his soldiers, which is not the most serious......

At the same time, the lord himself did not know that this rammer had run away, and as a result, when he fought with the enemy, he was outnumbered and defeated, and was directly captured by the enemy and demanded a high ransom, and was only released home after ceding the land and paying compensation.

Perhaps because of many of these painful lessons, the system eventually evolved into a tax.

The lower nobles can be exempted from military service by paying a sum of money, and when the senior nobles need someone to fight and serve him, they will use the money to directly and selectively hire their own lower nobles, and they will not be stuck to the ridiculous time limit of thirty days.

Generally speaking, the lower nobles should respond to this obligation unless there is a very important emergency.

"The city of Bajina is a small autonomous city directly under the Grand Duke.

The citizens there enjoyed the privilege of self-government, but at the same time had to pay taxes to the Grand Duke every year in exchange for autonomy.

In recent years, they have been in arrears of taxes for various reasons, and this year, they claim that a group of jackals has grown stronger, often taking away citizens and attacking caravans, causing them to suffer great losses, and they have asked for tax relief for these few years, and they hope that the Grand Duke will send men to clear the population of jackals.

I ask you to depart, within three days of receiving this letter, and as a commissioner sent by the Grand Duke, to the city of Bajina for a month to settle the matter.

Looking forward to your struggle and good luck.

Principality was founded in the ninth hundred and eighty-second year, on March 16. ”

Luo Ming reread it again, pondered for a moment, and smiled slyly.

"Hmph, interesting events, interesting sayings......"

The other two quickly finished reading the letter and looked at each other for a moment.

Anyone has to think about this kind of thing, and no one cares about drinking for a while.

Hendrik broke the silence first: "Since all three of us have received letters, there must be more people as well, right?"

"My mission is to suppress bandits. ”

"I'm going to investigate a case. ”

Luo Ming also gave a rough description of his mission.

Hendrik continued: "I suppose this is a kind of assessment of us young nobles by the princess, judging our abilities and faithfulness by our performance in these tasks. In the future, the princess, the future Grand Duchess, will also treat us differently. ”

"If they are particularly mediocre people, they may even arouse the ambitions of the royal family, and they may encroach on their territory in the future;

Talented and loyal people, I think the royal family will take advantage of them and give them great support. ”

Elo maliciously guessed the royal family's intentions, and he continued: "Hmph, no matter how long the royal family's hands are, they will never reach our Bagration family under normal circumstances.

But for the sake of Her Royal Highness the Princess, I can give it a try, anyway, I'm idle these days. ”

"If we are small and medium-sized nobles, if we want to climb up, except for the war period, we must have a backer.

The royal family itself is the biggest backer in the country, but it also has a disadvantage. ”

As if he was about to sell Eylau a favor, Hendrik spoke of his analysis: "That is, there are too many people who want to tie up with the royal family. If the performance is average, it is impossible to enter the eyes of the princess at all, and it is just in vain.

So, Elo, you have to pay more attention. If you're not sure, just ask the princess to change to a task you're better at, and you'll be fine if you do it better than others. ”

"There's still time to go, so how about asking the two brothers to help with the staff?"

Hendrik's eyes flashed with a gleam, and he smiled and said, "It just so happens that if we strengthen communication, many difficulties can be solved." ”

When this happened, the wine could not be drunk, and the three of them said goodbye to each other, and prepared to go back to their lodgings for a good rest, and then talk about these things again tomorrow.

Luo Ming walked on the night road where there were still some remnants of spring cold, and he couldn't help but sigh when he thought of the two drinking friends.

Earnr was a pity, and Hendrick was a pity for him - he might have been able to woo him over with his friendship, but now he was sure to become a viscount on his own, and if he didn't work hard, he would be overtaken again.

Moreover, Lormin saw very well that Hendrik's ambitions were by no means limited to the position of viscount.

If it weren't for that, he would have made a suggestion at the dinner table: a mutual aid club.

If you have the connections of those two people, you can attract more people to the club.

The club can then be transformed into an association, a Freemasonry and the like.

As the saying goes, "all for one, one for all", each member helps other members as much as they can, and the person being helped can use more strength to repay their peers when they become stronger...... In this way, it is far faster to develop as a group than as an individual.

Now, Luo Ming decided that it would be better for him to do this kind of thing on his own.

Add Hendrick to the mix, and there's a good chance that guy will take the lead and turn himself into a secondary figure......