"This year I became Lord of Schönbrunn and went to Brandon to register, so I witnessed Her Royal Highness make a speech at the ceremony. ”

Luo Ming said in a very serious tone: "Your Highness said that in the past few years, there have been more cult incidents in various parts of the principality, which also proves that the evil god and his evil servants have gradually recovered. And we should also be vigilant and take precautions.

Although it is expected that it will not be a matter of time in a year or two, I think that in ten years at most, we will be able to see the next holy war coming. ”

Although they were skeptical, the guests did not dare to be careless in the face of such a serious topic and listened carefully.

"As you all know, our Principality of Lothar stopped an evil legion in the last holy war and eliminated two legendary powerhouses—"

At this point, one of the ladies let out a half-exclamation, and the rest was covered by her mouth and held in her stomach.

(Looks like there are really people who don't know about this...... ）

"—Thus, the reputation of our 'Iron Wall Lothar' has been added to a new glory!, but here comes the problem!"

Luo Ming suddenly turned to a middle-aged man and asked, "Excuse me, Mr. Sansong, if you were to attack a fortified castle, what would you do beforehand?"

"Prepare long ladders and enough archers. ”

Then, Luo Ming asked several people one by one with this question—basically people he knew who had martial arts or knew about military affairs.

"I'll try to send a spy in before the battle, find an opportunity to burn the grain and grass in the castle, and starve the defenders to death around the castle!"

"A few soldiers who bribed the castle had them secretly lower the gates. ”

"If it's a cultist's castle, you can use dishonorable moves at will - just pay an assassin to stab the castle owner, and then the whole castle will be in chaos!"

The answers were varied, but they were the same.

Either prepare in advance, or create problems inside the castle.

Naturally, they have no control over the internal affairs of the cultists, but on the other hand, they have a lot to do with them.

"Ladies and gentlemen. The cultists must also know that it will not be long before they will have to fight us. The reputation of our Iron Wall Lothar has spread, and they will certainly take us very seriously.

Then, they will make a lot of preparations in advance, such as causing chaos in our country, supporting spies and the like, which is a matter of course. ”

Luo Ming pointed to the distance and said, "Just half a year ago, in the center of Miana, there were insidious and cunning people who colluded with the cult in a vain attempt to murder the true successor of Miana.

I fought bloodily, slew a cultist swordsmith, and fought off a powerful demon, and only then did I turn the tide and win.

That's what happened half a year ago!

After all, this was a realistic example of the mother's doubts, and everyone listened carefully to Luo Ming's next words.

"A young nobleman, the cousin of the current baron, was involved in this affair and ended up being made into an ugly monster by the cultists, and finally died on the battlefield.

After that battle, I saw with my own eyes more than thirty corpses, including grooms, cooks, and even Miana's venerable old butler...... All of them became victims of the cult, sacrificed to the devil with blood, and their souls were not even laid to rest.

Their deaths were so miserable that some of their flesh melted and their bones were exposed, and some of them wanted to strangle themselves in pain, so that their nails all sank into the flesh of their necks, and some of them had long tongues sticking out and rolling their eyes......"

Of course, the second half of the sentence was basically made up by Luo Ming, but the effect was still very good, and these guests were more or less frightened.

Unless used in the name of "cooperation", cultists treated nobles essentially the same way they treated commoners, pulling them out for disembowelment at every opportunity, or assassinating them to cause chaos — an impression that Lomin wanted to reinforce.

And the nobles present who were frightened by this kind of thing naturally thought about whether the strength at hand was enough to protect themselves.

The answer is basically no, there are actually two barons present, but these two barons must also muster most of their strength to be able to block the attack of a sword master head-on - when the forces are scattered, it is very likely that they will be assassinated by the sword master.

Not to mention knights or knights, even if they use all the forces at hand, they may be attacked head-on by a swordsmith and then pierced.

Since they can't protect themselves, after coming to this conclusion, they will naturally think about the question of how to get help from the outside world to protect themselves.

Unfortunately, Luo Ming just showed off his elite soldiers in front of them just now.

And Luo Ming himself is a sword master, and just now he also said that he killed a sword master and repelled a demon.

Naturally, many people will have the idea that if there is a real emergency, asking Luo Ming for help is the safest and quickest solution - but how to get him? What does he want to get in return for being so self-selling and boasting?

Not to mention whether they can really figure it out, but as long as this idea arises, when a special situation really happens, a crisis, and life and death, there is a high chance that they will think of this matter and ask Luo Ming to help - no matter how high the price he opened at that time, the other party could only be slaughtered.

It was getting late, and the guests had enjoyed a dinner and then dispersed, but a few stayed and left.

Two of them may be simple to plan for a rainy day, or they may be forward-looking, but in short, they have now talked to Luo Ming about the rules for mutual assistance in the event of an unexpected situation.

In addition to the normal reward, Luo Ming cunningly calculated the wear and tear after sending the troops, including the cost of ordnance maintenance and the cost of food consumed, to the people who were aided. The consumption of Luo Ming's new army is much stronger than that of ordinary soldiers.

Although it is worth spending money to buy a life-saving after all, it will definitely make the other party's flesh hurt.

The other guests stayed to talk to him about business—Luo Ming paid for food and meat from the two guests on the pretext that he had trained this year and bought slaves.

His price was slightly higher than that of the grain buyers, so they sold him some of the grain that they did not sell, but kept just in case.

The so-called "preparedness" is actually to wait for some tenant farmers to lose money in farming, when usury is only issued - it was life-saving food at the beginning, but later it will become life-saving food, and they have to give up the last bit of freedom and sell themselves into serfs.