"White Knight Three-Way Four"

"The Black Cavalry retreats three in four directions"

"White Bishop Five Ways to Six"

"Black Gunner goes all the way to six"

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At this moment, two aristocratic men, one purple and one white, were in the royal garden of the Punk Kingdom (which had been reduced to a province), holding a chess battle, with a stake of 9,000 gold coins, a game to determine the winner of a game, this wealth can arm two hundred unarmed peasants into armored infantry warriors.

Such a big bet broke the five-way chess amount between Baron Oak and Baron Nuni a year ago. But for these two, it is insignificant, and all they care about is face. The loser has to recognize the opponent as the real "chess king".

The referee was the treasurer of the Gallic Kingdom, Count Randall (first name) von (noble surname) - Adolf (family surname).

It was nearly noon, the sun was getting brighter and brighter, and the noble chess player in a white dress had a cold face, and the chess piece he had just eaten was a trap, which made his knight unable to move.

"Lord Ba'ou (the honorific title of the nobility above the count), concede. After the purple-robed man put the black gunner in the middle of the road, he formed a situation of beating the king and pumping the bishop, and after this hand, he couldn't suppress the excitement on his face, showing his snow-white teeth.

"I'm not going to lose. Ba Ou was ruthless and launched a round of fierce attack, but after six or seven moves, all the sub-forces on the board were scattered and fragmented, and those who knew a little bit of chess knew that they were powerless.

The body seemed to be evacuated, he sat in a daze, there was a vicious aura in his chest, looking at his opponent's face, he was even more unconvinced, this is the second time he has lost to him, can he only be the second?

"Olivier, don't go, play again. "Bao Dao.

"If you train for another two years, you may still have a chance, and besides, do you still have any money? I heard that your soldiers suffered heavy losses during the siege of the city, and I am afraid that they will have to pay a large amount of money for settling-in. Olivier laughed.

"What's that, it's a big bet. ”

"How old?"

"A province!"

As soon as these words came out, the field fell into a dead silence, the territory is the foundation of the aristocracy, most of them changed hands on the battlefield, and they have never heard of gambling away.

"Calm down, Ba'o. Randall finally spoke up, and his father, Boni, was the one who invented "war chess" in the eyes of the world.

Boni initiated the first war chess tournament, offering prize money to the players, and was revered as the father of war chess, so many nobles liked to let him be the arbiter, and a year ago, when Bony was half retired and Randall took over the throne, this job was handed over to him.

Randall's pale face and slender stature made him look as sick whenever he was with the stout nobles, and he coughed from time to time, and some people privately nicknamed him "Sick Bug".

Two years ago, a reckless and drunken baron, who uttered this nickname in front of Randall, was split in half by his personal knight, "Rictor the Greatsword", with a sword, and after that time, even in private, almost no one dared to talk about this nobleman who was in the sky.

If you go back more than 20 years.

In March of the year 400 of the new calendar, "Randall" came to this world and became the eldest son of a marquis, "Adolf", a famous French family of the Gallic kingdom with a family history of more than 200 years.

When Randall was three years old, he read books on his own and learned the general geography of the "known world". The peninsula directly above Gaul across the sea is called the "British Peninsula", while the continent of Russia is located in the far northeast.

The continent in which he lives is the "Euro Continent", presenting a situation of competing countries for supremacy, and Flange is one of the best. Its territory is located in the southernmost border, and further south is the blue ocean, which is called "Earth Sea".

As for the Far East, the Eastern Continent, which connects the three landmasses, is called the "Donghu Continent", and its territory is the broadest.

Geographically, the European continent is a land block in the east-west direction, with many plains and hills, and the Gallic Kingdom is located in the middle of its left, implementing a semi-feudal and semi-centralized system, with a total of seventeen families above the earl, and controlling sixty percent of the kingdom's land.

The inhabitants call themselves the Francis, which means "the pride of the sky" in the Old European language. The greatest nobles of the kingdom were the Adolf family, whose totem was the golden lion, and seven of the 50 official ballads sung in Gaul were related to it.

To this day, they control four of the southernmost counties of the province of Grad, with nearly one million people.

Crossing as the son of a lord, Randall's life can be described as good and boring. The food is far less refined than that of later generations, and it comes and goes that the dozen or so foods are replaced. In terms of drinks, the tea grown in the Euro continent is generally bitter, and several precious teas and cocoa that Randall wants to drink are controlled by pagans in the East, and half a catty of "Tianzhu black tea" on the market is equivalent to half a pig, and even close to the historical sky-high price of a pig.

His tea-loving problem was immediately called a "loser" by the good deeds. When he was a year and a half, his mother died, and he was a blonde beauty, slender in stature, with a shallow pear vortex in her smile, and a gentle speech, which was the only remaining impression of Randall.

She said a lot to Randall in the baby, and although she tried to listen, Randall didn't know much about the language of the world at that time, only a few words such as marriage contract, king, and promise.

After surviving a sick infancy, and at the age of five, with a severe flu, Marquis Bony led the bishops in prayer for ten days, and he was locked up in a small room, cared for by a personal servant.

As if on fire, Randall listened to the priest's sacred texts every day, and after a few days he swore to himself that if he could get better, he would do as good as he could, but to no avail.

"Leave something for the world. One day, on the sickbed, Randall thought about it, invented Chinese chess, and played it with the servants in the house to relieve the feeling of powerlessness that was close to death.

Changed the name of the marshal to the king, the hero King Arthur and the Lionheart King Richard, these are the two most famous kings in the history of the Western Continent.

One scholar is changed to a queen, and the way is an oblique step, each step, not out of the nine palaces, to assist the king, and the other is changed to a bishop, which can be out of the nine palaces, like a duke, a horse is a cavalry, a chariot is a knight, a cannon is a gunner, a soldier is a soldier, and the appearance is modeled after the three-dimensional pattern of chess.

Bonnie was also attracted to this game and even thought that this son was a genius!

In the end, Randall relied on the willpower of an adult, survived, his body temperature gradually normalized, and on the twentieth day, he was able to get out of bed without any problems, and the clergy of the territory was able to save Randall back to his pious prayers, and asked for a large contribution from Boni.

Half a year later, this game was presented to the royal family by Boni, who loved it very much, because the Gallic Kingdom was a military and economic power, and the cultural spread was vigorous.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Randall asked his father to come up with follow-up distributions, such as silver chess pieces and chessboards specially made by the Adolf family, selling them to nobles, and following the example of the martial arts competition, holding chess tournaments with prize money, including food and accommodation.

In this era, everything pays attention to the origin of the chess, and the chess pieces sold by the people who invented the war chess are naturally higher than the folk imitations.

Randall also had Bonney hire a dozen bards to make a big splash.

"You don't need to go to the battlefield to be able to handle a military horse and win the world, which is a model for cultivating a perfect knight. ”

"A gnat can drink, and an elephant can bathe in the ocean. ”

"It's a beautiful mistress. ”

"Life is too short for war. ”

In the first chess battle, 46 players participated in the battle, attracting more than 8,000 tourists, which helped the economy of the territory a lot. The subsequent sale of chess pieces made the Marquis a great fortune, equivalent to a season's income in the territory, and also made Bony even more fond of Randall. At the same time, the Territory Reform Act was launched, and Randall's business revitalization plan was approved and strongly supported by the Marquis.

At the age of nine and a half, Randall entered the court, studied with the prince, practiced martial arts, and learned the "Seven Arts of Knighthood".

The prince's full name, Quink von Chellon, is the same age as Randall.

The Chiron family, originated more than 100 years ago, the ancestor was William the Conqueror, the ancestor was the king of a small country in the southeast, to his generation, engaged in the pirate business, in an operation, forcibly seized a French princess - Siya, and later relied on the identity of his wife, bought off a mercenary, returned to Gaul to forcibly seize the throne.

It was an unspeakable war, and the difference in strength between the two sides reached seven times, unexpectedly, William's brother-in-law - Rusini. In order to show off his strength, he went into battle in person, was accidentally injured by a stray arrow, and was summoned by the Lord that night.

After losing the king, Siya became the first in line to the throne of the Gallic Kingdom, and some nobles defected, and the war began to stalemate. Three years later, in the year 300 of the new calendar, William founded the Second Dynasty of Gaul, and he adopted the goshawk as his emblem and adopted the family motto "The brave are fearless".

There were also four aristocratic children of about the same age, who also entered the palace to live with Quink, cultivating friendship and loyalty, a tradition of the Franks in Gaul, and when they grew up, they became close confidants of the heirs of the kingdom, guarding the land for the royal family or helping with internal affairs.

In the second year, the four children were given a coming-of-age ceremony and were named the prince's personal four guards.

At the beginning of this year, Randall no longer lived in the palace for a long time, but instead lived in a mansion outside the palace, staying in the royal capital for one to two months a year to deal with the correspondence between the family and the royal family.

Randall relied on the mind of a two-life man and behaved solemnly, and was very popular with the royal family, so he received another honorary title.

"Sarah" - means a polite person.

At the beginning of the summer of the sixth year, at the age of sixteen, he ushered in a marriage, the royal family of the southwestern kingdom "Aragon", the eldest daughter of the Nissa family, which was a good marriage of strong union.

Randall wanted to delay, but just as the National Council was convening, Randall went to the royal capital in place of his father, wanting to delay the marriage .......

On this day, Randall was invited by the eldest prince to play at a horse farm in the suburbs.

"Randall, I heard that your fiancée is a beautiful angel. Rubin, one of his classmates, was the son of a baron, and he was the most respected prince of all.

"Impossible, Randall's future father-in-law, I know, is called Bolondo, who looks like a toad, and can give birth to this kind of blood?"

This time it was Gudin, who was dressed in silk clothes, a small hat, two hands, and a jeweled ring, and looked very luxurious. He was the only son of the Earl of York, whose family was once the richest in the country with its natural harbour, the flourishing shipping trade, and the fact that his family was the richest in the country.

"Gooding, have you seen Bologdo?" There is humanity.

"Thirty years ago, my grandfather had a banquet for him, and I still have a portrait of him in my house, this man had a face full of particles, I don't know what disease he had, and he was extremely lustful, and he asked my grandfather's two favorite female slaves to go. ”

On the archery field, the friends chattered, and Randall only focused on aiming at the bow target.

"Whew--!"

Archery is one of his favorite sports, and the crisp sound of the arrow breaking through the air is a beautiful one-word note that encompasses speed and works out the body.

"Randall, you give me a reaction. Seeing that he was concentrating on archery, Quink took a stone to the ground and threw it at Randall.

This interfered with him, and the fifth arrow was left empty and fired into the sand.

"It's not up to me to have the final say, I don't have any ideas. Randall Road.

"That's right, just like me, I got married at the age of six, my cousin, and two years later, she died, and this time my father found me a noble woman six years older, still a Monroe (Illuminatis), what a fuck. Gooding said.

"Then aren't you going to the Baiting Empire to greet your family?" When everyone heard the news, they immediately became interested.

"The Latins of Bytin, a gift from the Lord, a handsome man and a beautiful woman, help me bring back a slave girl, I am fed up with those rude Gallic women. This time it was Garcia, who was three days younger than Randall, and of great stature, who looked to be eighteen or nineteen years of age, who had had had a pleasant experience of many brothels, and who had even planned to open a room with Randall and Gooding, who had plenty of money, and "that place" was also the most majestic of the five.

"What a fart, just for this matter, I have to buy atonement for the dead Holy See, baptize her, a piece costs five hundred gold coins, and there are dangers along the way, just thinking about it makes my scalp numb. Gooding said.

Civilians in this world, there are many people, never go out of the countryside in their lives, even the city, crossing the border is a matter only for the aristocracy, outside the territory, there are large forests, swamps, wastelands, hidden beasts, robbers, beggars and even legends of the existence of strange creatures such as blood.

Many nobles did not die on the battlefield, but died on the way, and it took at least months for Gaul to travel overland to and from the Bytin Empire.

"Why marry a Gentile woman, talk to your father, and find a Franc nobleman. Rubin said.

"Our family has a relative in Port Nice, and he has a good dowry. Gooding said.

"Let the prince speak for you. He didn't speak, and Ba'o, who looked at the chess game in his hand, put down the book and joined the discussion.

"The Earl of York's bull's eyes can kill, and when I look at him, my heart beats wildly. Quink immediately refused.

The relationship between the king and the nobles is a major shareholder and a small shareholder, and the Earl of York can completely avoid dumping the monarch, and Quink doesn't want to be bored.

"Forget it, what are you going to do tonight, now decide?"

"Prostitution, chess, gambling, cockfighting. "Everybody thinks differently except Randall.

"One vote for each of the proposals, for you?" They all looked at Randall.

"Hmm--。 Randall spread his hands and said, "Yes." ”

Two days later, Randall wrote a letter home. "Dear father, I am allowed to consider the marriage, and I have recently discovered an interesting fact, in the realm, "there is an adultery with a lady of the royal family", please pay attention to this person. In addition, a man needs a lot of things to maintain a decent life, and the father must give financial support, please send three hundred gold coins - Randall. ”

After another two weeks, the money from the territory arrived, along with a reply.

"Lao Tzu is your guardian and has the right to decide your wedding, including how many children you want to have, and come back immediately to receive the gift. Otherwise, I will send someone to the king's capital and tie you back!"

This letter to the family forced Randall to return home, ready to meet this partner who would spend his life together.

"I hope it's a normal person. He prayed.

The aristocracy liked to socialize with close relatives, and many of them developed diseases, broken hands, missing feet, lack of intelligence, etc.

In addition, the Holy See of Brightness adopts a monogamous system, prohibits divorce, and affects the inheritance culture of the mainland, and the wife and daughter have the right of priority inheritance, even if they are idiots.