While Advisor Romon said these words, Stannis secretly observed Robert's reaction the whole time, but to his disappointment, his little brother looked like he was listening to a story the whole time.

At this time, Dinah also calculated the strength of Stannis's hidden allies, "There are 4,600 people in total, because there are large plains there, so if they can join your camp, they can provide the second best cavalry in the Duchy of Tanis!"

"Cavalry, but I remember not seeing any cavalry from Wayne's house during the White Expedition?" Stannis was very strange, but when he thought that Marquis Wayne was young, but it was the old fox of Seaworth who was next to him, it was not difficult to imagine that they must still have hidden a hole card and did not play.

"1200 + 400 + 700 + 4500 + 4600, a total of 11,400 people, I still have a mercenary group to use. "At best, Stannis has about a third of the force of Duke Garcia, and it is not known how many anti-bones there are.

"Then the other lords, except for Garcia's ironcore, will the other lords be neutral, after all, I have also spent a lot of money to establish diplomatic relations with them. ”

Advisor Romon smacked his mouth, "Difficult, unless we can win a battle, those guys will not let go of the opportunity to follow the Duke's army to make merit even if they sympathize with us." ”

After another heated discussion, Stannis probably knew what cards he had in his hand now, and the gap between him and the Duke had not narrowed, so he had to continue to clamp his tail and behave, so as not to let the Duke find a reason to send troops to him, but the good news was that it seemed that the Duke's eldest son, Hunian, was not so hostile to him.

"Okay, after discussing for a long time, there is no result, I'm hungry, I'm going to find Anya for dinner, don't bother me!" Stannis said and wanted to go out, but was pulled down by Dinah.

"Huh, Cortana, what's wrong?"

"I remember to attend Sir Hillier's wedding next week, at his castle. ”

"Uh-huh, remember, by the way, what's the name of his bride?"

After a week of peace, it didn't seem like anyone was going to fight Zipane, and the people of the Western Continent felt that this soon-to-be-warmer spring was better for outings than killing, and Stannis had become the forgotten remote lord, as he would rather do now.

During this time, Stennis was not idle, the preferential policies in his expanded territory attracted more farmers to move into his territory, coupled with his good reputation, in just a week, nearly 200 farmers voluntarily moved in, most of them were displaced from the west, and it is said that the flood upstream caused by the thaw of the river caused many people to be homeless.

Now Stannis will gather all the strength, and although he knows that there is little hope, the road ahead is not dark.

As for Anya, she doesn't seem to be relieved by the death of the smiling man, she knows that she has cut off an evil hand, but the real master behind the scenes who waved that hand and dragged their family into the abyss is still in control behind the scenes.

And now the owner of this black hand has extended his remaining hand to the man who at least loves her, so that she can't be happy at all.

But now the busy and almost crazy Stannis obviously does not have time to take care of the lover he identifies, he now writes a dozen letters a day to get acquainted with the lords he knows or does not know, although most of them do not reply, but as long as one person replies, the lord can be happy for a long time, which means that there is one more potential ally to catch up with.

But the most important thing now was Hillier's wedding, and Stannis couldn't understand why the viscount, who had always been a foresight, chose to get married on this eventful occasion.

"Radish, tell me again, what is the origin of Hillier's horse, why is the whole Garcia family opposed to this marriage, and most importantly, why do they get married at this time?"

Robert, on the other side, crossed his legs, and the days without being an earl were really very comfortable.

"What is a horse? That's Sophia, the second daughter of the noble Duke Garcia, although the old thing kept leaving and leaving in order to climb to a high position, and his wife changed seven or eight times before and after, but it is said that the woman he loved the most was the original wife who followed him to Tanis, and those who met her sighed at Garcia's good luck. And the original partner also gave birth to three children for him, except for the eldest daughter who died young, the rest are the eldest son Hunian and the second daughter Sophia. ”

"Oh, it turns out that the eldest son, no wonder the guy named Hunian is always so dragged, presumably the two of them are the most popular with the duke. ”

"Of course, before the eighth son named Pedro appeared, everyone thought that Hunian would be the next duke, and the beautiful and noble Sophia would marry a high-ranking nobleman, or at least the son of a duke. But I didn't expect that such a noble lady would fall in love with Hillier's little lord who was even worse than you. ”

Stannis slapped him on the head unceremoniously, "What do you mean to be worse than me, am I a bad mess?"

Robert immediately begged for mercy, "Of course not, I mean that in the eyes of the duke, the status below the earl is actually no different from that of a beggar, as long as everyone knows that they must not be together!"

"If Hillier is as unbearable as you say, how did he get to such a 'noble' Miss Sophia?"

Robert shrugged, no one knew the gossip of the principality better than him.

"You know, it's that old-fashioned bloody plot, Miss Sophia went out to play and was kidnapped by the bandits, and then the debut knight Hillier went up to rescue her, and then she was beaten half to death and locked up together waiting for ransom, and then the two gradually developed feelings, and then the guy got the power of love to defeat the bandits and hugged the beauty. ”

"It's really vulgar enough. Stannis couldn't help but sigh.

Robert gave him a blank look, which clearly meant that you were embarrassed to talk about others, and then continued: "Of course, the woman's father and brother are against it, but the two are desperate for love, but unfortunately they can't withstand the family's entanglement, and the woman still abandons her lover to go back." ”

"No wonder I saw Hillier look hurt by love last time. "But now they're finally together, and they're finally getting a happy ending, aren't they?"