Chapter 54: The Rules of the Game
"Patrizi?"
Hearing George's report, Wang Xiaotian was also slightly stunned.
Last time Blackstone Town said goodbye, Patrizi's Shane Town also received an invitation from the royal family, but Wang Xiaotian and they walked all the way from Greenfield City to the nearest road, so they were a relatively early group of nobles, and Patrizi's representative of Shane Town also set off shortly after.
This royal state banquet invited many nobles of all sizes, among which the royal family focused on inviting some nobles from the west.
As a new frontier in the west in recent years, Patrizi's family is also a relatively conscientious nobleman, and under their rule, the entire town of Shane has become famous among major merchants.
Known as the "Golden Trail", the Shane Territory Trade Road has also given many merchants a taste of sweetness over the years, and today, the western province of the Earl's family has been broken by a war.
Both economically and politically, the special status of the Shane Lords led the royal family to send them invitations.
And the same local nobles in the west, plus Wang Xiaotian signed a comprehensive covenant with Patritz on behalf of Dick Fat not long ago, so after Patrici came to the royal capital this time, he naturally came to visit Wang Xiaotian.
"Lord Baron, hehe, I haven't seen you for many days, but it's been good lately. As soon as Patrizzi walked into the hotel and saw the lazy Wang Xiaotian, he said something very politely.
This Patrizzi is indeed a beautiful man, when he was in Blackstone Town, his melancholy temperament does not know how many girls fell in love, and now, although the melancholy is lost when we meet again during this time, the look between the eyebrows makes people feel that the temperament is extraordinary.
Wang Xiaotian lay on the rocking chair, glanced at Patrizzi with half open eyes, felt his look, and still responded lazily.
Patrici didn't care much about Wang Xiaotian's reaction, but when he saw him living in such a hotel, his brows wrinkled inadvertently, and he said, "Lord Baron, you stayed here during the state banquet?"
"Otherwise?" Wang Xiaotian asked rhetorically when he heard Patrizi's question.
"Although this Magnolia is said to be the violet royal capital, the mansion inside must be worth a lot of money, but my lord, with your net worth, it must be okay to buy a house. Patrizzi was also very casual, as if he felt that Wang Xiaotian's easy-going feeling was very in line with his heart, he prompted.
"Buying a house, there's no need to do it!"
Wang Xiaotian was stunned for a moment, and then replied very casually, in terms of a modern person's thinking, he would not stay in the royal capital for a long time, so why spend all this money to buy a suite, so his first reaction to Patrizi's proposal was that it was unnecessary.
"Lord Baron, how is this unnecessary!" Patrizzi said, "You now represent Baron Dick, the de facto lord of the vast lands of the western south, and it is very unseemly to live in a hotel under the sacred rules of nobility!"
For example, it has been less than a hundred years since the rise of my Shane Territory, but my ancestors have purchased many properties and several shops in the royal capital, which are the heritage of a nobleman!"
Patrici bitterly admonished that as the young master of Shane, since he had allied himself with Baron Dick, he was obliged to let his allies know the rules of the true aristocratic circle.
Especially the nobles in the royal circle, they pay more attention to a kind of eccentric decency, even if these things are a waste and a pathological superiority in the eyes of the local nobles, but the nobles are like this, and the general trend is like this.
Seeing that Wang Xiaotian still didn't care, Patri joined forces and said in a tone that hated iron but not steel: "Lord Baron, do you know, it is your posture that has become a laughing stock in the royal circle!"
Hearing this, Wang Xiaotian was a little stunned, and Patrizzi looked at Wang Xiaotian and cared a little about this, and he said more.
"Not long ago, after you came to Magnolia, you were ordered by Joborg Mayer to be shut out of the mansion, and your reaction at that time really made you a laughing stock!"
Patrizi's eyes were full of anger, and he continued: "In Violet, a mansion guard dares to intercept a nobleman with a royal invitation, and you must know that you represent Baron Dick, the substantial nobleman who rules a tenth of the violet. ”
"You could have drawn your sword in anger and killed the guard on the spot!"
Patrizi's words were full of murderous intent, originally humiliated, according to the urine nature of the nobles, it was a major event that could be duel, especially since Wang Xiaotian represented nearly half of the nobles in the west.
"Slash?" Wang Xiaotian looked at Patrizzi with some surprise.
"Yes, kill! You represent Baron Dick, that is, you represent nearly half of the nobles in the western provinces! At that time, if you killed that nobleman on the spot, Lord Baron, at this moment, you are afraid that you would have already stayed in the Violet Mansion! Then Joborg would not dare to do anything to you! Otherwise, he would be an enemy of nearly half of the lords in the west! He is just a noble family, and if he really fights with the nobles of our territory, he will kill himself!"
Patrizi's words made Wang Xiaotian a little confused.
It's no wonder that in Wang Xiaotian's opinion, no matter how you find these things, you won't kill people! But in this world, the face of the nobles is more important than everything else, especially in an aristocratic group like Wang Xiaotian, a strong representative often gives allies a sense of security.
Although Wang Xiaotian has completely controlled the western south, and there is no need to give his nobles a sense of security, but a tough and fearless strong local nobleman can also reassure some potential allies in the royal capital.
After all, although the aristocracy should be decent, they also chase interests, a big nobleman who controls most of the west, and befriending such a nobleman is beneficial to the nobles.
But because Wang Xiaotian turned around and left at that time, this move was confusing, resulting in a large part of the people in Wang Du now knowing that Wang Xiaotian lived here, but no one came to visit.
"Alas, it is your act of leaving that makes people feel that you are afraid, and now in some circles in the royal capital, it is rumored that you are a "coward from the western countryside", which is really a great shame!"
Patrizi's tone was full of exasperation, and he felt ashamed of being an ally. In fact, he has already arrived in the royal capital these days, and is in contact with some familiar nobles, this time he came to Wang Xiaotian, to a large extent, to wake up Wang Xiaotian, let him know what the rules of the game are in the aristocratic circle!