Chapter 314 Meaning

Princess Celevia is coming, is there anything going on?

"Schward, how many years will it take for us to complete the agreement we signed with the Fisabrun family to exchange cattle and sheep for equipment?" Lorist's first thought was if something had changed in the agreement between the two families. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"My lord, we have completed this year's transaction, and we are left with next year's deal. Schward replied.

Time flies so fast, it's been four years in a blink of an eye, and the agreement signed at the beginning is a total of five years, and the agreement will be completed tomorrow.

"What has happened to the Fisabrun family in the past few years?"

Schward shook his head: "My lord, the biggest market for the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce and the Fisabrun family to trade is in Makinohara Province, where the governor is Viscount Christopher, and the spies of our family know the situation in Makinohara Province very well, but they can't go deep into the Eastern Wilderness Province, which is the territory of the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, we can only learn some very rough information, and we can't get it in detail." The family once sent a team of spies to enter the Eastern Wilderness Province disguised as small merchants, but they were soon expelled.

Over the past few years, we have learned that the Grand Duke of Fisabrun has reorganized the two legions under his command, and consolidated the garrison troops, the two known legions are 46,000 men each, and the other three garrison corps have been reorganized, plus a personal guard regiment and a guard brigade around him, with a total strength of more than 136,000 men. At present, the Fisaburun family has three garrison corps deployed in Makinohara, Higashiara, and Southern provinces.

The Celestial Wolf Legion in Makinohara Province is commanded by Viscount Christopher, and the Tiger Roar Legion in Eastern Wilderness Province takes turns to attack the Northeast Prairie, and in recent years, the grass barbarians on the grassland have been dealt a great blow, according to the report sent back by the Voliber Intelligence Investigator of the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce, the grass barbarian tribes that have been annihilated in the past three years have reached nearly 100, and nearly 150,000 grass barbarians have been captured, most of whom are women and children. The Grand Duke of Fesablon gave them to his soldiers as wives and concubines, and it is said that the captain and above are all wives, one wife, one concubine......"

Lorist sat up straight: "How many people are there in the two provinces under the jurisdiction of the Fisabrun family plus the southern provinces?"

"My lord, it seems that the Eastern Wilderness Province and the Makinohara Province are less than 800,000, and the Southern Province is dilapidated, and the population is estimated to be less than 1560,000......"

Lorist stood up, touched his chin and walked around the room twice: "It's strange, the Fisabrun family has a population of less than one million, and the ratio of his soldiers to civilians is too high, it's close to seven to one." What is the Archduke of Fisabrun up to the task?"

Schward rolled his eyes beside him: "My lord, I have to remind you that our family has a total population of about 1.6 million even if we add the island of Hilovas and the Haneababada Islands, but the total number of armed forces of our family is close to 300,000. ”

Lorist waved his hand: "They can't compare with our family, and our family will deal with the Duchy of Madras and the Kingdom of Iberia next." In my plan, I will take another year off next year, and the year after that I will go all out and annex these two countries in one fell swoop. But we didn't expect Grand Duke Fisabrun to integrate so many armaments, has this old fox always been vigilant against our family. It seems that the focus of our intelligence in the future will be shifted to the Eastern Wilderness Province. ”

Princess Celivia arrived as scheduled, and as expected, the Earl of Kenmeth was by her side again.

After settling in, Lorist held a grand welcome banquet for Princess Celevia.

I haven't seen her for a few years, and Princess Celivia is even more beautiful, like a blooming lily, bright and beautiful, looking forward to it, smiling and smiling, even Lorist can't look directly at the dreamy pair of green emerald eyes......

At the banquet, Princess Celivia generously stated that the purpose of her trip was to prepare to purchase standard equipment from the Norton family again, and to send an invitation to Lorist on behalf of the Grand Duke of Fisabrun. The Grand Duke of Fisabrun is preparing to hold a grand jousting tournament of knights in Windbri, the royal capital of the Iberian Kingdom, in May next year to select talents for the kingdom. Princess Celivia was specially sent to invite Earl Norton to attend the ......

The first thought in Lorist's mind when he heard Princess Celevia say this was that there was a deception, who in the Iberian Kingdom did not know that the four major families of the Northland, led by the Norton family, jointly sent troops to capture the royal city of Windbri, captured the king, that is, the second prince of the former Cresian Empire, Iberia, and then was sent to the imperial capital of the Antinac Kingdom and became a sacrifice for the death of the third prince. Now the Grand Duke of Fisabrun has said that he will hold a knights' jousting tournament in the royal city of Windbrie next year, and invite Lorist to participate, whether there is any calculation in this Lorist has to be carefully considered.

Lorist wasn't afraid of any conspiracy set up by Grand Duke Fisabrun or something, and if he really wanted to go, he would be able to get out easily even if he was alone. What's more, as the head of the Norton family and the most powerful earl in the Northland, if he wants to participate in the knights' tournament, he will at least bring the great sword master of Hus and a corps, even if the Grand Duke of Fisabrun sends a legion to besiege Lorist, he is confident that he will fight his way out.

It's just that Lorist finds it boring to attend a knight's conference, and he is not interested in participating in it. To put it mildly, he believed that no knight would be his opponent if he participated in the tournament, unless the Grand Duke of Fisabrun personally mounted his horse to fight him, and as a third-level great swordsman, he might be able to fight Lorist for hundreds of rounds. Since this is the case, it is better to stay in the family territory and enjoy the blessings, at this moment, Lorist has a lazy cancer, and he really doesn't want to leave the family territory next year to go out.

But now at the banquet, Lorist was embarrassed to refuse Princess Celevia's invitation directly, although the Earl of Kenmax next to him had already sworn that he would definitely attend. But Princess Celivia didn't take him to heart, but politely welcomed him, and turned her head to stare straight at Lorist. Lorist had no choice but to say that if the family territory was not busy with affairs in May next year, he would consider going to participate.

Princess Celivia was very dissatisfied with Lorist's answer, pouted, and started a small temper, so that the atmosphere of the banquet was a little awkward, and Lorist had no choice but to end the banquet hastily.

As the host, Lorist invited the Duke of Celevia to go to the study after the banquet, which was originally a kind word, but Princess Celevia gave Lorist a blank look, and walked to the study first, followed by her godmother Fairy Swordsman and the dead-faced Earl Kenmeth. Lorist shrugged and followed.

In the study, Count Kenmax was still shopping in the wine cabinet, while the great swordsman of Cindy was sitting on the sofa in the corner, and Schward was making tea for her. Princess Celivia stood at her desk angrily, her almond eyes wide, and she looked at Lorist viciously......

Lorist smiled bitterly, the little girl's temper is really difficult to understand: "Your Royal Highness Princess, don't be angry, you see so many documents on my desk, like a small mountain, it's really busy." ”

"Hmph!" Princess Celivia turned away, ignoring Loris.

"By the way, Your Highness Princess, I went out last time and brought you a gift, I hope you like it. "Lorist sacrifices the ultimate Dafa, and giving a gift may be able to calm Princess Sirivia's anger and dissatisfaction.

In the drawer on the left side of the desk were five beautiful boxes wrapped in purple satin, the bottom one was the largest, and Lorist took it out and opened it, and inside was a black velvet, on which was placed a pair of white gold silk woven necklaces, the center of the necklace was a thumb-sized green jadeite, the green was so clear and crystal clear. Next to the necklace is a pair of bracelets and a pair of earrings made of the same jade.

It has to be said that both women and dragons are of the same nature and like shiny objects. As soon as this pair of jewelry was taken out, it attracted Princess Celevia's attention, and even the great swordsman of Cindy couldn't help but stand up and walk to Princess Celevia's side to carefully admire this exquisite and extraordinary pair of jewelry.

"Oh my God, Locke, where did you get this, priceless heirlooms!" exclaimed Count Kenmeth.

Lorist snorted, how to answer? This is his own trophy, the jewelry of the princess of the kingdom of Haneabada, and there are four boxes in his drawer for the same quality of jewelry, but this pair of jade jewelry is the most expensive, estimated at 200,000 gold merits. If it weren't for Princess Celevia's charming green eyes, Lorist wouldn't have remembered having this pair of jade jewelry in her drawer.

Well, don't explain that this pair of jade jewelry was taken from the dead princess, and the jewelry in those four boxes was taken from the corpses of other princesses. Because of this, these pairs of jewelry were hidden in the drawer by themselves and not given to the women who gave them to themselves......

"Robbery. Of course, Lorist said, robbing a kingdom is also an act of robbery.

"Well, you treat me as a fool!" Count Kenmeth was furious, "What fool would go on the road with such expensive jewelry, which is hidden in the family's treasury as a family heirloom." ”

"Really, I kid you not. Lorist said sincerely, "I have robbed a kingdom." ”

"The devil believes in you. Count Kenmax said, "You have four more boxes in your drawer, take them out and look at them." ”

The jewelry in the four boxes is not as complete as the jadeite jewelry, but it is also a very beautiful and precious treasure. Earl Kenmeth, Princess Celivia, and Cindy Swordsman admired it with great joy.

"Brother Locke, I want to ......," said the Earl of Kenmeth.

"Okay, you can choose a pair of your own favorite, by the way, the same is true for the great swordsman of Xiandi, you can choose a box, the jewelry inside is yours, the one who sees it has a share, one person has a pair of jewelry, it's fair." Lorist knew very well what Count Kenmath wanted to say, so he simply gave him a generous gift. Anyway, in addition to the jade jewelry, the jewelry in the other boxes is worth tens of thousands of gold merits. The most important thing is that Lorist is a little taboo about the jewelry taken from these dead people, which is also the influence left on him in his previous life, and the Earl of Kenmax does not care about this.

Princess Celivia didn't expect Lorist to give him such a valuable gift, or such a treasure, and now her face was like a flower: "Brother Locke, thank you for the gift, I like this jade jewelry very much." ”

Lorist laughed and said, "It's good to like it, as long as you don't get angry." ”

Next, Lorist is going to push off the invitation to the knights' tournament in May next year, and Princess Celivia is in a good mood when she gets the gift: "Well, Your Royal Highness the Princess, I'm worried that there will be a lot of things in the family territory in May next year, so ......"

"Brother Locke, I'm twenty-four years old......" Princess Celivia said a little shyly.

Well, what's wrong with twenty-four? I'm thirty-four...... Lorist didn't react.

"Oh, you were only twenty last time we met, and now you're twenty-four, time flies so fast, in the blink of an eye, Her Royal Highness the princess is twenty-four, and she has been promoted to two gold stars, which is really extraordinary, it seems that thirty is expected to be promoted to three gold stars." Lorist sighed.

Princess Celivia was furious and kicked on Lorist's footboard: "I'll be twenty-five next year, so my grandfather is going to hold a knight tournament, do you understand!"

"Woo-yo!" Lorist cried out in pain.

Princess Celivia angrily walked out of the study with the box containing jade jewelry, and the great swordsman of Cindy came to Lorist and smiled slightly: "The little girl has been practicing in retreat for the past four years, and finally promoted to the second gold star, the Grand Duke of Fisabrun specially held a knight tournament for her, and the little girl has always insisted on coming to you to invite you to participate, understand?"

Watching the Elder Swordsman of Cindy come out of the study, Lorist came back to his senses and turned his head to look at Count Kenmais, only to see him holding a bottle of wine and drinking in frustration.

"Look, no, I didn't expect Princess Celivia to fall in love with you!" said Earl Kenmeth with red eyes and a gasp.

"I ......," Lorist said, pointing to his nose in disbelief.

"I am you, I don't understand such an obvious hint, Her Royal Highness the princess is right, you are a piece of wood......" Count Kenmath slumped on the sofa: "Obviously I am more handsome than you, my temperament is better than yours, and my demeanor and cultivation are better than yours, why does Her Royal Highness the princess take a fancy to you as a piece of wood?"

"Hey, I'll let you have one hand, come to ten of you and we will try, and I will guarantee that ten of you will lie on the ground with only three moves. Lorist jumped up and down on the sofa and reached out to touch the footboard: "This girl's feet are so heavy, it hurts......"

"You deserve it, you can't hear such an obvious hint, Her Royal Highness said that she is already twenty-four, and I know why the Grand Duke of Fisabrun is holding a knight tournament next year. ”

"No, you mean to say that the knight tournament held next year is to find a husband for Her Royal Highness?

"Well, you use this word very well, that's what it means. Count Kenmax nodded.

Lorist was curious: "Isn't Princess Celivia the precious granddaughter of the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, and is she afraid that she will not find a match?

Count Kenmax looked at Lorist with disdain: "Say that you are a soil bun, you are a soil bun, do you think that Her Royal Highness the noble princess is so easy to find a marriage partner? Although there are many people who pursue Her Royal Highness the princess, and they have all kinds of titles, but can they just rely on the title? There are several dukes in the Iberian Kingdom, but are they worthy of princesses? They are all honorary nobles, even princes are useless......

Like Grand Duke Fisabrun, there are many things to consider if you want to find a marriage partner for Princess Celevia, the identity of the other party, the strength of the family, at least you have to be right, otherwise it will become a joke in the aristocratic circle. As a princess, she is most suitable for marriage as the heir of the principality's kingdom, princes and the like, or powerful nobles, like you. Grass, so you are really the most suitable partner for Her Royal Highness the Princess......"

"Well, I'm ten years older than her......" Lorist said.

"What does it matter if you are ten years older, do you know how many years apart the daughter of the Grand Duke of Melain and the Third Prince were when they got married, and fourteen years old!" said the Earl of Kenmeth.

"The daughter of the Grand Duke of Melain and the third prince?"

"The three princes of the former Krisson Empire have the same problem, and they can't find a marriage partner with the same status. The eldest prince and the second prince have a bad reputation, and the powerful nobles do not marry the royal family, and the nobles who are willing to marry the royal family have a low status. So the eldest prince and the second prince have illegitimate children outside and have a bad reputation. By the time the third prince was thirty years old, the precious daughter of the Grand Duke of Melain had grown up and was willing to marry the royal family, so it was for this reason that the third prince was made the heir to the empire by the first emperor. It is precisely because of this that the eldest prince and the second prince are not convinced. In fact, the previous emperors of the Clison royal family did not have a queen, and only the imperial concubine inherited the throne as ......"

"Why are the powerful nobles reluctant to marry the royal family?" Lorist was puzzled.

"It's simple, because after marrying the royal family, one is rejected by the aristocratic circle, after all, the royal family and the powerful nobles are naturally opposite. The royal family always wants to reduce the strength of the nobles, for fear of posing a threat to them, and in the face of a strong royal family, the nobles like to huddle together to protect themselves, and the ancestors of Baron Philim are examples, and no one wants the same fate. Second, the aristocracy is afraid of joining forces, and the marriage between the powerful nobles and the royal family is easy to expand their power and infringe on the interests of other nobles. The third is like the Grand Duke of Meleain, who was involved by the royal family, and the three kings of the Clison Empire competed for the throne, and the Merlein family invested most of the family's resources in order to preserve the orthodox inheritance of the throne of the three princes, and the strength was consumed a lot.......

"What should I do if the Grand Duke of Fesabrun holds a knightly jousting tournament and can't find a marriage partner of comparable status?" asked Lorist again.

Count Kenmath shrugged: "That's the best way to deal with it, find a real winner to become the marriage partner of Her Royal Highness the Princess, it doesn't matter if your status is low, as long as you become the son-in-law of the Fisabrun family, all the children born to Her Royal Highness the Princess in the future will be surnamed Fisabrun." ”

"So Locke, don't let down Her Royal Highness the Princess's deep affection for you, no matter what, you have to give me a knight tournament in May next year, don't let Her Royal Highness the Princess find a son-in-law!"

...... (To be continued.) )