Chapter 353: Change

It's just that no one expected that His Royal Highness's inspection trip would be so loud......

"Your Highness, His Majesty the King held a grand banquet in the city of Kebo the day before yesterday to entertain all the nobles of the realm who had been canonized by our family to the province of Delemk. www.biquge.info He didn't woo these nobles who belonged to our family's jurisdiction, but only promised that if they were willing to contribute to the upcoming war against the four central principalities, he would guarantee in the name of the king that all his exploits would be richly rewarded, and even the promotion of titles and the transfer of territories......" Shi Fatzi read the news from Reddy.

Lorist was indifferent.

Shi Fatzi looked at the letter again and thought about it: "Your Highness, if those lords of Demke Province are willing to send troops to fight for His Second Highness, what position should our family hold?"

"Let them go. Lorist sat up from the couch: "Do you think it will be useful for a lord like this to bring one or two hundred people to the battlefield? Maybe they can make a great contribution and be promoted to the rank of the second highness, but isn't this a good thing for our family? At least their territory is back." “

This is true, Lorist is right, just like these Delemke Province Realm nobles, most of whom were former Northland lords and traditional lords of Winston Province, were transferred to Dramke Province by Lorlist. The Norton family only has jurisdiction over them, not the vassal families of the Norton family, such as Bodfinger and Fat Man, who became vassal families of the Norton family after being canonized as a territorial nobleman by Lorlist, and are actually one with the Norton family.

The province of Dramke is the domain of the Norton family, and like the province of Winston, Lorist can canonize the nobles of the province or transfer the nobles of other provinces to this place, but cannot turn the territories of these two provinces into direct family domains. And although His Royal Highness is the king of the Kingdom of Antinac, he can promote the nobles of these territories, but he cannot expand the territory of the nobles of these territories, because this is under the jurisdiction of Lorist. Unless he allows these nobles to be transferred and given territories elsewhere, these nobles become his direct jurisdiction, out of Lorlist's jurisdiction.

As Lorist said, he also wished that His Royal Highness would do this and remove all the nobles from these territories, and the territories they left behind would allow Lorist to canonize new lords and expand the number of vassal families, which meant the expansion of the Norton family's power. It's a good thing for Lorlist, and it also reduces the unrest in the sphere of influence. But if you think about it, you know that such a pie will not fall from the sky, and now it is no longer the years when a knight brought a hundred or so miscellaneous soldiers into battle, and what was fooled by His Second Highness was just cannon fodder to send to death.

"That's right. Let's just see how many territorial nobles His Royal Highness can instigate, I believe that they will have a grudge against His Majesty the King if they go to the front and suffer a big loss. Fat Shi smacked his lips and laughed.

His Royal Highness's journey was quick, and he stayed overnight in the county of Shaheen before leaving for the province of Winston. Also a banquet was held in the royal city of Windbrie, where a call was made to the nobles of the new realm of Winston Province who were present. The promise that His Royal Highness said on the spot won bursts of cheers, for these nobles who were formerly the Duchy of Madras, the territories and titles that were transferred and reduced were a pain in their hearts, and now His Royal Highness provided an opportunity to revive his family's name, how could there be any reason not to seize this opportunity.

On November 29, His Royal Highness arrived at the territory of the Philim family in the Southern Province, and had a deep conversation with Count Philim, and then said that he would go to the border between the Southern Province and the Eastern Wilderness Province, where the Rock Legion was stationed, and return to the imperial capital. He didn't plan to take many people with him, so he rode back as fast as he could. Count Philip thought that His Royal Highness was accompanied by Reddy and Parker, the guards of the Thousand Norton family, and the Rock Legion led by Bodfinger on the border, and he didn't care, but just wished him a smooth journey, go and return quickly.

And then......

"What did you say? His Majesty the King brought a dozen horsemen into the territory of the Fisabrun family in the Eastern Wilderness Province?" Lorist jumped, the news was too unexpected.

Shi Fatzi smiled bitterly: "Your Highness, it's true." Now everyone is dumbfounded. Reddy wanted to take a thousand guards into the Eastern Wilderness Province to look for him, but was stopped by Bodfinger. Now waiting for your orders......"

Lorist was very angry: "How did Reddy do it, why didn't you stop His Royal Highness?"

Shi Fatzi looked at the silk letter in his hand and said: "Your Highness, this is something that no one expected, the second highness's behavior is very normal, after arriving at the border, he looked at the defensive front, and then pulled Bodfinger to review the offensive and defensive battles between our family's armed forces and the Fisabrun family's armed forces in the southern province. In the afternoon when he was patrolling the border, he found a flock of wild sheep, and said that he would have an extra meal in the evening, and that he would not let Reddy follow them, saying that he was afraid of scaring them away, so he brought his own dozen or so attendants around. It was nearly evening, and it was dark, so their figures quickly disappeared from the eyes of the guards. By the time Reddy and Bodfinger found out that something was wrong, the Second Highness had already disappeared......"

"Wait, what about the sheep?" asked Lorlist.

Shi Fatzi couldn't cry or laugh: "Your Highness, what's the matter with the wild sheep? The wild sheep are fine, Reddy and they just found that those wild sheep were still gnawing the grass for a long time before they felt that something was wrong......"

Lorist's face was ugly: "The fact that the wild sheep is good means that the Second Highness is looking for an excuse to leave the border, and it is not that there is any accident, this is what he has been planning for a long time." All those who went to the border to see Bodfinger to inquire about the battle in the southern province and what wild sheep to hunt were all excuses. I suspect that he even called on the nobles to attack the Central Four Duchy, just to divert our attention and get him to the Fisabrun family's territory. “

"However, but Your Highness, although the Fisabrun family has signed an armistice agreement with our four families in the Northland, the Antinac Kingdom is still their enemy! "Shi Fatzi didn't understand.

Lorist leaned heavily on the back of his chair and sighed deeply: "Alas...... You don't understand, there is no danger for him to go to the Fisabrun family, and the Grand Duke of Fisabrun will not touch him. No matter how he is also the king, if the Fisabrun family harms him and becomes a monarch killer, then we can completely tear up the armistice agreement and uproot the Fisabrun family under the banner of revenge for His Majesty the King. So the old fellow of Grand Duke Fisabrun will not give us this chance.

What I'm worried about is what His Royal Highness did to conceal his purpose and insist on going to the territory of the Fisabrun family, did he decide to deal with our Norton family? One is in the east and the other is in the west, if we don't cooperate, our family can not care too much about them. But once we join forces, it will become a big problem, no, I must leave for the border of the southern province at once, and see if there is any chance of recovery......"

Lorist gritted his teeth when he said this, and at this moment he really moved to kill. If he could block the Second Highness and his party in the Eastern Wilderness Province, he wouldn't mind killing them cleanly. Afterwards, everything was blamed on the Fisabrun family, and then the armistice agreement was torn up and troops were sent together to exterminate the Fisabrun family. Since you don't know each other so much, don't blame me for being rude, as a king, you always put your mind on the Norton family, and you can't blame others for your own death.

In Lorist's opinion, His Royal Highness's move was clearly to go to the Fisabrun family to seek cooperation, so it was self-evident who the enemy they were going to deal with was, and could there be anyone else besides the Norton family? In this case, it is better to strike first, and then suffer. Lorist doesn't have the taboo of not killing kings among the traditional nobles of the Gaylian continent. If they are all killed, will anyone know about them in the desolate grasslands of the Eastern Wilderness Province? Anyway, when the time comes, there will be the Fisabrun family, who is behind the black cauldron, so do you need to be afraid of anything?

"But, but Your Highness, it's already the end of November, and it's winter soon, so it's too late to send troops to the Eastern Wilderness Province immediately. Shi Fatzi reminded.

"I don't have to send troops, I'll go alone. But I'll wait a few days with the Rock Legion to see if there's any clues or news. Lorist said.

"No, Your Highness, you can't go alone. Shi Fat grabbed Lorlist's sleeve: "Your Highness, you are the Grand Duke of the Northlands, the head of the Norton family, you can't go on an adventure alone! Besides, the New Year's celebration is only a month, you can't be absent, otherwise the family territory will be panicked......"

"It doesn't matter if I attend or not, anyway, I don't need to canonize anyone this year......"

"No, Your Highness, you really can't go ......"

While he was pulling, there was a knock on the door, and Genorio came in to report: "Your Highness, the Rock Legion has another message from the Eagles. “

This second letter says that His Royal Highness had left a letter in his tent for Bodfinger, meaning that there was no need to be nervous, that he was indeed going to the Fisabrun family. Don't worry about any danger to his life. Because he worshipped the Great Sword Master of Xiandi as his teacher, this promotion to the first-level Great Sword Master was only successful under the careful guidance of the Great Sword Master of Xiandi. Therefore, he wants to send the Elder Sword Master back to the Fisabrun family, and stay there until next year's rainy season before returning, without having to send anyone to find his whereabouts......

After reading the news from the eagle, Lorist was also deflated. He felt that he was really self-inflicted, why did he leave the Immortal Great Sword Master in the care of His Second Highness, and he had already known that he would bring this old witch back and imprison her in the family territory. I didn't expect that His Royal Highness would worship the old witch as a teacher, and he was successfully promoted to the Great Sword Master. Obviously, His Royal Highness must have been encouraged by the old witch when he went to the territory of the Fisabrun family, and he really took a wrong step, blaming himself for not expecting such a change to happen.

At this time, Lorist can't find trouble even if he wants to find the Second Highness, Grand Duke Fisabrun, the old witch, the Second Highness, and the Manster beside him are all great swordsmen. Single-handedly slaughtering the Fisabrun family's lair and dominating the castle is a fool's job. Now Lorist has no interest in going to the prairie of the Eastern Wilderness Province to walk in the wind and snow: "Send a letter to Bodefinger, just say I know, let him leave the affairs of the Second Highness alone." Also, let Reddy and them come back, don't wait stupidly on the border. “

"Yes, Your Highness. "Jenorio is out.

"So what should we do next?" asked Fat Shi.

"Cold salad. Lorist said, "The soldiers will come to block, and the water will flood the earth." I want to see what the Second Highness and the Fisabrun family can do with us even if they join forces? “

Ten days later, Count Philim and Count Shaheen came together, and then Duke Kenmeth, who received the letter, also came over. First, they are coming to participate in the New Year's celebration, and second, they are here to sum up the second highness with Lorliste, and what kind of impact will this sudden trip to the Fisabrun family have on the four alliances of the Northlands.

"I think Lorist's guess is correct, His Royal Highness suddenly went to the Fisabrun family to obviously want to subdue the Grand Duke of Fisabrun and bring the Fisabrun family under his command. Although we don't know what price His Royal Highness will pay to bring the ambitious Grand Duke of Fisabrun to his knees, with the Immortal Great Swordsman leading the way, His Royal Highness's goal will definitely be achieved. Moreover, the subjugation of the Grand Duke of Fisabrun would also make him a great prestige in the country...... "Duke Kenmeth is very clear-headed.

"Then do you think that the Second Highness's opening inspection and banquet to call on all the nobles of the realm to send troops to attack the four principalities in the middle were all aimed at covering his goal of going to the territory of the Fisabrun family?" asked Count Shaheen.

"I don't know, I didn't see him when he came to my territory. Duke Kenmas shook his head.

Lorist's eyes moved, and he asked, "Henned, does His Royal Highness want you to send troops and promise you any conditions?"

"Well, he said that if I destroy the four central principalities, I can choose one of the four principalities as my family's hereditary domain, and make me a duke. Count Shaheen replied.

Lorist looked at Count Philim again.

"He said that he would also elevate my title to duke, and make all the southern provinces the direct domain of the family of Philim, instead of the majority of the territories as it is now. Count Philim said.

Shi Fatzi shook his head on the side: "Our Majesty the King is still like this, rewarding him with things that don't belong to him......"

"Are you tempted?" asked Lorlist.

"If that's the case, I won't ignore him, but His Royal Highness pointed out that the bottleneck of the current development of the Southern Province is the lack of manpower, and if I send troops to the Central Four Duchies, I can plunder manpower from there and come back to develop the Southern Province. So I'm a little tempted, but I'm still thinking about it......," said Count Philim.

"I'm tempted," admitted Count Shaheen, "and you know that I have never been very good at the development of my family's domain. But war, you can plunder wealth, and that's very appealing to me. In addition, I hope to find a place with more mines as a family domain, so that I can accumulate some wealth for my children and grandchildren. Two small silver mines and one copper mine in the small mountain range of Hindersen on this side of the province of Demke are still a little less produced......"

This is true, Count Shaheen is the tightest of the four families, and he took the small mountain range of Hinderson as the family territory, only to find that the three mines there only produce two or three hundred thousand gold fords a year. If it were a nobleman from another territory, he would have made a fortune, but for Baron Shaheen, who controlled a family legion, this income was just enough for the expenses of the family legion, and if it weren't for the frequent subsidies given by Duke Kenmeth, he would have wanted to reduce the family armament to supplement the family.

"What about you?" Lorist asked Duke Kenmeth.

"Listen to my father, His Royal Highness said that if our family also sent troops, he promised to open up the trade routes of the whole kingdom for us to pass and operate, and also to reduce half of the tax for three years. I don't care, anyway, my title is no longer elevated, and the family territory occupies the entire province of West Degrad, although it is remote, but safe, and we have no other ambitions. In addition, the liberalization of trade routes is not attractive to me, and I don't look down on the tax anyway. I'd rather he block the trade routes, so I can earn more money by smuggling by sea. However, His Royal Highness's suggestion was very attractive to the family chamber of commerce presided over by my father, and he wrote to me in the hope that I would agree to send troops......" replied the Duke of Kenmeth.

Lorist fell into thought, and after a while he said: "I feel that His Royal Highness's desire to attack the Central Four Duchy from the Southern Province is not a pretense for you to cover up his visit to the territory of the Fisabrun family, first, he has prescribed you different conditions that are attractive to you, and second, he has also issued a call to all the nobles of the realms of Dramke and Winston, if this is a deception, he will lose your trust and make his reputation plummet." However, now that he has gone to the Fisabrun family's territory, we can't guess what he has in mind, so let's wait for him to come back. It's useless to be anxious now, I'll go see him then. ”

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