Chapter 151: Title Promotion

Lorist lifted the curtain and walked into the tent.

Everyone was stunned, followed by ecstasy......

"Big, my lord, why are you here......" Shi Fatzi jumped up even more, he was so excited that he knocked over the desk in front of him, and scattered pen and ink documents and maps.

Lorist smiled: "I'm here to take you home......"

An ordinary sentence made half of the people in the big tent red-eyed, burst into tears, and couldn't help choking.

Elephant Dorles, one of the veteran cadets of the Dawn Academy who volunteered to follow the Schrader convoy north, was entrusted by Lorist to be the captain of the chariot convoy. From February to September, more than seven months of sharing weal and woe with the convoy until now, and now trapped here without an inch, anxious and helpless, this will hear Lorist say to take them home, immediately burst into tears.

Lorist first hugged Dorus, and said to all the people in the tent, "Nothing can stop us from going home, how difficult it is for everyone to get all the way here." Now that the Duchy of Madras is the Northland, not to mention the Iron Guard, we can smash it to pieces even if it is an iron man. ”

Lorist hugged them one by one, and when it was Bodfinger's turn, the first man to pledge allegiance to Lorist had red eyes: "My lord, we are incompetent......"

Lorist interrupted him, "No, you've done a very good job. ”

Finally, there was Schreider, Lorist looked at him with mixed feelings, the former big belly was gone, the ruddy round face turned into a pointed face, the cheeks were sunken, and the fleshy appearance could no longer be seen, several wrinkles were added to the forehead, and a few gray hairs could be vaguely seen on the corners of the temples. It can be imagined that he is under a lot of pressure during this time, and it is really difficult for him.

Lorist opened his arms and hugged Schreder hard: "Brother Shi, you have worked hard......"

Schreder couldn't cry......

After re-seating, Lorist announced a decision that he would hold a grand banquet tomorrow night to promote the meritorious members of the convoy to the rank of family knight.

Lorist said with a smile: "Originally, I was going to wait for the team to arrive in the Northland before rewarding meritorious deeds, but now that the scale of the team is so large, it is indeed unreasonable not to promote meritorious personnel to family knights for rewards." This time, one batch will be promoted first, and another batch will be promoted when the team returns to the family territory. As for the list of meritorious personnel, we recommend that it be sorted out by Knight Schred. However, we also need to communicate beforehand, and if there is a better place to go, we will not force them to will. ”

"After tomorrow, the team will be restructured and we will be busy. But the hard work we put in will ensure that our team can go to Northland smoothly. Cheer up, there are many difficulties we are facing, but they do not stop us from returning to the Northland, to our home. I'm confident that I'll lead you back to the Northlands, but I'm just a man, not a Titan, and not a fire-breathing wyvern. To bring such a large convoy home, we need everyone to work together, please. ”

Lorist stood up and bowed deeply to everyone in the tent......

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Late at night, the camp that had been noisy for a day slowly calmed down, and countless people fell into sweet sleep in the silver-white tenderness sprinkled by the silver moon.

There were only three men left in the tent, Lorlist, Schreid, and Bodfinger, and Reddy boiled a pot for them and Max stepped back to stand outside the tent.

“...... Your biggest mistake is that because of your greed, you were taken advantage of by the Second Highness. If you refuse the request of His Royal Highness after the Battle of Aonogahara and lead the convoy north, I believe that it is impossible for anyone to block the road and rob along the way. I know that on the one hand, you are looking at my cousin's face, and on the other hand, you have already tasted the sweetness in Gerdos City, so you want to replenish the convoy with more supplies, but you have forgotten one thing, that is, the more supplies you have, the more you will become a burden on the convoy......"

This is Lorist criticizing Schreed.

"Our convoy is like a giant python, although it is large but very flexible, occasionally eating a bunny, a little goat or something does not affect the flexibility of movement. But you drove it to swallow the bison, and you swallowed several of them in one go, so that it couldn't move freely. In such a situation, our convoy becomes the best prey in the eyes of others.

Character determines fate, Brother Shi, you have great talent, this was reflected in the time of Slov Manor, and Count Miranda is full of praise for you. But your stingy character has become the biggest flaw in front of the overall situation, you just want to hold all the benefits in your hands, and you are reluctant to give up, and this has become the best way for His Royal Highness to use you.

You also made a mistake, you swept the territory nobles of the Kingdom of Antinac so that His Royal Highness got the greatest benefit, but you carried the black cauldron. You know how surprised I was when I heard that the rumored demon Sred was you. Even if those territorial nobles get in the way and rob our convoys, you shouldn't act rashly. Think about it, if you don't hang those captured territorial nobles, but pack them up and send them to the imperial capital to be disposed of by the Second Highness, then it will be the turn of the Second Highness to have a headache, and he will not have the opportunity to calculate our convoy at all. ”

Lorist picked up the silver cup and took a sip of the somewhat cold Michels.

Schrader muttered, "I was wrong. In the past, I always felt as if I was being used by His Second Highness, and something was wrong, but I couldn't find out what was wrong, and I only understood what was wrong when you analyzed it like this. Locke, you've changed, you're now seeing farther than we all do, and you're looking more and more like a lord. ”

Lorist laughed: "No way, people will always change, only after becoming a lord do you feel the pressure on your body, this is actually forced out." Brother Shi, you don't have to blame yourself too much, as the manager of the team, you are the best, but as the leader of the team, you are unqualified, because you are easy to lose your way. But it can't be helped, like Bodfinger, he is a good general, but not a qualified commander. The two of you have been able to support each other to bring the convoy here, and to expand the convoy so large, it has already done your best with most of your efforts. ”

"It's my fault that if I had set a date for you to get to the Northland, it wouldn't be like this. You have good intentions and serve your family, so you will try your best to collect materials and gather the homeless. Now we only need to bring the convoy and the homeless people back, and in a few years, we can build the family territory into a paradise in troubled times, a blessed land on earth. ”

"So what should we do next?" Schrader was very energetic, the arrival of Lorist made him feel that the burden on his shoulders was half lightened, and he had already been physically and mentally exhausted by the six months of painstaking leadership of the team. If he came back for another half a year, he doubted whether he would be able to return to the family territory alive.

"There's no hurry. Lorist said: "We've heard from Reddy about the situation of the team, and thanks to your predicament, the team has not been crushed by the difficulties it faces." I'm going to promote the meritorious personnel of the team to become family knights, just to settle the hearts of the team first. Compile the list in the evening and ask them again in the morning if they wish. Next, I will also learn more about the details of the team, as well as the strength of the Principality of Madras. Knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent is invincible, this sentence was said by a philosopher thousands of years ago, and I think it is very reasonable. ”

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When His Royal Highness heard that the new head of the Norton family had arrived at the convoy, he rushed to the convoy camp with Chrisia in the afternoon of the next day.

With his right hand on his chest and behind his left hand, he bowed his head and bowed halfway, and made a solemn pilgrimage to the Second Highness, which was the official etiquette for the lower lord of the Gelinthia continent to meet the upper lord.

His Royal Highness was very happy, and after returning the salute, he hugged Lorist to show his enthusiasm.

Then there was Chrisya, who remembered Lorlist's appearance, but she was not used to the crying little slug, but now she had grown into a tall, athletic young man, and the new head of the Norton family.

first inquired about the situation of the family, then remembered the tragic past and hugged Lorist and cried for a while, and finally when Lorist teased her when she would marry the Second Highness and give birth to a baby as soon as possible, she was annoyed and angry, and she relapsed, stretched out her hand and pulled Lorlist's ears, and the frightened Lorist told her again and again.

It took a while for everyone to officially start talking.

His Royal Highness was very straightforward, and he pointed out the plight of the convoy in front of Lorlist, believing that the convoy's current food could only last for four months at most, and the Andinac had no spare strength to support the convoy and take care of the displaced people. Once the food is exhausted, the displaced people and the convoy will collapse, and then the number of men and horses will plunge the newly settled kingdom of Antinac back into chaos and man-made disasters. His Royal Highness demanded that the owner of the Norton family's convoy, Earl Norton, must find a way out for the convoy as soon as possible, and not watch the tragedy happen, which would not benefit anyone.

Lorist smiled and politely pointed out that he had only inherited the title of baron and could not afford the title of earl, and motioned to Reddy to return the canonization certificate of the promotion of Baron Norton to the earl to the second highness.

Everyone in the big tent was stunned, no one expected Lorlist's rejection of the canonization certificate of the Second Highness, is this preparing to turn the other cheek or the Norton family refuses to serve the Second Highness?

His Royal Highness came to his senses and hurriedly asked if he had been rude or had done something wrong, or if the Norton family was preparing to turn their backs on the Andinac royal family and even be denied a promotion?

"The pride of the Norton family lies in the oath that no member of the Krisen royal family and the elders of the family will bend their knees for anyone else. The Andinac royal family is the inheritance of the orthodox Cresson royal family, which is recognized by the world, and the Norton family will naturally not break their oath, and we will also be loyal to the Andinac royal family. It's just that the Norton family can't accept the canonization of His Royal Highness, because it would change the Norton family from a territorial nobleman to an honorary nobleman, and for us, this is not a promotion, but an insult, so we refuse. ”

Schrader was the first to understand, he slapped himself hard, he made a big mistake again, he would have accepted the canonization of the promotion of the second highness, if it wasn't for Lorlist's detection, accepting the title of earl, the Norton family would really have changed from a territorial nobleman to an honorary noble.

El and Telman looked at Schrader strangely, why they slapped themselves, and Schrader explained to them in a low voice,

Generally speaking, the promotion of the title of nobility of the territory must be sealed or resealed by the territory, which is the original territory plus other territories, and the change is to give another territory that is larger than the original territory, and the original territory will be taken back by the superior lord.

Now His Royal Highness has been promoted to the title of the Norton family, from baron to earl, but it is just an empty earl title, and there is no territory marked. If Lorist accepted the title of earl, it would legally mean that the original Norton family territory would be recovered by His Royal Highness, and the Norton family would have no more territory except for an earl title.

Day, this guy is so insidious. In addition to Schrader's eyes becoming more and more unpleasant to the eyes of the Second Highness, El and Telman's eyes were also not good, and the eyes of the people in the big tent who had figured it out changed.

His Royal Highness was also dumbfounded, this was indeed an oversight, and it was not a trap he deliberately set. If it weren't for the Norton family's territory in the desolate and remote Northlands, it would be more than enough to divide the area into two counties. When he decided to promote the title of the Norton family, firstly, he did not want to divide the newly integrated kingdom territory into a piece of sealing, so that there would be a behemoth squatting around him, and secondly, he felt that the Norton family's territory was large enough, and there was no need to add another piece, and the promotion of the Norton family's title was also convenient for the Norton family to set off a storm in the Northland, and he could go toe-to-toe with the Northland Grand Duke who belonged to the second prince.

It's just that I didn't expect that there was such a big loophole in the title promotion decision at this time, for the nobles of the territory, such a promotion is indeed an insult, and some of them are fierce and even make the lower lord and the upper lord become enemies of life and death. Lorist's performance can already be said to be quite polite and low-key.

His Royal Highness stood up and bowed to Lorist to apologize: "This is my negligence, I am very sorry, in order to apologize, I am willing to give the entire Northland to the Norton family as compensation......"

Lorist sat rudely and ignored His Royal Highness, just kept turning the silver cup in his hand.

Kriya behind the Second Highness couldn't help it, and also stood up: "Locke, you are so rude, Your Highness has admitted your mistakes and apologized to you, and handed over the entire northern land to the family as compensation, what else do you want?"

Lorist laughed: "Cousin Chrisia, may you ask Your Highness the Second Highness, is the Northland under the rule of the Kingdom of Antinac?"

There was silence in the big tent, and even Chrisya was speechless, and all eyes were fixed on the Second Highness, waiting for his explanation.

His Royal Highness couldn't wait to slap himself like Schred, but he made a mistake again. dreamed of unifying the former empire and restoring the glory of the Clison royal family, and subconsciously regarded himself as the crown prince of the Zhongxing Empire, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he promised the Nordland to the Norton family as compensation, but he forgot that the Northland is now the Iberian Kingdom belonging to the second prince, not the Antinac Kingdom ruled by him.

The Khan came out in a hurry, and took the territory of other kingdoms as compensation for the nobles of his own kingdom, which would inevitably make the Kingdom of Andinac a joke if it was to be spread. Even the promise of the Second Highness will become a model of empty white teeth, and more importantly, it will make the Norton family, who has become his greatest help, centrifuge from now on......

In a hurry, His Royal Highness had a flash of inspiration, and suddenly thought of a good idea, he smiled slightly, and said to all the people in the big tent: "Indeed, I am ready to hand over the entire northern land to the Norton family as compensation......"

The crowd was in an uproar, and Chrisia exclaimed, "Your Highness, you ......"

His Royal Highness waved his hand: "I haven't finished my words yet, this is just compensation, not sealing." I have decided to use my Prince's Domain as a seal for the promotion of the Norton family's title, and although the Northlands are not under my rule now, I promise that after I destroy the Duchy of Madras, if the Nortons have mastered the entire Northland, then I will canonize the Norton family as the Grand Duke, and the entire Northland will become the hereditary domain of the Norton family. ”

Lorist laughed, the second highness was very quick, and with these words, he turned around what he had said wrongly. If the Kingdom of Andinac eliminated the Duchy of Madras, it would be bordering the Northlands, and at that time, if the Norton family controlled the entire Northlands, it would naturally fall under the rule of the Kingdom of Antinac, and the compensation and canonization of the Grand Duke of the Northlands that His Highness said would become a reality, not a joke.

However, Lorist is very curious about where the prince's territory of the Second Highness is, which is a larger territory than an earldom, how can the Second Highness be willing to take it out and seal it?

Schredder angrily handed over a map, cursed in a low voice and pointed to a point on the map: "This highness is too insidious, be careful." ”

Lorist looked down and saw that it was a lonely island, the area was indeed larger than the county, but most of it was mountains and sandy beaches, and the arable area was not large, no wonder Schreid was so angry.

Lorist smiled again: "Well, since His Royal Highness said so, then our Norton family will accept the canonization of the Andinac royal family and be promoted to the title of earl." ”

His Royal Highness wiped the sweat from his forehead and sat down again, and the big tent returned to a harmonious atmosphere......

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