Chapter 553: Knights of Wickus

There is a saying that you are idle to death, and you are busy to death. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Lorist thinks she's too bored to be idle right now. Don't look at the two months that the Norton family has occupied the territory of the four provinces of the business alliance, and it has caused changes in the Gelinthia continent, the restoration of the four countries, and the signing of mutual assistance and friendship agreements with sixteen countries in the central and southern regions, the independence of the Chikde Kingdom and the Mayflower Chamber of Commerce have separated from the business alliance and become an independent kingdom, this series of major events that can be remembered in the history of the Galinthia continent has nothing to do with Lorist, anyway, he feels that he is almost moldy.

On the contrary, Shi Fatzi, Maleke, Reddy, El, Schward and other high-ranking family members are all very busy, just as Shi Fatzi said, there is no time to close his eyes and sleep well, at most four or five hours a day, and when he opens his eyes, he has to concentrate on discussing agreements with the envoys sent by the sixteen countries in the central and southern parts with a smile, mediating disputes, dividing interests and signing agreements. Not to mention anything else, I vomited several times just a day of drinking, and those envoys from the central and southern countries were not capable of anything else, and they were all good at drinking and bragging. Only when they are happy will they not be so entangled in some details and sign the agreement happily.

Even Malek, known as the Man in the Iron Mask, was drunk and vomited four or five times, and it is conceivable that the job of receiving those envoys from the central and southern countries is not so easy and pleasant. It's just that all of this has nothing to do with Lorlist, it can be said that the identity of a sword saint makes Lorist be hung high, like cannibalism in the world. If it is only the identity of a Grand Duke of the Northlands, then there is no shortage of territorial dukes among the envoys who come, and Lorist must personally go out to receive him, otherwise it will be a faux pas. But Lorist is still a sword master, and as a result, those duke's envoys have to respectfully greet Lorlist, and those with low status are not yet qualified to meet them.

Ledos, the prefect of the Liberal Alliance, who was also so busy that he was so busy that he smiled so hard that his whole face froze, was not without jealousy of Lorist's leisure, but this could not be helped, the aristocratic circle paid attention to an equal status, unless the king came in person, Lorist could come forward to receive him for a while. Just like Shi Fatzi said, the Sword Saint must have the appearance of the Sword Saint, and the shelf that should be put on the shelf, because this is not your business alone, but you represent the dignity and face of the Norton family, and represent the entire Norton family, as well as the Norton family's renting and countless ancestors who have served the family in the past three hundred years......

Therefore, even if Lorist has nothing to do at night, he has to put up the shelf of the Sword Saint and occasionally meet one or two nobles who come to meet him, and if he says a few words, he can accept the gift and let the other party leave, and the follow-up matters can be left to Shi Fatzi and them to deal with. As for the situation that is too boring, there is nothing they can do, but according to the customs of the aristocratic circle, if you are bored, you will either drink or play with women. So Shi Fatzi and the others selected a lot of beauties to send to Lorlist's side, including gifts from those noble envoys.

Lorist is not interested, if he is still a mercenary in Morent City, there are so many beauties around him, then Lorist must be overjoyed, so many beauties can be picked by themselves, it is simply a man's paradise, and the bare meat screen can be placed in several. But now that Lorist is over forty years old, his whole heart has begun to settle down, and he is no longer as impulsive as he was when he was young. Isn't that what women are like, the more troublesome they are. He already has a wife and four concubines at home, two lovers outside, and a large group of children, and Lorist is too lazy to provoke these beauties again.

Of course, this is not Lorlist's hypocrisy and hypocrisy, the main thing is that although these beauties sent over are all beauties, they are still slightly inferior to Lorlist's wife, concubine and two lovers. Not to mention Princess Celevia's elf-like beauty, Anna's gentleness, Fenna Gary's coquettishness, Aridori's heroism, Theresti's intellectuality, and even Daisy and Maria, the two concubines from a small aristocratic family, are also extraordinarily beautiful.

So Lorlist's vision is naturally a little high, these beauties sent are not particularly outstanding or even peerless beauties who are alluring the country and the city, which can make Lorlist's eyes shine and his index finger moves, just like the gifts sent by the noble envoys of those central and southern countries There are also beautiful women, but they are basically dancers who dance and entertain as playthings, Lorist is too lazy to gather a few of them, which is also the best way to avoid turmoil in the family after returning to the family territory.

After signing the "Agreement of the Twenty-One States in the Central and Southern Continent of Guelinthia", Lorist returned to Bryn Heights in the city of Moriente before the family forces. Before leaving, all the beauties sent were promised to the meritorious soldiers in the family armed forces, which naturally won the loyalty and cheers of the family soldiers again. As for those beauties, well, no one will consider their feelings, after all, they are either captives of the Norton family or gifts from nobles from other countries, and it is already their greatest luck to be able to marry a good husband.

Before he could take a breath back at Bryn Heights, Lorist noticed that Tagger appeared in front of him.

"Your Highness, His Majesty the King has returned to the Imperial Capital. Tagger reported.

In November last year, His Royal Highness Remarried in the territory of the Fisabrun family, and it is said that the Grand Duke of Fisabrun recruited all the beauties of the right age in the family for His Royal Highness to choose, there is always a suitable one, the old man probably thinks so. As long as he can be favored by His Royal Highness, the old man of Grand Duke Fisabrun will adopt her as an adopted daughter and marry him to His Second Highness, striving to be the right person.

Although His Royal Highness got married again in November, and Lorist also returned to the Northlands, he mainly stayed with Princess Celivia and Daisy to let them give birth smoothly, so he didn't bother to attend any wedding. So he concealed the news of his return, and sent Bodfinger and Director Codan to give gifts on behalf of himself and the Norton family, and attended the second wedding of His Royal Highness.

"His Majesty made a decree before he reached the Imperial Capital, and dismissed the Knights of Waixus from the post of Acting City Warden and handed them over to the Captain of the Royal Guard, Knight Lippired. Now the Knights of Wai are idle. Tagger continued: "Your Highness, there is still news, but it has not been accurately determined. It is said that the new queen is pregnant, and it should be about three or four months by now......"

"It seems that His Majesty has worked hard enough to make the new queen's belly big so quickly. If a boy is born, I think the bastard Knights of Jersey will be out of luck. The best outcome is to be assigned far away to be a little lord. Lorist laughed.

The Wickus knight was looking for his own death, and after being rejected by Baron Camorra, he really wanted to use the royal army to attack Qilin Harbor, and he also wanted to capture Baron Camorra to the imperial capital. It's just that the first time he sent out was a hundred-man team of royal guards, which should be the most reliable force he had at his disposal. It's just that the royal guards are not very lucky, they think it is an easy raid, they can make a fortune from the new Qilin Port Bazaar, and they don't think that any nobleman would have the guts to offend them royal guards, because behind them is the crown prince Vicus knight.

These royal knights have forgotten the Norton family and Lorlist, the sword master, perhaps they are used to showing off their power in the imperial capital, and the other is that most of them are fox friends of the Knights of Wickus, and because of their friendship, they have made an errand in the royal guard, and they have no access to the facts that the high-ranking nobles know, and no one has told them about the prestige of the Norton family. In the eyes of some well-intentioned people, in fact, this royal guard hundred-man team is just a pawn of the Norton family.

As a result, the fate of this royal guard hundred-man team can be imagined, they were surrounded and disarmed by the city defense corps of Qilin Harbor, and then suffered a severe beating. No one paid attention to the orders of Crown Prince Vicus that they were shouting about, but instead stripped them naked, tied their hands behind their backs, confiscated their war horses, and escorted them back to the imperial capital bare-bottomed. As a result, these bare-bottomed royal guards caused a sensation as soon as they entered the city, and the incident of hundreds of people running naked collectively was really attractive. As a result, countless onlookers gathered on both sides of the road to comment on the object hanging from the crotch of these royal guards, causing lifelong psychological damage to these royal guards......

The Knights of Wickus were furious, how could it be justified! The Norton family did not take him, the crown prince, the future king of the Kingdom of Antinac, in their eyes, and even humiliated the royal guards who represented the dignity of the royal family in such a way, this was a provocation to the Royal Family of Antinac, and it was also the greatest shame suffered by him, the crown prince! Even if the head of the Norton family, the Grand Duke of the Northland, or the new Sword Saint, had to give an explanation to the Royal Family of Antinac, and the Knights of Vanis were eager to reprimand him in front of Lorlist.

I don't know where I heard that the so-called Juggernaut must also respect the king and obey the king's words, and the Knights of Vanus didn't take the Norton family to heart at all. Since the royal guards are not strong, let's change the Royal Guards and see what happens. It's just that after the order was given, the Royal Guards didn't move, and the order was like a stone sinking into the sea, and there was no response.

The Knights of Wickus were furious, and went directly to the headquarters of the Royal Guards, and asked the Legion Commander Knight Ripreid to lead the legion to Qilin Harbor immediately, and capture all the members of the Norton family who humiliated the royal guards back to the imperial capital for him to dispose of. Knight Lippired ignored him, but softly advised him not to be impatient, all this will naturally be dealt with by His Royal Highness the Second Highness, and the Knight of Waixus should do a good job of acting as the city guard.

The Knights of Wai Pyred were even more angry, and he publicly accused Lipided of disobeying his orders as the crown prince and wanted to betray him?

At this time, the knight of Visas was immediately dumbfounded, he didn't expect that His Royal Highness would bury this hand. However, it seems that this secret order should be true, Knight Lippired has followed His Royal Highness for nearly twenty years, and all the nobles in the imperial capital know that he is a diehard loyalist of His Royal Highness, which is also the main reason why he was appointed as the commander of the Royal Guards Legion in the imperial capital, and His Royal Highness trusts him very much.

Captain Ripired also knew the expectations of the Second Highness for the Knights of Willus, so after showing the secret order, he still persuaded the Knights of Willus not to be confused by the slander of those villains, since the Second Highness agreed to hand over his Lingang to the Norton family for development, he naturally knew in his heart that the Knights of Wickus, who were the acting city guards of the imperial capital, had better not participate in it at will, as long as they conscientiously fulfilled the grain trade agreement signed by the Second Highness and Lorist, so as not to ruin the plan arranged by the Second Highness.

The Knights of Vanis returned in a huff, without the possibility of using force against the Norton family and the port of Lim, and the unwilling Knights of Wickus angrily refused to carry out the grain trade agreement, on the pretext that the Norton family's purchase price was too low. And Baron Camorra doesn't care, since you took the initiative to refuse to give up this financial route, then I'm not welcome, so there is an endless stream of grain ships transported from the Northland to Moldant City, and the income of the two million Kingfords that was originally the Second Highness has become an additional income for the Norton family.

In June, the treasury of the Kingdom of Antinac was impoverished, and the granaries were piled up. But the problem is that the salaries and benefits of the armed soldiers and civil and military officials of the kingdom cannot be paid, and each person cannot be sent back a few bags of food. His Royal Highness was not an expert in the development of the people's livelihood, and although food production was resumed, commerce in the kingdom's territory had not yet recovered, and almost all the transactions were controlled by the Duke of Kenmeth's Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce.

And the kingdom did not mint its own gold coins, all of them were golden, and the bloody battle of the Mana Hill Plain for more than three years can be said to have consumed most of the kingdom's reserve gold and silver, and there was no entry or exit to make the second highness lack a large amount of funds to restore the kingdom's economy and commerce, after all, most of the taxes were replaced by physical goods and grain, and the circulation of gold and silver coins on the market was becoming less and less.

Under such circumstances, the grain trade agreement reached between His Royal Highness and Lorist can be said to be an important pillar to save the kingdom's economy. As long as there is no war, there is no need for the kingdom to reserve so much grain and various materials, and the grain produced by the kingdom can be exchanged for more than 2 million gold fortunes, which can not only be used to pay the salaries of civil and military officials and the kingdom's armed forces, but also invest nearly one million gold coins in mining and other industries to restore people's livelihood and economy, and within four or five years, the kingdom's economy can be restored to its original level.

It's a pity that the plan of the Second Highness was artificially interrupted because of the greed of the Knights of Visus, and after the gold and honeysuckle in the treasury were spent, the Knights of Visas were also anxious, and hurriedly sent people to Qilin Harbor to say that they were willing to continue the grain trade. However, Baron Camorra refused, according to the agreement, the transaction should be completed before June, and now it is August and it has expired early, so who can sell the grain of the transaction......?

The desperate knights of Wickus had no choice but to take the advice of their men, first delaying the payment of their salaries for three months, which could be replaced by grain, and then changing all the taxes to be paid in the second half of September to collect cash, even the tithes paid by all the nobles of the kingdom, not food and goods, but only gold, silver and copper coins. After the tax payment is completed in the second half of the year, the treasury will have gold coins, and salaries and various welfare subsidies will be repaid. The third suggestion was to expand the mining of gold and silver mines, increase the gold and silver reserves of the treasury, and then try to get the kingdom to mint its own gold and silver coins in place of gold and silver.

In fact, the first of these three suggestions is a bit reliable, and the second is nonsense, compared to the aristocracy, most of the families have gold and silver coins in reserve, and the tithes on the fields are changed to cash, although they have been criticized, but they can still get by. But it was a disaster for those farmers, and the rest of the harvest that had been used to pay taxes with grain was enough for the family to feed and clothe. However, now the peasants are forced to sell their grain first and then pay taxes, and as a result, the grain is becoming cheaper and worthless, and even some peasants have sold all their harvest and cannot afford to pay taxes, and some peasant rebellions have begun to break out in the kingdom, which had been somewhat calm.

As for the third suggestion, it was purely to take off his pants and fart, the kingdom minted its own gold and silver coins, which was supposed to be, but it was not the turn of the Knights of Visus to call the shots. And His Royal Highness didn't fight this idea because there were not enough gold and silver reserves in the treasury. The Knights of California came up with this idea on the one hand because they knew that the Knights of Wickus were happy to do what they liked, and on the other hand, they took this opportunity to feast their own pockets, anyway, everything has the Knights of Wickus to thunder, he is the crown prince, and His Royal Highness will not do anything with him......

At the end of September, the messenger of the Second Highness came, and the Second Highness and the new queen were already on their way back to the imperial capital, and with this news came back a will of the Second Highness, removing the Knights of Waixus from the position of acting city guards in the imperial capital, and the Captain of the Ripreed Legion became the new acting city guard, and at the same time, there was another secret order handed over to the knights of Ripired, arresting all the henchmen and subordinates of the Knights of Wickas, waiting for His Royal Highness to return to the imperial capital to deal with it.

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