Chapter 330: Territory Speculation
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"Give the weapons to Demi and Diana and let them wait outside!" Meng Han didn't raise his eyelids, and immediately ordered. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Joey and Julie didn't say a word, they turned around and went back, handed the weapons to Demi and Diana, and let them put them in the carriage with the metal crossbow on their bodies. The guards stood silently, sword hilt in hand, and stood guard around the carriage.
Francis remained silent until now: "If you want them to come in with weapons, it's not impossible." It's just a little too conspicuous. "Although this is the royal palace, it is really not a big deal to bring two weapons in, as Francis said.
"There's no need!" Meng Han shook his head and said as he walked towards the palace, "Two swords can't change anything, but they can make many people think I'm domineering. I don't take this reputation, if I really want to be unfavorable to the boss, it doesn't make a difference whether there are those two swords or not. He only said it to Francis and Joey Jolie, and his voice was very low, but the strong confidence between the words could not be concealed.
"He didn't dare to do it on such an occasion!" This kind of occasion is about the honor of the principality and the image of the eldest duke in front of the nobles, in other words, it is impossible for anyone to do the kind of thing that directly kills the meritorious heroes at the celebration party, and the eldest duke does not have the courage of Zhu Yuanzhang. Francis responded with a smile, but his heart was already rippling.
For the first time, Francis could no longer see through Meng Han. In the past, he knew that Meng Han was just a magic apprentice, and he could only use the most basic magic shield and ground thorn techniques, and he could draw the base of the magic scroll, and the rest of his combat power was completely dependent on the personal guards around him who were catalyzed by the magic flower fruit, and even the strength of the two little maid magicians around him. So now, can Meng Han be so strong as to use his own strength to decide the fate of the eldest prince anytime and anywhere?
Francis is puzzled, but that doesn't mean Joey and Julie aren't puzzled. Those strange phenomena after the "double cultivation" with Meng Han had already let them know that Meng Han was by no means a simple magic apprentice now. But as for how powerful Meng Han was, they couldn't say clearly, because they would never be able to measure Meng Han's combat effectiveness with Meng Han. One thing is for sure, on Meng Han's arm, there are two fifth-level thunderbolt lightning scrolls, if anything happens, at least the opponent needs to deal with two eighth-level powerful magic first.
In the main hall of the palace, there is a festive scene, and the noble lords who have come one after another are also slowly looking for their positions in the main hall according to the rank of their respective factions. Although the palace was large enough, with so many nobles appearing, coupled with the people in charge of ceremonies and services around it, the palace hall of Nuoda was also crowded.
Seeing such a scene, Meng Han also had to sigh, the nobles in this world are indeed a little more. This is just that there are so many nobles in the megalith castle, and if you add the lords and other officials from all over the world, there are two more palaces that can't fit in. No wonder many nobles have no territory, and the land is simply not enough. Meng Han was also lucky, his family's original territory was exchanged for Huangsha Town, compared to those who did not have a territory, he was lucky.
In this scene, Meng Han naturally didn't have any contact with the Marquis, so he just stood with Francis where the viscounts should be, chatting casually, waiting for the ceremony to begin.
When the trumpeter in the palace sounded the trombone representing victory, His Majesty finally appeared in the palace, and the ceremony of commendation began smoothly.
The first commendation was the Marquis, who was the commander of the army. As the commander-in-chief, he not only strategized to recover the territory of the principality, annihilated most of the five-nation alliance and drove him out of the principality, but also personally went into battle and captured the commander of the five-nation alliance, Marquis Anthony. However, the Marquis is already a title above 10,000 people in the principality, and His Majesty the Grand Duke cannot canonize the Marquis as a duke, so he can only give a lot of honorary titles, as well as allocate a rich territory, and at the same time give the Marquis a hereditary earldom, of course, there are some financial rewards, these are not very important.
"Congratulations, Count Francis!" Hearing the hereditary earldom, Meng Han smiled and congratulated Francis beside him. The Marquis must not have condescended to the earl, so it could only be cheaper Francis.
"It's just a stain, it's not as enjoyable as the earl you snatched with a real knife and a real gun. Francis replied with a smile.
The two were chatting in a low voice here, but they had already begun to reward His Highness over there. Next, there are a whole bunch of meritorious counts, at least a dozen of them, each with a different credit. Among them, two of them were earls who had wholesaled two noble corpses from Meng Han, and both of them were happily accepting the Grand Duke's reward, and they didn't feel that they shouldn't have it at all.
After the counts, there were viscounts. There were many viscounts who participated in the war, but there were not many who made meritorious contributions. Of the more than 20 that need to be commended, nineteen of them were bought from Meng Han, and only a few were left with military merits that were mixed when His Highness was the commander. On the whole, it is still the Marquis's side that is the majority.
Relatively speaking, the merit is the merit, but the actual reward is not much. There are almost no real territories, and the most is that the descendants can inherit their current titles within three generations, as well as the false names of some honorary titles and knightly titles. Of course, there are a lot of rewards in terms of property, but in Meng Han's opinion, those people are at most just returning to their capital, and the one who makes a lot of money should be regarded as Meng Han himself.
When His Majesty the Grand Duke announced that Meng Han's reward was actually promoted to earl and rewarded with a piece of land, it immediately caused a lot of excitement in the hall. The people on the Marquis's side all knew that Meng Han's merits were real, and there was not much gossip. However, the side of the eldest duke and some neutral nobles were very dissatisfied with this reward.
The eldest duke was very smart, he didn't explain Meng Han's merits at all, he just followed the reward. Neither said that this was a matter of His Highness wanting to murder Meng Han at that time, but it was not a matter of stealing chickens and rice, nor did it say that Meng Han's task of attacking the lord's mansion was completed very well, but it was explained that this was according to the report of the front-line commander. As a result, many nobles became jealous of Lord Marquis and Meng Han. And what the boss wants is exactly this result.
However, for Meng Han and Lord Marquis, they didn't care what others thought of them. Meng Han got what he wanted and was at ease. The Marquis will soon have a comprehensive discussion with the eldest duke, and there is nothing to say to the people below. When things are decided, it's not too late, and no matter how much dissatisfaction there is, you can settle the general ledger at that time.
The strength of the two is something that no one can shake now. Therefore, those nobles were dissatisfied and dissatisfied, but they only dared to count them on the psychological side, and no one dared to stand up and express it. However, after hearing that Meng Han's territory was actually half a desert, many people started to think about the taste of it and Meng Han's purpose.
Meng Han's reputation in the principality is already comparable to that of the God of Wealth in his previous life, although there is no God of Wealth in this world. Everyone knows that Meng Han has not made a single profit-losing transaction, so in this case, what does it mean that Meng Han wants a piece of desert that no one has ever wanted? Many people immediately think of the legend of the desert treasure map from a long time ago. Could it be that Meng Han has found the legendary treasure?
It's a very good possibility. Meng Han's territory was on the edge of the desert, and the first thing about the treasure map was spread from Huangsha Town. If Meng Han hadn't found the treasure, why would he want that desert where birds don't lay eggs? If it's not profitable, can't afford to be early, could it be that Meng Han, the God of Wealth, will also make a losing deal? Impossible!
What is more tempting is that Meng Han does not know what the price has been spent, so that the Marquis can allocate all the desert to him, how valuable is that treasure, so that Meng Han can see it? If you want to talk about pure gold coins, I believe everyone has already firmly believed that Meng Han will not be very interested, then, the only possibility left is some magic items, or some great magician's practice notes and the like.
If it weren't for these, no one would be able to explain how Meng Han had created a huge industry from scratch in the past few years, and how he had created so many strange things? Bai Yaojing Mine was also said to be an ore, but it was just discovered, but it included many all-metal magic armored vehicles that many mages couldn't imagine, as well as so many high-quality weapons, but how could they explain it?
If you think about it a little more, people can't help but think that thousands of years ago, there were several Dharma saints in the Liujin Dynasty. And the allied forces and the Flowing Golden Dynasty of those magic forbidden spells of the magic saints, all of them are missing, and even because of the fall of so many magic saints, it has also caused magic to suffer heavy damage for a long time, and it is not until a hundred years later that it slowly recovers. Are those vanished Dharma Saints related to these?
In particular, some nobles who know magic have more conjectures. It had never been heard of that a person who failed a magic trial could also perform a second and third magic trial, but Meng Han did it. He had never heard of a scroll base before, but Meng Han made it. If these are all his own, then should the base of Meng Han's magic scroll and Meng Han's gold coins also be his own?
Meng Han didn't expect that the desert territory he had asked for in order to gain a legitimate reputation had already been deduced in countless versions. Even Meng Han himself was already involved with the Dharma Saints thousands of years ago. Together with Meng Han's current achievements, they are regarded as coveted targets.