And this goods only took eight days from import to sale, and the profit brought was enough to make a baker work hard for eight years.

This brought great satisfaction to Hilde, who admired wealth and even more so the sea.

He wanted to have a navy of his own, so he could go wherever he wanted and sell whatever he wanted.

"Your Highness, Lord Hetty has arrived, and he has brought wine and food."

"Okay."

Bran took off his cloak to protect against the cold, threw it to Hilde, and went straight inside.

The fire in the house warmed up a lot.

On the chair sat a young man, Hoffmann Day Jam, the grandnephew of Archduke Herti of Austria.

The two can be said to be unfamiliar with each other.

In the brawl incident half a year ago, the two had a bad relationship.

But if the hatred comes suddenly, it dissipates quickly.

It was at the same time that Hoffmann was reprimanded by a letter from the elders of the family, saying that he was spending too much money in Rome and that he was ordered to go back and explain the following year.

So Hoffman was distraught and didn't like anyone.

In addition, he was even more dissatisfied with the fact that he was broken face by the black knight Qiongan in the regiment at the beginning, so he made some ridiculous moves

Two months earlier he had received information from Austria that one of the male heirs in the Grand Duke's succession had died of illness, and that he had now risen to the fifth place.

And it is likely to rise to fourth.

There are not many men in the family, so the letter from the elders turned to mildness, asking him to concentrate on his work, and help him find a wealthy female nobleman in the future, improve his status, and enter the court of the principality.

Maybe one day, all the former members will die of illness, and it will be their turn to become the master of Austria?

"Hard work" is not valuable, "dreams" are valuable!

This calmed Hoffman and began to make up for the Order's previous mischief.

Bran was also in the easing crowd.

Hoffman threw an olive branch first, but Bran didn't answer it at first, for fear of a ghost, but later saw that Hoffman was sincere, so he agreed that the place was in his own place, so he was not afraid of the other party making trouble.

Hoffman agrees very happily and thoughtfully, so as to avoid misunderstandings with Fernando, and always meet Bran in private.

Drinking alcohol makes people forget about the evil, and if drinking it once doesn't solve it, then drink it twice.

This is the fourth time we have met, but we don't drink.

Hoffman also played conquest chess, and his skills were good, and the two started playing when they met for the second time, and Bran didn't play too much at the time.

As soon as he entered the house, Hoffman stepped forward to give Bran a warm hug.

It looks like the relationship is excellent.

Both of them have been in several interactions, finding out each other's interests and tempers.

After sitting down, Hoffman pulls out a box of "wood frankincense" imported from the Aegean Sea, which he knows Bran loves to eat (but he doesn't know that Bran was poisoned to treat his childhood headaches).

Bran took it very straightforwardly, and asked Hilde to bring an antique dagger.

"This is when I went back to Florence, I bought it from a merchant when I passed through the market, I heard that it has a history of hundreds of years, you are an expert in weapons identification, you can taste it, take it with you."

After Hoffman took it, he looked at it for a while, and his eyes focused on inferring that "the bottom pattern is burned by fire forging techniques, and although the rose outside the scabbard has faded, it extends outward with four petals, this is a purple rose, this flower is produced in Bohemian ......"

Focused, serious, rigorous.

Hoffman had looked at every side of the dagger and said a lot of things.

"Produced in Bohemia, circa 1200." This is what the merchant who sold the goods said at the time.

Hoffman, on the other hand, pushed back the clock by thirty years to locate the gifts created by a certain king during his reign to his vassals.

Bran smiled, both of them had been serving as guards lately, and they didn't dare to drink.

Hoffmann was informed this morning that he would be one of the Pope's bodyguards and would receive monarchs and envoys at the Great Messina next week.

And the Archduke of Austria, one of the staunch allies of the Holy See, comes every two years, and this year he will be there.

So Heywood also decided to take Hoffman with him, so that this young son of the Jaime family would be more in the limelight.

"Bran, I just came back from the main gate, and some nobles have already arrived, and in three or four days, the servants brought by the nobles will be at least close to a thousand, and some of them will be busy at that time."

"Talk while eating." Bran directly asked the food to be brought to the chair and set up a table.

"This beef stew is not bad enough, next time you go to Austria, I will take you to a large pasture, where the water and plants are abundant, and the taste of beef is the most delicious I have ever tasted, and I almost swallow my tongue."

"Okay, someday."

"Bran, after this big gift, we may have to go our separate ways, do you want to go somewhere? Or come with me to Austria? I'll introduce you to a few nice noblewomen. ”

Bran knew that Hoffmann was just saying it casually, and didn't take it seriously, and replied casually, "I want to go to Bavaria in the north." ”

Actually, Bran wanted to go to Swabia, where the princess was.

"Well, Bavaria is also a good place, and Livonia, one of the four knights of the Light World, is also there."

Speaking of which, in the Livonian Order, there is a high-ranking person who is also related to Bran - there is a knight who is Bran's uncle!

But this is a story that Bran has never heard.

Eight years before the outbreak of the Second Crusade (.1280), there was a small crusade, and it was because of this defeat that the revenge mentality of the Second Crusade was born.

This time, the battle lords were mostly the princes of the peninsula and the central part of the continent.

The Bavarian side was one of the main players in the war.

At that time, several of the lords and knights of Bavaria took advantage of the Venetian Sea and then returned to their homeland in the north.

He was also one of the lords who participated in the war, and in order to promote his prestige, Howard enthusiastically entertained the lords who returned to his homeland.

Among them, the wife of a viscount, who received news early in the morning, went south to Venice to await her husband.

Unexpectedly, the boat on her husband's return trip encountered wind and waves, and most of them were buried at the bottom of the sea.

In this way, the young and beautiful viscountess became a widow.

Not having children means losing your territory, and you may even be forced by your family to marry someone else.

The lady thought twice, endured the pain, and entered Howard's study three nights later.

It's all about a better life.

This lady has a beautiful face and a good voice, and everyone in the court is very impressed with her.

After her "long talk" with the Grand Duke, the next day, a man dressed like the husband of the Viscountess appeared in the court.

He had a haggard face, wore a hat, and could not fully see his appearance, but he called his wife's name, and the two embraced passionately in front of everyone.

"God willing, the viscount is not dead." Many people have risen to this idea.

For the next ten days, the two men were almost in the room prepared by Howard to "reproduce".