032.Battle on the Top (1) Ask for subscriptions, favorites
"Friend, you're going to the South too?"
"Yes, are you too?"
"It seems that we are all fighting for glory and a family business."
With the Celestial Rite in Rome, a large number of pilgrims to Rome also knew about the Milan Tournament.
Many knights wanted to see what Bran was like.
His appearance has been the hottest topic in the Mediterranean for the past two years.
Purple eyes!
Many now affirm that Bran was the reincarnation of Diocletian the Great.
Brando held a jousting banquet near the headquarters of the Teutonic Knights.
The roads of northern Italy are now unimpeded.
And although Bran had friction with Chai Su's side because of the land grabbing incident, they were not easy to make trouble with Bran's excuse for claiming.
And after Bran sent gifts to the three people and Yi'andu.
Even if Chai Su wanted to make trouble, he was already unable to do it while lying on the bed.
The subordinate simply told him that Bran had sent a messenger to apologize.
The envoy sent by Bran on a pilgrimage to Rome also made a play and verbally promised to give an account of the matter.
This time, the competition was accompanied by a bazaar, which was very lively, and paid more attention to ornamentation and entertainment.
There are so many people who have signed up.
Around the tournament grounds, a large number of blacksmiths, carpenters, and leathermen were stationed.
A large number of wandering artists, beggars, wine girls, and peasant girls all went to the vicinity of the Teutonic Knights.
The Teutonic Knights did not have castles, and Bran used stone buildings to inhabit them.
and built a sixth-floor high lord's conference room, a total of forty-two rooms.
Four days before the tournament, Bran lived on the top floor of the sixth floor, overlooking it all.
A large number of nobles had already come to see him since today, and Bran shook hands from morning to night, and his hands were about to break.
The tournament was presided over by Bran, so his original family armor was changed to a gilded form, and the seven-star sword was integrated into gold.
Even in the dark of night, the current seven-star sword does not need to swing out the firelight, and the brightness of the sword body alone is like a small candle.
Dandolo was next to Bran, who was in charge of entertaining the envoys, and Ambu was also there, and he was in charge of the schedule.
"Your Highness, there are four waves of England and Irish here today, and ......"
"Let's find out, make Durham's son's schedule simpler, let the youngsters win a few more and increase their confidence.
As a host, you can do whatever you want.
The jousting tournament drove the nobles crazy, and even Ambu himself signed up.
Bran didn't even need to ask, and he knew that he would do something about the schedule, but he didn't plan to stop it, and it was naturally best for his own men to take it.
"Your Highness, there is one more thing, among the people who came this time, there are also Swabian knights."
"It doesn't matter, just let them participate, but let me find out their identities."
The schedule was quickly made by everyone.
The next day, Bran met with a group of nobles.
Some of them came to their knees and pledged allegiance before them.
"Your Highness, my name is ...... Crusader veterans from the Holy City, who have heard that you have defeated the giant Ashklay and protected the prestige of the Light, have high respect for you.
This knight is really old, and even if Bran is noble, he doesn't want to be courteous.
There are so many aristocrats who come that many of them do not have the local hygiene habits of Milan.
Branga sent people to clean it by hand.
The nobles made their armor colorful, even strange.
There are also people who use fruit as a coat of arms.
The knight in charge of the inspection asked a knight who had come to battle.
The local knight's face was uneasy when he saw this man's strange accent.
He asked, "Where are you from?"
"County of Glamorgan.
"From Wales (in England)?
"I heard that the Lord of the Seven Stars is powerful, come here to visit, and chase glory with the sword in my hand."
The man spoke an unfamiliar Italian, and after communicating, the local knight let the man in.
But after this knight got the qualification, before the game, he boasted drunkenly that he had heard of this place, so he deliberately said where he came from, and casually forged a noble document written by a scribe, and it really got mixed up.
When the good deeds heard about it, they did the same, and reported the name of the Earl of Glamorgan.
On this day, Bran's men received twenty-four knights who claimed to be the county.
But unfortunately, the earl also came this time.
The Black Prince Joan himself made a pilgrimage to Rome and went north to visit Milan, and he brought with him a delegation of envoys including the count.
Scheduled to arrive tomorrow evening.
There are many people who forge their identities to participate in martial arts competitions.
After Ambu told Bran, Bran nodded, "Since they are from England, then assign them to the knight opponents of Frank or Swabia so that they can survive." ”
This big competition is divided into two types.
Fight with a sword and immediately ride a spear.
The former is handed over a copper plate, and with a sword or similar weapon can fight, as can civilians.
Later, it was necessary to have horses, armor, helmets, noble papers, riding spears, to join, and to pay a silver ruble.
The rules are according to custom, and the one who wins takes everything from the loser.
Another day, the Black Prince's procession came up from the south.
Finally arrived in the Duchy of Milan, and Bran personally went to pick it up.
Traveling with the Black Prince, there were also Meng Gao, Leri, and their families.
Old Meng Gao is now an earl.
He was the Earl of Glamorgan, who was given the title of Black Prince.
Bran, the prince of the country, is on an equal footing with Joan.
When the two saw each other, they hugged each other.
"After many years, the black prince's martial name makes me admire, this time you come to Milan, I will treat you well."
Qiong'an didn't bring many people this time, mainly the Meng Gao family, and they took the opportunity to return to Rome to follow back to their hometown, so they brought more people.
Milanese people are really rich, Meng Gao, who came along the road, sighed in his heart.
Controlled the printing press, paper, Venice and the Northern Peninsula, and pirates in the Mediterranean.
As well as Bran's policy of developing science and technology and improving agriculture and commerce, Milan, which has only about 100,000 square kilometers, has a population less than that of England, but once the overall national strength is fully operational, it will not be lost to England.
A large number of Judits were also joined. Meng Gao felt that in a few years, his hometown of Rome might have to hang a white dragon statue.
Thinking of the blind date back then, Meng Gao secretly sighed that it was unsuccessful.
Jiuxi also came this time, dressed up like a nun.
This is a kind of English female official costume, and in England today, women can share part of the power of the country, but only in some unimportant domestic affairs.
Jiuxi delved into the legal code and was drafting something called Magna Carta, which would assist the royal family in better ruling the country.
Bran glanced at Jiuxi a few times, but after she returned the salute, she lowered her face in avoidance.
The past is gone, like fireworks.
Bran took the time to call Agatha, "English ladies take care of me, especially ......"
After marrying Arnold, Agatha became more and more stable.
After a lot of time, she didn't have to let Marlene deal with it, and she was able to arrange things well.
The arrival of the Black Prince made the venue noisy.
The impostors of the Glamorgan, in particular, retreated.
But Bran then issued an order, "If the victor has no ruler, he shall be accepted as a retainer, regardless of whether he is a nobleman or not, and shall take the top six with a sword and a spear, and immediately take the first four with a spear, and the decree committed in Milan shall be lenient." ”
This means that it is possible to accept up to ten commoners as nobles and be exempted.
The imposters are dreaming and most of them decide to continue fighting.
In some places, it takes six generations of ancestors to be nobles before they can participate in the war.
But that kind of jousting has been reduced to the show-off of the aristocracy.
Bran did not have any restrictions, and asked his subordinates to write down the foreign knights who came to the war this time, their origins, ages, places of origin, family coats, etc., and stored them in the diplomatic files.
Only two hours after the Black Prince appeared, another group of heavyweight nobles arrived.
There are still two batches, one is a subordinate of roses.
This one came on behalf of the Alliance of the Five Kings, and there was a very powerful knight in the team.
When his red dragon flag appeared, everyone talked about it.
This man's reputation was active in the Balkans, and in Italy, the common people did not hear of him.
Even if he was once praised by the Ottoman Tiger.
He was sent to Byzantium by his father and brother when he was young, and then captured and taken to Ottoman, where he spent three years as a hostage, and then returned to Byzantium as a dragon knight Vlad.
And the other is the Three Rivers Warriors.
A majestic war paint greeted you.
When some of the knights of the Peninsula saw it, they said, "Do you see that big man?" The first punch in the East China Sea. ”
Roaring white bear, left shield and right axe, golden thread red heart on the chest, flame as the bottom, twenty iron bear guards came, and the big bear led the team.
Edwin was accompanied by his wife, Helen, who was about to give birth, so he did not come.
But Edvina told Big Bear, "Take the honor back to Trois-Rivières!"
Big Bear is determined to win this time.
"Look, that's the emblem of the Livonian Order, the legendary warrior who once launched the Wende Crusade, Loras the Windtalker."
The Wende people are a tribe of Slavs located in the eastern part of Denmark.
During the Second Crusade, the nobles of the Bright World in the north, because they were too far to go to the Holy City, negotiated terms with Luyo II, gave themselves a reason to invade the religious war, and went there to rob and rob.
If the southern expedition is still a bit of a defense of faith, the northern one is purely robbing money, food, and women.
"Wow! Brady, the mad bull from Central Italy, is also here, he peeled off the skin of the enemy last time, don't face him!"
"Northern Italian fast sword Arnold, I heard that I also participated."
"And the Knights of the Hundred Flowers of Rome!"
The envoys of the Songhai Kingdom also arrived just in time, but Bran didn't let them go to war, which was a real guest.
However, the aggressive Songhai people also asked for a quota, and Bran got his hands and feet, and their opponents were a bunch of stinky fish and rotten shrimp.
The lineup is getting more and more luxurious, powerful, and even a king!
That's right, a nobleman from the Sinai Peninsula who briefly established a small kingdom during the Second Crusade.
Although the kingdom only existed for five years, he still regarded himself as king.
He once slept with the wives of three nobles on the same day, and said a phrase that has been handed down to this day.
"It's good to be king."
His nobles joined forces to overthrow him, and he sought political asylum in many places.
After Bran expanded the size of the court, he began to look for nobles who had titles but wanted to lose their territories, and if they were valuable, he stayed.
A few people can still afford to raise themselves, and if there is an opportunity in the future, you can help them make a claim, once they succeed, the benefits are huge.
This big contest is full of people at the right time.
Some nobles who had no intention of attending the Great Church were encouraged to go north because they came to Rome to participate in the Great Church.
I don't know who called this martial arts tournament the battle on the top.
On the eve of the match, it was quiet, and Bran guessed that it would not rain.
He sat alone on the sixth floor, with the princess of Alain by his side.
Today's princess Alain, with a big belly, already has Bran's child.
Bran didn't force her, he just made her realize her situation.
Bran valued her royal status more than her beauty.
Henry is the heir, but he also needs illegitimate children to expand his influence and rule.
It's all about the country.
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