Chapter 449: A Unique Meeting Ceremony
Entering the huge Duke's Castle, Il was left with only Karst, Jung, and Müller, and the rest of the people and soldiers were taken to their places by the people of the Duke's Mansion, and the rest of the nobles were taken to the rooms of the Duke's Castle to rest, while Il and the other three were led to the hall of the Duke's Castle, where the remaining six Dukes had been waiting for Ildo. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Walking in the long corridor, Ilr stood at the front of everyone, while the other three stood slightly behind on either side, and in front of Il, a total of four guards opened the way, all dressed in very beautiful soldiers' uniforms, all embroidered with the crest of the Ulrich family, very dazzling, and it could be seen that each of them had beautiful hair, which was not the kind of hair that a poor family could have.
It can be seen that these four guiding guards must be from noble families, not ordinary families, which is also normal, just like as a viscount, Jonas must receive his vassal heirs into his castle, just to train their loyalty from an early age and make their parents a fear, and with the improvement of the noble level, these things naturally still exist, the reason why Yir didn't do that is just that he is too confident, and other nobles are not so confident, so these four, at least from the viscount family, maybe there are children from the earl's family。
Walking behind, watching this narrow passage go all the way forward, as if there was no end, Jung sighed in his heart at the enormity of the castle, and at the same time kept thinking about what the nobles in that hall would think of them? A dwarf from Italy, or an illiterate person who didn't understand art? As a new aristocracy, Jung was indeed a little nervous.
Many people present were also very nervous, including Muller and Karst, the nobles in the Susa region had no sense of existence in the empire for a day or two, because of the division of the territory, they would not exist at almost any meeting that decided the future fate of the empire, and the six highnesses kept appearing in the most central position of the imperial public opinion field, and they could be said to be the only figures in the limelight in the entire empire.
It can be said that among the four people present, the only one who has no psychological burden is Il, he is a person who is overconfident and has reached narcissism, even if Jesus has a child and appears in front of him, he will not have any restraint on this, this is Il's character, and it is precisely because of his self-confidence for no reason, with his means and wisdom, that he became a duke, in his opinion, those dukes, are just wine bags and rice bags, which is like himself, forcibly unified the entire Susa, and built a powerful army, compared to himself, it should be them who should be ashamed of themselves, not themselves。
Il's keen perception made him notice the uneasiness of several people around him, and he couldn't help but turn his head to them and said: "I know you are afraid, it's okay, I'm here, it should be them, not us, Jung, Karst, you two are Knights of the Medal, as far as I know, even the Duke of Lower Lorraine only has two Knights of the Order, and we, there are three, why should the powerful be afraid?"
Do you get scared when you see beggars? I don't, only the weak will be afraid when they see the strong, and the strong will just not care when they see the weak, you know, their family history is longer than ours, but those with a long history must be strong? They are richer than us, but those who are rich must be strong? Remember, we are knights, not a bunch of politicians who are greedy for life and afraid of death, we are here to help, not to pay tribute, you know!"
Il's words accurately reached the ears of everyone, for their inferiority just now, Jung and the others couldn't help but be a little ashamed, indeed, as a knight of medals, as a nobleman in charge of the life and death of tens of thousands of people, why should we submit when we see a high noble? The reason why we surrender to Il, is because of the ancient and great oath, for them, as long as we maintain due respect, why should we be inferior?
Thinking about it this way, Jung and the others have reverted to their original appearance, striding forward, Ilr looked at their appearance, and was very proud, this is what he is different from all the nobles, other nobles want the people in their territory to submit to them, and the high nobles also want the nobles under their hands to obey them completely and unconditionally, and Il, he likes strong subordinates, they are unruly, they have their own ideas, which is a taboo problem in other lords, but in Il, this is his favorite type。
Conquering the strong is always more exciting than conquering the weak, and Il is a confident hero, in other words, he dares to play with fire, and he doesn't know if the other nobles dare or not, but he knows that at least none of the six dukes in this dare to be, and this alone is enough for Il to look down on them.
The industrious herdsman with a flock of sheep is worthy of respect, but not worthy of awe, only the head wolf who leads a group of hungry wolves is worthy of fear, and Il thinks that he is the wolf, and Jung and the others are hungry wolves, with them, what is there to fear Il.
Il's words did not only flow into the ears of Jung and the others, but also into the ears of the four guards in front of them, and the eyes of several people exchanged glances with each other, and their eyes were full of contempt, His Royal Highness Pompeii was an incomparably funny and elegant man, and several other Dukes and His Royal Highnesses also had enough taste and etiquette, only the one in front of him actually made a lot of nonsense in someone else's palace, saying some vulgar words, which was simply an insult to the castle and the title on him, as a civilized person, he had to make contemptuous actions for such barbaric words。
But who cares about their contempt? The barbarian never cares whether the civilized man despises him or not, but the civilized man must care whether the barbarian will hurt him or not, and it is clear at a glance which is more important between the two, so although the eyes of several people did not hide the eyes of the three knights of the medal, none of them said anything.
Be confident and let them look at prejudice as if they were farce, without saying a word.
The road in the corridor is very long, but no matter how long it is, there will be an end to it, after I don't know how long I walked, a huge wooden door appeared in front of Il and others, two lamps were lit on both sides of the door, and the door was engraved with the family crest of the Ulrich family, the four soldiers were on one side, one on the left and one on the left and right sides to pull the door handle, and the other two were standing facing each other, "coaxing", the door was pushed open, and the two face-to-face soldiers reported loudly: "Duchy of Susa, Il, His Royal Highness the Duke of Illamich and Count of Montferrato Jung, His Excellency Ruger, Count of Piedmont Karst, His Excellency Piedmont, His Excellency Vice-Count of Genoa Masser arrives!"
The loud sound kept echoing in the huge corridor, and several people were silent at the door for a few seconds, and then followed Il into the large living room, as soon as he entered the huge living room, the originally dim vision immediately brightened, and the entire huge living room took the carved style, and the outdoor light cleverly filled the entire large living room through the mirror, creating such a magnificent living room in the interior of a castle, I have to say that this is already a work of art.
A few people walked forward, in the center of the entire living room, there was a huge table, and there were seven chairs around the table, all of which were sitting on it, only one chair was empty, this chair was Il's, and the rest of the chairs were sitting on the dukes of various countries who came to attend the meeting, and at this moment all of them turned their heads to look in the direction of the door of the living room, and for a moment many eyes were on them, even the confident Jung and others had a short stiffness, only Il still went his own way, smiling, and walked forward easily, as if this was his own home and not someone else's。
Fortunately, thanks to Il's ease, Jung and the others quickly recovered, raised their heads and walked towards the round table, at this time, many of the attendants behind the round table who were sitting next to the long table with chairs also followed the master's gaze to look at the four people who were walking towards them, and many of them began to talk with the people around them.
For them, Susa is really a very distant place, and the Italians are a group of extremely strange people, in the eyes of the Germans, the Italians are not good at war, opera and theatrical performances and business are obviously the most suitable jobs for them, and now to be able to see them so closely that this really aroused their great curiosity, and many people pointed their fingers, as if they were not looking at a noble duke, but a monkey in a zoo.
This behavior is undoubtedly very impolite, but strangely no one stopped it, only Ulrich's entourage maintained a certain degree of restraint, still looking at the paper on their hands without squinting, doing battle analysis, the rest of the entourage was excited, and their master was very indifferent, and no one stood up to greet Il's arrival.
"Hello, His Royal Highness the Duke of Il, welcome to the Moselle, and I welcome you on behalf of the coalition forces. “
Pompey sat in the position of the whole round table facing the door, which is a position that only the master can do, at this moment Pompey stood up from the chair, stretched out his hand to say hello to Il, and the attendants around him also began to move, helping his master to move the chair, so that his master could stand up, and there was no sound in the whole process, until all the attendants stood still, so carefully worked, Il asked himself that he would never be able to do it.
But he didn't pursue any of this, and when he saw everyone standing up, Ilrich smiled and said to Ulrich, "Hello, Duke, it's a long way to go, we're late, and I hope you won't have to wait too long." Il's way of speaking was very relaxed, bypassing the many dukes, Ilrich walked directly towards Ulrich, then took Ulrich's outstretched hand, and then walked to his place and sat down, when the chair was pulled out, I don't know if Il's was intentional, the four corners of the chair and the ground made a harsh friction sound, which made many people frown, and Il's didn't seem to notice, and did it directly.
This made the people around him a little dissatisfied, this duke really didn't know the rules, he should shake hands with a group of people at this time, why did Il just say hello to Ulrich and walked towards his chair, and made such a loud noise, I don't know where this duke came from, and he didn't even understand any etiquette.
The atmosphere at this time was quite awkward, and the remaining five dukes didn't know if it was time to sit down at this time, and Ulrich was also a little overwhelmed, although he knew that these dukes looked down on Il, but what Il's did was beyond his imagination.
He originally thought that Il's should endure it, but Il's adopted a disregarded attitude to deal with them, which made Ulrich a little confused in a short time, but Jung didn't care about anything, and when he saw Il's seat, he walked to the bench behind Il, and at this time on the bench of Jung and the other three, one of them stood up, and he didn't know whether he was a little unhappy or wanted to show his heroism in front of his master, and shouted to Jung and the other three: "There are people here, you go and sit elsewhere." “
Jung and Karst exchanged a look with each other, knowing that what Il's behavior was to provoke these people, in fact, Il's is also a nobleman, and he is naturally very familiar with etiquette, but at this time, he doesn't need to, Jung and the others of course know that he is deliberately trying to provoke contradictions, for reason, it should be related to their lack of confidence, the two glanced at each other, and continued to walk towards the shouting man, the pace was very firm, without the slightest wavering, and Muller followed.
The three of them kept walking forward, and Il didn't look in their direction, sitting in his place, looking at the other five dukes, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, and the man who shouted looked at Jung and the others viciously, as Jung and the others approached, the man's companions also stood up, and then the men on the entire bench stood up and looked at Jung as if they were looking at the enemy.
"This is our location, please give way. Karst said expressionlessly to the person in front of him, his tone was calm, in his eyes, the man in front of him was like a dead man, and his words were his only chance to get amnesty.
The man instinctively shrank back when he heard this, but as a close confidant of his own duke, he should still have pride, besides, this is just a disabled person who is missing an arm, why should he be afraid of him, isn't he just an earl, he is also an earl, he is afraid of what he will do, with such arrogance, the man said: "I said, there is no ..... here"