Chapter XXXVI: The Pilsudskis

Ivanhoe. Pilsudski woke up slowly

In the dream just now, Ivanhoe began to talk about his family again

The Pilsudski family is a family full of side branches, the source of this family is said to be in Svadia, but no one can go back to such a long history, people only know that the rise of the Pilsudski family was four hundred years ago, the Chanda Empire was at its peak and declined, the armies on the east side of the Snow Mountain retreated, and along the way abandoned the settlements and fortresses of the great Xiǎoxiǎo The Pilsudski family was one of the few noble families left in the Eastern Regions at that time

The vacuum left by the Chanda people soon attracted countless outsiders, countless people rose and fell in the eastern land, only a few people eventually survived, many Chanda descendants combined with the local natives, forming the later Wechians, and some people stubbornly adhered to their own bloodlines, unwilling to flow with outsiders, and eventually formed the Berks

The Berks and the Wikibians are similar in many traditions, but the Berks are like Westerners, while the Wikijans are distinctly like the Orientals, and some of the Berks are polite and courteous, picky about their eating habits, and culturally important traditions, which make them stand out in the East, in contrast, the Wikiks are more like the Oriental barbarians, they worship violence, love spirits, and are with the Kugit and Salander húns

The Berks have always been consistent in their beliefs with the Western Church, although their ancestors, the Chandas, were supporters of the Eastern Church, and a Bishop of the Berks had written to the Westerners claiming to be the only beacon in the East, while the Vikyans had faithfully inherited everything from the Zendas, who loved their God and ignored the preaching of the Burke pastor

Although this conflict is not as great as between the southern Swadians and Salanders, the rift still exists, and the Berks will try to assimilate the Wikibians in their faith whenever they have the opportunity, and they feel that the Wikibians need to be purified not only in blood, but also in the spirit and in the spirit, and churches that propagate different doctrines often clash in the middle: both sides recognize a certain area as their own parish at the same time, and send priests to preach

The Berks always accuse the Vikians of having problems with the way they receive communion and reading the Bible, and the Vikians accuse the Berks of changing the tradition without authorization In ancient times, the Eastern and Western Churches once held a general meeting under the auspices of Emperor Chanda, but that was an old story, at that time, the people of God were still able to sit together calmly and discuss the doctrine Wikichia respected the doctrine established at that time, and also recognized the legitimacy of those meetings, but after the church split, the Western Church held its own convention, The Wikians don't admit any of them

Differences in habits eventually lead to differences in cultures, and the clash of beliefs eventually evolves into a clash of war

The Berks and the Vykians are drifting apart, although there is a Vekia between the Swadia and the Berks, but the Berks have always had the same atmosphere as the Swadians, a few decades ago, when the Nords attacked Swadia, the Berks once sent a messenger to ask Svadia if they needed assistance Due to doubts about the original intentions of the Berks, the Svadia Emperor politely rejected the Berk army, but officially recognized the dominance of the Berks on the east side of the Snow Mountain, and at the same time, Svadia recruited a large number of Vecchian mercenaries to cross the snowy mountains, which greatly weakened the Vicchians east of Snowy Mountain in a few decades, and were defeated by the rising Burkes in one fell swoop

In the past, the Berks were only vassal states in the eastern part of the Central Empire

They were nominally subjects of the Chanda Empire, and after the Chanda Empire was replaced by the Svadian Empire, they became independent, but their Grand Duke had to be canonized by the Svadia Emperor if they were to appear legitimate, and the Swadias had to some extent inherited suzerainty over the Berks until decades ago, when the Swadias themselves renounced this right

The Duchy of Burke became the Kingdom of Burke

The Pilsudski family is the most powerful family in the Berke Kingdom, although nominally, the king of the Berke Kingdom is fairly elected from among the nobles, but no one can shake the status of the Pilsudski family, the Grand Duke of Pilsudski is often more powerful than the king, and the strange thing is that the Pilsudski family has infiltrated every corner of the Berke Kingdom, but has never shown much hope for the throne, and only three of the seven kings produced by Berke over the decades are from the Pilsudski family

There was a kind of aristocratic council in the Berke kingdom, and almost every nobleman had a veto power, and if too many nobles participated in the meeting, the meeting became a disaster, and this practice is said to have been inherited from the tradition of the Chanda period, but strengthened by the Berks

This practice has been criticized in many resolutions, and the Berks have always spent a lot of time in endless quarrels, and even behemoths like the Pilsudski family have had to succumb to tradition: Once on the banks of the White Rock River, the Berke king was going to build a castle to intimidate the Vicchians on the other side of the river, and most of the nobles agreed to the proposal, but a local xiǎo nobleman suspected that it was an excuse for the Pilsudski family to try to annex themselves, Strongly opposed to this proposal, due to the fact that the Berke Kingdom Parliament respected everyone's voice, the castle was later dissolved, only two watchtowers were built, and the Xiǎo nobleman, who was captured during a Wikibian attack and later rotted in the dungeon

Although the Berkes knew that this tradition was sometimes very harmful, they kept it, consciously or unconsciously, and they knew that the opposition was too great for anyone to touch it, and for the Berke nobles, they regarded this right as their most powerful guarantee, and people believed in their own rights, not in the king's justice

In order to unite the kingdom and gradually eliminate parliamentary traditions, the Pilsudski family continued to marry the many children and grandchildren, and they joined forces with almost all the families, one to raise a child, one to have a nephew, and one to a nephew. And those Xiǎo families were willing to join the Pilsudski family from now on, and in the Berke Kingdom, many families had the Pilsudski family's key sword pattern on their coats of arms, and the Pilsudski family had a special clerk to comb through the complex family tree, which was the practice of the royal family elsewhere

Although many families accuse the Pilsudski family of gradually turning the Kingdom of Berke into the Kingdom of Pilsudski, the Pilsudski family did play a huge role: they integrated the scattered forces of the Kingdom of Berke, they bridged the contradictions between the nobles of the Great Xiǎo, and they led the kingdom to withstand the attacks of the Vicchians one bō after another

In the East, the most powerful Berke kingdom was not as large as the Vikyans in terms of population, not as vast as the Kugit in terms of land area, and not as easy to defend as the Creelians in terms of geographical location, but it was this kingdom that was able to subdue the subjects of the steppe and Creel city-states, and moved them to attack the Vycians together, many of which were the work of the Pilsudski family

The specialty of the Pilsus family was the hussars

Although the Burke nobles all had a tradition of training hussars, only the Pilsus family maintained a large hussar, because the hussars were extremely expensive, and could not be maintained at all if they could not mobilize huge financial resources: helmets, dorsal wings, hollow spears, military horses, silk streamers, xiōng armor, swords, chain mail jackets, and the equipment of each hussar was enough to envy foreign knights, and thousands of such cavalry marched quietly. Even the enemies could not help but be intimidated by their solemnity and sacredness, and the Burks had frightened many of the castles of Vekia that had fought their own battles through their neat military appearance

The bright red saffia is on the xiōng badges of the hussars, and on their coats of arms are the insignia of their respective families--- most commonly the key and sword

Whenever the king was elected, the hussars would take charge of all the ceremonial guards and guard the task The captain of the hussars once said proudly: "Once the king ascends to the throne under the escort of the hussars, then his majesty will be greater than that of all the other kings combined" The handsomeness of the royal hussars dwarfs even the royal cavalry of Swadia, and when His Majesty Harlaus ascended the throne, sixty hussar guards were responsible for opening the way for His Majesty, which was a little bit of the Archduke of Burke's favor

The Pilsudski family has come a long way to this generation, but there is still a long way to go

Yusuf. Grand Duke Pilsudski has become a snotty old man, he droops his head all day, sits on the iron throne in a dirty nightgown, and the worries of the people grow day by day, the Grand Duke can no longer rule the country well, he gave up the throne six years ago, and hid behind the stage under the name of a Grand Duke, but the fundamental --- of the kingdom Pilsudski family is still in the hands of this old man

The king kept hinting that the Pilsudski family should take over the void left by the Grand Duke as soon as possible, but the Pilsudski family remained silent, and they continued to guard their posts, comforting the king's messengers without disturbing the Grand Duke

The Grand Duke had three biological children, the eldest son, Neil. Pilsudski; NV Lyanna. Pilsudski; xiǎo son Lech. In addition, Pilsudski has his adopted son Ivanhoe. Pilsudski

The eldest son is a brave warrior and an upright military judge, people have always thought that Yusuf will pass on the title of Grand Duke to him, Neil from xiǎo to Dadu is the center of the family, everything seems to be prepared for him Neil does not like to read, only likes to march and fight and beautiful nv people, other than that, he has nothing else, which makes him very popular with soldiers

And Lech has been bored to see that once, Neil bī Lech and he used a wooden sword to fight, Lech casually swung the sword twice, threw the wooden sword aside, and then picked it up and lay on his side to look at Neil was surprised that a man actually didn't like weapons, and gradually stopped asking about his brother's martial arts

Yusuf's attitude changed when Lyanna was seventeen years old

That year, Yusuf promised Lyanna to a fifty-one-year-old marquis, and when Neil learned about it, he left the hussar camp and rushed back with his generals, and before Yusuf could stop Neil, Neil insulted the marquis to his face: he asked for a duel, and the marquis of Bī divorced

All of a sudden, the whole city moved, and everyone gloated at the marquis's disgrace

The marquis's face was so angry that he offered to give up the duel, to give up Lyanna, and at the same time, to give up the covenant

Seeing that the covenant was about to be broken, Lehe came forward to ask as the marquis's acting knight to face his brother Lehe, which greatly moved the marquis, and also made the family members frown, and outsiders all talked about it, thinking that this thin xiǎo son must be an idiot, but Yusuf looked meaningfully at this xiǎo son who had been ignored by himself for a long time

There were no miracles in the duel

Lech was knocked off the saber by a beautiful combo and knocked to the ground

The Marquis's acting knight lost to Lyanna, but he was still allied with the Pilsus, and he mentioned that he had an NV son, the same age as Lech;

Lyanna's brother won, she doesn't have to marry a bad old man, she can marry the man she likes;

Archduke Yusuf was worried and found that he and the marquis's faces were decently protected

Neal was smug and pulled up his brother who had fallen to the ground

Neil won the duel, but lost everything, and Lech just smiled and ran back to see himself

A few months later, Archduke Yusuf arranged for Lech to leave the capital, and let Lehe go to various places to be responsible for building roads, collecting grain, mobilizing soldiers, maintaining law and order, and collecting taxes, and went to overseers, grain officers, and sheriffs

Three years later, Lech returned to Yusuf, and by that time Yusuf's health was rapidly deteriorating

The conversation between father and son is simple, "Have you learned anything?" ”

"Learned something, father"

"Is it enough?"

"I don't know, father, I haven't had a chance to test yet"

"Okay, good" Yusuf tilted his head, saliva flowed out, Lech wiped his father's mouth with his hand Yusuf's mouth sipped, the toothless mouth was a little wrinkled and sunken, "Child, I dreamed that I was old"

Soon, a shocking news spread in all directions, and the deputy commander of the hussars, Neil . Pilsudski was transferred to a city in the upper reaches of the Baishi River as the lord of the city, and Lech became the deputy head of the regiment, and according to custom, the deputy head of the regiment was the position of the future family successor, Neil was surprised and asked to see his father, but Yusuf refused all of Neil's requests, and finally sent troops to forcibly take him to Xiǎo City under house arrest

Yusuf became an old man who could only nap, sitting under the sunny stone wall every day, covering his knees with a blanket, and sleeping peacefully

The adopted son, Ivanhoe, is cautious but ambitious

He saw Neil's failure and Lech's rise in the family, he has not been taken seriously, from Lech's story to see his own hope for a while, he felt that luck does exist, an unknown young master suddenly became the future Grand Duke, Ivanhoe understood this as good luck, as long as you grasp the opportunity, there will be good luck

Ivanhoe felt that he was nothing bad but luck

Soon, luck came

The king needed a group of emissaries, and the status of a member of the Pilsudski family was just right

Lech couldn't leave, Neil was placed under house arrest, and Ivanhoe almost laughed: this simple but honorable errand must be his, and he took the initiative to run to the Grand Duke Yusuf, hoping to go himself

Yusuf trembled and said: "Ivanhe, don't go, accompany me to bask in the sun I dreamed of your father, he died in the river when he was young, he said it was so cold, you will be cold if you go" "stay, accompany me to bask in the sun"

Whenever Yusuf remembered his young comrades, Ivanhoe could only pretend to grieve for his biological father, and then he resolutely said, "Father, let me go and I will be the best envoy and I will convince King Vecchia that he will not send a single soldier over the snowy mountain."

Yusuf looked up at him, then mō his face, wishing him good luck

That was a long time ago, Ivanhoe was startled, and now he woke up, and across from him was a Count of Vecchia

"You''" Ivanhoe didn't know what to say anymore

"Emissary?" The Count asked, "Is it your mission to make a contract?" ”

"Yes," Ivanhoe lowered his head, his anger gone

"Is it for the peace of the two countries? No more wars, no more fraud," the Count scratched his face, "do you want the two peoples to live happily together?" ”

Ivanhoe looked up at the Count and hope welled up in his heart, "Yes"

"You're not here to stir up hatred and war?" The Count asked suspiciously

"It won't"

"Really?"

"Absolutely not, we went to Kudan, there would be no war, I promise you absolutely not"

The Earl nodded, and there was a kind glint in his eyes, "I see"

The Earl stood up with a smile and waved his hand, Ivan Hel breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed that it was a misunderstanding, the Earl let himself go, he came for peace, who would hurt himself

The two men set up Ivanhoe, and Ivanhoe was helped to his feet, and suddenly, he saw that his subordinates were all in the sky, and when he looked up, his subordinates were all wrapped around their necks with a rope, and they were hanged from a tree, and their eyes were looking at themselves blankly, and the wind blew, and the dead were swaying in the trees

"This'''!" Ivanhoe felt his throat dry and wanted to explain it

The two men behind Ivanhoe dragged him to the Xiǎo Creek, held him down, and pressed him into the Xiǎo Creek

The water poured into Ivanhoe's nose and mouth, and he tried to lift his head to breathe, but the two men behind him held him down

"Child, don't go, you'll be cold" Yusuf whispered in his dream thousands of miles away, shivering at the same time