Chapter 68, the long road (asking for votes)
When the dust settled, Hudson joined the team to handle the formalities of territorial confirmation. This time, Count Pierce did a good thing, and directly placed the office window of the Governor's Palace in the city of Dadir, and did not need to travel hundreds of miles to Beida.
Registration is complete, and then there is a long waiting period. Hudson belonged to the nobility of the kingdom, not the retainer of a large nobleman.
According to the rules of the kingdom, the canonization of the nobles of the kingdom must be approved by the king in order to be effective. To be precise, you have to be canonized by the king himself to be considered a true nobleman.
The Alpha Kingdom has a vast territory, with more than 20 provinces in the country combined, with a total area of millions of square kilometers and a population of tens of millions.
With such a large kingdom, the change of nobility happens almost every day. If the king had to be canonized every time there was a change, then Caesar III would not have to do anything, just hold a ceremony for the canonization of nobles every day.
For convenience, the canonization ceremony of the nobility of the kingdom was held once every five years. At that time, all the nobles who need to be canonized will arrive in the royal capital and accept the official canonization of the king together.
Prior to this, the succession and canonization of titles were also valid, but before the completion of the procedure, some of the rights and interests of the nobles were missing.
For example, in the aristocratic council, they only have the right to sit and make suggestions, but they do not have the right to make proposals or vote.
These are minor issues, and for Hudson, whether it is a proposal or a vote in Parliament, it is far away.
If you look at the council of nobles in the southeastern provinces, you can know how watery this thing is when such a sacred thing is held at a banquet held by the governor.
After packing his bags and preparing to take his troops to the territory, Baron Redman suddenly brought a bow.
"This is what I got from an old friend, and it's said to be the exclusive bow of the elves. Although there is no magic device, the power is not comparable to that of ordinary bows and arrows.
In the hands of ordinary people, it is pure waste. Hudson went and tried it, hoping that it would unleash real power in his hands. ”
Baron Redman said with a little please.
If he hadn't inadvertently mentioned it in a conversation with an old friend, he wouldn't have known that his son was the famous "Knight of the Divine Bow".
Even now, he still feels like he's dreaming. After all, Hudson's talent is a father who knows nothing better.
But facts speak louder than words, and when everyone around him began to say this, Baron Redman could only understand that Hudson was deliberately hiding it.
After all, there are so many legendary things about Hudson. Obviously, before leaving, he took 500 serf soldiers, but everyone said that it was 500 elites.
The explanation was useless, not only did they cite the results of the battle to prove it, but they also swore that they had seen them fight with their own eyes. Baron Redman was a little suspicious that he had sent five hundred elite divisions.
Unfortunately, the camp was still full of familiar faces, and although there were a few strangers, most of them were his subjects.
If you don't know, then you don't bother to dig deeper. The outside world thinks it's elite, so let this beautiful misunderstanding continue.
What's more, the rumors are not completely without benefits, at least they have scared countless peeps and reduced a lot of unnecessary trouble.
Hundreds of elite soldiers + a sharparcher with the Earth Bear can exert the strength that is enough to make countless small and medium-sized nobles fearful.
Taking the bow and arrow, Hudson immediately noticed something unusual. Ordinary bows and arrows are mainly made of hardwood and cowhide, but this special bow and arrow of the elven clan is made of mysterious rattan and monster tendons.
Hudson was surprised to find that he had exhausted all his strength and could not even draw the bow to its fullest.
With a "whoosh" sound, the arrow actually flew out more than ten meters and inserted into a boulder after penetrating a big tree two hundred meters away.
The power is indeed leveraged, but unfortunately it is too physically demanding. With an attack of this intensity, even Hudson couldn't let go of a few arrows.
"It's really a good bow, but it's a pity that the arrows are not very good, otherwise the power that can be exerted will be even greater!"
Hudson sighed with a little embarrassment. didn't pull the bow to the fullest, it was definitely the pot of the quality of the arrow, not he, the "knight of the sharpbow", who pulled it down.
"That's pretty good, it looks like this bow really suits you. With it for you, as long as you don't give the enemy a chance to get close, even if you are a big knight, you won't be able to catch a few arrows.
Nurture the Earth Bear, it's your strongest help. As long as it survives its infancy, it will be able to surpass many Silver Knights in combat power; If you are lucky enough to train to adulthood, you are one of the strongest knights in the continent.
The day will come when we will be able to rebuild our family glory and return to the middle nobility again, hopefully even like the Dalton family......"
After listening to his father's words, Hudson reluctantly found that his hopes for the cub were even greater than for himself.
Theoretically, there seems to be nothing wrong with it. Under normal circumstances, it takes more than 200 years for the Earth Bear Light to enter adulthood, but as long as you are willing to spend your blood, this time can still be advanced.
If it weren't for the fact that it could be ripened, the growth cycle of the demonic beast would be so long, and no one would contract the young beast.
It just so happens that the territory chosen by Hudson is suitable for making quick money in the short term, and it is not surprising that it is misunderstood for cultivating Earth Bears.
No one came out to make trouble, and that was because the more high-level Warcraft it was, the more difficult it was to ripen in advance, and many of the things needed were not something that money could buy.
In most people's eyes, Hudson would receive a boxed lunch before the Earth Bear reached adulthood. A free bear without contractual restraint will not continue to work for the Coslow family.
"Father, let's discuss this issue later! As a matter of urgency, we should rush to the territory as soon as possible and resume production in the mine. ”
Hudson replied calmly.
Compared with other nobles, he has calm capital. Grain production will not be harvested until one season, but as long as mining and iron smelting resume production, we will be able to see the benefits in ten days and half a month.
Salt, iron, grain, and cloth are all recognized as hard commodities on the mainland, and there may be fluctuations in prices, but there is absolutely no problem of not being able to sell them.
The two counties of Wright and Wyton have been severely affected and will face a shortage of labor for a long time to come.
If the lords wanted to restore agricultural production, they had to purchase more and more advanced production tools to make up for the shortage of labor, and it was only a matter of time before iron tools replaced traditional tools on a large scale.
The opportunity to make a fortune was imminent, and Hudson didn't want to miss it.
"Hmm!"
"But on the territory side, you can go there yourself. With your reputation as a Divine Bow Knight, coupled with the false name of your family's private army, no one will think about it.
The two unlucky children, Berio and Guarente, are different. He lost his parents at an early age, and his family business was destroyed by the rebels.
There are a lot of people eyeing them now, and if the family doesn't help them a little, I'm afraid that it won't be long before they die and their territory will be annexed.
Later, we will have to fund the construction of your territory, and we can't afford to provide them with much support in terms of money and food, but military support is essential.
I'll take someone over and watch it first, and when your two brothers return, they'll be based in Wyton for the next few years.
Several other branches of the clan will also send people over, and until their private army is cultivated, the number of permanent knights of the clan in Wyton County will not be less than eight.
If you're in trouble, you can also go over and ask for help. However, with your prestige in the Southeastern Province, it is unlikely that this kind of thing will happen. ”
Baron Redman said with a look of relief.
The son is capable, he fights the country by himself, and he doesn't need to worry about being a father, but he has made enough face in front of a group of old friends.
Don't look at the eight knights a lot, if you really put it together with the "Divine Bow Knight" who holds the "elite soldiers", everyone would rather go to find the bad luck of the eight knights.
The former can't beat and can still run, but when the latter encounters it, it is likely that he will not be able to get close, and he will have already laid down in advance.
When it comes to this, Hudson naturally has no opinion. To enjoy the benefits brought by the family, it is natural to bear the corresponding obligations.
Watching over each other is the key to the Coslow family's survival, and now that there are people in need of help, they naturally can't sit idly by.
The family invested so much strength here, obviously not to guard against the nobles of the southeastern provinces. Everyone is mixed in a circle, and the ancestors have some incense after marriage, and they will not easily break the rules of the game.
Profit is temporary, but fame is lifelong. If you want to mix in this small circle, you must pay attention to your appearance.
Everyone can secretly plan and calculate, and slowly wait for the other party to decline, or even extinct heirs, but they can't go over in person.
Only outsiders who are not bound by the rules of the circle can break the rules unscrupulously. As long as you don't violate some taboos, even if you look a little ugly, everyone will be more acceptable.
Outsiders are already excluded, and they don't care about extra money. If you want to be recognized by everyone, the best way is to rely on your fists to subdue everyone, and the problem of exclusion will naturally no longer exist.
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Looking at the convoy full of supplies, Hudson's mood was extraordinarily happy. This is still the result of dealing with a large number of stale surplus materials, otherwise it is simply not a hundred carriages that can be loaded.
"War changes fate", this is the truest portrayal of the continent of Aslanth. Just a war to pacify the chaos made Hudson leap from a knight who was about to wander to a noble fiefdom baron.
The bamboo spears and blue shields at the time of departure have now been replaced by broadswords and spears, and there are not a few soldiers armed with war hammers and battle axes, and many of them still carry a bow on their backs.
The team also changed from the original 500 serfs to a team of 637 veterans. Just looking at it from afar makes you feel cold.
The only thing that is the same is that this team still continues the tradition of moving forward at a high speed, without the slightest heroic galloping horse.
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