September 929 in the frost tide calendar.

In the northwest corner of New Red Leaf Town, the townhouse occupies a wide area, and there are various shops in the middle, and many people have come to move in.

Although it is not yet the start date of October, the first batch of 100 students has already reached more than half of them, with a large number of servants and servants, adding countless popularity to the living area. Some aristocratic students even brought dozens of servants and servants to turn the townhouse into an annex castle.

Don't look at the fact that these students are still young, but their communication skills are not weak, and they hold non-stop banquets in the townhouse every day.

It can be said that the spending power of a noble student is comparable to that of a mercenary group of 100 people, and this consumption power will undoubtedly drive the economy of New Red Leaf Town to make great strides. Oldington also goes unnoticed by allowing students to form mercenary groups and mine resources here.

However, mercenaries cannot be recruited locally, only from their own family territory.

None of them.

In order to increase the population of New Red Leaf Town, the vast land and sparse population are still the biggest problem in the Kronotke Lake area, even if a large number of snow barbarian slaves are left to reclaim farmland, it is still not enough to support the growing scale of the lakeside city and the city on the other side. After all, the Kamchatka province has a limited population, so it cannot gather wool unlimitedly.

The idea can only start from the heads of these students, not to mention, these little children heard that they could form a mercenary group, and they wrote letters to their families one by one, asking them to organize and send a mercenary group over.

"Lord Aldington, is there a shortage of serfs in your territory?" It was Viscount Elantra Red Dragon, the son of Duke Yvette Red Dragon, Duke of Fort Trois-Rivières, who had come to send his son Ibis Red Dragon to school.

Aldington greeted the guests with a tea ceremony and brewed tea slowly: "Yes, there are too many gaps in the people, the Iris family has released serfs as civilians four times, and let snow barbarian slaves replace serfs, but they still can't take care of all the farmland, and the service industry in Lakeside City has always been short of labor. ”

"It's better to give you a batch of serfs from the Duchy of Trois-Rivières."

"What do you mean, Lord Elantra?"

"To tell you the truth, I personally brought Ibes to school, and I have another request, I hope you can officially accept Ibis as a student, just as Lord Browning accepted you as a student."

"Drink tea."

Aldington handed over a cup of tea, picked up a cup himself, took a sip lightly, and said after a while: "I just don't want to accept students and attendants, so I established the Dragon Spear Fighting Academy." You must know that I am only eighteen years old now, and I am dedicated to cultivation, and I have not yet had any intention of cultivating my juniors. ”

"I know, it's just that our Red Dragon Family is in trouble and needs to use your name." Elantra chose to tell the truth, "As long as you officially accept Ibes as a student, the Red Dragon Family is willing to pay a price that satisfies you...... Whether it's serfs, artisans, or lev. ”

If he is a high-minded person, he will definitely scold him to his face: "What do you think of me Aldington, can I be bought by money!" ”

But Aldington was clearly not, and he asked curiously, "Tell me what trouble you're in with first." ”

"My father, the Duke of Trois-Rivière, is very old, and his mind is sometimes normal and sometimes confused, and when he is confused, he says some nonsense, which causes a lot of controversy within the family." Elantra paused before he said with a shyness, "He said I wasn't his biological son. ”

"Poof!" Aldington barely squirted the tea.

Seeing this, Elantra smiled awkwardly.

Aldington put away his gaffe and asked, "So, Viscount Elantra, are you the biological son of Duke Yvette?" ”

"Of course I'm my father's own son!" Elantra was halfway through his voice, and quickly lowered his voice, "It's just that my father was confused, which had a great impact on my reputation, causing some people in the family with ulterior motives to use this matter against me. ”

The Duke of Yvette is estimated to have Alzheimer's, but it is really possible that Elantra is not his own son.

There is no DNA in this world to verify paternity, and if you want to ensure the continuation of the bloodline, you have to send someone to keep an eye on your wife from before and after pregnancy to the time of childbirth to ensure that there is no affair during the period. But there are always accidents in everything, and perhaps the Duke of Yvette discovered this accident, but he was not sure, so he chose to confess when he was old and confused.

Of course, considering that he has Alzheimer's, it cannot be taken as evidence.

The Duchy of Trois-Rivières is nominally subordinate to Plantagenet, but its domestic affairs are basically independent, so the inheritance of the duke's position needs to be negotiated by the Red Dragon family itself.

This forced Viscount Elantra to come to the door and ask for help.

"The Duke of Yvette only has one son and no daughter, do you need to be so nervous, I remember that nephews can't inherit the title?" Aldington asked.

The Plantagenet Kingdom, or the Rafa Continental Kingdom, although the stronger the strength, the worse the fertility, but the survival rate of the heirs is high, so there are regulations that the nobles can only inherit by direct blood relatives, and cannot inherit by collateral blood relatives. So daughters can inherit, but nephews cannot.

Because the daughter is a direct blood relative, and the nephew is a collateral blood relative.

"No, no, no, Lord Aldington, you misunderstood, once I am unable to inherit my father's title, the Duchy of Trois-Rivières will be left without an heir. At this time, there were two choices, one was for the lord to appoint a relative of his father to inherit it, and the other was to divide the principality among all his relatives, and there would be no more Principality of Trois-Rivière. ”

In either case, Elantra didn't want to see it, so he came to Aldington for help.

"I see."

"Lord Aldington, my current situation is only possible succession difficulties. His Majesty the King has made it clear that I will succeed to the title of Duke, and my father has not revoked my succession. So I'm just killing any possibilities, and I'd be grateful for your help. ”

"You stay here for two days and let me think about it for a while."

"Okay, I look forward to your reply, please believe that I thank you for your sincerity on behalf of the Red Dragon Family."

Sent away Viscount Elantrant, Aldington stopped drinking tea, and ran directly to Fort Haiyan and found Baron Orenor, who was reading the newspaper: "Father, ask a question...... Elantra this, do I have to agree, promise, a bit of a slap in the face, after all, I said that I would not accept formal students. ”

If you don't agree, you feel that you have missed a lot of money, after all, it is just a name, and Ibis still continues to throw the academy to study, without disturbing him anything.

"Don't say yes."

"Why?"

"Because Elantra may not be able to inherit the duke's throne." Baron Aureno put down the newspaper and said seriously, "Do you think this matter is very simple, no, the Duchy of Fort Trikawa is located in the southeast of Plantagenet, bordering the Teutonic Kingdom, and the Dukes of Fort Trikawa have chosen to marry Plantagenet or Teuton. ”

The Plantagenet Kingdom is located in the southern half of the Rafah continent, bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the endless ocean to the south.

It is bordered by three kingdoms, the Vandal-Aran kingdom to the west; It is bordered by two kingdoms to the east, the Kingdom of Macedonia to the northeast, and the Kingdom of Teutonia to the southeast; The location of the three countries of Plantagenet, Macedonia and Teutonic is the vast Lima Ridge.

There was no principality as a buffer with the Kingdom of Macedonia, so there was constant friction, and the war was fought every year, and now it was raised by the Grand Duchy of the Danube, but it could not be fought.

It is separated from the Kingdom of Vandal-Alan by the Principality of Daya-Davao as a buffer.

With the Teutonic Kingdom, the Duchy of Trois-Rivières served as a buffer.

"The Teutonic Kingdom has already touched the Duchy of Trois-Rivières, and I have visited His Majesty the King once, and His Majesty thinks that Elantra is likely to be the illegitimate son of the Duchess who is cheating with the nobles of the Teutonic Kingdom, but for some reason, the Duke of Yvette chose to acquiesce. Once Elantra is allowed to inherit the dukedom, the Duchy of Fort Sanishang is likely to be lost. ”

This generation of the Duchess of Trois-Rivières was born in the royal family of the Teutonic Kingdom, and if Elantra did not have the blood of the Red Dragon Family, it was hard to guarantee that she would not fall into the arms of the Teutonic Kingdom.