This year's war is because the Grant Kingdom has fewer troops on the north bank of the Kaia River, which leads to a hole in the strategic situation, and the orcs have penetrated the defense line, so that the northern legions dare not act rashly, and they have fallen into strategic passivity.

To complete the task assigned by King Roger, Harland needs to build two castles in the northern foothills of the Eagle Mountains. The front was moved nearly 200 kilometers to the north, and more than 6,000 troops were stationed there.

It was not easy for Haraland to add 6,000 soldiers, to build two new forts more than a hundred kilometers away, and to strengthen the garrison on the north bank of the Kaia River.

Over the course of a year, at least 100,000 gold coins should be invested. But Richard knew in his heart that the more power he had, the more responsibility he should have.

After Richard was promoted to duke, the entire upper echelons of the Grant Kingdom were watching his next move.

If you don't behave well in the next war, you will be excited, and many people will write to investigate. After all, there are many nobles who are jealous of Richard, and the Harland family has offended many nobles because of the emancipation of serfs and the spread of knowledge.

If you want to stand firm, Richard's performance must be faultless.

Generally speaking, the canonization of a duke is a very important thing for a kingdom, and it often requires a grand celebration and complex ceremony.

But now the situation was tense, and Richard needed to sit in the Lossa Basin, so the ceremony did not take place. Besides, when it comes to Richard's status, he should also be on guard against the outside.

If there is a mistake on the way to Nolan, it will interrupt the momentum of Haaland's territory. It's not that Richard is afraid of death, but that he is responsible for himself and his territory.

Because of the rapid development of Haaland's territory, Richard was promoted to duke in his thirties, and King Roger was actually a little jealous of him in his heart.

According to the bard, Richard's life must have been a legendary one, to be recited for thousands of years. According to Richard's current development speed, the future must be a big man in the Dawn plane.

After all, a man started from nothing, and actually established a ducal family in his early thirties. Richard's performance has surpassed Grant, Venus and other founding masters.

It's just that Roger is different from King Charlie, he is not far from the legend, and he is a man of great talent, who thinks he can control fierce people like Richard and Duke Jonathan.

In addition, King Roger is not old, and he can still suppress the suspicion in his heart and has not become confused.

In recent years, King Roger has also considered the problem in favor of the Kingdom of Grant, and has not set up obstacles to the development of the Harland Territory. If serious infighting breaks out between the royal family and the Haaland family, it can only force Richard to move closer to the Jonathan family.

If the internal friction between the two sides is serious, it will only benefit the orcs.

Although the current Haaland family has a good momentum of development, it is not yet the top five in the Grant Kingdom in terms of strength, and the pressure on the royal family from Jonathan and York is far heavier than that of the Haaland family.

Moreover, in King Roger's idea, after relying on the Duke of Haaland to stabilize the situation in the north, he could send the forbidden army from the north to attack the kingdom of Delong and expand to the rich south. When the time comes, the Grizzlies will be transferred to the south, which will not only reduce the influence of the Harland family in the north, but also be a good counterbalance to Richard.

King Roger's ability is far superior to that of his predecessor Charlie.

After he took over as king, the royal family of Grant swallowed four provinces and expanded a main legion. In less than ten years, he saved 1.2 million gold coins and obtained several advanced technologies from Richard, so it can be said that he is the master of the Grant royal family.

Envoy Allen brought only a canonization document and a gold seal.

Along with the envoy of Allen to the north was King Roger's eldest son, Wilson.

Wilson is twenty-six years old and already a fifth-order knight, the eldest son of King Roger, who was explicitly made crown prince last year.

Wilson was gifted with his father, and at a young age he became a mid-career professional, serving as a high-ranking officer in the Royal Janissaries.

According to the practice of the prince's training, after being promoted to the silver knight, the crown prince will also enter the northern front line and personally fight the orcs.

The reason why King Roger sent Wales to Haaland this time was actually to let him contact Richard and make a little preparation in advance, so as not to be unprepared after taking over as king in the future and unable to control Richard and other more difficult figures.

In recent years, Wilson has entered the northern frontier several times, meeting with the two dukes Fox and Edward, and also meeting Macmillan, who stayed in the Duke of Jonathan.

Dealing with Richard this time, Wales has already been in contact with all the high-level leaders in Northern Xinjiang.

In the transcendent world of the Dawn Plane, the life of the children of the nobility is not easy. To have a life without food and clothing comes to be responsible.

Especially in the Grant Kingdom, wars are frequent, full of bloody storms, every noble child must go to the battlefield, and the children of the royal family are no exception, many people have to come to the north to fight the orcs.

Duke Roger is one of them, stationed in the northern frontier for more than ten years and participated in four orc invasions. When he was young, he participated in battles many times and personally charged into battle. The reason why he is comfortable on the throne is a very crucial factor.

Children of aristocratic families will be tested for magical qualifications at the age of ten, and if magical qualifications are detected, they will be given priority to become mages. If they didn't have a talent for magic, they began to practice breathing at the age of fifteen or sixteen, awakening the blood of knights, and most of their youth was in the army, which was not only boring but also cruel.

At the same time, they need to receive a rigorous education, and they need to learn many courses such as writing, law, political rules, history, geography, literature, aristocratic etiquette, etc.

Knight training is an indispensable subject.

The direct members of the royal family all have very good bloodlines, as long as the qualifications are not too bad and there are sufficient resources to provide, they can often enter the fourth order before the age of thirty and have good skills.

Richard is already a person with outstanding talent, and he still has killing experience to open up, so he advanced to the sixth order warrior at the age of thirty, and the speed at which Prince Wilson advanced was only a little slower than Richard.

Ordinary noble children outside can become third-order knights at this age, and they can all be called geniuses. But compared to Wilson, the speed of cultivation was far from enough.

A person with extraordinary talent like Jennings can barely keep up with Wilson's advancement. But he did not awaken the knightly bloodline, and his combat power was far from being an opponent of the royal bloodline.

The gap in bloodline and resources is an important factor in the combat effectiveness of the big nobles to suppress the small nobles.

The peak period of a warrior is about forty years, and if you can't advance to the legend, the physical fitness of warriors and knights will slowly decline after the age of sixty, and it will be difficult to fight fiercely after the age of ninety.

It can be said that there is a time limit for the peak of people, and the road to the strong is also about speed.

One step is slow, one step is slow, and it is by virtue of the advantages of blood and resources that the members of the royal family can suppress their opponents inside and outside.

In the cruel environment of the Dawn Plane, even members of the royal family need serious involution to stand out.

This time he came to Haraland, Wilson did not identify himself, but quietly hid in the shadows, using exquisite makeup techniques to act as an attaché to Allen's envoy.

Richard rarely went to Nolan and was not clear about the details of Crown Prince Wilson.

Although Haaland's intelligence department is not weak, the forces invested in Nolan are small, and they have not infiltrated the royal family, so as not to explain unclearly if something goes wrong.

Prince Wilson gave him the impression that he only looked imposing.

After handing over the duke's golden seal and knighthood documents, Wilson followed Allen's envoy back to the inn.

Alan sat on the chair, took a sip of elf black tea, with a bit of seriousness on his face, and said, "I met Duke Richard today, what is his impression on you?" “

"Duke Haaland has a good impression on me, better than the two Dukes Edward and Fox. The duke looked very decisive and had a certain sense of the overall situation, did not bargain, and agreed to the request of the royal capital. ”

"Dear Wilson, this is only the surface of the situation, how much do you know about Earl Haaland's intelligence?"

Envoy Allen is Wilson's uncle, and the two have always gotten along easily and casually, and this time Wilson is on a secret mission, and his identity is not easy to expose casually. So Allen didn't call Wilson a prince directly, treating him as if he were a junior relative in the family.

"I heard that Duke Haaland is a magic duke, with good qualifications, and is a rare person who cultivates both magic and martial arts. The Duke was also very talented in inventions. This man's thinking was somewhat deviant, and the policy of the territory seemed to be to emancipate the serfs. I know that many nobles in Nolan don't like him, but his father values him very much, second only to Duke Jonathan, and he is a heavyweight in the kingdom. ”

Envoy Allen nodded: "Yes, Duke Haaland is emancipating serfs. We all know that the southwestern countries of the mainland emancipated their serfs as early as 300 years ago. After the emancipation of the serfs, these magical kingdoms developed very rapidly. Without serfs, countless nobles lost their noble status, and power gradually fell into the hands of magicians.

Duke Haaland not only liberated the serfs, but also spread transcendent knowledge to the serfs, and the breathing method and meditation methods were spread on a large scale, relying on this policy, a large number of qualified people were trained in a short period of time. Although his policy has great benefits for development in a short period of time, it has also made many people worried. ”

"Since Wang Du is very worried about him, why don't you take measures to restrict the development of the Haaland family?"

"Duke Richard is actually very conservative, like an old turtle, forever shrinking his head. By the time we received the information about this territory, the Haaland family had become so fledgling that there was nowhere to go.

Moreover, Wang Du only provided him with a name, and the Haaland family has developed to this extent, mainly relying on its own hard work.

The most important thing is that His Majesty believes that letting this family grow and grow will be of great benefit to the stability of the northern frontier of the Grant Kingdom. The kingdom suppressed dissenting opinions, providing some protection to Duke Richard. ”

Wilson pondered for a long time and said, "Perhaps there is a mistake in the king's strategy. ”

Alan sighed, "Maybe you will have to wait until you become a king to correct this mistake." I have no personal conflicts with Duke Richard, but this man puts a lot of pressure on me. He is an ambitious and capable man, as if he was born with a backbone in the back of his head, and will not offer loyalty to any noble person.

In just over ten years, Duke Richard has developed his territory to the current level, and it has become a banner in the northern Xinjiang, which makes it difficult for us to start. If one day Wilson is in charge of your own affairs, you must be wary of him. Richard has brought me more threats than Duke Jonathan.

You know, my sixth sense is naturally sharp, and it's best to use the hands of orcs to weaken the Harland family. ”

In the station, Envoy Allen did not know, and after they left, the conversation between the two had been clarified by the Haaland intelligence department.

Haaland leads to a lot of research funding every year, and it is bound to be able to transform a lot of results.

Through the knowledge left behind by Shao Gongyuan, Richard mastered the principles of sound wave recognition magic, sound analysis and data processing. This knowledge was then written into a paper and submitted to the Harland Mage Association for study.

A member of the Harland Mage Guild, under Butler's auspices, successfully crafted a sound storage crystal using special magical materials.

This kind of thing is the most advanced eavesdropper, and it is completely a dimensionality reduction blow when placed on the Dawn plane, and Alan and Wilson have no defense, and their conversation is eavesdropped by Haaland's intelligence department.

In fact, in addition to the sound storage crystal, there are other means of eavesdropping in the Haaland territory.

For example, if you find someone who is proficient in lip reading and ask him to use a telescope to monitor the target, you can also get a rough idea of what the conversation is about. The second is to dispatch special talents, such as people with extraordinary hearing, who can also hear the conversation clearly by hiding near the target.

Envoy Allen and Prince Wilson, although they have been very careful, are far from being the opponents of Harland's intelligence department in the intelligence department.

Haaland leads the intelligence department with many strange people, whether they are proficient in lip reading or extraordinary hearing talents, they all serve the intelligence department.

In order to avoid being alarmed, Knorr sent people to use sound storage crystals, and then sent the information to Richard.

Overheard the conversation of the Allen envoy, and Prince Wilson's identity has been revealed.

Listening to the malice towards Haaland in the voices of the two, Richard sighed and said: "Don't worry about this matter for now, we can know it in our hearts." Now that King Roger is still in charge, it seems that he will not suppress us directly. But the legions under the direct jurisdiction of the royal family, it will be difficult for us to borrow strength in the future. When there is a war in the future, it is estimated that it will be difficult to wait for the rescue of the Central Army.

Whether a territory can develop well or not depends on its own efforts after all, and it is difficult for us to change the external environment. ”

George frowned, and said with some hesitation: "Maybe we can use the method of marriage and merge with the bloodlines of other great nobles to solve this trouble." ”

Richard objected: "When it comes to the critical time of real swords and real guns, the relationship of marriage is of little use at all. Open a history book, in order to compete for power, how many fathers and sons and brothers have turned against each other?

We were targeted by the great nobles of the royal capital, first because the gun shot the first bird, and the rapid development caused many people to be jealous. The second is the speed of our development, which makes them afraid, afraid that we will attack them after we make a fortune.

Unless we are willing to tie our arms, abandon the emancipation of serfs, and go with the flow like the rest of the aristocracy. But Haaland's territory is developing so quickly precisely because we have a special system.

In fact, even the Grant family is spreading transcendent knowledge, supporting the freedmen class and reducing serfs. ”

(End of chapter)