Heroes of Might and Magic: Knight Chapter 148: Royal Capital

"Drive, drive!"

A cavalry team from the North came from the official road. Because the leading cavalryman was carrying an order flag on his body, he must have some military background.

The civilians crowded at the door cleared the way for him. After all, if he was hit and killed by such a flying cavalry reporting urgent military information, his death would be in vain, and he might even be detained for misleading the military information. big hat.

More than a dozen cavalrymen were inspected by guards at the city gate before entering Golden Dragon City,

The cavalry in the North are very easy to identify. Northern horses are generally short. The more than ten cavalrymen are obviously riding short and heavy horses from the North. Anyone with a little knowledge can recognize them.

Northlanders are no different from country bumpkins in the eyes of people in Golden Dragon City, and are somewhat discriminated against in the royal capital.

The common people of the royal capital look down on the common people of the North, and the nobles of the royal capital regard the nobles of the North as country nobles.

Of course, the Lanster family and the newly promoted Hirano Burhunter family are not included in this list. As long as they are strong enough, the local gangsters will not dare to attack them.

More than a dozen cavalrymen from the North did not feel any discrimination,

They are all soldiers under Hirano Bo Richard, and they are responsible for escorting important evidence to the royal capital this time.

Although they took the official route and were in the royal capital, the treasure they carried on their backs was not a peerless treasure, so generally no one would come to try to make a move on them.

But for safety reasons, Richard still sent a small team of a dozen elite cavalry to the royal capital with a box containing the two heads of Grugesh.

Although the pony horses ridden by these cavalry are a bit funny in the eyes of the people in the capital who are used to the horses of the Western Region, the armor on their bodies and the swords and bows on their waists are almost the same as the truth,

It seems that he is an elite who can fight. Naturally, no one dares to provoke him with his bad words.

"Captain, there are so many people in Jinlongdu, more than the people in Piaoxue City."

"Nonsense, this is the royal capital."

In fact, the captain has never seen the prosperity of the royal capital, and at most he has been to Piaoxue City,

But now he had to lose face in front of his men.

"Captain, how do you think the tavern in this royal capital compares with the one in Ironwood City?"

"Of course it's much bigger."

"That..."

"Okay, okay, don't keep me busy here and there. Send the things to the place first. There is no urgent military situation this time. After delivering the things, I will take you to the tavern in the royal capital to have a look."

"Oh!"

The soldiers cheered together when they heard the captain's promise, causing the injured pedestrians on the street to look sideways.

There are two types of taverns in the royal capital. The taverns opened by dwarves have good wine, and the average wine is good, that is, drunkards just drink. The taverns opened by humans have more or less tricks.

The difference between meat and vegetables is very clear,

Northlanders like wine. Seeing how excited the cavalry are, I think the captain is going to take them to the dwarf tavern to drink some good wine.

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The royal capital, where the imperial army is stationed.

Saul works at the station most of the time,

"Lord Saul, a group of cavalry from the North has brought you something, saying that it was mentioned by Uncle Hirano."

"Huh? Submit it."

"Yes, sir."

The news that Richard made a surprise attack on the wilderness and successfully killed Grugesh had already reached Thor through the wind bird,

Although Saul felt that Richard did not dare to play tricks on this kind of thing,

But it was still a bit unimaginable, so I kept the news secret and waited for Richard to present the evidence later.

After all, he has seen the combat effectiveness of ogres, and he also knows how difficult the wilderness expedition is,

Although he trusted Richard's ability, his psychological expectation had always been that Richard could securely defend the original Fort Hel and prevent the ogres from advancing eastward again.

But he didn’t expect that not long after, Richard gave him a surprise,

He had to verify the information carefully before preparing to argue for Richard.

Now almost half a month has passed, and Richard’s men finally delivered the evidence,

"My lord."

Two guards carried the box in,

"Just put it on the table."

Saul knew what was in the box, but he wasn’t particular about it and planned to just put it on the table and read it.

After so many years of fighting on the battlefield, Thor has never seen any strange creatures.

The two guards placed the box on the table and quickly opened it under Thor's command,

When Thor took a look, he had never seen such a strange head before,

But just because of the strangeness of these two heads, Thor further confirmed Richard's military exploits,

Two ferocious ogre heads are placed together. Because they have been embalmed, they are not broken.

The key is that the necks of the two heads are connected with flesh. You can tell at a glance that this is the head of Grugesh, unless another two-headed ogre appears in the wilderness.

Richard was very particular about the way he cut with his sword. He deliberately lowered the incision and left a joint, thus proving that it was the head of the two-headed ogre Grugesh.

Otherwise, few humans here have seen Grugash. Even if they have, the ogre looks the same to humans, and they probably won’t recognize it.

This sword cut was done very painstakingly. Richard had obviously been thinking about these two heads for a long time, and even thought about how to cut them.

Saul reached out to the joint to check again, paying attention to the lines at the skin-flesh joint. After confirming that it was not fake, he closed the box again,

"Get ready for me and go to the palace immediately to see the king."

"Yes, sir."

…

Richard's contribution this time is quite great. How to award the reward is not something Saul can easily decide.

According to the previously set reward, Richard's direct offering of Grugesh's head this time is already a meritorious service that can lead to the title of marquis,

Originally the reward for the ogre was not high,

If we look at this carefully, we have to blame the Jingbei Army.

Because the originally powerful Jingbei Army was defeated by the ogre army led by Grugesh, even the contemporary head of the Lanster family, Marquis Wade, fell into it,

As a result, the ogre, which was originally not worth much military merit, has become more and more distinguished, and its style has become much higher, becoming second only to the orcs for military merit.

Based solely on military merit, it would be no problem for Richard to become a marquis.

But obviously, the matter of becoming a marquis cannot only be based on military merit. This matter also involves the power structure of the North, which obviously needs to be carefully considered.

The nobles of the Golden Dragon Kingdom cannot be said to be too many, but they must be too few to say too little.

Nobles of the Baron and Viscount level are at the bottom of the entire pyramid, and there are a lot of them in the Golden Dragon City.

As long as the military merit is enough, just give it directly, the kingdom will never be stingy,

When you reach the position of earl, you are considered to be at the waist of the pyramid. You can be considered a force that can affect the situation in any place.

Although it is not easy to give, if the military merit is solid enough, there will not be too many twists and turns,

But when we reach the stage of Marquis, it is no longer simply based on military merit. We also need to take into account the political structure of the kingdom and the interweaving of local forces.

At the level of marquis, in Jinlong they are the top nobles who can have a say in the affairs of the kingdom,

In the local fiefdom, just like the Lanster family before, they became the dominant princes,

How to ensure loyalty to the royal family and how to balance local forces are all problems.

"Uncle Wang is so anxious, why do you want to see me?"

Saul met Renn very smoothly. According to Renn's order, as long as Saul wanted to see him, even if he was doing something in a concubine's room, he had to inform him immediately. No guards would stop Saul.

"About the matter in the North, the two-headed ogre was killed by Hirano Bo,

Now the heads have been sent to the royal capital, and I have experienced them..."

Saul didn't talk much. After greeting Ren as usual, and being helped up by Ren, he got straight to the point and told the news about the North.

"Okay!"

Ren couldn't help but high-five after hearing the news. He was really afraid that he would have to face a corrupt Northland again when the pressure on the Orc Kingdom increased dramatically.

There were some signs of the rise of the ogres before. Richard killed Grugesh, which was considered to have put an end to this trouble.

But then, Ren fell into silence,

He realized why Thor came to him,

"What does Uncle Wang mean?"

"Fenghou"

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