Tales of the Reincarnated Lord Chapter 42: Family dilemma

Chapter 42 Family Dilemma

carriage stopped at the gate of the yard, and Reidy said to Patt on the driver ’s side seat, "Here it is, this is the home of the owner."

Then I got out of the car and opened the compartment door, Lorist got out of the car holding Alyssa, followed by Schwartz, Els and Shadekampf.

Charade and Terman, Yuri, Steve ’s other rental carriage also arrived, and the group got out of the car and went into the yard. Patt didn't follow everyone into the house, but helped Reidy unload carriage in the yard, and wiped two Zenomas with dry cloth.

Reidy is weird and asks, "What's wrong, why not go in?"

Patt thought for a while and said, "I came to Young Lord, it was my grandpa's request. He instructed me to follow him to protect him whether or not Young Lord would go back to inherit Territory, because the orthodox heirs of Norton Family only He's the only one left, no matter what the Young Lord can be no accident. "

Reidy laughed: "Patt Big Brother, it's not that I look down on you. It's not you who protect you when you follow him, but he protects you. With the strength of your Black Iron Rank, you can keep yourself when the host is in danger. It ’s great not to be a burden. "

Patt gave the Reidy a nasty look: "When we have a saying in Northern Land, the alert magical beast also snores, and even the mighty steeds also stumble. I know already knows that Young Lord is Black Iron Locke, and Silver Undefeated is very Amazing. But no matter how powerful Young Lord is, it ’s just a person. I just need to make a shield with him silently. Now I ’m Black Iron. As long as I work hard for practice(d), I will be able to help Young Lord when I get promoted to Silver Rank. . "

"Say well, Patt." I don't know when Lorist came to them: "Old Manager Kress really lets you follow me?"

Patt nodded calmly: "If you want to go back to inherit Territory, then I will be your close Imperial Guard. If you refuse to go back, then I will stay with you to protect you."

Here Patt laughed and laughed at himself: "But it looks like you have changed more than I imagined. It ’s not just your skills. You have changed your character and you are the same. You do n’t need my protection at all. Originally I Grandpa, they think you must have had a bad time in the long time you lost contact with the family. It seems they are all wrong.

Lorist nodded deeply: "Ten years, it has been so long since I left home in a blink of an eye, and it has been seven years since I lost contact with my family. There is nothing I can do to change my life. I can eat it today. A lot of hardships. Let ’s go, Patt, go into the house and talk about the situation in your hometown. "

Shadekampf introduced the status of Norton Family in detail this time. The series of unfortunate incidents caused half of the family's force to be lost. Lorist's father is a 1 Star Gold Swordsman. Although hunting magical beast when he was young injured cultivation, but it was Golden Rank after all, his death caused the family to lose its pillars. The death of Lorist's Big Brother caused the family to lose hope. Great Young Lord was Knight(s) of Golden Rank. During the battle, a poisoned arrow was shot behind him, and he was killed shortly after he recovered it. As for the three Young Lord, Battle Qi could not be awakened due to a serious illness caused by falling into the water at a young age. This was the only time when magical beast was severely traumatized by a horse and died.

At this time, Lorist is very unnatural. He knows that the three Young Lord of the Norton family is because the original owner of his body, Little Locke, was sick when he was pushed down by jealousy when he was young. He could not even wake up Battle Qi. Young Lord blamed Little Locke for half of his death. Now he has inherited this body, and even bears responsibility for it.

Shadekampf said that when Young Lord encountered magical beast, the only 3 Star Silver family Knight(s) guard was on the side. Although he killed magical beast, he was also seriously injured and is still in recuperation. Now the family has only one female Knight(s) of 1 Star Silver, and she is Andre.Baisha. The daughter of the deceased family's old Knight(s) Andrea, grew up with Great Young Lord's childhood friend, Lord got engaged for them, but did not want to die before marrying Great Young Lord. I wonder if Young Lord remembered the red-haired girl who had been following Great Young Lord.

Lorist nodded. In the memory of Little Locke, the red-haired girl who always stayed with Big Brother was sturdy like a boy. She just pulled her braid and was beaten by her, giving Little Locke Left a bitter memory.

Shadekampf said that in addition to Baisha Young Lady, the Silver Rank female Knight(s), the rest of the family are the Black Iron Swordsman of the defensive team and the old Black Iron in the castle. Territory's current affairs are maintained by Baisha Young Lady, Old Manager Kress retired behind the scenes because of his age. So the family hopes that the second Young Lord will go back and inherit the Territory as soon as possible.

It used to be Patt of Norton Baron Imperial Guard, and described the process of Lorist's father. At that time, Lord Baron heard the mountain Barbarians Clan looting downhill again, and recruited cavalry troops in the castle, eighteen cavalry. This was the main mobile force controlled by the family, plus Lord Baron and Patt, a total of twenty horses. As it was detected that there were more than fifty gangsters in the Barbarians Clan downhill, Lord Baron sent someone to call the defense team together to prepare to wipe out the bandits.

Lord Baron and Patt, because they are riding horses, they took a step first. When they arrived at the destination, they found that the gangsters were unprepared, and they calculated that the time was approaching. Following the attack, these Mountain Barbarians will surely be wiped out on both sides.

Patt said that he advised Baron at that time, it is best to wait for the defense team to arrive before launching an attack, but Baron did not listen and insisted on launching an attack. At the beginning, it was relatively smooth. Mountain Barbarian was caught by surprise, but seeing Baron had fewer people and encouraged morale, and they wrestled for a moment. If the defense team appears at this time, Mountain Barbarian will definitely be beaten down. But the left could not wait for the defensive team, and the right still could not wait for the defensive team. Seeing that his subordinates were getting more and more casualties, Lord Baron was also anxious, regardless of his illness, he rushed to the front and killed himself. At this moment, the Mountain Barbarians cheered. It turned out that the Mountain Barbarian had more than fifty reinforcements. This time they could n’t afford the Baron. The Patt saw a terrible situation and hurriedly guarded the Baron who evacuated the battlefield and the family The cavalry was killed.

After Patt came back, I learned that the defensive team did not leave the town at all, Patt was furious, and the single player went straight to the defensive team's camp, slashing the captain Mart. At this time, the defenders quit, more than a hundred defenders around the castle asked Patt to come out, and Baisha Young Lady and Old Manager Kress finally managed to settle the matter with years of prestige. Therefore, when Shadekampf was ordered to come to Morante City to find Lorist, Old Manager sent his grandson Patt over. One was to **** Shadekampf all the way, and the other was to avoid the trouble of staying in Territory to find the defense team.

With the narration of Shadekampf and Patt, everyone knows that the situation faced by Norton Family is not ordinary difficulties, but very, very difficult. The first trouble is the magical beast tide in winter. Every winter, the magical beast on the wasteland will go to Territory in groups to find food. If it is a vegetarian magical beast such as the devil and the devil, it ’s okay to say that the big problem is the field garden. damage. If the winter wolves are swarmed, even castle estates and towns will be attacked.

The second trouble is the mountain Barbarians Clan, the Norton Family's Territory is in the extreme northern wasteland, the north is an endless black mud swamp, the west is Blade Edge Mountain Range, and the Blade Edge Mountain Range goes west to the sea. The salt used in northerner passes through Blade Edge Mountain Range to the beach, and then comes down from the cliff to bring back the sea water to cook the salt, which is very hard and troublesome. Therefore, the salt price has been high in Northern Land. To the south is the Black Forest and the wasteland hills. This is also the only way for the family Territory to the outside world, and it is connected to other Territory of Aristocrat(s). To the east is Demonic Dragon Mountain Range, all of which are countless high mountains and dense virgin jungles. The mountain Barbarians Clan is active in this hundreds of miles of mountains.

It is said that the origin of the mountain Barbarians Clan is the descendants of the human race who fled into the mountains in the dark to find a place to survive. They have lived in the mountain forest for hundreds of years and have lost contact with the outside world and degraded into the savage tribal form, worshipping the primitive totem. Rumao drinks blood, weak meat and strong food. Although he has contact with the outside world, he is still known for his arrogant and rude character.

When the first ancestors of Norton Family became the Lord(s) of this wasteland, Mountain Barbarians Clan began to entangle with Norton Family. From time to time, they looted down the mountain and grabbed everything. They were more cunning, cruel and harder than magical beast. Deal with. Norton Family once expanded to establish more than ten reclamation villages on the wasteland. All of them suffered heavy casualties and property damage due to the attack by mountain Barbarians Clan. Finally, they had to give up these reclamation villages one by one. Like this time, the father of Lorist, Lord Baron, went to the hospital with a disease because the mountain Barbarians Clan attacked the only pasture in the family Territory and snatched a large number of cattle and sheep.

The third trouble of Norton Family is the Territory defense team. Now the family Territory has a total population of more than 5,000 people, more than 3,000 of whom live in a town called North Wild Town, which is also the only town in the family Territory. Most of the members of the defensive team and the survivors of soldier(s), who played for Norton Family, occupied two-thirds of the arable land in the Territory safety zone, and only paid one-tenth of the harvest each year.

At that time, the ancestors of Norton were sparsely populated by Territory, and they also vigorously solicited refugees to buy slaves and released them as leaders in order to develop Territory. Although the salary is not high, they are exempted from the labor and head tax and other miscellaneous taxes of their family. They also distribute the field to their families, as long as they pay one-tenth of the field's harvest every year.

Even as Lord(s), Norton Family still has to fulfill Krissen Empire's obligations as Empire Aristocrat(s). In addition to sending troops to fight when Empire needs, it also has to pay a tithe for its Territory, which is one-tenth of the harvest in Territory Submit to Empire. At that time, the other Aristocrat(s) of Empire Territory basically set the harvest tax of the field at 50%, plus various taxes such as head tax, transaction tax, entry tax, fishing tax, firewood tax, salt tax, etc. already is a compassionate Lord(s).

Norton Family's generous treatment of the members of the defensive team means that it has not received any measurable benefit from the families of these defensive team members, except for the Territory field tax. At the beginning, it did n’t attract many leaders to join. After all, becoming a defensive team means risk. The magical beast wave every winter is a great test. However, with the expansion of the Territory's stability and security area, some people have found that the benefits of being a member of the defensive team are many, so becoming a member of the defensive team has become a hot trend of Territory. Norton Family was originally very happy, but as time passed, it was discovered that something was wrong and it started to get out of control.

In general, people in Grindia are used to letting their children branch family live independently after they become adults. And these families who became defenders did not die branch family. Seven or eight brothers and sisters still lived together after they got married. In order to enjoy the treatment of the members of the defender team, some defender members even asked for the family to their brothers. Sisters release fields.

Norton Family regretted it at this time, but the homeowner considered that the defensive team also made a great contribution to the family Territory, but only limited the number of fields issued by the members of the defensive team, one person per ten acres. The income of Northern Land can only barely provide for a family of three. I thought that this could limit this momentum, but unexpectedly the members of the defensive team really valued their families' exemption from labor and various miscellaneous taxes. By virtue of the status of the members of the defensive team, they were hunting and hunting in Territory and boiling salt for smuggling. Without having to turn in their income, life is more nourishing than Norton Family.

After more than a hundred years, these members of the defensive team have retired from their fathers, their brothers have died, and the members of the defensive team have become hereditary occupations. In North Wild Town, there are more than one hundred civilian families, one or twenty in size, and 30 or 40 in size. They have become a big force in the family Territory.

Norton Family thought about dealing with the defense team, but they had to give up because they were too deeply involved with the family. The maids in the family castle manor are basically the daughters of these civilian families, and the family soldier(s) that the family recruited in Territory also has many family members of these defenders. If something goes wrong, the defense team will soon get the news. If Norton Family wants to do it by force, the result is likely to be two defeats. Norton Family will therefore become a joke in the Aristocrat(s) circle.

It is because of these concerns that the resolution of the defense team has been dragged on. If the owner of the Norton is strong, as long as the bottom line of the defense team is not touched, that is, the treatment of the members of the defense team and their families is not cancelled, the defense team Still bowed down and obeyed the order. When Lorist's father and Big Brother were present, the defensive team obeyed the order, and even Great Young Lord ordered them to go out and fight with him. However, Great Young Lord died in battle, Lord was seriously ill, and after the three Young Lord took over, the defensive team began to violate the rules. As in the three Young Lord inspection Territory and magical beast, several defensive members who followed him ran away immediately, and even three Young Lord did not People went to see the horse and died.

Especially last year, the garrison's failure to follow the order led to the annihilation of the family cavalry. Lord Baron was seriously injured, and it even intensified the siege of the family castle, demanding the surrender of the owner Imperial Guard Patt who injured their captain. In a sense, such behavior is like rebellion. And Norton Family lost family force and had to go all out. Solving the Territory defensive team has become the main issue for the next Norton owner.

The fourth trouble is the Territory dispute. The junction between the south and the Norton Family Territory is a Viscount Kenmays collar. It is reasonable to say that Northern Land is mostly wilderness, a little less is actually insignificant, but the Morgen Hills where the dispute occurred is the copper mine location of Norton Family. This is the only source of money that Norton Family can maintain at the moment. How can they be willing to let people do it? For this reason, there have been several armed conflicts between the two sides, and Viscount Kenmays suffered a big loss.

In fact, Viscount Kenmays was originally unreasonable. The Territory of Norton Family was determined by the Krissen's Empire founding country Great Emperor. On the map of Territory, the hills of Morgen were clearly within Territory of Norton Family. Viscount Kenmays's Territory was registered by Second Prince, which belonged to Northern Land Aristocrat(s) five years ago. I wonder whether it was intentional or intentional, and the Morgen Hills was placed on the Viscount side. It is reasonable to say that it should be Second Prince to reassign people to distinguish between the two sides. As a latecomer, Viscount Kenmays must concede. However, I don't know why Second Prince and Muddy started. He only said that the two parties should negotiate to resolve it by himself, and he would no longer care about it. The result is that the two sides set off a knife and gun, Norton Family won.

Now that Norton Family is weakening, Viscount Kenmays has begun toss again, especially after one of his cousins ​​became the mistress of Northern Land Grand Duke(s) Loggins Duke(s), somehow got into a relationship with Duke(s) Lord(s), and there is no fear of another in Morgen Hills. A hole was opened on one side to mine copper resources belonging to Norton Family. And Norton Family can only tolerate this tone and ignore it.

If Viscount Kenmays knows the true situation of Norton Family, I am afraid that it will immediately annex the copper mine of Norton Family. Without the copper mine's revenue, Norton Family's finances will soon go bankrupt. This is the fifth trouble of Norton Family, and it can also be said to be a financial crisis.

Ten years ago, although Norton Family Territory had a garrison like existence, the family is not the Aristocrat(s) who can live by searching for leaders. The family hunts magical beast by its own force to obtain fur. In addition, the specialty of Northern Land depends on the family business. The team went to Morante City for trading, and the income once a year is extremely considerable. At that time, the family cavalry was as many as two hundred men, well-equipped, and the Norton iron rider was famous Northern Land.

But the good times are not long. Seven years ago, the caravan led by Lorist's Third Uncle was killed by robbers and all members of the family. The family lost the most important financial income. Then Great Young Lord took the family iron rider to fight for Second Prince In the Quartet, there were only dozens of family cavalry who escorted the body back when Great Young Lord died, of which more than half were disabled. It took more than half of the years of accumulation to care for the family.

It was the Second Prince order that poured fuel on the fire. The ownership of Norton Family was transferred from the Krissen royal family to Loggins Duke(s). If the family's iron rider and Great Young Lord are still there, Lord Baron will certainly refuse to accept this order, even if it fights the entire Northern Land Aristocrat(s), because Norton Family is loyal to the Krissen royal family, not a prince.

While Great Young Lord was still around, Second Prince embraced him in every way. I didn't expect that when people died, Second Prince turned his face down and did n’t recognize him. He even passed Norton Family as an object to Loggins Grand Duke(s). This pair of Norton Family It is both ironic and sad. But at the time, all Aristocrat(s)s of Northern Land belonged to Second Prince, and Norton Family was unable to resist, and had to default to reality.

Loggins Duke(s) is not the Krissen royal family. Not only does he have to impose a tithe of land on his Aristocrat(s) Territory, what war taxes, blood taxes, Territory security fees, etc., add up to almost half of a Aristocrat(s) Territory income. Fortunately for other Aristocrat(s), it can be difficult to deal with Norton Family. These additional taxes cannot be levied on the defensive team and their family members. On the contrary, they must pay for these people equivalent to three-tenths of their income in the field. There is a copper mine income balance, and the family has already had a fiscal deficit.

Even though the war already ended, Duke(s) Lord(s) not only reduced the levy, but also added a reinstatement tax, which means that the collection of this tax is to prepare for the restoration of Krissen Empire. As for the time of preparation, it is unknown, maybe Ten years and hundreds of years of collection. Now the main points of the family's external traffic are on the Loggins Duke(s) site, and Norton Family can only bear it again with patience.

After Shadekampf and Patt introduced the entire situation of Norton Territory, everyone was silent, and even Terman who advocated Lorist to go back to inherit Territory disappeared. This is obviously a fire pit, who jumped in and died.

Charade asked Patt and Shadekampf: "Does your family require Locke to arrive in time to inherit Territory?"

Patt replied: "Lord passed away in March this year. It took us more than three months to get from Northern Land to Morante City. Because the road was not smooth, we encountered robberies, slave traders, Territory conflicts, etc., and we went a lot. Road. It took more than a month to find Young Lord at Morante City. My grandfather told me before leaving that if Young Lord wants to go back to inherit Territory, he must arrive before March next year. If we do n’t go back then, the family only I can choose one of the children born by Lord and the maid as the heir to the family.

Charade nodded: "It ’s okay, things are not urgent, you first follow Locke and see for yourself which option is really good for Locke. At the same time let Locke think about it himself, he What direction should we choose to take in the future. Let's do this first. "