Cthulhu Gonfalon Chapter 46:

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"This is unreasonable!" The priest Milomon's eyes widened, "You are just a baron, and there are viscounts, earls, and marquises on the miàn, but hòu only arrives at the grand duke. The grand duke will just grab you like this , Isn’t your Fengjun angry? This claw stretches too long, right!"

"... Our Keene collar is directly under the Grand Duke." Crick sighed, "Although the surrounding area is the territory of Count Hallhuck, but this one is not. Probably when it was established that year, it was specially An enclave was arranged to prevent this area from being completely controlled by Earl Hallhak."

"Since the surrounding area is the territory of Count Hallhake, the disaster is also the subject of Count Hallhake. Even if someone comes to ask for food, it should be the Count of Hallhake who sent someone to come."

"It's just an excuse." Crick continued to sigh.

"It's shameless!" Milomon understood, shook his head, and said, "I can't help it. We orcs have never done this before."

"In the winter of last year, didn't we just set out on the orders of the Grand Duke?" Knight Howard James frowned and said, "Even if the vassals should be loyal to the prince, your lord, you personally lead the soldiers to participate in the battle of the day the sun goes out. , And the army led by Keene suffered heavy losses. You almost lost your lord on the battlefield. Isn’t that enough?"

"So this letter said very earnestly, saying that it is not your majesty that needs food, but that the disaster-stricken territories need food." Crick said with a sneer, "our majesty's mind is so good. Yeah!"

"Didn't we also have a good harvest last year. Why did he not reach out last year and suddenly came to ask for food this year?" Charles Oss Knight asked wonderingly.

"The harvest last year was not obvious." Crick said, "Except for a few experimental plots where fertilizer was used last year, most of the fields adopted new farming techniques, but the increase in harvest was limited, and the total harvest increased by two. To be honest, this level of bumper harvest is not particularly conspicuous. But this year is different, because fertilization and new-style agriculture have been fully promoted, and this year’s harvest has skyrocketed. Although the statistical results have not yet been fully released, it is currently counted. According to the situation, this year’s total harvest may be...close to four times that of previous years."

When Crick said this, the entire conference room fell into an astonishing silence.

After a few seconds, Scout Lena couldn't help but ask: "My lord, are you right?"

"That's right."

"...That's no wonder!" Keene City Patrol Captain Reid sighed deeply, "I have to be jealous if I change it!"

"But our neighbor, Count ****, is not jealous." The Leiden butler said.

"Perhaps he was jealous too, but his hands were not as fast as our Grand Duke." Intelligence officer Lafore said quietly, "During this time, he held several high-level meetings in succession, and maybe he discussed Let’s fight the autumn wind."

Crick's face suddenly darkened, the tiger at the front door had not been driven away, and the wolf howling had been heard at the back door.

What is worse than a piece of bad news? That's two bad news!

"Fortunately, Earl Hallhak hasn't done anything yet, we finally still have room to turn around." Master Damweid said, "But the Grand Duke's order has come, and this is a problem that needs to be solved right now. "

"Is this still going to be solved?" Crick sighed deeply, "That fat man has a posture that will take me down, so he really wants to hack him to death!"

"You can't be hacked, don't think about it." Although the pastor of the **** of literature and art is not doing his job properly, Thomas, who has been doing research all day, persuaded, "For the manpower in our territory, it is okay to find a viscount. Shang Dagong loses steadily."

"I just said that casually." Crick sighed in frustration and couldn't help coughing twice.

"Master, you must take care of your health!" The Leiden butler worriedly persuaded, "No matter what the trouble is, as long as you are here, our territory will have a future. Even if it is a loss this time, what about it? Anyway, we will have a bumper harvest after all, and it will continue to be harvested."

Crick nodded slightly, sighed slightly, and admitted his statement.

As the steward of Leiden said, even if he suffered a loss this time and was robbed of a large amount of food, his Majesty Thunder can't grab it year after year!

Kean-led's new agriculture is on the right track. Maybe next year will not have such a bumper harvest as this year, but there will always be two to three hundred catties per acre. Even if we take a step back and say, there will always be two hundred catties per mu of land.

With this kind of harvest, it is enough to support Keane's continuous advancement. Even if he suffers a loss this year and is taken away by a greedy fat man with a large amount of food, next year he will not be able to make any excuses to ask for it...

"Hey, this idea is a bit naive!" The chief priest of Milomon said with a sneer, "I don't know if you have seen wolves hunting on the grassland. Normal wolves will only chase and attack smaller ones. The herd captures the old, weak, sick and disabled who are backward. But those particularly powerful wolves will choose the powerful herd and follow from a distance, hunting some each time, just like grazing."

His round eyes narrowed, and a gloomy light was emitted: "As long as you get the benefits this time and taste the sweetness, there will definitely be another next year next year, and it will continue from now on, forming a routine. "

The people led by Keen fell into silence. Although they didn't want to admit it, everyone felt that Milomon's chief priest made a lot of sense.

"I remember the winter before, when he called on all parts of the country to send troops to support the Eagle Kingdom. At that time, at least four earls ignored him." As he recalled, the intelligence officer Lavor said slowly, "It seems that nothing happened afterwards. That's it."

"That's the earl." The Leiden butler hurriedly persuaded, "The power of the earl is not comparable to us. Even the Lord Duke would not dare to really turn his face against the nobles over this little matter. But we are not. Great noble!"

As he said, Keenling is not a great nobleman, and lacks the courage to be tough with the Duke.

The Thunder Principality was founded by a knight who was canonized by the "High Mage" Master Imia Lamperus. Because of the existence of the lord above his head, the knight did not later claim that he was king, but respected Lanperus as the king, calling himself the Grand Duke of Thunder.

Currently, the nobles of the Thunder Principality are divided into seven classes, and the highest is the King-Lord Thunder himself. Theoretically speaking, he is the master of the entire Thunder Principality, but in fact, apart from the direct-administration and the direct-subordinates, the princes of the other territories are the great nobles, and he is just the leader of the great nobles.

The second rank is the three marquis, the brother of the queen, the most respected of the princes, and the grand marshal of the principality. The Marquis has no fief, they are close ministers of the Grand Duke, and their power and status come from the trust and grant of the Grand Duke.

The third rank is the earls, they are the descendants of the companions who pioneered the territory with the first grand prince. At that time, Master Lamperus's subordinates were not only the First Grand Duke, but there were several who were close to him. Later, when the nation was founded, the first princes enlisted the territories and canonized them as earls. The earl is the supreme ruler of a realm, and even the grand prince has no right to point out his realm. In fact, the Duke of Thunder has developed to the present. With the prosperity of the counties, the Grand Duke's control over the entire country has declined.

The fourth rank is the viscounts. The viscounts are the nobles with more fiefdoms and greater influence. Some of the more powerful viscounts have barons under their command, while others only have knights. The princes and earls all have viscounts under their command, and they accept the canonization of the lord and allegiance to the lord. Although they have greater power in their own territories, the orders of the lord still take precedence.

The fifth rank is the baron, and the Keene collar is the baronial. The baron is the lowest rank among the "city nobles". Every baron has his own lord, and some even have several levels of lord. However, most of their subordinates still have knights and quasi knights, which is more than enough.

The sixth level is a knight, and the seventh level is a quasi-knight. The difference lies in the presence or absence of fiefdom. Knights have their own fiefs, while quasi-knights can only get salaries from the lord. Moreover, the territory of knights can be inherited with the family name, but the quasi-knights are not. Unless their children are canonized again, their knighthood can only be enjoyed by themselves and cannot be passed on to future generations-so they have no surnames. .

Keene currently has two knights, the Knights of Oss and the Knights of James. The contemporary Oss knight is Charles Oss. He inherited the title and territory from his father Divor Oss. And a glorious surname; and Howard James Knight’s father is the old Baron Keene’s best friend Nene James.

The system of the seventh-level nobles is in order. To challenge this system, not only strong courage, but also strong strength is needed.

The current Baron Keene collar obviously does not have this strength. Otherwise, Crick would have sent the messenger out.

Everyone has a meal to discuss~IndoMTL.com~ It seems that there is no other way besides acknowledging the delivery of food.

Just as Crick sighed and wanted to end the meeting, Milomon's chief priest suddenly flashed a cold light in his eyes, leaned in his ear, and whispered: "My Lord Baron, why don't we kill that messenger," Just treat it as if I didn’t receive the message? How?

Crick's eyes lit up, and he looked carefully.

Although this idea has some swords slanting forward, it is not unfeasible. After all, Keen leads the sky to the emperor and the emperor is far away. Even if his Majesty wants to send troops to crusade, Earl Holhak cannot agree to it. In that case, he will simply get a big vote!

As long as you do it cleanly, with no evidence, and you insist that you haven't received any news from the capital, then of course nothing happened.

And waiting for His Majesty to find out, sending envoys again, at least one month later.

Seizing this time, there is no time to process this batch of food. At that time, even if His Majesty wanted to grab it, there was no food for him to grab it! (To be continued.)

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