There were about three hundred people in the convoy from Castres this time, guarding a full forty carriages.
Among them, one hundred were armored knights of the Castel family, three mages, and the remaining two hundred were followers and charioteers.
The leader of the convoy is Baron Chalon, his full name is Chalon de Lien-Castell, a senior first-order knight of the stars.
After learning the other person's full name, Charlotte was a little surprised. She didn't expect to see half of her family's surname in the other person's surname.
However, after Quasimodo's introduction, Charlotte learned that the Lenn-Castle family was a branch of the Castel family.
Just like the Castel family is a branch of the Bold family, there are also many branches of the Castel family in the Earl of Castel, but some of them continue the Castel name after the division. Some retained their surnames, while some changed their names completely.
Similar family branches are quite common in the world of Miria.
This is determined by the inheritance law of Miria's aristocratic system. Its origin is also the Yunet Empire, which established the current basic political structure of Miria. The Yunet Empire advocates divided inheritance. In addition to the eldest son receiving the main title, each member of the noble family The heirs will receive the next-level noble title and territory.
It is also because of this that in the past thousands of years, various noble families have branched out. In addition to the main family, side branches have also continued to branch out, forming an increasingly large number of noble surnames.
In other words, Baron Chalon's ancestors were also direct members of the Castel family.
However, success is also divided and inheritance is divided, and failure is also divided and inherited.
Although the division of inheritance maintained a certain degree of fairness and allowed the noble family to continue to grow, the division of inheritance also brought about wars, especially the battles among the heirs over inheritance rights.
In addition, the continuous division and inheritance are also weakening the centralization of power. In many feudal kingdoms, including the Yunet Empire, the continuous division leads to the weakening of royal power. In the end, the central government loses control over the local areas, and even causes The country is destroyed.
Of course, this is already the old almanac.
People have long memories, and the same goes for nobles.
Today, a thousand years have passed, and the vast majority of noble families have long abandoned split inheritance, choosing instead the more "advanced" eldest son inheritance.
Although heirs other than the eldest son may receive fiefs, it is not due to inheritance, but to the lord's gift.
As for the Castel family...
In addition to branching out into branch families more than a hundred years ago, over the past hundred years, the main branch of Castel has been passed down through five generations, constantly testing the verge of extinction.
By the time Charlotte is here, seriously speaking, she is almost the same as Jue Si.
For this reason, although the Earl of Castel exists as a branch of the Castel family, their blood relationship is not even close to that of other families in the kingdom and principality of the marriage, and the same is true for the claim and inheritance of Castel.
Even if they are related by blood, even if they are still considered a member of the Castel clan, the nobles in these territories are almost the same as those enfeoffed nobles.
In addition to Baron Sharon, there were five initiates among the one hundred armored knights escorting the convoy, including a hereditary noble and four extraordinary knights who had borrowed the seed of source power to advance.
Although the remaining knights have not entered the ranks, they are all extraordinary.
As for the three mages, there is also one Fanxing, and the remaining two are apprentices.
Obviously, the ratio of mages among extraordinary people is much lower than that of extraordinary knights.
But this is also normal.
The conditions for becoming a mage are already more stringent than those of extraordinary knights, not to mention that extraordinary knights can be mass-produced through the seeds of source power.
Although mass-produced beginners are less powerful, they are still beginners.
Seeing the strength of the escorting knights, Charlotte almost had a more intuitive idea of the strength of her family.
You know, in the Demon Hunting Center in Boulder City, there are no more than forty advanced demon hunting knights in total, but here, there are seven advanced demon hunters in the Castel family's team transporting supplies!
However, the knights escorting the convoy were not the strongest force in this team.
The most powerful force is a middle-aged man standing next to Baron Sharon.
Different from the armored knight, the equipment on his body looked much more weathered, and his whole person also had an aura of recklessness.
In him, Charlotte felt an obvious sense of threat. Although not as good as Sebas, it was already quite strong.
Silver Moon!
This is a second-level Silver Moon transcendent!
Realizing the opponent's strength, it was difficult for Charlotte not to cast a curious look.
There is no doubt that compared to the majestic armored knight, this second-order Silver Moon is the real escort.
He alone can probably defeat these knights easily!
Noticing her gaze, Sharon quickly and respectfully introduced:
"Miss Charlotte, this is Mr. Carlisle."
After saying that, he introduced Charlotte to the second-level Silver Moon transcendent:
"Sir Carlisle, this is the young master of our Castel family, Miss Charlotte."
Carlisle...Your Excellency?
Her heart moved slightly.
As a baron of the first rank of Fanxing, Sharon did not call the other party "sir", indicating that the other party was not a noble.
Silver Moon's second rank, but not a nobleman, coupled with the vicissitudes of life and rough dress, the answer is ready to come out.
The other party... is probably a free mercenary!
As if to verify Charlotte's guess, the middle-aged man couldn't help but look at her a few more times and then looked away. His eyes only stopped at Sebas, and then said to Baron Sharon:
"Your Excellency Sharon, Bold has arrived and it's time for me to leave."
"Your Excellency Carlisle, don't you want to stay and rest? Let us do our best as landlords."
Baron Sharon said in a deep voice.
However, the transcendent named Carlisle just shook his head:
"Thank you for the invitation, but I have other things to do."
After some excuses, the second-level Silver Moon transcendent left.
Before leaving, Baron Chalon ordered a knight to hand the other party a beautiful bag. Charlotte took a sharp look and found that it contained a lot of silvery metal, which looked very much like the legendary mithril.
She immediately understood that this mercenary was not Castel's retainer, but was just hired to help escort supplies.
However, being able to hire a silver-moon second-level escort to escort supplies for a month is enough to show Caster's financial resources and the value of transporting items.
According to Nice's price for hiring extraordinary people on the black market, if it's not tens of thousands of quintana, I'm afraid I won't be able to hire one!
And this... also made Charlotte more curious about the supplies transported by the convoy.
After all, the cost of this transportation alone is probably tens of thousands of quintana!
Accompanied by the excited pursuit of the children, the Castel family's motorcade drove into Boulder City, and the knights on the outside opened the way with gintana on both sides, receiving bursts of cheers.
Sitting in the carriage, Charlotte couldn't wait to order the knights escorting her to deliver a list of supplies first.
After hearing her order, Baron Sharon hesitated, but he finally obeyed her order.
After seeing the list, Charlotte finally knew why forty carriages were needed.
It turned out that the convoy they escorted not only provided funds for the manor, but also provided goods for the family's stores throughout the Principality of Boulder.
Forty carriages, most of them were cargo!
They were not only a convoy transporting supplies, but also a caravan.
As for the supplies they transported... they included high-quality textiles from Falling Star Kingdom, elven jewelry and magic props from Luna Island, and minerals and gems from Castel Territory.
And when Charlotte saw the column of funds delivered to the manor, her eyes suddenly lit up.
Half a million!
The cost of transporting the convoy to the manor as a fund for family activities actually amounted to half a million quintana!
Oh my gosh, this is a month’s worth of money!
That’s six million quintana a year!
Is my family so rich? !
Charlotte felt her little heart trembling. She felt that she had underestimated her family's wealth.
At this moment, the old servant Quasimodo couldn't help but knock on the car window:
"Master, approximately how much money has been brought from the family territory...?"
"Five million Quintana!"
Charlotte took a deep breath and said with a glowing face.
However, after listening to her words, Quasimodo frowned slightly:
"Fifty...ten thousand?"
Seeing his expression, Charlotte felt a little strange:
"What, is there a problem?"
Quasimodo hesitated and whispered:
"There seems to be some problem..."
"Master, I haven't been involved in family affairs for many years, so I don't know what the current territory is like."
"But only half a million... seems too little."
Charlotte:...?
