The day after the wedding, Otto began to personally send the guests back to his territory, regardless of the headaches he still had after drinking the day before.
You’ve stayed here for so many extra days. Stop eating and drinking from me. For the value of the little gift you gave me, are you treating my place like a buffet?
The cost of this wedding has far exceeded Otto's estimate. Fortunately, he recovered a little by receiving gifts, otherwise Otto would cry to death.
But there are also benefits. The alliance with Sighard not only gained a powerful ally, but also gained a lot of land, especially the enclave of Linz, which was an excellent location for Otto.
Otto sent the family knights to take over the newly acquired lands and convey the laws of the Aargauland to his new subjects.
When he is free, Otto plans to personally inspect his territory, especially the territory in Linz, and build a good construction there as a bridgehead to seize Austria.
Over the course of three days, the guests left one after another, and Otto could see that they were reluctant to leave.
If it were Otto, they wouldn't be willing to leave. They have free food, drink, accommodation, and entertainment. This kind of good thing is not often used.
After bidding farewell to the guests, Otto had time to turn on the system and check the situation.
Sure enough, it was not what he expected.
After announcing to the nobles that he had established a new family, the reputation of the Habsburg family was no longer a pitiful 5. It had now risen to 12 points, and his personal reputation had directly reached 34.
It seems that improving family reputation is far more difficult than improving personal reputation.
This is normal when you think about it. A strong family is never supported by one or two people, but by the efforts of generations of family talents.
Judging from Otto's experience, if you want to quickly improve your family's prestige, you must either find a marriage alliance with a big family or obtain higher status and power. But these two items are not possible for Otto in the short term.
He himself is now married and has no children, and his younger brother El is not a member of the Habsburg family. It is obviously impossible to rely on marriage with a prestigious family to increase his reputation.
As for status and power, unless Otto got lucky and was suddenly noticed by King Louis of East Francia and gave him the title of Duke, he could only make progress slowly.
Before Otto exited the system, he glanced at the Wonder System and suddenly felt refreshed.
I don’t know when, the progress bar of Eagle Fort upgrade has increased and turned into 4/100.
Otto began to think about the conditions for upgrading this Eagle Fort.
First of all, it is definitely not the time of completion or residence. Otto has moved into Eagle Castle for more than a month, and the progress has only increased by 4 points. If calculated based on time, Otto may not be able to upgrade Eagle Castle to the highest level in his lifetime.
So, is it the number of banquets held or the number of guests? Otto thought for a while and rejected this idea.
How could it be so simple? Wouldn't that give Otto a chance to reach the full level in a short time?
Judging from the urinary nature of this artificially retarded system, this is definitely not a good thing.
After staying on the system page for about seven or eight minutes, Otto still couldn't figure out the reason. He just guessed without any prompts. There were too many possibilities.
Otto could only decide to check the upgrade progress every day after getting up, ask what happened in Eagle Fort, and then use the elimination method to find out what could upgrade Eagle Fort.
Otto thought so and did so. After instructing Gent to monitor Eagle Fort every day and report to him when needed, Otto happily waited for Eagle Fort to continue to upgrade.
He had been very tired during this period of time and wanted to take advantage of this period to take a good rest. Soon, Lothair II is about to burp, and he still has a lot of work to do.
It's a pity that for several days in a row, the upgrade progress bar of Eagle Fort is still stuck at the 4/100 position and is motionless. Otto's newly married wife, Sophie, looked at Otto with resentment every day and ignored Otto's words to him.
Otto also couldn't laugh or cry about this.
After getting married, if a husband sleeps with his wife in separate rooms without touching his wife, any normal woman would be resentful, not to mention Sophie's natural beauty.
Otto explained to her the reason why he did this. It was for her health. After all, Sophie was still young.
Obviously, judging from Sophie's performance, she did not believe Otto's words.
Sophie didn't believe it, and Otto couldn't help it. Facing her sad eyes every day was full of pressure, so he had to try not to meet her. But this way, Sophie felt that there was something wrong even more, and began to complain to the maids in private.
As a result, Liz, the busty blond maid who served Otto every day, looked at Otto with strange eyes.
This made Otto feel a little strange, and he wanted to know what happened, so he called Gent.
Facing Otto's questioning, Gent dodged his eyes, looked hesitant, and hesitated to tell the truth.
Finally, under Otto's urging, Gent bit the bullet and told the truth. When speaking, he did not even dare to look up at Otto.
"Young...Master, Sophie...Mrs. Sophie told the maids that you, you may have something to hide, and now...there are rumors in the castle...rumors...rumors about you, Master. ..You may not be good at it, the rumors...the rumors have spread outside the castle.”
Hearing Gent's words, Otto felt his eyes darken and his heart felt cold.
It’s over, my reputation will last forever.
"Whoever allows them to spread rumors will be arrested and beaten by me!"
Jin Te was startled, "Master, do you want to beat them all? However, there are many guards who are also discussing it."
Otto's eyes twitched and he gritted his teeth secretly.
"Forget it, the rumors stop with the wise, let them be."
After speaking, Otto waved his hand and signaled Gent to leave.
Gent looked at Otto, hesitant, as if he wanted to say something.
"Why, is there anything else?"
"Master, why don't we find someone to see if you don't have an heir? What will we do in the future?" Gent said as he backed away, obviously afraid that Otto would beat him.
"roll!"
Otto growled.
Jinte ran away in despair.
Otto shook his head, looking helpless. Didn't he know whether he could do it himself? Although Europeans develop earlier due to racial issues, fifteen-year-old Sophie looks forward and backward, no different from an adult.
At the same time, whether in the West or the East, this was the age when children could be born.
But Otto couldn't pass the test in his heart. When you think about the other person being a minor, you will inevitably feel like a beast. Anyway, I am young and already married, so why rush for this moment.
As the saying goes, good things don’t go out, but bad things spread thousands of miles.
No, Butler Simon found Otto personally with a bunch of spices.
"Master Otto, this is what Mrs. Kelin asked me to send. It is said that it is very helpful for the harmonious life of husband and wife. Mrs. Kelin is still very concerned about you."
