"Welcome everyone to come at this most difficult time, and thank you for your help." He said calmly, "Ward has explained to me your purpose of coming, and also told me what you did along the way - but since you are... For guests coming from afar, it is our responsibility to receive them, or you can also come and see what happens next.”
There was no direct exchange of interests, nor did we ask who we represented. Nolde probably knew that such negotiations would be of little use at the moment, not to mention that he probably already knew the identity of Nolan Lusi, so Ordinary small favors are hard to impress.
"If you act in the city, I will give you some conveniences, but I can't give you some key powers." Nolde sighed and said, "It's not that I don't worry about you, but now there are a lot of various affairs in the city. , and the news that Ward brought back is not optimistic, it is difficult to take care of you under such circumstances."
I am not surprised by Nord's approach. After all, Ganger is a city and a fortress, and military defense is the top priority.
"That's okay, as long as we are given a certain amount of freedom to move around." I nodded and said, "We don't necessarily make decisions based on military strength."
Nold looked at us with some surprise. After a slight pause, his face finally softened a little.
"As for military strength...that's not necessarily the case."
He pressed the magic circle beside the table, and soon a middle-aged man who looked like a butler came over.
"The guest may need your help in or around the city these days." The middle-aged man leaned forward slightly, then turned to look at us.
"This is my butler - Dige. If you have any requests in the past few days, just mention them to him. I will try my best to meet your requests. But you have also seen the current situation, so if there are some things that are not Please forgive me if the solution is satisfactory.”
Next, after a few simple polite words, it seemed that there were already some people standing outside the door.
Nolde could only smile apologetically and end the conversation.
"Prince Norde seems to be very intense in handling government affairs. Doesn't he have the talents to assist in internal affairs?" I asked Dige curiously when I walked out of the palace.
"Originally, there are, but most of His Highness's team has been sent to various places for overall coordination." Dige replied, "Actually, the border lords do not have many relevant talents. They usually rely more on the supplies from the rear. support, so what His Highness has to do here is to reallocate resources and structures in various places.”
In other words, it is equivalent to taking over most of the internal affairs system of most territories.
I was a little surprised by how powerful this unity was.
"Are those nobles willing to give up so much power?" I asked with some confusion, "Wouldn't doing so be equivalent to depriving the nobles of some of their power to a certain extent?"
Dige nodded and said: "Actually, as the gentleman said, this has indeed consolidated the power of the nobility into the hands of one person to a large extent, but equally, administrative efficiency and financial and logistical The pressure has also been greatly reduced, so in the end the resources in the hands of the nobles are only a lot more. At present, His Highness still needs to rely on the military strength of the nobles, so this can only be done temporarily. "
"His Royal Highness seems to ask for a lot?"
Dige smiled and did not answer me directly: "Of course His Highness hopes to have a real ruler of the country and have more efficient execution of government orders. At this point, the interests of several nobles are the same."
Looking at Nolde's current plan, it seems that he wants to follow this dispute over the throne to achieve a certain degree of centralization. It is just a preview of centralization, but the nobles are not visible yet, and he does still need these nobles. help.
So, do you want a favor order?
I smiled.
Forget it, these are not things I need a relationship with.
"Dig, are you familiar with the area?"
"I've learned a lot recently." Dige said humbly, "What do you want to know more about?"
"Where are the folk customs?"
Dige was stunned for a moment, and then said after a slight pause: "I don't know much about it, but I have a rough understanding of the local folk customs."
I rubbed my chin and asked, "I remember that Ganger is a city built on war. The habits may be different, right? Are there any traditional beliefs here?"
"Faith - I apologize, but there is not much faith here. The local tough people don't believe in ghosts and gods. If you insist on it, the troops here will worship the war heroes of that time."
This does not look like it will form a god, and it is not a legacy of the Norma Federation.
"It's not surprising that Ganger is like this."
Cities built for the purpose of war will more or less lack some foundation, so I didn't have high expectations.
I asked, "In that case, what was it like here before Gungar was founded?"
"Actually, the Gangel we see now is different from the one we first established." Dige asked curiously, "I don't know much about this area of knowledge. If you need it, Gangel There are actually museums and libraries locally, and I can make it easier for you to learn about these things."
And a museum?
I nodded in surprise and said, "Of course that's the best."
So under the leadership of Dige, we arrived in front of the closed museum.
Today is a closed day, but after some exchanges with Digg, we were allowed to leave.
The museum in Ganger is not an exhibition of local cultural relics in the usual sense. Rather than displaying scenery, it is more like a war museum, including battle processes and cultural relics since the city was founded. There is even a small section of the city wall on display here. , there are countless heroes produced in past wars.
But fortunately, in the deepest part of the museum, I still saw the history of the local people here before Ganger was established.
To be more precise, it is the ancient history here.
In more distant times, there were human settlements here. Perhaps they were a group of ancient ancestors who migrated here. Unfortunately, the people here had already fallen before "history" and could not be formed here. any culture.
What is on display now are the relics of the ancestors that were excavated here during the construction of the city.
Full of primitive atmosphere, and primitive... worship?
I looked at the carving and it didn't look like the stone totem that appeared at that time.
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