After a night of fierce fighting, Olan's body felt a little sore, and he finally left the tower "with his hands on his hips."
Karin, Mier, Adisha, Mrs. Nanbei...and those women who had flirted with him, there were more and more women around Olan.
He sometimes thought, in whose belly will the first child be born?
If possible, he would like it to be "Malm".
The son of the principal wife is the first legal heir. This child can unite the retainers.
Other illegitimate children, no matter how outstanding they are, will have a much weaker foundation for innate dominance.
When I become stronger, I will find a very outstanding family for marriage for my eldest son.
He returned to the room, half asleep, thinking that the family was getting stronger and stronger, and he had already thought of the names of his son and grandson, and finally fell asleep satisfied.
At around ten o'clock in the morning, with the sun high in the sky, under the protection of Kunsang and others, he began to patrol Haizhen, and gathered the refugees and the new-faced manor owners to promote the power of the White Eagle Territory.
Now the territory controlled by Oran is close to one and a half counties, and he has won every battle in the Black Forest.
Most people in Haizhen were very happy with his arrival.
It is a consensus that only strong lords can fight against the Vikings.
In the eyes of local lords and priests, Oran has a bad reputation, but what the common people see and hear is a different scenery.
Oran announced to everyone that from now on this place will follow the laws and doctrines of the White Eagle Territory.
These people just understood that they had changed a lord to protect themselves and let themselves pay taxes to him.
But what happened next caused a commotion.
Kunsang asked people to bring thirteen teenagers or adult men to Oran.
Nanding also brought out fourteen young men chosen from County Durham.
Twenty-seven people in total.
The two most trusted knights of Oran are on the left and right.
These young men stood in front of the gallows, and many of the locals thought they were going to be executed, so they whispered to each other.
"Your Excellency, according to your instructions, select from Yewei County those whose family members were killed by the Vikings and who are physically strong. The oldest among these people is eighteen years old and the youngest is thirteen years old.
Olan glanced at the faces of these people, they were young and weak, but they would eventually mature and become powerful.
Yesterday, while Oran was reproducing life, they practiced all night to master the etiquette of the lords they met for the first time.
"Who gave you the environment to survive?" Kunsang said.
"Your Excellency Oran." they replied.
"Who gives you a chance for revenge?"
"Your Excellency Oran."
"For whom will your lives and the bones and blood of future generations be sacrificed and fought for?"
"Your Excellency Oran."
After three questions and three answers, the audience outside the venue also shouted.
Oran was very satisfied. All these teenagers had white eagle crosses hanging on their necks.
Then Olan stood up and looked across the crowd, "On July 13, 865 AD, Benbo announced here the establishment of the 'Knights', whose full name is 'Knights of the White Eagle Hospital of Durham and Yeweland of England'" group.'.
Oran read out the name of the place in one breath. It is so long for the time being. He will continue to extend it when he controls more land in the future.
Only his direct subordinates knew about the "Knights". Others, even Adesha, were as confused as the local residents.
Olan winked, and Kunsang raised his hands first to signal everyone to be calm.
Then Olan began to explain, "Today's island is in turmoil. Black crows are everywhere. People go out during the day, and what they come back at night may be a cold corpse. Fear spreads, diseases are everywhere, hell is empty, and demons appear..."
Oran said that this world is scary, and in fact it is almost the same. The future is almost invisible in the eyes of ordinary people.
"But you don't need to panic, the white eagle will drive away the crows, and their dragon boats will turn into broken logs one by one and become the firewood you use for cooking.
From now on, Ben Bo will build 'hospitals' to save people safely in various towns. They will provide shelter, food and accommodation for travelers..."
Treatment?
shelter?
In England at this time, this kind of thing was generally done by the church. Priests controlled medical treatment, sacrifices, spread divine grace and knowledge, and allowed faith to continue to be deeply rooted in people's hearts.
People's natural respect for faith is born.
But Oran wanted a change.
This was also a time of turmoil for faith, with Charlemagne's empire first suppressing religious authority and then slowly being surpassed.
Odin's gods wrestle with the angels, and the wrath of the north comes.
The crescent moon prophets in the south also fought everywhere, holding swords and scriptures, and expanding the territory in all directions.
Further east on the grasslands, there are shamanic beliefs and Orthodox scriptures, as well as an ancient sect called "Brahma".
Oran wanted to absorb the scriptures of other sects and turn them into parts that were beneficial to him. To do this, he first deprived the priests of their omnipresent sense of participation.
In the end, they could only recite sutras, and they were still reciting sutras that sung their own praises.
From now on, only doctors will be able to save their lives, and the medical skills mastered by doctors are all skills taught by the Vijay family.
Oran said in his high-pitched young voice, "Soon, the 'Knights Hospitaller' will be feared by all Vikings and envied by all Lords of Heaven."
He snapped his fingers again, and a banner that had been made was taken out. Oran shouted the Knights' faith slogan, "The white eagle spreads its wings, defends the land and saves the country!"
Hundreds of eyes saw an octagonal cross flag with a white background on a black background. It also looked like four inverted V patterns, with the protrusions touching and converging at one point. There were two white eagle feathers on the left and right, and there were ears of wheat on the eagle feathers. Ears of wheat symbolize abundance, and eagle feathers represent prestige.
When the flag was taken out, everyone knelt down and shouted, "The white eagle spreads its wings, defend the country and save the country!"
Since it was a knighthood, Oran also moved some of the horses in his territory.
The newly established knights will mainly have fifteen war horses.
As the leader of the White Eagle, Olan naturally also serves as the "leader".
And this was a patchwork of knights, built with Welsh funds from Sals.
Since horse resources are scarce and armor and stomach resources are expensive, longbowmen are the mainstay first.
Oran's plan is to first form a youth group of sixty people and select a few of them as trainee knights. They will be trained by very loyal knights such as Kunsang and Nanding.
"Today" was also designated as "Knight Day" by Oran and written into the laws of the territory. From then on, small-scale martial arts competitions were held on this day every year.
Oran thought that in two or three years, the Knights Hospitallers would be able to make quite a name for themselves.
The leader has a transcendent status. Under this title, the Knights Hospitallers have four levels: knights, chaplains, non-commissioned officers, and soldiers.
Oran began to canonize.
A total of seven nobles under his command entered the Knight Guard.
They are Ghazi, Ladd, Nanding, Kunsang, Armand, Delim and Tuman.
As a baron, Ghazi is the nominal first vassal of Oran, ranking first among the seven knights, and has many symbolic meanings.
At this moment, Oran summoned him to Haizhen to assist in the battle to prevent him from staying in the territory and studying any conspiracy activities.
It would be better if he died honorably later, and he would properly handle his territory.
The second-ranked Ladd is the first direct vassal of the line, and his inclusion is to appease his face, but this time he is not here, and Oran leaves him in the territory to handle general security affairs.
Nanding ranks third and Kunsang ranks fourth. Both of them are knight instructors with actual power.
After the number is full, one out of every ten members of the sixty-member youth group will be selected as a trainee knight, and Kunsang and Nanding will be allocated three places each.
Armand is also in name. In the future, Oran plans to seal him in Simon's territory and build a fortress between Edinburgh and Northumbria.
He is a knight with a very balanced ability. He is also calm enough and does not like to be pushy. In this important place, he is more suitable than others.
Delim can be selected as the sixth one, firstly, by leveraging his reputation in Yewei County, secondly, to show Oran's trust, and thirdly, to separate him and Adesha. In the future, Oran can mobilize him at any time in the name of the Knights. .
Tuman was the last to enter the Cavaliers' ranks, and Oran liked his throwing skills and recent hard work.
If a person who has lost everything is given a chance, he will seize it with all his might.
The most important reason is that Olan negotiated with Nanamp to create a child out of thin air for him, pretending to be the child of his dead wife.
Successfully bought Tuman's sincere loyalty.
At first, Tuman also had doubts.
After being imprisoned for ten years, in his opinion, any good thing is always followed by a conspiracy.
But when a girl who was in no danger and looked a bit like his own child called her father warmly, some of the responses matched the identity of his wife, and some old tokens found on the child, which confused his mind and made it difficult to distinguish the authenticity. .
He finally gave up guessing and regarded the child as a gift.
After he gave up searching for the truth, he would never know that Oran first found an orphan, brainwashed him, and made the orphan believe it was true and regard Tuman as his father. He also used various means to create fake tokens and fake children. come out.
Of course, Tuman has to believe in order to succeed.
But he was alone, his entire family was dead, and no matter how powerful his killing skills were, they couldn't match those "Father" calls.
After Tuman was called out, Olan deliberately stretched out his hand to bring him closer and whispered to him, "In two or three years, when your child is older, I will help her find a nun to be her first teacher and educate her into a lady." , I will also help her get baptized, become her 'godfather', find a good noble son, and let them become a loving partner."
As a lord, it was a great favor to arrange the marriages of his children.
"Godfather" is said to be close to a life mentor.
Originally, the priest was giving more guidance to some admiring young apprentices.
Later, nobles adopted this method and adopted people close to them as godsons (close adoptive sons).
Only very close elders would behave like this towards young children, which is prevalent in Catholic areas.
Tuman saluted Olan respectfully. He understood the principle of "no thanks".
He made up his mind to work with other knights to turn these young men into powerful warriors.
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At the same time, Sally received a letter from Haman in Earle Castle, not far from the Haizhen territory.
Different from the previous times, this time after she got it, she ran back to the room, threw off her hair tie, kicked off her shoes, took off her cloak, then jumped on the soft bed and started reading carefully.
After reading, Sally showed a satisfied smile and turned back and forth on the bed several times.
Haman is going to fight against Gold Teeth himself!
Later at a family meeting, she met her father, Chuken, to tell them the good news, and the knight Clydon was also there.
But he didn't say a word the whole time and listened silently.
In the past, whenever Sally asked him to come to this kind of meeting, he would always participate eagerly, because he felt that it was an honorary gathering where the count recognized him as a member of their family, but now... it's nothing special!
There was something wrong with Clayton today, but Sally just assumed it was because he took the initiative to go out for exploration a few days ago, accidentally encountered the Vikings, left injuries, and the fatigue had not gone away.
However, Earl was a little dissatisfied and casually sent Clayton off.
When there were only three people left in the room, he added, "In the future, don't call him to such meetings."
"Father?"
"Just listen to me." Earl said.
A few days ago, Clayton came to see Earl and proposed once again that he wanted to marry Sally.
But he was still rejected ruthlessly.
As the Vikings and Oran were fighting from inside and outside, the upset Earl even scolded Clayton.
Clayton left the room, patrolling inside and outside the castle, doing the same behavior as usual.
Late at night, because Sally reported some good news about Haman today, Earl chose to celebrate in a drunken dream.
Tonight, this lonely city will not hear the "voice of desire" from the earl and other women.
In the early morning, when Clayton, who was on duty at night, passed by a dark stable, a black shadow suddenly patted his back, and then the two of them entered a clean small dark room where horse gear was placed.
"You haven't had a chance to be alone since you came back, so did you give him the letter?"
"It was delivered safely and after taking out the token he gave you, he successfully believed it all."
"Very good. Even if the owner of the castle changes in the future, I will not let those stinking Vikings take the lead. The Er people are old and stupid. Will you listen to Sally and cooperate with the Vikings?
I have foreseen their misery, we must protect ourselves first, and we cannot let them hand over our 'destiny'!"
In the dark environment, Clayton accidentally touched his face with the woman in front of him.
This man liked the man's young body, deliberately moved closer, and blew a breath on Clayden's face.
"Please respect yourself. If the servants find out that the 'mistress' of the castle is having a tryst with the knight, we will all be hanged." Clayton said nervously.
But the woman's alluring voice, the hint of teasing, and the stuffy hot environment made him sweat, making Clayton feel dry.
"This kind of thing can happen only once or countless times. You've already done it once, are you still afraid?"
Mrs. Nambe's words made Clayton have to recall that night.
That was before Oran came here.
One night, with the help of alcohol, he tried it out with Earl and asked to marry Sally.
He didn't suddenly get the idea, but because the night before, Earl drank too much and said that he would be good as his son-in-law.
The speaker has no intention, but the listener has intention.
In addition, the earl had indeed told his father this when he was very young, so Clayton plucked up the courage.
However, nobles with high status like to "talk the talk but not keep it", and Earle is also known as a stingy person.
Marrying your beloved eldest daughter to a poor knight with a small subordinate fiefdom is only a fool's errand.
The indifferent response caused Clyden to ride out on horseback to vent his anger, and then returned to his manor to recuperate for a few days.
One day, I happened to meet "Mrs. Nanbei" who had returned from another church and stayed at his manor.
At first, Clayton just wanted to vent his words to Earl, so he behaved like a voyeur.
But once desire arises, man is no more noble than a beast.
In the end, Clayton also forgot who seduced whom?
However, both of them are very measured. Once this kind of thing fails, there will be dire consequences.
People's hearts are most afraid of comparisons. Mrs. Nambei, who has always been chaste, developed a dislike for the person next to her after having a young knight who could be compared with her husband.
Devour
Potbellied, rude, stingy, overeating.
These qualities that I had never cared about before started to care about and hate them.
Nanbei paid attention to the strong young men around him, but they were either of too low status or too timid. If they flirted with them, they would not be reported to Earl's ears immediately.
Until Olan appeared, she fulfilled all the beautiful longing for love in Nanbei's heart.
Those days of getting along, that lingering moment, became her most obsessed time in Yewei County for more than ten years.
"The count broke his promise to me, but you are her wife, and you should support him the most."
After he finished speaking, Nanbei's long pointed nails dug into his arm.
"I once had the chance to be a mother, but I just said a few words that he didn't like, and I was kicked and punched. The unformed child slipped out of my legs and feet, and the blood was all over the carpet. After that, it was difficult for me to get pregnant. !”
It turns out that this is the truth behind the countess' unexpected miscarriage.
Slaiden was speechless for a moment, a little pitiful.
But Mrs. Nanbei immediately touched her belly and said, "Your Excellency Oran said that he would reward me with a child. Maybe I can become a mother again soon."
And you will be Sally’s husband and my child!”
my mother?
Slaiden felt nauseated and even ran out of the stable in fear.
He knew that his past self, who once had a heart for the Seven Good Deeds, could never be found again.
But there is no way back in life, we can only keep going.
