"It's okay, I just asked casually, thinking I would have the opportunity to see the relics of that war with my own eyes!" Snorri laughed to cover it up. They bypassed the faucet displayed in the foyer and entered the inner hall.
The human nobles in Bretonnia are different from the dwarves in the mountains. In most cases, the dwarves are accustomed to holding banquets in the form of a round table. This is mainly because the population is small and the concept of hierarchy is not obvious.
What Snorri saw here was a long table. Four human nobles were already sitting along the table on the side near the door. They saw the dwarves come in and stood up.
Snorri couldn't help being surprised again after feeling it for a while. Except for Constantine, who was traveling with me all the way, the three strangers turned out to be Knights of the Holy Grail!
"Jiu Yang, please sit down!" The tall man in the middle made a gesture of invitation. Snorri, as the leader of the dwarves, sat opposite him, while Stringer sat on Snorri's left hand. On the other side, he sat diagonally across from Constantine.
"Thank you all for your willingness to help my compatriots!" The red dragon emblem painted on Duke von Deijk's dress made his identity known without asking. In Snorri's opinion, he had the strongest aura of divine grace.
"In this era when the threat of chaos is rising day by day, we should help each other." Snorri responded with a standard scene.
The Duke himself seemed a little taciturn. He briefly introduced the other two Holy Grail Knights - his flag bearer and his cousin, and then asked the servants to serve the food.
Snorri looked at the steak on the plate and nodded. The main dish of this meal was venison. It was dark red in color and had a special soft taste. Compared with other meats, its meat was very lean, almost No excess fat or grease.
Venison is the highest-grade ingredient in the Kingdom of Bretonnia, and only nobles can enjoy it. If a farmer was caught eating venison he would face severe penalties, so the main course at least showed respect.
Snorri had thought about what he was going to say in advance. In fact, obtaining some possible foreign aid from Bretonnia to recover the Lost Hill Castle was originally one of the important purposes of his trip.
"Based on what I saw during this trip, your principality seems to have some hidden dangers!" After three drinks, the two sides were ready to discuss some practical topics.
"Yeah, I don't know how to talk about it for a moment!" The Duke was already a little worried about the internal affairs of his principality. Duke von Deijk was famous throughout the old world for his military bravery.
This Duke has a more grand nickname than "Dragon Slayer": "The One Who Fears Dragons". Like most of the knights of Bastogne, he embarked on the pursuit of the Holy Grail not long after he became an official knight. expedition.
It is the long-cherished wish of every generation of the Duke of Bastogne to prove himself by slaying dragons like his ancestor Gilles, but Von Deijk is more enthusiastic about this than his ancestors.
This warrior spent more than ten years traveling throughout the old world in search of dragons. Along the way, he killed many monsters and accumulated a great reputation. However, when he finally found the evil dragon, the dragon somehow flew away without fighting him.
The Duke, who had neither long-range weapons nor a Pegasus, could only look at the dragon and sigh. Such a spectacle was widely spread by those who witnessed it, so that the dragon was so frightened that Vondeijk fled with its tail between its legs.
But the Duke, who had admired the grace of his ancestors since childhood and practiced the dragon-slaying skills diligently, was still unhappy. In the end, he could only kill a nest of bipedal dragons as a substitute, drank the water of the Holy Grail, and inherited the position of Duke.
After Gu became the Duke, Feng Deike's heart of slaying the dragon remained unchanged. He learned from his experience and lessons and specially organized a team of Pegasus knights, and issued a high reward to anyone who could provide him with traces of the dragon.
His fascination with dragons led to a proverb in the Old World: "Spot a dragon? Tell Vondeijk of Bastogne!"
According to Snorri's understanding, the dilemma faced by the Principality of Bastogne actually occurs in the entire Kingdom of Knights, but the strong chivalry spirit here amplifies the problem.
First of all, there is a lack of internal management talents. Many knight lords are busy improving their martial arts and fighting everywhere in pursuit of higher titles and more achievements. They often have no time and are not good at managing their territories.
At this time, the management tasks will fall on the second sons, concubines and village elders who have no inheritance rights. Among them, those who have received aristocratic education and those who have gained experience in life have their own advantages and disadvantages in doing things. If they complement each other properly, it is possible to manage well.
But in Bastogne, the lords can almost only count on the village elders. Because of the strong knightly atmosphere, almost all noble children will choose to receive a war horse and a set of knight equipment when they reach adulthood to establish their merits as chivalrous knights instead of Provide logistics for his father and brothers.
The second is the difference in pursuits among nobles. Von Deijk himself has no intention of running for the Knight King. Having reached the pinnacle of both worldly and knightly pursuits, he can be said to have no desires or desires.
But among his subordinates, the chivalrous knights want to obtain fiefs, the kingdom knights want to improve their titles, and the high-ranking nobles want to find the Holy Grail! The Duke has promoted capable knights several times, hoping that he can make a difference in managing the territory. As a result, the man immediately put down his lance, picked up his sword and embarked on the expedition.
Even if the Lady of the Lake was slightly partial to the people of Bastogne, the proportion of those who took the oath of expedition and ended up drinking the water of the Holy Grail was still very sad to the Duke.
What makes Von Deijk even more sad is that not every Holy Grail Knight is willing to come back to serve him. Many living saints are more willing to take on the responsibility of guarding the goddess's sanctuary and dedicate their lives to their goddess.
Among the principalities of Bretonnia, Bastogne has a closer relationship with the dwarves. The reason is simply that they need more armor and weapons!
Bastogne has the largest number of chivalrous knights, expedition knights and Holy Grail knights, and the first two are undoubtedly high-risk professions. In order to achieve their goals, they run wherever there is danger. Accidental death leads to a very low recycling rate of equipment.
This situation creates more demand for money and land. Money is needed to buy equipment, and land is needed to be knighted. Every year, the Duke himself has to worry about these two things. Sometimes he has to take his men to do mercenary work. soldiers to increase their income.
The problem of land troubles every lord in Bretonnia, in the absence of a family planning policy. Even if the standards are improving year by year, there are still more and more knights who are qualified to obtain or expand their fiefdoms.
For this reason, Bretonnia always hopes to expand outwards. His Majesty Charon's expedition to eliminate the greenskins is one goal. Coveting the land of the Border Prince is another goal.
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