Chapter 1003
Byrne, Scarlet Blood Castle.
There are still five days to go before the agreed celebration banquet and "mysterious wedding".
In spite of this, the Red Blood Castle is already lively as if there have been countless banquets.
From the palace to the city wall, there are full of voices everywhere-from planning to formal publicity, Charlotte, with the help of the power of the Byrne Church, has spread this celebration to the ears of every Byrne person inside!
The wandering Knight who wanders with swords, the merchant who does small business, the farmer who has almost never left his own land, the nobleman who has a close relationship with the thirteen collar count; and the dwarf of the south, the big green sea. People on horseback...
Relying on the prestige that Loren won at the Battle of Eboden, Byrne, who has been silent for a hundred years, finally once again became the hometown of Knight in mind of the empire-countless outsiders , Or because of admiring the reputation of the black hair wizard, or pure curiosity, or simply wanting to challenge, see what is great about this Lord Duke...
Regardless of the reason, cause, purpose, all directions The unprecedented flow of people gathered at the Scarlet Blood Castle, making the entire Scarlet Blood Castle and even the entire Byrne never as lively as it is now.
Just the outsiders gathered in the towns and villages outside the city, the number of people has reached three times the number of the castle-and looking at the endless road, I am afraid that this number will have to double in five days!
At this time, the thirteen counts gathered in the round table council are all fortunate. If it hadn’t been for the army to be concentrated in the Scarlet Blood Fort in advance, there would be no way to raise enough manpower to maintain such a large scale. The security of the flow of people.
More fortunately, there is Duchy tax officer Jr.Yord. Because of the arrival of these people, the black bread that has been backlogged in the warehouse for years has finally appeared on the table in the tavern. The grape puree, which is badly brewed and turned into vinegar, can also be sold as real wine...
The flow of people is gold! It is wealth! When a group of people are walking on the road, they are mobile wallets, a business with long legs. Although the Byrners are not good at doing business, when they see that the pub and hotel boss has tripled the house price, " The "good and hospitable" Byrne people also use the extra space in their homes to entertain guests.
Of course, there is definitely a charge.
And Byrne’s nobles, especially the Round Table Council, immediately realized the meaning of these crowds. No matter what the final result, Byrne and this celebration of Byrne will follow in their footsteps. , Spread throughout the empire.
Hold a Legendary celebration and banquet, and let the prestige of Knight’s hometown resound in the next hundred years...it immediately became the consensus in everyone's mind.
Recognizing that this is not just the counts who are similar to the Midsummer Festival celebrations, they immediately began to mobilize the families in their respective territories, sponsoring the Torino family, and also hosting their own family banquets in the city, free of charge Entertain the Knights from all directions.
For Weber Bishop of Byrne Church, this will also be his only one chance. Whether he succeeds or fails, his teachings will follow the Knights who return home. Sent to all parts of the empire.
This will be Weber's 1st Step against Holy Cross Church!
After setting the goal, Weber even put aside his church work and took the priests to the streets to promote his "new doctrine" to the people in the countryside.
The pious but not fanatical priest, the wizard living in peace with the church, the hospitable nobleman, a wide variety of goods, rich land and people...
From all directions of the empire What the nobles, merchants and travellers have seen, heard and touched is a brand new "byrn duchy" that is completely different from what they imagined and more completely different from past memories.
Only by seeing them with their own eyes can they truly understand why Byrne in the past fourteen generations has always had the courage and strength to fight against the empire.
Only the Scarlet Blood Castle is so rich. It has 13 collars and is connected to Boyne’s Duchy bloodline. The empire only relies on the manpower and material resources of the two Sackland collars. , Can't compete with it at all!
Of course, they still don’t know that now Byrne has completely defeated the dwarves of the Southern Civil War after experiencing the Centaur War. Several dwarf city-states on the border have become physical vassals of Byrne; they have lost their territory. The Eboden wizard has also joined the wizard's guild of Byrne under the persuasion of Master Haringvan Ashamai.
Now Byrne on the surface is a ducky, but in fact he already has financial resources no less than three ducky, two ducky troops, and two to three powerful allies on the periphery;
In addition, if the Byrne Church has been completely separated from the Holy Cross Church, Byrne...has already possessed absolute control over the southern part of the empire and part of the eastern part, and has reached a level where it is essentially against the Sky Palace!
Without this strength, even if there is still an alliance of giant dragons, Charlotte would never imagine being able to take away the jurisprudence of the ruling empire from the Desalion family; and Connold even more Will not agree to the marriage of Lena Desalion and Isaac, and compromise with Byrne.
Connold is a very practical person. After the complete failure of his "imperial governor policy", he understood that the rise of Byrne is inevitable; then since it is inevitable, it should be used , Let Byrne take more responsibility in this elven war.
The same example is Brandon, the Prince of East Sackland who "will be worthy of his name." Langdon, Byrne still wants to rise, they must unite under the empire and win the Elf War, otherwise all their efforts will be in vain.
Because of this consensus, the two sides can make compromises and concessions to each other, and focus on the common enemy-as for how the future empire will recover or maintain power, that is not what he should do now considerate.
The empire still exists, and everything has a basis for discussion, otherwise it is meaningless.
Maintain the empire’s jurisprudence and rule, defeat the invasion of the Azores and all possible invasions, and ensure that the empire can be handed over to the next generation of emperors as complete as possible. It’s yourself The mission of the emperor of the fourteenth generation.
Connold thinks so.
But this does not mean that everyone is the same as he thought.
At least Silvik didn't think so at all.
The somber-faced Holy Cross Church Sir Deacon, sitting alone in a corner of the banquet hall, indifferently looked at the cheerful and diverse people in the hall, with endless anger suppressed in his pupils.
After his "reasonable" request was rejected by Loren, and even humiliated face to face, Silvik completely gave up the idea of "compromise" and determined to fight this "arrogant wizard" to the end A moment.
But the gap between goal and reality is an invisible chasm.
In just one month, the financial, manpower, and material resources displayed by the Torino family have reached a point that makes him feel terrified-as the real power of the church, especially the financial power, Silvik, It is very clear how much it will cost to hold such a grand celebration just to maintain order and stability.
But Byrne succeeded. Not only did it succeed, the crowded Scarlet Blood Castle could maintain stability at least on the surface; although the market was chaotic, the price fluctuations were not exaggerated.
What does this mean? It means that the financial resources and materials in the hands of the Torino family are simply astronomical, which means that they can easily concentrate the entire financial resources of Byrne in their own hands.
In Silvik's memory, only the empire represented by the Celestial Vault can do this!
What really frightens him is that the Byrne Church’s attitude towards Holy Cross Church has gone from the original “cooperate as much as possible” to now, and it is full of hostility; the Weber bishop’s attitude towards the doctrine Understand, it can be called a heresy!
Strong financial resources, efficient execution power, not inferior to the military power of the empire... In addition to the local churches that are very uncooperative with the church, Sylvik deacon was surprised to find that he could not come up with it at all. Any effective means to contain this arrogant Duke of Byrne.
Just when he was unable to do anything, someone who had never imagined came to him.
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"Grand Duke Arles?"
Forcibly resisting the emotion of surprise, Silvik deacon stared at him. He wore a black robe in front of him, dressed up like a youngster with ordinary priest.
"Yes, Duke Nolan Eard ordered me to come and provide help to the honorable Lord Hillwick, the representative of Holy Cross Church." He was thin and small under a black robe. The youngster seemed very indifferent:
"The Duke believes that we have a common enemy, that is the increasingly powerful family of Byrne and Torino."
Sylvik raised his eyebrows, He was not surprised by this situation.
Arles is next to Byrne, and barren and cold. Except for monsters like giant monsters that are bigger than ogre, there is no such thing as a "special product". Arles people want to live. In addition to doing business, going down is to rob and do business.
In the eyes of Holy Cross Church, even these so-called "Arles nobles" are basically the same as bandits and bandits-from the Erde family, they are basically "big bandits" to "little bandits". "Robbers", everyone is insatiable and lacks loyalty and integrity. Betrayal and rebellion are just a blink of an eye.
Under this premise, a strong and united Byrne is definitely a natural threat to the Arlesians-if the Byrne thirteen leaders are united under the Torino family, they want to rob this very very Rich's neighbor is pure wishful thinking.
But understanding is one thing, consent is another.
"As far as I know, Duke Nolan Erde and Grand Duke Lotaire are very good friends, and Duke Byrne has a close relationship with Grand Duke Lotaire." Silvik sneered. :
"With such a premise, you hope that I believe that the Duke of Arles will be against Byrne?"
"The friendship between private persons, between the two families and even Duchy Compared with the interests of the people, it’s not worth mentioning.” Youngster’s extremely indifferent attitude made Silvik’s whole body tremble:
“The powerful Byrne is the end of Arles, and the era of the Black Duke has proven it. This."
Silwick twitched the corner of his mouth looking at the youngster's emotional face.
This is not like what a child would say.
"Then, what do the Grand Duke of Arles hope to do?"
"How to do it has nothing to do with our Lord Duke, it should be Lord Silvik you...and behind you How did the Holy Cross Church do it." Youngster shook his head:
"According to the Imperial Code, unless you get permission from the Sky Vault, Duchy cannot interfere with each other."
This is of course, otherwise, what will the Heavenly Vault do?
But Silvik knows better that this is the other party shirking responsibility-it is obvious that the Duke of Nolan Oud of Arles wants to target Byrne, but he does not directly offend the Torino family, so Will never take the initiative to come forward, can only encourage myself.
Silvik is not surprised at this point. Even Byrne during the split period is not something a remote and poor country like Arles can provoke at will, let alone now.
But only this is not enough to convince Silverwick.
"Even so, why should I trust you?" Silvik asked: "Even if I can believe the sincerity of Duke Nolan Eard, why should I believe that you were sent by him? People, not the traps others prepared for me?"
Because of suspicion, the youngster is still not in a hurry, even a little bit of irritation can’t be seen, as if he doesn’t mind these.
This kind of indifferent and extremely calm attitude made Silvik a little nervous, but he also had some convincing thoughts faintly.
When you hear the doubt, you desperately want to prove yourself. It's not a fool or a ghost.
"Sir Silverk, the Duke wants to cooperate with you out of common interests-we all want to see the destruction of the Torino family, but we don't want to see the destruction of Byrne." youngster Whispered:
"A rich but not powerful Byrne is what we all like to see; so our goal is only to eradicate Loren Torino, not to completely destroy Byrne."
p>“As for whether you believe in the help we provide, that’s your question, Lord Nolan doesn’t care — of course he wants to attack Byrne and the Torino family, but there is no such thing as you and the Holy Cross Church behind you So urgent."
Silvik sneered again.
If it is not urgent enough, why would they find themselves so eagerly; if not urgent enough, why would they know that they and Holy Cross Church are doing everything possible to be hostile to the Duke of Byrne?
It is clear that you have panicked yourself, but you still want to keep yourself out of the matter and urge Holy Cross Church to do this—huh, dream!
Silvik hadn't thought about it at all. His thinking now is exactly the same as when he urged Loren in the first place.
"But, if you really need evidence..." When this sentence was said, the always indifferent youngster finally showed a smile, but the smiling Hillwick has one's hair stand on end:
"We can give you a very critical piece of information, one that can instantly ruin Loren · Torino!"