I Want To Be a Nobleman

Don't worry about adding attributes. Harold led his men forward and continued to move forward. He only regarded the passing of the Babylonian Kingdom as a supply station, and did not go deep into the territory of the Babylonian Kingdom.

At this time, it is not too far to leave the territory of the Kingdom of Babylon and reach the wilderness. It only needs to walk for two or three days. If you retreat and take a detour, at least half a month will be wasted, and who knows what dangers will happen during the period.

Harold's move was still somewhat reckless. The nobles of the Kingdom of Babylon were not useless. After he defeated the first nobleman, another nobleman led troops to catch up.

The caravan of Harold and his party transported a large amount of armor and weapons. How could this thing bring him back to the Kingdom of Corondo. This time, the nobles are not only stronger, but also more insidious.

After a battle with Harold, who lost both sides, this guy hangs far behind Harold and his party, and has been gathering troops to prepare for another battle. Harold couldn't get rid of the enemy with the cargo.

"My lord, shall I kill those tails in the distance?" A rogue knight volunteered, but Harold refused.

It is useless to kill one or two scouts. It is impossible for a caravan with so many people to get rid of the pursuit. If it is ambushed and loses a rogue knight, it will be a big loss.

After a battle with that nobleman two days ago, only a dozen ordinary soldiers under Harold died, and a large number of system soldiers were also killed. There were only 4 [Rogue Knights] and 10 [Corondo Iron Guards] left. , 5 【Corondo cavalry】.

Now Harold has urgently recruited 20 [farmers] from among the coachmen and servants. Although there is no time to train, these level 1 soldiers upgrade very quickly. As long as they participated in the battle that day, they were enough to upgrade. Became [Militiaman].

[Militiamen] Combat strength is very good. Although they are system soldiers, they are not as good as those ordinary soldiers who have been strictly trained. None of their strength and agility attributes exceed 10, and their combat skills are all lv1 and lv0. More importantly, they have no The system has been trained and cannot show its full strength on the battlefield.

And the nobleman on the enemy side has been gathering troops. Thinking about it, it should be almost the same, and besides the large number of soldiers, there must also be a lot of knights. Harold is definitely not an opponent with this army.

"Leave the goods and run?" Harold seriously thought about this question. Isn't it the dwarven equipment worth hundreds of thousands of gold coins? At worst, he will bring fine wine to the Dwarf Kingdom next time to purchase the equipment. The purchase price of this batch of equipment is only 20,000 gold coins Right or left, he can afford to lose!

Just when Harold was about to give the order to discard the goods, something unexpected happened. The enemy scouts following them were stopped by a group of centurions led by knights.

Harold really knew that knight, he belonged to Earl Ramon, and he said that they were indeed in Earl Ramon's territory now.

At the same time, Earl Ramon also greeted Harold from a distance with his troops, and greeted Harold from a distance, "Hey, brother, I'm here to help you!"

Harold was a little unbelievable at this time, Earl Ramon would come to rescue him? Do you really think of him as a brother? He is not even a noble now! Wouldn't this be setting a trap to assassinate him?

No, there is no need. Earl Ramon can be regarded as one of the most powerful nobles in the Kingdom of Babylon. No one can suppress him except the king and the two marquises.

Why is he helping me? Harold was puzzled, but he still greeted warmly: "Earl Ramon, long time no see, the magic lamp you gave me is very useful!"

Ramon only allowed a few knights to follow, and he drove up to Harold. Harold didn't let his men stop him. It seemed that Ramon really came to help him!

"The Kingdom of Corondo is at war with other countries because of interests. This is bad news, but it has nothing to do with us, right?" Ramon said with a smile.

Harold followed his words and said, "I'm just a businessman. I don't want to participate in wars. I want to trade peacefully. I just have to defend myself when I'm attacked!"

Count Ramon is a dove? It is possible that not all nobles like war, let alone the internal struggle between human kingdoms.

"Then we agree, I'm not interested in participating in the war, I don't want to expand the territory, let's go, come to my castle, let's have a banquet and talk about things while eating and drinking!" Ramon smiled even more, inviting Ha Lotte is visiting.

Harold nodded and agreed. Ramon didn't look like he was lying to him, and there was no reason to lie to him. He was out of men and horses, and he would be defeated in an instant if he really fought. Earl Ramon's army had thousands of people, and the knights were all here. Ten or so.

Harold asked his men to go to the castle with Ramon's troops. At this time, the nobles who had been chasing Harold all the way caught up and shouted angrily: "Ramon, what do you mean? Killed hundreds of my soldiers, now you take him to the castle to rest, are you trying to treason?"

Ramon's troops far outnumbered that nobleman, and he didn't bother to talk nonsense with the other party. He said like flying flies: "Hoddy, this is my territory, and Harold is my guest. You'd better get out of my way with your troops." In addition, you are just a small baron, and you are not qualified to accuse me of treason!"

Come on, the most painful point of the aristocratic enfeoffment system is that the country's cohesion is not enough!

The nobles are all willful and reckless guys. The king is not qualified to order the nobles in the country. He can only use benefits to persuade and bind the nobles to act together. However, so many nobles always have voices of opposition. In this case, they can only turn a blind eye and let it go.

The king can't control it, and the nobles who are in the same camp as him will not support him. No noble can guarantee that he will always stand on the same side with the king, and that he will always be on the side of the majority. There is a tacit understanding among the nobles in the kingdom. .

The kingdom cannot force the nobles to do anything, and the nobles must do whatever they want. If you want to go to war with other countries, I don’t have to object, but I don’t want to send troops, so don’t force me. Anyway, I don’t share your spoils. .

(When playing mount and slash, many nobles were paddling, and the front line fought so fiercely that several nobles held a banquet in the castle!!!)

Of course, if it is really a moment of life and death, such as a large-scale invasion of orcs and a national attack by lizardmen, the nobles are not idiots and will use all their strength to fight together, but now it is a civil war between humans, and the Kingdom of Babylon is still the attacker. If the territory is not in danger, there will be more nobles paddling.

The noble who chased Harold blushed and looked at Earl Ramon angrily. In the end, he could only leave with his troops. Putting aside issues such as title and strength, this land belongs to Ramon's territory. What happened The other nobles in the Kingdom of Conflict must be on Ramon's side.

The crime of treason is nonsense. An enemy caravan in Harold is not an invader army that burns, kills and loots. If protecting such a caravan is considered treason, then all the nobles in this country, including the king, are probably treasonous.

After all, every nobleman only cares about the development of his own territory, his own strength, and whether the country is strong or not is incidental.

The prosperity of your own territory is doubled, and the prosperity of the country's territory is 20%. Let the nobles choose, and everyone will choose the first one!

Ramon's helping Harold is not a big deal, it's just a little effort, it's in his own interest, but Harold also gave a lot of money to express his gratitude, he gave a lot of water of heroes, and divided the equipment of the dwarves. Give half of it to Earl Ramon for nothing.

If it weren't for Ramon's help, all of this batch of goods would have been thrown away. It's okay to send half of them now, and make room to buy a large amount of food and a large number of slaves. They can earn a lot of money by selling them back to Corondo.

Harold is also a sensible person. After hearing what Ramon said about the current international situation, he immediately judged the dilemma of the lack of food in the country and the lack of labor.

Ramon's face was flushed from drinking, and he was in a good mood after receiving a lot of Hero's Water. Diluting the Hero's Water and letting unawakened nobles drink it can greatly increase the probability of awakening bloodlines, and the side effects will not cause death.

However, this can only allow the nobles to ensure that the bloodlines will not disappear, and there is no way to mass-produce the descendants of bloodline nobles. Generally, in each generation of nobles, one person awakens the bloodline, and the bloodlines of others will automatically dry up. The power of heroes is bestowed by the sun, and it cannot be for no reason. increase.

Only those younger generations, like Marcus's Irwin family, who are heroic and often receive the gift of the sun, can make the bloodline strong.

Ramon talked about why he didn't want to fight against the Kingdom of Corondo together: "The territory that one person can directly rule is only so big, no matter how much it is, it's not enough to distribute it to his subordinates to help manage it. Why do you need such a large territory?"

"My territory has hundreds of villages, several towns, and countless beauties. I play one every day, but before I finish enjoying all the beauties, new beauties grow up again!" Ramon is also an old pervert. , there are more than a dozen beautiful female slaves who have been kept for a long time.

Now it is also revealed that he enjoys new beauties every day, Harold is envious and jealous!

But this is really nothing. The lords of the Kingdom of Babylon enjoy the "right of the first night". Every newlywed girl must sleep with the local lord for one night before getting married. They will pay a huge sum of money, and the lords generally look down on these ordinary-looking village girls, so the meaning is over.

Ramon continued: "I don't like war. I'm alive and I don't enjoy it. What's the point of fighting? I can understand when others attack and counterattack in self-defense to show deterrence, but active aggression wastes money and energy. What? Aren’t those few careerists the only ones who benefit in the end?”

At this moment, Harold was really shocked, anti-war? Although he is an old critic, the anti-war spirit revealed between the lines of Ramon's words is beyond ordinary nobles, even beyond this era!

Harold's previous impression of Ramon had always been that of a lecherous, cunning and typical nobleman, but now it has suddenly changed. Thinking about it carefully, in Earl Ramon's territory, commoners can live and work in peace and contentment, and no matter how poor the villagers are, they can afford to eat. It is rare for Warcraft to wreak havoc on slave riots.

Ramon has a law in his territory that slaves who have worked for 10 years can be promoted to civilians, and as long as they hand in part of their income for the next three years, they will be completely freed from slavery.

There are many loopholes in this law, not even one-tenth of the slaves were actually freed, but it can still be seen that this is a law full of humanity and morality.

Ramon is really a good lord and nobleman! Does he himself enjoy a new beauty every day? It's not a problem at all. In this era, nobles and knights often snatch beautiful women. It is very common for a commoner girl to be taken away as a plaything if he takes a fancy to it.

The woman Ramon played with will not only be sent back safely, but will also be given some money as a subsidy. It's a good person!

Harold stayed in Ramon's territory for 5 days before leaving. During this period, he carefully visited the towns and villages ruled by Ramon. Without exception, all of them were above the average level of the human kingdom. To be more precise, except for a few The geographical environment is particularly poor, and the level of wealth is above the middle level in the human kingdom!

Marcus's territory is not so rich! Whether it is the current territory of the Kingdom of Corondo or the territory of the previous Kingdom of Lucanir.

In Harold's eyes, Marcus has always been the best nobleman, brave, wise, upright, and powerful.

However, the reality turned out to be that Ramon, who slept with a new girl every day, managed a better territory and happier people!

The problem is that Marcus is warlike! Dissatisfied with the status quo and always want to expand the territory!

Harold thought deeply, what would it be like if the human nobles in this world were all like Marcus, what would it be like if they were all like Ramon?

Harold thought about it but came up with no result. According to the theory of "no progress without struggle" and "born in sorrow, die in peace", if all human nobles are like Ramon, human beings will perish sooner or later.

But what about all Marcus? Endless journeys, continuous wars, aggression and expansion, such a world of human civilians must be very painful, as Ramon said, the pain of most people can only satisfy the interests of a few ambitious people.

Harold didn't want to think about it at all. Anyway, he wasn't even a nobleman. He had only tens of thousands of people under him, and he was just a small person. He couldn't change the life of the common people. The most important thing was to live a good life.

After this time, Harold has established a good cooperative relationship with Ramon. Due to the war, Ramon can't openly trade food and supplies with Harold, but when the war is over, he will resume the trade immediately and give Harold Special Chamber of Commerce branches to expand the site.

The content of this chapter is also a foreshadowing. I have always felt that the lord's lust and extravagance will not affect the prosperity of the territory. In ancient China, the emperor managed the entire country. It is too big. It takes incomparable concentration and hard work to maintain the prosperity of the country. Indulging in beauty Wasted energy can make the emperor fatuous.

But the nobles in this world are different. The territory that each person rules is not very large, and with the blood of heroes, there is no need to worry about the usurpation of the throne by his subordinates, and there is no need to focus on the emperor's mind such as separation of powers and checks and balances.

The protagonist will build his own empire in the future, which is different from the new empire of the current kingdom. We must start to get in touch with these contents now, what kind of country is the most reasonable, and slowly come up with the most suitable answer.