Warhammer Throne

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That night, under the summer night sky, Ryan and Alfred sat on the balcony of the castle and enjoyed a sumptuous dinner.

Times have changed, and now the identities of the two people have also been different. Ryan served Alfred to the most standard Breton feast, and the entire banquet procedure was strictly supervised to ensure that Ryan would not be rude as the host.

The first dish is a frozen appetizer starter, which consists of caviar, salad salmon and foie gras.

The second course is soup, Breton Onion Soup.

The third course is a hot starter. Mousillon's famous cheese baked snails plays its role well.

After the first three dishes were served, Ryan was able to talk to Alfred, but Duke Moussilon used a knife and fork to taste the baked snails expertly. He looked at his childhood playmate and smiled without speaking.

On the contrary, Alfred has something to say to Ryan. He doesn’t know where to start. Alfred, who is in his thirties this year, has a short beard, and the corners of his eyes have begun to appear. The fine crow's feet are the proof that a man has matured.

However, judging from Alfred’s mental state, he is still full of surging vitality. His spirit is very good. It is the kind of situation that still maintains an optimistic and positive personality after some setbacks. Since being appointed by Ryan as Fu The head of the ancient church district of Leia, Alfred encountered many difficulties in the construction and restoration of the entire church district.

In fact, in the weeks since Ryan returned to his ducal castle, Moussilon’s war has not stopped at all.

The first to start the war was Baron Lucien of the Spire Palace. He led the two infantry battalions supported by Ryan and launched the Battle of the Marsh. In this battle, Lucien made full use of the powerful combat power of the serf infantry battalions to face the marsh. Not conducive to the formation of the knight’s charge, he drove some livestock to attract the undead creatures and orcs wandering in the swamp, and then ordered the knights to dismount and disrupt the arrangement among the serf infantry, using the cross firepower of the pocket array and the longbowmen. Cooperate with the slow moving speed of the swamp, encircle and completely destroy the remaining undead army and orc tribes near the Spire Palace.

And Ryan got news that his father-in-law François privately granted Lucien a low-interest loan with an annual interest rate of only 3%. With this money and Ryan's help, Lucien successfully passed the difficult time.

Olivier, Baron Richard, launched a sweeping battle of Richard and eliminated an undead stronghold near the castle.

Baron Juan Biocari initiated the Battle of the Orphans Hill. He didn't know how to persuade the wood elves to join. This battle defeated the Skaven Ratman and the Ratman hiding near the Orphan Hill. The warlord was killed by the wood elves hero Alalos-Heroes, and Juan temporarily drove the Skaven of Musilon into the ground through this battle.

This fully proves that under the leadership of Ryan that has always won and won, a large number of knights and nobles who can conquer and fight have been born under his men.

What about Alfred?

The Templar seemed to have found inspiration in the previous explosion. He made full use of the power of gunpowder and defeated the wandering undead through a large number of grenades made by the dwarves during the gathering of the beasts, and won the victory in the battle to defend the church area.

"Anyway, it's more trouble than I thought." Alfred didn't know where to start with a thousand words, and he could only sigh in the end: "The continuous battle is not bad. The real trouble is, Everything has to be started from scratch. I don’t have my tax officer, and my sheriff. I only have a few paladins and dervishes. Those dervishes only know how to flog themselves all day long. The paladins are not good at managing, they make everything. It’s a mess, I’m forced to make decisions in every detail, good friend, you know, I’m not you, you can always come up with solutions and all kinds of whimsical ideas, and even circumvent the chivalry and the law. But I can't."

"But you still handled it well, I heard that a lot of the trouble was settled by you." Ryan looked at Alfred with interest.

The fourth dish was served by the dark elves. The fourth dish was fish, the famous white wine creamy salmon.

"Thank you... that's because I learned a lot from you, good friend." Alfred lowered his head and tasted the creamy salmon with white wine. Greasy feeling, topped with whipped cream sauce, can dissolve the greasy feeling, the smoothness of the cream and the delicate salmon, it is the best in the world.

"Learned something new?" Ryan was very interested. "What have you learned, Afu?"

"Like you, I suddenly realized the power of authority, good friend." Alfred showed an embarrassed expression, and he scratched his golden hair behind him: "I suddenly found out that I seem to have become a hero. People admire me and fear me. My words seem to have become truth and law. Although I have some problems in handling some affairs, and the arrangement of personnel is also messy, no one questioned me. On the contrary, as long as it is me The orders of, have been resolutely executed, so, I understand, I know how to use personal prestige to handle things, although it is temporary, but it is effective, sometimes, I have some illusions, I even think that The ancient church district, I am the center of the universe."

"Normal, power confuses people and swells people." Ryan nodded, and he said softly: "Afu, remember that when personal prestige is always exhausted, temporarily suppressing problems does not mean solving them."

"I understand, good friend, I have been observing your policy guidelines over the years." Alfred was a bit embarrassed to be said, in fact, he was a little bloated because of the monopoly of power in that place, but he was seeing Ryan After the newly built splendid duke’s castle, he calmed down again: "But I am not like you. I still haven't figured out how you have created the current glory like magic, and the knights and serfs live in harmony. Shengjing."

"This is a complicated question." Ryan nodded. He clasped his fingers on the long table, and the silver dinner plate quivered slightly with his movements, making a pleasant sound: "But you have made great progress. When facing a problem, you neither evade nor try to solve the person who raised the problem. Instead, you face the problem head-on, even if you rely on your personal prestige to temporarily solve the problem, this is also a positive response."

"But this is not a solution to the problem." Alfred sighed suddenly: "Do you know, good friend, before that, I wrote to the Justice Church several times, requesting to send enough people to help me, but waiting for me? It's all prevarication and procrastination. My superiors always say that they need to think about it and study it again."

"But when Moussilon conquered this time, my name spread throughout the old world along with this battle. When I wrote to the Church of Justice again, Archbishop Vekema sent me just a word. With an army of more than six hundred people, with the help of the imperial bureaucrats, everything in the ancient church area immediately became orderly." Alfred sighed: "But I don't like that style."

"What style? Small meetings for major events and meetings for minor events? Constantly demanding the expansion of the staff and the establishment of new departments?" Ryan smiled: "We rarely see this situation?"

"Huh huh~" Alfred shook his head and smiled bitterly: "A lot, I won't say anything, I don't really like those people. They are always domineering and pretend to be someone sent by the archbishop, and they like to speak condescendingly. On the one hand, they look down on the locals of Musilon and yell at them all day long, but on the other hand they are very pleased with me, with a somewhat flattering attitude."

"That's for sure." Ryan looked at Alfred across the table and said, "Isn't this normal? What is the position of these people sent by the empire? It must not be a serf here, then They naturally have a great sense of superiority to serfs, and then who is their source of power? You who own the autonomy and property rights of the entire Freyja church district, they will naturally please you, because they are only agents, this It's the bureaucracy."

The fifth dish was served by the dark elves and other maids. This is the main dish. It uses black truffles and wine with black pepper sauce. It is topped with six or seven mature sirloin steaks. A piece of roasted cauliflower, served on an iron plate.

The sirloin of sirloin steak is taken from the old Bretonian, the original meaning of the meat above the beef tenderloin, that is, the sirloin. The overall taste is strong, hard, chewy, fine and juicy, and tender.

A fried sirloin steak will give off a light aroma. Acetate sauce is poured around the steak. The steak has a very unique dark golden color. The steak is cut with a dining knife, but the beef inside is beautiful pink. Color, a lot of juice.

Ryan picked up a small piece of steak and threw it into his mouth. He could clearly feel the juice spilling out with the chewing of his teeth. The aroma of the barbecue was well transmitted to every taste bud of the stretched mouth, hovering in it. The original taste of beef comes into full play.

"So, I heard that it is spreading outside that you like and respect the system of enfeoffment and disdain the bureaucracy? I originally thought it was wrong, but now I think you have your own ideas like this." Alfred He smiled and said: "Look, after the envelopment is over, you can put everything down and rush back here, and we will be there from start to finish."

"No, no, no!" Ryan said quickly: "I didn't admire the enfeoffment system too much, and I never said that enfeoffment system is a superior system. Don't talk nonsense!"

"But you..." Alfred stopped talking.

Ryan gave a bitter smile and looked at the starry sky of Xia Ye: "Afu, it is a helpless act to divide the ban. This issue is very complicated. Let me put it simply, you will not say anything. If I appoint the castle owner, Regarding Moussilon’s current situation, will Olivier, Lucien, and Juan work as hard as they do now?"

Castle Lord is a title of Bretania, which is a bit similar to the chief guard, that is, the nobleman appoints a subordinate nobleman to garrison a castle, and the ownership of the castle still belongs to the original nobleman.

Alfred shook his head and smiled bitterly, he understood.

It is precisely because the ground has become their own that they can work so hard.

"So, the enfeoffment system is actually a tricky method." Ryan said with a smile after seeing Alfred understand: "This is equivalent to throwing the whole mess to Juan and the others, and they will definitely try to recover. I do my best to produce and rebuild the territory, so I don’t have to worry about it, but the disadvantages of the enfeoffment system are the very low army’s levying power and lower tax revenue.”

"But your control over the territory is unparalleled, I dare say, as long as you say a word, all the knight nobles will immediately lead their army to follow you." Alfred is still entangled in this matter.

"Hahaha~ I said, I just took a trick." Ryan nodded: "Yes, as long as I say a word, Juan and the others will definitely respond, but this is not because I am Duke Moussilon, but because I am Ryan, I am Ryan Makado because of my personal prestige and personal bravery, not my title."

"I understand, you are enjoying the benefits of the confession system and the cohesion brought by the lofty personal prestige at the same time! You fellow! It's so bad!" Alfred understood, and the Templar smiled at Ryan. "I see, you are not really admiring the enfeoffment system, you are just enjoying the convenience it brings you!"

The sixth dish is a hot plate, a standard southern Breton dish with chicken in red wine.

The seventh dish is a cold dish, consisting of polder octopus, salmon, Arctic shellfish, tuna, frozen crab, and frozen shrimp.

"So, Afu, you must be careful not to see wind or rain. When you hear the rumors outside, you have to judge by yourself. Do you understand this? If these things are completely... out of nothing, you can help him. Say it again, this means you are also responsible, right?" Ryan said with a smile, and then his face slowly became serious: "I never said that the system of enfeoffment is superior to the bureaucracy. In fact, the bureaucracy of the empire is indeed Some problems are also annoying, but in any case, it is much more advanced than the enfeoffment system, and it is very necessary."

The eighth dish is ice cream, and the mango sorbet effectively removes the smell of seafood from the mouths of Ryan and Alfred.

The ninth dish is salad, fruit salad.

"In other words, you will eventually lead the entire kingdom to evolve into the imperial system, right?" Alfred thoughtfully.

"Not bad." Ryan nodded: "But we need to remember that reforms need to be done step by step. If the steps are too large, it will be a problem. In fact, based on the current Britania, the literacy rate is very low and The cultural level is not enough to allow us to make changes directly from the end. Now is the best time, because I have achieved the highest power, but the foundation is not good, and I still don’t have the conditions for implementation. You have to be clear about what stage to do. What's the matter, for the time being, I don’t have the conditions to change it for the time being. I might as well delegate power, and these knight nobles completely surrender to me. I don’t have to worry about the low army enlistment level brought about by the enfeoffment system. The core of the problem is now. Let's restore Moussilon first and let it restore its former glory, and other things will be discussed separately."

"Well, it's reasonable." Now, Alfred nodded convincingly: "Good friend, you convinced me."

The last tenth course is dessert, and today’s dessert is the Empire’s Black Forest Cake.

After eating the Black Forest cake, today's dinner is over.

"Let's go, Afu, let's go to the bubble hot spring." Ryan stood up.

"Good~"

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