Warhammer Throne

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At the entrance of the bathroom, everything was ready. Two mature men in their thirties, with their bare backs, wrapped in a bath towel, were about to go in and soak in a hot spring. Kuangsha Literature Network

Strictly speaking, there is no hot spring below Ryan’s Duke’s Castle, but the dwarves’ superb craftsmanship and tunnel technology are indeed great. Without hot springs, they just use steam technology and mine technology to get it.

It is said that Su Liya asked to get it because he heard that hot springs are beneficial to the body. At that time, Ryan was fighting abroad, and he listened to Su Liya on all matters inside and out. This hot spring was naturally built.

There was a golden water basin at the door, and water was flowing out of it through a beautiful faucet made by a dwarf, and the sound of splashing water filled the door of the bathroom.

Alfred was a little strange. He walked to the front of the basin and mumbled: "I know the truth. Why should there be a golden basin at the door with water in it?"

"Probably the meaning of Jinpan washing hands." Ryan smiled, and he stretched out his hand to wash in the basin: "Wash your hands and wash your hands, Jinpan wash your hands, Afu, remember, don't be a wicked person anymore."

"Bring the wicked?" Alfred didn't understand too much, but he didn't care. Seeing Ryan was washing his hands, he also reached out and washed his hands in a decent way: "Okay! I should never take the wicked again!"

The hot spring water was ready, and there was mist in the tiled bathroom. Ryan and Alfred probed the water temperature and felt that it was almost the same, so they immersed themselves in the hot spring water.

"Wow~ That's great!" Alfred let out a contented sigh. The paladin's body was covered with scars. In years of experience, Alfred also paid a lot of price, including his back. There are a lot of burn marks, which is a huge price paid when conquering Moussilon's castle.

Similarly, Ryan’s first-class linear muscles have dense scars on his muzzle and back. Since he left Otterne and the warm little castle of his adoptive father, he has experienced countless hardships. This time he went out. A lot of new scars were added, including those left by Carlos, the number one demon under the odd seat, after Randuin, and then by Mathieubad.

These are his military merits.

"Oh, Ah Fu, the material is good!" Ryan also immersed himself in the water. He covered his head with a towel, and said with a smile: "I heard that Mr. Alfred was very brave in the restoration of Moussilon?"

"Just kidding!" Alfred was quite triumphant. He stretched out his hand and pointed at himself with a thumb: "Am I super brave?"

"Hahaha, not bad, the shoulders are still strong." Ryan stretched out his hand and squeezed Alfred's shoulder.

"Ryan, what are you doing!" Alfred thought that Ryan was making fun of himself. He reached out and strangled Ryan's neck, his arm muscles tightened: "Hey, future Knight King, try this, wrestling. The inner skill, the profound meaning of Alfred!"

"Wow!" Ryan was strangled and pressed into the water. The hot spring water splashed all over his face. With a strange cry, he broke away from Alfred's attack, and in turn cut Alfred's. Arm, made him choke a few mouthfuls in the hot spring water: "Look at the power of my beast! The kingly journey!"

"Hahahaha~"

"Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha~"

There was a burst of laughter and splashes in the bathroom.

The two men in their thirties quarreled for a while and then disappeared. After the collision of sweat and muscles, Ryan and Alfred leaned on each other, Ryan suddenly said with great interest: "Afu, I haven't planned yet. Looking for a girlfriend? You are both the Paladin."

"I don't know." Alfred sweated a lot on his forehead. He leaned on the side of the hot spring pool and sighed in a low voice: "I always feel that I am a little bit unconfident."

Ryan laughed endlessly. He reached out and dipped his hand from the hot spring water and splashed it on Alfred’s face: “What’s so good or not? Afu, you go to Estalia now, I can’t do that Crow. Miss Dia will refuse again."

"But if that's the case, I really don't know if she wants Alfred or a paladin with her own territory?" Alfred nodded, hesitating in his tone: "If she just Longing for my status and money?"

"Heh~ we can also think the other way around. You are just looking for a girlfriend, not a wife." Ryan sneered, "If she just wants to play with you, you can naturally play with her, anyway. Haven't all been priced?"

"If I really just want to have fun, why don't I spend a handful of silver coins to find a Lyonese woman in the town? There are many such people in your town now. Good friends, you can find quite a few silver coins. Yes, why should I look for a girlfriend?" Alfred muttered.

Ryan was moved, and his face was sincere and excited: "Afu! You finally see it! As expected, I'm Ryan's good brother!"

"???" Alfred first looked puzzled, and then he was a little angry and annoyed to pour water directly on Ryan's face with his hands: "Okay, so you are like Ryan!"

"Pop~" The hot spring water splashed on Ryan's face, Ryan smiled and avoided, and he said to Alfred: "It's actually very simple, just if you realize it, I won't say more about it now. For you, you can find your girlfriend at will, but you must be cautious about getting married."

Ryan's implication is very simple, either you will find a true one, or you will find one that is helpful to your career.

As for Claudia, Ryan didn't think it was Afu's truth, but he was impulsive.

In fact, just like what Ryan said, it’s not uncommon for the waitresses to marry into the house of the great nobles, but there are very few successful examples. Female courtiers can't get mixed up.

Picking up ready-made products is not so easy to check. Ryan was selected by the Sulia family in the strict sense. It is a political marriage, but they have also accumulated a lot of feelings along the way, which is a pretty good combination.

There are generally only two kinds of wives of great nobles and generals. The first is true who followed him all the way when he was still a soldier or not yet fully developed, and the other is that he can help him in his career. Political marriage.

The former is not available to Ah Fu, so Ryan’s suggestion is the latter.

Of course, everything goes without saying. Ryan has another meaning, that is, no matter what Afu chooses, Ryan will support him. On the one hand, as his superior noble, on the other hand, as his childhood playmate and good friend, he is support.

"Speaking of which, good friend." Alfred understood what Ryan meant, and he didn't want to discuss this topic anymore: "Your reforms are going to be modeled after the empire? Build a bureaucracy as complete as the empires of the empire. To replace the existing enfeoffment system?"

"How is it possible!" Ryan shook his head repeatedly: "I copy all the bureaucracy of the empire? Then, before I complete the reforms, this country will collapse."

"Why?!" Alfred asked strangely.

"Think about it, Afu, what are the reasons and characteristics of Bretania standing for a thousand years?" Ryan stroked the hot spring water in the bathroom with his hands.

"Of course it is the spirit of chivalry, the holy grail system and the belief of ladies in the lake." Alfred has studied Brittany in depth.

"Yes." Ryan nodded, his face at this time has become extremely serious: "Afu, think about it, if we think the empire's system is good, we must accept and learn this system in its entirety, and take the existing The system is completely changed, forcing the nobles of the entire kingdom to learn from the empire, asking us to abandon our own culture and our own chivalry spirit, and change everything to the empire. Does that also mean that we have denied everything about ourselves? We deny It denies its own culture, denies its own beliefs, and even denies the foundation of Bretania?"

"If it really changes like this, is it the Knight Kingdom or the Knight Kingdom?" There was something flashing in Len's blue eyes, which Alfred had never seen in the eyes of his childhood playmate before: " If we abandon our traditions and desperately cater to the culture of another country, can we still talk about self-esteem, self-confidence, and self-improvement? Besides, is chivalry backward? Is it eliminated?"

"Of course not. The spirit of chivalry proved to be the continuation of human virtue and will. It is a belief that will never be abandoned for a long time." Alfred also got serious.

“It’s not advisable to copy the whole thing. If we only see the superior part of the empire system and the backward part of Brittany and then copy it all, we will always come to the same conclusion. We will only point to the advantages of the empire and continue to brag. , Said how good the empire is, and then pointed to our own shortcomings, said how bad we are, the time has passed, the people lose their faith, and the nobles lose their confidence. Knights and martial arts are proud, no longer proud of being a model of chivalry, and only destruction is waiting for us.” Ryan sighed softly, “In terms of military alone, Afu, you know the knights and nobles of the entire kingdom. How terrible the consequences will be if you give up cultivating new knights and knight obedience entirely?"

"I understand." Alfred sighed lightly, "I think it's too simple."

"Therefore, we must reform, but we must not copy, we must not abandon our characteristics, our beliefs, we must consider our basic kingdom, and create a new kingdom of knights and a new kingdom with Bretonian characteristics. System." Ryan nodded, and he sighed: "What is our tradition? It is the swift assault cavalry and the army of knights in heavy armor! It is the fearsome Holy Grail knight and the empire in trouble, the chivalry we support!"

"Just because the empire's system is advanced, and because the empire's gunpowder is powerful, we desperately belittle ourselves and say everything about ourselves is worthless. This is the real mistake." Ryan whispered: "We want to change, we It also needs to be changed, but there are some things that cannot be discarded, but must be carried forward!"

"Ryan, you are no longer the Nord." Alfred smiled, and he said deeply, "You have that kind of authority."

"Yes, I have. I can change this country." Ryan took the towel off his head and wiped his face: "But how can I ensure that my reforms will continue? How can I ensure that After I abdicate, will my heirs not change back? Is there such a thing as death and resignation in history?"

The Paladin said nothing.

"If I become the knight king, I will be a papermaker like Richard and do nothing, the whole kingdom will probably survive." Ryan continued, "But it doesn't make sense. Compromise, why am I a king? But on the other hand, if you want to do something practical and want to make changes, you must use power and challenge existing interests. Maybe because of my personal prestige, everyone doesn’t They will oppose me, or they will not explicitly oppose me, but they will definitely make small moves in private and violate them. As long as my rule ends, how can I ensure that my reform and my system will continue?"

"This is a contradiction. If you do something, you can offend people. If you don't want to sin, don't do things." Alfred has a deep understanding of this. Down below are cardinals, cardinals, regional archbishops, diocesan patriarchs, and then a series of more than a dozen faculty posts, which are extremely strict. No matter how you try to change, you will touch someone else’s cake. That one is called Luther- This is how Huss’ fighting priest came to the Cathedral of Justice with enthusiasm, but because he said too many problems, he was almost expelled from the church on the spot. Archbishop Vicma took the shot and saved him."

"Yes." Ryan continued: "Therefore, whether I can change and whether I can complete the change depends on whether I get the approval of most nobles and most vested interest groups. This kingdom is the person who supports me most. who is it?"

"Obviously it is the Southern faction headed by the Duke of François and the Duke of Bodric?" Alfred said casually.

"Wrong! It's the church and the merchant!" Ryan laughed, and he leaned back next to the bath: "On the contrary, it was the knights and nobles who supported Ryan! The firm support of the church and the merchants was what I won most. The key, so I advised me to move the church cakes, especially the cakes of the ladies' church in the lake. It's either stupid or bad!"

"2:1 victory!" Alfred thought about it, he really had nothing to say to his childhood playmate: "It is true that the Duke of Francois seems to have many ideas and ideas, but in fact everything It has become dominated by you, and you are the champion of the lady of the lake! Glory, etc., won the favor of the lady, and trusted by Maugiana, the church naturally firmly supports you."

"Therefore, the change has a foundation, and as long as the recognition is obtained, and the nobles get enough benefits in the process of bureaucratic reform, and the continuation of the tradition of the knight kingdom is guaranteed, then why should they oppose and why do they oppose it? Ryan laughed and said: "This is the foundation to ensure the continuation of the reform, rather than relying on personal prestige to forcibly confront vested interest groups!"

"I understand." Alfred smiled bitterly. "You are holding me as a model? But if you keep the tradition of knights, what about the infantry? Without the cooperation of strong enough infantry, the war cannot rely on knights alone, but There are so many resources in the entire kingdom, all knights are raised, how to build a strong infantry army?"

"That's why the Blackstone stronghold is to be hit, and why Musilon is to be hit." Ryan nodded: "A stable kingdom without internal and external troubles, a new principality, a new industrial and commercial center, this country, between the nobles and serfs. The insurmountable gap has been opened by me. Now, I want to make this gap bigger. I want all the knights in the whole kingdom to realize that if they don't work hard, they will also become serfs!"

"Similarly, I want the serfs of the whole kingdom to realize that as long as they work hard, serfs can also become knight masters! And those serfs who have gone through battle after battle and have been tempered in blood and fire. Soldiers, it's the source of creating an elite infantry! It's the source of breaking the class divide, the future, my true, my own team!"

"You mean?" Alfred suddenly thought of a series of recent Ryan actions.

"Yes, just start with the old guard!"