Chapter 73

Outside the car, Victor was awakened by the neighing of the war horse. He opened his eyes and wanted to sit up, but he found a soft and smooth body close to him in the arm Bay. Looking down, he found Lilia snuggling in his arms like a little white sheep.

Looking at the girl's long eyelashes and upturned lips, Victor couldn't help smiling.

On the third day of Nelson's return, Victor officially announced to everyone that Liliana would be his personal maid, and a special celebration party was held that night.

The party was very successful. All the members of the hill camp sent blessings to Lilia, especially the War Bear mercenaries. It can be said that they are all uncles and uncles who watched Lilia grow up. Lilia was sincerely happy to have such a home.

That night, more than a dozen young guards were drunk. Although Lilia was in a high position and had long been the owner of famous flowers, this did not stop the boys from admiring her. Now, the most beautiful flowers in the camp have fallen into the arms of the Lord, and they can only use sweet purple cane wine to relieve their depression.

Nelson was also drunk at the dinner party. It was not that he was reluctant to give up his sister, and Nelson didn't have such delicate feelings. What really moved Nelson was that Victor insisted on holding this celebration banquet for Lilia. No nobleman would hold a banquet for his personal maid, which was not in line with the etiquette of the nobleman. After all, this is a world of chivalry.

Victor was not bound by aristocratic etiquette. He wanted to hold a party for Lilia, so he did it for no more reason. If you have to find a reason, Victor wants to announce to everyone that this girl as delicate as flowers belongs to me now, so don't worry about it.

Maybe it's because she can't feel holding her arm. In her sleep, Lilia tooted her red mouth and squeezed it in, and then wrapped around victor like an octopus, making Victor feel funny and warm.

In Victor's opinion, Nicole and him are like a pair of close Sequoia, with branches and leaves connected and heart to heart, but even if one of them is broken, the other can grow into a towering tree, because they all have strength and faith.

Unlike Lilia, she is like a vine attached to a big tree. The height she can reach completely depends on the growth of the big tree. If one day, the big tree really falls down, she will wither.

Thinking of Nicole and Lilia, another beautiful and charming figure appeared in Victor's mind, which was the target of his visit this time: the countess Sylvia.

Speaking of it, Sylvia is the first woman after Victor's birth, but Victor feels that Sylvia is like a beautiful lake. Walking by the lake, you will find the scenery here charming and beautiful. At the same time, you will also feel that the lake is unfathomable and frightening.

Sylvia deliberately provoked his contradiction with Baron Villepin, forcibly divided up 50% of the purple cane wine and sold it only to Nelson's grain in January, which didn't surprise victor.

What really puzzles Victor is why Sylvia invested in him at the beginning?

Sylvia not only gave him 40000 gold sols and half sold and half sent him a batch of armaments, but also sent knights to help him stabilize the situation, which is Victor's most confused place now. At first, Victor thought that this was because the York family was eager to unify the territory and made a compromise to him. But now, he would not have such childish ideas. At that time, he had no money, no one and no power. He was not qualified to negotiate terms with the York family.

Is it because the countess tasted the taste of half elves and gave him a red envelope? Victor's face turned black at the thought.

In any case, Victor now needs the York family to support him for more than two years, so he's coming to Heibao town. He's just going to hand over the noose to Sylvia.

In fact, Victor has made it clear that he can't take the road of self-sufficiency because he has a fatal weakness: he has no family support!

Therefore, when purple cane wine showed great potential, the York family cut off the possibility of Victor's return to the family, occupied the share of purple cane wine in the market, and put pressure on him through food, which was the normal reaction of the great aristocracy. Victor believes that, let alone that he has no money now, even if he has money, the York family can make him unable to buy a grain of grain and his purple cane wine can not be sold. The York family is saying to him: victor will not be allowed to develop freely. They want purple cane wine!

However, it doesn't matter. The rope doesn't have to be a dog, maybe a dragon. At that time, who leads who?

Just when Victor was thinking, he found a pair of big watery eyes staring at himself. He didn't know when Lilia had woken up.

"Victor, what are you thinking?" Lilia gently rubbed Victor's chest with her tender and smooth face. She especially liked Victor's breath, which was natural and fresh, just like the forest after the rain.

"I was thinking about Sylvia."

Feeling the girl's tender skin, Victor said happily. Since she had a close relationship, Lilia stuck to him.

"Who is Sylvia? Is she as beautiful as Nicole's sister?"

Lilia slapped her big eyes and asked in a charming voice, but the girl's slightly pursed red lips exposed her jealousy. It has nothing to do with high or low. Being jealous is a woman's nature.

"Sylvia is the Countess of York and the head of the York family. We are going to visit her this time." Victor hugged the girl in his arms and explained softly.

"Victor, are we going to hand over all the purple cane wine to the York family?" The girl asked reluctantly.

"Of course, we have no choice."

Victor nodded and said, "Lilia, do you know the strength of the York family? This family has been inherited for thousands of years and is famous for its tenacity. Up to now, they are the leading nobles in the human world."

"There are five great silver knights in the count of York's family, no less than 20 bronze knights, hundreds of trainee knights, 3000 elite soldiers, more than 20000 vassals, no less than 40000 people, and countless free people rely on the York family."

"This is only the strength of the York family itself. They also have many vassal families, including one count, two viscounts and five barons."

"Once the York family starts a war, it can mobilize more than 5000 troops. Such a family is a real military aristocrat! Do you think we can refuse?"

Victor's eyes flashed. Such a monster didn't make him afraid, but excited him inexplicably.

"The York family is so strong, why do they have to leave their homes and run to the man horse hills?" Lilia curled her lips and asked bitterly. No matter how strong the other party is, being bullied always makes her very uncomfortable.

"This is the style of York family. Try to avoid strong opponents and preserve your strength. If you are forced to hurry, you will fight to the end." Victor explained.

"In fact, most millennial nobles have their own family style, such as the unity of the eskri family and the frugality of the chebman family. It is these characteristics that condense the strength of the family and let them pass on."

"You know so much, my Lord!" Lilith said happily, her beautiful eyes full of worship.

Victor only smiled bitterly. All this knowledge was gossip he chatted with people when he was in the king's capital, but it didn't sound good at that time. The York family was satirized as a hick, a wild boar, the eskri family was single-minded, and the chebman family was stingy...... In fact, these sarcasm are sour.

"Lilia, in the final analysis, our strength is too weak. In the future, we need to learn to compromise. Only by quietly developing and gathering strength can we dominate our own destiny."

Victor smiled again: "get up quickly. I've heard the cry of the teal dog. Old ham should have caught a prey. It seems that there will be a good breakfast today."

"Yes." Lilia promised, but hugged Victor more tightly.

After another warm, Victor and Lilia dressed up and left the carriage.

Outside the carriage, more than a dozen guards were surrounded by the campfire. They looked at old ham baking a short tailed deer. Vic smelled an attractive aroma from a distance. He couldn't help saying, "it's delicious!"

"Good morning, my Lord!"

"Good morning, madam!"

Seeing the Lord and Mrs. Lilia get off the carriage, the guards salute victor and Lilia one after another. Lilia stared at her with a crimson face. She always felt that these uncles and uncles were looking at her with teasing eyes.

"Old ham, your barbecue is the best I've ever seen!"

Victor saw a fat short tailed deer strung on the shelf, roasted golden, but there was no burnt place, and he sincerely praised it.

"My Lord, when grazing on the grassland, if you bake more, you will naturally become proficient."

Old ham took off the hind leg of a deer and respectfully handed it to victor. Then he skillfully cut off a deer ridge and handed it to Lilia, which is Lilia's favorite part.

"Thank you, uncle ham." Lilia happily took her breakfast.

"How do you remember hunting early in the morning?"

Victor asked when he saw another campfire barbecue a yellow sheep.

"It's not because the big man can eat too much. He took shack to hunt early in the morning." A guard said with a laugh.

"Yes, Renault can really eat. Like Nelson, he is a bucket, but this shack is really a good hunter. These prey are killed with one arrow." Another guard smiled.

Renault's strength has won the recognition of the guards. Although his origin is unknown, everyone has been convinced that Renault is a single-minded rammer and there is no need to be careful.

Victor smiled. Renault and shack should go to practice esoteric form and hunt to supplement their physical needs.

Shack, who drives for Victor, is a monkey militia. He joined the camp as a mountain man and was brought by Victor as a coachman.

Victor didn't take Nelson with him on this trip. After all, the territory still needs to be guarded.

Finally, Victor chose more than a dozen guards, plus Renault, shack and old ham, took two carriages and ten war horses to Heibao.

Victor took old ham because his Teal dogs were very sensitive. Only by taking these hounds away from the territory can he give Jack more space to carry out Victor's plan to drive out the mountain people.

Victor bit the roasted short tailed deer with a mouthful of fragrance. He asked ham, "old ham, do you grassland people herd for a living and have knights?"

"Yes, our knights are called warriors. Later, I joined the War Bear mercenary regiment and learned that warriors are knights." Old ham replied.

"Do you have a castle?" Victor suddenly became interested in the life of grassland herdsmen.

"Sir, there are no stones and trees on the grassland, so we don't have a castle." Old ham shook his head.

"How do you resist monsters and wild animals, or are there no such things on the grassland?" Asked Victor, frowning.

"My Lord, there are many monsters and wolves on the grassland. In order to resist these monsters, we raise Teal dogs and goshawks and avoid them from afar. If we can't escape, there will be only World War I." Old ham said hoarsely, obviously this is not a happy memory.

"In most cases, we can't beat those jackal tribes. Fortunately, Guanghui church has established 12 cities on the grassland so that we can take refuge."

"I see. No wonder you grassland people are devout believers." Victor nodded.

The physique of jackals is not comparable to that of humans. Once their number reaches hundreds, knights can't stop their attack, and herdsmen can't survive on the grassland without the protection of cities. However, it also shows that the glorious church is indeed fighting against the ferocious orcs for mankind. It is very difficult to build cities on the grassland. The hardships and sacrifices can be imagined, but the church did.

Perhaps the church had wiped out the orcs on the grassland countless times, but the grassland was too large and the orcs were too able to live. Finally, it decided to build a city on the grassland to protect the herdsmen.

As for these nomads, they should be those who have lost their territory in internal strife for thousands of years. Under the leadership of the Lord, they go to the grassland to survive. This pioneering behavior has always been encouraged by the church, so the church spared no effort to help those nomads. Because of this, grassland people are devout believers of the church.

"Later, how were you annexed by the Sassanian Empire?"

This is where Victor wondered. The grassland people fought with the orcs. They were fierce and brave. They could ride and shoot. With the support of the church, how could they be defeated by the Sassanians?

"We were not defeated by the Sassanians!" Old ham shouted with some excitement.

"According to the old people, it was three hundred years ago that the glorious church suddenly abandoned the 12 holy cities on the grassland. Our patriarchs beat each other's heads and blood in order to control those cities. Finally, there were more and more orcs near the cities. Our ancestors could only join the Sassanian Empire and the Dodo kingdom."

"What are you talking about?!" Victor got up with a jerk.

"We defeated ourselves in order to rob the holy city." Watching his Lord's face change greatly, old hamna explained that he would not admit that the brave grassland people were defeated by the Sassanians anyway.

"Oh, yes, you were not defeated by the Sassanians." Victor sat down with a smile. He already understood.

What happened three hundred years ago? The RAND empire was divided into three kingdoms, and then the Sassanians controlled the grassland herdsmen.

What happened 700 years ago? Emperor Rand built a city in the north to unify the north. As a result, he was killed by the church.

Victor can already see the mystery. The 12 cities on the grassland were built by the church with the support of the RAND empire. Only the RAND Empire has such human and material resources.

At that time, the RAND Empire wanted to build cities on the grassland and use it as a springboard to unify the north, but their plan failed. First the emperor was killed, then the Empire split, and then the church withdrew from the grassland, allowing the Sassanians to win 12 cities without bloodshed.

Therefore, the sassanne empire is the core of the church Knight camp. They want the sassanne Empire to unify the human world!

Victor thought quietly. He thought of Duke Williams.

Obviously, Archduke Williams is a pro church force in the Gambis Kingdom, and the Gambis kingdom is one of the backbone forces against the Sassanian Empire, or one of the iron triangle. If the church controls the Gambis Kingdom, Dodo and Neville will be defeated by the Sassanians.

So what about the position of the York family? They are the white tower camp! Can you say? The white tower camp has split?

Victor thought carefully about the role of the York family in the war a few years ago.

Instead of supporting King Ryan, the York family completely handed over the eastern provinces to Emperor Rand, and then they migrated to the westernmost part of the human world, the man horse hills.

Just like Victor did, he jumped out of the quagmire!

This position can be attacked and defended. After the Gambis Kingdom lost the three eastern provinces, it has become the rear of the kingdom. The York family and the RAND Empire have formed a double attack on the Gambis kingdom! If the two join forces, the possibility of the restoration of the RAND empire will greatly increase.

If things can not be done, the York family is also a firm supporter of Williams, which has become the object of the church camp. In any case, the York family is in an invincible position.

This also shows that the white tower camp is collapsing, and the war may be very close!

"I see!" Said Victor, laughing.

"Victor, what do you understand?" Lilia looked at her man and asked stupidly.

"We can't be a vassal of the York family!" Said Victor firmly.

Vassal is cannon fodder!