Chapter 1040, the Dictatorial Tyrant Enters Clement

Chapter 1039, the dictatorial tyrant enters Clement

As Richard's nephew, Duke Talbot inherited Richard's stability and conservatism from the old king, but he also inherited Richard's indecision. When he called his court ministers, his first reaction was towards Everyone said: "He is here, His Majesty has appeared, how can he appear in my Principality without my consent, is this reasonable?"

The words of the Duke of Taubote made the court ministers not know what to say, and the Minister of War, Earl Robert, could only go up and say: "My Duke, he is the King of Knights, and he has the right to appear in the whole of Brittany. Anywhere in Asia, this is the power of the king, and we have no right to stop it."

"But how can he bring the army?" Duke Taubote was stunned for a moment before realizing that he had indeed overreacted. He had no right to object to where the king loved to appear.

"Your Majesty, according to information, our Majesty the King of Knights only brought a small group of old guards, less than a hundred people." Earl Robert said embarrassingly: "This... can't be counted as an army, the king should With guards."

As reported by Suria, Duke Taubote is a modest, kind, and respectful veteran nobleman. Hearing what his Minister of War, Earl Robert, said, the Duke opened his mouth and didn't know what to say. .

So he turned his attention to Baron Edward, his Minister of the Interior: "Edward, I ask you a question as the heir to the throne of the Duke of Le-Angourand, as the descendant of the first Holy Grail Knight Corduin, please tell me Tell the truth, okay?"

"Duke, please speak up." Baron Edward could only nod when he saw that this was the point.

"How many people within us support my voice?" Duke Taubot frowned, leaning out from behind the desk, and asked with a very serious expression: "How many people support our cause? "

"Almost 90% of the direct nobles support you, my Duke." Eduardo's words reassured Duke Taubote: "According to the opinions sent back by the servants and envoys, at least 75% of the knight nobles in the entire Principality They also support you, and they also disagree with the Knight King's decision to abolish the privileges of the nobility, and even oppose the appointment of a governor."

"That's good, that's good, as long as everyone supports me." Duke Taubote actually has doubts about his influence, because Ryan's achievements over the years are too brilliant, but obviously, When it comes to their own interests, these veteran nobles are still on their side, which is okay, the Duke heaved a sigh of relief, and he immediately took the map: "Where is our Majesty the Knight King now?"

"He is already close to Lesaffre, Baron Otero of Lesaffre is a neutral faction, it is difficult for us to guarantee that he will be willing to come out and face the king.

Earl Robert pointed to the map: "But there is good news, that is, the old Earl of Clement, west of Les Saffre, is our staunch supporter." "

"The key question is, my duke, what do you plan to do?" Baron Edward said, "How are we going to treat the King of Knights and his queen? Do you... consider using force?"

Duke Taubote hesitated.

As a veteran traditionalist conservative aristocrat, Duke Talbot certainly disliked many of Ryan's practices, including vigorously promoting free citizens, including depriving and restricting the privileges of nobles, including taking back judicial power to form circuit courts, including actually forming old people from mud legs. Guards, also includes the appointment of a governor.

But as a Britannian, the Duke of Taubote also admired Ryan's brilliant deeds, and felt empathy for him leading the knights from victory to victory, from glory to glory. The changes in the Knight Kingdom over the years, Ryan did not First use force, and Duke Taubote is unwilling to use force.

After hesitating again and again, Duke Talbot still shook his head. The Duke said in a muffled voice: "Order, do not use force unless it is absolutely necessary, and the Bretons will not hit the Bretanians! Let the old Earl Clement send someone to To expel our King of Knights from the Principality, we have nothing to bargain with him, he either accepts or refuses!"

"yes!"

………… I am a Britannian and don’t fight the dividing line of the Bretons………

"Long live the king! Long live the king!"

Baron Otero of Lesaffre watched with glazed eyes what was happening before him.

Baron Otero was ecstatic when he heard that Knight King Ryan and his queen Suria brought less than a hundred old guards and hundreds of serf militias towards their fief.

He immediately ordered the concentration of his personal guards and knight attendants to concentrate immediately and get ready.

However, just when Baron Otero gathered his more than 100 personal guards and knight attendants, the gate of the town over there was already opened!

"Long live the king! Long live the king!" The town defenders and civilians rushed to the streets, gathered, shouted long live the king, and the citizens rushed to squeeze on both sides of the road.

Farmers, yeomen, merchants, craftsmen, shopkeepers, craftsmen of the free people, as well as those sergeants and serfs who went to the city to buy gathered.

"It's him! It's him! It's our knight king and queen!"

"He is here! Long live His Majesty Ryan! Long live Queen Suria!"

"Long live the king! Long live the king!"

Ryan and Suria smiled and waved to the residents and soldiers of the town, and their every movement could cause people to cry and cheer.

Without any precautions or worries, the defenders opened the city gate the moment they saw Ryan appear. Everyone burst into tears, and many free citizens and veterans who had participated in the Great Expedition had already shed tears. shed tears.

This is our king! is our King of Glory! The king who has achieved countless miracles and victories in Lyonnaise, Blackstone Stronghold, Eight Peaks, Empire and Kislev!

"Long live the king!" Thousands of civilians raised their arms and shouted, the fiery voice was louder and louder, and the deafening and hoarse sound flowed down the street, heading directly towards the baron's castle in the center of the town with a gust of wind and raging waves.

There is no resistance, no hesitation, not even any neutrals.

Baron Outlaw was dumbfounded. He never imagined that his own people, his army, and his town would fall directly in front of Ryan.

Now, with his baronial castle surrounded by thousands of his own subjects, Baron Otero now finds himself alone, and what's worse, even the many veteran guards and young knights in the castle, look The baron's eyes became strange.

Then there is only one answer! Baron Otero resolutely pulled down his cloak, threw the three-cornered hat with colorful kite feathers on the ground, rushed to Ryan, knelt down on his knees, and slid and knelt three times on the grass at the entrance of the baron's castle. More than a meter long.

I will offer my allegiance to the king!

"Long live the king!" The baron's roar detonated the entire baron's castle. Seeing the baron's actions, his personal guards and the young knights did not hesitate to kneel down and cheer.

"Long live the king! Long live the king!"

There was no fighting, no negotiation, not even a word from Ryan to capitulate.

The army defected, the civilians supported, the nobles surrendered, and the castle was replaced with a tricolor flag and a banner with the sword and iris emblem in the book.

The king's army grew like a snowball.

"Is this... the prestige of His Majesty? Miss." Sylvia looked at the scene in front of her. She saw those veterans put on their military uniforms, took out their weapons from their homes, and voluntarily formed an organization. Generously taking out food and gold coins from their homes, shopkeepers opened their warehouses to supply military supplies, and self-cultivating farmers even mobilized their entire families to carry things on their backs, just to follow their Majesty the Knight King.

Sylvia felt so incredible that the head maid could only turn to Suria for help.

"These people are either veterans who retired after the Great Crusade, or freedmen who had the opportunity to get rid of serfdom through Ryan's reform." Suria nodded slightly. The female knight's face was full of pride and pride. Don't look like you're getting carried away: "They all know who really cares about them, loves them, and everything they have now comes from Ryan."

This is Suria's strategy for Ryan, which fundamentally disintegrates the ruling power of the veteran knights and nobles.

What kind of knight is a knight without a horse? What kind of aristocrat is an aristocrat without the support of serfs?

However, many aristocrats are not aware of this at all. They always feel that they are born noble and are born to be superior.

And this is exactly the suggestion given by Suria, the key to completely cracking down on the conservative nobles headed by Duke Taubote!

Have you ever heard the voice of the people?

"Dengdengdeng~"

"Urgent news! Urgent news, my lord count, that... that dictatorial tyrant has passed through Lesaffrey!"

On the west side of the town of Les Savres, the Earl of Clement, the Castle of the Earl of Clement.

The messenger hurriedly delivered the news to the old Earl Clement.

"Trash!" The old Earl Clement was still planning how to add bricks and tiles to his castle, and import some elf carpets by the way. A merchant from Marienburg has already come to provide a guarantee, but the news actually came!

What does the king want to do?

Does he intend to violate the covenant when the country was founded?

Doesn't he know that the vassals of my vassals are not my vassals?

The hands of the old Earl Clement were trembling wildly. The old earl was self-aware. He walked around the room twice, finally sat down, and handed the letter to the attendant: "Go, call Baldwin."

"Sir Baldwin? Your son?" The attendant was very surprised: "But, haven't you already issued an order to forbid him from coming to the castle?"

"That's normal!" the old Earl Clement roared: "Now, that tyrant is about to come to my territory, and the lady will know what he will do to me and my family! Call Baldwin here ,immediately!"

"Yes!" The attendant hurried out of the room, found a horse from the stable, and ran away.

Three hours later, Sir Baldwin, holding the Knight's Cross helmet in his hand, strode into the room in full armor. Baldwin had a serious expression on his face. He respectfully walked in front of his father under the guidance of his attendants. Bow respectfully: "Father, are you looking for me?"

"Here, call me Your Excellency the Earl!" The old Earl Clement waved his hand annoyedly, and handed the letter to Baldwin: "Look for yourself!"

Baldwin took the letter, and the knights of the Kingdom were shocked by the contents: "What? Your Majesty is less than 30 kilometers away from here?"

"He's coming for us, Baldwin." The old Earl Clement sat on a chair, and his hands covered with gemstone rings gently stroked the precious amber-studded cane: "Do you understand what I mean? Baldwin, He came for us!"

"I don't understand. Maybe His Majesty is just visiting." Baldwin took the letter and confirmed it again. The knight of the kingdom was still trying to explain to his father: "He often visits..."

"He's a tyrant! Baldwin! A tyrant!" The old earl interrupted Baldwin roughly, his face angry: "What else can he do but make things worse? Look, look, he is now Surrounded him with those mud-legs, called them the Old Guard, he knighted those filthy mud-legs, he let the wild dogs climb up his master's dining-room, he made those disgusting The circuit judge is haunting my territory! I know what he is going to do, he is going to dig the foundation of our knight nobility, he has already betrayed the knight covenant when the country was founded!"

Baldwin remained silent, and the expression on the knight's face was very tangled.

Seeing that his son seemed to be hesitating, the old earl continued: "My son, you must be very clear about the price we will pay if we don't oppose him. Our Clement family has a glorious history of thousands of years. Are you willing to look at it?" Replace this chair with a mud leg? Would you like to see your loved ones driven out of the castle one day?"

"It's ours, all of this is ours, don't we have the noble blood of the Holy Grail flowing in our blood? Could it be that the accumulation of our family for thousands of years can't compare with the years of fighting by those mud-legged people?" Father Educate your son: "This is what we deserve. Now the tyrant wants to take it all away. I know you love him, but you have to understand, who are you?! You are a nobleman, a knightly nobleman!"

"I am your son, a member of the Clement family, father." Baldwin hesitated for a long time, and finally nodded heavily: "I will... for the family."

He looked very distressed and it was a tough call.

"Very good, very good." A smile finally appeared on the face of the old earl, he nodded happily, reached out and patted Baldwin on the shoulder: "Then I will leave it to you, and I will hand over the command of the army to you." You, take them, and tell the knight king that he and his queen are not welcome here in the Earl of Clement, let them go back! If they don't leave, drive them away!"

"Yes!" Baldwin finally nodded, holding his helmet in his hands, and strode out of the room.

The entire castle instantly entered a wartime state, all the troops were assembled urgently, soldiers, knights, and many guards were gathered, and even those veterans who had served were all temporarily summoned by Baldwin. In one day, most of the standing army and all the knights and knight retinues who could come were concentrated.

In this way, on the second day after Ryan entered the Earl of Clement, in the warm autumn sun and a golden wheat field, the King of Knights and Queen of Knights held hands, like an outing.

Behind the king and queen was a group of old guards, and then a large group of free folk troops, as well as Baron Outlaw and his personal guards. Compared with Ryan's strolling in the courtyard, these people were obviously very nervous.

It was so quiet.

"It's not like that earl's style." Ryan took Suria's little hand and said with a smile: "I thought they would come out with great fanfare to intercept me."

"Yes, I understand them." Suria looked at the distant scenery, and the female knight's face was cautious: "They will never sit idly by."

Sure enough, as soon as Su Liya finished speaking, large groups of troops appeared on the hillside in the distance. Teams of sword and shield soldiers, spearmen, and archers lined up under the shouts of the knights. Sergeants wearing breastplates and leather armors and helmets lined up in several rows, and then several teams of knight lords held high the heraldic banner of the Clement family, fluttering slowly in the autumn wind. Opened the way and entered the wilderness.

It is temporarily impossible to judge how many people there are on the other side, but judging from the number alone, there are at least two to three thousand people.

It was the army of the Earl of Clement's family, and Suria had already recognized the identity of the other party from the family's coat of arms banner.

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