Chapter 141: The Reputation of the Pompeii Family (Part 3)

Reputation is something that cannot be seen or touched, but it can be felt.

The most prestigious family in the entire Kingdom of Prussia is of course the Prussian royal family. Although the royal family's reputation plummeted after the great incident.

But a lean camel is bigger than a horse. Looking at the whole country, no family can compare with the royal family in terms of reputation.

And who has the highest reputation in Orange?

Marquis Parker?

A certain Grand Duke?

None of them. The most prestigious person in Orange is the Count of Libya.

Because the title of the Count of Libya is the oldest, and the title of the Count comes from one of the eight knights under the command of the first King Michaux.

Among the nobles, antiquity is equal to reputation.

Of course, there is another important factor, that is, the Libyan family is powerful and is the most powerful family in the entire Orange.

Antiquity, bloodline, and strength, the combination of the three is equal to the reputation of the nobles.

Compared with the reputation of the Count of Libya, Baron Barton's reputation is in the middle and lower reaches in the entire Orange.

Antiquity and bloodline are not something that can be achieved overnight. As a newly emerging noble, or a rising noble, the best way to increase reputation is to show your strength.

Although in the eyes of the awkward nobles, strength is the last of the two factors of antiquity and bloodline.

But the awkward nobles will occasionally bow their heads because of strength.

In short, in the absence of antiquity and bloodline, strength is visible reputation.

Strength is divided into financial strength and military strength.

Financial strength can recruit knights to expand military strength, and military strength can bring wealth.

The two complement each other.

And showing off one's strength is to show one's financial strength and military strength. If there is something worth boasting about, it would be even better.

Marquis Parker Territory, main city, Sparta City!

This is a large city with a population of more than 100,000, and it is also the leading city in the whole of Orange.

At the beginning, Knight Stone used this city as his base camp and recruited many peasants from the Marquis Parker's territory to enter Pompeii and become new Pompeians.

The title of Marquis Parker is "Executioner".

He attacked the farmers with land in his territory, seized the land through forced purchase, killing, and various dirty means, and introduced serfs to cultivate the land, and finally achieved the purpose of accumulating wealth.

This also had a certain impact on the city of Sparta, because although the peasants were the direct victims, the reputation of the executioner was like a dark cloud, weighing on the hearts of the residents in the city.

In the entire territory, the real nobles were equivalent to the king.

If the king wants to attack the peasants today, there is no guarantee that he will not attack the residents tomorrow.

Credit is like a bird building a nest, pieced together bit by bit. But if it collapses, it only takes a gust of wind.

Obviously, the credit of the executioner Marquis Parker is negative.

Therefore, people in Sparta were in a panic, and even some of the middle class had begun to move out of Sparta and move to other noble territories.

However, although the Marquis Parker's ship had a hole, it did not sink, so the whole Sparta was still bustling with people and quite prosperous.

In the civilian area in the east of Sparta, there is a tavern called "Knight and Gun Tavern".

A very cliché name.

The owner of the tavern is a good person and has a lot of power in the neighborhood, so the reputation of this tavern has always been very good, and it is the main tavern for the surrounding civilians.

The taverns in this world are very unique, and they often run pimping businesses.

It is the first half of the night, around eight o'clock, when the taverns are the busiest.

In the Knight and Gun Tavern, there are a lot of people, all kinds of men are drinking happily, and some beautiful women are getting drunk.

There are also wine waiters wearing revealing clothes and very hot bodies walking by with wine trays. These wine waiters twist their butts from time to time, which looks very coquettish.

This is the pimping business in the pub. If you like someone, you can have sex in the toilet in the pub as long as you can afford it.

Smell of wine, sweat, and women.

This is a typical civilian pub.

The owner of the pub is a man in his forties, tall and strong, dressed very elegantly, and wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, looking like an elegant gentleman.

He is not only the owner, but also one of the bartenders in the bar.

At this moment, the owner is wiping the wine glass and chatting with a familiar customer. At this time, the door of the pub was opened again, but the owner didn't care. There were many people coming and going in the pub at this time.

"Give me a glass of dark blue wine." A man in his forties came to the bar and sat down, put a gold coin on the bar, and said to the owner.

This man is very handsome. If he dresses up, he will definitely be a bed stunner for some noble ladies.

And the man was indeed a canary raised by a noble lady before.

The man's name is John, and he is a bard.

The profession of bard has a bad reputation recently, because those noble ladies often keep young and handsome bards, and even have scandals of having children with bards.

But there is a reason for this profession to exist.

Because there is a supply and demand relationship.

When bards are young, they are often very chic, living in a luxurious villa, served by maids, and when they have inspiration, they write poems to please the noble ladies.

Of course, their greater capital is themselves, and they know this, so they work hard to improve their bed skills and become a beauty.

When they are older, they are old and ugly, and they are not energetic, so they are often kicked out by the noble ladies and become down-and-out bards.

Smart bards will save some money when they are young and spend it when they are old.

The stupider ones will just muddle through when they are young, and they will be penniless when they are old.

John is the latter.

He now relies on his still charming face and superb skills to take some orders and satisfy some women in urgent need.

And the sad thing is that they are often very old women.

But not many people laugh at John, after all, there are many such examples around.

"This old man is so extravagant that he drinks "deep blue wine"." The boss was a little surprised, but he took the gold coins very readily and secretly identified them. It was true.

So the boss poured a glass of "deep blue wine" for John.

This kind of wine is a mid-to-high-end Orange wine. The price of a bottle is often more than a dozen gold coins. If the vintage is good, it is even worth fifty gold coins.

The boss doesn't have much stock here, and few people drink it.

And it's said to be a glass, but it's actually just half a glass.

"John, are you rich?" Compared with the boss's calmness, a regular customer next to him was very uncalm and asked in surprise.