For Grand Duke Fisabren, it is very normal to make such a request. If two noble families marry into each other, the woman does have the right to demand that the man expel or exile his previous concubines, so as not to hinder the newlyweds and future family inheritance rights, and at the same time, it can also prevent the legitimate son born to the wife from encountering hostility and harm from the illegitimate son during the long growth period.

When the third prince of the Crison Empire was married to the former daughter of the Grand Duke Melein, the third prince exiled his four former concubines, one of whom was the daughter of a little noble, and gave birth to an illegitimate son for the third prince. She refused to leave because of the credit for giving birth to a son for the third prince. As a result, in order to ensure the success of the marriage with the Melein family, the old emperor ordered someone to pour her a glass of poisonous wine and sent someone to send the two-year-old illegitimate son out, and never knew whereabouts again.

The formal marriage between two noble families not only means a good match, but also comes from the interests of the family. For example, the first two requests made by Grand Duke Fisabren were to consider his own family. In terms of calculation, Lorist had to pay about two or three million gold to marry Princess Celivia. Only the last request was to consider Princess Celivia, hoping that she could have a happy life in the Norton family and avoid other women being jealous of her.

Lorist is silent

Grand Duke Feisabren was very happy: "Come here, send some wine and food. I want to have a few drinks with Locke."

"Sorry," said Lorist, "Your Highness, I can't do it."

"Well, what did you say?" The great master slowly turned his head in disbelief. His finger was still pointing forward to summon the servants, but he could not retract the dead branches of the tree.

"Your Highness, I can't do your third request." Lorist raised his head and looked at the Grand Duke Fisabren and said firmly.

Grand Duke Fisabren stared at Lorist's face tightly, and after a while he let out a hoarse laugh: "Haha, hehe, Count Norton, you, are you joking with me, aren't you?"

Lorist shook his head: "What I said is true. To me, when I accept them as my concubines, they are my women, and I am their men. The men of the Norton family have not abandoned their women's habits. And I believe Celivia will understand my thoughts."

"Bang!" Grand Duke Feisabren slapped the long table beside him, and the poor long table suddenly fell to the ground. Grand Duke stood up, like a suppressed volcano: "It's her business whether Celivia understands it or not, but this is my request. The request of the Fisabren family, are you going to refuse?"

Lorist also rose up, not showing any weakness: "I care about Celivia, not the Fisabren family. I have promised to meet the first two requirements of your family, but I will never allow the Fisabren family to reach into the Norton family to interfere in the internal affairs of our family. You have no right to ask me to exile my woman!"

Grand Duke Feisabren was so angry that he shivered all over: "You, you asked Celivia to our family but refused to give up on you, do you care about Celivia very much?"

"Is it very conflicting?" Lorist smiled: "I care about Celivia, so I married her as my wife. She will become the mistress of the Norton family, and she will have everything she should have. But at the same time, she must follow the tradition of the Norton family. If she wants to be my wife, she must learn to take good care of my women. This is her responsibility as the mistress of the Norton family."

Well, Lorist is shameless and clearly wants to open a harmonious harem.

"You, you, you are shameless!" Grand Duke Fisabren was so angry that he almost squirted blood on Lorist's face. What did he treat the Fisabren family? The most precious flower in our family is to marry you, Norton family, and you still have to learn to take care of your women. This is the responsibility of being the mistress? It's outrageous! If this is to be spread, where will the Face of the Fisabren family be? We are not those down-and-out aristocratic families! We are the Fisabren family, the lion that shocks the Northeast prairie!

Grand Duke Fisabren glared at Lorist, his aura continued to rise. His right hand had already grasped the long sword hanging around his waist, as if he wanted to draw out the long sword and split Lorist in half.

Lorist's hands seemed to hang down easily, but his feet were already standing in a position, ready to welcome Grand Duke Fisabren's thunder strike at any time. If the vision and momentum energy were substantial, then there would be thunder and lightning in the space between Grand Duke Fisabren and Lorist, and Mars were splashing everywhere.

"Mr. Norton, exile your concubine and your illegitimate children is the requirement of our Fisabrun family, and it is also the condition that you must meet when you ask Celivia to marry Celivia. At the same time, it is also your opportunity to express your sincerity to Celivia. If you cannot do it, I will think you are provoking the patience and tolerance of the Fisabrun family. As her grandfather, I will never allow her husband to have other women and children."

Grand Duke Feisabren finally suppressed his anger, and spoke again after being silent for a long time.

"I'm sorry, Your Highness, I said I can't do it. This is not a question of whether I can marry a noble family. It is related to the most fundamental sense of responsibility as a man. It is a shame for a man to exile his women and children. I will never do this."

Grand Duke Fisabren suddenly dissipated his momentum, sat back on the chair with a little disheartened heart, waved his hand: "Sir Norton, go back. I hope you can consider these three requests I made after you go back. Only when you do it will I agree to marry Celivia to you."

Lorist took three steps back, took a half-bow, and was about to turn around and leave, but stopped again: "Your Highness, please think about it, if I gave up my women and children in order to marry Celivia, then who can guarantee that I will give up Celivia for another woman in the future? So"

Before he could finish his words, Grand Duke Fisabren was already furious, grabbed some decorations on the desk next to him and smashed them towards Lorist: "Get out! Get out of here!"

Lorist fled in his head

Running out of the Rose Palace, seeing El and others standing at the door waiting, Lorist was suddenly stunned, stopped, and touched his chin with his hand: "No, why didn't that old man Fisabren draw his sword and chop me? It's so strange. Even if I finally got a fever and said the wrong thing, it made him furious, but he just smashed things instead of drawing his sword. Didn't this old man always have a bad temper? He is also a third-level sword master. Shouldn't he be afraid of me? There is something weird."

However, at this time El and a dozen guards had already come to meet him with their mounts, and Lorist could only suppress his heart and return to the hotel in advance.

Earl Kenmays was sitting in the hotel lobby waiting for Lorist to arrive. When he saw Lorist entering the door, he jumped up and grabbed Lorist's arm: "Did Grand Duke Fisabren look for you for Princess Celivia's marriage?"

Loris nodded.

"Is it done?"

Lorist shook his head and shrugged again: "I don't think so, because I didn't agree to his three requests."

Earl Kenmays was stunned: "Three requests, what did he make three?"

"The first one was the Grand Duke asked our family to assist him, investing in and opening ten workshops in Makinohara Province, and requiring that the daily necessities in the Fisabren family territory be able to reach a self-sufficiency within two years," Lorrist recalled.

Earl Kenmath jumped up again: "No, absolutely not. This is almost cutting off the roots of our Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce! Locke, you don't know that what you need most on the grassland is daily necessities. Although the profit in this area can be traded at a huge amount, the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce has now monopolized the market for daily necessities in Makinohara and Donghuang Provinces. Two-thirds of the annual dividend profit is from here. The goods from other places that the merchants come in are not as good as ours, and they have long disappeared without our price discounts. Didn't the Grand Duke of Feisabren occupy Jinchuan? It produces gold there, and I was just about to increase the price and squeeze more oil and water."

Earl Kenmay suddenly became angry: "It's better to marry Princess Celivia. Let's talk about this. The old fox, the old fox, obviously doesn't want us to make money from his family territory, or he himself is interested in the profits of daily necessities trading, so it doesn't matter if you ask you to help them open so many workshops. Without the profits in this area, I can think of other ways to increase the profits of other commodities."

"The second request was that he asked our family to provide him with ten thousand sets of standard equipment worn by the guards around me," Lorist continued.

Earl Kenmays exploded again: "It's too much, this immortal greedy person."

The standard armor equipped by the three thousand guard battalion around Lorist is indeed different from the armor of the family armed soldiers. Although the family armed soldiers are equipped with fine steel armor, their defense is still slightly worse than the standard armor equipped by the guard battalion. It has the same style, but the colors are different. The standard equipment of the family armed soldiers is lead gray, while the equipment of the guard battalion is blue-gray, which is also the color of the unique standard equipment of the guards around Lorist.

Earl Kenmath, Baron Felim and Baron Shahin all thought that the Norton family armed with the same fine iron armor as theirs. After all, they could not tell the difference between the two metals according to the color, and they did not have much contact with the soldiers armed by the Norton family. However, they knew that the equipment of the Guards was the best, and what Lorist said to them was the same. Such a set of equipment was worth about 180 Jinfud's cost. The family only made three thousand sets, and then they made and gave them two sets according to the style they chose.

Now Feisabren openly wants ten thousand sets. Earl Kenmath is angry: "Is this old man crazy? The lion speaks so hard that he is not afraid of choking to death. These ten thousand sets are almost two million gold coins. Was he selling Princess Celivia? The third prince and Grand Duke Melein's daughter only spent two million gold coins on the wedding. That was the old man in the empire. In total, it was only seventy or eight hundred thousand gold coins. How could he say that he asked you to spend such a great price to marry Princess Celivia, so you refused, right?"

Lorist replied: "I agreed to both of these requests."

"Uh" Earl Kenmath was choked and it took him a long time to get away with it: "Sex, OK, OK, your Norton family is so generous, you can agree to such unreasonable requests. Then isn't the next third request even more ridiculous?"

"No, his third request is to exile my concubines and their children so that he can get his consent and promise the two families to marry."

Earl Kenmath was silent, and after a while, patted Lorist's back: "I really want to say that you are a fool, you agree to such a difficult and unreasonable request, but you rejected this in the eyes of others. I don't know what to say about you, but I suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. I think the two of Felim and Shahin felt the same after hearing it. We will never worry about the alliance between our four families being torn apart by the increasingly powerful Norton family."

Lorist smiled bitterly: "But now I don't know how to explain to Princess Celivia."

Earl Kenmath also smiled: "Locke, I can only say that we are mourning and following the changes. We will always watch the fun behind us and cheer for you."

"My day, is this what you have done for me as my allies? Then why not terminate the contract."

"No, you are the leader of our four families. You, as the main alliance, propose that the four families form an alliance, so if we do not withdraw, you will not terminate the contract unless you want to lose face of the Norton family and give up the glory of the nobles." Earl Kenmays said seriously.

"How could this happen? I don't believe that I can't resolve the covenant."

"Report to Master, there is a messenger from Grand Duke Phisabren outside asking for his visit." A guard came in and interrupted the laughter of the two.

"Yeah? Please come in." Lorist was very curious. What happened to Grand Duke Feisabren who sent another messenger over after he had just returned?

The messenger is just an ordinary guard, not a nobleman: "Sir Earl, I come to inform you of something on the order of the Grand Duke. Because the Grand Duke was not feeling well, the banquet that was originally scheduled to be held tomorrow to celebrate the successful knight competition will be cancelled. Please forgive me."

Earl Kenmays was stunned: "No, no matter where the Knights' Competition is held, a grand banquet will be held after the competition. This is a tradition. How can the Grand Duke cancel it if it is cancelled?"

Lorist sneered: "The Grand Duke of Fisabren is too small. Look at the Knights Competition, archery and swordsmanship competition he held this time, the first place was won by our Norton family. The Tigers Rose immediately won the championship, Baron Felim second, Baron Shahin fifth, and El seventh. None of the rest were from the Fisabren family. Apart from successfully holding this conference, there was no Knight in the Fisabren family who could take advantage of him. What can he celebrate?

If he successfully married our Norton family, he could still make a big fuss. Now I rejected his request. How could he be willing to see us, the winners, show off the power of our four major families in the North? So I simply canceled the banquet, which saved a lot of money. I understand now. Why didn't he draw his sword and fall in love with me when I refused his request? Haha, it turns out that he was still thinking about the standard equipment agreement signed by our family and him, for fear that I would cut off his military supply."

"Will you cut off this arms deal?" asked Count Kenmath.

"No." Lorist shook his head: "This is the agreement signed before, and we will follow it. Because it is related to the integrity of the Norton family and it is not based on my personal preferences.

Okay, we packed our luggage tonight and left here tomorrow morning. We had many banquets, but at worst we could go back to the north and celebrate on our own. I believe that when the news of the Grand Duke was not going to hold a banquet spread, everyone would be disappointed, and maybe there would be some small riots. I believe, the Grand Duke would mobilize troops to the city to drive away the wandering knights tomorrow, so it would be better for us to leave early."

The next morning, Lorist and others left the royal city of Windbrey. The trip was a little slow because of nearly two hundred people from the Knights of Bonava who defected to Baron Felim. After joining the more than one regiment led by Yuri, he walked for another six days. The north was already far away and could cross the Hendrifosso Bridge tomorrow.

A wisp of smoke rose up in the distance, and three fast horses arrived with whip. When they saw Lorist three riders jumped off the horse: "Knight Shred ordered us to report to the Lord that Princess Celivia came to Rock Castle five days ago."

To be continued.

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Chapter completed!