Under the envious and longing eyes of the common people, the carriage drove through the city gate and headed towards the city lord's palace.
This is the European Middle Ages. The City Lord's Palace sounds like a palace, but it is actually a castle in the city, or hidden in the center of the city.
The entire Black Iron City is a zigzag-shaped city in appearance. Outside the city are farmlands and mills, the outer city is populated by civilians, and the inner city is the count's castle. The three are separated.
Silently all the way, Wang Xu came to his castle under the escort of thirty palace knights.
The castle is very big. The last owner of the castle was the famous Marquis Wolfheart.
It's just that this guy was unlucky. In the battle for the crown prince thirty years ago, he stood on the opposite side of the current king. As a result, after the current king ascended the throne, he demoted him from Marquis to Marquis on the pretext of not respecting the king's order.
The Viscount was sent to the cold and miserable plains of Borsi.
From then on, Black Iron City became the direct jurisdiction of the royal family. Until Wang Xu appeared, the nobles in the imperial city were still gearing up to turn Black Iron City into a noble fiefdom again through interest exchange.
"Butler Capas, how many people do we have now? Repairing such a big castle is not a small problem."
Standing in front of the castle, Wang Xu looked at his butler, a middle-aged man in his fifties with an elegant manner.
Butler Capas was brought by Wang Xu from the imperial city. He is the second son of a baron family.
According to the rules among nobles, everything of the nobles will be inherited by the eldest son. The best outcome for the second son is to take the war horse and armor given by the family and become a wandering knight.
In addition, there is another kind of job that will not make these noble second sons feel embarrassed, that is, acting as housekeepers for people with high titles.
Many second sons of families who like literature but not martial arts and have no inheritance rights will become stewards of high-ranking people. Moreover, because they are born in aristocratic families and have received higher education from the aristocracy, they have the right to talk to the aristocrats at a higher level.
The difference between an aristocratic butler and a commoner butler is that even if he sends a letter of invitation, the commoner butler cannot even enter the other person's house because he is a commoner.
But aristocratic butlers can become each other's guests and chat and laugh with their masters. This is the difference in class.
"When we came out of the imperial city, His Majesty the King gave us 30 palace knights and four maids. Among them, the palace knights can be responsible for patrolling the castle, and the maids can make you look more decent.
However, these people cannot maintain the normal operation of a castle. We still need at least five hundred soldiers, more than thirty maids, and even gardeners, tailors, cooks, grooms, doctors, blacksmiths, and some free people.
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Hearing what Capas said, Wang Xu frowned slightly and asked: "I saw a lot of soldiers stationed on the city wall, at least three to five thousand people. Just take them over. Why do we still need soldiers?"
"That's different, my lord."
Capas smiled and replied: "Those soldiers guarding the city gate are just inferior soldiers, and your castle defenders must be the elite of the elite. Under the leadership of the knight, the bodyguard of a noble lord
The army can often defeat enemies ten times their size. The role of ordinary soldiers on the battlefield is more to follow you and launch charges. Their combat effectiveness is only slightly better than that of militiamen, and they are not professional soldiers."
In the medieval era, there were three types of soldiers: the militiamen who took up arms during war and went home to farm after the war, the regular army who were paid as soldiers and participated in small-scale training, and the soldiers who trained every day to defend the castle.
Guards.
The treatment of the three is higher and higher, especially the castle's personal guards. They have better weapons, stronger bodies, and richer combat experience.
They are the real professional soldiers. They guard the castle when defending, and ride horses to kill the enemy when attacking. Each of them is proficient in fighting with two or three weapons, and can switch between infantry, archers, and cavalry at will.
"It's really troublesome. I leave all this to you. Let Knight Commander Klein come to see me."
Wang Xu was not very interested in how to manage the castle. He was more interested in the power of the knight class than being an Earl City Lord.
In this world, knight is no longer an honorary title, but the name of a rank.
A formal knight has at least one thousand catties of strength, among which the silver knight can exceed two thousand catties.
Further up, the Golden Knight has more than 5,000 kilograms of strength and is proficient in various killing techniques. When the wizards first invaded, many first-level wizards who were caught off guard were killed by the opponent during the fight.
If it hadn't been for the Golden Knight, the knight's road would have come to an end, and it wouldn't have been so easy for the Blackmang Wizard Academy to take over the world.
"My lord, did you call me?"
A middle-aged man wearing silver plate armor who looked like a blond lion came to Wang Xu.
This person is Wang Xu’s knight commander, Silver Knight Klein.
He is considered relatively powerful among the Silver Knights. His strength is close to 4,000 kilograms and he can break open a city gate with one shot. He has a high chance of becoming a Golden Knight in the future.
Before he followed Wang Xu, he was the deputy captain of the king's palace guard, known as Golden Lion Klein.
"Klein, how do you usually train? Can you perform for me?" Wang Xu asked Klein directly without beating around the bush.
A trace of dissatisfaction flashed in Klein's eyes, and he lowered his head and said, "Sir, I am a warrior, not an acrobatic clown."
"I know, but I also know that you have always wanted to obtain a knighthood. According to your knight talent, it is not difficult for you to start a knight family. But to become a noble, with all due respect, the Iron Cross Kingdom has not fought for more than twenty years.
The war has passed, and according to the current situation, the possibility of a war is extremely slim.
According to royal laws, it is prohibited to be knighted during non-war periods except under special circumstances. I think even if you become a Golden Knight, the possibility of being knighted is very low. Of course, if you just want to become a knight or seek honor
Noble title, just pretend I didn’t say anything.”
There are two types of titles. One is a title with real power, a title that has territory and can be passed down.
One is an honorary title, which has no fiefdom and no real power. It lasts for one generation and cannot be inherited by heirs.
What is really difficult to obtain is the title of real power, because every time a noble with real power is canonized, it weakens the royal family.
As for honorary titles, they are all over the streets. Because the canonization of low-level honorary titles does not even need to be reported to the imperial city, many businessmen will buy an honorary title for fun.
For example, Black Iron City has at least a hundred honorary lords, a dozen honorary barons, and even a few honorary viscounts.
In the eyes of common people, these people are also nobles, but in the eyes of real nobles, they are not regarded as nobles.
Even in some social situations, we often see powerful barons reprimanding honorary viscounts like their sons.
Klein is a Silver Knight, and is a Silver Knight who is likely to be promoted to a Golden Knight. There is a high possibility that he will be canonized as an honorary knight in the future.
But similarly, the possibility of him being canonized as a noble is very low. After all, there are golden knights every year. If they are all canonized as nobles, the royal family will not have to do anything.
"Smile, your expression is too serious, my Mr. Golden Lion."
Looking at Klein's serious expression, Wang Xuruo said pointedly: "I think that if you can satisfy me, you may be able to become Baron Klein, or even Viscount Klein. I think I should have this right."
Klein's eyes narrowed. According to rumors from the outside world, Wang Xu was the king's illegitimate son, and he was a very favored one.
If Wang Xu can intercede for him and create a small-scale border conflict to accumulate military merit for him, the possibility of him becoming a baron in the future is extremely high.
Of course, Wang Xu is not an illegitimate son at all. In fact, his true identity is much higher than that of the king's illegitimate son.
The Knight Plane is just one of the hundreds of small planes under the jurisdiction of the Blackmang Wizarding Academy.
The so-called Iron Cross King is nothing more than a second-level wizard, a descendant who stayed in the knight plane.
Not to mention the Iron Cross royal family, even the second-level wizard had to smile when he saw Wang Xu. After all, judging from the current situation, Wang Xu, the disciple of the black mandarin wizard, was not the first second-level wizard.
A level wizard can reach high.
"There are two techniques I practice. One is the advanced technique of the Iron Cross Breathing Technique, the Iron Eagle Breathing Technique, and the other is the Iron Cross Royal Spear Technique. Please allow me to demonstrate it for you."
Faced with the temptation of the title, Klein could no longer maintain his seriousness.
He didn't want his descendants to be like dog knights. He longed to create his own noble inheritance, and the opportunity he had to seize was right in front of him.
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