The champion of this athletic conference is naturally the vassal knight.

The chubby butler himself brought a silver platter, and on the pale blue linen at the bottom were large silver coins as wide as eggs, with elaborate ornamentation on the edges, and in the center was the head of Grand Duke Cameron.

This represents the legal tender recognized by the Lion Castle.

It is also a recently minted silver coin.

The gentlemen and celebrities who attended the banquet all subconsciously swallowed and foamed.

The value of these 100 large silver coins alone is more than enough to buy hundreds of acres of land in the villages near Jianshi Pass, but no one is so stupid.

The land in the Northern Counties is very barren.

After buying hundreds of acres of land, it is estimated that ten years of production will not be able to earn back these 100 big silver coins!

The vassal knight respectfully took the silver plate, thanked Baron Dylan with a respectful face, and at the same time withdrew to a round of applause, handed it to his most trusted servant to put back in his room for storage, and only returned to the dinner when everything was arranged, and the atmosphere of the whole banquet was extremely harmonious.

Kant was still holding his glass, chatting and laughing with Baron Dylan.

The topic was also the athletic meeting in the afternoon.

"Xiaokangde, I see that you are soaked in cold sweat, this is not a good phenomenon, although your aristocratic etiquette is really impeccable, but your own courage must also be improved."

Baron Dylan instructed as an elder.

Kant embarrassedly picked up his glass and took a sip: "Yes." ”

"Hahaha." Seeing Kant's appearance, Baron Dylan shook his head and laughed, hiding the disdain in his eyes, looking at the guests in front of him, raising his glass and shouting to everyone: "For the arrival of Xiaodwell, we congratulate him on a glass!" ”

"Congratulations on the arrival of Baron Kant!"

Throughout the lord's hall, gentlemen and celebrities, as well as those vassal knights, raised their glasses.

The drunken sweetness has begun to creep in.

However, although the object of their toast is Kant, they all look at Baron Dylan, and for them, the actual controller of the solid stone pass is the object of their respect.

As for the Baron Kant?

Oh, no kidding!

Just a poor baba, a poor ghost banished to the Naren Desert.

Who in the entire Lion Principality doesn't know that Grand Duke Cameron doesn't like this son, and even all the nobles don't like him, otherwise he wouldn't be almost exiled and canonized the barren place of the Narun Desert to Kant.

North County is barren and barren enough.

The Jianshi Pass is the most barren and barren area in the Northern County Territory.

But compared to the Narun Desert.

That is the real barren, the forbidden area of civilization, the terrible area that all the harsh environment can depict.

An area that even fugitives don't want to set foot in.

I'd rather be caught and killed than enter the Narun Desert.

Because to live in the Naren desert is the greatest torture in prison!

In the chaotic political situation of a hundred years ago, the Lion Principality issued a law that a prisoner who had committed the crime of treason and murder of the king would be given a blunt knife, a water bladder, and a piece of bread, and then he would lead a team to the Narun Desert and throw the prisoner deep in the desert.

This law effectively deterred the chaotic political situation at the time, and it continues to this day.

It shows the horror of the Narun Desert.

………………

The dinner ends with the arrival of late at night.

The drunken gentlemen and celebrities still maintained good manners and thanked Baron Dylan.

Then the dinner party was dissolved.

With the support of their respective servants, they returned to their homes in a carriage.

Many people's homes are solid stone passes, close to the official residence.

There are also many people from more than a dozen villages outside the Jianshi Pass.

Even the vassal knights left at last, and they had drunk a lot tonight, and they were also drunk and satisfied, after all, for these people, the athletic meeting and the sumptuous dinner party were extremely exciting.

"Uncle Dylan, then I'll go to sleep first."

With excitement on his face, Kant said gratefully, "It was a wonderful day. ”

"If you're happy, Xiaodde." Baron Dylan laughed and patted him on the shoulder, with a bright and bold smile on his slightly red face: "I will not forget your help to me, we are best friends and also the best relatives, no one can break us!" ”

"Yes, no one!" Kant nodded firmly.

The two parted.

Kant returned to his room, and after drinking a lot of wine, he quickly fell asleep.

Manid and the 10 Salander riders who followed him also slept in their respective rooms.

Calm returned to the entire residence.

However, Baron Dylan appeared in his parlor, and the two vassal knights were also there, and the original drunken appearance on his face was gone, and even the blush on his face disappeared.

It looks like a drop of wine has not been touched.

But the trio didn't care about this little thing.

"How?" Baron Dylan turned his head to look at the vassal knight, and said with a depressed face: "That Ritesi, who has become a great knight, do you feel anything." ”

"He just became a Grand Knight." The vassal knight said.

"Of course." Baron Dylan snorted coldly: "It looks like it's less than half a year." Squinting slightly, his face was very embarrassed: "Half a year ago, this guy was still respectful to me, and now he has become a big knight, so he dares to be rude to me, if there is no signal from that old thing from Viscount Wayne, I definitely don't believe it!" ”

"It's also a coincidence that he appeared at the athletic conference." Another vassal knight said, "They have dark lines. ”

"Let the rats handle it." Baron Dylan waved his hand: "They know what to do, I don't want these rats to eat and drink for nothing, there is no use, now that I have an inside line, I will search them out." ”

"Understood." The vassal knight nodded.

He is in charge of the spy organization of the rats.

"Our plans are going to be accelerated."

Baron Dylan opened his mouth and asked the two vassal knights, "I asked you to arrange for someone to go to the Southern County Territory to find some mercenaries, do you have any news to reply?" ”

"There it is." The vassal knight nodded.

"How?" Baron Dylan asked.

"There are 500 elite mercenaries willing to accept our recruitment, at the cost of 30 large silver coins per month, and if there is a war with the enemy, an additional 20 large silver coins will be required every month in wartime, as well as a monthly reward of silver coins." The vassal knight replied.

"500 people." Baron Dylan automatically omitted the so-called elite ranking, nodded and said, "30 big silver coins a month, I accept this." ”

"There are still 500 water thieves who are willing to take refuge, and they only need 10 large silver coins a month."

The vassal knight shrugged: "I think it's useless to ask for them, we don't have a river here, the main thing I think is that these people in the Resneston River were hunted down by the river patrol team of Lionheart, just to come to us to take refuge from the limelight, and when the storm passes, they will definitely continue to return to the Resneston River, and will not obey our orders at all." ”

"Then let them go." Baron Dylan snorted coldly.

"Yes." The vassal knight nodded.

But Baron Dylan frowned, and asked in a condensed voice, "Are there no other mercenaries who are willing to accept our long-term employment?" This is not in line with the greedy ghosts who see money! ”

"You know." The vassal knight smiled bitterly: "Those famous mercenary groups in the Lion Principality are actually the forces of various nobles, if we really hire them, the Solid Stone Pass may not be targeted by any nobles in the future, after all, our current salt trade has attracted the attention of Wayne, the Viscount of the Northern County." ”

"That old dog!" Baron Dylan thought of that old thing, and some anger rose in his heart.

Slamming the table heavily, he stood up and walked back and forth in the conference room with his hands behind his back, as if thinking of something, turned his head to the vassal knight in charge of this matter and said, "By the way, can you find the mercenary group from that nervous Countess Aishajia in East County?" ”

"Nope." The vassal knight replied helplessly.

"Why?" Baron Dylan frowned.

"Countess Elsaga's Eastern County Territory is still blocked, especially recently with the Silverplate Kingdom on the other side of the Resniston River, it is said that there is still a conflict with each other on the river, and almost a war with the lord of Nazel Fort on the other bank, and our forces can't penetrate at all." The vassal knight shook his head.

"Hmph, it's not the battle of ten years ago." Baron Dylan snorted coldly, and was not surprised: "If it weren't for Grand Duke Cameron ceding Fort Nazaire, which belonged to the countess, to the Silverplate Kingdom, the relationship between their brothers and sisters would not have been so stiff. ”

It's no secret that this kind of thing is a knighthood that he earned in the war between the Duchy of Lion and the Kingdom of Silverplate.

Now it has nothing to do with him either.

Frowning, Baron Dylan commanded: "These are secondary, go to other places to see, contact, as long as you can introduce qualified mercenaries to us, I can give them intermediary fees, the higher the quality of the introduction, the more quantity, the higher the intermediary fee, settled in big silver coins, there is no upper limit!" ”

"Understood!" The vassal knight nodded.

Another vassal knight asked, "My lord, what about Baron Kant?" ”

"Don't act rashly." Baron Dylan spoke.

With a little solemnity on his face, he said slowly: "Princess Sophia's power is still lurking, and now it is just showing its head, 16 years is not enough time for them to be wiped out, 10 years ago, the Silver Plate Kingdom won that battle, it is estimated that it is the result of the shadow left by Princess Sophia, and now Kant is still developing rapidly, and it is estimated that there is also their support, we just need to wait slowly, and then connect with them." ”

"But... We had already been abandoned by them. The vassal knight hesitated.

"Give up? Scold! Baron Dylan sneered: "No, now we are the lords close to Kant, holding the solid stone pass of the Lion Duchy and the only passage of the Narun Desert, how can they give up and will come back to us!" ”

There was a dangerous look in his eyes: "This time I will make a good fortune!" ”。

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