Urban Sims

Chapter 26 Maester Ellen
When Downey Jr. returned to the castle, he told his mother, Madame Madeleine, that he wanted Ryan to be his personal servant.

"Okay, Ryan hasn't visited me in the castle for a long time, let him come to serve you in the castle this time, Donnie, little Ryan saved your life, don't treat him as a servant at will people."

Mrs. Madeleine has no objections. Her youngest son, Donnie, has also turned 16 years old. When he grows up, he will eventually spread his wings and leave this little Grand Collar... Even she does not want her most beloved young son to leave , but once Connor left and Edward became the lord, he would not tolerate Downey continuing to live in the castle - because everything in the territory belonged to the eldest son.

If Little Ryan was always by Donnie's side, she would feel much more at ease. Unlike the naughty and active Donnie, Little Ryan has shown her intelligence, understanding, and calmness since he was a child. Let him follow Donnie. If you are by Ni's side, you will always be able to avoid many setbacks and dangers when you go out for a living in the future.

Madame Madeleine nodded, and Baron Connor had no objections. He was just a personal servant, not a knight squire, and Little Ryan was smart, quick-witted, and loyal at critical moments, so he could just assist his mischievous and careless son.

"Four years, I, Ryan, are back!"

Standing at the gate of the castle, Zhou Ming, who was carrying a pack of clothes for a change of clothes, couldn't help sighing when he stepped into the castle after four years of absence.

Perhaps, starting today, I will either stand on the high spire of the castle's white tower overlooking all living beings, or fall straight from the high spire and fall into the mortal world forever.

Or, to pieces.

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After entering the castle, the housekeeper allocated Zhou Ming a single room with an area of ​​about ten square meters in the servants' living area on the third floor of the main building of the castle. A fireplace, a set of oak tables and chairs, and a window facing Qiangwei Town, where you can have a panoramic view of the town below the mountain.

After a few days of servant etiquette and skills training, Zhou Ming quickly changed into the servant's special bunts and dresses (shorts are usually worn when working, and dresses are worn when distinguished guests come to visit), not to mention, these servants wear After being on him, his appearance and temperament immediately became different from before, and he was really decent, as if it was tailor-made for him.

After officially taking up the post, Zhou Ming's daily work is also very easy. One is to take care of Downey's daily life, and the other is to accompany him to study, attend classes and travel with him to ensure his personal safety.

In terms of taking care of other people's daily life, almost no one is better than Zhou Ming.

Downey Jr. has a tricky taste?

Simple, fried, fried, cooked, eaten raw, grilled, marinated, fermented, no one in this world is better than him, and he can even give you more than 300 days a year without repeating the same ingredients. You have prepared eighty different dishes, and you are afraid that you will be tricky.

Of course, if Zhou Ming had time to spare, he would certainly be able to conduct in-depth research on culinary skills. For Little Downey, his specialty cream cakes, fruit pies, egg tarts and biscuits of various flavors can be easily settled. If it doesn't work, use the "beggar's chicken" big move, so that he will no longer be anorexic and have a big appetite.

There are also showers and bathrooms for Little Downey’s daily bathing, toilets for going to the toilet, and warm kang for heating in winter... etc. These things are not only convenient for Little Downey, but Lord Connor Baron and Madeleine Madam also found it very convenient, so she asked Zhou Ming to get a set for them, and it quickly became popular in the castle.

However, these are just small episodes that happened during the process of serving Downey Jr. in the castle. What really made Zhou Ming feel that he had gained a lot was the valuable knowledge he learned from Bachelor Ellen during the process of studying with Downey Jr.

Bachelor Ellen, a little old man in his early fifties, with a gray beard, a slightly fat body, wearing a wide-sleeved gray robe, was a bachelor in the palace of the royal capital for several years in his early years. If he hadn't been slandered by his political opponents and kicked out of the capital by the king, he wouldn't have gotten into the miserable situation of being a tutor for the second son of a baron.

Speaking of those years in the palace of the royal capital, Bachelor Ellen can't help nostalgic and longing. In front of Downey Jr. and Zhou Ming, he brags about what he said to the king, drank privately with the prince, and The beautiful queen discussed literature and so on in private... Of course, the most bragging was when he was young and handsome, and he had flirted with many high-class ladies...

Zhou Ming was too lazy to expose how the handsome and handsome Bachelor Ellen attracted those beautiful and charming ladies. He was most interested in the power structure and internal disputes at the top of the kingdom. , how to form and deal with it.

"Our Kingdom of Voris is just a small border country on this vast land. In addition to the king's land directly under the capital, there are fourteen enfeoffed counties around, and under each earldom, there are about ten enfeoffed counties. A viscount or a baronie, and a baronie further down, is the fiefdom that is directly entrusted to the knights, and the fiefdom is the smallest first-level enfeoffment unit, usually only one village and a few thousand acres of land."

"The Holy See rules the granting and succession rights of all royal thrones and even the throne. The king rules the granting and succession rights of all earl titles in the country. Earls rule the succession rights of all viscounts and barons in their fiefs. Barons only rule the inheritance rights of knights in their fiefdoms. As for the right to confer knights, only the baron can increase the number of knight fiefs in the territory after obtaining the consent of the superior earl or the reward of the number of knights. The same is true for barons and earls. permission or reward."

"If there are conflicts and conflicts between barons and earls in the kingdom, how should we deal with it?" Zhou Ming asked.

"It is handled by the court of the nobility, just like the court of the barony can adjudicate the conflicts among all the people in the land. The conflict between baron and baron can be resolved in the court of the upper earl, and the conflict between earl and earl can be resolved in The aristocratic court of the kingdom will decide, the conflict between the kingdoms will be decided by the church court, and the conflicts within the church will be judged by God."

"Since there are noble courts, what about the laws? Does every court have some laws?" Zhou Ming asked again.

"Of course, isn't there a territorial decree in the courts of Granland? This law has a total of 155 articles, including land rent and miscellaneous taxes that farmers should pay, commercial taxes that traveling merchants should pay, and thieves who destroy the property of people in the territory. Criminals, thieves, liars, murderers, rapists and other criminals have very detailed regulations on the punishment measures. All kinds of situations that occur in the territory can be judged according to this law... As for the earl's court and the kingdom's nobles The court, the laws made by the maesters and the justices are more complicated, and some issues even have to be arbitrated and voted, divided into different factions..."

but.

When there are huge disagreements on some issues of real interests, and the noble courts are unable to arbitrate and mediate, the use of force may become the last way to resolve the dispute.

Just like the "Elk War" between Baron Connor and Baron Garcia, the reason why they didn't go to the earl's court to apply for arbitration was not because they knew they couldn't reach an agreement, so they settled it with a war?
"It seems that compared with the strict legal provisions, the strongest fist in this world should be the strongest fist..."

(End of this chapter)