Realm of Power

"What? Don't you want to?" Harus, the king of Ruidian, raised his head impatiently. The gray hair on his temples did not affect his image of a golden lion. A powerful aura belonging to the king rushed towards his face, making the lower half Lidakus, who was kneeling, shivered.

"This...this is His Majesty the King of Ruidian!"

Only then did Lidakus realize how dangerous the disdainful expression he had shown just now was.

Although Ruildian is now declining, the accumulation of the continent's most powerful country for hundreds of years is still enough for this old supreme to shock the entire continent at any time. As for using some legitimate means You can make up more than a thousand reasons to kill a little guy like yourself, such as inappropriate words and insulting His Majesty the King. . . Picking your nose or something like that in front of His Majesty the King. etc. . . Anyway, if you die, you will still be scolded, "Damn\

,"Seeing that Lidakus was silent, King Haraus snorted coldly on his throne, "Isn't my real princess of the Kingdom of Redian not as good as the daughter of a retainer? Or you and Pula Is there any shady behind-the-scenes deal that this guy has? Or should I directly order the execution of the two of you and let this incident that brings shame to the entire Ruidian end in blood? You'd better think clearly before I give the order? , this is your only chance to survive!"

"...Is this a forced marriage? Forced marriage!"

Lidakus, who had black lines all over his head, knelt down below, his heart trembling wildly and cold sweat breaking out on his head.

You are really a fool if you still can't hear that His Majesty is determined to win. Between death and solar terms, Lidakus hesitated for 0.005 seconds and sold his master without hesitation.

"No... Your Majesty, please don't get me wrong!" I just feel extremely gratified and honored that my master can marry a Princess Ruedian! , this marriage will definitely make our two countries prosperous. . . . . . "Lidakus is indeed a eloquent guy. Under the despicable influence of the fat man, changing his face is like changing a mask.

He quickly put on an overjoyed expression and saluted King Haraus on the throne. In fact, he had already made a plan in his heart.

Isn't it just a woman? Marrying one is also marrying, marrying two is also marrying, not to mention that the princess of Ruidian is a genuine royal princess after all. In terms of identity and status, Jedi is more in line with the Falcon Dynasty than the daughter of the Plais family. identity,

As for the problem with my master, is that still a problem? For the fat man who always likes to be cheap, this kind of business that makes two for one will make him even happier.

"I just hope he's not an ugly monster!" Lidakus muttered to himself.

Of course, this is impossible to bring up in person. You cannot say to His Highness, who has ruled Ruidian for thirty years, "I don't know what Her Royal Highness looks like, what are her measurements, her personality, height, weight... I don't know what she looks like." Don't let it go and so on."

Lidakus believed that as soon as his words came out of his mouth, King Haraus, who was sitting on the throne, would wipe his neck with a sword. But regardless, if this really ugly guy married him, the fat man might wipe his neck himself. Got it!

"It's difficult." Lidakus said with a bitter look on his face. After struggling for a while, he still felt that the fat man was more terrifying than Harlaus.

If you offend King Ruidian, you will at most be scolded. As the executor of the marriage, your chances of survival are still very high.

If he had offended Fatty Fatty, Lidakus had absolutely reason to believe that Fatty Fatty would retaliate in a way that would make his life worse than death. As for what kind of method, who knows, scratching the soles of his feet with feathers to death? Let yourself be fucked by seventeen or eight sturdy cooks. . . . . . . As an old man who came from the Samor era, I know quite well how despicable the fat man is.

Fatty Samour's mind is smaller than the eye of a needle, and that's not an excuse! Thinking of the tragic situation he might face, Lidakus was completely crushed. He could only bite the bullet and risk being beheaded, and boldly asked

"I wonder which noble and beautiful princess will marry our Falcon Dynasty this time? I would like to spread this good news back to the country as soon as possible, so that the entire Falcon Dynasty will feel extremely honored for the marriage between the two countries!"

Lidacus especially emphasized the tone of the words "noble and beautiful princess\

,"The meaning of these words is very clear. Nothing else is important. What is important is dignity and beauty. If you want the marriage to be established, Rui Erdian can't send an ugly guy to make up for it!

"this......."

King Haraus was indeed a seasoned man. He made a long nasal sound in his mouth, narrowed his domineering eyes and looked at Lidakus, and tapped the armrest of the throne with his fingers.

This left Lidakus a little speechless. He could see that the supreme leader of Ruidian, Emotion, was just acting on a whim, and he hadn't even decided on the candidate yet.

"Internal Affairs Officer!"

King Haraus shouted to the side door next to him. In fact, King Haraus himself did not remember how many princesses he had. Princesses are a not-scarce but very important resource, which can be used to win over retainers, make country marriages, and even armistice. Agreements are used, so the royal family's management of princesses has always been quite special.

Creaking, the side door was pushed open, and a middle-aged man with curly hair and a bright red hooded uniform came out of the side door. His figure was thin, and he stopped next to King Haraus and sighed deeply. I bowed respectfully

"Your Majesty, what are your orders?"

This internal affairs officer's voice is a bit shrill, and his face is also a bit fake. It can be seen that he is coated with a layer of white powder, which makes people easily think of some special people who are out of place.

"How many princesses in the royal family are of marriageable age but are not engaged?" Harlaus waved to him and asked.

"The 14-year-old Princess Bonante, the 16-year-old Princess Liwhite..." The internal affairs officer almost without hesitation named several royal families who were of suitable marriage age. The name of the princess. Listening to these series of princess names, not only Lidakus felt a little dizzy, but even King Haraus himself was a little impatient.

"Stop!" King Haraus waved his hand to stop the internal affairs officer who was familiar with business and asked directly, "Which one is the oldest now?"

"It's Her Royal Highness Princess Haraudian!"

The internal affairs officer who looked like a eunuch said in his unique high-pitched voice, "Originally, Princess Haraudian has made an engagement and will get married in May this year. However, due to the Northern War, the engagement person was unfortunate. He died in the war, and his fiancé died before he was married, so no one from the family dared to make a marriage contract.

"Well, is it Haraudian? It's been two months since that incident. Is she still brooding about it..." King Haraus tapped the hard handrail with his fingertips, always strong. A trace of hesitation flashed across his face. At this moment, he looked more like a worried father than a king who decided the future of the kingdom.

If King Haraus, who has always been busy with state affairs, still remembers the appearance of a princess, it is the Haraudian princess who is most like him. She is brave, resolute, fearless and decisive, but it is a pity that she is not a man! This is what Haraus said about the princess

"That's her." After a long silence, King Haraus stopped tapping the armrest with his fingers, stood up from his throne, and said with determination, "Convey my order, in view of the stable friendship between the two countries, Haraus of Ruedian Princess Dean is going to marry King Dustan of the Falcon Dynasty. I ruined her marriage, so I will give her a man that every woman in the continent wants to marry, which can be regarded as a kind of compensation from the father to his daughter!"

"Isn't this a bit too hasty? In any case, Princess Haraudian is His Majesty's third heir!" The internal affairs officer was so surprised that he couldn't speak in a panic.

Harlaus gave him a cold look, "Are you going to disobey the king's order?"

"My subordinates will prepare for this immediately." The internal affairs officer's face turned pale with fright, and he quickly turned around and left.

"Yes, it is our Falcon Dynasty's honor to be able to marry Princess Haraudian!" Lidakus finally breathed a sigh of relief. The name of Haraudian, the most beautiful princess in Kyoto, is in Wikiia. The upper aristocratic circles can also hear it,

The carrier pigeon carrying the marriage treaty fluttered from the sky above Palaven and flew across the sky towards Tevalin.

Lidakus was finally able to have some leisure time. During the period when he received the reply from the dynasty, he went back and forth between his residence and Plais Mansion on a completely routine basis to discuss some marriage matters.

Along the way, there were hundreds of knights from the Ruidian royal family protecting them, heavy war horses, and heavily armed armors. This shows that the Ruidian royal family attaches great importance to this marriage.

Even if some blind Palavon nobles want to cause trouble, they will be quickly dismissed by these tough royal knights.

Lidakus looked at the suburbs of Palaven outside the carriage with some boredom. In previous years, the Palaven Plain in early August was full of harvest scenery, and everywhere was filled with the joyful atmosphere of the harvest season.

In the fertile fields, there are busy people everywhere. Farmers harvest the mature wheat, dry it in a centralized manner, and return it to warehouses for storage. At the same time, they also gather the wheat straw in the fields and pile them into tall straw stacks. Every household has cattle tied under the wheat straw, which is the basis for farmers' survival.

It usually rains at this time, but this year, heavy rain seems to have hit Rebogen. There is not much rainfall in the entire Palaven Plain. As a wheat-producing area in the highlands of the Ikadiva continent, Lidi towns are basically Not big, but there are a lot of them and they are not far apart. It looks like a string of broken pearls,

The largest towns probably have a population of 100,000. Because this is a plain, there are not many industries other than rice. All commercial trade seems to be related to wheat. The stable wheat output solves the most important problem for the Ruidian people, but it also makes this place a simple place. As for grain export, other industries have no connection here, which is somewhat similar to the economic characteristics of self-sufficiency.

The wind blew across the broad and overgrown plains and lowlands, bringing with it a sense of desolation and desolation. In August this year, the Palawan Plain looked a bit special and particularly deserted. Except for a large number of horse-drawn carriages transporting grain, all the people there were The fields looked very empty and desolate. Except for the scarecrow standing indifferently, there were also a large number of hungry Ruidian farmers with yellow faces and skinny muscles.

"This is a dry season. I heard that in many areas in the south, rainfall is rare!"

Lidacus heard the whispers of several knights accompanying him next to him.

In fact, these royal knights have been designated as Princess Haraudian's bodyguard, escorting the princess to Twalimburg, so there is not much resistance to the envoy of the Falcon Dynasty.

"Yes, I have also heard that due to lack of food, peasant rebellions have appeared in some small territories. The main force of the kingdom is now in Palaven, and there are almost no local stations. It has spread to several areas in just half a month. ! "

Another knight responded in a low voice with a worried look on his face.

"I heard that those rebels would cook and eat the captured lords, because it was the lords who took away all their food! But there was not much food in the lord's castle, so these mobs would go to other areas. Grabbing food"

"Eating people... is so disgusting!" A young knight said with some boredom, "Where did all the food go? If it wasn't with the lord, wouldn't all the food that had been harvested for less than a month just fly away!"

"Haha, who else can you say can bring food from local lords?" To this young knight who was inexperienced in the world, an older knight captain smiled mysteriously.

"Are you talking about the adults in Kyoto who resell food..." The young knight opened his mouth in disbelief. Such a dirty thing seemed too unreasonable to him. Yes,

"Okay, it's okay to know some things! If you tell me, you will get into trouble!" The old knight waved his hand to all the knights, and the chatter outside gradually faded away.

Lidacus looked back from outside the carriage. The conversation of the knights just now made him a little emotional.

This year, the southern part of Wikiyia is experiencing a rare bumper harvest. Coupled with the bumper harvest in the northern part of Salander, the food stockpiled is enough to feed the current population for two years. This does not include the livestock of various ethnic groups in the Kugit grassland. ,

After several years of development and external expansion, I don’t know when, the current Wikiia has completely surpassed Ruidian, the first powerful country in the mainland, in terms of economy, materials, military and equipment.

In a golden and beautiful sunset, Princess Raedian Haraudian, who was wearing a long mail dress, slowly put the cold and bright knight's sword back into the scabbard, with a blush on her cold and delicate cheeks. The whole body seems to be enveloped in this last glow, like the legendary Valkyrie,

Retracting the knight's sword, Haraudian bowed and saluted the woman in a white dress opposite him with an extremely pious expression, "I'm so sorry, Teacher Retesalin, I still can't achieve the calmness of advanced swordsmanship."

"It's nothing, this is not what you should understand in the first place! True peace may often be the center of the least peace. When you understand the meaning of this sentence, you can understand the calm heart."

The woman in the white dress opposite smiled faintly and lowered her long sword in her hand. Her body was slender and plump, revealing the charm of a young woman in every aspect. A noble, beautiful, mature and plump woman,

Everyone who saw her could feel a sense of indifference and a sense of indifference. As their eyes swept, it seemed that they no longer cared about the mundane things in the world.

This woman in a white dress named Ritsarin is about 26 years old. She is a full-time swordsmanship teacher at Palawan Academy. She is responsible for teaching swordsmanship to royal women. Because of her gentle and tactful personality, she is elegant and decent, polite to others, and good at talking. Elegant and graceful in action, she has been regarded as their idol by the noble ladies of Ruidian since she was a child.

The King of Palavon is also known as White Tulip. Like Haraudian, she was also a widow-to-be whose betrothed was killed in the war after signing a marriage contract.

According to the customs of the Ruidian people, if the betrothed is killed in battle, the engagement must last for 3 years before it becomes invalid. If other male members of the engaged family apply to the engaged woman, the engagement will be decided by another person. Male members perform,

This is done to stabilize the morale of the soldiers fighting at the front. Otherwise, when they think of dying on the battlefield, their beloved will immediately choose to marry someone else. No soldier will have the determination to fight. But if it is his brother, from the interests of the family, Consider it, it's still acceptable

This is somewhat similar to the customs of the Kugit people in the northern grasslands. In order to survive in the harsh grassland, Kugit women are, in a sense, the property of the entire tribe.

Their marriage, love, and the cultivation of offspring are all based on the interests of the tribe first.

If a man dies, the woman will remarry immediately with her children, and the man responsible for receiving her must also take on all the life of the remarried woman and her children, and treat them as if they were his own.

The existence of women is for the continuation of the tribe, and men are the backbone of the continuation.

A strong man can have multiple wives at the same time, provided that he has the ability to take care of these women and their offspring. Therefore, the Kugit people’s fighting style is extremely brave because they know that even if they unfortunately die in battle, their family will and future generations, other tribesmen will also take up the responsibility.

For Kugit men who are free and easy by nature, all they have to do is herd cattle and fight bravely to keep their women and children from going hungry.

"Well, I heard that your father has found another betrothed for you?" Retesalin handed her long sword to the maid behind her, and unbuttoned the light mail armor on her body.

"Theoretically speaking, it is impossible for you to have a new engagement before the three years have passed." Retesalin frowned slightly and said lightly. "Although there are other male members of the engaged family, for the noble It is impossible for the royal family to suddenly bring up the engagement again! "

"So I'm also very strange!" Princess Haroldian said with a shy and angry expression. "I only know that this engagement was suddenly decided by my father. It may be a political marriage. As for which family it is from, I don't know." ! This information was obtained from some confidential servants in the internal affairs! "

"Lu Lin" Ritesalin raised her sleeves, and a pretty maid next to her quickly came over. Ritesalin whispered in her ear for a while, and the maid nodded quickly and left.

"Teacher, what are you...?" Princess Haroldian looked at her teacher with some curiosity. Rhett Salin is the daughter of the wealthy Rhett family in Kyoto. She not only enjoys a great reputation in Kyoto, Moreover, it has a deep connection with the internal affairs of Kyoto. Most of the royal family's procurement work goes through the Reiter family. Otherwise, Retesalin would not be able to become the swordsmanship instructor of the royal family.

"Haha, Lu Lin's brother is Lu Sarte, the internal affairs officer, who is responsible for drafting marriage contracts for the royal family." Ruite Salin chuckled to her disciple. "I also want to see what exactly your Majesty told the princess." For a family to be so impatient, it must be a young upstart that they rely on very much! "

"Teacher, you are making fun of me!" The brave Princess Haroldian blushed for a rare moment and said with some determination.

"I will not agree to this marriage. When the kingdom is in turmoil, the royal family like us should focus our energy and attention on revitalizing the kingdom instead of focusing on the so-called marriage. The glory belongs to us. Myself, this is the rule that the royal family’s children should adhere to the most!”