Chapter 120 Come on, I will plant wheat to feed you!
"Your Majesty the Marquis!"
When he finally saw the lord with whom he had only met a few times after several months, Stain, the leader of the Antolia mercenary group, couldn't help but burst into tears.
For nothing else, just for the task that Leon gave him, and just for Leon's heavy trust in him, it was enough to make him burst into tears!
Because this gives the Antolian mercenaries a chance to prove their strength!
"Thank you for your hard work."
Looking at the mercenary captain who stood at the city gate early to greet him, Leon couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
If Stann had not been able to lead the mercenaries, soldiers and civilians of Antolia to raid the city of Parma, the Northern Expedition would not have gone so smoothly.
It can even be said...
Although Stein never went north, he took the greatest credit!
What's more, as early as Leon's way back to Antolia, he had already heard about Stain's gains in Parma from Aaron's letter.
To put it another way, a great harvest is not even enough to describe Stein's results in the city of Parma.
With the wealth accumulated by the Bravis family for generations, Leon has no doubt that the former treasury of Antolia, which could only run mice, has become the most abundant one in the entire southern part of the kingdom, and there is no one!
Countless gold and silver coins, and a wide variety of rare and rare treasures.
Not to mention Stan, even Aaron was in a daze for a long time when the property that originally belonged to the Bravis family was transported to Antolia.
Aaron even bluntly stated in a letter to Leon that the harvest was so rich that, as the chief steward of the Jimena family, he did not dare to use the rewards easily and had to wait until Leon returned before making a decision himself. .
"This is what I should do."
Faced with the praise of his lord, Stan scratched his head and chuckled.
"Aaron told me that you have been coveting the knight armor captured from Parma City for a long time. In this case, I will give you a hundred sets!"
For this hero, Leon was not stingy in giving rewards.
You know, although one hundred sets of armor may not seem like much, but considering the extremely low iron-making technology of this era, it is already particularly valuable.
Even though Antolia's iron-making blast furnace already stands on the edge of the southwestern highlands, it is only for making iron and has not yet begun to forge standard armor of this strength.
Things are rare and valuable, and this is undoubtedly an extremely generous reward.
"Thank you! My generous Marquis!"
Stein was so excited that his voice trembled a little.
His lord has become a marquis, and the status of the mercenaries has also risen accordingly. Now, after receiving the armor from Leon himself, Stan was naturally very excited.
This is a weapon that can save your life on the battlefield!
"How is the search in Parma City going?"
Leon asked curiously as he walked towards the city.
But...
soon, the scene in the city was enough to shock Leon for a whole year.
Antoria's search for the city of Parma can't be said to be a waste of money. Basically, it can be said to be nothing.
A large number of people who originally lived in the city were basically packed away to Antolia, and even the slightly better houses were basically demolished with only ruins left.
"Is nothing wrong?"
Leon couldn't help but feel worried.
"Freedmen and serfs basically have no land or family property. According to your previous explanation, just a little benefit is enough to make these people willing to move away." "What's more, as long as they go to
Antolia , then these people are still free people. If they were replaced by other nobles, then these people who were originally subordinate to the rebel lords would probably become serfs." "So, in fact,
many people are voluntary."
"As for Most of the houses in the city are the masterpieces of Count Brabant. After all... there must be some benefit for the earl." "Did
Aaron teach you?"
He looked at the conversation in front of him. Stan, Leon couldn't help but asked a soul question.
"Yes."
Stan nodded honestly.
"Great job!"
Although Leon gave the task of gathering the refugees, the specific operations were basically handled by Aaron, and the method was quite appropriate.
Unknowingly, the two of them passed through the cordon set up by the Andal soldiers and entered the city of Parma, which is also the largest gathering place for mages in the southern part of the kingdom.
The soldiers from Antolia have searched every corner of the city in these days. Only this area where mages live is an area they have never set foot in since entering the city.
The spires of the mage towers seemed to symbolize the mage's desire and pursuit of magic, but at this time, this originally prosperous area had already become depressed and deserted.
"Everyone's gone?"
"Not yet." Stan replied truthfully.
The relationship between mages and nobles is extremely complicated.
Perhaps the relationship between the two is employment, or perhaps mutual use?
The nobles used their power to provide the wizards with the magic materials and high rewards needed to practice magic, and the wizards also provided the nobles with the protection they could.
Suppressing peasant rebellions, participating in external wars, and many other situations are included in this list.
So, Leon is actually very lucky.
If the conflict that broke out this time was not a civil war in the kingdom, a war that had set rules since the founding of the Kingdom of Andal and did not allow mages to participate, Leon would really have no chance to make the Bravis family become a member of the family under the protection of mages. The dust of history.
As the Bravis family fell apart, the mages who originally lived in the city of Parma naturally had to find their next home.
Fortunately, Leon came back quickly enough, otherwise, all the mages living in this city might have disappeared.
"How many people are left?"
"About half of the people are left..."
Stann thought for a moment, and then replied: "Including the teacher of the Marquis, Archmage Albert."
"Butler Aaron specially came from Thorn Ridge A large number of traders, cooks and servants were transferred to make up for the manpower shortage caused by the fall of Parma City, so as not to affect the normal life of the mages as much as possible." After hearing Stan's words, Leon couldn't help but nodded in approval
.
If there is any resource in the city of Parma that the Antolians have not had time to take away, it must be these mages who have served the Bravis family.
After a while, Leon was seen walking forward alone. After passing several mage towers, he opened the long-closed door of a mage tower and shouted loudly inside: "Teacher! Come to
Antolia." !”
“I grow wheat to feed myself!”
Thank you to “The Salmon of No Return” for your reward and support. I am another honorary knight!
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Do you feel that the explanation of the relationship between mages and nobles is a bit far-fetched? I feel that the logical chain is not perfect, let me think about it.
(End of chapter)