Soon after finishing reading the letter, Stone Pompeii put it down, one leg down from the table, placed it on the ground, crossed his hands on the table, and a serious expression appeared on his face.

Although his expression was serious and a little solemn, Stone and Pompeii could not hide the smile in their eyes.

"Old Thor has a knight's talent and a terrifying fighting instinct. He is one of the best knights in the history of the Pompeii family. But in general, he is just a muscle. I didn't expect his son to have a good political and economic mind. He is an absolute lord-type talent."

Although the blood relationship between Stone Pompeii and Thor Pompeii is quite distant, he seldom goes back to Pompeii after leaving the territory with his father.

Although he had some interactions with Old Saul, it would be a lie to say how close they were.

But despite this, his last name is also Pompeii. As a member of the Pompeii family, although he has no chance of becoming a lord, he has seen the Pompeii family become strong.

Stone, Pompey also felt extremely happy.

If we use a metaphor, the Pompeii family is the branches of a big tree, and they are the leaves of the big tree. Because of the Pompeii family, they are also nobles and have the surname Pompeii.

The more powerful and prestigious the Pompeii family is, the more benefits they will enjoy when they are abroad. On the contrary, if the Pompeii family becomes weak or even destroyed.

They will become leaves without nutrients and will wither and turn yellow sooner or later.

Soon, Stone and Pompeii decided to go back to Pompeii.

There are many considerations.

In the letter, Old Thor gave him the treatment of a mid-level knight, 100 gold coins per month. This salary was less than what he earned as a mercenary.

After all, mercenary work is a profession that is on the edge of a knife. High risk means high rewards.

However, for the job of guarding the territory, a hundred gold coins per month for an intermediate knight is definitely a relatively high salary.

Old Sol didn't treat him badly.

The second point is the call of the surname Pompeii.

The third point is that he is now older and has a young daughter.

Thinking of his own little Lolita, Stone, Pompeii's face, which was full of cold and hard lines, slowly softened.

The job of a mercenary is too dangerous, so I decided to go back to Pompeii, raise my daughter safely, and then watch her get married and live a stable and happy life.

Stone, Pompey was a man of swift and decisive action. After he made the decision, he immediately left the tent and found the deputy leader of the Sabretooth Mercenary Group stationed here, a powerful knight with the strength of a senior knight, and went through the resignation procedures.

The process was a little bit bumpy, but it was not because of a conflict between the two sides. It was because the other side tried hard to retain them and promised to give Stone and Pompey a more reasonable salary.

Strong mid-level knights like Stone and Pompey are the combat forces that need to be won over by all parties.

But Stonewall Pompeii left anyway, holding his daughter, riding on his warhorse, carrying his belongings and some gold coins he had saved over the years, and embarked on the journey back to Pompeii.

"The knights of Pompeii will return to Pompeii."

In the hall, Pompeii was riding on a horse, and the words of his deceased father came to his mind. Before his father died, his father's order was to return to Pompeii for burial.

So his father was buried in the family cemetery in Pompeii, and now he would return to Pompeii.

The only difference is that he will play for Pompey.

Like Stone and Pompeii, there were many men with the surname Pompeii who returned to Pompeii with their families.

Although the Pompeii family is small, they still have some heritage.

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In the Kingdom of Prussia, the nobility existed as a powerful political force, whether they were court nobility or real nobility.

The knights were the armed forces of the nobles.

For example, Baron Baron's family has more than one hundred knights.

It has been run for hundreds of years, and many of the knights have close ties with the Patton family, so they can guarantee their loyalty.

The knight himself also proves himself by using his military force and loyalty to his lord.

Every wandering knight longs to have a lord with whom he can entrust his life and prove his glory.

As the finances of the Pompeii family eased, and even became sufficient, they began recruiting knights. Like a flame in the darkness, it attracted knights eager to prove themselves to Pompeii from all directions.

The wandering knights from the six major families including the Pompeii family and the Sauron family, plus the direct vassals of the Pompeii family and the people of the Iron Horse family.

A month later, a total of twelve knights arrived in Pompeii. After arriving in Pompeii and signing an agreement with the lord, Sol, Pompeii, they became the guard knights of the Pompeii family.

These twelve knights, plus Old Sol, Magellan, Luther, Xuxua, and the knights of the Pompeii family, make a total of sixteen knights.

He already has one-tenth of the number of Patton's knights.

In addition, some scholars also returned with their families. The reason why Old Saul recruited these scholars was because of Luther's plan.

Isn't it about building a town? To manage a town, in addition to armed protection, public officials are also needed.

In short, the purpose of summoning the family's wandering knights and scholars back this time is to support the skeleton of a territory the size of a town.

After having a skeleton, the natural next step is to add flesh and blood.

This flesh and blood is the population.

Therefore, the Pompeii family held a meeting of lords in the meeting room of the town hall. The huge meeting room was full of people.

Old Sol sat in the lord's seat, Luther and Pompey stood beside him.

The conference table was long, and at this moment both sides of the table were full of people, scholars on one side and knights on the other.

Sitting in the first seat of the knights are Stone and Pompey. Because of their strength as intermediate knights, Stone and Pompey are one of the most worthy forces among all the knights.

He became the knight commander of the Pompeii family.

Next is the sheriff, Magellan of the Iron Horse family, and last is Luther’s personal knight, Xuxua.

The first scholar is the mayor of Pompeii, Lelouch. The second is Luther's cultural teacher, the scholar, Mr. Joshua.

There were more than twenty or thirty civil and military officials sitting together.

Luther took a quick look and felt a little excited and a sense of accomplishment.

Look.

Pompeii is growing.

What was it like before? He was called the lord, but he was actually the village chief. There were two or three cats and kittens in the territory, four knights, and a scholar, teacher, and advisor.

Now it’s better, at a glance there are twenty or thirty people.

If I was the successor to the village chief before, then I should be considered the successor to the town mayor now, right?

Well, although it is still very small, it is growing up after all.

A little achievement, a little excitement.

(End of this chapter)