Chapter 116: Dream Back Begins
Caesar returned to Einveden in the early morning. The morning before, the fortress sent servants to the church to call Bishop Fanon.
After hearing the message and understanding it, Fanon arrived at the fortress in a grand manner in his luxurious carriage, accompanied by a large group of novice priests.
Passing by the avenue on the way, it attracted everyone's attention.
The news had just spread that the Baron had returned to Einweiden after being wounded.
Since Caesar was apparently injured and went home to recuperate, he still had to go through some formalities.
Fanon was invited to the fortress to pray for and treat the Baron.
After crossing the clear road, Caesar could lie down at home and rest with nothing to do.
He really treated himself as a patient. He never went out of the main door or in the secondary door, and wandered around the fortress with Christina in his arms all day long.
He ignored all military affairs and official duties, and even chose not to reply to the letters from the Grand Duke.
It would have been fine if he was just recuperating, but he always liked to go to the study to flirt with Olivia, preventing her from handling her official business properly.
Winter is over and it is the spring plowing season. Everything in the town starts to operate again and things are extremely busy.
Except for the three meals a day, Olivia spent the morning and afternoon, and even the three meals and evening communicating with the staff of various departments and the knights.
Except for sleeping, Caesar was always alone in his empty room, bored.
As a patient, he couldn't and didn't want to show up in public to do any serious work.
The maids around her were already used to it. Whenever they saw the Baron carrying the child to the study in the afternoon, they would ask the people who came to see the lady to do business to wait.
Whenever the Baron brought the child in, he would call them to take the child out within half an hour.
No one knows what happened in the study at the back.
After two or three times, the drivers who came to do business knew to avoid this time.
The staff were not surprised. After all, the Baron had worked so hard outside and had finally returned. He had to find a legal way to keep his wife, so the staff were willing to give him some way.
Olivia knew that Caesar was indeed a little too clingy and seemed to have some separation anxiety, but he was busy with work recently and didn't want to seem too petty, so he had to come to find her under the pretext of the child.
However, she didn't bother with him. It was hard for him to take the trouble, and at least he was adding to her beauty.
On a sunny day in early April, Caesar was kneeling under his desk, his head buried deep in his work.
Suddenly there was a noise outside the study, and Olivia had to open her eyes dizzily. Her fingers loosened Caesar's blonde hair and took her calf off his shoulder.
"It should be a letter."
Caesar stood up slowly, took out his handkerchief and wiped the corner of his lips, then wiped his fingers, and went to get the letter without even taking a sip.
It is an official document sent by the Grand Duke to various places.
The official document stated that the Nomipal Plain area, which is the royal capital, as well as the counties of Valeu, Constant, Desiso, and Antonwa, have all joined the United Duchy of Roslingay.
Olivia looked at the map hanging on the wall. It could be said that the entire area north of the capital of Alta was now the territory of Grand Duke Everk.
He said a lot of nice words in the official document, which roughly meant that he was packing up and preparing to be crowned king in the royal capital. He also decided to move the capital to the old royal capital and redistribute the land and grant titles.
He also declared war on the nobles of southern Alta, the remaining areas of Lennia, and Vero Island.
After reading this official document, there was also a private letter and coronation invitation sent to them by the Grand Duke.
The coronation ceremony will be held on the first day of May this year, when all meritorious vassals will be promoted.
Olivia guessed that now that the Grand Duke was about to become king, the two lords and the little earl would have to go to the rich south to rule.
Most likely, the Grand Duke will still hand over the North to them.
"Of course, otherwise why would the Grand Duke declare war on the rest of Lennia?"
Caesar knew the Grand Duke's thoughts too well. Although the Grand Duke trusted him very much, as a monarch, checks and balances were his subconscious intuition.
Declare war on the rest of Lennia and grant him the northern border.
This was how the old King of Arta treated the young Earl Everk.
"It seems that every young dragon slayer will eventually become a dragon."
Olivia exclaimed.
Caesar didn't understand what this meant and scratched his head.
"What is a dragon?"
Olivia looked at him without saying a word, just covering her mouth and laughing.
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Since April, Count and Countess Constant left the north and headed for the southern capital. Now the Grand Duke has renamed the capital the Red Castle and started rebuilding it according to the new architectural plan.
In addition to rebuilding the capital, Grand Duke Everk also replanned the administrative divisions of the territory.
He has his own scale in his heart. Including the capital, his current territory consists of six counties.
The king will rule the capital directly himself, and he doesn't need to take care of the eldest son, just make him the crown prince. The second son and his family will be stripped of the title of Count Constant and be made Duke of Valau.
Then there are the heroes, first of all the aides-de-camp and a dozen barons in the Knights Templar, as well as the marquis and earl who took the initiative to come to him for surrender. These people must not be treated unfairly.
The people in the Knights Templar were all his confidants and henchmen. He could just bring them to the capital and continue to use them, and just reward them with some powers.
These barons, as well as the earls and marquises who voluntarily surrendered to him, had to wait until he revised the division map before they could be granted titles.
He believed that Marquis Desiso and Count Antonova were both men of foresight and planned to reduce the size of their county seats, leaving only the core areas for them, and granting the rest to the current barons who had made contributions.
He drooled at the image of Einweiden on the map, and after much deliberation, he marked out Ramvich next door, as well as the two towns of Fantnich and Lorki, which originally belonged to the northern part of Desiso County.
There are four towns in total, and this will be the territory of the future Caesar.
As for the other barons who wanted to be granted the titles of viscount and earl, they could only be stuffed into the northwest border and the southern border of the royal capital.
A few days later, the barons who had returned to their respective garrisons with their troops received the fief documents.
The land was limited, and most barons received gold, silver, treasures and rewards, while a small number of barons received land.
Old Renault and Caesar were ennobled together.
The Grand Duke granted the three places of Ramwich, Fantnich and Lorchi to Caesar as marquisate fiefs.
Old Renault was created earl, and his fiefdom included Dunfermline and the towns of Oddonney and Carron.
Olivia opened the map scroll and marked all these places.
It can be seen that Einwetton, which was upgraded from a town to a county, is now a long strip of area along the coastline.
The upgraded Dunfermline County is now also a long parallel strip, spanning the River De La Ullen.
The combined territory of their family is indeed not small, but compared with the previous county seat, it is actually much smaller.
The Grand Duke's meaning was very clear. The purpose of declaring war was to allow them to expand their territory based on their own abilities.
Going north, you can take Hobbs County in Lennia, and going out to sea, you can attack Vero Island.
The mouth of the Dela Ulun River is also completely within their territory, and they follow the river all the way west.
You can also go west to attack other scattered territories occupied by Lenya nobles.
In fact, this is also a kind of restraint, preventing them from freeing up their energy to covet the South.
The whole family understood what the Grand Duke was thinking. This was both a warning and a reward.
After receiving the official documents, everyone began to prepare their luggage for going to the royal capital to attend the coronation ceremony. After the coronation ceremony, those who were to be awarded would be formally awarded medals.
The whole family is busy running around, and Caesar can't pretend to be injured anymore after pretending for so long.
Olivia silently refreshed the system and checked her main quests.
Lord. Intermediate
Task Description:
A baron who doesn't want to be an earl is not a good duke. This can be achieved by unlocking ten times the legal territory.
Mission Progress: 50/100
Mission Rewards:
+2222 Experience
+＊22 blank character cards
With the possession of the three towns of Ramvich in the north, Fantnich and Lorki in the south, the map is five times the original size, about 15,000 hectares.
Now that the Grand Duke has issued an order to declare war on other Lenya regions and Vero Island.
Then if she sends troops out to seize it herself, it will also be a legal territory required by the system.
Olivia was very happy and had already decided to ask her father and Caesar to help her take over Hobbs County, the former capital of Lennia outside the northern border.
This way, the map area is increased by more than ten times.
She then opened the dungeon quests and regional prosperity.
Manufacturing. Intermediate
Mission Description: There are one thousand workshops in the territory.
Mission progress: 533/1000
Mission Rewards:
+888 Experience Points
+＊8 blank character cards
+＊8 "Das Kapital"＊8 "The Exploitation of the Works of Nature"＊8 "Game Theory"＊8 "Treatise on Febrile Diseases"＊8 "Xu Xiake's Travel Notes"＊8 "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"
The other three towns each had dozens of workshops, which helped her increase the number of tasks to more than half.
Prosperity:
Eindhoven: 70
Ramkhvi: 30
「Fantinih: 20」
Lorki: 10
There are four region cards in total.
In addition, the barons of these three towns were all taken away to the border of the Southern Duchy and are now in a state of no one's management.
As the new liege lord of Einwyden County, you can pick out a few knights from your own family and ask the Grand Duke to confer them the title of baron. As for small soldiers like knights, your own family can confer them the title.
The first thing Caesar and Olivia did after gaining the new territory was to send hundreds of soldiers and dozens of clerks to these towns to take over the work.
Now, most of the large area of Einweiden comes from the two narrow towns at the northernmost end of Desiso County.
The two towns have a large population of over 2,000 each, and each has two to three thousand hectares of arable land.
However, most of the troops in the city were almost wiped out during the war.
The reason why Marquis Desiso was willing to surrender was because he had exhausted too much energy in the chaos in the royal capital and was unable to resist, so he had no choice but to join.
Now all that remained in the hands of Olivia and Caesar were the arable land and the indigenous population; the wealth, the local barons, and the soldiers had all gone to the few thousand hectares of core fiefdom that Marquis Desiso now had left.
Olivia felt like she was dreaming back to the beginning of the game, and it was time to start exploring new areas again!
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