Chapter 663 Over-interpretation of the Crown Princess

After reading the whole book, Gavin still gained a lot. Many of them were picked out from the minutiae. It is estimated that Master Varo did not notice their value at all when he wrote it. After all, he was in the His situation is different from Gavin's. He just observes everything around him as a traveler, good and evil, good and bad, and whether there are business opportunities. For him, there is no influence or temptation. At most, it is related to some places. The locals have established relatively friendly relations.

Gavin is different. His current position determines that wherever he goes, he is not just walking past, but leaving his own footprints.

He is not going to Susar, the capital of the Kingdom of Cormyr, as an audience, but as a conqueror, but the weapon is no longer a powerful army, but a powerful financial resource.

He has always believed that the money in hand is the most worthless, and it is the right way to let it move and turn it into various industries that generate wealth, and continuously provide new wealth. The cities along the way are based on this concept. Because there is nothing to buy there, you can only build it yourself.

But the Kingdom of Cormyr is an owned land. Once here, the previous enclosed land is no longer easy to use, but money is easy to use. Many things are clearly priced, including land.

Of course, even if you purchase land, you only have the right to use it, but not the ownership. All the land in the Kingdom of Cormyr belongs to the country and belongs to the Obaiszil royal family. Taxes must be paid. If it violates the law, According to the laws of the Kingdom of Mir, the right to use it may be withdrawn - this is a society ruled by law, and everything is conducted in accordance with the law. Although the law is a tool made by the Obaisqil royal family to serve itself, But generally speaking, most laws are relatively fair. Even the Obaiszil royal family will not easily violate the law, at least not openly, because this is the basis for their rule. To do so is to commit suicide. foundation.

With this Varro Travel Diary and his knowledge of the Kingdom of Cormyr in his previous life, Gavin has a basic overview of the current Kingdom of Cormyr. The next step is to be targeted, prepare some plans in advance, and make a lady electorate that suits his own strategy. thing.

In the next five days, Gavin only made three trips back to the City of Faith, and spent the rest of the time in Amphail Village.

At night, I followed Filancini to learn magic and superpowers, and assisted in studying Filancini's personal dreams. The progress was quite amazing.

Gavin not only mastered the three mental feedback, psychic rebirth and limb restoration of the Variety Master, he also mastered a psychic ability called psychic crushing. He chose a few more useful spells to master first. They are Death Cloud, Break Barrier, Mutate Animals, Transform into Evil, Intercontinental Flight, Turn Mud into Stone, Fossils into Mud, and Magical Constancy.

Filancini's personal dream construction also has an advantage that the Dragon Oak Dream does not have, that is, she is in the etheric plane, and has entanglements beyond imagination. The original shackles are a huge help in this matter. With the gradual improvement of the dream, she now even affects the environment she lives in. Her broken mage tower in the Lost Land is repairing itself at an alarming rate.

The intimate relationship between the two did indeed occur in Filancini's personal dream, but the problem is that when this dream is two-way, it cannot be simply regarded as a dream.

All in all, the relationship between the two continues to heat up.

During the day, Gavin had in-depth discussions with Ms. Gowther and raised the issue of sending escort girls to the Kingdom of Cormyr.

Of course, Gavin would not let them follow the caravan slowly and leisurely. Instead, after receiving corresponding training, he would directly use teleportation spells to send them near their destination, allowing them to infiltrate on their own.

Although the Kingdom of Cormyr claims to have internal control, second only to the red-robed mage kingdom Sere, they have a large number of purple dragon patrols in both cities and country streets, but this approach is only to ensure that there are not too many monsters running rampant here. , the personnel control is still very sparse. As long as they behave properly (such as probing into secret areas, carrying weapons longer than a knife), they will not rush forward to ask for their identity because of differences in accents, clothing, etc., because this matter is It's hard to prove yourself.

Gavin has not left for the Kingdom of Cormyr for a long time. He is also waiting for something - a royal writ.

With this thing, he can legitimately lead some combatants and armed forces into the Kingdom of Cormyr, otherwise he will be unable to move here.

As for going to Susal for a secret audience without any weapons, Gavin would have chosen to do this without hesitation three months ago, because at that time, although he was somewhat famous, he was at best the owner of a small manor. .

Not now, I am now the supreme commander of the conqueror's army and the elector of Ms. Strategy. I not only represent myself, but also represent the 50,000 soldiers and civilians behind me. This is a public business, and everything must be done with dignity and dignity, so that The Kingdom of Cormyr can't find fault with this from top to bottom.

To put it simply, this is a kind of ceremony, a formal meeting ceremony, done for outsiders to see. After the relationship between the two parties is officially confirmed, there will be no need for such trouble next time.

This order came much later than Gavin expected. It was belatedly arrived on the tenth day after the Battle of Ms. Stratagem’s Ascension to the Gods, when the initial outline of the City of Faith had already been seen.

"Your Highness, I didn't expect that we would meet so soon." The person who sent the royal warrant was none other than the Crown Princess of Cormier, Tynarasta.

Gavin was not surprised, because the interests involved in this matter were too great, and the interests of too many people would be touched. The more this matter was handled by others, the greater the possibility of various accidents, because this time the resistance did not simply come from outside the Kingdom of Cormier, but also from within.

There were more than one or two people eyeing the position of Baron of Rockland. If it was just Rockland, it would not be so valuable, but the Kingdom of Cormier had just swallowed up Tifton and the surrounding Red Spring Reclamation Area in recent years, and the value would be greatly increased.

Let's not talk about other things for now, Tifton alone has huge commercial value. It is connected to a series of commercial thoroughfares such as the Moon Sea Highway, the High Road, and the Northern Horse Road. As long as it is given a certain amount of time, it will become the second Araby and the second land commercial city of the Kingdom of Cormier.

As for making Gavin the Baron of Rockland, it is the most favorable choice for the entire Kingdom of Cormyr. This can only be used to convince the royal family of Obeschir, but there is no way to convince other noble families in the Kingdom of Cormyr. In their eyes, it is something that the royal family of Obeschir needs to consider. They put their own and their family's interests far above the kingdom. Since there is selfishness, it is impossible to avoid such things.

Even the Conqueror Army, as their power expands and their strength increases, is slowly dividing into factions. It's just that because their composition is too mixed, this faction is biased towards race. At present, these factions are still in their infancy and are relatively fair and selfless. They are not for personal gain, but to do their best to seek greater benefits for their own race and help their own race grow and develop in the Conqueror Army. This is the selfishness of promoting the prosperity of the race.

However, as time goes by, personal desires often get mixed in, and many things become distorted. Gavin can only work hard on supervision and regulation, and he can do nothing about other things. This is an inevitable trend for the development and growth of power. Gods have selfish desires, let alone mortals.

In this case, the Crown Princess, who has had contact with Gavin and reached a certain consensus with the kingdom, is undoubtedly the best candidate, fully sending a signal to the world that the Obaiszir royal family attaches great importance to this matter.

"General, you are now our most distinguished guest in Cormier. In order to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings, I will personally accompany you to Susal to meet His Majesty the King." Crown Princess Tynarasta still had a perfect smile on her beautiful face and said, "His Majesty allows you to lead ten armed guards and no more than one hundred merchants."

This mission was her initiative. She had underestimated the degree of stupidity within the Kingdom of Cormier. This choice, which was obviously extremely beneficial to the Kingdom of Cormier, actually had unimaginable resistance within the Kingdom. Just the issue of agreeing to Gavin to go to Susal to meet King Yasan, made the princes and nobles discuss it for a full ten days. The attitude of King Yasan, who was extremely wise in the past, on this matter made her somewhat confused. Although he did not obviously favor the princes and nobles, he did not support herself, making the plan particularly difficult to advance.

Although she had not been in contact with Gavin for a long time, in just ten days, it was enough for her to dig Gavin inside and out. To understand a person, many times, it is clearer to see what he does than to meet him face to face.

Therefore, compared with ten days ago, Tainalasta had a clearer understanding of the young man in front of her. She would not be deceived by his young appearance. He had a shrewdness that did not match his age. His layout was like the goddess of strategy he believed in. This was a style of behavior that was integrated into his bones, not only reflected in battlefield tactics, but also in the layout of the situation.

He wanted to obtain the Baron of Cormier Rockland, not just now, but since the beginning of this year, when he left Tesser and came to Rockland.

If you look at what he did separately, many of them are indeed a bit incredible, such as he gave up the Baron of Tesser and went north alone with a goblin warlock to open up the territory, and left all the assets of the Nott family to a garrison captain Zalanda.

Anyone with a discerning eye could see that his brother Roan died in his hands. His handling method at that time was simple and rough, and it seemed that he was just looking for an excuse for himself to go north.

But now it seems that that was the beginning of his layout. If he hadn't left, there would be no rise of Zalanda, and the seeds of debt would be planted in Zalanda's heart, and he would not have cooperated with him in large-scale propaganda and mobilization in the future. Even if he organized some immigrants with his own ability, it would not have been as powerful as the Conqueror Army now.

In order to prepare for immigration, he resolutely gave up the Kobold Iron Mine, which was developing well, and went to the Battle Valley to open up a new territory, the Three Rivers.

In the first half of this year, his irrelevant actions seemed to be preparing for the Conqueror Army, and the purpose of organizing the Conqueror Army was to obtain the fief of Rockland from the hands of the Kingdom of Cormier.

According to the series of behaviors he showed before, his acquisition of Rockland was by no means the ultimate goal. This was just one of his many plans. He must have deeper plans.

The Crown Princess thought about it and decided that the only place around that could make him plot was the Kingdom of Cormyr. The marriage she had previously inferred might also be what the other party wanted.

If the Crown Princess had not known Gavin before and had formed a preconceived impression, based on this information alone, she would have definitely imagined the image of a middle-aged wizard who was ruthless, unconventional, but shrewd.

Such people seem to dislike the constraints of rules the most. They like to tear up existing things and create their own interests.

This way of doing things is bound to be incompatible with the style of the nobles of the Kingdom of Cormyr, and it is very easy for the two sides to set off a huge conflict.

However, in the eyes of the Crown Princess, this is not entirely a bad thing. Cormyr has been peaceful for thousands of years, and it is not only the Obaiszir family, who is a royal family, that is deeply rooted. There are also several families that are as old as them, not to mention the families that have risen for various reasons over the past thousand years.

There is a proverb in Faerun that every Cormyr has noble blood flowing in his veins.

Sometimes this proverb is used to describe the noble qualities of the Cormyr people, but more often, it is used to mock the large number of nobles in the Kingdom of Cormyr and their pedantic and procrastinating work.

Anything that goes to extremes will not be a good thing.

The overly heavy noble system of the Kingdom of Cormyr is a heavy burden for them. The output of a kingdom is limited. When more people draw nutrients from it at the same time, the wealth that can be shared by the royal family of Obaiszir naturally becomes less. Even if it increases the burden on ordinary people, the royal family can only get a very limited share from it. On the contrary, it is shaking the foundation of the country.

These noble families cannot easily move them even if they are the rulers of the Kingdom of Cormyr, the royal family of Obaiszir, if there is no fatal mistake, because this is a matter that offends the entire interest class, which will force those noble families to unite and resist the royal family of Obaiszir. Even if there is no way to overthrow the royal family of Obaiszir from the ruling position, it will inevitably lead to a full-scale civil war.

But if Gavin, a huge man-eating catfish, breaks in and muddies the water, and the big fish eats the small fish, it will be another matter.

The premise is that Gavin can join the game.

Tynarasta knows too well the methods of the nobles in the Kingdom of Cormier. In order to protect their own interests, they will decisively abandon the royal family. They may not give Gavin the opportunity to join the game at all, and use some conspiracy methods to make the relationship between the two sides stiff and drag the two sides into the abyss of war.

There are hawks everywhere, and the Kingdom of Cormier is no exception. They are mainly knights headed by small and medium nobles. They are mainly professional soldiers. They are always eager for war, because only war can bring them military merits, glory, and rewards, so that they have a better ladder to climb up.

The peaceful contact between the Conqueror Army and the Kingdom of Cormier is naturally extremely inconsistent with their interests.

And Gavin's journey to the Kingdom of Cormier is their best opportunity to take action. The Crown Princess must avoid such accidents.

Gavin didn't know that there were so many twists and turns behind the Crown Princess's trip. If he knew, he might have to defend himself. Nothing can withstand excessive interpretation. He was able to get to where he is now, and there were many mistakes. He had changed his plan countless times. Many things were beyond his plan. He first had his own territory in the valley and the rise of Zalanda in Dalauma, and then he had the current Conqueror Army, instead of deliberately expanding it in order to forge today's Conqueror Army. Even if the strategy lady took action personally, she could not calculate to this extent. After all, the plan is just a plan, and it is still affected by many unexpected factors.

"It is my greatest honor to be able to travel with His Highness." Gavin said with a smile, "But I hope our itinerary will be determined by us."

The Crown Princess personally greeted him, which was another unexpected and reasonable thing.

This fully proves that the Kingdom of Cormyr attaches great importance to the conqueror army and itself. With the Crown Princess accompanying them, safety will be absolutely guaranteed. She is the best royal warrant. Even if they are brave enough, no one dares to disrespect the crown prince of this country on the land of the Kingdom of Cormyr.

But for himself, there are many inconveniences. Not to mention that many small actions in the gray area cannot be carried out, even some more normal industrial layouts cannot be carried out. After all, the other party cannot accompany him to waste too much time on the road. His original plan needs to be adjusted. Some details must be abandoned, and only one or two key points must be picked up for rapid advancement.

"Okay." The Crown Princess wanted to see what Gavin would do along the way. She had a hunch that they would never be lonely along the way.

Since the Crown Princess was traveling with him, Gavin abandoned the caravan and only selected ten armed guards. Although the number was small, it was quite diverse, covering various professions. They were all elites above the extraordinary level, enough to deal with most situations.

The Crown Princess also brought ten guards with her, but compared to Gavin's mess, hers was very uniform, with five battle mages and five purple dragon knights, all of whom also had extraordinary strength.

They were all riding two horses each, so their movement speed was naturally quite high.