Proof of the Sun King

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At the door of the bathroom, everything was ready. Two middle-aged men in their thirties were barebacked and wrapped in a bath towel, ready to go in for a hot spring. Crazy Sand Literature Network

Strictly speaking, there is no hot spring under Ryan's Duke's Castle, but the dwarves' ingenious craftsmanship and tunnel technology are really powerful. Without hot springs, they just managed it through steam technology and mine tunnel technology.

It is said that Surya asked for it because she heard that the hot spring is good for the body. At that time, Ryan was fighting outside, and he listened to Surya on both internal and external matters, so the hot spring was naturally built.

There was a golden water basin at the door, and the water was coming out through an exquisite faucet made by a dwarf, and the sound of clattering water filled the bathroom door.

Alfred was a little strange. He walked to the water basin and muttered, "I understand the truth. Why is there a golden basin at the door with water in it?"

"Probably means washing your hands in the golden basin." Ryan smiled, and he stretched out his hand to wash in the basin: "Wash your hands, wash your hands in the golden basin, Ah Fu, remember, don't be a wicked person in the future."

"Bring the wicked?" Alfred didn't quite understand it, but he didn't care. Seeing Ryan washing his hands, he also stretched out his hand to wash his hands: "Okay! I won't bring wicked people in the future!"

The scalding hot spring water was ready, and there was a dense mist in the tiled bathroom. Ryan and Alfred tested the water temperature and felt that it was almost the same, so they immersed their bodies in the hot spring water.

"Wow~ It's so cool!" Alfred let out a satisfied sigh. There were scars all over the Paladin Commander's body. In the years of experience, Alfred also paid a lot, including his back. There are many burn marks, which was a huge price paid when conquering Musilon Castle.

In the same way, Ryan's first-class muscles also have dense scars on his chest and back. Since he left Ottenne and the warm little castle of his adoptive father, he has experienced countless hardships. Many new scars were added, including the one left by Carlos, the first big magician under the throne, and then left by Randuin, and then by Matthew Bard.

These are his military badges.

"Oh, Alfred, the material is good!" Ryan also immersed himself in the water, covered his head with a towel, and said with a smile, "I heard that Mr. Alfred was very brave in the recovery of Musillon?"

"Just kidding!" Alfred was very proud, he stretched out his hand and pointed at himself with a thumb: "Am I super brave?"

"Hahaha, not bad, the shoulders are still strong." Ryan reached out and pinched Alfred's shoulder.

"Ryan, what are you doing!" Alfred felt that Ryan was making fun of himself, he stretched out his hand to restrain Ryan's neck, the muscles on his arms tightened: "Hey, future knight king, try this, wrestling The secret technique, the profound meaning of Alfred!"

"Wow!" Ryan was strangled and pressed into the water. The hot hot spring water splashed all over his face. With a strange cry, he broke free from Alfred's attack and cut Alfred's in turn. Arm, let him also take a few sips in the hot spring water: "Look at my beast power! King's journey!"

"Hahaha~"

"Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha~"

There were bursts of laughter and splashes from the bathroom.

The two men in their thirties stopped fighting for a while. After the collision of sweat and muscle, Ryan and Alfred leaned to one side, and Ryan suddenly said with great interest: "A'Fu, I haven't planned yet. Looking for a girlfriend? You are all Paladin Commander."

"I don't know." Alfred sweated a lot on his forehead. He leaned against the side of the hot spring pool and sighed in a low voice: "I always feel that I am a little less confident."

Ryan couldn't stop laughing, he reached out and poured a ladle from the hot spring water on Alfred's face: "Why not be confident? Afu, if you go to Estalia now, I can't do that Claw. Miss Dia will refuse again."

"But if that's the case, I really don't know whether she wants Alfred or a paladin commander with his own territory?" Alfred nodded, with some hesitation in his tone: "If she just wants Craving for my status and money?"

"Heh~ We can also think the other way around, you're just looking for a girlfriend, not a wife." Ryan sneered: "If she just wants to play with you, you can naturally play with her, anyway. Aren't they all priced?"

"If I really just want to have fun, why don't I spend a handful of silver coins to find a Leonase woman in town? There are quite a few such people in your town now, good friend, you can find quite a lot of them with a single silver coin. Not bad, why am I looking for a girlfriend?" Alfred said shatteringly.

Ryan's face was moved, and his face was sincere and excited: "A'Fu! You finally see it clearly! As expected of my good brother Ryan!"

"???" Alfred was puzzled at first, and then he splashed water on Ryan's face with his hands in anger and annoyance: "Okay, so you are such Ryan!"

"Clap~" The hot spring water splashed on Ryan's face, Ryan smiled and avoided, he said to Alfred: "This is actually very simple, you just realize it, I won't say much else, for now For you, you can find girlfriends casually, but you must be cautious when getting married."

Lane's implication is very simple, you can either find a real one, or find one that will help your career.

As for Claudia, Ryan thinks it's not Al's truth, it's just his impulse.

In fact, as Lane said, it is not uncommon for the maid to successfully marry into the family of the great nobles, but there are very few successful examples. Female courtiers can't get in.

Picking up ready-made products is not so easy to check. Strictly speaking, Ryan was picked by the Surya family. It is a political marriage, but they have also accumulated a lot of feelings along the way, which is a pretty good combination.

And there are generally only two kinds of wives of great nobles and generals. The first is the real who has followed him all the way when he is still a soldier or has not yet fully developed, and the other is the one who can help him in his career. Political marriage.

The former, Alfred does not, so Lane's suggestion is the latter.

Of course, everything is kept silent, and Ryan has another meaning, that is, no matter what A Fu chooses, Ryan will support him, on the one hand as his superior nobleman, on the other hand as his childhood playmate and good friend. support.

"Come back, good friend." Alfred understood Ryan's meaning, and he didn't want to discuss this topic any more: "Your reforms are going to imitate the empire? Build a bureaucratic system as complete as the imperial electors. to replace the existing enfeoffment system?"

"How is that possible!" Ryan shook his head again and again: "All copy the bureaucracy of the empire? That country will collapse before I can complete the reform."

"Why?!" Alfred asked curiously.

"Think about it, Alfred, what are the reasons and characteristics of Britannia's existence for thousands of years?" Ryan stroked the hot spring water in the bathroom with his hands.

"Of course it is the spirit of chivalry, the Holy Grail system and the belief of the Lady of the Lake." Alfred's research on Brittany is still relatively deep.

"That's right." Ryan nodded, his expression had become very serious at this time: "A'Fu, think about it, if we think the empire's system is good, we must fully accept and learn this system, and put the existing All the systems are changed, the nobles of the entire kingdom are forced to learn from the empire, and we are asked to give up our own culture and our own chivalrous spirit, and change everything to the things of the empire. Does that also mean that we deny all of ourselves? We deny denying his own culture, denying his beliefs, and even denying the foundation of Brittany’s founding?”

"If it really changes like this, is it the kingdom of knights, or the kingdom of knights?" There was something in Ryan's blue eyes, which Alfred had never seen from his childhood friend's eyes before: " If we throw away our own traditions and try to cater to the culture of another country, can we still talk about self-esteem, self-confidence and self-improvement? Besides, is chivalry backward? Is it eliminated?”

"Of course not. The spirit of chivalry has been proven to be a continuation of human virtue and will. It is a belief that will not be abandoned no matter how long it is." Alfred also became serious.

"It is not advisable to copy everything. If we only see the superior parts of the imperial system and the backward parts of Brittany and then copy them all, we will always come to a conclusion, we will only point to the advantages of the empire and keep bragging , say how good the empire is, and then point to our own shortcomings, say how bad we are, over time, the people have lost faith, the aristocracy has lost self-confidence, we will give up the chivalry and chivalry beliefs that have always been Proud of knighthood and martial arts, no longer proud of being a model of knighthood, the only thing waiting for us is destruction." Ryan sighed: "As far as military is concerned, A Fu, you know the knights and nobles of the entire kingdom. If all the training of new knights and knights is given up, how terrible will the consequences be?"

"I understand." Alfred sighed lightly, "I think too simply."

"So, we must reform, but we must not copy, we must not give up our characteristics, our beliefs, we must consider our basic country, and create a new kingdom of knights and a new kingdom with Breton characteristics. System." Ryan nodded, and he sighed: "What is our tradition? It is the swift assault cavalry and the army of knights in heavy armor! It is the feared Holy Grail Knight and the empire in trouble, the chivalry we support!"

"Just because the empire's system is advanced, and because the empire's gunpowder is powerful, we desperately depreciate ourselves and say everything about ourselves is worthless. This is the real mistake." Lane whispered: "We want to change, we It also needs to be changed, but some things cannot be discarded, but must be carried forward!"

"Lane, you are no longer that Nord." Alfred smiled, and he said deeply: "You have that kind of authority."

"Yes, I have, I can change this country." Ryan took the towel off his head and wiped his face: "But how can I guarantee that my reforms will continue? How can I guarantee that After I abdicate, won't my heir change back? Are there still few such cases in history?"

The paladin was silent.

"If I become a king of knights, I become a paper painter like Richard and do nothing, and the entire kingdom will probably survive." Ryan continued: "But that's meaningless, it's nothing more than lingering and everything. Compromise, what am I doing as a king? On the other hand, if you want to do something practical and make changes, you must use power, and then you must challenge existing interests. Maybe because of my personal prestige, everyone does not They will oppose me, or they will not oppose me explicitly, but they will definitely make small moves in private, and they will violate it. As long as my rule ends, how can I ensure that my reforms and my system can continue?"

"This is inherently contradictory. If you do something, you will offend people. If you don't offend people, don't do it." Alfred has a deep understanding of this: "This is the way the Justice Church is. Going down are cardinals, cardinals, regional archbishops, parish patriarchs, and then a series of ten-level clerical positions, which are extremely strict, no matter how you try to change, you will touch other people's cakes, the one called Luther- That's how Huss' fighting priest came to the Cathedral of Justice with such enthusiasm, but because he said too many questions, he was almost expelled from the church on the spot, and the Archbishop Vicma rescued him."

"That's right." Ryan continued: "So, whether I can change, whether I can complete the change or not, depends on whether I get the approval of most nobles and most vested interest groups. This kingdom is the person who supports me the most. who is it?"

"Apparently the Southern faction headed by the Dukes of François and Baudric?" Alfred said casually.

"Wrong! It's the church and the businessmen!" Ryan laughed, and he leaned back beside the bath: "On the contrary, it is the knights and nobles who support Lawn! The firm support of the church and businessmen is the one who won most of my victories. The key, so I persuaded me to touch the church cake, especially Ms. Huzhong's church cake, either stupid or bad!"

"2:1 victory!" Alfred thinks about it, he really has nothing to say about his childhood playmate: "It is true that the Duke of François seems to have a lot of ideas and ideas, but in fact everything It has become dominated by you, and you are the god-chosen champion of the lady in the lake! Glory and so on~www.wuxiamtl.com~ won the favor of the lady and the trust of Morgiana, so the church will naturally support you firmly."

"Therefore, there is a basis for the change, and as long as the recognition is obtained, and the nobles get enough benefits in the process of bureaucratic reform, and the continuation of the tradition of the knight kingdom is guaranteed, then why do they oppose it? Why do they oppose it? Ryan laughed: "This is the foundation of ensuring the continuation of the reform, rather than relying on personal prestige to forcibly fight against vested interest groups!"

"I understand." Alfred smiled bitterly: "You take me as a model? But if the tradition of knighthood is maintained, what about the infantry? Without the cooperation of strong enough infantry, the war cannot rely on the knights alone, but There are only so many resources in the entire kingdom, and all the knights are raised, how can we build a strong infantry army?"

"That's why we have to fight the Blackstone stronghold and why we have to fight Musillon." Ryan nodded: "A stable kingdom without internal and external troubles, a new principality, a new industrial and commercial center, this country, between nobles and serfs I have opened a gap in the insurmountable gap, and now, I want to make this gap bigger, and I want all the knights in the whole kingdom to realize that if they don't work hard, they will also become serfs!"

"Similarly, I want the serfs in the whole kingdom to realize that as long as they work hard, serfs can also become master knights! And those serfs who have gone through battles after battle and have been tempered in blood and fire. Soldiers are the source of building an elite infantry team! They are the source of breaking the class divide, and the future. My real team belongs to my own team!"

"You mean?" Alfred suddenly thought of a series of recent moves by Ryan.

"Yes, let's start with the old guard!"