Chapter 220: Attending a Banquet 2
The next day, Paul and Myron took Bryce and Victor to a banquet at Duke Ferdinand’s mansion.
At this time, the Duke's residence was decorated magnificently, and the receptionist from yesterday was busy at the door, entertaining the guests who gathered here.
In addition to the lords from various places who came from afar, there were also many famous people in Center City, big businessmen in the business world, heads of various guilds, and even people wearing church clothes.
Paul stopped a man dressed as a priest and asked: "Are you a priest in the city?"
As soon as the priest saw Paul's dress, he knew that he was coming to the Duke's Palace for a banquet. He was probably a lord from other places and he did not dare to neglect him.
“Yes, I am a priest in Saint Cathedral.”
“Then do you know Dean Leonard...Oh no, do you know Bishop Leonard? ?" Paul suddenly remembered that there was an old friend in this city. If he remembered correctly, the bishop of the Northwest Bay Diocese should be stationed in Center City.
"What do you call this lord...?"
Bryce stepped forward and said: "These two are Earl Paul Grayman of Alda and Michael of Belding. Count Lon Garnard!”
The priest immediately stood in awe, "It turns out they are two Earls. I know Bishop Leonard and listen to his teachings in the church every day."
"Is Bishop Leonard here too? ?”
The priest said with some embarrassment: “The bishop can’t come, he has been feeling unwell recently...Wait, Alda? Isn’t that the place where the bishop was the abbot? The lord there?"
Paul nodded, "Exactly."
The priest looked around and said quietly to Paul: "Master Graiman, seeing that you and the bishop are from the same hometown. For your sake, I’ll tell you the truth.”
oh? Paul was curious as to whether there was something else hidden.
The priest whispered: "Bishop Leonard is not very interested in this kind of occasion, so he made an excuse not to come."
"Oh! This is quite in line with his character."< br>
Paul and Bryce nodded together. More than just disinterest, the old-fashioned old dean had always been very averse to luxurious and extravagant occasions. There is so much going on in the Duke's Palace, it's strange that he comes to support it.
"Father, please!"
"Your Majesty, please!"
Paul, Myron and others entered the gate of the Duke's mansion and walked in the courtyard as big as a square for a while before reaching the main building.
After entering, walk straight along a wide corridor to the main hall. The etiquette officer at the door took the badge handed over by Bryce and called out loudly:
"Paul Gray Earl Man~arrived——"
"Earl Myron Garnard~arrived——"
The hall was bustling and noisy, and the arrival of the two people did not attract much attention.
But Viscount Henry, the Duke's brother who was in charge of hosting the birthday party, was always paying attention to the arrival of every guest.
"Welcome, welcome!"
Viscount Henry walked quickly to the door, opened his arms and hugged the two of them.
"I went to visit you two last night, but I didn't expect that you guys happened to be out. What a coincidence. Let me entertain you two well today to make up for the regret last night." Paul and Mellon The two of them quickly exchanged polite words with him.
Henry led the four of them to the arranged seats. Paul and Myron found that several "neighbors" were already sitting here - several lords from the territory next to them.
That is, the masters who refused to save him when the pirates invaded last year.
Earl Price Parker, who was probably in his fifties, with gray hair and kind eyes, said in his letter at that time, "When you rebel against the party and cause chaos, you have the responsibility to defend the land. How dare you leave the fiefdom without permission? I wish I could come to express my condolences in person..." ...", rambled on without mentioning the rescue.
Earl Murray Malkane, who was probably in his thirties, was resting with his eyes closed, looking calm and relaxed. At that time, he said in the letter that the pirates would leave after making enough money from the civilians, and advised Paul to stay safe. A good castle will do. As the saying goes, "Let him be strong when he is strong, and be restrained by him when he is strong."
Count Winifred Heller, about forty years old, wearing a pair of glasses and dressed in a scholarly manner, said in the letter at the time, "Tell the pirates, 'Come with your means of destruction, and we will take half of the people. If you kill half of us, we will not surrender." A person with a strange concept of "non-violence and non-cooperation".
In addition to these three, there were also a group of vassals under them sitting nearby. They were all lords such as viscounts and barons. Paul was too lazy to recognize them one by one.
"Great nephew Paul! Great nephew Mellon!"
"Hello, two Earls!"
"Long time no see!"
Seeing the arrival of Paul and Myron, they all stood up to greet them. Even if they were not familiar with the Graiman family on weekdays, they still had to put on a show in public, not to mention that there was Earl Garnard beside Paul.
Paul and Myron responded one by one with a slight embarrassment. In fact, they both inherited the title due to family changes. Their parents had dealt with this group of people before, and they did not have much communication with them and were not very familiar with them.
If their sons were present, perhaps the scene would be better, but unfortunately the juniors were all in other halls, and those who entered the main hall were all lords and their attendants.
"Nephew Paul is really a young hero. He defeated the pirates in one fell swoop and brought peace to the entire Northwest Gulf! Nephew Mellon was also calm and composed in the face of the rebellion of the vassals, and wiped out the gang of gangsters in an instant. ”
Price Parker suddenly praised Paul and Myron. His territory was also close to the sea, and he benefited greatly from the Arda navy's destruction of the pirates.
Mailon smiled slightly and said a little shyly: "Everywhere, Paul helped me put down the rebellion."
Paul said meaningfully: "Yes, thanks to your encouragement and guidance, I can Destroy the pirates!”
Everyone didn’t know whether they understood or not, and they didn’t look embarrassed at all.
Molly Milken suddenly said with a smile: "You two have done a lot of business at home recently..."
Hearing what Malcolm said, others also raised their eyebrows. He raised his ears and looked at Paul in unison.
Several new products that have become popular on the market in the past six months or so, such as porcelain, paper, and cans, are all produced in Alda and Bailding, and according to their research, the source is the Graiman family.
Based on the view that the wealth in his previous life should not be exposed, Paul quickly waved his hand: "Where is it! It's just making a little money."
"Making a little money? Earl Grayman, you can't do that. Tell me? I’m afraid you’re tired of counting money every day, right?”
Do they know how popular those products are? Not only in the northwest bay, there are caravans passing through their territory every now and then. Baierding, in the first half of last year there were not so many caravans, but in the second half of the year there were gradually more caravans, even though the tariffs they set were very high.
This shows that even after paying a large amount of tariffs, the profits from selling these goods are still very high.
How can this not make people jealous?
(End of this chapter)