Chapter 1175 1157. Position
“It’s a wise choice for you to come directly to me, child.”
Nanny Nannick took Lan En around as if walking in a garden, talking.
"Oh?" Lan En said with an interested smile on his face, "You said so. It seems that Duke Seeward has made little progress in discriminating against others in recent years?"
"Child, don't think that just because you have fought a few prestigious tough battles and done some great things, you can win the respect of everyone. Don't be so naive."
Aunt Nannick stretched out her fat, wrinkled hands and plucked two marigolds from the bush, which were often eaten in salads.
He ate one by himself and handed the other to Lan En without looking back.
At the same time, he said to Lan En.
Looks like an old lady who is stuffing snacks into the hands of her grandchildren and then nagging them.
Lan En took the marigold obediently, put it into his mouth and chewed it.
"Hey, I'm not that naive, Mammy."
"That would be best, because that would save a lot of avoidable disappointment." Nannick continued.
“You can’t just judge a person’s attitude by looking at the surface. Of course that old dog in Siward knows how good you are. If we really meet him, he might give you some basic respect.”
"But no matter what he shows on his face, his true attitude towards you only depends on his position."
Lan En tasted the fragrance of marigolds in his mouth, and Subtle grassy bitterness.
"So at this stage, what is the position of the Duke of Elland?"
"Hey, you are much sharper than Geralt." Nannick was a little surprised. He looked at the young man. "Tell the truth."
"Seward has been working hard to implement a policy in recent years. He wants to help the Knights of the White Rose obtain authorization from the Council of the Templars, so that everyone in the group can Knights can all receive substantial enfeoffments.”
The Holy Council is the organization responsible for managing the affairs of many knights in Temeria.
Organizations like the Knights generally have higher combat effectiveness than ordinary soldiers, and many of them are young people with noble inheritance rights. Of course, management must be careful and troublesome.
Therefore, it is normal to set up an organization specifically to deal with this matter.
In Toussaint, the 'Land of Knights and Wine', although there is no formal military force due to policy and historical reasons, there is a cultural tradition of wandering knights.
In order to manage the wandering knights, they have set up a 'Wandering Knights Guild'.
For example, the High Hill Castle that Foltest granted to the Knights of Ember actually went through the process of the Temple Council.
This process would normally be normal for ten years, but the performance of the Ember Knights under Lan En's command on the Sodden Mountain battlefield was really not enough to be described as 'outstanding'.
It’s simply terrifying!
So with the reputation of the ‘Battle of Sodden Mountain’, the approval time was probably the fastest since the founding of Temeria.
The review sent by Duke Seeward is the kind of process that takes ten years longer than usual and constantly promotes progress.
“Seeward was able to get the Knights of the White Rose to provide him with eager help because of his promotion of this review.”
Nannick smiled.
"In other words, it is to gain the support of the Knights of the White Rose that he works so hard to promote the review. This is the most popular knights in Temeria in recent years. Of course, the Knights of Ember are nominally a Cintra expatriate. "
"You mean," Lan En carefully savored the information revealed by Sister Nannick, "that the Knights of the White Rose are an important part of Siward's strength? ”
At this time, Lan En was also lamenting the correctness of coming to the Melitelli Temple first after arriving in Elland.
As a foreigner, it would be impossible for him to know information about the composition of the local Duke's organization under normal circumstances.
For the chief priest of Meritelli, who is also deeply rooted in the local area and even has a greater and wider influence than the Duke of Seeward, there is nothing confusing about this news.
"His contribution to advancing the review process of the Templar Council is in exchange for the loyalty of the Knights of the White Rose. This means that while he accepts the allegiance of the Knights, he will inevitably be influenced by the Knights themselves."
< br>Lan En followed Grandma Nannick’s leisurely pace and spoke in a low voice with determination.
Generally, people who have no in-depth understanding of an organization or group will naively believe that the will of the leader of the group or organization will affect the entire organization or group.
This view has some truth, but it is very narrow.
The greater possibility is that the will and tendency possessed by the leader are just the projection of the will of the entire organization or group onto him.
Just like the boss of a gang must be ruthless, because the organizational form of the gang requires them to be ruthless.
The purpose of gang organization is to make money, so when you are a gang leader, you don’t want to lead your subordinates to make money. When he has made enough money and despises the danger, so he wants to leave everything behind, retire, clear his name, and disband the organization, nine times out of ten it will be the time for him to die.
Because at that time, his will was already contrary to the will of the organizing group.
The same goes for Siward.
He brought the Knights of the White Rose under his command, obtained their oath of allegiance, and improved his military strength. But at the same time, he must be enveloped in the style and spirit of the Knights of the White Rose. And what is the style of the Knights of the White Rose?
——In the beginning, even though Geralt was well entertained by Nannick, enjoyed the treatment of a guest, and enjoyed the protection of the Meritelli Temple, the knights who came to trouble him were the knights of the Knights of the White Rose.
Couldn’t be more obviously racist.
To win over this group of racists and maintain their loyalty, Hiward has to be a 'racist' whether he wants it or not.
This is the so-called ‘standpoint’ that determines thinking.
"It seems that I did the right thing by not going to Seeward and going through the process of greeting the nobles and coming here directly."
Lan sighed again, but this time he said it out loud.
Nannick raised his hand and adjusted the blue veil covering his head: "There is no need for you to go there to find trouble, kid."
"You and Siward That old dog is not a stranger, I could tell at the first sight."
"You came here mainly because of the matter in the Pontal Valley. Other than that, you have nothing to do with him. There is no need to know each other. ”
"You can feel free to stay here." The kind fat lady said in an unquestionable tone, "This is my territory, the temple of Meritelli! Since the establishment of the temple, no one has dared to stay on my property. Go wild.”
The old woman’s words were firm and natural, as if they were taken for granted.
If a student of Oxenfurt University and the recently launched ‘eradicating superstition’ movement heard this, they would probably think that this was the wild belief in fictitious gods by ignorant and backward believers.
But for Lan En, he thought of something 'strange' that Nannick showed when he came out of the cave greenhouse just now. As the most prestigious temple of the Melitelli faith on the continent.
If someone really dares to cause trouble here after eating the bear's heart, Lan En estimates that this person's fate will be very "unoptimistic".
"Then we'll feel at ease." The demon hunter shrugged and changed the topic. "As for business, what is the situation in the Pontar Valley?"
Nannick tugged Lan En slightly, and the two of them He lifted his feet and walked around a small mess on the ground.
It was a pile of feathers and guano from poultry. It seemed to be the traces left when the priestess apprentices drove away the chickens, ducks and geese just now.
But in the lush gardens of the temple, these things will soon disappear on their own and become the fertility of the land.
Speaking of this inland water transport artery of the four northern countries, Nannick's usually calm expression also frowned slightly.
"How much did Foltest tell you?"
"Not much." Lann answered her, "But that's enough to make people feel bad."
< br>"That's true." Nannick nodded and agreed with the young man's statement, "If Foltest hadn't had to deal with a sudden conflict with the Nilfgaard Empire on the border, he would have definitely come there in person. Here.”
“I know everything Siward knows about this matter”
Nannick said matter-of-factly, without any pride at all.
"After all, when those who fled outside the city of Elland, the first thing they thought of was the Temple of Melitelli. Who else would be willing to rescue people who had walked in the mountains for ten days and a half without any time to rest? "
" Dirty, smelly, and skinny, it looks like it could bring bad luck. "
Nannick couldn't say he was sarcastic, just in a 'seen too much' tone. smiled.
"Then what happened to these people?"
Lan En's tone began to change from a leisurely conversation to a cautious and focused one.
He began to enter the working state of a demon hunter.
Nennik has known Geralt for a long time and even takes care of him like a son. Of course, he is also very familiar with the working style of the witcher.
So he said that there was nothing uncomfortable about it.
"They were originally mountain people living in the Mahakam Mountains."
Nannick first explained to Lan the cause of the whole thing, or in other words: when this thing was discovered cause.
"They live in the mountains by working for the dwarves. Mahakam is a big mine, and the dwarves have not finished digging it for hundreds of years."
"Their current chief elder is a man named Hogg. He is a conservative and does not want dwarves to leave Mahakam and enter the dangerous human world, but he has no objection to letting a small number of humans work in the mines."
"Not only does he have no objection, but Siward and Foltest had no objection. After all, the gold the mountain people earned from Mahakam had to be exchanged for supplies in the human society below the mountain."
"Not just for the dwarves to mine. To make money, there are also a few hunters in the small villages of the mountain people, who can get some meat in the Mahakam Mountains.”
(End of this chapter)