Chapter 26 Maester Ellen
After returning to the castle, Downey told his mother Madeline about his Hope Ryan as his personal servant.
"Okay, this child Ryan hasn't visited me in the castle for a long time. Let him come to the castle to serve you this time. Donnie, little Ryan saved your life. Don't treat him as a servant who can be ordered at will."
Mrs. Madeline had no objection. Her youngest son Donnie was sixteen years old. After growing up, she would eventually spread her wings and fly away from the small Glen... Even though she didn't want this young son to leave, once Connor left and Edward became the lord, he would not tolerate Donnie to continue living in the castle - because everything in the territory belongs to the eldest son.
If Little Ryan had been with Donnie, she would be much more relieved. Unlike the naughty and active Downey, Little Ryan showed her intelligence, sensibility and calmness since she was a child. Let him follow Donnie and go out to explore in the future, and always avoid many setbacks and dangers.
Mrs. Madeleine nodded, and Baron Conner had no objection. She was just a personal servant, not a knight attendant, and Little Ryan was smart and smart, and loyal at critical moments. She could assist him, a naughty and uneasy son.
"It's been four years, I, Ryan, are back!"
Standing at the entrance of the castle and carrying a package of clothes to change clothes, Zhou Ming couldn't help but sigh when he stepped into the castle that had been away for four years.
Perhaps, starting today, I will either stand on the tall spire of the white tower of the castle and overlook the sentient beings, or fall straight from the high spire and fall into the mortal world forever.
Or, to pieces.
...
After entering the castle, in the servant residential area on the third floor of the main building of the castle, the housekeeper assigned Zhou Ming a single room with an area of about ten square meters. The environment is well-designed, with a comfortable single bed, a small fireplace for heating in winter, a set of oak tables and chairs, and a window facing Rose Town, which allows you to enjoy the scenery of the town at the foot of the mountain.
After several days of servitude and skills training, Zhou Ming quickly changed into a servant's special short-dressing and dress (short-dressing is worn when working, and when distinguished guests come to visit). Not to mention, after these servants' clothes were worn on him, their appearance and temperament immediately became different from before. They were really a bit decent, as if they were tailor-made for him.
After officially taking up his post, Zhou Ming's daily work was also very relaxed. One was to take care of Xiao Donnie's daily life, and the other was to accompany him to attend classes and travel, ensuring his personal safety.
As for taking care of others' daily life, almost no one is more good at taking care of others' daily life.
Donnie Little has a bad taste?
Simple, fry, fried, fried, eaten raw, roasted, marinated, and fermented. There is no one in this world who is better than him. You can even give you a different style of more than 300 days a year. The same ingredients will give you eighty different dishes, but you are afraid that you will be tactful.
Of course, if Zhou Ming has this free time, he can conduct in-depth research on cooking skills. For Donnie, his specialty cream cake, fruit pie, egg tart and biscuits of various flavors can be easily settled. If it really doesn't work, use the "beggar chicken" trick, so that he will no longer have anorexia and have a big appetite.
There is also a shower bathhouse for Little Donnie to take a daily bath, a flush toilet for use in the toilet, and a warm kang for use in winter... and so on, not only Little Donnie finds these things very convenient, but also the Lord Baron Conner and Madeline Madeleine, so they asked Zhou Ming to get a set for them, and it soon became popular in the castle.
However, these are just small episodes that happened during the castle's service to Donnie Jr. What really made Zhou Ming feel that he gained a lot of valuable knowledge he learned from Bachelor Ellen during the learning process.
Bachelor Ellen, a young man in his early fifties, has a gray beard, a slightly fat figure, and wears a wide-sleeved gray robe. He worked as a bachelor in the royal palace for several years in his early years. He was in a high position and had a wide knowledge. If he had not been slandered by his political enemies and expelled from the capital by the king, he would not have been in the tragic situation of giving a baron the second son to his tutor.
Speaking of those years in the royal palace, Bachelor Ellen couldn't help but miss and longing. In front of Little Donnie and Zhou Ming, he boasted about what he had said to the king, drank with the prince in private, discussed literature with the beautiful queen in private, etc.... Of course, the one who bragged the most was the one he had with many high-class ladies when he was young and handsome...
Zhou Ming was too lazy to expose the handsome Bachelor Ellen who could not see any handsomeness on his body. What he was most interested in was how the power structure and internal disputes of the upper class of the kingdom were formed and dealt with.
"Our Kingdom of Voris is just a small marginal country on this vast land. In addition to the king's lords directly under the capital, there are fourteen earls around them. Under each earl's lord, about ten viscounts or barons were enfeoffed. The baron's lords went down, and they were directly granted to the knights' fiefs. The fiefs are the smallest first-level lords, generally only one village and thousands of acres of land."
"The Holy See ruled that the throne of all kings and even the throne is granted and inherited. The king ruled that the grant and inherited all Counts in the country. The Earl ruled that all viscounts and barons were inherited. The Baron only ruled that the knights were inherited in his fiefdom. As for the right to grant knights, only the baron could increase the number of knight fiefs in the territory after obtaining the consent of the superior Count or obtaining the reward of knights. The same is true for the baron and the earl. The increase in the number of lower ranks must be granted permission or reward from the upper nobles."
"What if there is conflict and conflict between the baron and the baron in the kingdom, what should we do?" Zhou Ming asked.
"The aristocratic court is handled by the noble court, just as the baron's court can rule all contradictions among the people, the contradictions between the baron and the baron can be judged in the court of the upper Count. The conflicts between the earl and the earl can be judged in the court of the kingdom aristocratic court. The contradictions between the kingdom and the kingdom are judged by the church court. As for the contradictions within the church, then God will be judged."
"Since there are noble courts, what about the law? Are there some laws in each court?" Zhou Ming asked again.
"Of course, isn't there a territory decree in the courts of Glen? There are 155 articles in this law, including the land rent and miscellaneous taxes that farmers should pay, and the commercial taxes that travelers should pay. There are very detailed provisions on the punishment measures stipulated by thieves, thieves, scammers, murderers, and rapists who destroy the property of the territory. The various situations that occur in the territory can be tried according to this law... As for the Earl Court and the Kingdom Noble Court, the laws formulated by bachelors and justices are more complicated. Some issues even require arbitration and votes, and they are divided into different factions..."
but.
When there are huge differences in some practical interests and nobility courts cannot arbitrate and mediate, using force may become the last way to resolve the dispute.
Just like the "Elk War" between Baron Conner and Baron Garcia, the reason why he did not go to the Earl's Court to apply for arbitration was not because he knew that he could not reach an agreement, so he resolved it with a war?
Chapter completed!