Dear Broom Knight.

Chapter 362 Leon's Stupid Dad

The Hisar family is not famous.

The only celebrity is Leon Hamilton's biological mother.

She was so determined to only love her youngest son that she has never regretted it until now.

He wholeheartedly believed that his youngest son would have a great future.

Even the youngest son, who has grown up, is only a fifth-level knight now.

Well, not even as good as Mrs. Cook’s illegitimate daughter, and she’s older than her.

It is understandable that Mrs. Cook wanted to try her best to see if her daughter could establish her own family in another country or gain power over a certain family.

After all, the reason why she married into the Cook family was probably because of the conflicting interests of both parties, as agriculture, animal husbandry, and forestry complemented and restricted each other, and they also had a shared trade route.

This kind of thing happens more often in small families, after all, they basically don't have the ability to turn the table over.

The great nobles also looked down upon their interests. If they wanted to form an alliance, they would only consider issues at the national level, such as gaining a certain voice in certain areas of power.

In terms of economy, their goals are mines, smuggling, and foreign, or overwhelming, trade.

Otherwise, they could live better than those small nobles who worked hard just by relying on the taxes from their territories.

It is difficult for the great nobles in the North to understand the situation in which nobles of the same status as them in some countries cannot even survive on their territories, and have to rely on someone or betray someone in order to barely maintain enough self-respect to live.

After all, even if the White Dragon King had not yet come to power and the northern nobles were not so honest, they would not oppress the common people too much.

In the eyes of these great nobles, how much money can be squeezed out of the common people who have three meals a day and wear tattered clothes?

The northern nobles also attached great importance to agriculture. After all, even the laziest person understood the importance of military merit.

If you want to support knights and thugs, the most basic requirement is to make sure they are well fed and watered.

A huge agricultural base requires enough hired farmers.

Such hired farmers cannot be bullied too harshly. What if there are talented children among them?
The King's Army has been recruiting people like crazy, at no cost, and does not care that the children they raise with resources may not be able to become knights in the end.

If the nobles want to keep up with the pace, they have to behave like good lords. At least those who have decent talents will think that the master is a good person and are willing to follow him.

Therefore, even though the northern nobles had their own concerns and did many bad things in secret, their reputation in their own territories was generally good.

Including Count Gezal.

He might not be that good to his subjects, but he was okay with them, and he didn't mainly target the common people.

However, other countries do not regard military merit as the highest honor like the North does. No matter how many things the nobles do, they cannot get into the military merit promotion sequence.

Just think about it, how much cohesion can an army have if all the work is done for its superiors?

The combat effectiveness is even more bullshit.

In these countries, the powerful ones are the aristocratic armies.

The king is only the biggest noble. If he wants to invade other countries, he must first negotiate with the other nobles about their respective shares. Even who will deal with whom and who will fight against which army must be discussed in advance.

If the common people want a way out, they can only suffer at the hands of the nobles who control their territory, unless they are extremely talented and rare in the world.

It is only because of some rules created by the covenant between the gods and the kings that these civilians are not left in poverty and without a place to survive.

But it is really rare in other countries to have a situation like the Kingdom of the North where no matter how poor, the family can be fed, have three meals a day, have clothes to cover the body in summer and to keep warm in winter. The only problem is that they can't eat meat and there are not many books to read, but they can still buy something by gritting their teeth.

People in the north never make a fuss about being able to write their own names. They all know at least a few dozen characters... Whose family didn't grit their teeth and try hard to raise a talented child when they were young?

Their illiteracy simply means that they cannot read books, even the simplest novels.

Moreover, the most important part is the citizen class. The gap between the North and other countries is really huge.

In the North, as long as someone can enter the ranks of knights, their family will be able to rise to prosper and directly obtain sufficient resources for survival.

The state provides subsidies.

Even if the knight died in battle, this subsidy would be paid for a full hundred years.

Even though it's not a lot, it's enough for a family to live well.

Even if you are not a knight, but have a little talent and join the Knights Templar or the Noble Guard, you can still support your family.

These two types of people make up almost half of the urban middle class in the North, and they have a certain consumption capacity.

As long as the lords are not greedy and open various basic supply stores at market prices, the life of the citizens will be really good.

The peasants, including hired farmhands, and the citizens are almost the basis for whether the noble estate can create a small economic cycle on its own.

In the North, there are very few territories as special as the one in front of Baron Gezar, but the people in the territories are not without their own ways out.

All of this was achieved by relying on the strong rule of the Northern Royal Family.

Moreover, whether it was the White Dragon King who was now in power, or the cute and cunning one who occasionally appeared in the past, they had never felt that the treasury belonged to them. What the kings wanted to fight for was the control of the palace treasury... In other words, they knew from a young age that the palace treasury was not a place where they could spend money recklessly.

For example, the allowances given to members of the royal family are something that the king absolutely cannot use.

The nobles would naturally not easily violate the bottom line that even His Majesty, who controls the extremely powerful Royal Army, has to protect.

Fighting for one's own rights and interests is an internal confrontation, but even the nobles of Storm would never dare to openly violate the foundation of the Northern Kingdom.

The result is that when calculating the final beneficiary, it is easy to find that line even if it happened a long time ago.

Travis stared at the line that vaguely pointed to the Hisar family, and then slowly connected the faint line to the existence of another family... the maternal family of his eldest son, the family of Isabel Garcia, his wife, the only one he truly respected.

Over the years, he has always treated the family best, a family that only has the title of earl but enjoys the treatment of marquis.

Travis shook his head, completely getting rid of some extreme thoughts caused by excessive thinking, and began to think again about how the Garcia family got involved.

Then he remembered something.

When his eldest son got married, he was still facing internal and external troubles and could not completely control the entire country.

Although no one thought he would die, some people still thought that he did it in order to prevent himself from losing, so he first found a support for his son who was not very talented.

Moreover, there are still many big families who are unwilling to give up and want to do something with the position of queen.

After all, if he succeeded, then given his life which sounds very long, it would never be the eldest son's turn to succeed to the throne.

If he loses, then... he will most likely lose part of his control over the country.

In order to prevent power from falling into the hands of others, he must find allies.

In that case, the right to succession to the throne would no longer be determined by his personal will.

Although Travis never thought he would lose, he understood.

No matter how powerful he and Luscania are, they cannot fight against the combined power of several countries, not to mention the hidden influence of the church.

Even though the possibility of him losing is very small, it is not impossible.

What if the beheading attacks carried out by those countries are successful?
The rate of loss of his guards showed how brutal those years were.

Therefore, this also leads to the fact that the eldest son whose maternal family is not prominent is completely unpopular in the marriage market, and in the end he can only marry a princess who is not as prominent as his maternal family.

Leon's brothers and sisters are not very talented, which is actually related to this point.

Although everyone says that talent awakening is a surprise, no one can deny the importance of bloodline.

The nobles attached even greater importance to this.

Generally speaking, only pure emerging nobles who are not split from a large family and have a stable inheritance for more than three generations and have heirs of similar nature in each generation, will the traditional nobles recognize their identities and allow them to enter their social circles.

This is the case with the Hisar family.

Although they are not well-known, there have been knights above level 10 in five consecutive generations, and they are all extremely agile and quick to react.

Sort of like, Gezar.

However, unlike Gezar's wolf-like agility, the Hisar family is more like small creatures.

Well...it's more like a mink than a cat.

However, compared to the eldest son's extremely mediocre first wife, who was born as a court earl and obtained the territory by luck, her family is much stronger.

It was because of this marriage that Travis completely gave up on his eldest son.

That child is kind by nature and has a simple character, but he is easily influenced by others.

Everyone knew that no one except Travis, his biological father, could force him to accept an inappropriate marriage, but he still chose to accept this marriage under external pressure... the control of some people on Garcia, and internal coercion... and the aggressiveness of the queen.

Obviously they just need to hold on for a few more years.

The so-called difficulties faced by the Garcia family were not serious enough.

The people Travis left at court were also able to save his eldest son's life.

But he just didn't stick with it.

How can such a person become a king?
Moreover, he had never expected that the reason why those great nobles cooperated so well with the Queen's family in this matter was that they hoped his descendants would completely lose the opportunity.

No matter how useless the King of the North is, he has never been below level 10!

Travis was able to ensure that his eldest son had the opportunity to reach level 10 because his visit to the holy land of the Church of the Earth was not in vain.

No matter how much more there is, he can't take it out, and it's impossible for him to take it out.

He has never been the kind of person who values family ties!

(End of this chapter)