Dear Broom Knight

The Hisar family wasn't famous.

The only celebrity was Leon Hamilton's biological mother.

Her devotion to her youngest son was so unwavering that she still didn't regret it.

She wholeheartedly believed that her youngest son would surely achieve great things.

Even though that grown-up youngest son was still only a Fifth-Level Knight.

Well, not as good as Mrs. Cooke's illegitimate daughter, and older than her too.

It's understandable that Mrs. Cooke wanted to take a gamble and see if her daughter could establish her own family in another country or gain power in a certain family.

After all, the reason she married into the Cooke family was probably due to intertwined interests, with agriculture, animal husbandry, mountains, and forests complementing and restricting each other, and a shared trade route.

The great nobles of the North find it hard to understand how nobles in some countries with the same status as them can't survive just on their territories and have to rely on or betray someone to barely maintain enough dignity to live.

After all, even before the current White Dragon King ascended the throne, when the Northern nobles weren't so obedient, they wouldn't excessively exploit the commoners.

In the eyes of these great nobles, how much could they squeeze out of commoners who eat three meals a day and wear tattered clothes?

The Northern nobles also value agriculture because even the laziest person understands the importance of military merit.

And to raise knights and thugs, the most basic requirement is to feed them well.

The vast agricultural base requires a large number of tenant farmers.

Such tenant farmers cannot be bullied too harshly, in case there are children with good talents among them?

The Royal Army has been frantically recruiting people and doesn't hesitate to pay any price, nor does it care if the children raised with resources ultimately fail to advance to knighthood.

If the nobles want to keep up with the pace, they have to act like good lords, so that at least those with decent talent will think that the lord is not bad and be willing to follow him.

Therefore, even if the Northern nobles have their own agendas and do a lot of bad things in secret, their reputation in their own territories is generally good.

Including Earl Gezall.

He may not be that good to his people, but he's passable, and he mainly exploits people other than commoners.

However, other countries don't regard military merit as the highest honor like the North, even if the nobles do more things, they can't extend their hands into the military merit promotion sequence.

Just think about it, how much cohesion can there be in an army where subordinates do all the work for their superiors?

Combat effectiveness is even more nonsense.

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

The king is just the biggest noble; if he wants to invade other countries, he must first negotiate with the major nobles about their respective shares, and even who will deal with whom and which army to resist must be discussed in advance.

If commoners want a way out, they can only endure the nobles who control their territory, unless they are so exceptionally talented that they are rare in the world.

It's just that some rules caused by the gods and the king's covenant prevent these commoners from being impoverished and having nowhere to seek survival.

But the situation where even the poorest person in the Northern Kingdom can support a family, have three meals a day, have clothes to cover their bodies in summer, and have clothes to keep out the cold in winter, just without meat to eat and not many books to read, and can grit their teeth to buy something, is really rare in other countries.

Northerners never make a fuss about being able to write their names; they can all recognize dozens of characters... Who didn't grit their teeth and want to cultivate a talented child when they were young!

Their illiteracy is just not being able to understand books, even the simplest novels.

Moreover, the most important part is the middle class; the gap between the North and other countries is really very large.

In the North, as long as someone enters the knighthood sequence, their family can rise to prominence and directly obtain sufficient survival resources.

The state has subsidies.

Even for knights who died in battle, this subsidy will be paid for a full hundred years.

Even if it's not much, it's enough for a family to live well.

Even if they are not knights, but have a little talent and enter the Knights or the Noble Guard, they can support their families.

These two types of people almost constitute a large part of the Northern middle class; they have a certain consumption capacity.

As long as the lord is not greedy and the various basic material stores opened are at market prices, then the middle class will really have a good life.

And the farmers, including tenant farmers, and the middle class are almost the foundation for whether a noble's territory can create a small economic cycle on its own.

In the North, there are very few territories as special as Baron Gezall's territory in front, but the people are not without their own way out.

And all of this is achieved by the strong and powerful rule of the Northern royal family.

Moreover, neither the White Dragon King, who now holds great power, nor the occasionally appearing silly and cheap ones in the past, have ever felt that the national treasury belongs to them.

What the kings want to fight for is the control of the palace treasury... that is to say, they have known since childhood that the palace treasury is not a place where they can spend recklessly.

For example, the allowances for royal family members are a part that the king absolutely cannot use.

Even the bottom line that His Majesty, who controls the incomparably powerful Royal Army, must guard, the nobles will naturally not easily violate.

Striving for rights for oneself is an internal confrontation, but even the nobles belonging to the Storm Clan would never dare to openly violate the foundation of the Northern Kingdom.

The result of this is that when calculating the ultimate beneficiary, even for things that happened a long time ago, it is easy to find that line.

Travis stared fixedly at the line that vaguely pointed to the Hisar family, and then slowly connected that hidden line to the existence of another family... the family of his eldest son's mother, the family of Isabel Garcia, the only wife he had ever truly respected.

Over the years, he has always given the most preferential treatment to that family, which, although only bearing the title of Earl, enjoys the treatment of a Marquis.

Travis shook his head, completely shaking off some extreme thoughts caused by excessive thinking, and began to rethink how the Garcia family got involved.

Then he remembered something.

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

Although no one thought he would die, some people still felt that he was trying to find a support for his not-so-talented son in case he lost.

Moreover, many big families were still unwilling to give up and wanted to do something based on the position of the Queen.

After all, if he succeeded, then with his seemingly long life, it would never be the eldest son's turn to inherit the throne.

If he lost, then... he would probably lose part of the control of the country.

In order not to let the power fall into the hands of others, he would definitely have to find allies.

In that case, the right to inherit the throne would not be what he personally wanted.

Although Travis never thought he would lose, he also understood.

No matter how powerful he and Ruth Carnia were, it was impossible for them to resist the combined forces of several countries, not to mention the Church forces lurking within.

Even if his chances of losing were very small, it wasn't impossible.

What if those countries successfully carried out a beheading sneak attack?

It can be seen from the loss rate of his Royal Guards how cruel those years were.

Therefore, this also led to the fact that the eldest son, whose mother's family was insignificant, was completely unpopular in the marriage market and could only marry a prince's wife who was not even as good as his mother's family.

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

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

The nobles value this even more.

Generally speaking, pure, non-newly emerging nobles split from a certain large family, only after stable inheritance for more than three generations, with heirs of similar nature appearing in each generation, will traditional nobles recognize their identity and allow them to enter their social circle.

The Hisar family is like this.

Although they are not famous, they have had knights above Level 10 for five consecutive generations, and they are all of the extremely agile and quick-reacting type.

Somewhat like Gezall.

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

Well... rather than saying cat, it's more like a mink.

However, compared to the family of the eldest son's extremely mediocre first wife, who was born as a court earl and only obtained the territory due to good luck, they were much stronger.

Travis was completely heartbroken with his eldest son back then because of this marriage.

That child was naturally kind, simple in character, but easily swayed.

Everyone knew that no one except Travis, his own father, could force him to accept an unsuitable marriage, but he still chose to accept this marriage under external pressure... the control of the Garcia family by some people, and internal coercion... the aggressive pressure of the Queen at the time.

They only needed to persevere for a few more years.

The so-called predicament of the Garcia family had not reached the point of seriously damaging their foundation.

The people Travis left in the palace could also save the eldest son's life.

But he just didn't persevere.

How could such a person become a king?

Moreover, he never thought that the reason why those great nobles cooperated so much with the Queen's family in this matter was that they hoped that his descendants would completely lose the opportunity.

Even the most useless king of the North has never been below Level 10!

Travis was able to guarantee that his eldest son had the opportunity to reach Level 10, which was the result of his not going to the holy land of the Earth Church in vain back then.

He couldn't take out any more, and he couldn't take it out.

He was never the kind of person who valued family affection!