642 Contracting system(1/2)
The nickname of King Frans is Edward, but most people call him His Majesty Frans, or His Majesty the King.
Edward is a very popular person, and there are no common names in the whole world, including 100,000 or 80,000. After he ascended the throne, no one dared to call him that in person anymore.
So when Roland called him His Majesty Edward, he was stunned for a while, and then he remembered that this was his nickname.
"It's been twenty years." Edward twitched unhappily: "I almost forgot to call this name."
Roland shrugged, after all, it was Stefanie who said the king was Edward.
Although under normal circumstances, he should be called His Majesty Frans, Stefanie is also Frans, so... it is easier to distinguish by simply calling a name.
This was a family dinner. In the side hall of the palace, His Majesty the King sat in the main seat, and on his left was His Majesty the newly promoted queen who had been less than three years ago, and then opposite the queen was Stefanie, and as for Roland, he sat opposite the king.
The king drank a sip of fruit wine in a golden cup covered with colorful shattered gems, and then said, "Roland, I heard you are going to talk to me about some business? What business?"
"population."
"When did you change to a slave trader?" The king scratched his head with some embarrassment: "We Francis prohibit slave trade. Although this order is almost non-existent to the great nobles, they will still secretly sell slaves. But you, a wizard... are not very powerful here, just relying on the Magic Association and Stefanie to help you. If you have such a little strength, it is not enough to make you openly sell slaves on our land."
This king seemed to be a little 'big-mouthed'. Is it appropriate to tell the dark side of his country to an outsider?
"It's not slave traders, but rescued some humans from the demon world back." Roland said.
Edward is now interested.
He put down his knife and fork and asked curiously: "Are you trying to say that your Golden Son is going to attack the Demon Realm?"
“It’s true.”
The king pondered for a while and smiled, "I know that your Gold Sons generally have a strong sense of justice, so I can understand that you plan to save the humans who were kidnapped by the demons in the past, but the question is... what benefits can we Frans get from it!"
Roland said: "A large population."
“It’s not enough.”
Not enough?
In this world, population is very important.
Due to the high premature death rate, even the population density of the Francis is not large.
Another reason is that their land area is huge? If you have to find a comparison, it is the Ugly Kingdom plus the Kangaroo Kingdom? It's almost like this.
With such a country, when the population density is not high, it is very easy to accommodate 100 million or 200 million people.
And it is easy to support people in this world? As long as they are given a piece of land or a house, they can feed themselves.
Of course? It is without natural disasters.
And a country suddenly has one or two hundred million more people, and as long as it can survive, it will inevitably be a very high resource.
Population can also be converted into combat power.
Nobles from all over the country are happy to recruit more tenant farmers on their empty territory.
As long as the king who has the right to distribute the population is operated, it will definitely gain greater benefits.
It's a real benefit... Even so? He is not satisfied?
Roland frowned.
Looking at Roland's puzzled expression, Edward clapped his hands and said, "Indeed? What you gave is very interesting, and it is also a great benefit, worth a lot of gold coins. But the problem is that I am the king, I have enough gold coins? I don't need so many useless things? Do you understand? I need more interesting and happier things."
After saying this, Roland understood it in a second.
"Please build an expeditionary force to join us. Usually they don't need to fight, but our Golden Son will announce to the public that this expedition plan was facilitated by His Majesty Edward. You provided the funds and intelligence so that we can enter the demon world and save those miserable tribes."
Hahahahahahaha!
Edward laughed happily. He poured himself a glass of wine, tilted his head to drink, and continued to laugh, "Smart, speak very happily to someone like you."
"Where is it, His Majesty Edward, you have a far-sighted vision."
Roland has never liked to flatter others, but thinking about those humans who were raised by the demons as pigs and were so miserable that Roland felt that it was not impossible for him to flatter others for justice.
When Edward heard this, he burst into laughter and seemed quite happy.
Stefanie looked at Roland in surprise. In her impression, Roland was extremely arrogant...the kind that was so arrogant.
She even felt that Roland might not even take God seriously.
But now he is flattering... not for money or power, but just to accommodate some rescued humans, but to flatter himself, the arrogant and extremely unreasonable father!
It's really embarrassing him.
The queen sitting next to her was a little surprised. This was the first time she saw the king so happy.
Indeed... Now Edward looks at Roland, the more he looks more and more.
He didn't have a good alcohol tolerance, and after drinking a few glasses, he was already a little drunk, and his mouth didn't have a door in his mouth.
Say everything out.
For example, what does he have to do with the noble lady from a certain noble family? What kind of romantic encounter has happened some time ago.
The military lieutenant is actually impotence, and then General Biden's youngest son and sister-in-law have secrets that cannot be said.
Roland frowned when he heard this, and repeatedly made Stefanie look indifferent, asking her to take care of her own.
But Stefanie's expression was very dull and seemed to be commonplace.
But the queen was a little restless.
Although he was a little bit over the top, Ed was not really drunk. He looked at Roland and winked at Stefanie from time to time, and smiled and said, "By the way, I heard that you and my eldest daughter have a very ambiguous relationship!"
"No." Roland flatly denied.
Stefanie also shook her head: "Roland is clean, he only has two women!"
"Ha, who are you lying to?" Edward naturally didn't believe it: "There is no pure friendship between men and women. Besides, my daughter is so beautiful."
Roland was a little depressed.
He suddenly felt...this king did not look like a king at all.
Instead, it's a bit like a gangster on the street.
"So Roland, do you think my daughter tastes good?" Edward continued.
Roland sighed: "Your Highness and the Great Princess really don't have that kind of relationship."
"Ha!" Edward had a look of 'You keep pretending': "My daughter is beautiful and has a good figure, as beautiful as a goddess, so sexy and tempting! If she hadn't been my daughter, I would..."
A glass of red fruit wine drizzled from Edward's head.
The king's wine suddenly woke up.
Stefanie said depressedly: "Father, I hope you can say less misunderstood things in your mouth. It is because you keep saying this that makes me extremely bad in the royal city."
Edward wiped his face: "It was, those people's own minds are just dirty."
The queen covered her face with her hands, with a look of no sight.
Stefanie sat back on her chair and stopped talking.
"Okay. Let's talk about something serious." King Edward wiped his hair and face with a white towel, and said at the same time: "I will send an expeditionary force, but this expeditionary force is full of noble soldiers, so don't expect them to go to the battlefield. But if anyone dares not listen to you and do whatever he wants...you can teach your lessons on your behalf, do you understand?"
Roland nodded. Speaking of serious business, His Majesty the King is quite reliable.
"Then Roland, I have a question I've been holding it in for a long time to ask you."
"Please say it to your Majesty King!"
"I heard that you hooked away the Queen of Holevin, how did you do it." Then he pointed to the queen beside him: "Try it on her, I want to see what you have to make a queen willing to leave with you, a poor wizard."
The queen's face turned pale!
Roland felt that the king of TM was sick and almost turned over the table.
Then before Roland was about to get angry, Stefanie pulled Roland away.
The two left the palace and took a carriage to Stefanie's manor.
On the carriage, Stefanie said embarrassedly: "Sorry, I've made you wronged."
"It's okay. Although I really want to get angry, it doesn't seem like a big deal to endure it." Roland waved his hand.
"My father, he is a big boy." Stefanie's expression was also quite helpless: "According to my grandfather, my father has been like this since he was a child. He likes to ask others about his faults, and he can't control his mouth and talks everywhere."
"Although your father is a bastard, like a gangster, he is one of the most powerful people in the world." Roland closed his eyes and felt a little headache: "This is simply a disaster."
Stefanie rolled her eyes helplessly.
Although her father is indeed a bastard, she will definitely feel a little awkward when she hears it when she says it.
After all, it's a father!
When he arrived at the door of the manor, Stefanie asked before getting off the car, "How is your floating city now?"
"The completion rate is about one percent."
"This is a bit slow." Stefanie frowned.
She wanted to have a shelter in the floating city. If something really happened, she would have a place and opportunity to make a comeback.
To be continued...