Chapter 140 139 Is My Family so Rich? !

Chapter 140 -139- Is my family so rich? !

The caravan from Castel this time has about 300 people, guarding a full 40 carriages.

Among them, 100 are armored knights of the Castel family, three mages, and the remaining 200 are followers and coachmen.

The leader of the caravan is Baron Sharon, his full name is Sharon de Lien-Castell, a senior first-level knight of the Stars.

After knowing the other party's full name, Charlotte was still a little surprised. She didn't expect to see half of her family's surname in the other party's surname.

However, after Quasimodo's introduction, Charlotte learned that the Lien-Castell family was a branch of the Castel family.

Just like the Castel family is a branch of the Bold family, there are also many branches of the Castel family in the Earldom of Castel, but some of them continued to keep the name of Castel in their surnames after the split, and some completely changed their names.

Similar family branches are quite common in the Miria world.

This is determined by the inheritance law of the Miria noble system. The origin is also the Yunet Empire, which laid the foundation for the current basic political structure of Miria. The Yunet Empire advocates divided inheritance. In addition to the eldest son obtaining the main title, each of the nobles' descendants will obtain the next-level noble title and territory.

It is also for this reason that in the past thousand years, various noble families have branched out. In addition to the main family, the side branches have also continued to branch out, forming an increasingly large number of noble surnames.

In other words, Baron Sharon's ancestors were also direct members of the Castel family.

However, divided inheritance is the success and failure.

Although divided inheritance maintains a certain degree of fairness and allows the noble family to continue to grow, the division of inheritance also brings wars, especially the struggle between the descendants over the right of inheritance.

In addition, the continuous division of inheritance is also weakening the central power. Many feudal kingdoms, including the Yunet Empire, have weakened the royal power with the continuous division, and eventually the central government lost control of the local area, and even caused the country to perish.

Of course, this is already old calendar.

People have long memories, and so do nobles.

Today, a thousand years have passed, and most noble families have long abandoned the division of inheritance and chose the more "advanced" eldest son inheritance.

Although the descendants other than the eldest son may get fiefs, it is not for inheritance reasons, but for the gift of the lord.

As for the Castel family...

Except for the fact that it had branched out more than a hundred years ago and separated into branch families, the main branch of Castel has been a single-line family for five generations in the past hundred years, and has been repeatedly testing the edge of extinction.

When it comes to Charlotte, it is almost extinction.

That is why, although the Earldom of Castel exists in the Castel family branch, their blood relationship is not even as close as other families in the kingdoms and duchies of the marriage alliance, and the claim and inheritance rights to Castel are also the same.

Even if there is a blood relationship, even if it is still considered a part of the Castel clan, the nobles of these territories are almost the same as those of the enfeoffed nobles.

In addition to Baron Sharon, there are five rank-entrants among the 100 armored knights escorting the convoy, including a hereditary noble and four extraordinary knights who have entered the rank through the Seed of Source Power.

Although the remaining knights have not entered the rank, they are all extraordinary.

As for the three mages, there is also a Star, and the remaining two are apprentices.

Obviously, the ratio of mages among extraordinary people is much lower than that of extraordinary knights.

But this is also normal.

The conditions for becoming a mage are already more stringent than those for extraordinary knights, not to mention that extraordinary knights can be mass-produced through the Seed of Source Power.

Although the mass-produced rank-entrants are weaker, they are still rank-entrants.

Seeing the strength of the escort knights, Charlotte almost has a more intuitive concept of the strength of her family.

You know, in the Demon Hunting House in Boulder City, there are no more than 40 rank-entrant demon hunting knights, but here, there are seven rank-entrants in the Castel family's team that transports supplies!

However, the knights escorting the convoy are not the strongest force of this team.

The strongest force was a middle-aged man standing next to Baron Sharon.

Unlike the armored knight, his equipment looked much more vicissitudes, and the whole person also had a kind of wild air.

And from him, Charlotte felt an obvious sense of threat, although not as strong as Sebastian, but it was already quite strong.

Silver Moon!

This is a Silver Moon second-level extraordinary!

Realizing the strength of the other party, it was difficult for Charlotte not to cast a curious look.

There is no doubt that compared to the majestic armored knight, this Silver Moon second-level is the real escort.

He alone can probably defeat these knights easily!

Noticing her gaze, Sharon hurriedly introduced respectfully:

"Miss Charlotte, this is Lord Carlisle."

After that, he introduced Charlotte to the Silver Moon second-level extraordinary:

"Lord Carlisle, this is the young master of our Castel family, Miss Charlotte."

Carlisle... Lord?

Her heart moved slightly.

As a first-level baron of the Starry Sky, Sharon did not call him "Sir", which means he is not a noble.

Silver Moon is second-level, but not a noble. Coupled with his rough and rugged outfit, the answer is obvious.

The other party... is probably a free mercenary!

As if to verify Charlotte's guess, the middle-aged man just couldn't help looking at her a few more times and then looked away. His eyes paused at Sebastian for a moment, and then he said to Baron Sharon:

"Sir Sharon, we've arrived at Boulder, and I should leave too."

"Sir Carlisle, don't you want to stay and rest? Let's do our best to be a good host."

Baron Sharon said in a deep voice.

However, the extraordinary person named Carlisle just shook his head:

"Thank you for your invitation, but I have other things to do."

After some refusal, the Silver Moon Level 2 extraordinary person left.

Before leaving, Baron Sharon ordered a knight to hand the other party an exquisite bag. Charlotte took a sharp look and found that it contained a lot of silvery metal, which looked very much like the legendary mithril.

She immediately understood that this mercenary was not a retainer of Castel, but was hired to help escort supplies.

However, being able to hire a Silver Moon Level 2 to escort supplies for a month is enough to show Castel's financial resources and the value of the goods being transported.

According to the price Nice charges for hiring extraordinary people on the black market, it is probably impossible to hire one without tens of thousands of gold tana!

And this... also makes Charlotte more curious about the supplies transported by the convoy.

After all, the cost of this trip alone is probably tens of thousands of gold tana!

With the children's excited pursuit, the Castel family's convoy drove into the city of Boulder, and the knights on the periphery scattered silver tana on both sides to open the way, welcoming cheers.

Sitting in the carriage, Charlotte couldn't wait to order the escorting knights to send the list of supplies to check first.

After hearing her order, Baron Sharon was a little hesitant, but he finally followed the order.

After seeing the list, Charlotte finally understood why forty carriages were used.

It turned out that the convoy they escorted not only provided funds for the manor, but also provided goods for the family's stores in various parts of the Principality of Boulder.

Forty carriages, most of them are goods!

They are not only a convoy transporting supplies, but also a caravan.

As for the supplies they transported... there are high-quality textiles from the Falling Star Kingdom, elf ornaments and magic props from the Moon God Island, and minerals and gems from the Castel Territory.

And when Charlotte saw the column of funds transported to the manor, her eyes suddenly lit up.

Five hundred thousand!

The funds transported to the manor by the convoy as funds for family activities are actually five hundred thousand gold tana!

My God, this is a month's funds!

That's six million gold tana a year!

Is my family so rich? !

Charlotte felt her heart trembling, she felt that she still underestimated the wealth of her family.

And at this time, the old servant Quasimodo couldn't help knocking on the car window:

"Master, how much money has been transported from the family territory...?"

"Five hundred thousand gold tana!"

Charlotte took a deep breath and said with a flushed face.

However, after hearing her words, Quasimodo frowned slightly:

"Five hundred thousand...?"

Seeing his expression, Charlotte was a little surprised:

"What, is there a problem?"

Quasimodo hesitated for a moment and whispered:

"It seems that there is some problem..."

"Master, I haven't participated in these family affairs for too many years, and I don't know what the current territory is like."

"But only five hundred thousand...it seems too little."

Charlotte:...?

The second update will still have to wait until the early morning.