In the dimly lit study, even with the candles lit, Guy couldn't quite make out Edward's figure.
But he sensed that Edward seemed to be brewing something and waited patiently.
Edward thought for a moment and said with a slight hint of nervousness "Guy, I think it's time for Shadow to reform!"
Guy stood, listening attentively to what his Majesty had prepared to say, and when he heard the word reform was, his heart went up and down like an overturned wine, and he did not know whether it was delicious or intoxicating.
Without the slightest concern for Guy's mood swings, Edward continued.
"I resolve to rename Shadow to Darkblade!" Edward was going to change it to the Brocade Guard, but then he thought about the fact that the Ming Dynasty is still around now, so he might run into it at some point in the future! That would be so embarrassing ah! Even though it's different when translated, it means pretty much the same thing.
Up to that point, later on, the Darkblade was also called the Angel in the Darkness by those nobles, while the enemy spies called it the Vampire in the Darkness.
Edward said that he was a man of modesty, he would not do things like imitation, and even if he imitated, he had to imitate in context, not nonsense.
"Guy, as long as you do well, there's not much hope for a baron and viscount in the future, but knights and knights are still possible!"
Edward suddenly made a comment that raised Guy's blood pressure.
You know, although knights and knights aren't nobles, they're reserve nobles, and they're the closest nobles to the commoners at the bottom.
Like Knights and Sirs they had direct access to the King, could directly participate and govern places in the county, and could have their own fiefs.
It's just owning a village or villages, but he can be passed down from generation to generation, representing the beginning of your blood being noble and no longer at the mercy of the nobility to decide where your life belongs ...
Guy thought about the benefits of becoming a knight for a while, even if he exhausted his brain, he didn't think of all of them.
But then, all he knew was that His Majesty could make him a Knight and a Sir, could change his destiny, change his family's destiny, and give his children a chance to become men and women.
So, even though he knew it was a long shot, Guy was unwilling to give up.
Immediately and dryly he dropped to one knee and made a very decisive knightly salute, "I, Guy Hamm in the sight of God, I and my descendants swear to serve King Edward VI and his descendants unto death, and if I break it let Satan steal my soul!"
Edward watched him swear an oath of allegiance and didn't stop him, only waited until he was done and took the back of his sword and tapped him on both shoulders to show that he accepted his allegiance.
Guy stood up with a red face and looked at Edward enthusiastically, expecting Edward to send him quests so that he could become a knight soon.
"Okay Guy, you present the current status of the current Shadow!" Edward reminded Guy.
"Yes, Your Majesty!" In no time, Guy turned into his original poker-faced look, hiding the excitement in his heart.
Originally, he had always been a calm person, but he had just been swept away by the desire to become a noble, and he immediately recovered after a reminder.
It can be seen that everyone in this world has desires, there is no perfect person, as long as the right medicine, there will be unexpected results.
Indeed, it is clear from Guy's life that he is obsessed with his family's revival, and that it is possible to succeed with the right medicine.
So Edward succeeds, seducing Guy with a knighthood and gaining a useful henchman.
"With the support of the late King, I have organized twenty-eight bankrupt gentlemen like myself!" Guy paused, "We've been traveling to and from counties throughout England, looking for wealthy churches for the Court of Increase to confiscate!"
Yes, Henry VIII was that domineering. In 2007, he set up the Court of Enrichment by an Act of Parliament, the first specialized court to administer confiscated monastic property and, incidentally, to investigate information about monasteries around the world.
It also collected tithes and knightly donations on behalf of the former church, so the Tudors' annual income grew from £10,000 to £10,000, greatly stabilizing the Tudor crown.
The rest is nothing to do with the Shadow, which, for nothing, is just an organization that seeks wealth for the crown.
Edward next had a long, sleepless midnight conversation with Guy about shadow reorganization.
The next morning around five in the morning, Edward and Guy walked out of Edward's study with two panda eyes and bloodshot eyes.
"Guy, take this draft and change it according to what it says!" "Yes, Your Majesty!" Guy replied with great seriousness.
According to the plan, in the future, Darkblade will use a restaurant in London under the name of the royal family as its headquarters. As per Edward's request, and the Darkblade's prior task is to keep London under surveillance to know even a dead rat in London.
Guy returned to his home on the west side of town, a low wooden house with a wooden door full of cracks, the house had nothing else but a wooden bed, the only thing of value was the linen patchwork quilt?
Guy is years old, and his wife has divorced him since the family went bankrupt when he was years old, taking with her the deed to the ten acres, the only property in the family, and Guy doesn't blame her, because it was her dowry.
So Guy has had to live alone for ten years, and this shabby house in London is still the King's prize for him, and don't think it's worthless because it's shabby, it now costs at least six pounds to buy.
Walking home, it was still light, and Guy couldn't be bothered to buy candles, so he had to eat something before reading this planner.
Guy pulled out the brown bread from under the bed, softened it with water and ate it eagerly.
After about half an hour or so of eating, dawn broke, and Guy immediately began going over the plans that Edward had made with him last night, Edward alone to be precise, and he was only in a consulting role.
It was only thus that Edward wrote the first, that the Shadow was renamed the Darkblade; and the second, that the Darkblade was under the direct authority of the King, and that no one was to meddle with it.
The third article is that it has one chief, three deputy chiefs, twelve captains of thousands, and ten centurions under each of them, each of whom leads ten squads, each of which has a captain and vice-captain, and possesses eight members, making a total of ten.
The fourth article stationed one centurion in each county, and four in London, to superintend the situation in each place, and to assemble in London annually to report on their work.
Article 5: No one shall disobey the King's orders, and violators shall be dealt with by the Ministry of Justice in accordance with the law.
Article 6, the establishment of the Department of Justice, consisting of the Chief of Torture and the three Chiefs of Torture and Thousands, specializing in disposing of local rebels and foreign spies, as well as law-breakers of the Dark Edge.
Seventh ...
Eighth ...
Waiting for an outline of twenty-nine opinions on the rights and obligations of the Darkblade, it was tighter than a government department, and even though Guy had been prepared for it last night, he was still taken aback.