In Eagle Castle, Otto specially designed a very large banquet hall in order to hold large banquets or military combat meetings.
However, the current banquet hall is still a bit crude, and even though there are many decorations hung on the surrounding walls, it looks a bit empty.
Originally, according to Otto's plan, painters would be invited to paint murals on the surrounding walls, but now due to the rush of moving, they are not ready yet.
However, many guests present did not pay attention to such small details, but were shocked by Otto's generosity.
A castle of this size only took more than two years to build. How much did it cost?
No wonder Otto not only mentioned the engagement ceremony in his letter, but also mentioned the new castle. It was natural for them to show off.
This is the easiest way to prove your family's strength to others.
I heard that after the accident of Count Allgäu, the Alaholf family fell into Otto's hands and prospered. It seems that what they said is true.
Judging from what they saw in Argau, even though the geographical conditions were a little worse, it was still a prosperous territory.
The specifications of the banquet were also very satisfactory to the guests, mainly because of a certain dish at the banquet, which made the guests feel Otto's spirit and enthusiasm.
This simple dish is nothing unusual, it's just "Queen's Bread".
Queen's bread, as the name suggests, is bread that only the queen can afford.
Normally during this period, even nobles and wealthy people did not store large amounts of bread directly in their kitchens, but instead stored semolina, or wheat flour mixed with a large amount of bran.
When it's time to eat, the semolina is baked into bread.
If you want to entertain guests or celebrate some happy event, you will ask the chefs and maids to sift the semolina. The more distinguished the guests are, the cleaner the bran in the semolina will be sifted, and the baked bread will naturally be
The whiter it is, the more precise it is, but the more effort it takes.
Therefore, brown bread and white bread can be baked with the same bag of flour, the only difference lies in the labor.
The bread that noble knights usually eat is actually somewhere between white bread and brown bread.
Wealthy families can keep several servants who specialize in sifting flour from morning to night. In less wealthy families, in order to reduce the workload of the servants and avoid exhausting them, and at the same time to avoid wasting the bran that can also satisfy hunger, they have to
Sift the flour less often.
So whether the finally baked bread is considered black or white depends on their own ideas.
If refined flour is added with eggs, milk, honey and vanilla, and beer yeast is used instead of ordinary leavened dough, the "Queen's Bread" baked after careful fermentation is also called "Queen's Bread".
The taste of this small round white bread is basically the same as modern high-end butter bread. At least Otto tasted very good when he tried it, and it is purely natural and healthier than modern butter bread.
It requires such a complicated process and so many materials. In this period, it was a complete luxury. Even the king could not afford it every day, so it was called "Queen's Bread".
It is said that in history, a king rewarded the brave soldiers with this kind of bread after winning a battle. It even aroused the envy of the nobles who were rewarded with meat and wine.
Otto had prepared for this banquet for a long time in advance. Fortunately, the territory has been developing well. The citizens heard about Otto's engagement and were willing to help. Otherwise, he would not be able to produce so much queen bread.
One can imagine how satisfied these guests were after seeing the Queen's Bread. As for the banquet hall that has not yet been decorated, it doesn't matter. It's just a matter of time.
Hearing the compliments of the guests, Otto was very happy. After a few polite greetings, Otto announced his decision to establish a new family in the name of Eagle Castle.
After hearing the news, everyone's reaction was actually quite dull. Except for a few people who heard Otto say that his younger brother El would not join the Habsburg family, he was still a member of the Alaholf family, which made them doubt Otto and El.
Apart from internal conflicts within the family, everyone else expressed their congratulations.
To put it bluntly, in this period, it was not uncommon for nobles to change their family name. As the actual patriarch of the Aracholf family, Otto, as the actual patriarch of the Aracholf family, did not care if he was willing to change the family name to anything, even if it was changed to Carolingian.
OK.
Everyone came here not for his family name, but for Otto's strength and the family's strength. Changing the name would have no impact on these.
However, in the future, it is necessary to separate the original Alaholf and the current Habsburg. From today on, although the two families are related by blood, they are already different families.
Otto also took out the coat of arms and flag of the Habsburg family at the right time and showed them to everyone.
As a person with no artistic talent, Otto couldn't design any good-looking pattern. He originally wanted to make a hammer and sickle pattern, but thinking about the meaning of it, it seemed that it was not suitable as the emblem of a noble family, so
He could only copy history and come up with a double-headed eagle emblem.
Habsburg, Eagle Fort, it would be reasonable to use a double-headed eagle.
As the night deepened, as the band played music, it also entered the dance stage.
After dancing a song with his fiancée, Miss Sophie, Otto declined the other party's invitation to continue dancing and found an excuse to sneak out of the banquet hall.
This is not because Otto is showing Liu Xiahui's spirit, but because Otto has to discuss important matters with the Sighard family tonight and can only aggrieve his beautiful fiancée.
After the important members of the Sighard family arrived, they had always wanted to have a private meeting with Otto. After all, a political marriage between nobles is, to put it bluntly, an alliance and exchange of interests. This kind of thing can't be done in a few words in a letter.
To be able to explain things clearly, of course, we need to communicate face to face.
However, Otto kept delaying. Firstly, he was really busy during this period, receiving other guests and arranging their own affairs, so he had no time.
Secondly, Otto is planning to show enough strength to the Sighard family, and then negotiate with the other party. With strength as support, it will be much easier to raise conditions and requirements.
With this majestic Eagle Castle, the Queen's Bread at the banquet, and the prosperity he had seen in the Argau before, it must have been enough for Otto to gain a more favorable position during negotiations.
In the small reception room, several important members of the Sighard family were already waiting. It wasn't that Otto was deliberately trying to be a showman. It was easy for the guests to slip away, but it was always troublesome for him to slip away as a master.
"I'm sorry to keep you waiting for so long. Once again, I welcome the distinguished guests of the Sighard family to Algaol. Next, let's formally talk about the engagement with Miss Sophie of your family."