A great many nobles attended the victory banquet that followed the distribution of honors. The venue was the banquet hall of the Radensdorf palace, tremendous in scale and the very pinnacle of splendor.
The former Marquis of Radensdorf had reportedly built it with a fortune rivaling the cost of the city walls; that's how much he loved his banquets. Just how much money would it take to build a banquet hall like this?
"Rumor has it around one thousand gold coins."
It was Michael who answered my curiosity. One thousand gold coins to build a single banquet hall. And here I'd slaved away all this time and still hadn't saved up even nine hundred.
Of course, that figure included the prisoner ransoms I hadn't collected yet and the child-rearing funds from Prince Louis. More than half of it was outstanding, but I didn't expect to have any trouble collecting.
At any rate, the extravagance of wealthy princes was beyond imagining.
