Banner of the Evil God

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Facing the questioning looks of the nobles and the surprised question of the earl, Marquis Youke's face was as calm as water, but he was cursing secretly in his heart.

If given the choice, of course he would not be willing to propose peace with the merchant faction, but does he have any other choice now?

Last night, he received a letter from his sister. It was a magical message, telling some very secret news.

Although my sister's words were very cautious, it could be seen that she was not very sure, but based on the information at hand, Marquis Youke could be sure that her guess was correct.

He was certain that the noble faction probably did not send anyone to attack the merchant faction's caravans and civilians. As for the attacks on the border soldiers and lords of the noble faction, it was probably not the fault of the merchant faction.

Before, he thought that since everyone was so angry, it would be better to just let it go. Anyway, the main force sending troops was the local nobles. Even if he lost, as a central noble, his losses would be very limited. Therefore, he is the main war faction and prefers to fight a small-scale war with the merchant faction.

But after comparing the information about his sister, he thought about it carefully for a long time, but he broke out in a cold sweat.

If this really breaks out, I'm afraid it won't be a matter of "small-scale war", and there's no hope of "limited losses."

The person behind the scenes who is promoting this war does not want a small-scale war at all, but a fierce war that involves the entire Gold Coin Federation!

Although he could not understand why that person would do such a thing, it was not important. What was important was that as a beneficiary of the current order of the Gold Coin Federation, he must not allow a full-scale civil war in the Gold Coin Federation!

That not only meant he would suffer heavy losses, but also meant great danger.

The higher you stand, the harder you fall.

The Youke family has already reached the top of the Gold Coin Federation. There is no way to go higher, but the possibility of falling down is very high - he can be sure that even though his family is dazzling now, there are plans behind it. , want to stab themselves, or even kill the Youke family completely, and there are many people feasting around the corpses.

He absolutely cannot allow that to happen! Whether it is a mortal or a god, if he wants to bring misfortune to the Yuk family, he is his enemy!

So he didn't wait for dawn, summoned the core members of the family, and held a secret meeting. Then he put his eldest son under house arrest in a secret room, and contacted the leaders of the noble faction himself, and directly talked about negotiating peace with the merchant faction.

Of course this would harm his image and the Youke family's face, but he couldn't care less about that now.

At present, the conflict between the merchant faction and the aristocratic faction is only at the level of "friction" or "small conflict". If the situation is not calmed down now, and the war breaks out, even the Youke family will be unable to do anything.

Looking at the leaders of the aristocratic factions projected through the magic communication, he secretly sighed and said: "Everyone, as the saying goes, I fought fiercely at the beginning because I thought I could gain benefits from fighting. But now, I Got an important piece of information! This is the key to changing my mind.”

"What information?" Marquis Gordon, one of the two marquises, asked in a deep voice.

"The Northwest Republic sent a joint exploration team to explore a mine with the merchant faction."

"We already knew this, so what's the big deal?" A count laughed.

Marquis Youke sneered, and then said: "They found mithril ore in the mine."

"The mithril mine...isn't a very big deal," said the earl who spoke just now.

Marquis Youke said expressionlessly: "After identification, it is not an acquired mithril mine that was transformed from an ordinary silver mine due to the infiltration of magic power, but an innate mithril mine that was born when the main plane was formed."

The earl who had spoken twice just now was speechless. The other earls couldn't help but take a breath. Even Marquis Gordon couldn't help but frown.

"Is this news reliable?" he asked.

"Of course it's reliable." Marquis Youke said lightly.

It is enough to say this news. As for the more important news, he will never leak it to these people.

That involves the biggest secret of the Youke family. As long as you keep that secret carefully, you can protect the family for at least a thousand years or even longer.

After a while, Marquis Gordon said in a deep voice: "Do you know the reserves of that vein?"

"What do you think my spies are?" Marquis Youke laughed and asked, "If they can even find out the reserves of that mine, will you be able to sleep peacefully at night in the future?"

Marquis Gordon laughed dryly and did not mention this again.

There were struggles between the local aristocracy and the central aristocracy, and of course there were struggles within the central aristocracy. Marquis Gordon and Marquis Uke are old rivals, and they both "miss you to death" (really miss you to death). The fact that the spies under Marquis Youke could obtain such confidential information already made Marquis Gordon a little uneasy. If they could further obtain the top-secret information on mineral deposits, it would not necessarily be difficult to obtain the secrets of Marquis Gordon.

At least... the distance is still a little closer.

Seeing the atmosphere was a bit awkward, an earl who had a good relationship with Marquis Gordon hurriedly changed the subject: "The value of an innate mithril vein is extraordinary, which will greatly strengthen the relationship between the Northwest Republic and the merchant faction. At this time, fighting with the merchant faction will easily attract the attention of the Northwest Republic. It is indeed... inappropriate."

"Yes, they must be nervous now. Once stimulated, they will easily overreact. At least they have to wait until the dust settles and the vein is mined and identified before their emotions will ease." Another earl said, "Even if you want to fight, you have to wait until then."

As he said, everyone's eyes fell on the earl of "Good Horse".

The earl of "Good Horse" is not actually named "Good Horse". The origin of this name can be traced back to the founder of their family. The earl's name was "Good House" and his nickname was "Good Horse". Later, although their family's official name was Earl House, the name "Good Horse" was so famous that everyone usually called them by this nickname.

Of course, this is also because they don't care, and even take pride in this title.

The one who is currently rubbing against the Merchant Faction is Earl House, the "Good Horse". He originally wanted to use the assassination incident to attack the nobles of the Central Faction and demand some compensation. Unexpectedly, before he had negotiated with the nobles of the Central Faction on substantive issues, the Merchant Faction actually came to attack him first, accusing his soldiers of crossing the border to attack caravans and civilians.

Earl House was in a bad mood to begin with, and after being stimulated by this, he couldn't help but get furious, and drove the envoy of the Merchant Faction out without saying a word.

As a result, the Merchant Faction actually gathered troops at the border, as if they were going to do a big fight.

The "Good Horse" family has always been daring and daring. If he doesn't fight the other party, the other party should be thankful. Now they dare to come to trouble him? !

To borrow a famous saying from Brother Illidan, who was whitewashed by Blizzard after Sui Xiong traveled through time, you are courting death!

So he did not hesitate to gather his troops and confront the merchant party.

In the past few days, the two sides have had two small-scale clashes. Although the losses were not great, the anger was getting worse.

If the nobles want to negotiate peace at this moment, his attitude becomes the key.

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