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The question raised by Marquis Youke worried all the nobles present at the meeting.

"Without the addition of settled adventurers, grassroots talent will become scarce." A count said distressedly, "But... what conditions should we use to attract adventurers?"

"Fief?" asked another earl.

"Impossible!" Another earl immediately denied, "It is easy to grant a fiefdom, but it is difficult to take it away. Settle adventurers often only have one or two generations to use, and most of them have no outstanding performance since the third generation. Why? Able to grant them fiefdom!"

"Yeah, that's fine if it's a high-level adventurer. A mid-level adventurer really doesn't deserve to be granted a fief."

"But without a fiefdom, the conditions we can offer are no better than those of the merchant faction. It is impossible for us to give every mid-level adventurer a quasi-knight status. As for those low-level adventurers, we may not even be able to give them an official status." …In contrast, the Merchant Faction can at least give them a hope of family inheritance.”

"What kind of bullshit family inheritance! What kind of family is it if it doesn't even have a fiefdom? It's just ridiculous!"

"But those middle and low-level adventurers don't think so. For them, having a stable industry and a family to inherit is considered a satisfactory life."

"How abominable! Can't these guys be more pursuing!"

"If you are more ambitious, you might go to the Northwest Republic."

“…that country is terrible!”

After a lot of talking and writing, everyone still couldn't come to any good conclusion, nor could they come up with any seemingly effective method.

In the final analysis, the power status of the nobles has no binding force on the adventurers.

Of course, the adventurers respect the rights of the nobles, but they are free. Even if they fall out, at worst they can just slap their butts and leave. Can the nobles still go to the territories of other nobles to hunt them down?

Although generally speaking, nobles still have an advantage when facing adventurers, but when it comes to individuals, there are often cases where nobles are killed by adventurers, and then the murderer cannot be caught.

Just look at the wanted lists of the Church of the God of Nobles and the Church of the God of Law, and you will see that this situation is really not uncommon.

Adventurers are brave and armed with murderous intentions. Faced with unfair treatment, the weak may swallow their anger, but the strong often choose to fight head-on and fight for justice with their fists.

The result of such conflicts is that adventurers usually suffer losses, but nobles also suffer losses in many cases. In the past five years alone, five or six barons and one viscount have died in the entire main plane. As for the knight level, there are even more, and the nobles are too lazy to count them.

If there is a head-on conflict, a high-level adventurer can threaten a count by risking his life. As for the few nobles who lost their lives, those who killed them were just mid-level adventurers.

Therefore, if you want to rely on your position of power to oppress adventurers and force them to submit, this method really doesn't work.

Since you can't threaten, you can only induce. But the nobles were reluctant to offer enough benefits, and inducements also didn't work.

This won't work, and that won't work either. In the end, of course, everyone has no choice but to look at each other in despair.

"Perhaps... we have to rely on war to solve the problem after all." After a long silence, an earl said.

He was a member of the local aristocracy and had always united with other local aristocrats to fight against the central aristocracy composed of the two marquis and their vassals. Unlike the central nobles, the local nobles did not want to fight with the merchant faction, because they knew that if they fought, they would definitely suffer greater losses.

Among other things, their territory is adjacent to the territory of the merchant faction.

Beating it at home and breaking some bottles and cans is a sure thing.

However, faced with an obvious crisis, he had no choice.

"I think we can wait a little longer." Marquis Gordon said before Marquis Youke. "War is not a trivial matter. If you want to fight it, you have to win it to be meaningful. So we must make preparations first and ensure that we win." OK."

"Facing those guys who can only recruit mercenaries, it's hard to lose." A count said with a smile, "Mercenaries can't fight a tough battle. If they really fight hard, they will collapse soon. "

"But that would be a huge loss..." Another earl said worriedly.

"We don't care about losses at this time!" Earl House's eyes flashed coldly, "If you agree, I am willing to take action first!"

"Eh? Didn't you make peace with them before? It's not a good idea to do it now."

Earl House sneered: "Let's talk about peace. I have been making war preparations here, and now I am almost ready. If there is a fight, I am absolutely sure that I can take advantage."

All the noble nobles looked at me and I looked at you. They were all silent.

After a while, Marquis Gordon said: "Let's wait a little longer. At least a few more people will be ready... and then we can do it together."

"Okay, then you'd better hurry up." Earl House said, "Opportunities wait for no one, and those merchants in the north are not fools. They can also think of things we can think of."

The great nobles nodded one after another, and after the meeting, they all prepared to go.

When Marquis Youke returned home, he first went to the secret room deep underground.

His eldest son is still imprisoned here today and cannot leave.

"Have you figured it out?" He asked outside the door without entering.

"I should be the one to ask you this." A tired but firm answer came from the door, "Father, have you figured it out?"

"Even if the noble lady can beat the golden crown, we will have to rule this country in the future. Why take such a big risk?" Marquis Yuke sighed, "If our family is just an earl, then I don't object to you trying to gamble, but our family is already at the top of the Gold Coin Federation. How high can we rise?"

"King!" His most outstanding eldest son's tone was a bit hot, "Royal power is the ultimate goal of the nobles!"

"It's not that easy to be a king." Marquis Yuke said, "First of all, we don't have the power to overwhelm others."

"The Church of My Lord can provide such power."

"What's the point of royal power subordinate to theocracy?" Marquis Yuke sneered and asked back.

"It is natural for mortals to be subordinate to gods. We will all die, and our destination after death is far more important than our glory in life."

"It's nothing more than a transaction, and I haven't thought about believing in anyone devoutly." Marquis Yuke said lightly, "Donate a large sum of money before you die, and you can go to most of the kingdoms of God. The destination after death is not a problem for us at all."

"How can a place that is not suitable for you be called a destination?"

Marquis Yuke sighed: "It's my fault, I shouldn't have let you become a pastor..."

"No, I want to thank you! If it weren't for believing in my Lord, my life would still be in confusion." His eldest son smiled and said, "Father, you have been confused for too long, it's time to turn back."

Marquis Yuke shook his head: "Think about it again, I'll come to see you tomorrow."

He didn't mean to continue arguing with his son. The debate between faith and interests would not have any results.

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