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"These cubs are too poor in appearance and have limited growth potential. You'd better wait!"

Redman, who was about to drool after hearing what Hudson said, immediately realized his gaffe.

As a knight, owning a Warcraft mount is Redman's lifelong pursuit.

Unexpectedly, life is unpredictable. The Warcraft mount that he once envied has now become within reach, and he even has the capital to be picky.

Leaving aside the high-level monsters, those things can only be encountered but cannot be sought. Even if it comes to his door, Redman doesn't think he can handle it.

However, as the earl's father, he can still look forward to getting a good-looking mid-level monster as a mount.

Of course, pickiness is limited to mountainous terrain. If you go to the outside world, it's still hard to find a beast.

With Redman's strength, it's okay to take the risk to challenge a low-level monster. Wanting to train a wild mid-level monster is just a dream.

There are countless gold warriors and silver warriors who die in the Warcraft Mountains every year. Even the Earth Knights and Sky Knights can only feed the Warcraft if they are unlucky, let alone him, a great knight who relied on resources.

"good!"

In other times, if you find a low-level monster as a mount, you can show it off to your friends and family for many years, but the current situation is different.

Judging from the investment of major forces in breeding bases, it can be seen that it is only a matter of time before Warcraft becomes the standard equipment for knights.

By then, low-level monsters will no longer be enough. If you want to be able to use them, you must at least have mid-level monsters.

Although Redman has been hanging out among the small aristocrats, it does not affect his ability to compete with the big aristocrats to set his own standards.

After hesitating for a while, Redman asked with concern: "Hudson, if you just distribute the cubs out like this, can they afford to raise them?"

Raising monsters is a costly job. Eating meat every meal is just a small problem, the key is that the ripening potion is expensive!

The cheapest Warcraft ripening potion on the market costs dozens of gold coins, which is not enough for a month's dosage. According to this feeding model, all the expenses added up would cost thousands of gold coins a year.

As for the cost of the medicine, it is less than one-tenth. Usually, the refined medicine is diluted and sold.

It seems to be giving everyone an opportunity, but it is actually a means to weaken the financial resources of the small nobles. If you really dove in recklessly, your family would definitely be seriously hurt.

Obviously, this is the tacit understanding of the great nobles. Once a small noble embarks on this path, all future financial resources will be invested in themselves.

Especially for small nobles with a prosperous population like the Koslow family, the cultivation of the family's children alone would exhaust all the financial resources of the territory and lose the possibility of continuing to develop the army.

If you guide public opinion a little and make this model mainstream, the future petty nobles will become a group of reckless men who only know how to charge into battle.

There is no such thing as leading troops to fight. It is unknown whether a small lord has a private army, let alone exercising his command ability.

Future wars will increasingly have nothing to do with ordinary people, and will eventually turn into battles between knights and legions. The status of the big nobles remained unchanged, but the minor nobles changed from officers to soldiers.

What's even more tragic is that many people can't become soldiers even if they want to. When the war model changes comprehensively, the monopoly will be further intensified, and even those with money will not be able to buy medicines.

Raising the threshold will become everyone's strongest moat, blocking out competitors and continuing to maintain their own power and wealth.

After seeing all this clearly, nothing can be changed. The emergence of this new ruling system is not driven by a certain person or organization, but stems from the self-protection instinct of the ruling group.

"Of course we can't afford it! With everyone's current salary, there are only a handful of people in the territory who can afford to raise Warcraft.

Even without the use of potions, not many people can afford just the food expenses for the Warcraft cubs.

However, as long as they join the army and accept permanent recruitment, the territory will pay for them to raise the monsters. "

In order to bind talents, Hudson also racked his brains. The temptation of Warcraft mounts is only one of them, and there will be more supporting means in the future.

The age is deliberately limited. In addition to considering development potential, the most important thing is because young people are easy to fool.

Once you can't resist the temptation and take in Master Hudson's magical beast cub, unless you have an incredible chance and grow up to break the rules, you will have no choice but to follow Master Hudson for the rest of your life.

In fact, currently, only two of the people who redeemed Warcraft cubs have made enough contributions, and the rest are due to debts.

It seemed that the Warcraft cubs were distributed to his subordinates, and the ownership was transferred, but in essence it was still the arming of the territory.

Because the Warcraft cubs belong to individuals, everyone will only take better care of them. After all, we are going to the battlefield together. If you don't maximize the intimacy level of the Warcraft mount, you are irresponsible for your own life.

"Well, you just have to worry about it. I don't have any experience to provide you with these things. Maybe some big families will have records. You can read more books when you have nothing to do."

Redman said disappointedly.

When people reach middle age, they are far from the age of retirement. But because of his limited abilities and vision, he had to retire early.

They are all forced by reality. With his status, as long as he goes out to do things, his status is destined to be low. If you continue to be active outside, you will easily be taken advantage of.

Just as he was about to offer comfort, the guard rushed over and interrupted the conversation between father and son.

“Earl, something bad is going on!

Just now, the communication magic circle in Beida City was activated, and an urgent message came from the royal capital. Your Majesty... His Majesty collapsed! "

Upon hearing the news, Hudson was dumbfounded. Although he knew that Caesar III was in poor health, he was still able to come out and preside over the meeting four months ago, but now he was gone all of a sudden.

After coming back to his senses, Hudson immediately realized that there was a big problem. He didn't think anyone would dare to joke about something like this that involved the safety of the kingdom.

I'm drunk just thinking about it. The communication magic circles set up in various provinces are never activated. The first time Hudson saw it used, he actually informed the king that it was gone.

But I have to admit that this is the most efficient communication method. From now on, it is estimated that almost all the major forces in the entire Aslant continent have received this news.

Different from the previous death of Chris IX, the Principality of Moxi is in a moment of life and death and cannot care about etiquette.

This is a time of peace, and the deceased Caesar III is still the most outstanding monarch in the kingdom, so it is necessary to be grand and prosperous.

Judging from the movement, it was known that not only the nobles of the kingdom were going to attend the funeral, but also people from various countries in the mainland were expected to come to attend the funeral, and maybe there would even be representatives of foreign races.

"Here's the order. From now on, no banquets will be held in the territory, and all wedding banquets for noble children will be postponed!"

Hudson said seriously.

No matter how the situation develops next, the rules must still be followed. Legally speaking, Caesar III was his lord. As a younger brother, how can you celebrate the death of your own boss?

Deep down in his heart, Hudson had already begun to secretly calculate the consequences of the death of Caesar III.

…

In the Northland, after receiving the death of Caesar III, the five great dukes gathered together immediately. Even the younger brothers who followed them came over to join in the fun.

Sadness does not exist. The boulder pressing on them was finally moved away. Without the hero Caesar III taking the lead, the suppression of them by all parties will most likely slow down.

"Don't be too happy now. Although Your Majesty went to see the Lord of the Morning, our reputation in the noble circle is still very bad.

Once they make a big move, they are likely to temporarily abandon the contradiction and deal with us first! "

Duke Rodriguez poured down a basin of cold water, directly extinguishing everyone's enthusiasm.

Unlike other countries, the main conflicts between the great nobles of the Alpha Kingdom are not so acute.

Based on past struggles, if we insist on dividing the camps, they will be the nobles of the North and the nobles of the Southern Xinjiang.

The definition of "southern nobles" is somewhat broad, and other nobles except northern nobles are included in it.

There is no way, their ancestors are just so awesome. In the process of rising, he offended many forces in the kingdom, and the difference was limited to the severity of the offense.

In the past, we needed them to guard the door. I don't care about some conflicts of interest with them. Now that I have lost the qualification to guard the door, it is time to pay off the debt.

In addition to this main line of contradictions, there is now an emerging group of nobles who are jointly hostile to the established nobles. However, this is just the instinct of vested interest groups to protect their food, and it is far from the point of life-and-death struggle.

Even the Dalton family and the Koslow family in the southeastern province only played within the rules and did not openly break up.

At the very least, let the Koslow family choose their enemies. The first choice is the feuding Rocknard family, not the Dalton family, which has conflicts of interest.

No one comes out to stir up hatred, and the "southern Xinjiang nobles" will fall into internal fighting because of their interests. If they are too active, it's a different situation.

"Rodriguez, the matter is not that serious. Don't forget that the situation is different now. We are on the line with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, or the future Caesar IV.

Without the royal family taking the lead, the Southern Xinjiang nobles would be in disarray. What's more, after the new king succeeds to the throne, what he needs most is stability. Whoever stirs up disputes first will be the enemy of the royal family.

In the past, they ridiculed us for eating and looking ugly. Now it's their turn, and they probably won't be able to get any better!

I don't think that the nobles of Southern Xinjiang are all gentlemen. This kind of expansion opportunity, which has been rare in decades, has been given up in vain! "

Duke Hero said mockingly.

At present, the five major families in the North have no room for expansion, and their original territory has long been wiped out by them. Even if it's not their own territory, it's their younger brother's territory.

If you want to engage in mergers again, you can only extend your tentacles to the outside world. Either reach out to the central provinces of the kingdom, or target the seven newly recovered provinces of the kingdom.

There is no doubt that neither of these are good choices.

The nobles in the central region of the kingdom are not easy to bully. If they dare to stretch out their hands, they will cut them off. Short of a massive civil war, there is no hope.

The kingdom has newly recovered seven major provinces. The nobles there are indeed soft persimmons, but the forces behind these people are not.

Apart from them, all the major forces in the kingdom have taken a share of the pie.

The only good news is that after losing the suppression of Caesar III, everyone can no longer resist the desire to expand. Except for the emerging nobles who were busy digesting the fruits and had no time to participate, all the established nobles were sharpening their knives.

“The situation is indeed different, but there is one issue we must consider, that is, once a major merger is fully started, it will be difficult to stop it.

There was only one Caesar III, and without the suppression of a strong monarch, the strength of the local nobles would only expand.

Their strength continues to grow, but we are standing still. In the future, the gap in strength will only become smaller and smaller.

In fact, since the end of the war, we have been going downhill. Especially after losing the financial subsidy from the Kingdom, life for our family has become even more difficult.

I don't know your situation. Anyway, the Locknard family had a serious financial deficit last year, and this situation will continue this year.

In order to reduce expenses, we have to reduce military expenditures and significantly reduce the number of standing armies.

If things continue like this, our military advantage will cease to exist within ten years; within twenty years, we will fall to the middle and lower reaches of the great aristocracy.

The Rocknard family is like this, and I guess your family won't be much better either. Compared with the replacement of royal power, what we need to solve more is the financial problem. "

Duke Thorsten raised a more serious question, drawing everyone's attention back to himself.

Now relying on their old capital to support themselves, they are still unique among the nobles in the kingdom. But this advantage is being consumed over time.

Financial deficit is their biggest flaw now. We can no longer go down the path of militarism, and we can no longer support our families by farming honestly.

How to make money has become a serious problem now. In the past, one could make up for one's own financial deficit by smuggling and capturing slaves to the Orc Empire.

Now there is no need to have extravagant hopes. The orc empire has been forced into a remote place with the human kingdom blocking the way. Even if they want to return to their old business, they have no conditions.

Not only could conventional means fail to solve their financial problems, but even if the Alpha Kingdom's "Criminal Code" was torn to pieces, they still could not find a way to make a fortune.

"Thorsten, there is no need to fantasize. The land in the north is not as wealthy as the south. Competing with them for financial resources is purely self-humiliating.

Our advantage is that we are under the threat of war all year round. The folk customs in the North have always been very strong, and the army we have formed has stronger combat effectiveness.

But the Kingdom has already begun to build a Warcraft Legion, and the future war model is developing in a direction that we least want to see.

If you don’t do something while you have the strength now, you won’t be able to do it in the future even if you want to!

There is nothing surprising about the rise and fall of families. But our situation is different. Our ancestors have left us too many enemies. Once we fall into decline, it will be our end.

Rather than sit back and wait for death, watching the family be destroyed decades later, it is better to take a gamble and wait for an opportunity to overturn the chessboard and start over! "

Duke Hero said fiercely.

That devouring gaze seemed to swallow the whole world. The room became quiet for a moment, and everyone was lost in thought.

"Hero, the leadership is no longer in our hands. Although Caesar III has passed away, he will definitely not have less backup for the royal family.

It is not easy to overturn this chessboard. At least I can't find a suitable entry point. "

Duke Rodriguez said worriedly.

It was obvious that he was also very dissatisfied with the current situation. I want to find an opportunity to break the current political situation and find a way out for my family.

"Rodriguez, you are too cautious. If there is no chance, then find a way to create an opportunity!"

While speaking, Duke Hero gave a hint in his eyes, and all the younger brothers who participated in the meeting left the meeting, leaving only the five great dukes inside to continue the discussion.