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Coelho just happened to be involved through bad luck, but he was far from the only one targeted.

All the noble lords who were weak and participated in leading troops to rob and seize the people were all removed from the list.

Almost at the same time, these people received gifts of thanks from the nobles of northern Xinjiang. There are only two ways before them, either accept this friendship and make friends, or start a fight.

There is actually only one way.

I don’t know if it was an intelligence error or a deliberate attempt to find trouble. The number of people proposed by a group of northern nobles far exceeded their actual harvest, and some even exceeded the total population of the territory.

Hudson was lucky enough not to receive any kind greetings from her neighbors. Obviously, the title of "Knight of the Divine Bow" still plays a role.

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"Knight Coelho, are you sure you didn't lead any troops to rob people? The lord of Maple Leaf Town asked you to hand over a thousand people?"

If it weren't for Hudson to make a fuss, there would already be enough nobles to lead troops and rob people. If we expand the plan, wouldn't it offend all the local nobles in the two counties?

The nobles who were able to obtain fiefs in the two counties after the war were either defeated on the battlefield, or their family's overall strength was strong enough.

Those who inherit the family business like Knight Coelho are indeed soft persimmons. But when someone has just encountered a disaster, they come to attack and add insult to injury, and they are not afraid of being sprayed to death by spittle.

Although it is nonsense to talk about pity for the weak in aristocratic circles, on the surface everyone still has to pretend.

Especially the remaining connections of these families are most willing to lend a helping hand at this time and gain a good reputation.

If it weren't for the sake of reputation, a relative whom he had never contacted came to ask for help, and there was a high probability that Hudson would not be at home.

"Dear Baron Hudson, I can swear on the honor of the Ricks family that I have never led troops to rob any of the people in the territory. Even in the past month, I have not been out.

You should also have heard about our family's situation. All the elite members of the family were destroyed in the rebellion. If I hadn't happened to be out visiting my uncle, I probably wouldn't have escaped.

In order to restore the territory after the war, I had already incurred huge debts. Now that the family has not even had time to form a private army, how can they lead troops to plunder?

I have to say it has something to do with Maple Leaf Territory, that is, a group of refugees accidentally entered my territory a few days ago. Seeing how pitiful they were, I took them in. "

After listening to Coelho's explanation, Hudson just wanted to say, fuck! Any refugee who enters by mistake must be his own citizens.

I just don’t know which bastard among them lost the person on the road, and the refugees accidentally broke into the territory of their good neighbor Coelho.

Pies falling from the sky are not always a good thing. A weak player like Coelho was stunned by the pie.

The lord of Maple Leaf Town did not have the confidence to ask Hudson for help, so he could only let Coelho, a soft persimmon, make up for the losses.

Maybe there is more than one unlucky person. After all, it is very normal for refugees to get lost.

Even if you follow a large army, there are always people left behind. Especially when you are digging wild vegetables and looking for tree bark to satisfy your hunger on the way, you are most likely to get lost.

Thinking that the people who were supposed to be his territory had fallen into the hands of others, Hudson felt very uncomfortable in his heart. In the end, I couldn't say any words of comfort.

"Knight Coelho, if what you said is true, I am willing to act as a mediator between you and help resolve this misunderstanding.

However, you still need to negotiate the ownership of these territorial citizens. Those guys in Northern Xinjiang are used to being arrogant, but they may not buy my fault.

My personal suggestion is that you should increase your strength first. Even if they are just serf soldiers with low combat effectiveness, they are still better than none! "

It's okay to sell favors, but it's impossible to help fight. The relationship between the two parties has not reached that level yet.

The specific combat effectiveness of the Northern Xinjiang soldiers is unknown, but they came from the orc battlefield after all. If they really fight, the losses will definitely not be small.

The Coelho knight in front of him looked like a poor man. He probably couldn't even afford the burial expenses. Hudson would not do such a loss-making business.

However, as a qualified arms dealer, Hudson will not give up any potential customers.

The aristocracy is a relationship society. Developing a customer is equivalent to developing a customer base.

As long as the product is easy to use, people will not hesitate to recommend it to their relatives and friends. This kind of favor without any expense has always been the favorite of nobles.

"Sir Hudson, thank you for your help. Your kindness will never be forgotten by the Ricks family!"

Even though he was just interceding, Coelho shed tears of gratitude. With the relationship between the two parties, it is already very good to be able to achieve this step.

If they really sent troops to help him fight, the Ricks family, as a single person, would not be able to repay this debt of gratitude.

There is no such thing as love and hate for no reason. If a big shot owes a lot of favors, he can only pay it with his life.

Even though they are both low-level nobles in the kingdom, Hudson is still considered a big shot in front of the Ricks family.

As the host, Hudson enthusiastically took Coelho to visit his armory.

Although they were all ordinary iron weapons, their densely packed number still greatly shocked the young knight in front of him.

In the end, two hundred "spearheads" were successfully sold on the condition that Hudson agreed to pay in installments and offset in kind.

That's right, just the piercing tip of a spear. On the one hand, Hudson did not have that much raw material for making spear bodies, and on the other hand, the customers were simply too poor.

It was just a small order of two hundred gold coins, and it required installment payments and physical offsets, which left Hudson speechless.

No matter how small the order was, it had to be made. They were all short spearheads less than a foot long and didn't require much iron at all.

The cost was at most one or two silver coins, but Hudson dared to ask for ten silver coins for the finished product. Customers like Coelho who pay in installments will naturally have to pay extra.

One gold coin each, a proper friendship price. When the situation between the two counties was so tense, being able to obtain weapons and equipment on credit was all a favor.

No arms dealer on the market dared to give credit to the fiefdom lord. Even loan shark merchants who dared to lend money to the king had to take a detour when meeting the fief lord.

There is no other reason than the bad debt rate being too high. It's not a question of whether they want to repay, but the noble lord who has reached this point simply has no ability to repay.

If you have no money, you have no money. How can you do anything to a great nobleman just because of money?

In this regard, the lords of the North have the most say.

If you are lucky, you can still receive an orc slave to pay off your debt; if you are unlucky, your debtor may be gone at some point.

The probability that the heir will perform the contract is infinitely zero, and it is useless to litigate. There are almost no laws enacted by nobles: usury is legal.

What binds everyone to repay money is credibility, not territorial laws that can be enacted at will.

Of course, this has little to do with Hudson. With such a small order, the debtor is still a neighbor, so the risks involved are really limited.