Lord of War

Declaring war is a basic power granted to nobles by the ancient noble law.

This is not like a war between the two countries. This noble declaration of war is a legal act of force used by two nobles to resolve disputes. Of course, this kind of behavior will often eventually evolve into a large-scale war between the two regions, or even become the trigger for a war between two or more countries.

Of course, declaring war is not something that can be started immediately after just saying a word.

This is a bit like the siege application in the game.

Usually, there will be a month between the declaration of war and the final war. This is the preparation time for the declared war party to react. After all, many nobles will not keep their private troops in the territory. So if Sean immediately commanded the army to enter Tinky's territory without declaring war, then this is an act of aggression by the Principality of Ryan, and according to the last armistice agreement between the Principality of Ryan and the Kingdom of Dabiang, the Principality of Ryan cannot use any excuses Initiate a war of aggression, otherwise the Peace Association and the Chinese Empire as the notary will intervene and support the Dabiang Kingdom.

Therefore, this is why Xiao En tried his best to provoke the anger of Dabion Kingdom. He can be used as the fuse to start a war between the two countries, but this war must be a counterattack and invasion from Dabiang's side, not his invasion of Dabiang's kingdom.

The kingdom is actually composed of many nobles, and many times the affairs between the nobles actually just need a fig leaf.

But even so, Xiao En's declaration of war still aroused the extreme dissatisfaction of many nobles.

The reason is simple.

Sean is just a pioneer knight, a jazz, and his status is probably equivalent to those family knights who have been formally awarded, and he cannot be regarded as a nobleman at all.

But declaring war is one of the privileges in the aristocratic system.

It took less than three days for Sean to declare war on Tinchin. Adjacent territories around these two territories knew the news immediately. Ten days later, most of the southern nobles in Dabion knew about this matter, and several nobles including Asuna also knew about it.

...

In the middle of the night, in the conference room of the lord's mansion in the Tonis Fortress, Asuna gently put the information that had been passed on to everyone in the room back on the table.

Her brows were tightly frowned, which made the already somewhat heroic body exude a chill.

"It's not like... Xiao En's style." Simi said with some doubts, "Although I don't have deep contact with him, his behavior is very regular and he knows the aristocratic system very well, so it is unlikely that he will Do something like this to be caught."

"Indeed." Elizabeth next to her also nodded slightly. "This brat is very cautious. He is not a noble yet, so how could he say something like declaring war?" Thinking of this, Elizabeth's brows were also tightly frowned, with a strange expression on her face: "Unless..."

Speaking of which. Elizabeth did not continue talking, but both Asuna and Simi looked thoughtful.

only one person.

Vivienne asked with a puzzled look, "Unless what?"

Although magicians are wise. But Vivienne is not a simple magician. It's another branch of professional magic warriors with similar characteristics to arcane warriors, so Vivienne is not as wise as her two companions. This woman believes in direct violent crushing.

Asuna looked at Vivian helplessly, rubbed her temples with a headache,

Then he opened his mouth and said, "Unless Sean is in a hurry."

Vivienne just doesn't like to think much, but it doesn't mean that she is really stupid.

Asuna said so. Vivienne understood immediately. However, unlike the contemplative expressions of Asuna, Elizabeth, and Simi, Vivienne was quite happy: "Isn't this great? If we don't express our position now, they will definitely not take Sean seriously. Maybe those nobles will join forces to trouble him. When the time comes, we will put more pressure on them and humiliate them severely, so we won’t be afraid that they will fight us first.”

"We are not afraid that they will start war against us, but what if they just declare war?" Elizabeth said.

"Then let's fight back." Vivienne said with a natural look on her face, "They certainly won't be so stupid as to declare war on us, but it's enough for us to stand firmly behind Xiao En. ...Nugu The Si family has become more and more arrogant recently."

Elizabeth shook her head, and said softly: "Things will not be that simple.... To declare war as Sean, even if he is a lord, does not conform to the rights and interests of nobles. This is tantamount to challenging the class of nobles." gone."

"That's simple, let him become a nobleman." Vivienne said again.

"This is indeed a good way." Simi said immediately, "We can't give a title that is too high, but it's okay to give it to a baron directly."

A real noble like Asuna who has the status of a powerful marquis in a principality can naturally give his followers formal noble status, but these noble identities need to be declared to the royal family of the principality. , Only after being approved by the Grand Duke can it be officially recognized. Of course, it is impossible to grant titles without limit. Even for a person like Asuna, he can only give three earl titles, three viscount identities and five baron identities at most, and the viscount The above knighthood identities must also be reported to the royal family, and they can only be officially owned after being approved by the royal family. As for whether it is a real noble, it depends on whether Asuna is willing to carve out a piece of land in her own territory as the new nobleman's fief, but once granted, the territory will no longer belong to Asuna jurisdiction and rule.

Similarly, although this nobleman was entrusted from Asuna's side, he is actually already a nobleman entrusted by the state.

After all, formal noble territories are different from knights and jazz territories.

Strictly speaking, Sean is only a knight title now, so the Panda collar, Dai collar, and Chirav collar he has conquered now belong to Asuna's territory, as long as Asuna wants it , she can take back all these territories. To put it simply, the three territories that Sean currently owns were all "loaned" to Sean by Asuna.

But if Sean became a baron now, then he would naturally be able to legitimately own the territory around Panda Land and Black Swan Castle, which happened to be the size of a standard baronie. If you count the Dayi collar and the Chirav collar. Then Sean would have no problem even if he wanted to become an Earl. If the Tinky Land that was about to be annexed was added, Sean's territory would be almost on par with Asuna's Tonis Land.

Of course, these are not the key points. The point is that if Asuna wants to confer Sean as a baron, she does not need to be personally approved by Grand Duke Ryan, she has the qualification herself. Of course, a report after the event is still needed, but in this way, it can block other attacks from all the nobles at the moment.

Baron, although it is only the lowest title, is indeed considered an orthodox nobleman.

Especially a field baron!

That's at least a lot higher than any baronial honour. If it weren't for Asuna's three earls' quotas being used up. Moreover, all titles above Viscount need to be approved by Grand Duke Ryan, and Asuna can naturally grant a higher title.

Of course, the so-called field is actually just a saying, because everyone knows that Sean's current strength is already comparable to a powerful count. This is still at the level of the kingdom. If it is purely for comparison in the Principality of Ryan, it is considered to give Xiao En the title of Marquis of Strength. Not at all excessive.

It's just that there are all kinds of unspoken rules in the aristocratic circle. Like a baron, the most he can do is to obtain a piece of territory to become a field baron. If he wants to gain real power and hold an important position, he must be above a viscount. As for the prefix of strength, it is possible to have at least one title above an earl. Moreover, most powerful earls usually have the accumulation of more than several generations before they can become a powerful earl.

Someone like Asuna has become a powerful Marquis in just a few decades by relying on her own strength. It's not uncommon in this world, but it's definitely a very rare type.

As for those civilians who want to hold important positions, it is not impossible, but the effort and cost required are ten times or even hundreds of times that of the nobles.

Hardly think about it. Asuna immediately drew up a document, which directly proved Xiao En's baron status. However, in this way, Sean has officially escaped from Asuna's protection, and thus officially came into the sight of the Principality of Ryan and the Kingdom of Darbion. This is obviously not good for the upcoming actions of the Millennium Covenant Empire. But Asuna also knew that if she didn't draft this document immediately and make a decision, then Sean's declaration of war this time would be a provocation to all nobles in the entire continent, and even if she stepped forward at that time, she would definitely not be able to keep Sean.

Asuna still understands that the harm between the two powers is the lesser.

Besides, once the war breaks out, even the Millennium Covenant Empire cannot go to the Void City.

At this moment, Asuna immediately understood why Sean was in a hurry.

Obviously, the threat of the Millennium Covenant Empire is too great.

At the same time, in a tavern in the Tonis Fortress, Turman also received information that Sean had declared war on the Territory of Tinky.

He just glanced at it, put it aside casually, and said in a deep voice, "Is there still no news about Dills?"

"Yes." It is still the intelligence officer, who has been directly responsible to Turman recently, "And when Domingo was expelled from the Panda territory, Void City seemed to immediately fall into a cleansing operation. Now we are in The intelligence system in Void City has been completely paralyzed."

"So how was the last time you were asked to investigate?"

"We spent ten days getting close to William at all costs, but he never came out after he entered, and the contact with him was completely severed." The intelligence officer said, "So I evaluate, William this Man cannot be a subject of an empire."

"Then what about the Phoenix bloodline?"

"We have locked three targets. They are Rena, Cecilia and Hina, but we have no way to continue to investigate the specific one."

"I see." Turman nodded, "It's none of your business from now on. If I'm not mistaken, the Marquis of Tonis will immediately make that lord a baron, so that The matter of declaring war has become justifiable, and we will have no chance to go to Panda to lead it. ... But this is also good, I will go directly to get people when the time comes, and save trouble. You just need to prepare the retreat route. .”

"yes!"

PS: I didn't sleep all night the day before yesterday, and I didn't sleep until 5 o'clock in the afternoon yesterday, but I fell asleep on Christmas Eve as soon as I woke up. It was really safe, ahaha! (To be continued) [This text is intentionally provided by the Qihang update team with parallel importers @蜜豆萝吧@小乐鸡@神元师师@神韵] If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation. )