The Extraordinary Earl

Strategy is definitely a good strategy.

The current Kingdom of Prussia has a bit of the flavor of the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The King of Prussia's prestige plummeted due to a certain major incident, and all the nobles with titles in the provinces across the country had established their own families.

They all joined together to keep warm. Although they were still nominally vassals of the king, they were no longer kings of birds.

Now the twenty or thirty nobles in the Orange Province are actually nobles. One by one, they are all princes. The biggest boss is the Count of Libya.

The Pompeii family are vassals of the Barton family.

In total, he is a military commander with real power.

To stand out in the entire Orange Province and demonstrate force and strength is a very, very reliable strategy.

So this time Lelouch and Luther thought of going together, not only to recruit residents, but also to promote that there was a Pompeii family in Orange.

Originally, this matter was a bit taboo. After all, they were vassals of the Barton family. If they were too sharp, wouldn't the Lord's family be happy?

But didn’t Luther ask his dad for advice? His dad said it’s okay, just do whatever you want.

Luther still believed in his father's political ability, so he dared to think and act.

In fact, the reason is very simple. First, the Barton family has a knight vassal who owns a town and has greater military strength and financial resources than the Pompeii family.

If the Pompeii family develops, it will just be one more great vassal, nothing.

The second is that Old Sol has hidden his strength. With his high-ranking knight's strength, he actually has a place in the entire Barton Territory and can be used as a general.

Besides, now Old Sol has the possibility of being promoted to a Grand Knight. If Old Thor really becomes a Grand Knight, then Old Thor will be the strongest man in the entire Barton Territory.

Not to mention one town, even two or three towns is not a problem.

Of course, this kind of acquisition by force is unreliable. According to normal circumstances, a family of knight lords in the countryside cannot become a grand knight in every generation.

If the family's strength declines, its power will definitely shrink.

But Saul Sr. trusted his son, Luther Pompey.

So Old Saul's idea was to develop upward and become a baron in his own generation, or Luther's generation. When the time comes, rely on huge power, financial resources, and magic potions to accumulate everything from grandsons to great-grandsons to become great knights.

Secure the position of Baron Pompeii.

Old Saul didn't elaborate on these things with Luther. He just took one action, son, I support you.

All in all, Old Saul was Luther's strong backing. Luther dared to think and do anything and was very courageous.

The topic has returned to its original point. How can we eliminate a notorious group of thieves rooted in the Orange Province and demonstrate force?

It would definitely not be possible to fight with more than a dozen knights from the Pompeii family, and they would not be able to defeat them.

Then the only way left is to ask the mercenary group to take action.

This is not a matter of losing face. Financial resources are also a part of force. How powerful is a person who can afford a mercenary group to demonstrate force for his family?

It is also a type of strength.

And it can be whitewashed at that time, for example, the Pompeii family united with a certain mercenary group to wipe out a certain notorious bandit group.

Everyone works together.

All in all, this is a good choice.

But the question is how much does that cost?

Luther asked Lelouch to find a group of thieves entrenched near the Barton Territory. This group of thieves was called the "Autumn Wind Thieves Group".

The leader is a high-ranking knight named Omima.

A very common name and no surname. Proving that the senior knight was a commoner by birth. In fact, the knights who became thieves were all civilians.

No knight of noble birth would become a thief.

Because nobles have enjoyed a refined and luxurious life since they were young, they will not become thieves unless they encounter something particularly serious, such as being exterminated or being hunted.

No one knows the experience of the leader of the Autumn Wind Thieves, Knight Omima, before he became a thief. When he came out, he was a high-level knight with strong wind fighting spirit.

He recruited a group of civilian knights and established the Autumn Wind Thieves Group.

He has been entrenched on a mountain range between the Barton Territory and the territory of another great nobleman, living a happy life of robbery.

It has been more than ten years ago.

The band of thieves now has thirty or forty official knights, and thirty-two of them have names and bounties on them. The proportion of intermediate knights was actually ten.

Not to mention the knights who are hiding in the dark and may not have been seen before.

It is best to treat this Qiufeng Thieves Group as a group of thieves with forty or fifty knights, otherwise it will easily capsize in the gutter.

The behavior of this Qiufeng bandit group is relatively mild among thieves. For more than ten years, they have only committed robberies and collected protection fees.

Rarely did they attack towns within Patton's territory.

Because of the strong strength of the thieves group, Baron was afraid that his strength would be compromised, so he never took action against this group of thieves.

There are reasons.

This group of Autumn Wind thieves is located between two territories. Why should I take action?

This is a very typical idea, and it is also the reason why thieves groups breed throughout the Orange Province.

The intelligence collected by Lelouch was relatively detailed. After Luther checked, he discovered a big problem. The total reward on the heads of this group of Autumn Wind thieves was a total of 80,000 yuan.

Among them, the bounty for the senior knight Omima, the leader of the Autumn Wind Thieves, was 30,000 gold coins, and the rest was shared among the knights under his command.

As long as you obtain the heads of these members, you can go to the residence of the Orange Consul and the Count of Libya to collect the reward.

Coupled with the wealth obtained by the band of thieves who have been robbing for many years.

This is a very tempting idea, to make a fortune by robbing gangs of thieves.

But the problem is not calculated in this way.

The first thing is that we have to attack such a group of thieves. Can we keep all those knights? Losing an Omima means losing thirty thousand bounties.

And after the thieves rob, will they keep the accumulated wealth? The reason why many knights become thieves is because they can get money quickly. Many of them will exchange the money for potions to increase their strength.

This is also an important reason why there are only thirty-two knights in the Autumn Wind Thieves Group, but the proportion of intermediate knights is as high as ten.

In other words, if you rob this band of thieves, you may not get corresponding loot.

Luther estimated that the price of hiring a mercenary group to destroy such a group of thieves would be at least 100,000 gold coins.

What if the bounty obtained, plus the loot, is only 50,000 gold coins? Then the Pompeii family will lose 50,000 gold coins.

Is this transaction worth it?

Because he had previously given the name of the President of the United States to the leader of the band of thieves, he was harmonized by the asterisk. Now changed to Omima.

However, there may be errors or omissions in the revision. If an asterisk appears in the text, it means the leader.