Throne of the North

As before, the appearance of the emperor elector did not complete the plan of the nobles of Beifeng Province to annex the land. The nobles surrounded Volvo for several days, and the emperor elector did not dare to openly help them annex the land. .

Until a new name comes into everyone's ears.

Kaan Meyers, a middle-aged man with a big belly, slowly arrived in Beifeng Province in a carriage. He is the powerful elder of the Meyers family and the brother of the Grand Duke.

At the same age, the great justice was in his prime, but this Ka'an was already getting old. He used a lot of extraordinary substances to keep his face young.

He is just an ordinary person, but he holds a large part of the power of the Meyers family, and he manages all the heirs within the Meyers family.

Such a person should stay in the Grand Duke's territory, but he didn't expect to appear in Beifeng Province. This is very confusing.

However, with the arrival of this person, the nobles' pet peeves could finally be put to rest.

"His Majesty the Emperor will not need the land in the North Wind Province, so the nobles do not need to consider the emperor's part. The North Wind Province will be managed by the Meyers family, and Volvo's interests here will also be guaranteed. He does not need to Carrying the reputation of being against the emperor."

The nobles want to annex the land. In addition to the nominal rationality and the division of interests within the Northwind Province, there are also issues between the royal family and the Meyers. Now the emperor elector of the royal family and the Meyers family The presence of a representative means that all conditions have been reasonably met.

However, the first thing Ka'an Meyers did when he arrived was not to argue with the nobles, but to expel Count Pascal from the North Wind Province.

Count Pascal, Count Gargoyle, and Ryan were also surprised by this result, because Count Pascal only had one place in the North Wind Province, the Gargoyle Guard of the Wonderful Light Church.

Count Pascal had previously reached a cooperation with the Cathedral of Light, allowing gargoyles to become the guards of the wonder church in the North Wind Province, in order to show his political correctness and position to the emperor. This was the plan given to him by Ryan.

But why did Meyers expel Count Pascal? There was nothing he could do in the province of North Wind.

Instead of asking, Ryan wrote to Count Pascal in the Danube Province and asked him why.

The reply came quickly, and Count Pascal was also very angry. He had already begun to question Archduke Meyers, and he did not know the answer.

"It's weird."

In Lingdu City, Ryan watched the noise of the nobles with interest, but never waited for an explanation about this matter.

But within two days, Ryan couldn't stay away, because this guy Ka'an Meyers found him.

"Do you want to be a member of the Northern Chamber of Commerce?"

Ryan looked at the middle-aged man in front of him. As soon as Meyers' people came to Beifeng Province, they started causing trouble, which made Master Ryan not so happy.

"Baron Lane, I can still hear your famous name even in the far south. You organized the Northern Chamber of Commerce. Meyers believes that with Baron Lane's wisdom, the Northern Chamber of Commerce can become one of the top ten chambers of commerce in the empire. , we certainly see the benefits.”

Kaan talked eloquently and said:

"With the help of Meyers, the supplies of the Northern Chamber of Commerce can be easily sold to more places. This is the power of the Meyers family."

Ka'an looked at Ryan and smiled, he believed that Ryan would not refuse.

"Sorry, the original intention of establishing the Northern Chamber of Commerce was that only nobles close to the North could participate. Beifeng Province is very poor, so we need to establish a chamber of commerce to gain wealth."

"The Meyers family is moving to Beifeng Province?"

Ryan asked back, making Ka'an look a little angry.

How could Meyers move to this place, and Ryan's rejection of him made him not know what to do with many things in the future.

Meyers wanted to unify the power of Northwind Province, whether it was wealth or nobility.

This requires an entry point. Ka'an chose the Northern Chamber of Commerce and wanted to use the economy to control the obedience of the nobles here.

Because regarding the matter of land, Meyers did not want to be too involved. The annexation of land should have been a silent matter, but it was so hot here in Beifeng Province.

"Baron Ryan, don't you want the resources of the North to be sold to more places and earn more wealth?"

"Of course I do."

Ryan said without denying it.

"Meyers can help you."

Kaan said emphatically.

"We can even let the Northern Chamber of Commerce sell supplies to the foot of the Holy Mountain."

Ka'an is extremely confident, and the strength of the Meyers family is part of the empire's strength.

Ryan was extremely surprised and looked at Ka'an in front of him in shock.

"The Meyers family can actually sell things to the Holy Mountain? Are you colluding with the Holy See?"

Ka'an raised his head slowly, and then looked at Ryan angrily.

"Baron Ryan, please pay attention to your words. You are a noble. How can you slander the firm will of a great noble?"

Ryan still didn't believe it and continued:

"Why did you target Count Pascal's gargoyle soldiers instead of colluding with the Holy See? Because of the light incident, many members of the Pascal family were attacked by the Holy See."

"They firmly stand against the Holy See, but you are expelling them at this time."

"This...it's hard not to make people suspicious."

Ryan asked Kaan about the reason for expelling the gargoyles. He asked Viscount Hogg that there was no conflict between Kaan and Pascal, and between Meyers and Pascal. The two parties had not met several times before, so there would be no conflict. There are contradictions.

"snort!"

"It is impossible for Meyers to betray the empire. Baron Lane, your worries are unnecessary. We will always be loyal to the great Emperor Flor and to the empire."

Ka'an stood firm in his stance, and Ryan would not stop questioning it.

"Then why do you want to expel Count Pascal's gargoyles?"

Ka'an stared at Ryan with suspicion.

"Why would Baron Ryan pay attention to this matter? We are discussing the Northern Chamber of Commerce."

"Why can't we discuss it? Do you know that most of the sources of food in my territory now come from Danube Province?"

"You drove away the gargoyles. Count Pascal wrote to ask me what happened in the North Wind Province. The gargoyle count was extremely angry. If I don't give him an explanation, people will start to starve to death in my territory next year. ”

"When the time comes... I will divide you among my people to eat?"

Ryan looked at Ca'an coldly in front of him. What he said was correct. Count Pascal was indeed very angry now. It would be fine if the Meyers family targeted a small nobleman, but there was no doubt that Count Pascal was powerful. If you don't respond to the treatment, you will be laughed at by the entire empire.

This incident is bound to affect the relationship between the North Wind Province and the Danube Province, which will cause the Tundra Territory's access to food to be hit.

It doesn't matter if I don't sell it to him. The key is that those nobles who share the same hatred will increase the price.

The increase of one gold coin was all caused by Ka'an in front of him, and it was his loss, Ryan.

"You don't have to give Count Pascal an explanation, but you have to give me an explanation."

Ryan looked at Ka'an in front of him. The atmosphere between the two sides became tense for a moment, which made Ka'an a little overwhelmed. He didn't understand how it could become like this. Suddenly, it seemed like a war was about to begin.

Looking at Baron Ryan in front of him, Ka'an felt a little uneasy. The other party was too aggressive.

Thinking of his identity, Ka'an also snorted and stood up and walked outside, ignoring Ryan. He would not explain to Ryan the reason for expelling the gargoyles.

Ryan didn't stop the other party. Looking at Ka'an's leaving figure, Ryan suddenly felt that this 'little thing' was not that simple.

Lane also learned through the channels of Viscount Hogg and the Melendez family and the Clayton family.

"Count Pascal, at the beginning of the year, he got close to an emperor elector."

Viscount Hogg told Ryan this, which made Ryan frown a little.

"It's nothing new for nobles to choose emperor electors, but because of this kind of thing, nobles hate each other. Is there any precedent for this?"

Ryan looked at Viscount Hogg, who hesitated for a moment, then shook his head.

"The nobles are for profit. The benefits brought by the nobles and the royal family will also have intertwined interests between the nobles and the nobles, and they will not get things done."

"That's it, that's not the reason."

On the other side, Ka'an looked at the nobles in front of him with a gloomy expression, wondering why the North Wind Province was manipulated by a baron!

"The resources of the Northern Chamber of Commerce come from you. As long as you withdraw, the Northern Chamber of Commerce can only be called the Tundra Territory Caravan. Why, I just promised to give you the land for your heirs, and you want to burn bridges across the river?"

"Mr. Ka'an, you are thinking too simply."

Feder, the eldest son of Earl Sauron, said with a helpless expression.

"You want us to withdraw from the Northern Chamber of Commerce and then form a new Northwind Province Chamber of Commerce. It's not that simple. First of all, the resources in the hands of those nobles will not be handed over to us."

"I will give them land and they will say yes."

Ka'an said this, his arrival and working with Volvo to solve the troublesome land annexation here in the Northwind Province will offend many people and at the same time he will naturally gain friends.

The value of a noble seat is unimaginable. He believed that the nobles would not dare to object to this trivial matter.

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"Yeah?"

Feder smiled and then continued:

"In addition, a large amount of materials are concentrated and require warehouses, but the storage conditions of many resources are different. For example, the rubies in our Longshan City need to be transported and preserved with fine sand to keep them smooth and delicate. Of course, this is not important. , but some resources in the hands of nobles have very harsh storage conditions. For example, the fruit trees in the territory of Viscount Walter will deteriorate even if they are exposed to the air for too long. There are also some problems with meat. Mr. Kaan should not be able to taste the smell after being stored for a few days. Never understood it.”

"The Tundra Territory has the Northern Chamber of Commerce's ice cellar warehouse, which can perfectly store all materials. If you want to establish a new Chamber of Commerce, who will be responsible for this? And where should you choose to build the warehouse?"

"There is also a third question. Most of the supplies of the Northern Chamber of Commerce are now sold to the neighboring kingdoms of Andara and Serra, and a small amount is sold to the south, in Danube Province, Volga Province, Calais Province and the Imperial Capital. city."

"Without Baron Lane, we wouldn't be able to sell our supplies at all."

"Maybe Meyers can help us expand more markets, but before that, I still want to question what you said before, Mr. Kaan."

"Can you really ask those nobles to hand over their resources to others?"

"You might as well ask first if any nobles want to do this."

Fedel said truthfully, the nobles of the North Wind Province are indeed intertwined with the interests of the Emperor-Elect and the Meyers family, but this does not mean that the interest network between the nobles and Baron Lane is completely isolated. On the contrary, everyone is The interests of the nobles of Beifeng Province are even more closely related.

Exclusion and regional unity are not simply formed by everyone living together, but in order to prevent their own interests from being damaged.

The meeting here in Ka'an broke up unhappy. He found some nobles, but the result was the same as Fedel said. Those nobles were hesitant to hand over resources to him.

"Maybe Baron Lane won't let us lose our wealth."

They politely rejected Ka'an, leaving Ka'an with a gloomy face and went directly to Volvo.

"It's useless for you to look for me. I am the Emperor Chosen, but the power in my hand is only to rebuild the West Sea Fleet. In this land, my words do not belong to any form of order."

The emperor and the elector are father and son, but they are also competitors for power. Before the elector is tested, the elector has almost no power, and the constraints on the nobles are infinitely close to zero.

"As for the problem you encountered, maybe I can tell you an answer."

Volvo looked at Ka'an and wondered why Grand Duke Meyers would send a person specifically responsible for managing the family's bloodline heirs to Beifeng Province.

"The nobles of Northwind Province need the power of Baron Lane to help them fight against the threat of death."

"Those orcs have not disappeared, and as long as the Northwind Province is close to the north for a day, the nobles of the Northwind Province will need Baron Ryan for a day."

"They are plundering the land of dead nobles, but they are even more afraid that they will become dead nobles and lose their inheritance and land."

"Now, do you understand the importance of Baron Lane in this land?"

"Maybe you can make the nobles richer, but Baron Lane can keep the nobles alive."

…

"Living, this is a very heavy topic."

"Perhaps we could laugh and discuss our life and death, the inheritance of our family, and the future of our territory."

"But now, I don't think any of us can face the threat of death with a smile."

Ryan raised the metal wine glass in his hand.

"To those friends of ours, to their deaths and to our lives."

Next to Ryan, Baron Hatton was a little sentimental.

"Lian, to be honest, if you hadn't insisted, I would have sent Lien to the south. You know, I have an aunt who married in the south."

"If I had done that, maybe Lien wouldn't have become the Ash Knight today. In him, I saw my father's desire when he came to Beifeng Province. He wanted to revive the Hatton family, but I couldn't do it. arrive."

"I didn't dare to say it before, for fear of making you laugh, but it's different now. Lien can rekindle the family's honor."

"But I was really afraid of death before. Those damn orcs would not let me go just because I was a noble. Those werewolves would kill us nobles and become the new rulers of this land."

Ryan looked at Baron Hatton and said:

"So, we need to improve our strength."

"Humans have only one weapon to fight against the North and against the orcs, and that is courage."

"Courage allows us to defeat the orcs, but fear and fear will only make us depressed and become corpses under the fangs of the orcs."

"Do you think an army of eight knights can kill an army of eighty werewolves?"

One against ten, it was still a war. The nobles were not novices. They had experienced and were continuing the war with the orcs. Each noble shook his head hesitantly.

"It's impossible. It's difficult for a formal knight to kill a werewolf."

Ryan agrees, indeed.

"But the eight knights of Lingdu City killed hundreds of orcs at half the cost of the battle. Why?"

"The eight of them are just from Lingdu County and Viscount Hogg. Are their knights stronger than ours?"

it's out of the question.

"So why can they do it? Go into the wilderness and bring back hundreds of orc heads?"

"Because of their courage, they are knights with extraordinary courage. In order to gain the respect of us nobles, to get that precious war horse, and for the wealth of one gold coin for an orc."

"These things gave them courage, just like when humans faced the dragon, those people were called brave whether they were alive or dead."

"If there are more brave men in Beifeng Province, our lives can be protected."

"Humans on this land are afraid of the appearance of orcs, so they need courage. Orcs are not as powerful as we imagine, aren't they?"

Faced with this problem, many nobles fell silent and began to think about the feasibility of what Ryan said.

"In the final analysis, these people can help us create wealth."

"We need soldiers, but the cost of training soldiers is high, and some people are not suitable to be soldiers, even if they are tall and strong."

"We also need wealth. In the past, we relied on selling iron ore and resources to gain wealth, but this is not enough. We need more ways to gain wealth and get rid of the views of the South on us. In this way, those corrupt nobles will marry their daughters to us and are willing to marry the nobles of the North."

"In this way, you can avoid the situation where you have nowhere to run when you are in danger."

"Of course, the nobles will not escape from disasters. I am just giving an example."

"What I said, the Northern Brave Guild can do."