The greatest trait of the young was daring to act. Upon receiving Hudson's hint, Rackel reported it to the Royal Capital without a second thought.
Let the upper echelons of the duchy worry about this sort of thing!
Although, as the scion of an old noble family, Rackel deeply disliked this rule-breaking approach, compared to the duchy's strategic interests, occasionally crossing the line was still acceptable.
Besides, hadn't the Moxi Duchy crossed plenty of lines already?
Since the Beastfolk invasion began, the Moxi Duchy had passively embarked upon a "top-down path of reform."
After change upon change, the original political system had quietly transformed long ago. The nobles' thinking had shifted from upholding tradition to simply surviving.
The choice to expand outward was fundamentally because the Moxi Duchy's upper ranks had been frightened by one war after another. They had no sense of security whatsoever, and their sense of crisis drove them to seek every possible way to strengthen themselves.
Among the many policies for enriching the country and strengthening the military, foreign expansion was naturally the plan that harmed everyone's interests the least and stood the greatest chance of succeeding.
They had set their sights on the Warhammer Kingdom because that neighbor had declined severely, while its powerful and influential figures foolishly delivered themselves to their doorstep.
To put it bluntly, once both sides officially fell out, they could dispose of the Warhammer Kingdom's upper ranks at once.
"What do you all think of the front line's proposal regarding the Investiture of Nobles?"
George deliberately muddled the issue as he asked.
There was nothing wrong with investing nobles. It was an indispensable activity after every major war. But investing commoners as nobles on a massive scale was another matter entirely.
Even the king could not avoid a headache