"Rest assured, sir. As long as the information you bring is valuable enough, I will naturally step forward to protect your family.
"As for the July Association, that will depend on their conduct.
"In fact, I have already taken in some members of the July Association. I hold no prejudice against any of you.
"We all come from the Northlands and share common enemies. We should be friends!"
Hudson said with a smile.
In this world, where one's origins mattered, the Coslo Family, which had risen from the Northlands, naturally found it easier to gain the trust of July Association members.
If one flipped through the family genealogy and traced it upward, one could probably find some distant blood relationship, however tenuous.
In this regard, the Coslo Family had always been reassuring. As long as they put down roots somewhere for a century or two, relatives would end up everywhere.
When they had been weak, those connections had meant nothing. But once they grew powerful, even the most distant family ties could be renewed.
The Coslo Family now happened to be powerful enough, and its network of connections, severed for years, had been restored over the past few years.
Among the July Association, which consisted of fallen nobles, the only great noble family they could truly connect with was the Coslo Family.
The earlier poaching from the July Association had gone smoothly not only because of Baron Katerley's efforts, but also because Hudson had promoted the idea of them being "one of us."
It was not merely lip service; they had put it into practice. Hudson had not personally participated, but the other members of the Coslo Family had worked hard at it.
To avoid wasting talent, Hudson had sent the older generation of the family to handle their network