As before, the appearance of Elector did not complete the plan of the Northwind Province nobles to annex the land. The nobles surrounded Volvo for several days, and this 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 at Northwind Province in a carriage. He is the powerful elder of the Mayers Family and the brother of the Grand Duke.
At the same age, the great justice was in his prime, but this Kaan was already getting old. He had 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 Mayers Family, and he manages all the heirs within the Mayers Family.
Such a person should stay in the Grand Duchy, but he didn't expect to appear in Northwind 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 Northwind Province's land, so the nobles do not need to consider the emperor's part. Northwind Province will be managed by the Mayers Family. Volvo's interests here will also be guaranteed, and he will not have to bear 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 Northwind Province, there are also problems in two directions: Imperial House and Meyers. Now that the representatives of Imperial House's Elector and Mayers Family appear, it means that all conditions have been reasonably achieved.
However, when Kaan·Meyers arrived, the first thing they did was not to argue with the nobles, but to expel Count Pascal from Northwind Province.
Count Pascal, Gargoyle Count, and Ryan were also surprised by this result, because Count Pascal only had one place in Northwind Province, and the wonders of Church of Light were guarded by Gargoyle.
Count Pascal and Grand Cathedral of Light previously reached a cooperation, allowing Gargoyle to become the guard of the church in Northwind Province's wonder, 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? He can't do anything at Northwind Province.
Ryan did not ask, but wrote to Danube Province and Count Pascal to ask him the reason.
The reply came quickly. Count Pascal was also very angry and had already started questioning Grand Duke Mayers. He didn't know the answer either.
"It's weird."
Zero Crossing City, Ryan watched the noisy noise of the nobles with interest, but never waited for an explanation about this matter.
But within two days Ryan couldn't stay out of it, because this guy Kaan·Meyers found him.
"Do you want to be a member of the Northern Territory Merchant Guild?"
Ryan looked at the middle-aged man in front of him. As soon as the Meyers people came to Northwind Province, they started causing trouble, which made Lord Ryan not so happy.
"Baron Ryan, I can still hear your famous name even in the distant South. Northern Territory Merchant Guild was organized by you. Meyers believes that with Baron Ryan's wisdom, Northern Territory Merchant Guild can become one of the top ten chambers of commerce in the Empire. Of course we also see the benefits."
Kaan talked eloquently and said:
"With the help of Meyers, Northern Territory Merchant Guild's supplies can be easily sold to more places. This is the power of the Mayers Family."
Kaan looked at Ryan and smiled, he believed that Ryan would not refuse.
"Sorry, the original intention of the Northern Territory Merchant Guild was that only nobles close to Northlands could participate. Northwind Province is very poor, so we need to establish a chamber of commerce to gain wealth."
"Mayers Family is moving to Northwind Province?"
Ryan asked back, making Kaan look a little angry.
How could Meyers move to this place, and Ryan refused him, leaving him confused about what to do with many things in the future.
Meyers wants to coordinate the power of Northwind Province, whether it is wealth or nobility.
This requires an entry point. Kaan chose Northern Territory Merchant Guild, who wanted to use the economy to control the obedience of the nobles here.
Because Meyers didn't want to get too involved in the matter of land. The annexation of land should have been a silent matter, but Northwind Province turned out to be so hot here.
"Baron Ryan, don't you want Northlands's resources 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 sell Northern Territory Merchant Guild's supplies at the feet of Holy Mountain."
Kaan is extremely confident, and the power of the Mayers Family is part of the power of the Empire.
Ryan was extremely surprised and looked at Kaan in front of him in shock.
"Mayers Family can actually sell things to Holy Mountain? Are you colluding with the Church?"
Kaan raised his head slowly, 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:
"If you are not colluding with the Church, why are you targeting Gargoyle Soldiers of Count Pascal? Because of the light incident, many people in the Pascal Family have been attacked by the Church."
"They stand firmly against the Church, 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 Gargoyle. He asked Viscount Hogg. There was no conflict between Kaan and Pascal, or between Meyers and Pascal. The two parties had not met several times before, so there would be no conflicts.
"Hmph!"
"It is impossible for Meyers to betray Empire. Baron Ryan, your worries are unnecessary. We will always be loyal to the great His Majesty Emperor Flor and loyal to the Empire."
Kaan is firm in his position, and Ryan will not stop questioning it.
"Then why do you want to expel Gargoyle from Count Pascal?"
Kaan stared at Ryan with suspicious eyes.
"Why would Baron Ryan pay attention to this matter? What we are discussing is Northern Territory Merchant Guild."
"Why can't we discuss it? Do you know that most of the current sources of food in my territory are from Danube Province?"
"You expelled Gargoyle, and Count Pascal wrote to ask me what happened to Northwind Province. That Gargoyle Count was extremely angry. If I can'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 Kaan in front of him coldly. He was right. Count Pascal was indeed very angry now. Mayers Family was fine with targeting a small noble, but there was no doubt about Count Pascal's power. If he didn't react after being treated like this, he would be laughed at by the whole Empire.
This incident is bound to affect the relationship between Northwind Province and Danube Province, thereby causing a blow to Frozen Earth Territory's way of obtaining food.
It wouldn't matter if I didn't sell it to him. The key point is that those nobles who share the same hatred will increase the price.
The increase of one Gold Coin was all caused by the Kaan in front of him, and it was his Ryan loss.
"You don't have to give Count Pascal an explanation, but you have to give me an explanation."
Ryan looked at Kaan in front of him. The atmosphere between the two sides suddenly became tense. This made Kaan 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, Kaan felt a little uneasy. The other party was too aggressive.
Thinking of his identity, Kaan also snorted and stood up and walked outside, ignoring Ryan. He would not explain to Ryan the reason for expelling Gargoyle.
Ryan did not stop the other party. Looking at the back of Kaan leaving, Ryan suddenly felt that this "little thing" was not that simple.
Ryan also learned about it through the channels of Viscount Hogg and the channels of the Melendez Family and Clayton Family.
"Count Pascal, at the beginning of the year, I got close to Elector."
Viscount Hogg told Ryan this, making Ryan frown a little.
"It's nothing new that nobles choose Elector, but because of this, 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 out for profit. The benefits brought by the nobles and Imperial House, there will also be intertwined interests between the nobles and the nobles, and they will not get things done."
"That's alright, that's not the reason."
On the other side, Kaan looked at the nobles in front of him with a gloomy expression, wondering why Northwind Province was manipulated by Baron!
"Northern Territory Merchant Guild's resources come from you. As long as you withdraw, Northern Territory Merchant Guild can only be called the Frozen Earth Territory caravan. Why, I just promised to give you the land for your heirs, and you want to burn bridges across the river?"
"Mr. Kaan, you are thinking too simply."
Count Soron's eldest son Fidel said with a helpless expression.
"You want us to withdraw from the Northern Territory Merchant Guild 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 agree."
Kaan said this. His arrival and working with Volvo to solve the troublesome land annexation issue here at Northwind Province will offend many people and gain friends at the same time.
The value of a noble seat is unimaginable. He believed that the nobles would not dare to object to this trivial matter.
"Really?"
Fidel 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 inside our Dragon Mountain City need to be transported and preserved with fine sand to keep them smooth and delicate. Of course, this is not important, but some The resources in the hands of the nobles have very strict storage conditions. For example, the fruit trees in Viscount Walter's Domain will deteriorate even if they are exposed to the air for too long. There are also some problems with meat. Mr. Kaan should be aware of the smell after being stored for a few days."
"Frozen Earth Territory has the ice warehouse Northern Territory Merchant Guild, 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 Northern Territory Merchant Guild's supplies are now sold to the Andara Kingdom and Sera Kingdom next door, with a small amount sold to South, Danube Province, Volga Province, Calais Province and Imperial Capital."
"Without Baron Ryan, 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."
Fidel said truthfully, the nobles of Northwind Province do have interests intertwined with Elector and Mayers Family, but this does not mean that the interest network between the nobles and Baron Ryan is completely isolated. On the contrary, everyone is a noble of Northwind Province, and the interest issues are even closer.
Exclusion and regional unity are not simply formed by everyone living together, but in order to prevent their own interests from being damaged.
Kaan The meeting here broke up unhappy. He found some nobles, but the result was the same as Fidel said. Those nobles were hesitant to hand over resources to him.
"Perhaps, Baron Ryan will not make us lose our wealth."
They politely rejected Kaan, leaving Kaan with a gloomy face and went directly to Volvo.
"It's useless for you to find me. I am Elector, but the power in my hand is only to reestablish the title of West Coast Fleet. In this land, my words do not belong to any form of command."
The emperor and Elector were father and son, but they were also competitors for power. Before Elector was tested, he had almost no power, and the constraints on the nobles were infinitely close to zero.
"As for the problem you encountered, maybe I can tell you an answer."
Volvo looked at Kaan and didn't understand why Grand Duke Mayers would send a person specifically responsible for managing the family's bloodline heirs to Northwind Province.
"The nobles of Northwind Province need the power of Baron Ryan to help them fight against the threat of death."
"Those Orcs have not disappeared, and as long as Northwind Province is close to Northlands for one day, Northwind Province's nobles will need Baron Ryan for one 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 Ryan in this land?"
"Maybe you can make the nobles richer, but Baron Ryan 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 we 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 is a little sentimental.
"Ryan, to be honest, if you hadn't insisted, I would have sent Lynn to South. You know, I have an aunt married to South."
"If we had done that, maybe Lynn would not have become the Ashen Knight it is today. In him, I saw my father's original desire to come to Northwind Province. He wanted to revive Hatton Family, but I couldn't do it."
"I didn't dare to say it before, for fear of making you laugh, but it's different now. Lynn can rekindle the family's honor."
"But I was really afraid of death before. Those damn Orcs, they won't let me go just because I am a noble. Those Werewolves will kill us nobles and become the new rulers of this land."
Ryan looked at Baron Hatton and said:
"So, we need to improve our power."
"Humans have only one weapon to fight Northlands and Orcs, and that is courage."
"Courage allows us to defeat Orcs, but fear and fear will only make us continue to be depressed and become corpses under the fangs of Orcs."
"Do you think an army of eight knights can kill an army of eighty Werewolves?"
One against ten, it is still a war. The nobles are not novices. They have experienced and are continuing the war with Orcs. Each noble shook his head hesitantly.
"It's impossible. It's difficult for a Formal Knight to kill a Werewolves."
Ryan also agrees, indeed.
"But the eight knights of Zero Crossing City killed hundreds of Orcs at half the cost of the battle. Why?"
"The eight of them are just from the subordinates of Zero Crossing Prefecture and Viscount Hogg. Are their knights stronger than ours?"
This is impossible.
"Then why can they do it? Walk into the Wilds and bring back hundreds of Orcs heads?"
"Because of their courage, they are knights with extraordinary courage. In order to gain the respect of us nobles, in order to get that precious war horse, and for the wealth of one Orcs and one Gold Coin."
"These things gave them courage, just like when humans faced Dragons, those people were called brave whether they were alive or dead."
"If Northwind Province has more brave men, our lives can be protected."
"The humans on this land are afraid of the appearance of Orcs, so they need courage. Orcs is not as powerful as we imagined, isn't it?"
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 selling resources to obtain wealth, but this is not enough after all. We need more ways to obtain wealth and get rid of South's view of us. Only in this way can those corrupt nobles marry their daughters and are willing to marry Northlands nobles."
"In this way, we can avoid the situation where you don't even have anywhere to run when there is danger."
"Of course, nobles will not escape disaster. I am just giving you an example."
"Northern Kingdom's Braveheart Guild can do everything I said."