After dealing with the Strasbourg rebellion, Charlotte suddenly realized that these people from the New Continent possessed immense wealth: the land of the New Continent itself.
Those capable of organizing people to return to the Old Continent were either leaders of a major region, federal heads of some locality, or, at the very least, city lords. They naturally held legal claims to certain lands in the New Continent.
Charlotte openly priced the dozens of cities in South Seraph and demanded that these New Continent immigrants bid for them with land in the New Continent. This successfully divided the majority of the New Continent Council's members. After all, they had already left the New Continent, and its land was worthless to them. Being suddenly able to trade it for land in South Seraph was practically a "deal requiring no capital," one where everyone could win big.
For Charlotte, this brought even more benefits.
Once the New Continent Council united, its strength rivaled that of any empire in the Old Continent. Even Charlotte would have found it troublesome. But once he split all of South Seraph's cities, villages, and towns into separate targets, the New Continent Council's members naturally fractured into little groups defending their own interests. They would never again be united as one.
Everyone in this world had selfish desires.
A New Continent Council that was no longer a cohesive team, with chairmen and council members each pursuing their own interests, was merely a loose alliance.
Second, he would gain legal ownership of vast tracts of land in the New Continent.
Charlotte had transmigrated from the modern era. On modern Earth, legal claims to land were extremely important. Countless international treaties and agreements of every kind formed the order of the world. There had been far too many rotten cases