Now they all want to bite off a piece of flesh and blood from the Douglas family to fill their insatiable stomachs!
Thinking of this, a direct descendant of the Douglas family slammed the table angrily and said:
"These ungrateful bastards are so despicable! It's fine if they don't want to help, but they are actually rushing to attack our family! Have these people forgotten the friendship we had in the past?"
At the beginning of Prince Douglas's downfall, these people were still on the side of their family and wrote to the emperor saying that there must be a misunderstanding.
But when the news of Prince Douglas' death was confirmed, most of these people shut up.
When the emperor's order to strip them of their titles came out, all of these people, whether they had kept silent before or had spoken up to plead for mercy, instantly turned against the Douglas family and stood opposite them.
The middle and low-level nobles who had been bowing and nodding in front of them now treated them like commodities!
Such a huge contrast is really hard for Douglas' direct descendants to accept.
So as soon as this sentence was uttered, many people began to agree and echo the condemnation of those hateful ungrateful people.
But until now, it was still the young people of the Douglas family who were talking. The adults in charge were sitting quietly on the side.
After a long while, a middle-aged man finally opened his mouth and shouted:
"Silence! We are not here to quarrel today!"
The hall, which was noisy just now, suddenly became silent.
Everyone looked at young Lord Douglas.
Although most people here know that there is no hope, they still can't help but hope that the head of the family can come up with a proper solution.
But unfortunately, people here are destined to be disappointed.
Because young Lord Douglas knew very well the crux of the matter.
His father, Prince Douglas, has died, and the Douglas family's greatest pillar has completely collapsed. What's most fatal is that the Douglas family does have quite a few extraordinary ways and characteristics.
But only the part of Prince Douglas could reach Sequence 4 and above. And the Lorans would definitely not return Prince Douglas' extraordinary characteristics, and it was even a question whether they had successfully intercepted this part of the extraordinary characteristics.
In other words, the once high and mighty Angel Family suddenly fell to the level of not even being considered a Demigod Family.
In this way, it is basically impossible for the Douglas family to retain their original fiefdom.
They could neither defend such a large fiefdom, nor should they have such a large fiefdom.
This was something young Lord Douglas understood from the beginning.
But he didn't expect the emperor to be so cruel...
It is obvious that my father did not commit treason but died for his country!
Thinking of this, young Lord Douglas could not help but clench his fists, not even noticing that his nails were embedded in his flesh!
At the beginning, he even fantasized about gaining the favor and support of the royal family by actively offering part of his fiefdom.
It turned out that the royal family was the most ruthless and merciless towards them!
Whenever he thought of this, he would tremble with anger!
At the same time, the royal family’s tough attitude is also one of the two biggest problems in this matter.
His father died for his country, so the Douglas family lost their angels or even demigods. This was a big problem, but not as serious as the royal family's adding insult to injury.
If the emperor had not made clear his tough attitude of stripping the title, how could the nobles surrounding the Douglas family be so cruel and impatient
How come there is no one in the government or the public who can truly speak for them
If either of these two problems occurs alone, it is not a fatal problem, but if both of them appear at the same time.
Young Lord Douglas discovered in despair that their family had reached the end of its road!
The Douglas family, who were accused of treason and were not even demigods, had no chance of reversing their fate.
As for the emperor's words about restoring his title, fiefdom, and reputation in the future, he simply didn't believe in such a trick that even a child couldn't fool!
unless!
Thinking of that little Lord Douglas, he instantly fell into a contradictory state of feeling a chill down his spine and heat in his heart.
It's fear and excitement.
At this moment, a young nephew suddenly walked up to him, grabbed his arm and said expectantly:
"Master, call our vassals! Call all of them!"
After hearing these words, everyone looked at the young nephew in surprise.
Although he did not make it clear, everyone knew why he summoned the vassal ministers at this time. What he wanted to do.
At this moment, everyone felt an extremely hot heat in their hearts, but at the same time, they were also filled with fear, with their hands shaking and their feet cold.
What are they going to do
But before they could shout out those words in their hearts, they heard a loud slap echoing in the hall.
Everyone was stunned.
Even young Lord Douglas himself was looking in disbelief at the hand that had just slapped his nephew's face so hard.
He then caressed the poor child's cheek with heartache, and then collapsed on the seat in great frustration.
The slap just now not only hurt his nephew's face, but also destroyed the Douglas family's spirit and the last chance of a comeback.
But he had to do it.
Because the Douglas family, who are not even demigods, have no qualifications to challenge Heather, and even the emperor may be waiting for them to split the country.
Completely and legitimately wipe out the Douglas family.
Little Lord Douglas leaned weakly on the backrest and murmured:
"Don't say that anymore. Let's do as His Majesty the Emperor wishes. Everything should be done according to the Emperor's wishes! At least, at least this way we can preserve the bloodline of our family."
All the direct descendants of the Douglas family bowed their heads deeply, and after a while, silent crying filled the entire hall.
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In front of the Florence airship dock, Mozzo brought Audrey here early.
At the same time, Audrey was holding a hand-painted cute wolf head sign to remind Verdani and the others that they were here.
Originally, Mozo was worried that if Audrey used a wolf head as a sign, it would easily attract the attention of someone with ulterior motives. However, after seeing the husky version of the wolf head that Audrey had happily drawn, he swallowed his words of dissuasion.
Even if the old fox came back to life, he would not think that this husky-like dog head could be the signal for the young master of the Wolf family to contact the knight...
But it seemed that because he was too husky, even Verdani couldn't find him.
After the two waited there for a long time, a less certain voice sounded behind them.
"Is it the Young Master and Audrey?"
Mozo looked back and saw a girl with a great figure wearing a white slim dress and a wide-brimmed hat standing timidly behind them, dragging a box.
Seeing this rich girl who seemed to be travelling far away, Audrey put down the sign and said uncertainly:
"Virdani?"
As they spoke, Mozzo and Audrey both took off their scarves which they had deliberately raised to cover their faces. Florence has a cold climate anyway, so many people dress like this.
After seeing the true faces of Mozo and the other man, the other party took off his wide-brimmed hat with a long sigh, revealing his delicate face hidden under the brim of the hat.
After taking off her wide-brimmed hat, Verdani looked at Mozo in a daze. After a while, she woke up and wanted to kneel on one knee to salute.
However, the moment she bent down, she realized that this was too conspicuous, and she changed her mind again from kneeling on one knee to perform the knight's salute to lifting her skirt and slightly bowing like a lady.
Obviously, Verdani is not very used to this kind of ladies' etiquette. She prefers and adapts to knightly etiquette.
Audrey was different. She responded very naturally by lifting her skirt.
Mozo also smiled and took off his hat in return.
After confirming their identities, the three of them pulled up their scarves and put on their hats again.
Verdani walked up to Mozo and dragged the box while looking at Mozo's cheek and said:
"Although I know you are safe, I can't feel relieved until I see you in person."
Mozo also said apologetically:
"I'm really sorry about what happened earlier."
Fortunately, he had the Red Wolves keep a close eye on Verdani, otherwise he would have regretted it for the rest of his life. Verdani blamed herself for Mozo's apology and said:
"You don't need to apologize. Your choice is absolutely correct. It was my incompetence as a knight and subordinate that caused you not to tell me."
Seeing the other party's words, Mozo touched his head awkwardly and changed the subject:
"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. Are you ready? We have to rush to Heather immediately. Of course, if you feel too tired, we can also go to the hotel to rest for a night."
Wei Er Dani smiled and said:
"Compared to a pleasant and cozy hotel after a long journey, it is obviously more comfortable for me to be with you."
139 Please gather your vassals and leave the rest to me (4k)
The airship that Mozo and others were riding on passed the border between the Northern Commercial Alliance and Heather smoothly according to the scheduled route.
Arrived at the Douglas family’s main city, Deerhorn Castle.
Before they even got off the boat, Mozo and his two companions keenly felt that this majestic city had begun to decline.
It was clearly the main city of the Angel Family, but the number of airships arriving at the dock was disproportionately small. Or rather, the number of airships leaving was far greater than the number of airships entering.
Without thinking too much or even verifying, Mozo guessed that it was because the major chambers of commerce and families here were starting to move. Mozo even saw dozens of airships flying the Iron Bank flag leaving here in a mighty manner. And outside them, there were more airships of chambers of commerce that, after flying their own flags, also raised the Iron Bank flag as a secondary flag and followed beside them.
Judging from the size of the enemy and the number of frigates, the Iron Bank branches and chambers of commerce here should have moved all the important materials. By the way, they gathered under the Iron Bank's banner to prevent anyone from taking this opportunity to intercept this batch of "huge sums of money".
After landing, the people on the street were obviously more bleak and uneasy, and they were all in a hurry. Obviously, after Prince Douglas's "treason", the main city, which was the base of the Douglas family, suffered a huge impact.
The impact is invisible but real.
The first to be affected were merchants from all over the country who stopped going to the main city and tried to move away from here as much as possible.
Because the Douglas family's main city, Deerhorn Castle, does not have any special geographical advantages, a large number of merchants came here in the past, purely because this is the Douglas Lord's city.
With Prince Douglas and the Douglas family, Antler Castle is obviously a good place to make a fortune.
But now that Deerhorn Castle has no angels and no titles, Deerhorn Castle, which has no geographical advantages, is no longer a good place to make money.
At least they are not qualified to enjoy the prosperity as before.
It is conceivable that even if Emperor Heather did not deprive the Douglas family of their treasures, the continued decline of the Douglas family and Deerhorn Castle was inevitable.
Because for a long time, they will probably just sit back and do nothing until their taxes and spending start to equalize.
But that will definitely take a long time. Because they are not suddenly poor, but inevitably no longer have enough income to support their extravagant lifestyle. But the interesting thing is that they also have enough wealth to allow them to squander for a long time.
If you think about it carefully, this seems to be the emperor's kindness, or perhaps it is a different kind of irony.
Thinking of this, Mozo shook his head and said that Emperor Heather would not do this. Not taking any action to destroy the Douglas family's wealth was probably one of his rare acts of "tolerance" in this matter.
Verdani had already put on knight armor and also put on a black robe like Mozo and the others.
She looked at the hurried residents around her and couldn't help but say:
"Although we are the beneficiaries, Emperor Heather's move is a bit too much."
Audrey nodded in agreement:
"It's really too much to just kill the donkey after it's done its job."
After saying this, she carefully looked around and then whispered:
"And in their eyes, that angel was successful. He was so cruel even though he died for his country. Isn't this guy afraid that the other high-sequences in the country will turn against him?"
This was something Audrey couldn't understand. She clearly remembered that this emperor had a good reputation, so why did he do such a stupid thing
Verdani also had similar doubts. She knew that Emperor Heather was worried that the Douglas family, which separated the north and south of the empire, would split the empire.
But in her opinion, as long as the royal family and the Douglas family have some tacit understanding and cooperation in this matter, it should be a win-win situation.
After all, the Douglas family themselves should know that without angels or even demigods, they would never be able to hold a fiefdom of this level.
They should have been prepared to cut their own flesh, but most of them did not expect that their emperor would stab them in the heart.
Mozo was more aware of the two girls' confusion.
Looking at Wei Erdani's long hair messed up by the hood, he naturally reached out to help comb it while saying to the two girls: