Lorist thought deeply while holding the urgent letter from Ross the Tiger. The letter was also signed by Bodfinger and Earl Kenmes. There are three main contents in the letter. One is about the liquidation order issued by the Second Highness and the tragic experience of the nobles in the imperial capital. The second is that the Second Highness came to the barracks to ask the Norton family to fulfill the obligations stipulated in the oath before withdrawing the army. The third is to make some inappropriate requests, but they have already been rejected by Tiger Ross.
Regarding the liquidation order issued by His Royal Highness, Lorist was indifferent, and he didn't have a good impression of those nobles in the imperial capital. These nobles are already rotten, and if they want the Antinac Kingdom to revitalize, they should clean up these rubbish and blood-sucking bugs lying on the kingdom. If Lorist and the Second Highness were to switch seats, Lorist would do the same, but the method might be milder, and he would not be as extreme as the Second Highness, who directly bloodbathed the entire noble class of the imperial capital. It can also be said that the Second Highness Unscrupulously using the most brutal and bloody methods to collect a huge sum of money for themselves from the blood and corpses of these imperial nobles, which is enough to deal with the crisis of the kingdom.
The position of a person is indeed determined by the position of his buttocks, just like Ross the Tiger. When he first joined the northbound convoy, he was just a civilian officer who retired because of the disbandment of the White Lions. After seven years of imperial civil war, He hated all the nobles so deeply, and believed that it was the greed and injustice of these nobles that led to the demise of a powerful empire. Therefore, after the northbound convoy reached an agreement with His Highness the Second Highness, the execution was the most resolute when sweeping up the territorial nobles of the Andinak Kingdom, and personally hanged thirty or forty rebellious territorial nobles to the gallows.
Ten years have passed in the blink of an eye, and as the Golden Knight of the Norton family, Tiger Ross has become a quasi-noble, and with Lorist being promoted to the Duke of the Northland, he is determined to occupy the title of baron to be enshrined. a seat. So this guy transformed himself and set strict demands on himself with the example of aristocrats, so that his actions could conform to the standard etiquette of nobles. Therefore, His Highness's cleansing of the nobles in the imperial capital made him furious, thinking that His Highness's move was an insult to the nobles, and he wished to find His Highness to fight for his life.
People are subject to change. Back then, they wanted to kill all those nobles, but now they are proud of being a member of the nobles. I forgot to say, after this guy captured the imperial capital, he found four noble ladies as lovers, and this time he even rescued the families of the four lovers.
But Lorist thought about it and felt that he had nothing to complain about, and so did he himself. If you say that you are a loyal and loyal territorial nobleman of the Antinac Kingdom, you are slapping yourself in the face. Don't you put the interests of the Norton family first? Perhaps in the eyes of the king, the Second Highness, he is more hateful than the nobles of the imperial capital that he has liquidated. It is nothing more than the powerful family and the domination of the Northland that made the Second Highness be wary.
So the Second Highness came up with something else, the second thing mentioned in the letter is this. The Second Highness insisted that the Norton family armed forces did not take down the imperial capital and let him regain the throne to show that they had fulfilled their obligations, but let him become the king of the Antinac Kingdom, but this Antinac Kingdom is not castrated by Queen Kerry Kingdom, the ceded provinces must return to the territory of the kingdom.
That is to say, the three provinces ceded by Queen Kerry in order to seek peace had not been taken back by the Second Highness, so she did not recognize that the Norton family had fulfilled his oath obligations in the oath. Hehe, Lorist sneered, this is cheating, the Second Highness really didn't even want the king's face, and became a scoundrel directly, the purpose is very simple, it is to let the Norton family arm to fight against the business alliance and the four central duchies The conflict, on the one hand, consumes the strength of the Norton family, and on the other hand, it is good to fish in troubled waters.
Lorist looked at the map. After the Hansdemos Province of the Kingdom of Antinac was ceded, it formed the Principality of Zithuram with the northwest region of the former Kingdom of Rideris. An earl in De Wolf Province flooded the 70,000 troops of His Highness the Second Highness in Magik Province, causing the Golden Knight Wei Libaluo, who was known as one of the five tigers under the command of the Second Highness, to die in battle due to shame and anger. Speaking of which, Grand Duke Zithuram can be regarded as the enemy of the Second Highness.
The two southwestern provinces that originally belonged to the Kingdom of Ridleys were ceded to the Kingdom of Antinac due to the defeat of the eldest prince, and were later ceded by Queen Kerry to form the United Duchy of Bullitt. A Grand Duke who was promoted due to his outstanding military exploits. Obviously, whether it is the Principality of Zithuram or the United Principality of Bullitt, they are all placed in front of the Ford Business Alliance as a buffer with the Kingdom of Antinac. It seems that the Business Alliance is just in case, and they also It is expected that the Second Highness will make a comeback and regain the throne.
It seems that the rulers of these two duchies have a life-and-death friendship with the Second Highness, and they are the least likely to compromise with the Second Highness. Of course, the business alliance behind them cannot support them to compromise with the Second Highness. The Second Highness is acting like a rogue now, demanding that the two Southwest provinces and the three provinces of Hans Demos be recovered, which means that the Norton family has fulfilled the obligation of the oath, which actually represents the Second Highness's uneasiness towards these two duchies. He was afraid that the two duchies would send troops to attack once the Norton family's armed forces were withdrawn. Without the two southwestern provinces and Hans Demos province, the imperial capital would be equivalent to the front line, which would be extremely detrimental to the Second Highness's reintegration of the kingdom.
The Second Highness’s idea is really good. Let the Flying Tiger Legion and the Rock Legion attack the Duchy of Zithuram and the United Duchy of Bullitt. Even if you recover these three provinces, you can find an excuse to let the Flying Tiger Legion and the Rock Legion stay there temporarily. , and then he can sit back and watch the reinforcements of the Business Alliance and the Norton family armed forces fight to the death. The territory of the Kingdom of Lys.
Lorist doesn't mind sweeping away these two principalities. After all, these two principalities have only been established for a few years, and they don't have the background of the Principality of Madras. It is very easy. The only thing I was worried about was that Grand Duke Zituram, it was not easy for the Second Highness to suffer a big loss. However, if the Rock Legion is responsible for attacking the Principality of Zithuram, I believe that Bodfinger's maturity and prudence will make Grand Duke Zithuram helpless. There are no big rivers in Hans Demos Province, and there are only valleys and basins, which are suitable for the Rock Legion play.
It's just that Lorist is very annoyed at the Second Highness's aggressiveness. The reason why he insisted on re-ascending the throne despite the opposition of many retainers and knights is not just because he wants the Second Highness to go down to attract the attention of the Business Alliance and the Central Four Duchies. The Archduke Fesabrun, the archenemy, did not receive support from the four central duchies. But as a superior, you must consider the overall situation.
Lorist does not deny that he has the desire to become a king and build a country, and he has made the greatest efforts to integrate into this fighting spirit world from a different world. Anyway, his soul comes from an ancient oriental country with a history of 5,000 years. Perhaps the original owner of his body would be a die-hard loyalist of the Antinac royal family, but he is not. Now he has created a new era for the Norton family. An unprecedented new situation, becoming the grand duke of the Northland and dominating the entire Northland has never been imagined by the ancestors of the Norton family. From this point of view, Lorist is already very worthy of the Norton family.
Similarly, in the eyes of outsiders, the Norton family has become the most staunch supporter of His Highness the Second Highness. Lorist's actions cannot be blamed for anything, except for the Second Highness who suffered a big loss secretly, but he It's hard to tell, that's why he played a rogue regardless of the king's face.
Donating the standard equipment of a legion to His Highness the Second Highness, dispatching the family's armed forces to capture the imperial capital and allowing the Second Highness to take the throne again, Lorist has done all of this to perfection, just for the sake of falling out with the Second Highness in the future and making people irreproachable. The road to the crown is tortuous and full of thorns, with sunshine and darkness, but being a king should give people a sense of openness and integrity. Any moral flaws will become the Achilles heel of a dynasty founder. This was the most important reason why Lorist rejected the proposal of his retainers and knights to keep the Second Highness in the Northland.
The Second Highness is now committing suicide, and his bloodbath of the nobles in the imperial capital will only make the nobles more alienated, and there will not even be nobles who defect to him in the future... Lorist picked up a piece of letter paper and began to write a reply, he told the tiger Ross and Bodfinger , you can attack the two principalities to recover Hans Demos City and the Southwest Provinces of the former Antinac Kingdom. Anyway, ninety steps have already been taken out of one hundred steps, so why not finish these last few steps so that the Second Highness has nothing to say.
However, Lorist also made a request. After attacking these two duchies, the Second Highness must send people to take over the defense of these three provinces within fifteen days. Otherwise, the Norton family's armed forces will withdraw on their own, and they will no longer care about the frontline battles. Lorist also specifically stated that Earl Kenmes can go to negotiate with the Second Highness, and if the Second Highness disagrees, Tiger Ross and Baldfinger will come back straight away. If there are people who don't have eyesight and want to block the way or want to keep them, they will be killed. Shame on the face, since the Norton family armed these two legions and can kill the imperial capital, then they will definitely be able to kill them back.
As for the second Highness’s third request, Lorist praised them for refusing well. Why should he dedicate the thunderbolt catapult and chariot steel crossbow to the Second Highness? Even the three allies of the Northland do not have such a weapon of war. Second Highness How did you open your mouth? Just because he is the king of the kingdom? Hehe, Tiger the Tiger made it clear that this is the secret weapon of the Norton family. Go to war if you want it. Declare us rebellious and defeat us to have a chance to get it.
Lorist wrote a reply letter and asked Schwader to hang the letter on the foot of the letter eagle. It only took one day and one night for the letter eagle to reach Hilovas Island, and then let the courier deliver the letter to Tiger Ross and Bodfinger. It will be about three days. This was many times faster than Earl Kenmax writing a letter to Lorist in the imperial capital and then sending his attendants to rush all the way. It took seventeen days to deliver it to Lorist.
After making a decision, Lorist didn't need to worry about the Flying Tigers and Rock Legion. He believed that Tiger Ross and Bodfinger would not let him down, not to mention the profiteer Earl Kenmax staying with them. It is impossible for His Highness to get anything cheap from them.
Lorist will be very busy at this time, how to seal and transfer the territory of Dremke Province, how to develop the eastern part of the Northland, the Northland Dawn Academy, which has been completed on August 15th, will officially open for enrollment and needs him to go congratulate. The first criminal code of the family territory has been formulated and needs to be reviewed by him. He also has to review the newly formed Chasseurs and spend time with the new mother Diliana and her seven-month-old baby son. Lorist wished he had the clone technique.
The most disturbing thing is that there is a rumor circulating in the territory, saying that Lorist is very angry because the Grand Duke Feisabrun refused to marry Princess Silvia to him, and thus regards the Feisabrun family as life and death. The enemy must destroy the Feisabrun family...
The first time my brother heard this rumor was Tagle who came to report it, and stammered about the rumors in the market. After all, Lorist went to Windbury City to ask the Duke Fessabrunn to marry Princess Sylvia and was rejected. It's not a secret, and the Grand Duke's request is also very clear to everyone. Although many people think that their lord is a loving, righteous and responsible nobleman who refuses to abandon his concubines and children, there are also many people who think that those concubines and children are not worth it compared to the noble Princess Sylvia. Cherish, the lord should not give up the marriage with the Feisabrun family.
Originally, this matter was just a gossip among the people in the tavern, and no one cared. However, after Lorist learned about the strength of the Fesabrun family, he began to make targeted arrangements. At some point, he became the lord who was furious because of the refusal of the Fisabrun family, and prepared to attack the Fesabrun family. The rumor of snatching Princess Silvia back as the Grand Duchess is very in line with the wishes of the people in the family territory, and it spreads more and more widely...
Lorist was so angry that his nose was not his nose and his mouth was not his mouth, and he couldn't find anyone to get angry with. Obviously Sylvia was the one who fell in love with me first, so why did I go to war for my beauty
Tager looked at his face and asked for instructions whether to ban the rumor spreading in the family territory, and whether to arrest all the spreaders for hard labor
Lorist sighed and said with a black face, let others talk if they like to talk, let them talk if their mouth grows on their face, and forbidding them to speak by force will make them affirm it in their hearts Rumors only stop with the wise, not to mention that this is just one's own private matter, as the Grand Duke of the Northland, one should have the awareness to let others gossip behind his back...
On August 19th, 1777 in Galint Armor, the Flying Tiger Legion and Rock Legion of the Norton family suddenly launched an attack on the United Duchy of Bullitt, sweeping across the two southwestern provinces in less than 17 days, Britt The two grand dukes of the United Kingdom were killed in battle, and the Principality perished.
On September 8th, the Rock Army launched an attack on the Principality of Zithuram. The Grand Duke Zithuram led the army of the Principality to withdraw from Hans Demos Province, and stationed troops to confront the Rock Army in the northwest region. On September 32, the Flying Tiger Legion and the Rock Legion handed over the two southwestern provinces and the Hans Demos Province to the White Lion Legion of the Antinak Kingdom and the newly reorganized Royal Guards, and set foot on their way back to the north. The return journey of the land...