Chapter 263: Complex Struggles
Chapter 258 – Complicated Struggle
Concerning her family’s title, Ferrier didn’t dare to be sloppy, and after the arrival of the imperial envoys, she did her best to organize a very high-class banquet, and invited the nearby nobles to come and support the event.
The fact is that most of these people are small nobles from the border of the empire, and most of them have never even been to the imperial capital in their lives, not to mention meeting the big nobles from the imperial capital, so one by one, they throw away their reserve, just like bees meeting flowers, and surrounded by them, they won’t go away.
Marquis Burgasus often as an emissary to all parts of the empire, to the scene in front of him has long been accustomed to, although by a group of small people do not see the small people surrounded, and with the low means of ass constantly patting, but not angry, but slightly interested in observing the smile full of Ferril.
Marquis Burgasus never forgot the mission given to him by the Emperor, so from the moment he stepped into the banquet, as a special envoy he had already begun his work.
The development of the Northlands was a strategy that the Empire had long formulated, as there was no more excess land to develop within the Empire, the unrest that erupted every few decades was a more than obvious harbinger of things to come, and the Empire’s means of eliminating the unrest appeared to be effective, and every time they succeeded in obtaining several decades of peace.
The Emperor, however, knew that this was playing with fire, and the slightest misstep risked changing the world.
At that time, the nobles were still nobles, and whether the emperor was still the emperor or not was another story.
In fact, many years ago, the royal family has the intention to open up to the north, otherwise to maintain a huge number of imperial border army is what to use.
Only limited by the imperial conservative forces of the block has been unable to start, twenty years ago only reluctantly formed a pioneering regiment, but also has been half-dead hanging.
But with the recent years of turmoil there is the beginning of a resurgence, the imperial nobles who are full of desire for the fiefdom will follow the trend of the old story, trying to speed up the development of the Northland, because only in this way they can possibly obtain.
So the Emperor went along with it, and there was the formation of the Second Northland Exploitation Corps, which also mixed in quite a few people from the Imperial Nobility.
As for the introduction of chaotic people into the Northlands to fatten them up, it was actually a tactic of the traditional nobles, with the cooperation of the imperial nobles in it.
If you think about it, besides the traditional nobles, who else can introduce hundreds of thousands of chaotic people into the Northland, the emperor can’t, only the traditional nobles and these earth emperors have the ability to do so.
Then why the imperial nobles, who have always been at odds with the traditional nobles, are willing to cooperate and even dare to hoodwink the emperor, is purely because only with the emergence of the new land, these imperial nobles, who only have a false title, will have the opportunity to obtain fiefdoms.
It is simply unrealistic to steal from the traditional nobles, and the imperial nobles know this only too well, and even know that the emperor is always drawing them a big pie that is simply unattainable.
The unreal cake that looks good but can’t be used to fill their stomachs doesn’t last long, and except for the newcomers who haven’t been enshrined for a long time and are still thankful to the Emperor, most of the Imperial nobles realize that the Emperor is treating them like dogs and using them as swords.
So don’t say blindfolded, if there is a fiefdom for killing the emperor, they all need to line up and draw numbers to decide who has the chance to strike.
The poor emperor before has been kept in the dark, and so know, even if again angry can only acquiesce in this matter, to can’t do, the traditional nobles to get immobilized, the imperial nobility is the royal family to support out with the traditional nobles to fight against, can’t cut off their own hands and feet it.
Default but does not mean that the emperor will let this matter develop, this is not, a re-appointment of the Northland nobles for the imperial nobility of the idea will be the initiative to grasp in the hand, even if the traditional nobles inserted a deputy ambassador, there is no good way to do this.
The imperial pyramid, the royal family stands at the top, followed by the traditional nobles, the imperial nobles, the knight class, and the Northland nobles at the bottom.
It could be said that the Northland nobles were completely excluded from the mainstream of the empire, so no one was willing to give up the opportunity to be enshrined as an imperial noble. What’s more, the imperial nobility is famous because of the lack of territories, the problem is that the northland nobility never lacks territories, just need to bury their heads in the sand and develop for a few generations, it may not be impossible for them to become the traditional nobility, so anything that stands in the way is an enemy.
At the banquet, Marquis Burgassus was observing, Count Dekra was not idle, even the Ninth Princess who had been smiling without saying anything to maintain the princess’ decorum was secretly observing everything in front of her.
The Northland is a piece of treasure land for anyone with ambition, the imperial nobles want the land here to become long-lasting traditional nobles, and the traditional nobles are incomparably greedy for the land, before stopping the empire from opening up the Northland that is because they are not willing to sit back and watch the royal family become bigger as a result, but once they let go of the mouth, they are the most frantic group of people.
Even the seemingly uncontested nine princesses have their own plans, because no one wants to be a dispensable marriage tool.
This banquet gave Ferrier a feeling of exhaustion, and for the first time she asked herself if she had made the right choice in the first place.
She liked the grand show and luxurious life of the nobles, but it didn’t mean that she liked the rivalry between the nobles, and the crushing of each other, not to mention the political struggles in the upper echelons of the empire.
This was just a banquet, so Ferrier didn’t even take off her makeup when she got back and immediately contacted Owen.
Two people in the double-sided mirror looked at each other, but looked at each other speechless, because before the frequent exchange of information so that both sides of the situation in front of them had predicted, only to envision with the reality there is still a gap.
“The situation where you are is too complicated.” Owen rubbed his brow and said with some fatigue.
This is not Owen talking nonsense, before he gave Ferrier has supported a lot of talent, but so far her control of the territory is less than three layers, and how much water is in it, even Ferrier herself can not say.
It can be said that Ferrier’s territory is basically considered a waste, unless Owen put the last sub-city quota to Ferrier towns, relying on the power of the system to assimilate.
The key is that Ferrier’s town has too many eyes, but any bit of wind and grass has been widely rumored.
Although Owen had confidence in the system’s assimilation ability, there was no guarantee that he wouldn’t be able to detect the slightest difference.
Just like the Black Hand’s little thumb, this initially stayed in Akita Town, and then I do not know whether things are busy, or feel what, has not come for a long time, and the Black Hand’s intelligence station in the Northland unknowingly has long turned into the shape of the root.
For this point, whether Little Thumb had noticed it or not, Owen didn’t know, so the system’s assimilation ability, although good, should definitely be used with caution.
So although Ferrier and her territory had value, it wasn’t high enough for Owen to risk it.
After all, assimilation of this kind of silent and almost root change ability is too scary, if not this ability is under his control, Owen thinks that the person with this ability is absolutely unforgivable, belonging to the kind that must be euthanized, to be tied to the mushroom egg launched into the sun, with the help of the solar wind to the whole universe.
It can be imagined that after this matter is exposed, Owen to face what kind of blow, so he clearly holds a sub-city quota in his hands but do not dare to use it in Ferrier towns, and all the sub-cities are in the remote northern part of the country, is afraid of exposure.
(End of chapter)