Chapter 103: “Spare”
Chapter 103 “Letting Go”
“What …… what? “
Angelo’s eyes widened incredulously.
Just moments ago, Earl Kent had returned to the banquet to announce that he was suspending his crusade against the Greiman family, allowing his vassals to return to their respective territories.
He had just gone through a lot of trouble in order to stir up ill feelings towards the Gleimans among the people present, and now that the Earl had come up with this, he instantly felt that he had become a clown.
“Why? Lord Earl, didn’t you promise me? You can’t keep your word!”
He “questioned” the Earl of Kent in a somewhat furious manner.
“How dare you! Guards, throw him out!” Earl Kent glared at Angelo, and immediately a guard came over and dragged Angelo outside.
“Let go of me! Let go of me! Lord Earl, we had a deal ……”
While being dragged out, Angelo still yelled loudly without dying, however, the crowd in the hall gradually could not hear his voice anymore.
Earl Kent said towards the hall full of bannermen and knights, “I know that everyone is confused, but I was just advised by a deceased person, he said that it is not a good thing to make a big fuss, the most important thing is to convince people with reason, so I decided to give Earl Gleiman another chance.”
The people in the hall looked at each other without uttering a word.
Earl Kent, of course, knew what was on their minds and immediately said, “However, we can’t let everyone work so hard to make the trip here for nothing, so I announce that Viscounts and Barons will be rewarded with 2,000 silver coins each, and Knights will be rewarded with 1,000 silver coins each.”
“Ooh!” The crowd in the hall made noises in surprise.
“Lord Earl is truly a merciful man!” “I’m sure the Gleiman family will be grateful to Lord Earl.”
Praises such as these continued to pour out.
Count Kent laughed loudly, although he likes to amass wealth, but also knows how to buy people’s hearts, should spend money on this by no means stingy, or else can not become the Northwest Bay second only to Duke Ferdinand’s No. 2 person.
What’s more, we will soon need to use this group of bannermen, and so on their own and the teacher to raise the time, less their effectiveness can not be.
At this time the count of Kent in front of the bannermen can be said to be spirited, and just now in front of Barnett low-eyed look like two people.
In his opinion, the dukedom and the power of the sorcerer were already within his reach.
There were only two people who were still in a state of puzzlement, they were Earl Kent’s son Jaaius and his distant nephew Emerson, but under Earl Kent’s hints, they didn’t ask questions right away.
The banquet continued, with a host of apparatchiks clinking glasses and drinking to their hearts’ content before dispersing with each other.
Only when there were no more outsiders in the hall did Jaaius and Emerson approach Count Kent.
Jaaius asked impatiently, “Father, what happened?”
The Earl seemed to be in a very happy mood, and after drinking a lot of wine at the banquet just now, he was already slightly drunk at this time, and his pale face was actually slightly red.
He glanced at the two young men and seemed to be thinking.
After a while, he spoke, “That’s just it, there are some things that I should let you guys know.”
Earl Kent led the two to his study. He whispered, “I intend to seek the title of Duke of Northwest.”
The two were greatly shocked, what is wrong with Earl Kent, has he lost his mind?
The Earl smiled faintly, “Don’t worry, I’m not crazy. Lord Ferdinand will willingly pass the title to me.”
Jaaius and Emerson looked at each other, they could see each other’s doubt, “Is this possible?”
Earl Kent said confidently, “As to why, I can’t tell you now, but in time you will know.”
He stared at Emerson and asked, “Little Emerson, as a royal commissioner, are you willing to support our Kent family?”
Emerson immediately replied, “If Lord Ferdinand is truly willing, I naturally raise my hands in support.”
The earl patted his shoulder with satisfaction and said with a smile, “That’s good, I won’t forget you Wylde family when the time comes.”
Then he seemed to have remembered something and added, “I have received definite news from the deceased person I just mentioned, the royal family is in dire straits this time. You immediately send a message to your father and advise him to make plans early.”
Emerson was a little surprised, but still said, “Thank you Uncle Kent for the reminder, I will immediately remind my father.”
But he immediately turned to ask, “But why did you spare Gleeman? It doesn’t seem to have much to do with you gaining the dukedom, does it? He has humiliated you so nakedly like that.”
Thinking of the humiliation he suffered that day in Lake Town, Emerson’s teeth itched with hatred, a whole room of people shouting for him to get lost, no one had ever treated him like that in his entire life.
The Earl of Kent put on a “serious” look and said to him: “Little Emmerson ah, if you can not tolerate small things, will affect the realization of the long-term goal. I don’t want to cause any trouble before I obtain the title of Duke, even though I have 100% confidence in my own strength, I have to eliminate all possibilities of accidents. But after I obtain the knighthood, if Gleeman is still ungrateful, then he won’t be as lucky as he was this time.”
He sneered, “Hmph! The days are still long.”
Emerson wasted no time in kissing his ass, “Uncle Kent is really far-sighted.”
Jaaius and Emerson chatted with Earl Kent in the study for a while longer before leaving.
After the door to the room closed, a figure flashed out from behind the bookshelves, and it was none other than Barnett.
Earl Kent immediately asked, “Teacher, what do you think of that Emerson?”
Barnett nodded, “There’s nothing wrong with it, according to the results of my probing, he doesn’t have anything else on his mind other than being a bit skeptical of your words, and also has great expectations of you obtaining the dukedom.”
Earl Kent put his heart down, if Mr. Barnett had detected that Emmerson had any bad intentions towards him, he would have to let this young man have some “accidents”.
He said: “Expectation is certain, Wylde family and Kent family have been friends for generations, I can get the dukedom, it is also a great benefit to their family. The Wilder family is very powerful in the royal capital, if we can make good use of them, it will be very helpful to our plan.”
Barnett reminded him, “It’s better to be careful, after all, hearts are the most unpredictable in this world.”
The Count nodded, “Yes, teacher, I will be careful for the best.”
Barnett added, “I have some matters that will take me away for a while, but I will still be active in the Northwest Generation, so until I return, figure out how to dispatch Duke Ferdinand’s guards to allow me to get close to him.”
Earl Kent rubbed his hand against his chest, “Please rest assured, teacher, I will find a way.”
(End of chapter)