"Lord, what is the letter from His Majesty the Emperor?"

Due to the angle, Vlavic didn't notice the special mark on the envelope, so he couldn't think of why his lord suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed, and even worried in his heart that it was because Duke was too stimulated again.

"See for yourself. ”

Finally Duke restrained his arrogance, ordered the guards to treat the griffon knight who had brought him good news, and handed the letter to Vlavic.

"This ......"

Not surprisingly, Vlavich was also shocked by the sudden news, and then sighed: "Our luck this time is really good!"

With the endorsement of the Emperor's decree to enforce peace in the whole realm, it is impossible for neither Duke nor Viscount Stern to violate such a prohibition and force something irrational at this critical time.

When the time comes, it will not only be lost face, but the territory, property and even life may no longer belong to them, and with the shrewdness of the two of them, they naturally know how to choose.

"Then our original resettlement plan for displaced people and the winter development plan can continue to go according to the plan, right?"

Without the pressure of war, Duke asked Vlavic with some ease, and now it seems that the previous plan and blueprint can be carried out normally again, and the territory can predictably develop well.

"It's nature. Vlavic also quietly breathed a sigh of relief, "But we should not be less prepared at all." ”

"Oh, isn't there an emperor's ban?"

"On the surface, of course, there is no possibility of a large-scale conflict, but secretly it is not clear to us what they will do. ”

After all, Viscount Stearn's family relied on these indiscriminate means to raise prices, although after becoming a formal nobleman, it has been much more restrained, and many businesses have gone underground or completely abandoned, but the traditional craftsmanship will definitely not be lost, and it is still very easy to use when you want to use it.

"Then we will strengthen our preparedness according to wartime standards as we have discussed before. Duke also felt that the problem was a bit tricky after listening to Vlavic's explanation, and had to adopt a defensive posture to deal with it in this way, "Also, you remember that together with the leader of the outcasts, Randy, we started to look for some clever outcasts, and we need to get these people to help us spread the word about the benefits of settlement. ”

"Didn't you ask Joseph to pick out some of the caravan to try? ”

Questioned by him, Duke couldn't help coughing in embarrassment before explaining: "There is still a difference between the two......

The people I found from Joseph before basically didn't know much about the situation of the displaced people around the northern fortress, and they only had some hearsay and superficial information and ran over with them, and they couldn't get the recognition of the displaced people in terms of identity, so the effect of publicity would naturally be greatly reduced.

But now these people under Randy are very different, they are originally from the homeless, understand the suffering of the homeless and what they want to get.

Once they've really experienced the benefits of the Northern Fortress, and as soon as word of it spreads among the Wanderers, there will always be some people who will choose to take his word for it and try their luck with Duke.

Moreover, these people will always intersect with other homeless gathering points in their long-term homeless life, and know where to find more homeless people and bring more people to the territory.

After Duke's explanation, Vlavic quickly understood the key and bowed down, "I'll discuss the selection with Randy tomorrow, please rest assured." ”

"So be it, you can go home and rest for a while, it's already late at night. ”

After basically deciding what he wanted to do tomorrow, Duke stretched and said goodbye to Vlavic with some relaxation, and then thought of something and said with a gloating smile: "I can't wait to know what kind of reaction Viscount Stearns will have." ”

Vlavich rubbed the corners of his eyes and said with the same smile: "I'm looking forward to it too." ”

..................

“...... That's the case. ”

Viscount Stearn's butler closed the letter he had just received from the messenger from the imperial capital, finished reading, and then did not dare to raise his eyes to look at his lord.

However, to his surprise, Viscount Stern, who was fully aware of the Emperor's order to enforce peace in the whole territory, was not as angry as he imagined, and only leaned on his soft chair and gasped.

"We're going to war......"

After a long time, he suddenly sighed in a wandering tone, there was something unclear in his voice, and it was not related to the previous desire to send troops.

"Is the other side of the war the Kingdom of Weiss?"

"According to the current situation, it should be like this. ”

As a big businessman with abundant capital, he basically has business contacts everywhere on the mainland, or there are overlapping interests, so every day Viscount Stern can receive countless news.

Based on the information he has obtained now, it is not difficult for Mr. Butler to deduce that all the actions taken by the Empire are aimed at the neighboring Kingdom of Weiss, which had had a violent conflict before.

"But we've already gotten some information about it, and now we don't have much to do with the business over there, so you don't have to worry about anything to lose. ”

Seeing that his lord didn't speak again, the butler took the opportunity to add, showing that he still had some means to take care of business.

But Viscount Stern just gave a noncommittal "um", still not knowing what he was doing.

"Lord, what about the army we just ordered to assemble?"

In order to break the embarrassment between master and servant, the butler had to ask this now somewhat embarrassing question.

"What else can I do?" Viscount Stern finally regained some vitality, glared at his butler fiercely, a little dissatisfied that his deputy who had been with him for so long was still so stupid, "Of course it is disbanded, can anyone else disobey the orders of His Majesty the Emperor?"

"Yes, yes, I'll go out and talk to them later. The butler took out the handkerchief on his chest and wiped the beads of sweat oozing from his forehead, "Then we won't continue this operation?"

"Otherwise, I don't have the heart to guess what you're going to say. ”

With a wave of his hand impatiently, Viscount Stern rose from his seat to leave the hall and go back to rest.

"I mean, some of your people who are active in the shadows are willing to take this breath for you. ”

"Oh, I still have people like that?"

These words directly choked the butler's throat when he wanted to continue, and he couldn't hold back a sentence for a long time: "Please leave it to me." ”

"Whatever, I'll go to sleep. ”

Feeling inexplicable, Viscount Stern walked past the butler directly with his hand, ignoring the butler who was standing in place and walked away.