The location of the Noble Council is not difficult to find, right on the square next to the Lord's Palace, the seat of the Noble Council is second only to the Temple and the Lord's Mansion in the city, and the entire building sits on a three-story pedestal, with twelve large granite stone columns with a diameter of one meter and a hemispherical dome on the front.

The stone pillars are carved with the heroes of the Florentine Kingdom, and the reliefs on the walls are the important historical events since the founding of the Kingdom of Florence.

At the entrance to the main entrance are two bronze statues of Charlemagne and Wilson, who are the strongest legendary knights in the history of the kingdom and the highest commander of the kingdom. The two statues stood up, spears in hand, pointing ahead, as if they were leading the thousands of horses on the march.

The bronze statue is four or five meters high, carved and delicate, lifelike, and majestic at a glance, and you don't need to ask to know that it is from the hand of a master.

Su Lun walked up the steps in three steps and two steps, and was stopped by a guard as soon as he stood at the gate.

"Sir, this is the Council of Nobles, what is your business?"

Su Lun took out his noble badge and handed it to him and said, "I want to buy a pioneer order." ”

The guards took the noble badge and carefully identified it, and the pattern on it was indeed real, so they returned the badge to Su Lun.

"Please come with me, sir. The guard made a gesture of please, and led Suren into the council of nobles.

When he came to the hall, Su Lun found how magnificent this hall was, the entire hall was at least five hundred square meters, and the height was more than ten meters, the entire hall was covered by a semicircular dome, and what was even more amazing was that there was not a single pillar to support such a wide hall.

On the dome of the hall, there is also a fresco depicting the founding war, which also led to the defeat of the invaders and the independence of the Florentine Kingdom.

A dozen clerks were busy in the hall, but Suren and the guards did not disturb them, and led by the guards, Suren came to a beautifully carved iron and wood door.

Seeing this wooden door, Su Lun also secretly smacked his tongue, the material of this wooden door is not cheap, this is only in the north of the growth of ironwood, this wood material is as hard as iron, not easy to deform and not easy to burn, but the weight is only a quarter of steel, but the growth is slow, under normal circumstances, it is used to make high-grade shields, like such a large piece at least fifty years to grow.

The guard stepped forward and knocked on the door, but there was no response in the room, and after waiting for a while, the guard knocked on the door again with more force, and this time there was finally some movement in the room.

"Come in. A somewhat lazy voice sounded behind the door.

The two pushed the door in, the room did not look luxurious, a mahogany desk, a few bookshelves, and a few high-backed chairs placed opposite each other, at this time there was a somewhat obese middle-aged nobleman sitting behind the desk, from his still somewhat confused eyes, the red marks on the side of his face and the crystal liquid on the corners of his lips can be inferred, this person was sleeping just now.

"Sir Julian, this gentleman has come to buy the Pioneer Order. The guard pointed at Suren and said.

"Buying a pioneer order?" Hearing the guard's words, Julian looked at Su Lun with some surprise, and he didn't even bother to wipe the droppings from the corners of his eyes.

He couldn't help but be surprised, you know, he may not be able to sell a few copies of the development order here in a year, although the development order looks very good, but there are only a handful of real success, and the vast majority of the nobles who bought the development order finally gave up the territory and came back.

"Yes, Lord Julian. Suren smiled at Julian.

"Boy, don't blame me for not reminding you, don't think that after reading a few knight novels, you don't think it's a big deal to open up territory. You must know that there are not a thousand but eight hundred abandoned territories in the wilderness now. Julian glanced at Suren and said.

"Thank you, Sir, for the reminder, I know exactly what I'm doing. Su Lun said calmly.

"Well, don't blame me for not reminding you. Julian shrugged, then took a stamped piece of parchment from the bookshelf behind him, picked up the quill next to him and wrote a line of floral letters in the blank space of the parchment, and handed it to Suren.

"Sign your name and pay five hundred kinnars. ”

Suren picked up the pen and signed his signature on the parchment roll, and then placed the prepared bag of Kinnar on the table,

Julian weighed Kinnar on a scale, and after making sure the number was accurate, he picked up the seal and stamped it on parchment.

"Alright young man, take your pioneer order, good luck!"

Suren took the pioneer order, thanked him, and then turned and left the noble council. Next, he needs to recruit a group of people, it is not easy to expand the territory, he needs to prepare a large number of Jinnar, in addition to recruiting a territorial guard, he also needs to buy food, tools, medicine, etc., and wait until the territory is initially stabilized to buy slaves for farming.

It's not that he doesn't want to recruit freemen, but very few freedmen are willing to follow the nobles to the newly opened territories, although the pioneer nobles offer various preferential conditions to the freedmen, but few are willing to go, and only those bankrupt peasants or unemployed vagrants will be tempted, after all, the mortality rate of the open territories is too high.

Looking at the time, it was already dark, and Suren did not go to the slave market again, but went back to the inn to rest.

Early the next morning, after a simple breakfast at the inn, Suren rented a carriage for a silver narr and headed to the slave market.

The slave market was on the other side of the city, and after half an hour, the carriage stopped at the entrance of a lively market, and Suren jumped out of the carriage and walked into the slave market.

The northern province is located at the border of the kingdom, surrounded by a lot of subhuman races or tribes that are still in the primitive society, every year the kingdom's army will engage in local wars with these races and tribes, and many prisoners have been obtained from the war, which is also one of the sources of slaves in the slave market, and there are professional slave hunting teams to go to the wilderness to catch, of course, there are unlucky people who can't afford to pay off their debts and are sold into slavery.

Walking into the slave market, you are greeted by an unpleasant stench, like the smell of all kinds of excrement being soaked and then heated and fermented. The ground was covered with sewage, and on both sides of the road were slave traders shouting for sale, and in cages behind them were emaciated, filthy slaves.

Most of these slaves were naked, with only a dirty rag on their crotch. Many slaves still have traces of whipping, and their eyes are dull and completely lifeless, these are the lowest slaves.