After being made an earl, he announced that he would have a dinner party at Lear Manor outside the city tonight.

When the people in the mansion gradually dispersed. Lear asked the general in a low voice, "Fairward must have allies in Port Lear, and I ask the general to take action now to eliminate the trouble." ”

The general looked at him and muttered, "You really want to avenge the Lear family at all costs?"

Lear looked the general in the eye and said, "Give me ten years." If I can't, either you will be asked to choose the next heir, or I will give up my revenge. ”

The general remained silent, and finally ordered his men to kill all the people of King Nordting who had participated in the incident. Count Lear naturally has its hidden intelligence system.

After the outsiders at the Earl's Mansion dispersed, members of Earl Lear's family began to swear allegiance to him.

Count Lear has a full "ten". First of all, the knights, private commanders, and garrison officers who represent the armed forces lead all their men to take an oath that they are the foundation of the aristocratic power and cannot be missed. Lear even promised to make a constitution-enhancing potion for the Knight, the Private, and the Garrison, much to the trio of gratitude.

And the Hidden Knights are all masked at this time, and they must hide their identities.

This is followed by the oath of stewards, staff, mages, assistants, maids, and servants who represent the internal forces. If the armed forces are the foundation, then these people are the architecture and decoration of the foundation, which are equally important.

After the "inner eight" of the "ten people" took the oath, they were the family mercenary group and the family businessman in the "outer two".

The Lear family has two medium-sized mercenary groups, each of which is maintained at around two hundred.

The group of Earl Lear's family merchants is very large, and like the family merchants of normal nobles, they are divided into chief merchants, first-class merchants, second-class merchants, and third-class merchants. The Lear family had three chief merchants, seven first-class merchants, twelve second-class merchants, and twenty-one third-class merchants, who controlled one-third of the Lear family's income and one-tenth of the wealth of Port Lear.

The Lear family's greatest wealth is the land under their feet, tended by staff, butlers, and assistants.

After the merchants took the oath of allegiance, one of the chief merchants asked to return home for retirement with seven merchants.

At first, Lear thought that these businessmen were demolished, but when he saw the pleading eyes of the chief businessman, he suddenly realized that these businessmen must be involved in creating the "fake Lear". However, he was not prepared to kill them all, but he could not keep them either, so he accepted them and gave them a normal pension to give all the merchants peace of mind.

After swearing allegiance to the family forces, he began to meet with officials in Port Lear.

The Earl of Lear is the highest military and political governor of Port Lear and the mayor of Port Lear.

Port Lear is, after all, a large city that cannot be governed by family members alone, and the nobility is also concerned about the balance of interests. So, in the Homan Empire, there was an unwritten rule that the nobles who owned the city controlled the military forces of the city, but the government affairs were handed over to the other nobles, and to the nobles who had no land.

Each department in the city generally has a department head, a deputy, a permanent secretary, and two deputy secretaries, and one of them must be appointed by the Lear family, who is usually a person who swears allegiance to the Lear family.

There are many departments in the city hall of Port Lear, but the only ones that are really important are the city hall in charge of all government affairs, the garrison in charge of law and order, the financial secretary in charge of finance, the civil affairs department in charge of civil affairs, and the commercial department in charge of commerce.

He first met with the heads of the main departments, and then with the people from the secondary departments. By the time these were done, it was already waning, and in the afterglow of the sunset, the courtyard was not gloomy.

He ate to his heart's content, thinking to himself who said that nobles spend every day drunk and dreaming of death, and as long as they pay a little attention to their family, they will end up tired and tired, what about those grand dukes, kings and even emperors? He didn't dare to think about it, and he didn't want to be the kind of person who worked all day long.

Kane, the steward of the Lear family, walked over and said respectfully, "Lord, Baron Humphrey has asked to see you." ”

Lear takes Ness with her.

Baron Humphrey breathed a sigh of relief to see that his daughter was safe and sound. Ness threw herself into her mother's arms and recounted everything that had just happened.

Baron Humphrey is a celebrity in Port Lear, and if he hadn't lived outside the city for a long time, he would have been invited and located in the halls. He greeted everyone one by one, and finally pulled Lear aside to ask for details.

Humphrey was very unhappy that Lear had put Ness in danger, but he didn't say anything serious, and only reminded him not to take Ness with him in the future, and that he could only go to his manor to see Ness.

Baron Humphrey was accompanied by Catherine and Susan. Lear introduces the two men to the family and emphasizes that they are his saviors, before announcing the creation of a third family mercenary group, in the name of Firelight.

Lear officially succeeded the earl, and Catherine officially became Lear's Legacy Knight and the head of the family mercenary group. Hearing Lear's strong support for the Firelight Mercenary Group, Catherine smiled brightly, but there was a regret in her heart that could not be dispelled.

"From now on, maybe the two of us will be purely the relationship between the master and the head of the family mercenary group......"

At this time, Kane, the butler, walked over and whispered, "My lord, the dinner at Lear Manor has been prepared, and although it is not yet time for the banquet to begin, the guests have already arrived. ”

Lear smiled and said, "Uncle Kane, please don't be polite, you are my elder, you can call me Lear in the future." ”

Butler Kane smiled and said, "As you wish, Lord Lear." He can't disobey Lear's orders, but he must follow the steward's rules.

Lear said helplessly, "You might as well call it whatever you want." By the way, that's called ...... What about the men of the garrison called Moore?"

"He's patrolling outside the mansion, saying it's for your safety," said the butler, Kane. ”

Lear thought for a moment and said, "Let him come in and come with me to Lear Manor." ”

After a while, Moore trotted up to Lear, took off his hat and bent down to salute: "Moore has seen Lord Lord. "To call Count Lear is more lifelike, to call the lord too humble, and to call the lord is to see the superior.

Lear smiled and asked, "I know your name is Moore, what is your position?"

Moore hurriedly said: "I am the deputy squadron leader of the business district garrison. ”

Lear handed the empty plate to the maid behind him, and said casually, "I don't like 'deputy', you are now the captain of the Port Lear garrison." Let's go, follow me to Lear Manor, and tell me about Port Lear on the way. ”

The people standing next to Lear are all first-class spicy people, except for the maids, whether they are generals, Baron Humphrey, or butlers. When they heard Lear say this, they immediately looked at each other, and their eyes seemed to ask if they had taught him. Seeing the doubts in each other's eyes, the three of them suddenly looked at Lear in surprise, but they all carried a heartfelt approval in surprise.

Lear turned to the general and said, "General, you've been with me all day, and I know you don't like socializing, so you might as well go back and rest." ”

But the general said, "Since I have been with you all day, then I will follow you to the banquet tonight." ”

Lear nodded, not speaking, but very moved.