Bruce accepts Phoebe's allegiance, and when Phoebe stands up, he becomes a nobleman of Bruce's retinue, and if he behaves well, he will have the opportunity to receive a fief from Bruce.

Ken was unwilling to surrender to Bruce, preferring to pay a ransom in exchange for freedom, and Bruce looked at the young nobleman, who he actually admired more than Phoebe.

"Ken, Lord Jeffrey is dead, and your oath with him has ended, if you don't pledge your allegiance to me, I'm afraid your family will lose their land here, so you won't be willing to pledge allegiance to me?" Bruce looked at Ken and said to him.

"Land and glory, I'd rather choose the latter." Ken said stubbornly.

"Lord Baron, I don't think it would be better for me to talk to Lord Ken." Phoebe offered to persuade Ken, and Bruce nodded and agreed to let Phoebe persuade.

Ken and Phoebe are sent to a vacant room in the main tower so that they can talk quietly, which also shows Bruce's affection for Ken, a young nobleman with a straightforward and heroic personality, who is the excellent general that Bruce hopes to cultivate.

"What the hell are you doing?" As soon as Ken entered the room, he said to Phoebe angrily.

"Shh Phoebe held out a finger to his lips, and he listened to the door for a moment to make sure no one was eavesdropping.

"What are you doing?" Ken looked at the mysterious Phoebe and asked in wonder.

"Lord Ken, I understand your insistence on your honor, but now that Lord Jeffrey is dead, and the nobles are subservient to Bruce, what can we do?" Phoebe said to Ken.

"Damn." Ken turned his back angrily, in fact, he didn't understand this truth, but he regretted that he couldn't defeat Bruce on his own.

Bruce didn't take it all to heart, as a baron he had so much to do, and Grindon's development was on the right track, with charcoal, water-powered mills, and a composite integrated agricultural development model taking shape.

"I'm going to leave the castle in Sir Wayne's care." Bruce said to Sir Wayne.

"Leave it to me?" Sir Wayne was a little surprised, he thought that Bruce would definitely use this castle as his home base, and any nobleman would definitely do so after conquering this fortified castle, but Bruce was not an ordinary nobleman.

"I'm going back to Greenton, where development needs me." Bruce stood up from his throne and said to Sir Wayne.

"Thank you for your trust, I will protect this castle." Sir Wayne knew that the lord had entrusted the castle to the knight, and that was the greatest trust in the knight, and he gave a knightly salute to Bruce.

"Okay, it's finally a big thing." Bruce exhaled lightly, as if handing over the castle to Sir Wayne, allowing him to put a lot of burden on him, in fact, he didn't know how to develop the castle at all, in this case, it was better to return to the familiar Grinton.

"Lord Baron, there's something I want to ask." Sir Wayne hesitated and said to Bruce.

"Say it." Bruce was preoccupied with how to develop Grington Village, so he didn't care about Sir Wayne's hesitation.

"What are you going to do with the vassals who didn't heed your call?" Sir Wayne gritted his teeth and asked Bruce.

From the capture of Jeffrey's castle, Sir Wayne saw Bruce's iron fist, such a baron would never let those nobles who resisted orders, but those vassals were long-time followers of the Locke family, and if Bruce punished them for his anger, it might cause a rebellion in the region.

"They have disobeyed my summoning order, and they have broken their oath to the Locke family, and of course I want to take back their fiefs and divide the lands among the loyal nobles." Bruce said categorically that there was no need for him to be soft on the hesitant nobles.

"Lord Baron, these nobles just don't know you, just as they know that you are a benevolent and capable baron, and will not hesitate to follow you." Sir Wayne spoke well of Locke's vassals, and as a knight of Locke, he was no stranger to them.

"Well, for your sake, I can forgive them for their disloyalty this time." Bruce stared at Sir Wayne for a long time, Sir Wayne is currently the knight he relies on the most, and he can't afford to give this face, but Bruce doesn't plan to let go of those vassals who ride the wall like this.

"Thank you for your leniency." A smile appeared on Sir Wayne's face, and he breathed a sigh of relief and thanked Bruce.

"But they must come here, come to this castle and renew their allegiance to me, and pay a fine for breaking the oath." Bruce said unceremoniously.

"What?" Sir Wayne was stunned when he heard this, this condition was too harsh, you must know that the vassals would refuse nine times out of ten.

"That's right, that's my condition, and if you can convince them, sir, then the broken oath will be overturned." Bruce turned and left the Hall of Lords, his voice echoing through the hall and hovering over Sir Wayne's ears.

"Ha, I thought the baron really intended to spare the vassals." At this moment, the voice of little Byron came from the side of the column, he wore a blue and black checkered cake-like turban, and he was wearing purple aristocratic civilian clothes, and the green leggings on his legs were against his tight thighs, and on his feet were a pair of pointed leather shoes.

"Lord Byron, if the vassals rebel, it will plunge the region into chaos." Next to Byron the Younger was Sir Wallace, who preferred Sir Wayne's idea and treated his vassals with leniency.

"I think so, too, but the Baron is resolute." Sir Wayne sat down on the steps with a sad face, and he just happened to want to talk to someone.

"Vassals are not loyal to the Baron, shouldn't they use an iron fist against those who are not loyal?" Byron Jr. was disdainful of the weakness of the two knights, he was a man of power in his own right, and although Bruce was very young, Byron Jr. found great strength in him, and this power was different from other old nobles.

"What the Baron needs is to rule, not to treat the nobles like enemies." Sir Wallace's beard cocked, and he said angrily, for little Byron seemed to him to be as disgusting as a slippery viper.

"It's my fault." Little Byron did not argue with Sir Wallace, and immediately bowed his head and admitted his mistake, but when he looked down, no one could see whether he was really admitting his mistake or whether it was just expediency.

"Well, Lord Byron has only made his own suggestion, Sir Wallace, you can persuade Lord Baron to reconcile the vassals and the Baron." Sir Wayne hurriedly spoke softly.