While in Lordaeron, Mograine also participated in the military meeting before the expedition, but due to time constraints, he and Uther returned to the valley of Alterac as soon as the meeting was over, and Arthas did not have time to say a few words to him. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"I don't have any problems...... Uther, you ......"

Mograine looked at Uther, who was standing aside.

"I'll forget it, I'll have to deal with the things Alsace mentioned just now."

Uther shook his head, then said goodbye to Arthas and the others, and left alone.

"Teacher Uther...... Has it always been like this? ”

Arthas sighed, then asked Mograini.

"Yes, that's right. But it is better to say that it is precisely because of this that everyone obeys him. ”

Mograini smiled and said.

"Huh?"

Winresa couldn't help but exclaim in a low voice, she had been listening attentively to the conversation between Arthas and Mograini, but when she heard this, she didn't understand it at all.

That "Ser Uther" always had a straight face and a very intimidating look, why did he have such a high reputation among the Knights of the Silver Hand?

Arthas understood why, as he had been aware of this in the original time stream.

The current Order of the Silver Hand is obviously more complex than the original time stream, with paladins from the Royal Guard of Lordaeron and paladins from Stormwind and beyond.

A native of Stormwind, Uther traveled north to Lordaeron with his teacher, Archbishop Alonthos Fao, after the outbreak of the Orc War, and became a member of the Alliance's decision-making team on behalf of the Church.

Despite being appointed head of the Order of the Silver Hand and being the teacher of Arthas, Uther was not a native of Lordaeron after all.

Instead of putting down the shelves and going to mingle with those Lordaeron royal guards, it is better to act like this, and look like a businessman, which can convince the Lordaeron paladins led by Mograine.

"His Royal Highness Prince Alsace, if you are going to visit Stratholme, I recommend ......"

As soon as he heard that the prince of Arthas was going to play in the town he governed, the mayor of Barathas was even more excited, and he hurriedly said earnestly.

"Then you don't have to, Mayor Barathus. You and Baron Rivendell go back first, we have some things to talk about privately. ”

Arthas, however, did not give the mayor any chance to pat himself on the back, politely declining Mayor Barathus's invitation and issuing an "eviction order" to him and Baron Rivendell.

The smile on Mayor Barassas' face froze, but Baron Rivendell gloated.

Hillbilly, no knowledge...... Is His Royal Highness the Prince such a good person?

- Baron Rivendell pursed his lips, laughed inwardly at the "fellow", and then turned away after a standard aristocratic salute to Arthas.

Mayor Barassas' face was full of embarrassment, but he didn't dare to disobey Arthas's orders, and after a flurry of goodbye, the old man stumbled away.

Looking at the two black dots that were gradually moving towards the town of Stratholme, Winlessa finally couldn't help but ask the question in her mind.

"Arthas, what's going on? Is that old uncle, Barathus, the mayor here? But why is there a baron here who is lord? ”

Wenlesa asked curiously, looking at Arthas.

"That's ......"

Arthas smiled and explained to Winlessa.

Lordaeron practiced a feudal system, and over the past thousand years, Lordaeron has continued to expand its territory, and finally became the most extensive human kingdom after the Alathor Empire.

In the process, countless small nobles, small kingdoms were conquered by the Minethil family and became vassals of Lordaeron, and in order to better govern the country and reward the courtiers who had made outstanding contributions to the expansion process, the ancestors of Arthas divided the vast territory into small parts and divided them among the nobles of the kingdom.

For example, in the Valley of the Hearth, the ancestors of Tirio Fording once owned the land, and after the submission to Lordaeron, they remained the masters of the land, and in addition to having their own army, the Fortin family also had many privileges protected by Lordaeron's decrees.

Of course, the authority of the lords in their own territory was a shock to the centralization of royal power, and in the past, in order to weaken the authority of these great lords, several kings of Lordaeron successively implemented a system of dual co-governance.

The so-called dual co-governance means that in some important cities, the royal family appoints the administrator of the city, handles the government affairs on behalf of the royal family, reports directly to the royal family, and manages the residents here with the lords here.

As the largest border town in the north of Lordaeron, Stratholme naturally falls into the category of these important cities.

Although the Rivendell family has sovereignty over the area, the mayor of Barrathass is appointed by Arthas's father, King Terenus, to assist or manage it with a bit of surveillance.

As soon as Baron Rivendell has any actions that may be detrimental to the royal family, Mayor Barassus will pass the news to the royal city of Lordaeron through a unique channel as soon as possible.

Under this dual system, if the lords want to rebel or rebel, they must first deal with the mayors and mayors around them.

This is certainly not a simple matter, these people are usually loyal to the royal family and are not so easy to buy; And even if the lords succeed in buying them off, how can they be sure that these guys can be trusted?

After overthrowing the original lords, aren't these royal appointed administrators the most likely to become new lords?

The contradiction of interests makes these mayors and lords always look at each other unpleasantly; And most of the two sides have nothing to do with each other.

The privileges of the nobility protected by decree are inviolable without conclusive evidence; Correspondingly, these managers, who represent the authority of the royal family, are not so easy to deal with.

That's why Baron Rivendell and Mayor Barassos don't get along so well.

Alsace spoke for a long time, but Winlessa listened even more confusedly.

"Alsace...... I...... I don't understand ......."

Winlesa said timidly to Arthas as she grabbed the corner of Sister Aurelia's coat; Her heart was full of self-reproach - why was she so stupid? Alsace has already said so much!