Chapter 370: Pie in the Sky
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"Bishop Weiss, you have suffered all these years, I have seen the same situation in the small village here, and I have come from that small village, I understand your pain and worry. But now that the tide has receded, and now that I've found this place, I can get you all to leave and go back to the Empire. β
"No!" Bishop Weiss said categorically, "Lord Duke, after so many years here, we have become accustomed to this place, and we are already very satisfied with the situation of the Empire, we don't want to leave here, we just want to live quietly here." β
I looked at Bishop Vess and then at Brandt, as if I had the same idea.
"You don't want to go back and see?"
"But this oasis is even more nostalgic to me, and after living here for more than 20 years, we have come to call it home." Bishop Vess smiled.
Looking at Bishop Weiss, I seem to understand his feelings, at first he was helpless, trapped here, wanted to go out but couldn't get out, but after staying here for a long time, he had no contact with the outside world at all, so he naturally regarded this place as his home.
"Lord Duke, I would like to ask you for one thing." Bishop Vess said solemnly.
"Bishop Weiss, if you have any requests, I will help as much as I can, and there is no need to ask."
"Thank you, Lord Duke. We consider this our home and don't want to leave, but there are also children here who have not seen what the cities of the empire are like and who have not been able to get a good education. You should also see that except for us old guys, the strength of young people is very low, and many talented children have been buried. "Most // fast // more // new // on // in the black ////
That's for sure, there's no resources here, I haven't seen a magician, it is estimated that there are people who can learn magic, but they can't find skills~ Of course, the strength is poor, how to cultivate without conditions?
"The few oases around here are facing various threats from the desert, and the monsters in the desert will often rush into the oasis to plunder, and every time we lose some of the population, so over time, there are less than three hundred people left in the entire oasis, and the situation is similar in the other oases."
"Bishop Weiss, what do you need me to do?"
"I remember that the laws of the empire required that nobles had the right to make their own private fiefdoms when they found lands that they did not belong to, and the size of the realms varied according to the titles. The original Sloh Oasis belonged to the Empire, but at the time of the Demon Tide, it had already been destroyed, and the four towns around the four oases were also destroyed, and there have been no Imperial troops for more than 20 years, so now these five oases are all land that does not belong to, and the Duke can completely turn these five oases into your personal domain. β
What does this old man mean? Saying that he didn't want to go, saying that the children lacked education, and saying that he was under threat, why did he now say that I should make this a territory? Can a duke divide a territory? Emperor Reynolds only seemed to tell me that the size of my guild station could be doubled, but he didn't say that I could enclose the land~ "Bishop Weiss, I don't quite understand what you mean, and when Renault the Great was a duke on the side, he didn't say that I could occupy a place by myself as a private domain, of course, in the future, my guild station can be used as my own city." β
"Lord Duke, I can't be mistaken, the Imperial Law does have this clause. Because I also have the title of Earl, and this oasis is now my domain. The reason why you don't know is perhaps because you are an adventurer in another world, and Your Majesty thinks that you don't need a private domain at all. β
"Is that so? What is the difference between a private fiefdom and an empire's land? β
"Everything in a private domain belongs to the lord, that is, the nobles who own the domain, and only need to pay a part of the tax to the empire every year, and the duke, only 10% of the income is paid as a tax. There can be independent laws in the realm, which are entirely made by the lord, and the lord can form a private army in the realm, as long as the duke's realm does not exceed 5,000 people. At the same time, everything in the territory is handled by the lord himself, such as in the face of the attack of the demonic beast, the empire will not care, only rely on the lord. β
"Well, then Bishop Ves, what exactly do you need me to do? If it is true that private territory can be demarcated. β
"Lord Duke, I hope you can apply for the Empire to make this your private domain, allow the people here to continue to live here, and build this place to ensure the safety of the people here."
"Bishop Weiss, can't you live here if I don't make this a private domain? The answer, of course, is no, and even if I don't become the lord here, I can promise to help you, help you fight off the monsters from the desert, and I can arrange for some people to come! Why do you want me to make this a territory? And I don't know if I can set aside a piece of land for private territory now. β
"Lord Duke, I do have selfish intentions. You are an adventurer, such a young but powerful adventurer, you will not want to stay in one place all the time, so you can't always protect everyone here, if this is not your territory, if you want to help us, you can help us take out the people who need to go out, and the rest of the people, if they encounter monsters rushing in, can only wait for death. Of course, you can also report this place to the Empire, but the best possibility for us is to be taken back, and here, in a remote place, the Empire is not willing to waste its troops here to protect a few of us, we are not willing to leave! β
After listening to Bishop Weiss's words, I finally understood that only if I made this place my own territory could I let them live here all the time, and I could ensure that those who wanted to go out could go out at any time, and I would protect them with my heart, even if it wasn't me, I would arrange someone to protect them.
"Bishop Ves, I see what you mean, but it's just your thoughts, how do you know if the other four oases are willing? I don't want to be an invader, they live well and I want to occupy their homeland, in this case, I will feel guilty, and I am really not sure if I can carve out a piece of private territory, and besides, to put it bluntly, I am out there and kill a powerful monster to get a lot of wealth, this is to get a territory I have to spend energy to protect it, spend money to build it, but I don't know if it can bring me some benefits. β
"I understand the Duke's concerns. Don't worry, Lord Duke, I can guarantee that the other four oases will not object to you making this a territory, I will negotiate with them first, as long as Lord Duke can let us continue to live in the oasis, and those who need to go out to study can go out and come back, they will definitely not object. As for the benefits, Lord Duke, please rest assured, as long as you become the lord here, all the people and things in it belong to you, and the wealth will definitely not be less. β
"I actually don't understand, why don't you want to live freely, but you want to take the initiative to become someone else's people and be constrained by others?"
"There is no absolute only in this world, we just want to change the way of bondage, change the way of freedom." Bishop Weiss has a bit of a philosopher's flavor ~ "Well, I agree! So, what are the oases? β
"The oasis we are in is the largest of the five oases, with a current population of nearly three hundred, and there are 117 warriors and knights above the high ranks, including Brant, three are war madness, and two are great knights. The other more than 200 people, except for me and Lance are priests, all of them are senior life professionals, there are more than 50 masters, 19 grandmasters, as long as there are materials, these people can make almost all things below the god level, of course, the god level is not impossible. In addition, there are a lot of medicinal herbs that are suitable for growing here, and we have been growing a lot of them, and besides, there are a lot of high-grade ores in the water. β
"You're saying that the people here, except for the combat profession, are all life professions? And it's all advanced or above? You made that giant crossbow out there? I asked in disbelief as I looked at Bishop Vis with big eyes. You know, in which main cities, our trading houses are only recruiting one or twenty people in each main city~ "No, among the life professionals I just mentioned, there are also many people with high combat strength, of course, this has to be in addition to 13 children. Bishop Vess smiled smugly and continued to introduce.
"The other four oases are in a similar situation, the Sara Oasis is about six kilometers northwest of here, where gems are produced, and it is also the only source of space gems on the continent; About five kilometers east of the Sara Oasis is the Kos Oasis, which is surrounded by two magic crystal mines and is home to many alchemists; About seven kilometers to the northeast of the Sala Oasis, and about the same distance to the north of here, is the Lop Nur Oasis, surrounded by metal mines; 10 kilometers to the northeast of this place is the Baikal Oasis, which, unlike the oases just mentioned, almost everyone is good at domesticating Warcraft, and it used to be the domestication base for imperial cavalry mounts. β
Listening to Weiss, I'm already completely stupid! Not to mention that these people are amazing, just those resources are already terrifying enough, space gems, magic crystals, metal minerals, herbs......
How do I feel like a big pie has fallen from the sky? Picking up a lord for nothing, or is it such a good place? Could this be so lucky?
"Bishop Weiss, according to what you just said, there should be a lot of magical beasts on the Baikal Oasis that can be used as mounts? You should have been able to cross the desert long ago, huh? And every oasis has such strength, it shouldn't be too difficult to deal with monsters from the desert, right? β
"But that's just now, with the population getting smaller and smaller, in a few years, maybe every oasis will not have a newborn, and you may not know the monsters in the desert, there are some things that we can't fight, and they can't be prevented. Another thing I have never said is that outside of these oases, there has always been a group of bandits, all of whom had come out of the oases many years ago, and they had been wandering from one oasis to another, often rushing into one of the oases to snatch food. β
Nima, I'll just say, how can there be such a good thing? It turns out that there are other dangers~ It's just some bandits, it's still very simple for us to solve it! This lord, let's do it!
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