"Okay, now it's time, let's listen to my thoughts."

It was the patriarch Dolan who broke the silence in the secret room of the meeting, and he pretended to be calm and gently took a sip of the tea on the table, but the trembling porcelain cup still revealed his mood.

Dolan simply put down the tea, rubbed his temples with his chubby fingers, and then said his plan almost without an upheaval in his tone:

"First of all, it is impossible for us to surrender to the Kingdom of Camos, the Green Vine family has already declared allegiance to the Kingdom of Dylan when we accept the title of nobility, and if we surrender to other countries, we will not be able to face the pressure of the Noble Lady Church (the church of the noble gods)"!

After saying this, Dolan paused and looked around at the elders who bowed their heads and were silent, and seeing that no one objected, Dolan continued:

"But at this time, the Green Vine family is extremely weak, all the troops, financial resources, and material resources invested in the "Glory Army" have been lost, and in the face of the double blow of the "church faction" of the Dylan Kingdom and the Camos Kingdom, our Green Vine Family cannot be without a backer, so ............ I, the thirty-second patriarch of the Green Vine family, Doran Green Vine, propose to surrender to the Church of Dawn, and henceforth believe in the Lord of Dawn, and ............ Present to the Church of Dawn the demagogic leader of the heresy, Trelinka!

"What...... Patriarch, you ............"

Several elders raised their heads in shock, and even one old man stood up in surprise, at this time, the eyes of all the elders were full of disbelief.

But Dolan did not stop from describing his plan, he drowned out the surprised whispers of the elders in a louder voice, and faced all the old men with an unabashed and oppressive look:

"As long as the pastor of the Dawn Church is allowed to preach to the descendants of our family from an early age, as long as they donate 80% of the family's property, as long as they dedicate the "Glory Army" and Trelinka to the Dawn Church, according to the custom, the Dawn Church will definitely choose to accept the Green Vine Family, and the Honorable Lady Church will also choose to turn a blind eye to ............"

"Patriarch...... Wait a minute...... Ahem...... Ahem, ahem!"

An elder finally couldn't help but interrupt Dolan's hoarse words, he stood up on crutches, and said to Dolan with a forced cough:

"Patriarch...... If you do that, you will indeed be protected by the Church of Dawn, but ...... But the title of our Green Vine family...... What about our territory in Green Vine City, the Noble Lady Church will never allow us to continue to keep it...... Ahem...... Hold on to your title!"

"That's right, what about our title, this is a hereditary title that our ancestors got by fighting with the previous king............"

"And the territory of Green Vine City, which is the territory that we have passed down from generation to generation for hundreds of years...... Without the territory, what kind of nobles are we, and how can we maintain the dignity of the nobles............"

"Be a lackey of the church...... What face do we have to meet our ancestors............"

After listening to the plan of the Dolan patriarch, the elders in the work couldn't help but discuss, they were all high-ranking nobles since they were children, even the professionals were mostly vulgar barbarians in their eyes, and those who had never been nobles would never be able to understand the attachment of those nobles to the title, to the territory, to the so-called noble bloodline, and many of them would rather lose their lives than let go of the rotten glory in their hands.

Looking at these noble elders who were arguing that even death would not be worthy of their ancestors, Dolan only felt that his head hurt as if it was about to crack, and he resisted the urge to wake up these old stubborn ones one by one and shouted in an almost roaring voice:

"That's enough, what kind of system does the noise become, coexist and die with the territory? The glory of the ancestors? The noble blood? Do you feel the glory until the family is destroyed and everyone is killed? Do you have to wait until your descendants are reduced to slaves, and the bloodline is precious? Or will you have the face to face your ancestors when the family is destroyed?"

In Dolan's roar, all the elders were silent, and they knew intellectually that what Dolan said was very reasonable, but emotionally, these people could not accept such an ending of the Green Vine Family.

Seeing that the elders were speechless, Dolan stopped roaring, and once again resumed his hoarse and deep voice, this time, Dolan did not ask the elders for advice again, he gave a decisive order in an unquestionable tone:

"All the elders must immediately gather the direct bloodline of the family after the meeting, immediately realize all the family's properties in Green Vine City, immediately recall all the private soldiers of the Green Vine Family who participated in the "Glory Army", and immediately disperse the side bloodlines to leave the Dylan Kingdom, and the Green Vine Family is now in a state of emergency.........

And also...... Go back and find some businessmen to study...... We may have to become a business family in the future............."

After speaking, Dolan slowly turned around, and while walking towards the exit of the secret room with heavy steps, he said to the old soldier Stele Ge'an behind him:

"Grandpa Bei Ge'an, I'm going to trouble you again, now we have to gather the escort team to capture Princess Trelinka, she is a knight of the rank of apprentice, and it will be difficult for you to take action once."

"It's nothing, a knight of the rank of apprentice, but it's just a gesture."

The old soldier Bei Ge'an's answer was neither sad nor joyful, but anyone could hear the determination and seriousness in his words.

With the opening of the heavy iron door, a gust of cold wind blew into the secret room of the Green Vine Family, and all the elders couldn't help but shiver.

Several of the older elders shook their heads with a wry smile, they knew that Dolan was also warning those elders who were unwilling to choose to give up their noble status and territory just now, the current Green Vine Family was at a huge turning point, and once there was an internal disagreement, it would fall apart, which no one wanted to see.

Fortunately, most of the elders cared about their lives above their territory and title, and they all glanced at the elders who were extremely unacceptable to the reality with their fierce eyes, and then followed Dolan out of the secret room.

Unconsciously, the night has once again enveloped the entire Green Vine City, the cold winter blizzard fell in the darkness in this western border city, the flying snowflakes in the cold wind up and down, the pedestrians on the road have accelerated the pace of going home, when such a blizzard is coming, even the warmer temperature of the Green Vine City has become bitterly cold, and the cold wind is not inferior to the north of the Dylan Kingdom.

The winter was as long and cold as ever, and even the most optimistic farmers had to worry about their food rations for the next year.