General Brev Sellers, the first general of Molai, was in a bad mood during this time.

The main reason for his bad mood was the signs of division within Molai.

As a nation, the Molai Business Federation does not have a strong government. At the heart of the country's rule was the council of great nobles and merchants headed by the five dukes, which greatly guaranteed the "democracy" within the parliament, but therefore lacked strong binding force - the merchants did not want to have a strong ruler on their heads, and if they could, they would not even want to pay the taxes that kept the country running.

In the war that began ten years ago and ended eight years ago, Mo Lai was seriously injured, and the Norma family, one of the five dukes, lost almost all the territory, and its strength declined to the point that it was not even as powerful as the marquis, strictly speaking, and even among the counts, and the "duke of food" Norton family was also very badly injured and has not been able to recover until now.

The Sellers family, to which Brev belonged, were the beneficiaries of that war, because they led two of the most crucial victories of the war - Brev himself was the commander of the first victory, the military executor of the second victory, and personally killed the Thracian general, Lauren Pitutz, the Duke of the Mountains, and became a famous general in the world.

However...... This also buries another huge hidden danger.

For a long time, the capital of the Five Dukes of Molai was the Gordon family, the "Golden Dukes". The family controls Molai's banking sector and is the issuer of the official currency. For businessmen, the person who holds the money bag is naturally the most important boss, so no one can challenge this order.

However, during the war, the Gordon family performed poorly, and the support of Norma led by them did not achieve much effect, and many of their nobles lost their territory in the war. These benefits must be compensated in a way, and from where? Of course, it can only be made up for by petty aristocratic and petty merchants.

As a result, in the post-war revival, the Gordons were even more complaining, and although they had money in their hands, they still caused a lot of trouble.

For example, the "Duke of the Giant Ship" Irma family, who is also one of the five dukes, the old man who is more than twice the age of Brev, clearly picks out the attitude.

"The interests of the Irma family and the nobles and merchants under our command are maintained by ourselves. We don't have money bags or banks, but we have fleets and fists! Whoever wants to encroach on our interests will beat him so that even his wife doesn't recognize him!"

That's what he said, and that's what he did. After his announcement, more than a dozen armed conflicts, large and small, broke out in just one year. On the largest scale, both sides even amassed more than 3,000 troops each - attention! These 3,000 men are not militias, but regular troops and mercenaries, each of which can fight!

At that time, the Duke of Sellers was so anxious that he was in a cold sweat, and the father and son hurried to mediate. With the prestige of the old Duke of Sellers and the bravery of Brev, the field was finally calmed and the final war between the two sides was avoided. But the old Duke Sellers was also anxious and angry because of this, he was not young in the first place, and if he was so ill, his health would soon fail, and he saw that there were frequent contradictions within the Federation, so he simply abdicated and lived in seclusion in a fit of anger, and let his eldest son, that is, Breve's brother Laoyo Sellers, take over and become a new generation of dukes.

That was three years ago.

Duke Lloyo Sellers was a soft-minded man, less strong and brave than his brother, but more of a businessman. So when he encounters contradictions, he often can't control the scene, and most of the time he is still rushed by Brev.

Relying on Breve's efforts, the-for-tat Gordon and the Irma family did not completely break up. They chose to call friends and co-opt allies to increase their strength. The Gordon family co-opted the Norton family and aided King Zion of Trera as a foreign aid - this king is Duke Gordon's son-in-law and can help a lot at a critical moment, and the Irma family has attracted a large number of small and medium-sized nobles and businessmen - they originally wanted to win over the Norma family, but the Duke of Norma obviously has no intention of wading into troubled waters, and he is closed all day long, except for reading or painting, and he does not even hold banquets, and the Irma family wants to win over countless people.

In general, the alliance of "Gordon, Norton" is definitely much stronger than the alliance led by the Elma family. But in the private sector, support is reversed. On the one hand, there are vampires who are still trying to make money to make up for their losses, and on the other hand, there is the God of Wealth who controls most of the maritime trade and holds the lifeline of Molai, but whoever wants to make money and wants to get rich, who dares to really stand on Gordon's side and can't get along with the Irma family?

In this case, some people within Molai have already put forward the statement that "since everyone has such a big contradiction, it is better to break up".

The fragility of the federal system is on full display at this time. Because of the lack of central coercion, the Mohamcan authorities are not only powerless to suppress such remarks, but even many officials have ambiguous attitudes.

Officials are also people, nobles, and merchants, and they also have to protect their own interests.

If Mo Lai really can't sustain it, it is better to break up the gang while everyone has not completely turned their faces, and still be able to do business in the future than to fight a civil war.

Brev was anxious about this, but there was nothing he could do.

He persuaded the two dukes, Gordon and Norton, to stop knocking on the bone and sucking the marrow, so as to ease the conflict. However, the two dukes felt that even if they stopped now, they might not be able to stop the signs of splitting, on the contrary, if they were more powerful, they would make the insurgents a little more afraid and not dare to act rashly.

He was also the Duke of Elma, and the old duke roared louder than the young man at that time: "Everything in the world must be reasoned! If the leader doesn't even explain the reason, then what are you doing with him?"

Brev could only be helpless.

Recently, the two sides have begun to have large and small frictions, causing Brev to fight fires everywhere and be exhausted.

At the same time, however, there were problems within the Sellers family.

Every time something happened, Duke Laoyo couldn't control the scene, and it was all up to General Brev to rush to the rescue, once or twice, and many times later, many people were questioning whether the old duke's successor was wrong - Mo Lai is now obviously showing the meaning of storm, and it is obviously more reasonable to let the famous general "Thunder Knight" Brev Sellers take over the position of duke.

Brev himself doesn't think so, because the Sellers family has always practiced primogeniture, and it has never changed - primogeniture may not be the best inheritance law, but it is the most stable inheritance law, the easiest to enforce, and the least likely to go wrong.

For a family, "stability" is fundamental.

But...... Even though he has explained this more than once, there are still many people who insist on this view.

Brev understood what they meant - the situation was not good, and now the family needed a strong leader.

Naturally, this can only be him.

But that's not what he wants!

After once again completing the mediation of the conflict, General Brev, who had returned to the official residence, sat in his study with a tired face.

Just then, he received a letter.

A letter of challenge.