"Uncle, it seems that the Duke of Kerzen attaches great importance to you!"

"Hehe, isn't it just that you have taken a fancy to the vote in my hand and the leadership position in the central forest area, and if you win me over, you will guarantee three votes. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

"Where's your attitude, uncle?"

"I'm originally neutral, so I'd like to hear what you think?"

"To tell you the truth, I actually have a candidate in mind, and that is the son-in-law of His Majesty, Archduke Joseph of Rokenhausen. ”

"Yes, you've seen him and think he's a good fit?"

"I have not seen him, but I have met his son, Macminus, and especially his father, and the son of this Grand Duke has made a very good impression on me. ”

"You have so much faith in him?"

"Yes. According to my own thoughts, unless I am the emperor myself, I will only choose Maximus among the others!"

"Hahahaha, since you told me so bluntly, then I will definitely support you, you can count the three votes in the forest area on yourself, whether you want to be the emperor yourself, or support someone else. ”

"Thank you, uncle. ”

After exiting the Chamber of Secrets, as things were going very well, so there was a lot of free time, so Salian accompanied Miss Witt on a tour of the city of Schönebeck, a quiet town where many elves came and went, and they came out of the nearby forest to trade with the Tutonians.

At last in a tavern Salian said goodbye to Miss Werther, and although they had not known each other for a long time, they both regarded each other as their closest friends, and even if they were reluctant, they now had to be separated temporarily.

Estaffalia will need to return to Bleimen in the north to take care of some business, and then go to the territory of Nova Mark, where they will establish a well-established business system for Salian's realm with the help of Miss Evangerine. Then she had to open up the trade route from Konstanz to the northern sea, and arrange for personnel to start the construction of a large weapons workshop. These are all things that need to be done as early as possible.

After seeing off Miss Werther, Salian bid farewell to the Duke of Koenigs and set out on his way home. He changed into the suit of 'Meier' and rode alone from the great forest in the middle of the empire to the southwest, and now Meier always wears a long-eared bracelet on his wrist, which according to himself is a relic of his deceased wife.

The area he passed through was rich but fragmented, and in order to spend less money on the road, he bypassed the checkpoints when he encountered them, and the people who had no way to cross the mountains were not so lucky. All this must be changed!" cried out to the Earl of the Frontier.

The mercenary Meier also did something he thought was important, whenever he heard a rumor on the road that there were corrupt officials or profiteers in the area, he would stop to confirm it, and if the news was true, he would immediately kill them all in Meier's identity, hang the corpse from the tree at the city gate or the church bell, and draw a two-handed sword pattern on the ground under the corpse with blood.

Although Salian knows that relying on the strength of one person is a drop in the bucket, and he can't change the status quo, even if he kills a corrupt official, he may come back to another one even more severely. But if you don't see it, forget it, but if he finds out that he is corrupt and corrupt, then he will eliminate it mercilessly, which is the responsibility of the Imperial Knight, although few people are still insisting on it.

In this way, after leaving many legends along the way, Salian finally reached the realm of Schwartenn, and as soon as he stepped into this land that made him feel at ease, he no longer acted as "Meier", and everywhere he passed was restless, breathing in the fresh mountain air here, and the pressure that had been accumulated for a long time was finally completely released. Finally, when he entered his territory, Heixingen, he instantly felt full of strength, and there was no longer any difficulty that could stop him.

He rode the war horse "Doros", which had served him along the way, and believed in his own land, thinking about how to rebuild the new imperial church system while dreaming of being an emperor. As he passed a wheat field, he saw the peasants of his land working in peace, and when they saw the lord, they stopped to salute him, except for the female peasant, who seemed to ignore his presence, and did not raise her head. Sally looked at her, the most delicate wildflower in Heixingen's territory.

Salian didn't pay much attention to it, and went straight back to Stlingenburg, and with Salion's perception he heard a loud and noisy laughter coming from the eerie castle three kilometers away, indicating that everything was normal here.

With no one to greet him, he jumped over the moat of the castle and climbed the ramparts to his office, which had not been cleaned for weeks (Yulia had probably forgotten), and the floor and desk were covered in dust, with footprints and handprints everywhere, indicating that there were frequent people coming and going.

He patted the dust on his office chair, sat down and looked at the neatly arranged papers on the desk, and the only one who was still working hard was probably Moreau. Flipping through the important stack of papers (as Moreau was customary), he found several letters.

A letter from Dietrich, the acting commander of the garrison of the fortress of Tareenis, reads something like this.

Dear Salian Nephew,

Miss Schöneke arrived at our office three days ago and left today. As requested in the letter, I have sent competent men to you.

Also: Miss Chenek, seeing that the military uniforms of our Territory Regiment are outdated, has donated 10,000 guilders of gold to buy military supplies.

The above payment was made three weeks ago.

Then Salian saw a letter from Bellerin, the capital of the Neumark Territory.

Dear Elder Brother,

Sister Lorena Ise arrived in Bellerin yesterday afternoon, and because she was so attached to me, she gave me ten pairs of the most fashionable leather shoes that day, and it was great that they were as big as her feet! In addition, I have sent heralds to various parts of the territory to inform them of the incident.

The letter was signed fifteen days ago.

Since these letters were sent in long-distance encryption, Lorana Ise should have been patrolling around the territory by now. Sally thought to himself that it would be great to have two confidantes besides Moreau who could advise him. He immediately picked up the quill and began to write, and now he had to inform Evangeline to contact Lorana Ise and discuss something with her.

After writing the letter, he rang the bell and tried to ask Moreau to transmit the letter, but he waited for a long time and no one answered, and Moreau might not be there. Salian opened the door and went downstairs to the hall, where he saw a merry crowd sitting around the table playing cards. Anna, Acherin, and Manstel were all there, and the gang didn't care about the sudden appearance of the castle owner, and continued their game, Manstel was obviously very smooth, and there were probably more than twenty gold coins of various kinds in front of him.

It wasn't until Salian approached them that Yulia spoke to him as if she had just noticed.

"Brother, Baron Barenberg came to play today, and I asked my father to go to Constance to buy ingredients, why did you come back so quickly?"

Before he could reply, Aicherin spoke impatiently.

"Brother Salian, come and help me! Manstel has won all the money I earned from the Earl of the Palace, hurry up and help me win it back!"

Sure enough, he was happiest with his friends, and Salian then took his seat for Achelin, and played cards with Manstel and Anna, and although he didn't turn it all over before dinner, he did get some back for Acherin.

Over dinner, Salian and his friends talked about their next plans. In order to elect an emperor, he will make a long trip to the south of the empire, visiting the Dukes of Froburg, Wienria and Aldenburg as a prince of the empire.

At the same time, he will also publicize the independent little lords along the way, that is, the Imperial Knights. Since the founding of the Empire, the successive kings of various dynasties have divided many imperial knights who directly govern the royal family, and these imperial knights who have broken the land with martial arts are small but arrogant, and they are an extremely closed social class.

For thousands of years, except for a few people who relied on generations of meritorious service to rise to the rank of imperial earl or other high-ranking people, most of the rest could only keep their ancestral fiefdoms from being lost. In the present era of population growth and economic development, many new changes have taken place in this class, such as Baron Barenberg, or the complete decline and disconnection of the lineage, it is estimated that there are still about 1,200 imperial knightly domains in the empire, and their social status and interests are similar, so Salian from this class wants to become their spokesperson. Of course, these people would not follow Salian on the basis of feelings but no benefits to them, and he had already figured out how to win them over.

We will see later how much of a wave this political idea of Salian eventually set off.

"Friends, let's have some fun these days, and when my people arrive, we will leave, and those who want to go can go with me. ”

Anna and Achelin found the political trip uninteresting, so they arranged with Salian to meet in the territory of Forborg in Maxinus, where there would be a tournament of knights at the end of the year, and the two of them would go there at the right time, just in time to join Salian and participate in the tournament together.

The two siblings had come to Stlingenburg since they had returned to their own territory, and they had received the best reception here, and there was nothing to do when they returned, so they ate and drank here every day. It can be said that they are now equivalent to the vassals of Salian.

Manstel said to Salian, "This time I'd like to go out and see what's going on in the south of the empire." I came to you today to discuss our next move, and the cooperation with the Hanchea Alliance is going well, Miss Werther's personnel are in place, and now the entire trade line is operational, and I believe that it will soon become a golden route. Salian, if you need money to elect the emperor, I can take out 300,000 guilders right now!"

Yulia jumped when she heard the amount.

"Brother, this amount of money from the baron is a huge amount of money!"

Salian smiled and said to Yulia: "Hehe, if you want to be elected emperor simply by bribery, maybe one million dollars to buy votes is not enough! Manster's investment would at least be worth it if he became a count in return, right?"

"Haha, good friend of Salian, I'm sorry for you!" the smiling nobleman was satisfied with Salian's statement.

Sallian, who had not been back to the castle for a long time, had another long conversation with Morrow in his study after dinner. I carefully studied the number of ballots that I could guarantee in my hand now, and the minimum requirements for canvassing in the south this time.