In Azeroth, the lands that had been divided were no longer related to his original lord.

That is to say, when a king or another great lord divides a piece of land among his subordinates, the ownership of this territory is completely owned by that subordinate, and you cannot touch how they govern their land, let alone take it back.

There are only two ways to recover these lands, one is that this subordinate is dead, he has no descendants, not even a person who is eligible to inherit the side branches, in this case you can recover the land.

Another is that he betrayed, the premise of you giving him the territory is that he swears allegiance to you for generations, if he betrays, then he violates the original oath, and you can naturally take back the territory.

In other words, the territory of Anthony and others can logically be confiscated.

But the truth is what people say, and how to understand it, everyone has their own perspectives and ways.

Anthony, a relative of the imperial family, will not mention it for the time being, taking the fat family as an example, their family can be regarded as a big nobleman who has existed since the founding of Stormwind City, and after so many years of branching out, there are probably no less than a few hundred people who are qualified to inherit the title, and these hundreds of people are not all betrayed, there are always those marginal characters, such as some fifty heirs in line with the throne, they are too marginal, or in other aristocratic circles, they have not entered the fat circle at all, originally they have no idea about this town, but now as soon as Chubby falls, this group of people immediately jumped out。

Just because they didn't betray, they felt that they were eligible to inherit the territory and title, on the grounds that their personal territory was sacrosanct, plus they mobilized family relationships to get in the way, especially those members of the royal family, many guys with the surname of Urion but no territory to inherit were like crazy, they didn't have anything to do when they were fighting, and now they all came out to chatter, talking about ancestral teachings and rules, which made Marcus and others very headaches, even Bolval didn't know what to do.

After all, power is the game of the aristocracy, and Marcus and the others can't get around this circle, so they can only follow their rules.

However, this rule can actually be used, people are greedy, and the identity of the parliamentarian can achieve many goals for them, so Zhang Li secretly reached a dirty deal with some imperial relatives, and he supported the policy of non-confiscation of fiefdoms, on the condition that they were willing to help him get as much fief as possible.

If someone is dirty, and you are dirty with him, then you can play together.

Of course, on the surface, he can't do this directly, isn't the Storm Kingdom short of money now? Then those of you who want to inherit can donate money, whoever contributes to the country is eligible to get those lands, and those who don't donate money want to empty gloves and white wolves, they will be dealt with directly as the same party as the old parliamentarians, and they will click directly.

So the matter was decided, and what everyone didn't expect was that this group of people was really very rich, very, very rich, and most of the financial crisis in the Storm Kingdom was solved at once.

After getting their own satisfactory answer, these royal relatives began to repay the favor and began to arrange fiefs for Zhang Marcus and others, because Zhang Li made it clear that he did not require how tall the fief was, and the construction situation did not matter, he had a request, that is, it was big, as long as it was big enough, even if it was all wilderness, it didn't matter, so he got such a small village close to the crystal lake.

Crystal Lake is located not far to the east of Shanjin Town, the lake is a mountain spring left from the high mountains of North County, forming a small lake above the avenue, and is not connected to the water lake.

Since Zhang Li's request is to make the bigger the better, the whole lake is nominally his, including several islands in the lake, including some vague boundaries around the lake, all of which are larger than the Bervar family, although the village is small and broken, and the lake is said to be dangerous, but Zhang Li is still quite satisfied.

Going out from the gate of Stormwind City, passing through the town of Shining Gold, he came to the corner of his territory and the avenue in half a day, and a decaying signboard pointed to an inconspicuous path in the forest, and the grass was almost growing on the path.

Walking along the path, within a few hundred meters, his small village appeared in front of everyone.

There are only a few dozen dilapidated houses, a few acres of untended thin fields, and there is not a single living person in sight, and it is so cold that it makes people's hearts chill.

"Be careful, my lord, it looks a bit evil here. Zhang Li rode Rubose, and he was followed by two horsemen, whose horses were swishing because of Rubose.

These two people are both soldiers of the Kingdom Army, and since Zhang Li is now a councilor and a baron, he also has a name in the army, although he is only at the level of captain, but he is different from ordinary captains, and he always has some privileges.

For example, these two people, these two people are his personal guards, and there are more than a dozen people under the general team leader, how can there be personal guards, Zhang Li has them.

They are responsible for protecting Zhang Li, although ten of them are not Zhang Li's opponents, but they can also deal with some trivial matters, bring tea and water or something, do everything, in fact, they are serving people.

The one who spoke was a little younger, named Jerry, and when he finished speaking, Tom, who was a few years older than him, spoke.

"Huh...... To say that this place used to be quite prosperous, the village fished for a living, although the people's life is not rich, but it is also very enviable, but the knight here is very unlucky, at that time, the son of a fat councillor ate their fish, and was stuck in the neck by a fish bone, just because of such a fucking reason, he began to go around against the lord here, and it is said that he also gave other people's fiancées this and that, and finally forced them to hang themselves......" Tom said in a hateful and pitiful tone, hateful of course to the little chubby, but unfortunately out of sympathy for the knight lord.

"In short, without the lord who protects them, this place is getting more and more dilapidated. ”

"Oh, is there any other serious threat around here?"

"It's a fish-man. At this time, someone answered their question, and a half-grown child poked his head out of a cracked door, and said in his childish voice, "And Dilfia." ”

Zhang Li and others also saw this child, who looked unkempt and dish-looking, and because he was thin, he couldn't tell whether it was a boy or a girl.

"Are you from this village, and you're the only one in your village?" asked Zhang Li with a smile.

The boy shook his head, and could see that he was afraid of Zhang Li, or maybe he was afraid of Rubes, but in short, his eyes were very vigilant.

"The adults left with their families, and it was just me, Brother Gabriel, and Grandma Mary...... These are a few people (about a dozen names). ”

"Oh, there are a dozen people in a village, and where are they now?"

"They're looking for something to eat. ”

"When will you be back?"

"I don't know. ”

This little guy just said a word when Zhang Li asked him, never said much, most of the time he just stared at him vigilantly, Zhang Li felt very tired to talk to him.

"Forget it, you're the only one in the village now, is there anyone else left?"

The little one shook his head vigorously.

"Ahem!" suddenly came from the room where she was.

"My lord, there's someone in this room ......," Jerry muttered quietly.

"Oh, didn't you just say you're the only one to stay?"

"It's no one! I was coughing just now!cough!cough!" In the face of Zhang Li's questioning, the little guy denied it loudly, and pretended to cough a few times, but the fool could hear that the tone of the two coughs was different.

"Alright...... Alina, help me up......" An old voice came from inside.

"But Grandma Mary ......"

"Alright, lift me up. ”

So Zhang Li and the others heard a murmur in the room, and then the leaky wooden door was pushed open, and the half-grown girl just walked out with an old lady in her arms.

The old man walked very hard, Zhang Li noticed that she and the little girl didn't even wear shoes, so they walked out barefoot, and it was precisely because of this that he could see that the old man's leg joints were very thick, and I was afraid that every step would be in severe pain.

"Why did the three of you come here?" the old man was also startled when he saw Rubes sitting down, but he was also startled for a moment, and then quickly asked them what they were coming from.

"Let me introduce you! This Lida, appointed to King Anduin, is the new lord here, and everything here will be his, henceforth!" replied Jerry, a sycophant.