Chapter 67: King Eric Starts Doing It?
Although Xu Yi once owned the private territory of the Falling Rain Valley when he was in the Lampari Kingdom before, he was not used to being a noble lord at that time, and he just used the Falling Rain Valley as the production base of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce for construction, and naturally he did not have any consciousness of being a noble lord.
And later, because of the form, he took the initiative to give up his aristocratic status and handed over the private domain, and he didn't have any special practical feelings about this kind of aristocratic private domain.
But this time it's different.
The shape of the Duchy of Stantin was completely different from that of the Kingdom of Lampari, and the upper echelons of the Duchy of Constantine, represented by the Grand Duke of Stantin, had almost no substantive binding force on the noble lords in the principality.
Therefore, Xu also has a private territory here, which is equivalent to his personal exclusive territory.
According to Lord Weilun, in this territory, no matter what Xu Yi does, no one will care, even if he kills people and sets fires at will, no one will express any opinion on him, because no one has this qualification.
Of course, Xu Yi would not do anything to kill people and set fires in his own territory, but he very much needed this feeling of free control, because only in this way could he plan his territory according to his own ideas at will, and would not be limited and imperfect like the previous plan for the Falling Rain Valley.
Moreover, the area of this private territory is more than 240,000 hectares, which is more than 2,000 square kilometers, which is dozens of times larger than the 10 square kilometers of the Falling Rain Valley.
Of course, he is also well aware of this kind of free domination. It's based on the strength he has.
If he doesn't have the strength to protect the territory. Then in times of need. He believed that Lord Weilun would definitely unceremoniously swallow this territory back into his stomach.
So after officially becoming the lord of this territory, Xu Yi immediately reorganized the escort team of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and organized the most elite five hundred guards into his personal guard.
As Yanis said, even the notoriously arrogant elven warriors in the chamber of commerce's escort team did not have any resistance to becoming his personal guard, but many elven warriors showed obvious joy after hearing that they would be made into Xu Yi's personal guard.
Xu also asked the elven guard captain Fario about this question, and Fario replied. This was originally what Elder Elucia meant, and he was now a human being unanimously recognized by all the elves of the Nightsong Clan, becoming his personal guard, and there was no sense of humiliation for them, the elven warriors, because they all agreed with Xu Yi, and felt that Xu Yi was the one who changed the fate of the entire Nightsong Clan, even if he sacrificed his life for Xu Yi, there was no problem.
On the contrary, it is to serve as the guard of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, which is not easy for them to fully accept.
Because the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce does not completely belong to Xu Yi alone. It would make them feel like they were also working for humanity other than Xu Yi.
As for those dwarven warriors, there is naturally no doubt.
Even when Xu also revealed that he wanted to form a personal guard. Due to the limited number of places, the thirteen dwarven tribes who moved to the Duchy of Stantin with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce also held a big competition within themselves, claiming to select the most elite dwarven warriors to join Xu Yi's personal guard.
Human guards, you ask?
Does this still need to be asked? The guards of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce are still treated so well, so of course Xu Yi's personal guards are only treated better.
As soon as I heard that Xu Yi was going to recruit personal guards, not to mention that the human guards of the original Xinfei Chamber of Commerce escort team all rushed to get in, and even the elite human warriors in many other places also flocked over after learning about the news through various channels.
However, Xu Yi didn't want his personal guard to be mixed with some people who didn't know much about him, so he selected some of these people to join the escort team of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
To Xu Yi's surprise, when Elder Lisanya heard that Xu Yi was going to form a personal guard, he also sent a full 200 elven warriors from the Moon Shadow tribe, saying that he wanted to join Xu Yi's personal guard.
After careful consideration, Xu Yi tactfully rejected Elder Lisanya's kindness.
In the end, Elder Lisanya did not let the two hundred elven warriors of the Moon Shadow Clan go back, but also stuffed into the escort team of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce.
As a result, in the end, although Xu Yi took the most elite five hundred fighters from the escort team of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, the number of the escort team of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce increased from the previous 1,200 to 1,500.
Of course, due to the run-in reasons, and because the newly joined warriors of various clans have not yet been familiar with the various high-end military magic machinery equipment of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce escort team, in terms of combat effectiveness, I am afraid that they are not as good as the previous 1,200 guards.
However, Xu is not worried.
The orcs on the Black Rice Wasteland are like weeds, their vitality is extremely tenacious, and no matter how many times they are cleaned up, there will still be some orcs who don't have long eyes.
These orcs pose no threat to the hugely developed and heavily guarded base in the Black Rice Wasteland, but it's a good idea to use them for newcomers to the Chamber of Commerce Guard.
After receiving the medal and the territory, Xu Yi was always in a busy state after a series of things, and when he finally arranged the affairs of the personal guard and the chamber of commerce escort, and did a good job of the development plan of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce for the next period of time, the time had been advanced for several months.
After entering July, the advent of summer made the climate of the Duchy of Stantin more humid and hot, but Xu Yi finally got a free time during this time.
When he finally took the time to turn his attention to Bonta City and the Lampari Kingdom, he found that the situation in the Lampari Kingdom had once again changed dramatically.
In the past few months, a large number of large and small nobles in the Lampari Kingdom have been forcibly stripped of their nobility by the aristocratic parliament, and all their family property and noble territories have been confiscated.
The reasons given by the Council of Nobles were all sorts of strange, and there was even a viscount who was stripped of his status by the Council of Nobles for committing suicide by committing suicide by stealing a ploughing ox on his territory, violating the laws of the kingdom.
You know, even in the previous kingdom of Lampari, where farming was not easy to cultivate, so it was a trivial matter for a nobleman to kill a farming cow in his territory.
Although this was indeed a violation of the laws of the kingdom, how could the Council of Nobles allow nobles who deserved privileges to be punished by the law?
What's more, the current Lampari Kingdom has long popularized the magic machinery of farmland, and ploughing cattle are only used in very few places, and they have long lost their important status before.
Even the various dishes made by beef have long been put on the menus of various restaurants in the Lampari Kingdom.
In such a situation, how could a nobleman be stripped of his nobility for killing a ploughing ox and imprisoned for violating the laws of the kingdom?
It's just a joke!
However, this is what is happening in the Lampari Kingdom right now.
In addition to many small nobles who did not have much real power, there were even two big nobles who held real power who were also punished.
These two nobles not only owned a large area of private territory, but even each of them was the lord of a city, and held real power that should not be underestimated.
However, the Lampari Kingdom Council and the Noble Council joined forces, but the two nobles were arrested without any resistance, and they have not been heard from since.
After learning these news, Xu Yi was deeply grateful.
Fortunately, he left the Lampari Kingdom at the beginning, otherwise this time, he was afraid that he would also become one of these nobles who were arrested.
Now that he is a lord in the Duchy of Stantin, no one dares to come and arrest him indiscriminately.
At the same time, he felt a little strange.
Most of these nobles who had an accident had previously expressed their support for Sevigny's ascension to the throne, and when Eric became king, Xu Yi thought that he would find an excuse to clean up these nobles who had not supported him.
As the saying goes, once a son of heaven and a courtier, this is not a strange thing.
However, Eric did not do so at the time, and the situation in the kingdom of Lampari was calm for almost a year.
Xu Yi originally thought that this page would be over, but he didn't expect that now Eric suddenly made a move.
Even if some time ago, because of the bloody conflict in Bonta City, the entire Lampari Kingdom was nervous, and many people who had previously supported Her Royal Highness Queen Sevigny and opposed Eric's ascension to the throne took the opportunity to question and oppose King Eric, but Eric chose to do it at this time, don't you think it's too conspicuous?
In doing so, he would certainly take the opportunity to get rid of a group of nobles who opposed him, but wasn't King Eric worried that this would provoke the anger of a large number of nobles in the Lampari Kingdom, and instead cause even more riots?
The other nobles didn't know much about it, but at the very least, he knew that Baron Hainas was extremely dissatisfied with this situation.
Both the Anvimar Daily and the Lampari Weekly have been very direct in their criticism of what is happening in the kingdom of Lampari.
Although he did not say by name that King Eric had done something wrong, there was no doubt that this meaning was revealed between the lines.
The editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper Anvimar and the weekly newspaper Lampari, although he has always been Baron Hainas, represents the position of a large number of nobles behind him.
Now these two newspapers have issued such a clear-cut and sharply worded article, which is enough to prove that the great nobles who also have a lot of power standing behind Baron Hainas are extremely dissatisfied.
However, what really caused a sensation in the entire Lampari Kingdom, or to be precise, all the nobles in the Lampari Kingdom were shocked not by the articles in these two newspapers, but by a piece of news.
Leslie Stark, the son of the Duke of Stark and the heir to the Stark family, was expelled from the Stark family by the Duke of Stark!(To be continued......