Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Council of Nobles
Philip thought, "The Changfan Chamber of Commerce has now been branded as a baron of Nanlin Island, and there is no point in sticking to the so-called tradition, so it is better to devote himself to Lin Feng's command thoroughly, and maybe a new noble family can be created in my generation!"
Philip, who made up his mind, decided, "This restarted refugee recruitment work must be done well, and when this task is completed beautifully, I can put forward the request to join Nanlin Island, if Lin Feng accepts my allegiance, well, I will also have the opportunity to become a nobleman." ”
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On the continent of Strand, there has always been a tradition of "the powerful participating in the rule", and this "powerful man" is a general term that refers to a professional, nobleman, scholar, or even a large businessman, as long as he or she has some influence among the commoners, he or she belongs to one of the "powerful people".
As a "powerful person", he can make his voice heard in the plebeian parliament or the aristocratic parliament, and then defend his own rights and interests, so that the "powerful person" will also become a "vested interest", and will naturally maintain the existing ruling order.
And those who insist on wandering outside the ruling class, the mild and harmless may only be marginalized, and the radical and fierce will either be attacked and go underground and join the dark side organizations, or they will be wiped out and all influence will disappear.
Therefore, for Lin Feng's application to join the Golden Moon City Noble Council, even if some people were reluctant (Marquis of Golden Moon was a strong opponent), in the face of the general trend, Marquis of Golden Moon's opinion was naturally ignored by other nobles.
It was very logical for Lin Feng to join the Noble Council, but if he wanted to obtain a decisive seat, in addition to the strength he showed, Lin Feng also had to contribute to the Noble Council, power and duty were two sides of the same coin, wasn't it?
Lin Feng also had some understanding of the current predicament faced by Golden Moon City, and one of the biggest troubles was the refugees of various races in the city, in order to maintain the basic order of Golden Moon City, these nobles had spent a lot of effort to appease them, lest one accidentally cause a riot.
Although the nobles had the strength to suppress the rebellion caused by these refugees, if they did so, the Golden Moon City would be almost destroyed, and the beasts would still be fighting, let alone those refugees who had no way to live?
And the first motion that Lin Feng threw out in the Noble Council was to ask the Council to give him full powers to be responsible for solving the refugee problem that had plagued Golden Moon City for a long time. Of course, other nobles must also support him with some food, clothing, and even farm tools and other living and production materials.
For these nobles in Golden Moon City, this is a great thing, they don't care how Lin Feng wants to settle these refugees, as long as these refugees leave Golden Moon City, well, they are fed up with the feeling of sitting on this "powder keg".
This was definitely not good news for the Marquis of Jinyue, who had thoroughly investigated Lin Feng's details, but he knew that Lin Feng's Nanlin Island was now short of people, and if these refugees were taken there by Lin Feng, after a few years, he would have no chance to take revenge.
However, it is still the same sentence, the general trend is unstoppable. Even if the Marquis of Jinyue revealed that Nanlin Island was not a barren and barren island as people imagined, there was a small plain of nearly three hundred square kilometers, and if he sent the population to the door at this time, then there would be no one to restrain him in Jinyue City in the future.
After all, that island was notoriously desolate in the past, otherwise, with the title of a mere baron in the Lin Feng family, they would have owned such a large area of an island alone, which was more than a thousand square kilometers, would the imperial family be crazy?
Indeed, before the completion of the big project of windbreak around Nanlin Island, that small plain could only grow some tenacious weeds, but thanks to the efforts of Tailanya and her "Puran Tree Planting Group", Nanlin Island is now also an island of green shade.
With the authorization of the noble council, Lin Feng immediately increased the publicity of recruiting refugees, and Philip even tried his best to complete the relevant trivial affairs, Lin Feng was a little strange, "How can this Philip be more concerned than me?"
In such an environment, Kivika's investigation work is also going very smoothly, after all, at this time, the Baron of Nanlin Island is in the limelight, whether it is the official white road or the underground dark forces, they have to sell Lin Feng some face, and the backbone of those fake "relatives and friends group" are found out one by one.
Lin Feng, who had nothing to do, naturally acted as a judge and held a "public trial meeting" in the refugee settlement, which is big news, well, Lin Feng "self-created", how can there be a nobleman in this world who would surrender his identity so much?
In the face of the ridicule of other nobles, Lin Feng didn't care at all, what he cared about was the effect of the public trial, well, didn't you see the scene after the public trial, those refugees actively poured into the refugee recruitment point set up by Lin Feng to sign up?
In order to transfer the surge of refugees, Lin Feng transferred all the merchant ships that could be transferred from Nanlin Island, and that's it, the transportation capacity was still insufficient, and Lin Feng, who had no choice, had to hire merchant ships from other nobles at a high price to transport refugees.
After the affairs of Jinyue Port were on track, Lin Feng transferred most of the warships back to Crescent Harbor, leaving only two warships to "escort" the merchant ships that transferred refugees.
With the increase in the population of Nanlin Island, Locklan asked Lin Feng to expand the escort team on the island, Lin Feng thought about it carefully, and felt that simply expanding the escort team was not enough to meet the current needs of Nanlin Island, and he now had to have a "regular army" that could defend and attack.
As a result, the plan to establish the "Golden Rose Knights" was put on the agenda by Lin Feng. The leader of the Golden Rose Knights is naturally served by the patriarch knight Locklan, the patriarch of the family, and as for the candidate for the deputy leader, Lin Feng has tentatively decided on Kivika, after all, Kivica has been loyal to Lin Feng and has the ability and experience.
As for the division of labor between the two of them, Lin Feng still tended to put Locklan in the position of staying on Nanlin Island, and the lair still had to be guarded by familiar and reliable locals, as for the battles that took place outside of Nanlin Island, Kivika, who had experience as a knight captain, was very suitable.
In this way, Lin Feng had to set up two sub-regiments under the Golden Rose Knights, and the "Sword of Guardianship" and "Sword of Judgment" Lin Feng could only think of such names, well, the two major knights that would be famous in the Strands Continent in the future appeared on Lin Feng's paper for the first time today.