Although Lin Feng had de facto occupied the three towns in the Southern Wasteland Exile Zone and the vast territories between them and Rose New Town, but, except for Rose New Town, the other territories were only privately occupied by Lin Feng, and in legal terms, they were all illegally occupied 'state-owned territories', and if they were investigated afterwards, the empire could completely refuse to recognize them. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

And Lin Feng's request for fiefdom at this time was to legitimize this established fact, so that he and his descendants would not have any territorial disputes, Lin Feng didn't want to take back the Southern Wasteland after he had managed it well;

The other is to use this territory to block August's mouth, didn't he say that there is no territory to give, so he can't raise merit, and he can't promote the title of Viscount of the Golden Rose? Lin Feng directly chose a piece of "wasteland" that other nobles couldn't look down on as a territory, so shouldn't you issue a knighthood?

Regardless of population, farmland and resources, just the area, the Southern Wasteland can be used as a hereditary county's territory, and Lin Feng's purpose is also very clear, he just wants to raise his hereditary title of Viscount of Golden Rose to a higher level before officially intervening in the Imperial War, and become a hereditary Earl of Golden Rose.

Of course, this is also a practical need, on the one hand, after having the title of hereditary earl, Lin Feng led his own private army into Atte County and even Dalong County, and his voice was much greater, after all, hereditary viscounts were just ordinary local nobles, and they had no voice within the empire, let alone any right to speak.

The reason why Lin Feng felt constrained everywhere in Golden Moon County and Mason County before was because his title was too low and his prestige was insufficient, if he hadn't had a fairly strong private army and he was also a powerful mage, he would have been squeezed out of Golden Moon City by Benjamin's gang a long time ago.

On the other hand, after Lin Feng himself became a hereditary earl, he could divide the subordinate nobles who were loyal to the Golden Rose family, such as the baron. Although he now has a lot of hereditary knights and hereditary lords, those are the lowest titles that belong to the nobility, and can only be used as the basis of Lin Feng's rule, not his wings.

Take the Black Rock Territory that Lin Feng now occupies, Locklan is sitting in the Starlight Fortress of Nims, nominally, he can command Kivica who is guarding the Night Castle, but because they both have the same title and are hereditary knights, Locklan does not have absolute authority in front of Kivika, if it weren't for Kivika's concern that he was born as a slave and tolerated everywhere, they would definitely not get along as well as they do now.

Moreover, with the expansion and dispersion of Lin Feng's territory, he also had a headache about the increasing number of general chores in the Viscount's Mansion, but Lin Nabu, the head of the Internal Affairs Department, had complained to him many times, and he was also old, and he was really too busy to face so many general affairs.

And if Lin Feng becomes an earl, he can divide those unimportant areas in the territory as baronies, on the one hand, it is to give his subordinates a channel for further promotion, so that they can support him more as a feudal lord, on the other hand, he is also conducive to the development of the territory, no matter who obtains a barony, he has to invest in development, after all, he will be more concerned about his own territory.

Brad only stayed in Sunset Fort for one day before returning to Golden Moon City, he had to send Lin Feng's reply back to the imperial capital as soon as possible, "This Viscount of Golden Rose, he really doesn't see rabbits and eagles, his meaning is obvious, if he wants to send troops, he must first give him an earl, well, if the rebellion is successfully quelled in the end, the hereditary marquis must also be given!"

While waiting for the imperial capital to reply, Lin Feng was not idle, he summoned Shore back to Sunset Castle and personally gave him the task of infiltrating Atte County, "After this winter, I may have to participate in the counterinsurgency operation in Atte County, your task is very heavy, you must find out the situation there before I send troops, the local nobles who are inclined to the new emperor and the local nobles who are inclined to Prince Andy, the two of them are the key targets of infiltration." ”

Moreover, Lin Feng found that the terrain of Arte County was basically dominated by plains, which required that the army he would bring in the future must also be mainly cavalry, and he was a little hesitant now, "Should we transfer Skov's wolf cavalry back?" purely in terms of tactics, they should be transferred back, but after all, they are orcs, if they are used in the imperial civil war, it is easy to be unanimously resisted by both the enemy and us, and the gains outweigh the losses!"

In the end, Lin Feng still decided to let Skov's orc legion continue to be stationed in the Windrunner Fortress, and their task was still to prevent the possible attack of the bear monster, "In a short period of time, the focus of my development is still within the Auron Empire, this reputation can't be confused, 'Liaison with foreign countries', I better not get involved in this crime!"

The efficiency of "MI9" is very high, only three days later, there is a batch of information about Arte County sent back, of course, these information are also some relatively superficial things, as long as the spies sent can find out the information that can be heard with a little inquiry, Lin Feng has no opinion on this, this intelligence work has to come step by step, isn't it?

However, at this time, Lin Feng intended to let Xiao Er take over all the work of the "MI9", and Xiao Er was also promoted from deputy director to acting director. As for Shui Rou's little maid's position as the director, well, she has been doing the work of a "secretary" in the name of a "director" for so long, and she herself is not keen on this job, so Lin Feng deliberately increased Xiao Er's burden and prepared to let him take over Shui Rou's position.

Before, Shui Rou and Xiao Er had been in contact for a while, Lin Feng thought that their relationship would develop further, but after observing it for so long, he also found out that it was all his illusion, Xiao Er may have had some thoughts, but he seemed to be rejected, recently, Lin Feng also heard that he had been very close to the daughter of another lord's family, and it had reached the point of talking about marriage.

"Artejun, it's really messy there, it's really a mess there, it's really a mess of viscounts, there are as many barons as dogs, what's wrong with the Founding Emperor? There are so many hereditary nobles here in one go!" Lin Feng complained in his heart while flipping through the intelligence information sent by Shore, "Even if Arte County is a large agricultural county, then you can't stuff nearly a hundred hereditary nobles in one go, right?"

At this time, Lin Feng was even more determined in his own thoughts, "Your Majesty August Ellis, if you don't give me a promotion, this matter of sending troops to Atteshire will have to be put aside, well, I, a foreign viscount who has no right to speak, just plunged into Atteshire like this, what's the difference between that and falling into the quagmire?"

・(To be continued.) )