Chapter 115: Baron Camorra

Baron Camorra realized that he had made a big mistake, he should not have treated the Roaring Bear Norton family as the nobles of the realm he had dealt with in the past. If we talk about the origin, the Norton family has been awarded the title of the Krissian Empire for a longer time than the family of Archduke Lukins, and the aristocratic families that have been inherited for two or three hundred years like this have their own persistence and arrogance, and they will not be like other lords of the Northland, when they hear that they are the messengers of the Duke, they grovel to please themselves in every possible way, and send money and gifts to women, for fear of offending themselves by inadequate reception.

Baron Camorra had a vague feeling that this errand would probably fail to achieve its goal, and when he arrived at the Norton family's territory, he realized that what he saw was completely different from what he had heard about the Norton family. Didn't Viscount Kenmax swear that the Norton family had become a reservoir dog, he once brought hundreds of peasant soldiers and mercenaries to the Norton family's manor castle, and besieged them for three months......

Viscount Kenmax said lightly, but only half a year has passed, and in the blink of an eye, the Norton family has looted the castle of the Red River Valley Manor in the Viscount's County and burned it to ashes, even the new immigrant town next to it is no exception. When the news came, Baron Camorra still remembered the scene at that time, the originally gentle and personable Viscount was in front of the Duke, his face turned purple and vomited blood, and he passed out, and muttered: "My gold coins, my gold coins ......"

Everyone else thought that the viscount was distressed about the gold coins spent for the looted materials, and thought about how many people were blushing when the Kenmath family transported so many materials into the Northland, and how much gold coins were needed to prepare this massive amount of materials.

At a time when many people were secretly gloating, Baron Camorra spent money to buy off a personal entourage of a viscount in the Viscount's mansion, and learned that the real reason why the viscount was so angry that he vomited blood and fell into a coma was that the viscount's private money was placed in the castle of the Red River Valley Manor, and now it has become the trophy of the Norton family.

The attendant said that the amount of the private money was 100,000 gold fords, because he had personally put it in a box and sent it to the secret room of the castle of the Red River Valley Manor under the orders of the Viscount. He remembered very well that there were five large boxes with iron corners, and inside each large box were neatly placed 20,000 gold coins.

This private money was slowly accumulated by Viscount Kenmath after he entered the family chamber of commerce at the age of sixteen and spent more than ten years using various means, except for the two or three cronies around him, even his father did not know. Now that it has been swallowed by the Norton family, how can it not make Lord Viscount Kenmeth heartbroken, even if the family armed forces come and destroy the Norton family, this money will be exposed, and it will become the family's spoils, and it will never return to the hands of Lord Viscount.

Baron Camorra was stunned by the sheer amount of the viscount's private money, which was almost six times the annual income of the entire dukedom. He is very clear about the income and expenses of Duke Lukins, the Duke has formed the Northland Legion, which is only more than 20,000 people so far, but the annual expenditure for this Northland Legion has reached more than 40,000 imperial old man head gold coins, and the annual income of the Duke is only more than 60,000 points, which is only about 16,000 when converted into Jinford, which is also the reason why the Duke's Northland Legion can only maintain its current scale and cannot be expanded.

In the eyes of many people, Baron Camorra is just a fortunate courtier next to the Duke, a monkey-like clown, who has won the favor of the Duke for a while. It's just that they forget that Duke Lukins, although he has many problems, is not a dumb monarch. He trusted Camorra and made him a baron, not because of favor, but because of his gratitude for his service.

Baron Camorra was born in the slums of Gildusk, the capital of the Duchy, and grew up at the bottom of society, working as a thief, a liar, a hooligan, and doing anything to survive. Until he was caught stealing in a bazaar before the age of sixteen, his hands were cut off according to custom. At this time, the nobleman of the realm, who was happy with his old age, spared him from his crime with an extra kindness, and gave him a few clothes and a small sum of money.

The benevolent lord said, "I can't cut off another boy's hands and let him lose his life at the same time I get my son, it will cast a bloody shadow over my precious angel's future." Therefore I forgive you and give you these gifts. You don't need to thank me, it's the good luck that my precious angels have brought you. The advice I can give you is to change your ways, get a job seriously, and use your hard work and hard work to win a happy future for yourself. If you don't listen to me, you'll be cut off and killed like a wild dog somewhere, but then it will have nothing to do with my precious angel. ”

Camorra came to his senses, he came to the temple of Sigwa, worked for the temple for free during the day, received two slices of black bread to satisfy his stomach, and spent his free time learning various knowledge from the priests of the temple, and spent three years gaining the trust and appreciation of the priests, and an old priest recommended him to become a jailer. Starting as a jailer, it took Camorra only ten years to climb to the position of sheriff, and then another ten years to become the tax collector of the city of Gildusk, into the eyes of Duke Lukins.

If there is a poorest Grand Duke in the Krisson Empire, then the Grand Duke of the Northland deserves it. The ancestors of Duke Lukins once served as the left minister of Clison III, and he is known as a virtuous minister in the history books, when the Clisson Empire was plagued by natural and man-made disasters, internal and external turmoil, all thanks to the ancestors of Duke Lukins to maintain the stability and unity of the empire by various means, and finally died of exhaustion on the desk. Grateful to him, Cleison III promoted the Lukins family, who were still viscounts, to the title of Grand Duke, and gave them the southern part of the Northlands as a hereditary dukedom.

The Lukins family resented Chrisson III, and although they became Grand Dukes of the Northlands, their territory was nearly ten times larger than that of the Viscounty, but their income was more than ten times less. Crisson III took back the wealthy viscountdom and left them with the desolate Northlands, which in the eyes of the Lukins family was ungrateful. Perhaps this is also the resentment of Cleison III for secretly taking revenge on Duke Lukins for his monopoly on the throne and treating him as a puppet.

In the pre-Clison Empire, the income of the Grand Duke of the Northland was only about 100,000 gold coins of the old man's head of the empire, which was only comparable to the income of a barony in the most prosperous central part of the empire. The ancestors of the Lukins family also wanted to develop the family territory, but they did not have the talent of the ancestors to control the entire empire, and they were either trapped in funds or limited by the natural dangers of the Northland. On the contrary, after staying in the Northland for a long time, the Lukins family produced several military lords, and was laughed at as a noble family that abandoned literature and followed martial arts.

Compared with his ancestors, Archduke Lukins is not literate, he is ordinary in all aspects, and he has many faults, such as lust, such as greed for money, such as liking to enjoy a luxurious life, and indecisive personality, etc., but Archduke Lukins has one of the biggest advantages, that is, he can look at people. He promoted Camorra and ordered him to be in charge of the taxes of the entire dukedom, to participate in the formation of the Northland Legion, and to take charge of logistics and supplies.

Camorra lived up to the trust of the Duke, and he spent three years reorganizing the entire tax system of the Dukedom, restoring the Duke's income due to civil strife to more than 60% of the previous peacetime, so that the Duke no longer had to make ends meet, and helped expand the Duke's garrison of 3,000 people into a Northland Army of more than 20,000 people, and also ensured the supply of weapons, equipment and logistics supplies.

Three years later, the Duke was very satisfied with Camorra's performance, fulfilled his promise, and made him a baron, of course, this is only a court title, not a fiefdom lord, which means that Camorra has become an honorary nobleman.

On the night she became a baron, Camorra came home and locked herself in her bedroom and cried for most of the night. He knew that others regarded him as a clown, but he didn't know how much effort and effort he had put into getting to where he was today, he was not yet forty-five, but most of the hair on his head had fallen out. He was grateful to the Duke for his kindness, and he believed in the Duke's promise that as long as he continued to serve the Duke of Lukins diligently, he would one day obtain a fief and become a true nobleman.

With the information provided by Viscount Kenmeth himself, Baron Camorra quietly told the Duke the news. Duke Lukins immediately turned red-eyed, 100,000 goldford, even if he sent the Northland Legion, he had to get this money. However, Baron Camorra advised the Duke not to make a big show to let people find out, which not only ruined his reputation but also was interfered with by others, and this other Duke also understood that he was referring to the second prince. Compared with greed, the second prince is better than the duke.

It's easy to find an excuse to deal with the Norton family, since the second prince established the Iberian Kingdom and ordered all the nobles of the Northland to be under the jurisdiction of the Grand Duke of the Northland, although the Norton family paid taxes on time, they have not come to meet His Royal Highness. In particular, from the death of the previous generation of Baron Norton to the succession of the new head of the family, they did not notify the Duke or report to the Duke, and did not wait for the Duke's consent to take up the new lord on their own, which is almost ignoring the existence of the Duke. Of all the old and new realm nobles in the Northlands, the Norton family has become a maverick realm noble.

In order to make the Norton family bow their heads, the Duke also specially sent one of his five gold-rank knights to accompany Baron Camorra, and transferred twenty silver knights, and two small teams of elite Northland legionnaires to escort the mission.

Lord Lugins instructed Baron Camorra that, if the Norton family knew each other, in addition to handing over the 100,000 gold fords, he would also have to provide two-thirds of the materials he had stolen from the Kenmasses family in order to obtain the Duke's forgiveness that he was dissatisfied with the Norton family's failure to attend the audience. If the Norton family dares to disobey, then the force of these escorts is enough to subvert the Norton family.

Since the Norton Young Master and the Norton Baron hung up, the Norton family has long been without a good hand of the gold rank, a golden knight, twenty silver, and two small teams of elite soldiers of the black iron rank, such a powerful guard force may scare the Norton family half to death, what else can be done except to raise their hands and let them be slaughtered? At that time, the Duke and the Camorra Baron both thought so, and the Duke even joked that the real reason for these forces to be sent was to transport 100,000 gold fords back safely.

Lord Duke and Baron Camorra did not know the true situation of the Norton family, and had laughed at the war between the Kenmas family and the Norton family more than once, so what is there to fight about in such a desolate place? You must know that the essence of the Northland is in the south, in the territory of the Duke.

If the Duke knew that the Flying Feather Mercenary Regiment had been wiped out, then at least he would not despise the Norton family so much, if he knew that Lorist had killed the two famous Gold-Rank twin shield guardian brothers, then he would have to consider whether he should send all the five Gold-Rank knights under his command and bring five or six thousand troops with him. But then everyone knew he was going to the Norton family to grab the gold.

As the messenger of the Duke, Baron Camorra has been to many territories, some to provoke, some to mediate, some to threaten, some to blackmail, and most often to collect taxes. Even if he had not yet been made a baron by the Duke, those territorial nobles were still respectful when they saw him, and for the sake of profit, Camorra even met the territorial nobles who shamelessly sent their wives and daughters to his bed, just to get him to promise a tax reduction of 30%.

Before the mission, Baron Camorra also regarded the Norton family as those territorial nobles, and who knew that he was beaten on the head under the rock castle. Under the newly built city wall, the golden knight Tabek, who accompanied him on the mission, scolded everyone in the Norton family to come out and greet him, and then a young knight appeared on the city wall and shut up the arrogant Tabek with one arrow, honest like a quail.

Baron Camorra didn't think that the Norton family would build a castle here, nor did he expect that the Norton family also had a gold-level archer, and when passing through the rock castle, those soldiers in iron armor, and the huge crossbow arrows of the city guard crossbow that shone with cold light, everything showed that the Duke and he seemed to ignore the true strength of the Norton family, and he began to worry about whether his trip could achieve his goal.

It wasn't until he arrived at Maple Grove Villa that Baron Camorra suddenly realized that this place was different from the Rock Castle, where all the people, whether they were soldiers or stewards, were indifferent to the messenger sent by the Duke, except for a little curiosity or a look of indifference, and when they heard the Duke's name, they were either panicked or respectful. Although the two hundred guards were denied entry to the castle, the feast for them seemed to Baron Camorra to be the best food he could deliver.

The old steward who accompanied them was an old fox, and Camorra couldn't find out the truth about the Norton family even after trying to get out of his mouth. Baron Camorra secretly encouraged Tabek to be arrogant once, and sure enough, the people of Maple Grove Villa dared not speak out against Tabek for molesting their silver female knight, until the golden archer who sent them over snorted lightly to make Tabek sober up.

When the new lord of the Norton family came in, Camorra had been observing, and he found that the golden archer and the silver knight next to him were very respectful to the young family master, which was a heartfelt awe. Baron Camorra decided to deliberately feign rudeness to test the young man's reaction. Many territorial nobles eat this set, and the more rude and vulgar you are, the more obedient he will be to you. Baron Camorra wanted the young heads of the Norton family to be like the nobles of the realm.

It's just that I didn't expect this young man's reaction to be so fierce, he in turn questioned Baron Camorra's noble status, especially when he stared at him with his eyes, the murderous aura like substance made Baron Camorra shiver all over his body, what kind of black eyes were they, like a bottomless abyss, after being targeted by him, it was like being regarded as prey by a fierce and violent high-level demonic beast, the whole person couldn't move, his thinking stopped, and he could only silently wait for the coming of the catastrophe.

This feeling of despair and helplessness caused Baron Camorra to lose his usual calm and shrewd mind, so much so that almost instinctively, when Lorist suddenly shouted at him to prove his nobility, he pulled out the envelope he had always carried with him. Whether it is a nobleman of honor or a nobleman of the territory, this kind of behavior is already a manifestation of almost shame and incompetence.

Baron Camorra felt only a great sense of shame when Tabek beside him slowly proved his identity, knowing that he would immediately become a joke of the nobles when he returned, proving that he was indeed a clown in their eyes.

Baron Camorra silently picked up the documents on the table, straightened the gown, and took off the pale blonde wig on his head, revealing his bare head. With a pale face, he made an aristocratic etiquette to Lorlist, and said, "Your Excellency Norton, I am here on behalf of Lord Duke Lukins to ask the Norton family a question and discuss two things......