In the afternoon of the next day, a troop of cavalry marched into the out-of-town estate of the Marquis of Wimbledon with two enclosed carriages.

Far from the hustle and bustle of the city, this holiday estate is set against the backdrop of a sparse deciduous forest with a small clear river in front of which two rows of tall plane trees are transplanted. It is late autumn, the trees are full of gold, the half-withered leaves swirl and fall into the river, drifting into the distance with the waves, and the colorful trees cover the blue-gray stone villas, depicting the beautiful scenery of autumn.

Williams patted the mount on the neck, and the unassuming zebra lifted its forelegs very cooperatively, allowing its owner to step on its legs and fall to the ground.

"I haven't visited the Wimbledon family's Flowing Leaf Estate for 13 years...... She's still as beautiful as ever. ”

The Regent's tone was quite emotional, he had not visited the Marquess of Wimbleton's out-of-town estate for more than ten years because of his cold relationship with the Marquess of Wimbleton. At that time, Sophia supported Queen Catherine and opposed the succession of the Grand Duke of the Kingdom, and of course the Marquess of Wimbledon would not invite him to the door. Later, the princes and the ecumenical parties reached a consensus and the two sides reconciled, and Sophia's relationship with him not only improved, but worsened.

Thinking about it carefully, Sophia's relationship with the Great Lord is very cold, except for Victor, there are almost no people who are really willing to support her, and there are quite a few powerful forces she has offended. The Kite Castle, the Borui Family, the Ludwig Family and the Dwemick Family of Dordor all ran into her head, and the Medin family of the Seuss Kingdom even hunted her down.

This is mainly because Sophia does not abide by the rules of the game, and the methods used by the major forces to win her over are nothing more than coercion and temptation, both pronged, but she is a soft and hard character, and anyone who wants to seek her interests will be strongly counterattacked by her.

Even if the external environment is so bad, Sophia can be alive and kicking, and no one can do anything about her, so she has to be amazed.

Now it's different, this morning, Sophia and Victor visited Williams together to say that the Marquess of Wimbledon is ready to adopt an heir.

This is not surprising, it should be taken for granted. Inheritance is the top priority for any family, Sophia has half a foot into the elemental sea, she can hit the gold realm at any time, before that, she must have an heir, otherwise the business she started, the efforts she has made and all the persistence she has made are meaningless, and it is impossible to successfully promote to the Golden Knight.

Kite Castle had already planned for the issue of the Marquis Wimbledon's heir, but there was no movement from the Marquis's Mansion for a long time, and Williams was completely confused. He ordered the Night Stalker to explore Fia's information, but Sophia took the clerics of the Radiant Knights on a trip to the Arret Plateau, and after more than two years, the Night Stalker spies had no way to approach her. As for the Wimbledon Chamber of Commerce, this large, loosely populated business organization is spread all over the world, and the night owls collect bits and pieces of information, and it will take a long time to summarize and analyze them and draw conclusions. The Night Stalker's spy mission progressed slowly, but instead it ran into many of his peers, and both suffered considerable losses in their manpower. Williams also knew in his heart that only by expanding the size of the night stalker tenfold would it be possible to find out the movements of the Wimbledon Chamber of Commerce from the bottom.

Therefore, after Sophia expressed her intentions, Williams was overjoyed and promised to choose an heir under the age of 5 from the Wimbledon bloodline to Sophia as the second in line to the throne of the Marquis of Wimbledon. In fact, the Kite Castle has long had a suitable candidate - the two-year-old son of Sauron, the knight of the tempest. Of course, the regent would not be in a hurry to tell Sophia, lest the marquis suspect that the Iris Castle had bad intentions towards her.

How could a two-year-old child be ignorant, how could he have scheming? It can only be said that Williams is really afraid of Sophia.

It is unknown whether Sophia and Victor will have offspring, and whether she will be promoted to the Golden Knight. But Williams is sure that Victor provides Sophia with blue potato potions, and she can live to be over 100 years old even if she doesn't hit the elemental sea. The Marquess of Wimbleton, who had a monopoly on the barbarian trade, lived a long life, and it was in the interest of Cambys. The only thing that gives Kitebore a headache is her ability to disrupt the rules of the game.

With an heir to the Marquis' Palace, Sophia had to arrange for him to have a teacher, as well as a knight of the oath and a servant who grew up together, and after he reached the age of eight, he entered the Kite Castle to receive a four-year court knight education to expand his contacts in the aristocratic circle. These will have a direct or indirect impact on the Marquis' Palace.

In any case, it was a very good start, marking the return of the half-golden Lady of the Angry Waves to the rules of the political game.

Not to mention Williams, Victor was troubled by Sophia's distraction. She was like a beautiful female saber-toothed beast, wary of anyone who coveted her territory, even her husband. Victor can understand the causes of Sophia's behavior and personality, but cannot accept her stubbornness.

New agriculture and animal husbandry, water conservancy projects, and the tenant system are all upright and upright schemes, which can bring tangible benefits to the kingdoms, and almost no lord will refuse the social changes brought by Victor, who is in the process of promoting social change, laying out in advance and taking advantage of it. Sylvia saw that the spread of new farming and tenant systems would accelerate the social division of labor and promote the rapid development of handicrafts and trade. With the external environment, Victor can rely on the Golden Regiment to lay out new fields such as public transportation, free trade, mountain people's armed forces, Jinshui River shipping, sea power, and finance.

It's not that Victor says anything, Sylvia believes anything, and she herself can't fully understand Victor's concept, but she is not alone, and she has a staff team behind her to provide full support for her decision-making.

Only the Marquess of Wimbledon was fighting alone. Sophia originally had a staff member, and she took advantage of Andre's proposal to Princess Roland to send the little baron to the centaur hills, so as to get rid of Catherine's clamping plan, which was the decision she made after listening to the advice of her staff. It's just that her henchman Tao Mimei is the shadow son of the Faceless One, Tao Mimei's identity was exposed, and she was killed by the Borui people, and Sophia can no longer trust the other staff members of the Marquis's Mansion.

Victor reminds Sophia that in addition to the Golden Regiment, she also has to consider the future political status of the Marquis's Court and the issue of family succession. Sophia actually dragged Victor to see the regent early the next morning, her execution was really very strong, derogatory, her behavior was very reckless.

What could Sophia do? She had no one to talk to. She felt that Victor's suggestion was reasonable and immediately acted on it. Not to mention, Sophia's intuition to seize opportunities is not ordinary. However, what she could not understand, that was a different matter. If Victor told her that the Golden Regiment needed to invest in ports and compete for shipping rights, she would definitely have to think about it, and if she told her that the Golden Regiment was going to get involved in the financial field, she would probably still have to think about it.

Can these things be delayed?

Victor relied on the social common sense of the earth world to seize the commanding heights. However, a freeman merchant in Mercury can think of a candied fruit chain, and others have smart brains. In fact, Victor is based at the bottom of the society, and by winning over small families, the development of the Golden League has faintly shown signs of getting out of control. Some freeman merchants spontaneously went to Yehliu City to find a source of goods. If the Golden Order, as Victor had originally envisioned, had not yet developed, the merchants' unions attached to the Church and the King would have been everywhere. Only Sophia, who has a monopoly on the barbarian trade, can help the Golden Regiment quickly complete the layout, squeeze the living space of the merchant union, and thus obtain the right to formulate the rules of freeman commerce.

Although Victor has an absolutely loyal alchemy human being, who actually controls the armed forces of the Golden Regiment, and the mercury is constantly infiltrating the Golden Regiment, he is not worried about Sophia taking over the Golden Regiment, but in the overall decision-making of the Golden Regiment, he does not have time to consume the wild Sophia Urusa.

Victor simply found something else to do for Sophia, to introduce her to the political arena of Gombis, and not to focus on the Golden Regiment.

This has the advantage of diverting the attention of both the royal family of Gambis and Sofia, who is particularly needed in the struggle with the four princely families. It took her at least ten years to train her staff, and during this time, Victor was the chief staff of the Marquis of Wimbledon.

Well, if Sophia is disobedient, Victor doesn't mind letting her suffer a little loss at the hands of the four princes, and she has a long memory.

Sophia's personal involvement in the negotiations between Patriarch Tamor and the United Kingdom of Borui for the southern expansion of Gangbis was the entry point for Victor to bring the Marquesate of Wimbledon into the political situation in Gangbias.

The four princely families are not eligible to participate in negotiations between the Guardians of the Kingdom.

"I haven't been on vacation at Leaf Manor for almost 9 years. Victor jumped off the Swiftbird mount, took Sylvia's slender hand, and helped her get off the back of Hercules, the ferocious Swiftbird, and then Sophia.

"The last time I visited Flowing Leaf Manor was 8 years ago. Andre Christophe got off his mount, looked around, smiled and nodded, and gave Sofia a breast salute, saying, "It's an honor to be able to enjoy the beauty of Leaf Manor again. ”

This highness from the kingdom of Borui has golden hair, amber deep eyes, handsome appearance, elegant temperament, and every move is full of charming charm. If Victor is the dream companion of a high-ranking female knight, handsome, mysterious and noble like the sun in the sky, so that mortals cannot look at it directly, then Andrei is the dream girl of the noble girl, which fully meets all their fantasies about Prince Charming.

Sophia nodded faintly, in response. She had taken advantage of André and tried to pursue him, but André in turn calculated her, resulting in Amy May being killed by the Marquis of Ephesus. Although Amy May was an agent planted by the Kite Castle, she could not tolerate the execution of her knights by the Borees.

Sophia is a fierce knight of the waves, so naturally she will not give Andre a good look.

Victor was not as stingy as Sophia, and he had nothing to do with Sophia at that time, let alone carry Sophia's personal enmity, and said: "It is also our honor that His Royal Highness Andre and Patriarch Tamor came to Liuye Manor. ”

"Hehe, Liuye Manor has a history of more than 300 years, and it once belonged to the Leopold family's holiday estate, and it is very rare that its classical style is so intact. Victor, I've heard that the architectural layout of Silvermoon Manor is unique, not only ushering in a new architectural genre, but also creating the palatial style of a noble manor. If I have the chance, I would also like to enjoy the scenery of Silvermoon Manor. Accompanied by two high-ranking paladins, Tamor stepped forward and said with a smile.

He looks like he is in his 30s, with a strong body and a round face that always has a smile on his face, making a first impression of being friendly and easy-going. He was the youngest of the three patriarchs, and his actual age was less than 60 years old. In the senior Senate of Cardinals, Tamor was able to sit in the position of patriarch, which shows his ability.

"Silvermoon Manor is looking forward to the visit of Patriarch Tamor. Victor responded politely.

"Silvermoon Manor is a large place, occupying an entire valley, plus three hills. The eldest princess of Roland jumped off the unicorn with a golden body and a mighty form, her eyes as beautiful as a blue lake turned twice around the body of the fierce swift bird Hercules, and her mouth kept saying: "The Osvid Manor I designed is much more interesting than the Silver Moon Manor. ”

"Wasn't Ausveld Manor designed by my lover?" Sylvia grinned as she took Victor's arm, and even the sun seemed to shine brighter.

"Well, my students helped me design Auschwid...... He gave me a hand. The eldest princess generously gave some credit to Victor, and then made a small request, "Sylvia, lend me Hercules to play for a few days, and I will mortgage my 'Golden Fleece' to you." ”

The unicorn let out a low roar of dissatisfaction, and was immediately knocked on the head by the eldest princess.

"Don't think about it. Sylvia said with a sweet smile.

"Hmph, stingy. Roland pursed his lips, kicked a pebble off the ground and bounced off the water to the other side of the river.

Marquis Golon coughed dryly, raised his hand and said, "Well, let's go to the villa to talk." ”

"Why bother going in and coming out again? Let's take a look at Andrei's gift to Victor. Roland's gaze turned to the enclosed carriage guarded by the Borui Knight, and said eagerly.

Tamor and Andre looked at each other, nodded and asked, "What does His Highness Randall mean?"

"As the princess wished. Victor raised his arm at Roland and smiled.

With a sunny smile, Andre beckoned to the knights, motioning for them to pull the carriage over.

"I believe that your Excellency is aware of the gift we have given to His Highness Randall...... A living barbarian. ”

"Open. ”

The Borui knight took out the key, opened the heavy iron door that closed the carriage, and dragged out an iron cage made of fine iron from inside, which rubbed against the floor of the carriage and made a screeching sound, and with a "boom", the iron cage slammed heavily on the solid ground.

Victor's dark gold pupils dilated, and a look of surprise appeared on his face.