"There's really no way?"

The afternoon sun shines through the lattice windows into the living room in the backyard of the church, and the colorful light spots are imprinted on the blue brick floor, adding a touch of color to this simple and small living room, setting off a clean, simple and bright atmosphere.

Victor sat at an oak table and gently turned the clay cup in his hand, and the water collided back and forth in the cup, forming a thin whirlpool. He observed with great interest the phenomenon in the pottery cup, and a faint smile hung on his handsome face, like a beautiful young man with a gentle temperament and full of curiosity.

Victor's gentle, inquisitive evaluation is in line with Victor's qualities, and his otherworldly beauty and patient and gentle personality are endowed by the Void Water elemental bloodline, which makes him favored by high-ranking female knights, and if he were not for his great curiosity, he would not be a scholar admired by the Silver Tower.

Level 5 Priest Dane sat at the other end of the table, looking at the careless Victor, cold sweat oozed from the back of his neck.

He had known Victor for some years and were close friends, but as a descendant of Pope Clement, he received a secret letter from the Council of Cardinals and knew a different side of Victor.

The mild-mannered and personable Randall's slaughter of the Ogre Overseers was like slaughtering a chicken, and the traces of his battle with the Great Khan of the Centaurs stretched for more than two hundred kilometers like a hurricane, tearing the ground apart and leaving no blades of grass in its path.

Of course, the clergy need not fear the power of His Highness Randall, but the power and fame of the Raging Wind Sword Saint cannot be ignored. Dane was promoted to senior priesthood before he was fifty years old, and thanks to the help of His Highness Randall, many priests would now be very happy to take over Dane's position in Randall's diocese if he wrote a letter to the Pope expressing his dissatisfaction with Dane.

Dane regretted that he had not spoken tactfully enough. But the small request made by the Furious Wind Sword Saint, he really couldn't do anything, so he could only explain with a wry smile: "Your Highness, you know that the highest title that ordinary people can obtain is Lord, Lord Nelson is famous and has outstanding achievements, but he doesn't have noble blood after all......"

Victor put down the clay cup, interrupted Dane's words, and said, "If it weren't so troublesome, I wouldn't be looking for you." I'm going to donate 40,000 gold soles to the Diocese of Randall, what do you think?"

Of course, Dane knew that Lord Earl wanted to forge a copy of Lord Nelson's bloodline, he pondered for a moment and sighed: "Victor, I won't tell you anything, this kind of thing is very simple, as long as a deceased knight ranger is placed on the status of Lord Nelson's blood elder, Lord Nelson's noble bloodline document can be done immediately." However, Lord Nelson's reputation is not great, and he is a vassal of the Swordmaster of the Furious Winds. These two identities combined, he has been seen by many big names. For example, Patriarch Tamor must be interested in the favor of the Raging Wind Sword Saint, and such a small matter can become a big thing, damaging the reputation and dignity of the Randall family......"

The priest paused, and said, "If you insist, I'll do it for you." But my advice is that big trouble is ahead. ”

Celebrities are magnified many times whether they do bad or good deeds, and the louder the fame, the stronger the amplification effect.

Dane said frankly, he can help with this, but his operation cannot be concealed from the upper echelons of the church, and once Patriarch Tamor learns that Lord Nelson has forged blood, he will inevitably have to use his hands and feet to ask for a favor from the Raging Wind Sword Saint.

If you change to a small character who needs to forge bloodlines, His Royal Highness Randall doesn't have to come forward to ask Dane for help in person, just find a remote chapel and easily get the paperwork. Victor's desire to forge a bloodline document for Nelson is bound to alarm the Holy See Patriarch, and there is more than one, Tamor can intervene, why should Friedes ignore it? In the end, it must be the unlucky Pastor Dane, and maybe Pope Clement will be implicated.

For the sake of a barony, alarming the three patriarchs is not cost-effective.

Victor didn't want to pay for Pastor Dane, he was his favored agent after all.

"Is there any other way?"

Dane finally breathed a sigh of relief, glad that his decisive statement just now had won the approval of the Raging Wind Sword Saint, he thought for a moment and said, "The bishop of every diocese has the file of Lord Nelson, and I am afraid that he will not be able to be knighted as a baron...... His other three ladies were noblewomen, and they and Lord Nelson's children could be knighted barons. This is equivalent to Lord Nelson holding a baronial title. ”

Victor was silent for a moment, then asked, "Isn't it okay for Nelson and Lady Linda's twin sons?"

Dane laughed dryly and sighed, "Lord Nelson is the Ombudsman of the Randall family...... There are records of her in every diocese, and there is not much difference between arranging a noble relative for her and running the Lord himself, and the Church can debunk it by identifying their bloodline......"

Victor finally gave up, stood up, and said with a bow, "Okay, this matter will be put on hold for now...... In any case, I thank you, I will take my leave first. ”

"Your Highness, you are so polite. With a modest smile on his face, Dane stood up and put Victor in the carriage waiting outside the church.

The carriage drove to the side of the road at Pinghu Fort, and Victor was too lazy to go down, so he ordered the guards to go to the castle and find Nelson.

"Your Excellency, you are looking for me. Nelson got into the carriage and sat down across from Victor.

He was dressed in a golden centaur skin armor, holding a helmet in his hand, his thick short hair stood on end, his facial features were resolute, his muscles were well-proportioned and solid, and his whole body was filled with a sense of strength like a substance.

"What, are you going to war?" Victor glanced at him and said angrily, "Spend more time with your ladies, and give birth to a few heirs with noble blood." ”

Nelson was confused, didn't know why the master was angry, touched his head and said truthfully: "I also wonder, since Linda gave birth to two sons to me, the stomachs of the four women in the family have not moved...... I worked very hard, and they complained about me every day, and made a lot of messy potions for me to drink. ”

His expression was confused, and he looked a little depressed, but he didn't mean to be in a hurry.

The power of the mind has begun to interfere with the inner submarine...... Victor looked at Nelson and muttered.

It was no accident that Nelson was able to reach the current level of life. In fact, since he had a pair of twin sons, he didn't have the heart to have children, although he hadn't built a talent tree yet, but his subconscious was all focused on improving his strength, and his fertility was automatically locked, but he didn't know it.

The pure and huge spiritual power from the heart's desire directly affects Nelson's life potential, not to mention the potion that Linda and the others found, even if the old man Miller himself casts a magic spell, he can't help him. Of course, Victor didn't have a good way, and only when Nelson mastered the touch of the heart would he settle down, and the problem of childbirth should be solved.

Victor shook his head and sighed, and then said: "I originally wanted to canonize you as my vassal baron, but you don't have noble blood, and Joanna and they haven't been able to give birth to children, so it seems that it won't work......"

"My lord, what does it matter? Nelson suddenly realized and smiled. His eyes were rock-solid, without the slightest emotional fluctuation, and his words were clearly sincere.

Victor smiled and nodded, and said, "You will fight with me, and you should be rewarded for your meritorious deeds." So then, I canonize your youngest son as a lord, and grant you 30 square kilometers of land. As for your eldest son, he is the first in line to the throne of the lordship, so there is no need for a reward. In the future, when the brothers have made meritorious deeds, I will reward them with more land. ”

Nelson was stunned, thinking that this was a good thing, but he was not so happy, and habitually said: "I listen to the arrangement of adults." ”

Victor gave him land, not territory, and there was an essential difference between the two. Territories are connected to one side, where castles can be built, the right to exercise domain, and vassals can be recruited, while the grant of land is a farm in the east and a terraced field in the west, which is still nominally a fief but lacks room for integration, and the administrative power can only be entrusted to the sovereign, who sends tenants to engage in productive activities, which is equivalent to a large landowner with the title of lord.

From now on, this kind of fictitious aristocracy and actual land granting will become more and more common, and the aristocratic landlord class will gradually be formed.

Noble landlords had their own advantages over lords. For example, a lord lord can only canonize a maximum of 300 square kilometers of territory, but there is no upper limit on the land granted by the nobles, as long as the fictitious nobleman has the ability to make meritorious deeds, he can obtain more land than the title limit.

Of course, it is not possible for the sovereign to grant all the land to the fictitious nobles, and he can also repay the merits by raising the title of nobleman.

In the current system, the lord is not a nobleman in the true sense, while the baron and viscount belong to the lower nobles, and the earl and above are the upper nobles.

Victor is a lord of the earl's feud and has the right to canonize lords, barons, and viscounts, and the promotion of Nelson's title is to allow him to rightfully enter the core of the Randall family's power, and not be overwhelmed by Nicole.

Nelson is upright by nature and loyal to Victor, as the top combat force of the Randall family, Victor needs him to stay in Randall to suppress the situation, and it is impossible to take him with him.

Because of Nelson's tendons, he and Nicole work together, and after a long time, they will have conflicts. This situation does not depend on the will of the person, but on the will of the person.

Nicole has the right to be canonized, she has a stick in one hand and honey in the other, and everyone wants to slap her. Nelson didn't have anything, but he was still a dead brain, and if things didn't go well, he would run to someone to quarrel, once, twice, Ni might put up with him, and if he had more times, he would inevitably have to pay back.

Nelson followed Victor to fight in the north and south, and he was only one step away from the Golden Rank, not to mention that Nicole was still only a senior knight, even if she was promoted to the Golden Rank, she would not want to subdue the Bear of the Northland.

Victor doesn't want to see his lover clash with his number one henchman, but the most important reason is the bear mercenaries who are in charge of the smuggling caravan. Now that Nelson is back, they have a backbone, but if they can't even rely on Nelson, they will probably go to Mrs. Nicole for the sake of their children's future.

"It's been half a month since you've been back, have you heard anything?" Victor summoned a stream of air, blew the bell outside the carriage, and asked the coachman to urge the horse to drive out of the city.

"I haven't heard anything. Nelson said with a blank look on his face.

Linda must have told him a lot of things, and it's true that this guy didn't think anything about it...... Victor secretly scolded himself, knowing that it was useless to go around in circles with Nelson, and said directly: "You are only in charge of the First Legion, and you are not allowed to ask about the affairs of other legions." Hammer, Fermi...... All the War Bear mercenaries who manage the smuggling caravan are all included in the sequence of the First Legion, and I will transfer their fiefdoms to you and Linda's young son, and from now on, the War Bear mercenary family will be counted as the vassals of the little lord. ”

"Yes, sir. Nelson clenched his fist to his chest and whispered.

Victor looked out the window of the car, watched the trees on the side of the road retreat, and after a while, said, "This time in the El Nation, Pope Clement and I talked about the problem of the savages...... A sorcerer appears among the cottage savages, and the lord and the Inquisition will join forces to slaughter the entire cottage, leaving no one alive. If there is no connection between the cottage and the territory, the lord can also send troops to exterminate it, and the church never asks. ”

"This is because there is a sorcerer among the wild people, and even if he dies of old age, the evil faith born from him can continue to poison the entire cottage. Victor paused and continued: "No little wizards have been found in the stronghold of the cottage under our control, but the Pope reminded me that the cottage must be in contact with the nearby lords, otherwise the lords have the right to send troops to exterminate them. To avoid conflict, our smuggling caravans are to continue to distribute profits to remote lords, even as the Golden Order is prepared to abandon the remote and difficult smuggling routes. ”

Nelson glared at Victor and asked, "What do you mean, my lord...... We don't want all our hill strongholds, and give them back to those hillbilly lords?"

"Why not?" Victor smiled silently and said, "The hillbilly lord makes a deal with the cottage, nothing more than exploiting some mountain goods, and he can't make much profit. It was our smuggling caravans that smuggled the mountain goods to the black market in the big towns to peddle them, and then brought gold coins, potions, and gold to the small lords. Knowing that someone was smuggling goods through the cottage, they kept pretending to be deaf and dumb, and asked the vassal village chief to trade with us. This is also because they do not have the ability to find out the details of us, and they do not want to cut off the financial route. However, if those remote business roads can't make much money in the future, they may have to turn their faces. ”

Nelson's eyes showed a fierce light, and he said in a deep voice: "Then give them some power and take a look!"

"Do you think they're going to attack the cottage?" Victor sneered and shook his head, "Most of those remote families are down-and-out lords and barons, and they don't even bother to ask the lord they serve. Why are they attacking my stronghold? Tipping off the lord is the countermeasure they can take. It's a pity that the Golden Regiment will soon turn from dark to light, and I don't have to care about the Golden Regiment being known. ”

Victor changed his words and said: "The cottage stronghold has taken me a lot of effort, and it is impossible to give up like this, I have to think of another way to make money...... Since the resources of the mountains and forests are limited, let the hillbilly lords join in and use their land and manpower to open up financial resources. Next, the smuggling caravan will try to get in touch with the minor lords directly, and urge them to grow cash crops as I ask, or build handicraft workshops to produce the goods I designate. I still need a little time to think about the specific strategy, but the person who will execute it is already there, that is, your adopted son and daughter, Paul and Mary. ”

Nelson nodded, and said angrily, "Linda hasn't seen the two of them for a long time, and she asked me about it." ”

Victor glanced at him and said leisurely, "In January next year, you and I will go to live in the Red Frost Tree Manor for a while, and we will be able to meet them." ”

Nelson's eyes suddenly lit up, and he asked happily, "My lord, have you prepared a set of Soul and Blood Secret Methods for me?"

Victor smiled and nodded, "I'm still figuring it out, and I'm going to gather a few more useful helpers...... Don't worry, there will always be a set of secret methods for you to build a talent tree that matches your heart. ”

"Can I do something about it, then?" asked Nelson eagerly.

"We'll talk about that then. Victor waved his hand, and instead said, "Go back and gather the hammer and pass on my orders, all the mountain strongholds will begin to survey the nearby ore veins, and I will send craftsmen and animal trainers to transport another batch of antelope camels over to prepare for the minerals." ”

"As you wish, my lordship....... where are we going now?"

Victor looked at the scenery outside the window, the corners of his mouth sketched a playful smile, and said: "Settle accounts with Grimm the Shorty, I heard that he killed the barbarian captives sent to me by His Highness Andrew...... I hope that I will be satisfied with the results of his research. ”