In the city of Dadir, looking at the large collapsed walls, Baron Sith wondered if he was in the wrong place.

Forcibly holding back his anger, he walked to the cobweb-strewn gates. Looking at the half of the plaque hanging on the city tower, the barely recognizable word "Da" on it proved that this was his territory.

The original big iron gate has long since disappeared. Perhaps it had been melted in the blacksmith shop of a nobleman's domain and then forged into various farm tools.

The façade is like this, and there is naturally no need to count on the inside. As you can tell from the thick dust on the ground, this is already a dead city.

Although he had been prepared for a long time, the scene in front of him still angered Baron Sith. It was too deceitful to leave him with any hope at all.

There is not a single leader, and there is no room for him to exert all kinds of hills and valleys in his chest.

Similar scenes are still being staged in countless territories. Not only have the people been robbed, but even the infrastructure in the territory has been destroyed.

Typical harm to others is not good for oneself.

Under normal circumstances, even if there is a grudge between nobles, everyone will not do things so desperately.

But this time is different, it involves the "Northland giants", that is, the new hatred and old hatred are counted together.

In the past years, the Northern Frontier has devoured the lives of too many nobles. It's just a simple blood spill on the battlefield, but many times it comes from infighting, resulting in unnecessary casualties.

There is no doubt that this account will eventually be credited to the Northland giants, and although many of them are wronged, no one will listen to them.

The reason is very simple, the five major families in Northern Xinjiang have the most notorious reputation in aristocratic circles. The big merger was fun back then, but the reputation was permanently lost.

Although they have been trying to clear their hands in recent years, they have still had little success. At the very least, the nobles who lost their ancestral business and were forcibly displaced back then will carry out the business of the five major black families to the end.

In addition, it is not surprising that the Dalton family is behind the scenes, and under the anger of the masses, they do something radical.

After a brief cleaning of the city gates, the Sith still held back his anger and led the people into the city. Everything was as bad as expected, and the once prosperous city of Dadir was now in ruins.

If you can't get it, you will destroy it, and you don't want to have a competitor in the southeastern province who can threaten your position, and the Dalton family has done a particularly good job in this regard.

When the Governor's Palace evacuated Dadir City, it destroyed everything that could be destroyed, and finally did not forget to set a fire.

All the actions had only one purpose, to increase the difficulty for the Northland nobles to gain a foothold in the southeastern provinces.

Although the means are despicable, the effect is really good. To rebuild a territory in ruins, the manpower, material and financial resources required are not a small number.

Especially for the Northland aristocracy, which was not very wealthy economically, this expense was even more of a pressure. At the very least, the children of the nobles who went south with them carried the funds with them, and it was difficult to complete the task of rebuilding the territory.

Whether or not to ask the family for help has become a common worry for the children of nobles in the south and north. If you open your mouth to ask for help from your family so quickly, it is inevitable that you will lose points in front of your elders; If you don't ask for help, where will the money come from?

Especially the small and medium-sized nobles, they have more issues to consider. The rebuilding of the territory requires too much money, and even if you open your mouth to the family, you may not be able to raise enough money.

The military investment of the nobles in other regions may only account for three or four percent of the total income, and the more powerful ones are only five or six percent, and then they will embark on the road of reckless military force.

Friendly matches with orcs all year round, there is no northern nobles who do not have a high military spending, and financial deficits are a common thing. Military spending far exceeds the revenue of the territory, which is just a routine operation.

They didn't go bankrupt because of financial problems, they had soldiers in their hands, and they would rob and seize them when they were in a hurry.

Don't think that only orcs will come to the Alpha Kingdom to rob, and the nobles in the northern region also patronize the orc tribe.

It's just that compared to the human race, the economy of the orc tribe is much more backward, and the property that can be grabbed is much less. Often the most valuable property in an orc tribe is the orcs themselves.

Of course, the noble nobles naturally can't do such a thing as a slave trader, and they can't do it in their conscience. In the Church, this is hell.

Therefore, usually after the slaves were captured, they were dumped to the merchants to do the work for them. It was as if there was an extra program that would be able to smooth out the uneasiness of their conscience.

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"What?"

"You said that my people were robbed by soldiers?"

Sith asked incredulously.

Originally, I just wanted to find out what happened to my own territory before, but I didn't expect to get such unexpected news.

Raiding was nothing new, but it was a time of war. After the war, sending troops to rob the people is against morality. Even if the lord has not yet arrived, it is a provocation.

Baron Sith, who was angry, was worried that he had nowhere to send it, so he didn't think of the opportunity and sent it directly to the door.

Grand Duke Kavadia taught him from an early age that everything is false, and only the strength in his hands is real. As long as you have strength, it is not a problem to lack anything.

There is a ready-made excuse, and it is reasonable for him to lead his troops to the door to ask for an explanation.

The only problem is that the timing of the news is too coincidental, as if there is a black hand behind the scenes, manipulating all this in the dark.

The shady thing of leading troops to rob people must be as low-key as possible, and the participants will inevitably block the news.

It is not surprising that the local nobles can inquire about it, and these outsiders who have no foundation also easily received the news, which is inevitably too coincidental.

In contrast, Baron Sith preferred to believe that someone had deliberately made the news known to him. The purpose is to provoke disputes between him and his neighbors.

Whether or not to use the topic to play is a question worth thinking about. Although confident in the strength in his hands, the Sith does not think that he is truly invincible.

No matter how weak the nobles of the southeastern provinces are, they are also the local snakes who have been operating in the local area for many years. If there is a fight, I don't know how many relatives and friends will run over to help.

If you accidentally kick the iron plate, it's the end of the calf. If the strong dragon wants to suppress the ground snake, the prerequisite is that it cannot be defeated.

If you can't even defeat the ground snake, what can you talk about pressing the ground snake?

A similar scene continues to appear in every northern Xinjiang nobleman who goes south. As long as you have a brain, you are more or less aware that something is wrong.

Whether or not to push the boat down the river to do a vote, constantly wandering in everyone's minds, but unable to make up their minds.

However, in the face of the cruel reality, everyone's true thoughts in their hearts involuntarily leaned towards "borrowing the topic to play".

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Maple Leaf Town, after receiving this shocking news, Baron Caitley also became worried.

He had worse luck than the other lords, and ran into a strong neighbor.

If it weren't for the fact that the other enclaves were too limited and far less affluent than Maple Town, he would have wanted to change places to operate.

Although he was suspicious of the "elite" in the mouths of the nobles of the southeastern provinces, the cautious Baron Caitley was still unwilling to take risks.

After all, everything else could have been blown out. The stepping stone of the papal cavalry cannot be faked.

Even if the soldiers in his hands were all trained from the battlefield in northern Xinjiang, he didn't think that he could be stronger than the Holy See cavalry.

Perhaps there were other factors in that victory, but unfortunately the information in Baron Caitley's hands was limited, and all that could be heard was blown out by the nobles.

Three hundred elites VS six hundred elites, even if the opponent's army has water, you can add the name of "Divine Bow Knight", the underage Earth Bear, Baron Caitley is still a little unconfident.

As a nobleman killed on the battlefield, Baron Caitley did not lack the courage to meet the brave and win, but reason told him that it was not worth it.

Compared with the data on paper, I am at a disadvantage. Even if you can win, you will probably lose a lot.

Unlike Baron Sith's illegitimate son, he only came from a middle-class aristocratic family attached to the five major families, and did not have so many resources available.

was able to take three hundred elites south, it was all his own painstaking efforts. In order to feed the team, Caitley ventured deep into the Orc Empire more than once.

If it was for a conflict, he would have to cry to death if he had worked so hard to save his family wealth gone. As an outsider, there is no way to replenish the loss of troops in Wrightshire.

"Uncle Holman, what is the origin of this Coslow family? I seem to be somewhat familiar with it, and I seem to have heard of it somewhere. ”