Chapter 235, A New Beginning
In July 1361 in the valley calendar, Feilong Water Lake, the Susar Navy "Shooting Sound" warship.
The scorching sun shone on the Feilong Lake, and the surging waves crashed against the bow of the warship, and all the secrets were hidden under the bright sky.
Aaron Salion, Viscount Sunset, after bidding farewell to Alice and Charlotte, officially went to his fiefdom Sunset to claim the domain, and by the way, he also resigned from his position as the Black Staff Celebrant and retained only the position of Minister of the Guard.
Before leaving, he and Alice Searle agreed to let her visit his territory next year, and come with the eldest lady, he will leave them with an "unforgettable experience".
Alice Searle readily agreed, and she and the eldest lady reluctantly said goodbye to Aaron.
At the same time that Aaron left Susar, the regent officially announced to the whole country, establishing her supremacy.
Subsequently, Alice Searle issued three important decrees.
First, land inspection.
The regent announced that all registered land in Cormier from top to bottom would be inspected, and she ordered that the whole country should use a uniform method to enforce it, sort out the previously complex land ownership, update the land system, and all aristocratic estates, including royal fiefdoms, must be subject to unified land seizure, and many of them must be returned to the commoners.
This decree is known as the "Prince's Daughter's Land Inspection".
There were three types of land seizures, the first was for the nobles to report their property rights as landowners, the second was for yeoman farmers and a small number of land-owning burghers to be investigated, and the third was for Alice Searle to send the United Church of Bureaucrats to investigate.
This move made the nobles of the whole kingdom cry bitterly, and many of the big nobles wanted to spit out nearly half of the illegal encroachment on the direct collar, but it was useless, Alice Serre was resolute, the princess already had enough political capital at this time, and she also had a reason to hit the opponent, she didn't even let go of her manor land as the royal family of Obiszir, and the big nobles had to pinch their noses and comply.
This timing is just right, after all, Caspar had opposed the seizure of land before, and if a nobleman dared to jump out at this time, did it mean that he was a fellow party of the Duke's faction, a sympathizer of Bane's Divine Son?
Second, the curfew and military controls should be lifted, and the extrajudicial power of the Queen's Blade should be appropriately restricted.
Thirdly, while abolishing some tariffs and encouraging trade, opening most of the docks, abolishing some commercial and market taxes, encouraging import and export trade, and rewarding technological innovation, Alice Searle managed to conclude trade relations with the aquatic elves of Dragon Lake and the Meteorite Sea with the help of Kelburn-Black Rod.
The second and third articles can be understood as the lessons of the princess about this civil strife, and she also realizes that this control cannot last forever, and that one day she must step out of her father's shadow and govern the country in her own way.
Three decrees were issued, and the entire Cormier environment was completely renewed, and people rushed to tell each other and cheered for the dawn of a new era.
It's just that these things have little to do with Aaron, as a new fief, he also has to inspect the land, and as for the rest of the decrees, it is simply the pillow wind that Aaron blew to Alice Searle.
In the ship's cafeteria, where Aaron was standing in front of the stove cooking a big meal, Eleanor was sitting at the table reading the newspaper, with a cup of hot, Aaron-brewed coffee in his hand.
Miss Pastor was wearing a knee-length lace skirt in the early summer breeze, a crisp cross-wrought blouse, long silky blond hair falling naturally, calm blue eyes under the bangs, and bare feet on her legs under the skirt instead of stockings, like silkworm babies with no dress on their toes, exposed in the laces of a pair of simple block-heeled sandals.
From time to time, Eleanor glanced at Aaron, who was immersed in the study of "potato stew and beef with tomato sauce" in front of the stove, and her heart was full of peace and joy.
It's finally time to go to the fiefdom, and the next thing is our two-person world.
Whenever she thought of this, Miss Pastor couldn't help but snicker.
"Hahahahaha~" The laughter of a certain big dragon dragon came from outside, which immediately broke the joy of Miss Pastor.
Eleanor glanced out the window, only to see a white-haired dragon lady standing on the bow of the ship with her hands on her hips laughing, with an expression of "I am the king of the world", ignoring other people's conversations, living in her own world.
The dragon...... Eleanor asked in a strange voice, "Aaron, what's the matter with her?" β
"Hehe, don't be angry, my dear, we will have to count on her to a large extent in our stable life in the future." Aaron finally got the heat ready, and he brought the steaming beef stew with tomato sauce to Eleanor, and said with a smile, "Isn't it fragrant to have a dragon as a bodyguard?" β
"Hey~ Then why do I think she seems to have something else in mind?" Eleanor's mouth was flattened, and Miss Pastor thought to herself how popular her boyfriend was.
This is a war that will never stop!
The topic did not continue, because cousin Robert came in with a stack of papers, and sweat was on his forehead: "Aaron, I think it's necessary for you to take a look at this. β
"What is this?" Aaron also happened to divert the topic, he glanced at the door of the restaurant, and saw a beautiful brown-haired woman in a short skirt standing in the door very nervously watching him.
Her name is Vickers and she is Robert's current girlfriend.
Since his cousin became famous, he has been hunting for beauty in bars and clubs by telling "the legendary adventures of me and my cousin Aaron", relying on the aristocratic status of military merit and Susar's household registration, Robert's search for beauty is very successful, and after returning from Alabel, he doesn't know how many women have changed around him.
My cousin is also very shrewd, I don't want church women, noble women, and high-level professionals, so I specifically look for the kind of single women of civilian origin who have a little ability but are not too strong, and come to Susar alone, eager to live a stable life in the city, and secretly choose the object that she is satisfied with.
really let Robert find a female bard from Tesser, young and beautiful, with hot body and wavy brown hair, longing for a stable and wealthy life, and was ruthlessly won by Robert.
However, judging from the way he asked Vickers to stand at the door and wait, she has not had a chance to become a "cousin" for the time being.
Aaron didn't want to mind Robert's personal affairs, and he motioned for Robert to have something to say.
"This is my Anaheim dossier, Aaron, and I found something about you in it." Robert placed the thick dossier on the table, and he pointed to one of the passages and said, "Look here, Aaron, the son of tyranny once thought that you were also a son of tyranny. β
Aaron and Eleanor immediately looked at the passage Robert had marked.
Sure enough, Mannerone had always thought that Aaron was the same tyrannical son as he was before he was ready to start the incident, and it wasn't until the two sides had a serious conversation that Mannerone realized that maybe Aaron wasn't his brother, but he was just suspicious.
"I've never been a child of tyranny, and Mannerkorn has mistaken someone." Aaron frowned and pinched his chin: "However, if that's the case, then a lot of the questions do make sense." β
"Yes, that's what I thought of as well." Robert then quickly flipped through the parchment, stopped where he had made a mark, and pointed to the other end: "There is another message, Aaron, Mannacone was 100% sure that there is definitely a Son of Killing hiding in Susar!" β
"You see, here, before you awakened from that mission, the Son of Tyranny performed a sacrificial ritual in which he determined that there was indeed a Son of Killing within Susar." Robert continued: "But then the priest in charge of the ritual was killed mysteriously, you see, cousin, after that priest was killed, the son of tyranny could no longer perform a similar ritual, and the search for the killing of the son of God was gone. β
What?!
Aaron immediately stood up, his eyes narrowed.
In Susar, there is still a Bal god son hidden?!
However, if there really is a Son of Baal, then why did he not show up and participate in so many events?
Aaron looked at the text on the dossier and was puzzled.
The Anaheim family is a large military-industrial family with countless resources and connections, and Mannerhen did not give up after the incident to continue to search for the hidden Son of Slaughter, but never found anything.
Is it that he hides himself to the limit? Or is he not fully awakened for some reason?
Aaron vaguely remembers that Chanem, the protagonist of Baldur's Gate, also began to awaken for some special reasons, and he was an ordinary boy before.
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"What to do? Aaron? Robert had no idea about it, his cousin's extraordinary strength was like that, and he could only ask Aaron's opinion.
"If it takes two years for Anaheim to find it, then it will be in vain for us to look for it...... Nor is the killing of the Son of God doomed to evil. Aaron pondered, "For now, let's focus on the new territory. β
"Wait, Aaron." At this moment, Eleanor suddenly spoke, and Miss Pastor remembered what Aaron had just told her: "That, Senior Disma is not...... Have you just left the kingdom? β
"Yes." Aaron replied casually: "I gave up chasing it, because the matter has come to this point, in addition to the relatively conservative rules of the Purple Dragon Knights and the fact that Mentor Lucian is a little too arbitrary, it is mainly Dismar's own problem...... Later, the dean learned about this and went to chase it, but he didn't catch it, they just had a fight. β
"Aaron, Senior Disma is only a little older than you......" Eleanor continued, Miss Pastor's eyes full of worry.
"yes, he's just...... Wait, what do you mean? β
Aaron hung his head and looked at Miss Pastor.
A possibility came to their minds.
Don't?
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Aaron didn't try to chase Disma again, and he had done his best for the second senior.
The next day, Aaron and the others officially arrived at their fiefdom, Sunset Collar.
Sunset Collar, the plain on the shore of the Feilong Water Lake, there is a small hill on the side of the plain near the Feilong Water Lake, called Sunset Hill, it is said that there was once a priest of the god of the morning light, Loshanda, who died in battle, after he died in battle, Loshanda was grateful for the loyalty and courage of this priest, so that the morning light did not rise here for a long time, so for a period of time, this hill can only see the middle of the day, sunset and night, and cannot see the dawn, so it is named Sunset Hill.
Sunset Lords began large-scale reclamation during the reign of Ahsan IV, and one after another logging teams entered the Hurek Forest, establishing many settlements, but also clashed fiercely with the natives of the Hurek Forest and some Druyin, and then, with the Sage Havoc and the Goblin War, Cormier was unable to devote troops and financial resources to continue development, and the land became a chaotic place, and continued to be harassed by orcs, kobolds, gnolls, goblins, and occasional attacks by the lizardfolk tribes, gray dwarves, and drow elves of the forest.
The people here are strong, and they are painfully resisting one attack after another by foreign enemies.
The people here are in need, and they are constantly longing for the Kingdom to lend a helping hand and save their troubled settlements.
And now, as the warship docked, the sun-drenched figure stepped on the land, and the thousands of local residents surrounding the shore suddenly burst into the fiercest cheers!
"Aaron! Aaron! Aaron! β
"He's coming, he's coming to us."
"Your Excellency Salian is here! The sun is here! β
"Sunset Lord no longer sunset, from today onwards, we have our own lord!"
People cheered and huddled around themselves, struggling to reach out to get closer to their idols.
The elders of the local village stepped forward and offered their own wine, salt and bread.
This shows how important it is for Aaron to carefully cultivate his fame and prestige, without which he would never have been welcomed and embraced at this level.
At the same time, the local militia leaders also offered their swords and shields and knelt at Aaron's feet, swearing allegiance.
Eleanor, Robert, Maximian, and others who came to the fiefdom with Aaron felt honored.
"Tut-tut." Magical advisor Barrell Moonflower touched his stomach and sighed in amazement: "It's just another reincarnation, this is a human being, full of vitality, it's really lovely." β
"......" Doherty, the half-orc who had been resurrected by terror, clasped his hands on his chest, and the humans around him were obviously happy, but he only felt noisy.
The dwarven craftsman Fujar struggled to stand on tiptoe, and the greedy master craftsman was already considering choosing it as a base for his blacksmith's guild, but he couldn't see the outside in any way, and he was so anxious that he blew his beard and glared.
"Hahahaha~These slaves know very well~" The big dragon dragon happily accepted the welcome of the lower race.
All agitation died down as Aaron clapped his hands to signal everyone to be quiet.
I saw the Sunset Collar Viscount compare a "3" to the sky: "I'm here to do only three things!" β
"First, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, blood debt and blood to pay!" Aaron yelled.
There was a burst of inhalation, and many residents were red-eyed on the spot by Aaron's words.
"Second, tell all the races here that we are the masters of this place!"
The pent-up cheers rang out, and many young and vigorous humans spread their arms, Aaron's words struck them in the heart.
"Third, folks, I love chicken!"
As soon as these words came out, there was a burst of incomprehension around them, and even Eleanor looked at Aaron strangely.
Aaron ignored everyone's reactions, and then he stretched out his third finger: "I like to eat chicken very much, so I plan to make every resident of this land afford to eat chicken for dinner!" β
βwinner winnerοΌ dinner!β
The Flying Dragon Water Lake is boiling! The shouts of the people set off wave after wave in the lake.
The new lord won the hearts of the lords in just three sentences.
Good luck, eat chicken tonight!
Aaron was squeezed in the middle of the crowd as he smiled at the ragged Sunset Collar residents with light in their eyes, and then cast his gaze on the scorching sun above the sky.
So, here we go!
My ambition!