"The Bern region?" Otto muttered to himself and began to think about Baron Charlie's proposal.

Located on the western side of the Aargau Collar and sandwiched between the Alps and the Jura Mountains, Bern is even more geographically located and far more fertile than the Aargau Collar.

This can be seen in the number of barons in the Bern region, which more than doubled the number of barons in the Argaux region.

Even if in the previous life, when Otto was playing the game, he wanted to unify the Duchy of Burgundy in Transjura, and when he attacked Bern and the neighboring Neuchâtel, he either had to pull in strong allies or hire a mercenary, but with the strength of the Aargao collar, unless he farmed for decades, it was no fun at all.

The gap in reality is far more obvious than the values in the game, just like Otto took the lead in collecting commercial taxes, and the lords of the Swiss region followed suit, even though Otto collected the highest commercial taxes, but the income was not the largest.

The reason why Otto chose to expand to Basel is also because he does not want to provoke his neighbors, from the point of view of pure size, Bern and Zurich are much stronger than the Aargau collar, which is sandwiched in the middle, can not expand to the southern Alps.

As for Neuchâtel, it is also a bunch of mountains, and the benefits are too low.

Otto didn't know what was going on with Berne, and if it was really as Baron Charlie said, the Bernier region was now in chaos, it was a good opportunity to expand into Bern.

"Please tell Baron Charlie in detail about the situation in Bern, I don't know much about it, and then we will discuss how to take Berne."

The expansion of this period was relatively troublesome, and the use of military means was not the best choice, and it was often interfered with by the superior lords. If you are under the same lord or in the same kingdom, after military expansion, you will generally acquiesce to your expansion if you pay a certain price to the higher lord.

But if you encounter those so-called "just" lords or kings, then your expansion behavior is completely regarded as a provocation, not only will you spit out the territory you have gained, but you will also be punished, and you will lose your title if you lose your money or something.

Otto was so careful, not because he was afraid of the lord's intervention. The kingdom of Lotharingia, where the Algao Collar is located, is now relatively turbulent, and King Lothair II is busy competing for power with the great nobles of the kingdom.

Of course, it is also possible that Lothair II heard the news from this side and cleaned up Otto.

Can't cure the big nobles, and can't cure you as a little earl?

It's just that the likelihood of this kind of convulsion is too low, and if the general trend of history is correct, this king will not have many good days to live, and he should not survive this year.

What Otto really feared was that after using military means to expand wantonly, he would arouse the vigilance of other surrounding lords, especially the Count of Zurich, if he was beaten by a coalition, he would want to cry without tears.

After consulting with the nobles for a long time, Otto decided on a plan to expand into the Bern region.

In fact, there is nothing new in this plan, it is just a gradual cannibalization.

While wooing the petty nobles of the Bern region, they used the excuse of border friction to take a village today and a river tomorrow to expand.

Wait until the old earl dies, and then carry out a large-scale military operation, so that the timid New Earl of New Bern will cede the land and pay reparations.

Otto has no opinion on this plan, but he is still obsessed with the Basel area. However, there is no hurry, wait until the death of King Lothair II and the chaotic situation in which East and West Francia divide the territory of the Kingdom of Lotharingia, and then take the opportunity to take Basel.

In any case, the encroachment on the Bern region will not happen overnight, and there is no need to use too much force.

An agreement was reached, and the rest of the feast ended in a staggered manner.

Otto sent the nobles away in a bit of a daze, and looked back at the slightly cramped banquet hall of Lafite Manor, and couldn't help but look forward to the banquet hall of the new castle, which he had designed with his own hands, and was at least seven or eight times larger than the one in front of him.

According to the progress of the project, within this year, he should be able to move to the new castle, Lafite Manor, he is a little tired of living.

"Master Otto, slow down." Gint saw Otto, who was walking a little floating, and hurriedly came up to help. "Young Master, Madame Kaylin would like you to take the time to go to the Old Castle, saying that there is something to discuss with you."

"Something?" Otto suddenly sobered up and asked in a low voice. "Is my father dead?"

Gint couldn't cry or laugh, and he didn't know if the young master cared about his father, or wished that his father would die early, anyway, there were already people among the guards secretly muttering, why Count Allgau wasn't dead.

The Count of Allgäu is immortal, Otto's identity is still only an heir, and everyone who wants to become a knight or a baron can only be a luxury. So privately, it is estimated that many of Otto's guards wish that Count Allgäu would die soon.

Jinte shook his head, and quickly put aside the messy thoughts in his mind, how could he guess the young master like this.

"Mrs. Kailin didn't say it directly, but it should be related to your marriage, young master, and he also asked me what type of woman the young master likes."

Tie the knot? Otto frowned, a little unpleased. I'm not 17 years old yet, I'm not in a hurry, your stepmother is in a hurry.

But Otto also knew that there was no escape. According to the practice of the aristocracy, if it weren't for his Count Allgäu who had an accident, before his 16th birthday, he would have basically arranged a marriage partner for him, and maybe he would have been engaged.

Due to the unconscious Count of Allgau, the relationship between Otto and Madame Kailin was not very harmonious, and the family was passed down for several generations, and there was no other elder to supervise, Otto's marriage arrangement was delayed for a while.

Otto didn't think about any free love, with his identity, it is completely unrealistic to fall in love and marry freely in this society, not to mention that it is already an open secret for nobles to find lovers.

The main reason is that Otto doesn't have this idea, he only talked about an unsuccessful relationship once in his previous life, and he is used to living alone, and he always feels that it can be later.

It's just that now it seems that some can't be avoided.

After turning on the system that had not been opened for a long time, and making sure that no news that someone was going to murder him popped up again, Otto angrily turned off the system and lay down on the bed.

What a broken system.,Other people's systems are invincible.,It's useless for this thing.,Look at your system so much like CK3.,You should arrange a white-skinned and beautiful wife with long legs for me! Why do I have to find it myself?

It's nothing, spicy chicken system, bad reviews!