"Your Excellency Marquis, we at the Rose Bank are absolutely willing to further support you in defending your rights, because we firmly believe that man should be, and always has been, free from birth, and that his rights should be guaranteed to the highest extent, even if such rights are abnormal in the eyes of ordinary people. Anyone has the right to decide their own body, like abortion, like suicide, like ...... Such a society is the place of happiness for all. With all due respect, authoritarian societies are outdated, and we should not hesitate to sweep them into the garbage. After Raymond figured out Bellevy's identity, he quickly began to talk again, and there was an indescribable elegance in his gestures, which was very eye-catching.

"But, Mr. Raymond, we in the south just want to get some more space and freedom, but we don't want to make more changes, and the royal power represents not only dignity, but also strength. Marquis Gerald frowned, "We don't want to make a bigger gamble. ”

When Belleveven heard Gerald say this, he immediately swallowed back what he wanted to interject, and the two people in front of him were discussing something very important, and he had vaguely understood some of the meaning.

The aristocracy and big merchants in the south are getting closer and closer under the oppression of the north, of course, this is also related to the fact that the boundaries between the two have become more and more blurred in the past ten years, and the small and medium-sized merchants and manor owners in the south are also closely united to resist the expropriation and tyranny from the northern court, and hope that people like the Marquis Gerald will stand up for them to defend the common interests of the south, and the interests of both sides are the same in this regard.

But Belleveven is Gerald's younger brother, and of course he knows more than the average person, for example, he knows that there are forces from the outside world that support Gerald.

Marquis Gerald has built a medium-sized arsenal in his domain. It can produce firecrackers.

Southerners and northerners vied for rights. It has always been a loss. Because the most powerful military force in the Aurora Kingdom has always been in the north, and with the help of the orcs, the Eastern Beast Alliance formed after the orc split is also significantly closer to the north.

Therefore, in order to protect their rights, they must have sufficient strength, and the South is inherently inferior to the North in this regard, so the South must have a military force that the North is afraid of, and it must also fight a battle of fame to be able to regain some power from the North. The Marquis de Gerald, for example, wanted to be the Prime Minister of the Southerners.

Therefore, Gerald has also been trying to bridge the internal contradictions in the south internally and become their leader, and externally he is also seeking help.

Before, Belvian had only heard that his brother had received some help, found a partner, and received funding from the other party to build an arsenal in his own territory, and now finally his partner turned out to be the Rose Bank.

In the conversation between the two just now, Belvian had already heard the contradiction between the Marquis of Gerald and the Rose Bank represented by Raymond.

Marquis Gerald just wanted to fight for power, and everything he was doing now was to flex his muscles to the north, not to prepare for a real rupture, and that Raymond wasn't trying to split Aurora. It's not good for them, and the funding that may have been invested will go down the drain. They were agitating Gerald to overthrow the rule of the North and establish a new type of society.

Belvian also happens to know something about this new type of society, because when the upper class of the South gathers, people also talk about it, praise it, or belittle it.

That is, Asturias, which did not have a good relationship with the Kingdom of Aurora and had only recently eased from the state of hostilities.

There was a parliament, but the monarch was retained, and there was a cabinet at the same time, and the executive, legislative, and judicial powers were gradually becoming independent, but this was by no means different from the aristocratic republics that had been in the past, because the membership of the lower house allowed anyone with citizenship to participate in politics, and the scope of the discussion was much wider than that of the previous aristocratic government, at least winning the hearts and minds of merchants and estate owners, as well as citizens.

In the same way, this model is also very controversial in the high class gatherings of Aurora, in the gatherings of the northerners, it must be degraded, thinking that it is a great rebellion, stupidity, etc., in the south it is much more complicated, people will still scold Asturias at first, but there will also be many people who envy it, thinking that it restricts the royal power and conforms to their own ideals, and it would be nice if Aurora also had such a day.

To be honest, Belvian also appreciates this model, which can not only win more opportunities for people like himself without destroying everything, but he even quietly believes that it is more in line with his brother's path and the interests of his own family. Because even if Gerard becomes the prime minister of the southerners, when he steps back, it may not be able to guarantee that the southerners will continue to fight against the northerners like him, but if he becomes like Asturias, it seems to be better, because it is a system that can fight against the royal power, and the latecomers can rely on this to reach the peak, and if this happens in the hands of the Marquis Gerald, then his family will have a natural advantage, which will help future generations.

But the agitation of Mr. Raymond and his representative Rose Bank went beyond that, and they wanted Gerald to do more radical than Belvian had hoped.

They are willing to support the Marquis of Gerard and the righteous actions of the southerners, but they also think that Gerard and the southerners are too cowardly, and they are not trying to divide Aurora, but they hope that the southerners can simply overthrow the old system of Aurora and establish a more advanced and complete state than Asturias.

Such a state has a parliamentary system like Asturias, but with a complete abolition of royal power and a parliamentary control, rather than a compromise as in a current state, and the royal power can continue to play a political role.

Such a radical proposition made the Marquis of Gerald a bit of a dilemma, because he essentially just wanted to fight for power, not to gamble more thoroughly to turn the table.

But tonight, as Belleveven saw, if Gerald and the Southerners continue to be so "timid", it will be difficult to get further support from the Rose Bank.

"Well, it's not been long, and I think the Marquis and your brother have some common things to say, so I'll take my leave. Raymond stood up. Pick up the hat from the hanger and put it on your head. Then politely left.

"You see it all. Do you think I should promise him?" the Marquis of Gerald, holding his forehead with his hand, suddenly cursed, "Don't listen to his nonsense at the beginning, what freedom, what a blessing for all. They will not support us in vain, and even if a parliament is established, they will demand that the Bank of Roses be allowed to be treated in the same way as the Central Bank of Asturias. ”

"But can we refuse them?" Belvian said with a wry smile.

Gerald didn't speak, and after a moment he slowly shook his head. "No, you can't. We're at odds with the Yankees, and if I were to turn back, I shouldn't have taken their help from the beginning. ”

What Gerald said is that he has cooperated with the Rose Bank in the past few years, although he has gained great benefits, but he has also exposed his incompatibility with the North more thoroughly, the South needs to change, and the North is still conservative, and also expects to oppress the South as before to suck blood and maintain the dominant rule of the North.

This was barely feasible in the past, but it really won't work in the past ten years, and Asturias and Titania have undergone varying degrees of change. Goods from abroad poured into Aurora like a tidal wave, defeating Aurora's local goods one after another.

Aurora's stuff is still in the stage of raw materials and primary processing. Although the upper rulers of Aurora raised tariffs to stop it, the phenomenon of domestic smuggling became more and more serious, whether in the north or south, the magnates participated in the smuggling, which could not completely prevent the entry of foreign goods, but lost tariffs, making small and medium-sized merchants and manor owners even more miserable.

In this situation, the northerners, who held the power of the vast majority of the kingdom, still hoped to maintain the kingdom by the blood supply from the south, and of course the southerners really couldn't bear it.

Therefore, it is rare for the South to bridge the past differences, hoping that there will be a Prime Minister of the South who can speak for the Southerners.

The Marquis of Gerald had a reputation in the South, and his family was a prominent family in the South, but not yet to the point of being a leader. Since cooperating with the Rose Bank, he has been very handy in whatever he does, even if it is also smuggling, the Rose Bank will give him priority to provide a source of goods, and will also help him export the agricultural products in the territory, making it easy to make money from time to time, and after discovering his intention to become the spokesman of the South, he will help him build an arsenal and train a new army named "militia".

The new army followed the example of the new army of Asturias, and after commanding this new army to rid the south of the bandits and enemies, Gerald quickly got a taste of the new army.

Compared with the old army, the advantage of the new army is that the training time is short, as long as the equipment can keep up, it can quickly arm a large number of civilians under its control into soldiers who can pose a life-threatening threat to even mid-level soldiers, even high-level professionals, if they are surrounded by a well-trained new army, they will also face danger.

This, of course, requires a lot of arsenals.

And the Rose Bank's further support for Gerald exceeded Gerald's own hopes, which made Gerald, who has always been ruthless and decisive, hesitate, this is too much of a gamble.

If you just fight for power and fail, you will be trampled on by the northerners and slapped in the face at most, maybe you won't be able to hold your head up in front of the northerners in this life, but the status of the family in the south will not change much, but if it is like what the Rose Bank hopes, if it fails, it may not even be able to keep the family.

So Gerald suddenly called Belleveven over during a meeting with Raymond today, just to let him know a little more and help him analyze and analyze, and at the same time intended to let his younger brother appear in some scenes instead of him in the future.

Belleveven felt that his vest was a little itchy, as if there was a small bug there, but he was in front of Gerald, and he was facing such a big thing, of course, it was impossible to lose the etiquette to scratch the itch, so he had to endure it.

"Brother, maybe we should also consider a situation, if you reject them, will they find someone else?" Belvey said.

Gerald's face changed slightly, he took out a golden cigarette case from his bosom and slowly opened it, there were five thick cigars in it, he took out two of them, and handed one to Bellevy.

He put the cigar in his mouth in a distraction, but he didn't light it for a long time.

He couldn't help but curse again, "They will." If I refuse, they will, and then, like they supported me, get a second one. ”

Both brothers' faces turned ugly, and if so, it seemed that there was no better choice. (To be continued......)