After having a substantial relationship with Hardy, Sophia's status in the Lord's Mansion has risen.

Although she is still the head maid, she is not the lord's wife, but she is better than the lord's wife.

Even with Gui Wenier's status, there has been a substantial change.

Before, Gui Wenile didn't dare to run around casually, but now it's different, except for Hardy's study, she can go anywhere to play.

No one would stop her, and even the maids would have to watch over her so that she wouldn't have an accident.

Sophia was quite relieved to see her daughter jumping around.

It is not in vain to sacrifice oneself...... It can't be said to be a sacrifice.

Looking at Hardy, who was working at the desk, Sophia suddenly blushed a little.

She did approach Hardy with a sacrificial mentality before, but I have to say that Hardy is really handsome.

And it's still a brute.

Ploughing the field can be ploughed overnight.

It made her miserable and helpless.

I feel that I have lived in vain for the first ten years.

She was thinking nonsense, but Hardy frowned.

For he had received a letter from the county of Lewisian.

The sender is the player's 'life is short'.

It turned out that they had built the main road to the vicinity of Tacoma County, but they were blocked by an army and were not allowed to continue repairing it.

Hardy knew what was going on at a glance.

Between County Lewis and Tacomata, they are very close together, but there is a long 'leg' stuck in it.

That's Dasuni's 'leg' to the northeast.

A long and narrow tentacle of territory, stuck between two counties.

Hardy took out the map, looked at it for a while, and then had an idea.

He looked up and said, "Sophia, I'm going out for a short while, and the affairs of the Lord's Mansion will be handed over to you." ”

Sophia nodded.

She was originally the lord's wife before, so she naturally had no problem managing the housekeeping here.

"If you run into any problems, you can ask Rogge to help solve them." Hardy stood up and said with a smile, "He's not bad." ”

"Where are you going?"

"Go talk to the lord of Dasuni." Hardy said expectantly, "Connecting Tacoma and Leisian County will bring the two places together. ”

Sophia's eyes moved slightly, and she suddenly asked, "Do you want to change your name?" ”

Hardy was stunned: "Why change it, this name is very nice." ”

Sophia gave Hardy a strange look, "I mean, do you want to change her last name from Tacoma to Hardy." ”

Guiverneel Hardy?

Hardy looked at Sophia thoughtfully for a moment and smiled, "Whatever you want." ”

Then he walked out the door.

Sophia's hands twisted together, a little regretful, knowing that she was anxious just now.

Originally, she asked Gui Weinier to recognize Hardy as the 'godfather', but it was just a stopgap measure to gain a little power for Gui Weinier, so that she could live and play freely.

But after hearing that Hardy was going to connect Lewis County with Tacoma, he had something else on his mind.

Because she had learned that Hardy had three fiefdoms.

After Hardy came out of the study, he went straight to the barracks, first explained some things to Gerog, and then ordered three hundred heavy cavalry, one hundred logistics, and went straight to Dasuni.

After walking for two days, they came to a stop on the border line to Dasuni.

Now that Tacoma belongs to Franci, and Dasuni belongs to the Ajcca Empire, it would be a diplomatic problem for the two countries to cross the border rashly.

So he was stationed here and opened the banner of the Silverwing.

It is believed that soon the lord of Dasuni will come.

Sure enough, four days later, a combined army of about two thousand infantry and archers appeared in Hadi's field of vision.

The two sides confronted each other on the border line.

Hardy was the first to step out of the formation and shouted to the other side, "I'm Francis, Lord of Hucaro City, Hardy. On the other side, the lord of Dasuni? ”

"Not a lord yet." A young man came out on the opposite side, mounted on a horse, and he was the first to salute Hardy: "Jules, Luther's son, it is a pleasure to meet your Excellency. ”

He looked Hardy up and down, with both envy and jealousy in his eyes.

The other party is much younger than himself, but he is already the lord of the three places, and he has no hope of getting the title of lord.

"Lord Luthor, I have a deal I want to talk to you about."

"Please."

Luther's voice was loud, but it seemed to be a little trilling.

Hardy thought something strange.

In fact, Hardy didn't feel wrong.

Luther's voice was trembling, he was scared of Hardy.

The Luthers also fought in the Civil War, and they went head-to-head with Hardy in Cthirand.

His own heavy infantry, as well as two thousand gray orc infantry, were trampled on by Hardy with silver heavy cavalry, and fled in all directions, not daring to fight at all.

Luther's entire family witnessed the scene, which was why his father was reluctant to come.

Although Hardy only brought about 300 heavy cavalry in terms of intelligence, even with more than 2,000 troops, Luthor still felt insecure when he saw those silver armored heavy cavalry.

It was only because of the honor of the Luther family that he had to come.

"I want to swap a small piece of territory with the Luthers."

"Swap?"

In fact, the Luthor family also knew about Hardy's acquisition of Tacoma County, and after looking at the map, they knew that sooner or later Hardy would have to cut off the tentacles that Hardy had stuffed into the two territories.

I have been mentally prepared for a long time.

And there is no intention of rebellion and publicity.

But now Hardy actually said that he wanted to swap territories?

Hardy dismounted, took out the map on the border line, and said with a smile: "Lord Luthor, can you come and see the map?" ”

Jules Luther thought for a moment, dismounted and walked over.

It's just that his movements are somewhat stiff, but fortunately he is wearing armor, so he can't be seen very clearly.

Soon, he walked up to Hardy and looked at the map above.

Hadi pointed to the long tentacle and said, "This place is preventing my two territories from joining together, so I plan to divide a mine in northern Leisian County into Suni in exchange for this territory being my own." ”

Jules was stunned, and he asked incredulously, "It's a mine, and that long territory doesn't have any resources worth mentioning. ”

"For me, it's more important to have the territory together." Hardy said with a smile.

A mine...... It's still a stone mine, and Hardy doesn't care too much.

In his opinion, this natural resource is indeed good if it is there, and it is not far from it.

The main output of Lewis County has to be all kinds of crops.

There are also processed products for various crops, as well as excellent servers and logistics transfer station effects

Instead of mining a mine that will deplete resources in more than ten years.

Luthor looked at Hardy's handsome face, unable to connect the man in front of him with the terrible Black Knight.

He took a deep breath: "Your Excellency Hardy, you can't go back on it. ”

"That's natural."

"Okay, let's sign the contract." Luthor said hurriedly.

Hardy smiled even more, he didn't expect it to be easier than he had imagined.

He also thought that the people of the northern faction should have opinions about themselves, and then set up various obstacles for themselves.

Now he was very happy, and when the two territories were connected, Francie immediately had a deep-sea port.

His realm soon flourished.

When the fox people and the cat people are in place, then the first step of the foundation of the troubled times will be built.

(End of chapter)