0112 You're a Born Duke! (2-in-1)
That's really ...... It's outrageous! How can there be such a ridiculous thing?
Looking at the new silver badge on the panel, not only the nobles in the ward were stunned, but Leon in the wheelchair was also caught off guard.
He broke into Lane's house at night only a few days ago, not only killed their first heir, but even killed more than 200 backbones one after another, single-handedly creating Lane's bloody night that sent Lane's family to hell.
As a result, the old duke of the Lane family didn't know what was crazy, and within five seconds of being pushed into the ward, he inexplicably identified himself as the next heir, making himself the biggest beneficiary of the Lane Blood Night incident......
Made! Doesn't that trick people?
He is not only the ultimate beneficiary, but also suspected of having the ability to create Ryan's bloody night, and if there is a normal brain in the cleaning bureau, he has to send a company of investigators down to investigate himself from the inside out!
"Everyone, please listen to me!"
Suddenly being stuffed in the face by a two-ton hot potato, although he was not ashamed at all, Leon, who was really a ghost, frowned, and hurriedly refused:
"I'm not interested in this title, so I might as well consider other ......."
"Bastard!"
Before Leon could finish speaking, an old man with gray hair and gorgeous clothes stood up from the crowd and scolded with disdain:
"This is the title of Duke Lionheart! And it was the old duke's personal identification before he died! Can you just say a word?"
So what the hell is going on with you?
As a person of considerable quality, if it were in normal times, Leon might still pay attention to his words, but now he is eager to get rid of this hot potato and get rid of the suspicion of creating Lane's bloody night, so he is not very polite.
"Who are you stepping on?"
After saying a response that changed the faces of the nobles, Leon quickly took a look at the old man's attire, and found a cyan tiara with three single feathers on the badge on his chest.
Although there are now cameras, they are not widely circulated due to their high price, and in many cases, identification is still based on documents and insignia, so the kingdom's insignia is quite strict.
According to the rules of the Emblem Law, all badges must strictly follow the relevant requirements when making, especially on the coat of arms of the nobility that represents status, crowns, coats of arms, halberds and robes must be the same.
One of the most important tiara marks is the emblem used to identify the status level, in addition to the diamond lord representing the royal family, the duke and uncle male five-level title, need to use gold, silver, copper, iron, tin five metals corresponding to the color.
In addition, there will be a robin under the diamond crown of the royal family, and the crown emblem of the fifth-level title needs to be lined with corresponding single feathers, which means that the nobility is an important wing to support the royal family.
Among them, the highest-level duke base is five feathers, and the lowest-level baron foundation is one feather.
And the three bronze crowns on the badge of the white-haired old man prove that he belongs to the third tier of the kingdom's title rank, and he is still the kind of ordinary earl who has not made much achievements in his life except for inheriting the title.
……
"Hehe, with such a big tone, I thought you were a big man, and it turned out to be an earl?"
In order to get rid of this troublesome duke title as soon as possible and avoid attracting the scrutiny of the Cleanup Bureau, Leon simply let it go and smiled contemptuously at the white-haired old man.
In the spirit of offending as many people as possible, it is better to offend them all, so that they can make efforts to elect someone else to be the duke, Leon endured the sharp pain in his skin and stood up from the wheelchair, and in full view of everyone, he walked slowly to the white-haired old man, raised his hand and poked the three bronze crowns on his chest vigorously.
"The third-class earl only has the most basic three feathers...... It turned out to be a little deflated three, huh?"
Little deflated three? I? Little deflated three?
After hearing Leon's "pertinent" evaluation of himself, he felt the strange eyes of the nobles falling on him, and the white-haired old man who was poked and staggered two steps couldn't help it
A burst of blood rushed to his brain, and he roared angrily:
"You !!"
"What are you? Am I not right?"
Worried that the attack would not be strong enough to get rid of this unlucky dukedom, Leon secretly switched the badge and equipped it with a silver-level [Elite Performer], and then crossed his arms to his chest and raised his head slightly, and sneered with disdain:
"The third-class count of the three feathers...... Oh, how much Ling Yu the royal family gave is worthless, don't you know it yourself?
Fooling around to collect taxes, pretending to go to disaster relief, and even giving a big gift when the princess is born, you can be issued a feather by the royal family, you are already so old, there are still only three hairs on the badge, what is it that is not a little deflated?"
"I...... I ......."
"What am I? If I could, you would have wiped your neck!"
With the help of the silver-level [elite performer], Leon's rather handsome face reveals a heartfelt disgust and a sharp disdain.
"Believe me, die sooner."
After reaching out and patting the flabby old face of the white-haired old man, Leon leaned over and suggested with sincere eyes:
"Looking at your full spirit, at least you can continue to waste food for twenty or thirty years, if you hang yourself today, it is estimated that you can save a lot of money for the kingdom, which can be regarded as a little merit.
Do you think, the royal family knows that you have made such a great achievement, if you are happy in your heart and reward you with a bird feather, then you will no longer be a little deflated? Wouldn't that be the best of both worlds?"
Nonsense! Ridiculous!! You damn it!!
After being mocked by this extremely insulting thing, the white-haired old man, whose face turned purple, wanted to object, but he saw Leon's eyes.
Two points of disgust, three points of contempt, and the remaining five points are full of sincerity.
What the damn shit said is true! He really thinks from the bottom of his heart that a "deflated" nobleman like himself is really more valuable than living to die immediately!
"Ho...... Ho ......"
After being hit by the sincere crit from Leon's eyes, the scolding and even the extremely vicious curse in his stomach were all stuck in his throat, turning into a blood pressure of more than two hundred in an instant, and a mouthful of heartburn sticky yellow phlegm, so that the white-haired old man's eyes rolled over and kicked his legs, and he fell to the sky on the spot.
Damn?!
Unexpectedly, these two sentences came out, and the old man -1 was directly on the spot, and even Leon was taken aback, and instinctively took a step back.
"You see! I poked him twice with my finger, and he poured it himself!"
「……」
Yes, we've all seen it, you did only poke him twice with your fingers, but you just stabbed him in the heart with your mouth at least a thousand times!
The vast majority of the nobles want face, at least on the surface, they still want face, looking at just scolding the other party, they were stripped off their face and pointed at their noses and scolded, and the old man who fainted on the spot with two sentences, dozens of nobles in the ward immediately fell silent.
The new Duke of Lionheart really has a little bit of a sense of confusion, the white-haired old man is there, if he goes up and says it, if he is also damaged in front of so many in-laws, then he will not be alive?
After waiting for a while, except for a few familiar nobles who called someone to come over and carry the old man out, the entire aristocratic group remained silent very tacitly, although no one stood up and scolded Leon again, but no one actually proposed to replace it with another heir, highlighting a direct acquiescence.
Anyway, this is the raider of the Lane family, and it is not our family, and the scourge will not affect me, as for the face of the nobles...... Laughed, compared with the actual benefits, the face is not worth a copper wheel at all!
If the successor Duke Lionheart is a shrewd and capable person, then everyone may have to oppose it, after all, the more Ryan estate the new duke can keep, the less he can carve up, but now......
Looking at the time when the Lane family needed support the most, they chose to blatantly offend the in-law family, and they could even be said to be the new dukes who were sprinkled in public, dozens
The nobles' eyes couldn't help but show a look of satisfaction.
It's good, this kind of stunned young man who has no city government and no brains, and is also a master and a low temperament, is the most suitable person to succeed the Duke of Lionheart at the moment!
It's just that after a month or two, when everyone divides up the Lane family's property, he, the duke, will be done, right?
……
There are not many powerful figures in the upper echelons of the Ryan family, and there are not many clansmen who can have a decisive impact on the succession of the title.
In addition to the old duke who "strongly supported" Leon, the rest of the people were first killed and disabled by Bobby Lane, and then "crushed" by Leon, and the rest were only two or three big cats and kittens, and they were either in power for a long time or dying, and the people who had the most power to speak were the "in-laws" in the ward.
Ignoring the strong opposition of the new duke himself, the in-laws of the Lane family didn't even spend five minutes, and decided to follow the old duke's last wish, so that Leon, who was completely black-haired and black-eyed, and didn't look "Lane" at all, became the new boss of more than 90,000 little golden retrievers in the Lane family.
That's really ...... It's ridiculous! It's like child's play!
From the mouth of the officer who pushed Leon into the ward, he learned how the new duke was chosen, and the heart of the Minister of Defense was really excited and annoyed.
Excitedly, his daughter patted her chest and assured herself that Leon was definitely not the kind of person who would fall to the nobility, and instead of worrying that he would collude with the old nobles after becoming a duke, it was better to worry that he would directly flip the table, and even collude with the rebels to have another bloody night and wipe out the in-laws of the Lane family.
If Isa's judgment is correct, the successful ascension of a "non-noble" duke like him to the throne is definitely a huge boost to the reform of the princess, and being able to have a "one's own person" in the House of Lords that cannot be splashed with water is equivalent to inserting a knife in the heart of the old nobles.
As for why annoyed......
"Your Highness! These old nobles must be dealt with as soon as possible!"
Looking at the calm princess behind the desk, the old man couldn't help but say angrily:
"The Lane family's sphere of influence is in the Ministry of Highway Administration and the Ministry of War, mainly in the two areas of public facilities and arms procurement, and the core power of these two such important departments is actually held by the old nobles, and even can be privately delegated almost without appointment! The candidates they choose, you can only stamp and agree! How can this work?"
"Well, I will, but not now."
The princess behind the table looked through the file of the "new duke" and said calmly:
"These old nobles are carrion parasitic on the kingdom and must be stripped away, but if they are not cut well, the wounds will bleed.
My father once ousted three chancellors of the exchequer in a row, and cleaned up many small and medium-sized families, trying to personally control the financial power of the kingdom, and then ushered in an extremely fierce counterattack.
As a result of their contest, the finances of the entire kingdom were suspended for half a year, and a deficit totaling nearly 600 billion yuan was revealed one after another, and almost the entire war was dragged out, and the Great Patriotic War six years ago could not even make up for the military spending, and the deficit caused by it has been backlogged to this day."
At this point, she paused, picked up her pen and marked something on Leon's file, and then continued:
"So you can't do this kind of thing in a hurry, if the price of stripping away the old aristocracy is to bring the country to a temporary shutdown, it will only cause a greater disaster, so you must take it step by step.
And the current situation is actually just right, especially our new Duke Lionheart...... Well...... Do you know what he once said?"
Looking at the place circled with a pen on the file, Wang Nu recited calmly:
"As for the royal family and the nobility, they are a bunch of lice that grow in the crotch of their pants, and once they suck blood, they should be caught and pinched to death?!!!!"
Completely unaware of Lyon's identity as a "rebel party", after hearing the words of the princess, the Minister of Defense couldn't help but be shocked.
However, when he just wanted to say something, he saw that the corners of Wang Nu's mouth, which had always been stable, actually turned up imperceptibly.
"It's a bit of a bad analogy, but it's true."
Not angry at being compared to lice in the crotch of her trousers, the princess closed Leon's file, opened the report on the raid, and then smiled and said:
"Duke Lionheart...... Well...... Duke of Lice Heart...... It's ironic when you think about it.
The duke, who regarded the nobility and the royal family as lice, has now become one of the strongest lice in the country, and with the ability to lie on his stomach and suck the blood of the kingdom, I would like to see what he will do......
Oh yes, look at this."
After handing over the report in her hand, the princess, who usually frowned, chuckled rarely, and then stretched out her finger and tapped the record on the report, and said with great interest:
"The earl, who was scolded by him and fainted on the spot, actually put a cabbage in his bedroom, and then threatened that this Duke Lionheart of Leon Lane will definitely rot faster than his cabbage!"
Cabbage...... Meaning two or three months at most?
After taking the report and reading it, the Secretary of State couldn't help but frown, remembering the light in his daughter's eyes when she mentioned Lyon.
"Her Royal Highness Veronica......
The Minister of Defense sighed in his heart, and then took the initiative to ask:
"How long do you think he'll last as a duke? When the Ryan family is divided, will it be liquidated?"
"Reckoning won't."
After thinking about it, Wang Nu shook her head and said:
"Except for the earl he offended and died, the other nobles don't care about an empty shell duke, but the Lane family may not live longer than that cabbage.
After losing the clansmen of the military department and the road department, the influence of the Lane family in the military department has completely bottomed out, and there is only one seat in the upper house left in the political circles.
On the three sides of the military, politics, and business, the Lane family doesn't occupy any of them now, what kind of person must be to support this stall that is about to collapse?"