Truly......

After hearing these words, the old nobles in the house couldn't help but nod their heads one after another, showing helplessness.

Duke Lionheart's raiding ceremony is naturally not easy to be absent, and more than half of the old nobles present were at the scene, witnessing how the "Three Elders of Lane" were planted, and they have a good idea of the current situation of the Lane family.

According to the rules of the old aristocracy, if you want to abolish the current Duke Lionheart and replace it with a new duke, you must have a "Lane man" with enough status to stand up and take the lead, and then a group of "in-laws" can follow.

Although it sounds a bit pedantic, and you have to find a raft before you do it, this is indeed one of the "unspoken rules" that the old aristocrats must abide by.

After all, in the old aristocratic group, there are also many people who have contradictions with each other, and there are even some feuds that have lasted for hundreds of years.

"I can't manage that much anymore!"

Looking at the newspapers on the table with headlines that made people's scalps tighten, a younger old aristocrat stepped forward and proposed, with a slightly anxious expression:

"Even if no one in the Lane family can pick the head, we can't go on like this, everyone knows what the princess wants, if she really does it in the end, then we are afraid that we will not even have the qualifications to be vassals of the royal family, and we can only be strangled to death by her little by little!

No matter what happens in the future, we must find a way to get this bad duke down now! At the very least, he can't be allowed to fall to the princess with the resources and seats of the Ryan family, otherwise it will be too late! ”

"That's what I thought too."

Another old nobleman of the "Young Zhuang Sect" stood up and echoed with a look of approval:

"Compared with those old rules, it is more important to stop the princess at the moment, we can't compare to the royal family in terms of support, and we can't compare to the chamber of commerce in the House of Commons in terms of wealth, and it's too late to do it if we don't do it."

"Seconded!"

"Alas...... I have no opinion. ”

"Agreed, even if it doesn't work, try it!"

……

"Wait, you guys calm down first."

Just as a group of old nobles stood up one after another and agreed to forcibly replace Duke Lionheart, another older nobleman stood up and reminded:

"Don't forget, even if we can vote through the House of Lords and forcibly replace the current Duke Lionheart, there will always be someone to sit in the position of Duke Lionheart."

"It's not important!"

The young nobleman who was the first to stand up said loudly:

"It doesn't matter who sits in Duke Lionheart's seat, as long as it's not the current one."

"No, this is important!"

Hearing this, the old nobleman shook his head and said:

"I'm afraid you haven't read the family tree of the Lane family, right? You know what? If you forcibly replace the current Duke Lionheart through a vote in the House of Lords, then the person who will become the next Duke of Lionheart according to the order of succession will be his own sister. ”

"Then cast his sister too!"

The young nobleman said fiercely:

"It's a big deal to give up some more benefits, compared to being stuck in the neck by the new decree implemented by the princess, being scrambling for the cake by those businessmen in the House of Commons, and the price paid by replacing two dukes in a row is completely acceptable, as long as the two brothers and sisters are voted down......"

"After throwing these two siblings down, there is another sibling waiting for them!"

The old nobleman snorted coldly:

"Let's go through the family tree of the Lane family! After casting her down, the raider next down the throne is still the younger brother of the current duke, and then his other sister.

Hehe, four Lionheart Dukes have been replaced in one day, and you are dead as a royal family, just watching you change so hard? ”

“……”

After asking other nobles who were close to him, and after receiving a positive answer, the young nobleman who proposed to forcibly replace him suddenly couldn't hold back.

"Then his family of four is stuck here, won't the road of substitution be directly stuck? So let's just do nothing and just watch? ”

"It's definitely not okay to look at it, but it's also not good to come hard, it's rare to meet such a good opportunity, according to the character of the princess, she will definitely guard against it, and she won't give us the slightest chance."

"Speaking of which, isn't there still nothing that can be done?"

"There are still solutions."

After most people's eyes gathered, the old nobleman unfolded his "Yan Country Map", squinted his eyes slightly and said:

"But before I get into my thoughts, I want to remind you that our Duke Lionheart is far from being as simple as it seems.

Although he seems to be a fool who doesn't understand the rules at all, and acts arbitrarily according to his own preferences, and takes shit luck.

But we might as well calm down and stand in his seat and think about it, even if we don't send the Lane family out, does he have the ability to keep the Lane family?

If he hadn't done so, what would he have left but to hold the title of an empty duke? And will the situation faced by the Ryan family be better than it is now? ”

After asking these questions, looking at the people who began to think along with their words, and there was a faint look of enlightenment on their faces, the old nobleman continued to squint his eyes and analyzed:

"To be honest, I think our Duke Lionheart is the real smart man.

He knew from the beginning that he had no ability to defend the Lane family at all, whether he worked hard to make friends with us in-laws, or forcibly maintained the Lane family, in the end, there was nothing left.

But his mind was clear enough that he didn't have this ability, so he simply drew a clear line with us, and directly proposed to the princess regardless of his face, and pulled in the person who had the ability to keep the Lane family. ”

"After all, we don't need him to get the inheritance of the Lane family, so he is worthless to us as a duke, but for the royal family and the princess, his dukedom is the only ticket to admission, and it is worth using all our efforts to win him over.

And because of the existence of these people, the royal family has no way to eat the Lane family completely, and must use his name as the Duke of Lionheart to compete with us for the resources of the Lane family, which has reached a delicate balance and allowed him to control the Lane family in his hands.

Tsk, even if we don't know how to be a nobleman, he definitely knows how to do business, knows how to sell himself to the most suitable target, and sells it for a rare good price. ”

After speaking with admiration on his views on Lyon, the old nobleman paused slightly, gave everyone a moment to think, and then picked up a newspaper from the table, stretched out his hand and patted the word "princess" lightly, and proposed in a loud voice:

"Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for us to learn from the clever Lord Duke and find a more suitable 'buyer' for ourselves...... What do you think, Prince Joshua? ”

Prince Joshua?

After hearing the old nobleman's proposal, the nobles couldn't help frowning, and some couldn't help but object directly:

"You're making us completely fall to the royal family? What is the difference between this and surrendering to the princess? Is it different to be controlled by the royal family? ”

"First of all, I'm just suggesting that it go to Prince Joshua, and besides, when will the princess already be able to represent the entire royal family?"

After asking a meaningful rhetorical question, the old nobleman completely unfolded the "map of Yan Kingdom", revealing the "dagger" he had prepared in advance, and asked:

"Everyone, you might as well think about it, what our princess wants, is what the whole royal family wants? And what the royal family wants, is what Prince Joshua, and the Queen and Chancellor of the Exchequer standing behind him want? ”

After glancing at the enlightened crowd, the old nobleman explained slowly:

"Or to make it clear, what the princess wants is not only the throne, but also the power to limit us nobles, and this is also the idea of the entire royal family, so in the past, the princess could represent the will of the entire royal family.

The queen and the chancellor of the exchequer were willing to support the royal family, because they were promised by the king, thinking that the princess would be married outside, and the whole kingdom would be Prince Joshua in the future, so they were naturally happy to help him clear the obstacles.

But now that our princess not only did not marry outside, but even obtained enough power to stir the whole kingdom by virtue of her marriage to that wise duke, the situation is different.

At present, the princess is powerful, and there is a king who wants to check and balance the old aristocracy to suppress it, and the queen and the chancellor of the exchequer do not dare to stir up trouble at such a time, even if they are dissatisfied.

But if the old nobles collectively fall to Joshua, our Royal Highness the Prince will also have a strong helping hand...... Can the princess still represent the will of the entire royal family? ”