Alien landlady

Chapter 295 Awarded a Lord
Bai Tongtong endured the saliva sprayed all over her face, and silently wrote down the names of all the nobles who had condemned her. The little viscount and baron dared to yell at her in the name of religion, and it would be against her to not let them learn a lesson. Her identity as a magician lord.

Some of the earls were dissatisfied with Bai Tongtong's attitude towards religion. They thought that even though she was a magician lord, it was necessary to maintain a good relationship with the Ni faction on the surface. Changing beliefs would cause panic among the people. A good lord should not It is what a good lord should do to let his people have any uneasiness and fear, and to ensure that they live step by step like their ancestors.

However, the nobles didn't all have the same attitude. Old acquaintances like Earl Ancus didn't say a word, and the Duke and Marquis who were further up even pretended not to hear the gossip, watching with cold eyes to see how Bai Tongtong would deal with it.

During the break between meetings, Bai Tongtong ran to Farrell's office.

"Farrell." After entering the door, Bai Tongtong walked up to the attic with a dark face.

"Long time no see. Dear Miss Countess, it seems that you have been doing well in the past six months." Farrell made it clear that he opened his eyes and said nonsense. Bai Tongtong got tanned a lot in the summer in order to supervise the various construction sites, and he looked dry. Baba is dark and thin and pitiful.

"Okay, your compliment sounds fake, don't waste your brain power praising me."

"Then I won't talk about it." Farrell changed to a more relaxed sitting position, "The Countess isn't in a meeting, so why come to see me?"

Bai Tongtong took out the list she had copied, and slapped it on Farrell's desk, "Report."

Farrell didn't look at the list at all, but instead glanced downstairs.

Bai Tongtong looked down, and Farrell's assistant just raised his head. The two looked at each other for a second, and the assistant immediately lowered his head to work seriously, while Bai Tongtong raised his hand and erected a barrier.

"Okay, don't play dumb with me, you must have heard what those nobles said." Bai Tongtong folded his arms and sat down on the corner of Farrell's table in a disfigured manner.

"With your fighting power, you don't talk back, just write down your name and complain to me. This kind of behavior is very childish, like a child."

"The quarrel is so unmannered, how can I still give others the opportunity to discredit me, the most I can do is eliminate them silently."

"Silently wiped out? As expected of the ruthless Earl Bai."

"Since you know that I am cruel and merciless, just do as I say, or you will be punished."

"You have said such terrible things, so how do you want to deal with these nobles?"

"Dig some of their black history, and hand it over to His Majesty to deprive them of their titles and territories, and replace them with honorary nobles, or take back state ownership and assign officials to manage them."

"Just to reprimand you and give them such a big revenge?"

"Stop pretending to me, you stare at Rebjanik every day, you know what they are doing now better than I do."

"The old king's body has almost recovered, and they are now busy sorting out their internal affairs and preparing for the construction of a new holy city."

"That's right, then let's take this opportunity to clean up our country's internal affairs, take back part of the power of the nobles in the territory, control the size of their private army, and strictly prevent small local churches from using the nobles' private army to do private work."

"Well, speaking of this, there was a similar incident recently."

"What did the church do with the noble private army?"

"Didn't the Ni faction hate the Menni faction and the Kai faction for robbing believers? There is a local church that beat a small group under the banner of the lord's private army for no reason, just to intimidate them. , to prevent some of them from switching to those two sects."

"That nobleman has no objection?"

"Members of the royal family are traditionally the godsons of the archbishop, so what do you say is the relationship between the nobles and the church in the territory?"

"Godfather and godson." Bai Tongtong didn't know what to think of, and smacked his lips.

"So knowing that this is wrong, there is no way to intervene."

"Well, this is all a headache for you, I can at most help you find a reason."

"What reason?"

"You know how I hired a bunch of new accountants and tellers?"

"know."

"They have only done one thing in the past six months, and they finally cleared up the damned accounts of the church."

Farrell immediately became interested, "Then?"

"You can launch an action to check the accounts of the church. The church is not allowed to check itself, but send the best tax collectors to check, preferably in a different place to check the accounts, so as to reduce the lobbying influence of the local nobles and gentry groups. They are really powerful, in the stone You can squeeze out half a bowl of oil."

"The church will definitely oppose it severely, and the lords and nobles who have been deeply entangled with the church will also protest, so let the church go, and launch a tax inspection against the nobles. The original motivation for them to collude with the church is to pay less. Tax."

"Then it seems that I should get the title of duke, and I don't miss a single copper coin in taxes."

"The duke's territory is a city, do you want to turn the entire city of Soller into your territory?"

Bai Tongtong rolled his eyes and smiled, "I don't think I can manage a city at that level, and I'm content with managing my small town."

"Just bear with it a little longer this month, and deal with them slowly."

Bai Tongtong slid down from the table, removed the barrier, touched the wall next to him and waved goodbye to Farrell, "I'd better go for a walk with the cat."

The magic light flashed, Bai Tongtong disappeared, and appeared in the atrium garden downstairs in a blink of an eye.

Ah Huang, who was lazily basking in the sun on the grass, got up, jumped into Bai Tongtong's arms, yelled NYA~NYA~ twice, rubbed his face with her, and let Bai Tongtong carry it into the elders' home and bring it to him. Nobles look.

Ah Huang, who was held in Bai Tongtong's hands with a cute face, was easily loved by these aristocrats. At this time, people would always temporarily forget its true identity, and anyone who saw it would want to tease it touch it.

Ah Huang kicked his legs, jumped off the ground, and circled around the nobles, with his tail raised high, and the soft tip of his tail deliberately rubbed against the palms and wrists of the men, making them tickle but couldn't grasp it.

In the end, Ah Huang hugged the leg of an aristocratic gentleman, scratched his trouser leg a few times with his sharp claws, and scratched the other person. Bai Tongtong immediately stepped forward to apologize, and hugged the cat away.

After a short break, the meeting continued. Ah Huang ran to find Farrell alone, spelled out words with the element, and told him that a viscount named Mallory was a suspect.It was deliberately acting cute just now to make the nobles relax. It used land hearing to detect everyone's emotional fluctuations. This viscount has the most violent fluctuations, but he is not afraid of animals, but the emotions that people with secrets in their hearts often have.

Farrell took out his black account book and flipped through it. He really found a piece of information that he had forgotten when he wrote it down. The Mallory family usually does not attract attention, but it has done the biggest thing. The thing is to dedicate the family territory to the local church, but as a manager, he has full power to manage all affairs of the territory, manage the people and manage the land production, but because it is the property of the church in name, the tax of one copper coin has been paid since then. None paid.

It is common for nobles to cooperate with the church to avoid paying taxes, but since they have the title of a territorial noble, they will always pay a little bit. Farrell remembered that the reason why he wrote down this news was because the Viscount Salier family was a One of the most overdone.

After stroking Ah Huang's head and commending its contribution, Farrell circled Viscount Mallory and wrote a report to His Majesty Ascombe IV.

Farrell wanted to clean up the nobles and help His Majesty gather some power. A small group of nobles were also preparing to move him. I don’t know if someone was instigating him behind the scenes. Anyway, they just wanted to squeeze him out of the position of chief clerk again. The onlookers are not very interested in the old-fashioned drama that will be staged once, but this time the opponents have come up with a very convincing reason.

Farrell is not an aristocrat, and he is the only one who is not an aristocrat among all the chief positions in the House of Elders, and he is not an official magician. According to the current law, civilians can at most be the chief deputy and cannot be promoted to the official chief official.

This matter was brought up jointly by several nobles during the annual meeting, and the onlookers got excited again. Many people were talking about whether this was done for Bai Tongtong. After all, people all over the country knew that the two were staunch allies.

Bai Tongtong was not very excited when she heard the news. She didn't even discuss it with Farrell. She intuitively thought that it would still end in a farce as before, and His Majesty Ascombe IV would definitely find a way to solve this matter satisfactorily.

But she reacted coldly, which does not mean that others are the same. Several old acquaintances including Earl Ancus immediately invited Bai Tongtong to a tea party to discuss the matter with her in a relaxed environment. What will happen.

"If there is a more capable clerk than him, I can change it." Sitting in a high-end restaurant, Bai Tongtong held a delicious biscuit in his right hand, with an indifferent attitude on his face, and stroked the little girl lying on his lap with his left hand. Ah Huang, the crow stands guard on the back of the chair.

"It doesn't affect you if you change him?" Earl Ancus asked on behalf of several old acquaintances present.

"There's nothing I can do if I have influence. The new chief clerk may not be willing to find me as an ally."

"The position of chief clerk is very important if you say it is important, and it is indeed inconspicuous if you say it is inconspicuous. Anyway, as long as it is the position of chief, it is the target of the struggle of all parties. Let a commoner sit in the position of chief clerk for several years , the opponents may still think that they are doing their best." Another earl said as he put down his teacup.

"All the chief candidates are appointed by His Majesty. It is very easy to replace Farrell, just convince His Majesty. Opponents have come up with legal provisions to talk about things. After so many years, they are finally smart. The next thing No matter how worried we are, we can't help." Bai Tongtong took a few sips of hot tea to help swallow the biscuits in his mouth.

"It's your allies who are going to be replaced. Are you really not in a hurry? Could it be...?"

"Don't guess, I don't know anything. Your Majesty has the initiative. He knows best whether Farrell has done well in the past few years. We have no way to make up your mind for His Majesty." relation.

"Speaking of the importance of the chief clerk, Farrell has done a lot of offending things in the past few years. He is the end point of all the documents and messages of the House of Elders. There is nothing he doesn't know. Just like His Majesty replaced the crown prince last year, That is, Farrell has done everything back and forth by himself, and this one thing is enough to offend all the nobles of the country."

"Isn't that right? Everyone has made preparations for the eldest prince's succession. The second prince was replaced overnight. This loss cannot be measured in terms of time and money."

Several nobles complained that everyone's loss was real, but the degree of loss was different.

"It's the same in the magic world. Everyone is living a good life. Who would have expected that the crown prince's life would be boring and leaking secrets." Bai Tongtong curled her lips and raised her hand to call the waiter to change the tea.

"Hey? Is there such a possibility? It's because the position of chief clerk is well-informed, and Farrell has been in it for several years. Are those who oppose him worried that he will be caught by him and want to make it clear before he takes it out?" Drive him away?" Bai Tongtong lifted the newly installed teapot with the breeze, and added a round of tea for everyone.

Ankus and the others immediately had a flash of inspiration and nodded, "It's very possible. It's threatening the safety of some people, so it makes sense to unite and drive him out of power."

"If this is the case, it's hard to say whether His Majesty will fulfill their wish. If Farrell is forced to reveal the evidence, then there will be excitement." The person sitting opposite Earl Ancus touched My big belly laughed.

"The chief clerk and a few nobles ended up fighting with each other. It's not a decent thing to say. I hope it's best to end it quietly like before." Bai Tongtong held up the teacup with a worried expression on his face. .

"That's true." Thinking of the noble face, the men all nodded in agreement.

Only two days after the opponents submitted the joint letter to His Majesty Askem IV, Farrell was called to the palace alone on the morning of the third day, and he returned to the Elder's House half an hour later. Along the way to his office, everyone in the corridor was surprised to see an extra badge on Farrell's left chest, which was a red star badge indicating his status as a lord.

A lord is the lowest level in the nobility hierarchy. Rich people can buy a lord status as long as they are willing to spend money, but the badge they get is a blue star, and the one awarded by His Majesty himself is a red star.

The House of Elders was blown up. I thought that Farrell might not be able to keep his position as chief clerk, but His Majesty's support for him was beyond everyone's expectations, and he referred Farrell to the noble class without saying a word. , although it is only a Lord, it complies with the law.

The nobles who closed the door for the meeting came out during the break and heard about it. Bai Tongtong immediately ran to Farrell's office with magic. He was receiving congratulations from his colleagues. In this room with an attic, upstairs The whole station downstairs was full of people, all kinds of compliments were endless.

(End of this chapter)