Lord of War

  The Boulder family can also be regarded as a relatively famous big family in the Kingdom of Darbion.

  As the Boulder family that started as a businessman, it is most famous for political investment. This family has a very keen political tendency. No matter what happens in the kingdom, this family can get great benefits from it. Even when Dabion died, this family was just a few insignificant side branches. All the territories have been surrendered, but their own strength has not weakened. Even the Marquis of Strength of the Principality of Lane has four more marquis of strength named Boulder.

  And this guy who seems to be similar to himself is actually from the Boulder family?

  When did the Boulders become knights instead of being political investors?

  But soon, Sean realized something again, and suddenly said, "This is Baron Modge?"

"Yes." Without waiting for Cassius to reply, the young man nodded sadly, "I am Baron Maudger, Elsie Boulder.... I am very sorry to have caused you to encounter such a thing. All this is my fault. Anyway, please give me a chance to make up."

"Uh, it's not your fault alone." Sean's facial muscles twitched a few times. He really hadn't seen a lord, or a nobleman would be so humble. In his impression, he could have a territory. People, even if they are not a noble knight, are basically the same as the peacocks on the screen, not to mention that the baron can already be officially counted as the noble class—although it is only the lowest level.

   "Uncle Hand, he was not like this before." The young baron Elsie sighed softly, "Maybe there is a reason."

  Of course, Sean couldn’t talk about it.

   "Uncle Cassius, do you know who else is in Uncle Hand's house?" the young Baron Elsie asked.

"I heard that there was a wife, but she had divorced many years ago. Later, she seemed to take her son to the Millennium Covenant Empire." Cassius thought about it for a moment, and then replied, "If the adults need it, I can leave and investigate immediately. ."

   "Go and investigate." Baron Elsie said.

   "Yes." Cassius nodded, but then said again, "But my lord, if I leave you..."

   "It's okay." Baron Elsie smiled, "I will go back to the manor right away, and with this Lord Sean, safety should be guaranteed."

   "Ah, no, I just..."

   Before Sean’s words were finished, Cassius had already walked up, holding on to Sean’s face with a sincere expression, and said, "Your Excellency Sean, Lord Lord, please! Please protect him!"

   "No, I mean..."

   Cassius is just like him, silent and capable. As soon as I finished saying this, I flipped my hand and turned on my horse. With a flick of the rein, he ran in the direction chased by the Earth Dragon. I didn’t know where I was going, leaving only Sean and Al. The two of them were here with big eyes and small eyes, and they didn't know what to say.

  After a while, Elsie still said, "Your Excellency Shaun, I will trouble you next."

   After all, Elsie has also turned on his horse. His movements are indeed extremely fluent, which also shows that his riding skills are indeed more exquisite than Sean. After getting on the horse, Elsie was already riding a horse. When she turned around, she realized that Sean was still in place, so she greeted: "Your Excellency Sean, what are you doing in a daze? The town of Blackstone is in front, we have to rush. Arrived there before dark."

  Looking at Elsie’s familiar face, and the look of Cassius’s solemn expression just now as if he was entrusting funeral, Sean’s face collapsed. He just came to Blackstone Town to buy some black steel stones to build a castle, and by the way, he went to play a few lower-level dungeons and mixed some experience points. How could it become that he was going to protect this baron in an instant?

  And from the looks of it, this matter seems to be a bit dangerous.

  Wait, the development of the plot shouldn’t be like this! -Xiao En's heart is roaring frantically, like thousands of horses running past.

  But in the end, Sean still went on the road to Blackstone Town with Elsie.

  Of course, along the way, Sean kept his dissatisfaction with Elsie's familiar character in a certain silence.

  At most, when Elsie said something that made him want to complain, Sean would sneer or sneer. However, as Elsie began to talk about the situation in his territory, Sean finally couldn't help shed tears of sympathy for him-he always thought that the situation in his territory was already very bad, and it was only at this moment that he finally realized that he was still alive. Fortunately.

   "Thank the gods for letting me meet Elsie." Sean said silently in his heart.

  In fact, Sean doubted whether the young baron Elsie Bould had offended anyone in the family. Because he was a baron, but the land he inherited was not a standard-sized baronial collar, but a territory that was only slightly larger than a normal jazz collar—only a small town, a small village, and a mini-collar. manor.

  According to normal circumstances, if a baron inherits a relatively small territory, there will inevitably be some rich materials in the territory to make up for it. But in fact, this Modge collar is not only very small, but the land is also relatively barren.

  Except for some limited places, most of the land is not suitable for growing crops. And this limited place is all concentrated in the mini manor where Elsie lives-the entire manor covers an area of ​​less than ten acres, and most of the manor is planted with various fruit trees. The building as the main building is not even a stone building, but a four-story wooden building. According to noble rules, no other houses in the manor could be higher than the main building, so scattered and scattered among the other three-story houses in the manor, the remaining area in the manor was occupied.

  And such a manor can only live in the 20th and 30th people at most.

As for the other small village, it is really small. There are only less than 20 households in the whole village, with a total of only 60 or 70 people-larger than the manor house where the nobleman like Elsie lived. It was done by humans. Matter? And because the village is too poor, Elsie has completely exempted all taxes from the village. If it weren’t for a prosperous Blackstone town to support his income from his territory, Elsie would probably become the Boulder family. The first nobleman to go bankrupt due to poor management?

  However, Blackstone Town is said to be prosperous. It is also because the entire town relies on the black steel stone business to earn business, but most of the income is used to buy food to maintain the town’s rations.

  And the most outrageous thing is that the stone factory that can produce black steel stone is actually not a product under the name of Elsie!

   "Is the owner of the stone factory a great beauty?" Xiao En finally couldn't help but spit out instead of snort or sneer.

   "No, it's a middle-aged man." Elsie said, "He is as thin as a monkey. I always think he must be malnourished."

  "Is that middle-aged man your lover?" This kind of thing is not surprising, and many nobles like it.

   "How is it possible!" Elsie looked shocked, "The person I like is the youngest daughter of the Duke of Cetheros, I am preparing to..."

   About Elsie’s words, Sean doesn’t need to listen. Because he remembered correctly, the Duke of Darbion, who advocated peace with Asuna, would die in the hands of his political opponents in a year. He didn’t know exactly what happened, but the only thing What I know is that after the death of the duke, all the children of his family were demoted to slaves, and all the property was divided up.

  "Then what do you have is that the factory manager controls you?" Sean couldn't help but finally interrupted Elsie's words.

"nor."

  "Then is there a huge pit in your head!" Sean finally couldn't bear it. "This stone factory is not yours. Why do you have to pay for it?"

  Black Reef Grassland originally belonged to the territory of Viscount Shaofu. Later, after the death of Viscount Shaofu, this territory now belongs to Asuna, so the right to extract the territory naturally belongs to Asuna. If Blackrock Town wants to continue to mine the black reef stubborn stone to make black steel stone, it must pay the mining fee to Asuna to obtain the mining rights, otherwise Asuna has the right to send troops to expel or even kill on the spot.

  It’s just that Sean didn’t expect that the excavation rights and fees were paid by a fool like Elsie.

  If it is said that the stone factory belongs to Elsie, then it is a different matter, but this stone factory does not belong to Elsie, so why does he need to pay for the stone factory? Sean's only thought was that there must be some ulterior secret between the two, but Elsie denied it, so Sean could only say that Elsie was definitely an idiot.

  How can aristocrats manage territories like this?

   "But this stone factory belongs to the Boulder family." Elsie frowned, and then said, "Then if I pay for my family business, isn't it normal?"

  "Then, do you have any shares in this family business?"

   "Shares? What is that?"

  "It means, do you have any dividends?" Sean really couldn't stand it anymore. "Did you get the profit of gold coins from every order transaction in this stone factory?"

   "It seems...no..." Elsie thought for a while, and then said, "The factory manager said that business has been really bad recently, and no one has come to place orders..."

   "Business is not good?" Sean sneered, "Did you learn the chivalry spirit and your brains have been ruined?"

   "Hey! I'm angry when you say that!"

  The two rushed to Blackstone Town while arguing, and finally arrived at the gate of Blackstone Town in the evening.