Throne of the North

After hearing Ryan's answer, Brack's face turned gloomy.

Indeed, he came here specifically because of Ryan's frozen land territory.

As long as he surrendered to Ryan, he could give the young man a sum of money every year. He could also use the other party's name to continue to control his territory. One is in the northernmost part, and the other is in the wealthy Yinchuan County. Can't he, who has been playing in the North Wind Province for more than ten years, control a little kid?

As for the fall of the fifth-class noble, which would cause the lord to lose his noble status, Brack was not worried about this. He had his own news channels.

Ryan came from the Earl of Clayton's family, and recently the earl had sent all the things that originally belonged to the baron after returning to the empire. It can be seen that the relationship between Ryan and Clayton is not as tense as rumored.

Then with the support of the Earl of Clayton's family, it would be difficult for the empire to erase the identity of Baron Ryan, even after Ryan's death.

In that way, he could become a lord with peace of mind, and then plan to become a fifth-class noble little by little.

In his heart, Brack didn't think that the lord was a noble at all. In his opinion, it was just a fig leaf for the empire and the southern nobles.

He had to become a baron to keep his family's wealth.

But who would have thought that a little brat would refuse his territory that could bring him tens of thousands of gold coins every year.

Thinking of this, Brack was a little angry, because there was no baron more suitable for him to rely on than Ryan.

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In the next few days, before Earl Laxsu and a group of flattering pioneer nobles returned, the noble mansions in Beifeng City were almost trampled.

The two barons Ryan and Hatton were very idle.

He didn't come to rely on Ryan, but his heart was very calm. He didn't look down on these pioneer knights.

No one relied on Hatton, and the lord of Shenma Territory was very sad these days.

If the frozen land territory is the poorest and most miserable place in Beifeng Province, then Baron Hatton, who is closest to the frozen land territory, is not in the top five or the top ten.

"That kid Watt actually surrendered to Roche!"

Baron Hatton was still upset about this. His rough plan to deal with Knight Watt might become extremely troublesome because of the existence of Baron Roche.

Ten days later.

Earl Laxul, who had symbolically walked around outside and was actually waiting for the pioneering nobles to raise money, returned to Beifeng City.

As the barons and lords of Beifeng Province were gradually determined, the list would also return to the imperial capital with Earl Laxul.

So far, Beifeng Province has three earls, nine viscounts, and more than fifty barons, reaching fifty-five. As for pioneering knights, there are even more, a full one hundred and ten.

"Nearly twenty pioneering nobles have all become barons..."

Ryan was a little surprised. He was sure that a considerable number of those pioneering nobles must not be qualified to be classified as barons.

For example, Viscount Miles' second son, March Miles, the pioneer noble who lost his territory, was recognized by Earl Laxsu as a baron without any territory.

I don't know how many gold coins Viscount Miles paid in this process to get such a result.

Ryan was even more curious. In just ten days, how many promises and wealth did this Earl Laxsu get from those pioneer nobles.

I'm afraid he emptied them all?

The empire actually gave Earl Laxsu such great power. It seems that it is really ready to give up the North Wind Province.

Different people who know the result have different thoughts. Earl Weiss saw the answer that made him extremely excited through this incident.

If the empire was not ready to give up the North Wind Province, how could it allow Earl Laxsu to do such a mess? Moreover, he also heard that this Earl Laxsu had a close relationship with the royal family. I'm afraid that at least half of the wealth would fall into the hands of the royal family.

The North Wind Province sent away Earl Laxul, the envoy of the Empire, but afterwards, not many nobles in North Wind City still had smiles on their faces.

"Let's talk about it. How should we divide the 1.5 million gold coins every year?"

Earl Winter's voice echoed in the hall, but no one responded.

When the 1 million imperial construction funds were divided before, everyone was very enthusiastic, but now they were asked to take out 1.5 million gold coins.

No one was willing.

"Since no one is talking, I, as the governor, will take the lead. Earl Winter will take out 50,000 gold coins every year, and North Wind City will also add 150,000 taxes."

As the largest city in North Wind Province, North Wind City has a vast population within its radiation range. The civilians inside and outside the city are also the best in the entire province. The annual 150,000 gold coin tax is definitely not all.

But the Earl only took out 50,000 gold coins, which means that Earl Winter is only willing to be responsible for 200,000 of the 1.5 million gold coins, and even includes the taxes of the original North Wind City of the Empire.

After Earl Winter finished speaking, the remaining two earls also spoke up. The 50,000 gold coins of an earldom plus the 100,000 gold coins of a county, the two together only had 300,000.

1.5 million gold coins in tax revenue, and a gap of 1 million left, all of which had to be distributed among the 64 fifth-class nobles below?

Three counties belonged to three earls, and the remaining four counties shared 1 million equally?

"Governor, isn't this ratio a bit too outrageous?"

Viscount Hogg stood up. He was not the one who cared the most about this matter. After all, Yinchuan County was rich and had silver mines. However, he represented more than just himself. Moreover, if he could pay less, his family would earn more. How could he stand on the side of the three earls?

This was a process of wrangling. As Viscount Hogg stood up, Viscount Landa also spoke up:

"Hanshan County was ravaged by orcs, and all the wealth was gone. It was impossible to afford a tax of 250,000 gold coins."

He stared at the three earls. Hanshan County could not afford the tax. It was even difficult to come up with 100,000 gold coins this year. It was the place where the orcs invaded the most.

And according to this ratio, wouldn't each baron's territory have to bear a tax of 10,000 to 20,000 gold coins?

So, some barons also spoke up.

"The wealth that can be produced in my territory every year is only two or three thousand gold coins. You all have mines, but I can only farm. Taxation is absolutely impossible."

This is also the reason why Ryan stayed here.

"You all know what the Frozen Territory is like, right? I can only take out 500 gold coins every year."

The nobles of Lingdu County united at this moment, saying that their territories were in ruins and it was impossible for them to pay so many gold coins to the empire as taxes.