Chapter 164

"Baron Matthew leads an area of 4000 square kilometers. There are 17 villages, 6 manors and two towns, Jinxi town and Sandor Town, with a total population of about 9000, including more than 4000 free people. However, most of the free people led by Baron Matthew are not refugees, but the descendants of vassal and collar people. They are very loyal to the territory and can be armed into militias at any time."

"Baron Matthew usually lives in Sandor castle and has six Knights under his command, five of whom are descendants of Knights enfeoffed by Baron Matthew's family over the years. At present, there are only one knight and 15 trainee knights in these five Lord families. Coupled with Baron Matthew's son Lord James, Baron Matthew has two Knights and 15 trainee knights. Baron Matthew has more than 200 full-time guards and 50 elite knights Rui Qinwei, 30 light cavalry, and 3000 militia can be mobilized. Among the barons of the Buryat family, Baron Matthew is very powerful. "

"Baron Matthew himself is an ordinary nobleman, but he is generous and modest, which is deeply loved by the people. The Baron has a son and a daughter. His son is knight James, and his daughter Judy is a famous beauty. When he was 16 years old, he was favored by Baron Buryat and became Baroness. Jinxi town is the bride price given to Baron Matthew by Baron Buryat, and Baron also gave Baron Matthew many excellent gifts Equipment.

In addition to his children, Baron Matthew has three sisters and a brother. One of his sisters married a Silver Knight of the Marquis SoLIM's family, while the Baron's brother is a knight of the SoLIM family and has the status of a Lord. "

Barol looked in awe at victor who was playing with the wind element, and then stood there respectfully waiting for his master's inquiry.

There is a blue air flow around the hanging wall of Victor's index finger. The wind was originally colorless and showed blue, which is the manifestation of the element of void wind. The blue wind element turned faster and faster at his fingertips and sent out bursts of sobs. Victor felt that the tyrannical wind element was unwilling to continue winding. He bent his fingers and flicked. The wind element turned into a small ring and shot directly at the iron puppet target 5 meters away. "Bang", the iron puppet made of refined iron shook back, and there was an air flow at the place hit by the wind element, and there was a sound like tearing silk in the room.

Observing that there was no damage where the fine iron puppet was hit, Victor shook his head helplessly. This blow is enough to kill ordinary people without armor, but it is still far from the green moon described by the sword Saint delavin. However, Victor can show the elements of void wind. After all, he has only been practicing green combat skills for a few months. Victor cleaned up his mood and said with a smile to Barol: "I can't imagine that mercury can find so much information in such a short time. I'm still quite satisfied."

"Sir, these are just the most basic information. You can get it by asking. It's really nothing." Barol replied with disapproval.

Victor's eyes lit up and asked, "Oh, do you have anything else to add?"

Barrow nodded: "Sir, according to the message from mercury, it can be found that there are still many problems in Baron Matthew's family. After the death of viscount Buryat, Baron Matthew not only lost his biggest backer, but also faced the pressure of Baron's brother Lord Austin. This can be seen from the Baron's forced collection of offerings. Baron Matthew is a kind Lord and still insists on collecting after the disaster Obviously, he is under great pressure, which also shows that lady Judy has no ability to influence the decision of the Buryat family, because Lord Austin has been promoted to a great knight. "

Victor frowned and said, "I want to hear your opinion and speak boldly!"

"Yes." Barrow gave Victor a detailed account of his analysis.

It turned out that when the ant people invaded the territory of Buryat, viscount Buryat and his wife and children were returning to Yeliu city from Liujin town. After the two sides met, in order to protect his wife and children, viscount led the pro guards to lead away the ant colony, while the urban defense officer of Jinxi town organized more than 600 militias to support Viscount Buryat. Instead of saving Viscount Buryat, he even 600 young and strong people The militia were not spared.

After the ant disaster ended, the families of these killed militia went to Baron Matthew to cry and ask for a pension and exemption from several years of sacrifice. Although Baron Matthew was a kind Lord, it was still difficult to take out tens of thousands of gold sol's pension, so he asked yeliucheng for help. But what Baron Matthew didn't expect was that yeliucheng not only refused his help, but also asked him to ask yeliucheng for help Liucheng transports food. Because Lord Austin is now the master of the Buryat family, and Lady Judy and her son are in danger.

"Baron Matthew can't let Austin find an excuse to attack lady Judy and her son. Therefore, the Baron not only didn't compensate the orphans and widowed mothers, but also forcibly collected food. This is tantamount to abandoning the families of the dead militia. In fact, most of the people who were driven out to collect food are abandoned children. It's funny that knight James can't understand Baron Matthew at all He thought his father was a cowardly good man. "

After barrol finished, Victor couldn't help sighing that kindness was a proper luxury for a creature like the Lord. It was supposed to pay for the dead militia, but Baron Matthew resolutely abandoned the families of those militia when his daughter and family were in trouble.

Victor could also think of how Baron Matthew operated with his knees. He first wrote a white note to the families, and then asked the village heads of various villages to hand in food. There was no need to worry about the rest. Families that have lost their pillars must be driven away by other families, because everyone has many free people's relatives. Only by driving away the orphans and widows can their relatives obtain the status of leading the people. Baron Matthew can kill three birds with one stone as long as he sits and watches his achievements. He doesn't need to pay a huge pension, hand over food to the family to support his daughter, alleviate the population pressure in the territory and the contradiction between the old and the new, and won't damage his reputation at all. The only victims are those poor old and weak women and children.

"Baron Matthew can't afford to pay tens of thousands of kinsol's pension. I'm afraid there's no money. Barol, how much ransom do you think he'll send?" Victor asked with a smile.

Barol said, "Sir, if I'm right, Baron Matthew will not only send a huge ransom, but also come in person."

"Ha ha, I don't want to get involved in the muddy water of the Buryat family. If he wants to buy me to get in touch with the York family, he's wrong. However, if he dares to give me, he dares to take it. He can just give you mercury as money." Victor laughed.

While talking, Lilia in a white dress knocked on the open door a few times and smiled sweetly at Victor again.

"Victor, Baron Matthew's car is coming towards Hekou village."

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Victor met Baron Matthew at his manor.

Baron Matthew was in his forties. He wore a blue dress outside his white fine linen shirt and a simple gem Brooch at the collar. This was a very formal dress, but the Baron's face was tired and haggard. I didn't know whether it was due to tiredness on the journey, worry about family affairs, or both.

Compared with Baron Matthew's formal dress, Victor only wore a regular dress with narrow sleeves and round neck, which was naturally casual, but showed a very impolite indifference. Victor was also aware of this. He smiled and said, "Baron Matthew, I didn't expect you to come in person instead of sending messengers first."

Matthew was still a little dissatisfied and embarrassed when he heard about it. When the two families negotiate the ransom and compensation plan, they often send envoys to negotiate first. Few lords negotiate face-to-face at the beginning. Baron Matthew's appearance in person is almost servile, so you can't blame yourself for being ignored. However, Baron Matthew is not only here to redeem his heir, but also wants to have a good relationship with his neighbors to protect himself.

"Lord Randall, I apologize for James' reckless behavior. As usual, I am willing to pay you a ransom to compensate you for your loss."

Baron Matthew's attendants put a wooden box on the table. There were twenty purple gold coins in it. Each purple gold coin could be exchanged for 1000 gold sols at the Gambis royal house of interior affairs. Twenty purple gold coins were equivalent to 20000 gold sols. The money was a huge sum for most barons and exceeded the knight ransom between lords of Gambis. Victor certainly won't have too much money. His intelligence organization and his own civil and commercial association need a lot of start-up funds.

"Baron Matthew, you can take Lord James away. I assure you that Lord James has received his due treatment. In fact, he is very satisfied with my food."

Baron Matthew smiled and said, "thank you very much. You must already know that we are so short of food that my people go out to look for food."

The two lords started a chat mode on the food problem. In the chat, Victor learned that although the Buryat family had many good fields, their food reserves had been insufficient because their population was up to 50000. For a long time, gathering and hunting have been important means for them to supplement food, but this ant disaster has caused a lack of food harvest. The resources of traditional hunting grounds are not enough to make up for the food gap, so the problem of refugees will appear. Baron Matthew said he would try his best to restrain the people under his rule from migrating to Randall, but Victor said with a smile.

"Baron Matthew, although I am short of food here, I hope to provide help to the weak women and children within my ability, but there are fierce wolves in the forest, and no one guides them. They may die of wolf kiss. Therefore, I plan to establish a post outside the forest to provide warning and help to the people."

Baron Matthew's face suddenly became very wonderful. He had heard that Victor planned to take in the driven old and weak women and children. Why did Matthew's incomprehensible Victor do this? As far as he knows, the York family is worse than the Buryat family. A few days ago, they had friction with the Xunlong knights for food. Is the young Lord purely out of kindness? However, Victor was willing to take the burden, and Baron Matthew was happy to see his success. He praised: "your Viscount is so kind!"

Victor smiled and nodded. The tacit understanding between the two sides was reached. Baron Matthew would secretly instruct his men to send the families of the militia near the post, and Victor's people would take over.

Victor, who has an alchemy militia, does not lack strong labor at all. What he needs now is a stable and loyal people. There are hundreds of singles in Hekou village. These women and children can just form a family with them, which helps to improve people's dependence and identity on the territory. Victor doesn't want the people he trained to be easily poached by other forces.

Of course, Victor's acceptable population is also very limited. Considering that the food intake of women and children is lower than that of adult men, 1500 women and children are acceptable to victor. Setting up outposts can not only control the number of people flowing in, but also exclude those who are disabled, old, stupid, well, and ugly. In short, people with relatively high quality can be selected to join Randall collar. Victor was convinced that with the cooperation of Baron Matthew, the population movement was completely controllable. Because no one came forward to organize, the people did not dare to cross the territory of the fierce wolf.

Seeing victor in a good mood, Baron Matthew said at the right time: "by the way, I heard that Lord Nelson's weapon was cut off. I specially brought a piece of fine gold and asked the Viscount to hand it over to Lord Nelson to thank him for his mercy in the duel."

The monkey militia took down a half pound of refined gold. Victor was in a good mood. He smiled and said, "I thank the Baron for Nelson's generosity."

"It's not generous." Baron Matthew waved his hand and said, "compared with pure gold that can't eat or drink, it's really generous for the Viscount to take out valuable food to relieve those free people! I also have a gift for you."

Baron Matthew gave money and refined gold, and took a bite from the left and a bite from the right. This almost humble attitude made Victor realize what it means to eat people with short mouth and short hands. But when the fiery red crystal in the wooden box was exposed, Victor couldn't care about it and was embarrassed.

"What is this?"

"This is the flame crystal. It is not only a rare gem, but also the favorite element crystal of the flame knight." Baron Matthew replied.

Victor suddenly understood that this was Baron Matthew's mace to win over himself. He thought he would use this crystal to please Sylvia. However, Victor suspected that this was the red crystal in busso's mouth. Just in front of Matthew, Victor couldn't find the nearby alchemy militia to verify.

"Baron, how did you get this crystal?"

Victor's eagerness made Matthew feel at ease. He sighed: "Flame crystal is very rare. This crystal was given to me by Viscount Buryat. Unfortunately, the Viscount died in the ant tide in order to protect his wife and children. There is no lord of the Buryat family to participate in the hunting event organized by his majesty Catherine. However, the younger brother of viscount Buryat, Lord Austin, received the Royal invitation. Alas! No wonder Lord Austin was early She was obedient to her majesty before the ant tide. It is said that her majesty promised to give Lord Austin a baron collar, and Austin also carried out a certain order of the queen. "

Victor's pupils contracted and said faintly, "really?"