Chapter 61 explains the plot
The reason why the compensation is set at a high level is for the follow-up plot. The protagonist's target is not a baron. Currently, these people are the protagonist's competitors. What can be done later? The most lacking thing in the Northland Province is people, an existence that can rise in the Northland Province. For the protagonist, it is the biggest resource. How to conquer it is the most important. As for the opponent who is also a lord, so what. The protagonist's father and other lords have no noble lords, so why can't the protagonist have them.
From my setting, it can be seen that if Marquis Lehman does not care about things and does not want to do anything, then there will be a power vacuum in the Northland Province. Who is left to this? ? ? .
Furthermore, if the protagonist wins the ransom, of course the protagonist has the final say, so why does the other party still have to agree? ? So who won? ? ?
In addition, there is no moral high ground. It has been said many times that there is no order in the Northland Province and strength is king.
(End of this chapter)