Being a lord in another world begins with farming

Chapter 208 The Empire's Bon Appetit
"Curence's daughter? It's a little girl named Keira." Owen said slowly while controlling the quill pen to write something on the document while distractedly listening to Maya's report.

"It's that little girl who came to me today and wants to participate in military activities." Maya said with a sigh, which reminded her of when she was young, when she was just a preparatory maid, full of longing.

"Didn't you tell her what's going on in the military settlement?" Owen asked a little strangely, after all, that thing is not a serious military settlement.

"I said it, but she still insisted." Maya frowned and replied, after all, most of the military settlement plan was completed by her. She knew very well what it was for, and this was not suitable for a little girl to participate in.

"Forget it, 16 years old is already an adult. Now that I have made my choice, I will agree to her, but I will send a letter to Currence in private, so that he can relieve Keira at any time to prevent problems." Although a little girl It's not good to participate in this kind of thing, but Owen doesn't care. After all, this world is not the previous life, and even the world of the previous life is not where the younger generation of all countries can fully enjoy peace and education.

"If you perform well, you can try to cultivate it." After thinking for a while, Owen continued.

Maya nodded when she heard the words. She still has a good impression of Keira. Not every girl can persist in practicing swordsmanship all year round, and not every girl will not hesitate when faced with dangerous choices.

So if the performance satisfies her, it's not bad to focus on training her.

"Then, in your name, I will send you a set of silver-scale breastplates and fine muskets." Owen said casually, and then concentrated on processing the documents Maya brought.

Maya was very efficient. Before dinner, the temporary ID card and things were delivered to Kaila's home.

Keira was very excited when she got the identity card representing the temporary position. Even if it was only a third-level knight, it was already a good start for her.

And the silver scale breastplate is also good, it is made of Mithril steel, light in weight, very flexible, and not only bulletproof, but also can disperse the impact force to the whole body, very suitable for women to use.

The fine musket Silver Spur is a breech-loading rifle made of whole metal, equipped with a scope, the effective range is up to 500 meters, and it is four feet long. If the folding bayonet under the barrel is ejected, it can be used as a spear.

Kaila stopped eating, put on the silver scale breastplate, and went to the backyard to practice with a musket in hand.

Compared with Kayla's excitement, Katie as a mother is more worried, but she also knows that her daughter has been very assertive since she was a child, and this is her dream all along, so after a moment of hesitation, she finally chooses to help her pack her luggage , and then wrote a letter to her husband, which was all she could do.

Currence, who didn't know anything about it at this time, was busy strengthening the town's walls, because the situation was getting worse and worse.

As one of the transit points between the north and the south, Mala Town has always been well-informed. Currence is keenly aware that the current situation is about to deteriorate, so he not only reported the matter, but also actively responded to it.

The main reason for the deterioration of the situation is that the imperial frontier army has not closed the gap that was opened before, causing thousands of rioters to flood into the North every day, becoming the source of chaos.

The total population of the Northland is only small. According to this speed, the number of rioters who will flood in will exceed the local immigrant population in less than a month, and the order will be gone.

Under the tremendous pressure, those little nobles in the Northland who had always been lucky, neither willing to seek refuge, nor able to fight alone, could only choose to hold together to keep warm.

As a result, some loose alliances of minor nobles gradually emerged from the central part of the Northland. They did not want to lose their rights. Turning a blind eye to the coming danger, instead taking chances, trying to scare off the enemy by relying on the so-called alliance announced to the outside world.

It's a pity that their fate is already doomed. A group of people with ulterior motives huddle together to keep warm, and it's not bad if they don't stab a knife in the back.

Sure enough, as the rioters gradually spread in the north, these so-called alliances had no effect. Some people took the initiative to help their allies, and they were the first to die in the end.

As the news spread, everyone now knows that holding a group for warmth is a dead end, so they fought first, because annexation is the fastest way to become stronger.

Now the whole Northland is in chaos, and there is no hope of calming down in the short term.

And chaos always breeds evil. The evil organizations that had been operating secretly in the Northland were gradually released. Anyway, this is not an empire, so there is no need to worry about being blocked by the empire to check the water meter, so it is called a group of demons dancing wildly.

After receiving these news, Owen couldn't figure out what the empire was thinking, because this would only turn the Northland into a chaotic and sinful place, and even a hidden danger that threatened the empire, rather than a place that could generate benefits.

But after thinking about it for a while, Maya understood, and explained it to Owen with a sigh.

In their previous vision, the empire would send some of the rioters to the Northland, and then close the mouth and wait for the Northland to digest it. In this way, it only takes five to ten years for the Northland to be initially mature and able to generate benefits, and the Hydera family can also borrow This has grown.

But they underestimated the appetite of the empire. Compared with the slow step-by-step cultivation, the upper echelons of the empire intend to eat as much as they want.

The process is very simple. Try to drive the chaos in the empire to the Northland as much as possible. In this way, there will probably be hundreds of thousands of people who survive to the Northland, which will greatly supplement the lack of population in the Northland.

Although this will break the original order of the Northland, as long as the empire intervenes, it will not be difficult to quell all this. Even if the empire's frontier troops are dispatched, everything will be calm in a short period of time. By then, the population of the Northland will at least double. Time, you can pick up the knife and fork to divide the cake.

To put it bluntly, the title of noble in the Northland promised by the empire is a joke, and the Pioneering Group is bait, all of which are deceitful, and there is no need to worry about reputation, because the hundreds of thousands of rioters who poured in will destroy everything, and no one will remember it.

Owen spoke fresh grass, greeted the high-level of the empire cordially, and even prepared to let his former devil shikigami go to hell to order super packages for these bastards.

Originally, Owen was only worried about the impact of the arrival of the Second Northern Exploration Group on the territory. Later, with his strength, he had enough confidence to deal with it, so he no longer worried, but now he directly replaced it with the Empire, what kind of confidence? Naturally, it didn't exist, so he started to feel anxious again, and a pot of coffee would be half gone.

Maya, who saw that Owen was in a bad mood, began to help him analyze it further, because the situation was not as bad as imagined.

If the only one who intends to intervene in the Northland is the Empire, then they can sleep for nothing, or Owen will take the initiative to find a nobleman to be his son-in-law for nothing.

The problem is that the empire is not a family, but a huge mixture of the royal family, nobles, extraordinary, religions, etc., so under the circumstances of mutual entanglement and checks and balances, they would rather the Northland completely rot than allow a family to eat alone.

In this way, the opportunity came, and Owen could fish in troubled waters. While quietly developing himself, he could choose one of them as an ally, and complete the original plan of developing himself inward and finding allies outward. , Completely gain a firm foothold in the empire.

It's easy to say, but it's very difficult to implement, and the territory must develop strong enough in a short period of time, otherwise no one will listen to the conditions.

(End of this chapter)