"Even if their family's strength increases greatly, there is no need to offend me like this, right? I just want to buy some extraordinary materials from them. It doesn't matter who I sell these things to. It's not like I won't pay!" Feng Willow was also curious. After all, he was a powerful duke.
Is the other party crazy? He offended him for no reason. We are all nobles, and we will definitely not do anything that is not beneficial.
Even if there were fools among the nobles, they would not have survived until now. The world is not peaceful now. Especially the Viking Empire, which has been in war for the past few years. The nobles who could not see the situation clearly had already been cleared out.
It is true that the aristocracy is corrupt and degenerate, but there are really no fools, because this world has never been peaceful.
Even during the peace period of the four empires, there were always many fights between nobles. For example, if Feng Weiluo's strength had not increased rapidly, the Feng Weiluo family would have been annexed by now.
The nobles seem to be in harmony with each other, but in fact, it is a case of the survival of the fittest. It’s just that they have their own rules, and their fights rarely happen openly.
Nobles who were not strong enough either died in attacks by bandits, at the hands of monsters, or assassinated by their own people. It must be said that the nobles died in a variety of ways, which greatly enriched the death samples of this world.
Without sufficient strength, it is not easy for a noble to maintain his position and territory. Therefore, every noble with a long history is terrifying.
Although the Heather family is not a great noble family, their family occupies an important source of extraordinary resources, and the benefits they gain are considerable. The fact that they can maintain their benefits is enough to show that their family has some strength.
"Your Excellency the Duke, this is not something we can find out." The butler said expressionlessly.
Feng Willow nodded. After all, he was a newly-appointed butler and did not have any intelligence network. For him to know that Heather's family had contact with the Cyclops tribe was based on his previous connections.
"Okay, I got it." Feng Willow waved his hand and said. The housekeeper left the room silently.
Soon, the news that Von Willow wanted to purchase large quantities of extraordinary materials spread, and the news that the Heather family did not give face to Duke Von Willow also spread.
News spread quickly among the nobles. Feng Willow waited for three days, but found that there was no news from the nobles who had said they would go back to discuss the matter.
Obviously, the other party was either preparing to wait and see, or had received some news and was preparing to completely isolate the foreign Grand Duke von Willow.
Obviously, this was the aftereffect of him not giving the noble council face and directly launching a war. The reason why those baron families that occupied important resources were able to safely occupy the territories with such important resources was because they had the support of the great nobles behind them. At least in the noble council, they had inextricable connections with many nobles.
"Professor, I heard that your purchase of extraordinary materials was collectively boycotted by the nobles?" Saiya asked Feng Willow after returning to the Duke's Mansion.
Recently, Saiyan has been helping the emperor deal with land reform. This matter can be said to be full of resistance, but fortunately, there is the support of the great nobles, and now it is obvious that the income from opening a steam factory is far greater than the income that can be obtained from ordinary land.
Under the strong push from top to bottom in the Viking Empire, it is being slowly implemented. However, there are many problems involved, which need to be solved bit by bit. Although Saiya has experience, her experience in the New World and the three frontier counties is different from other places in the Viking Empire.
After all, there were no big landlords in the New World, and the landlords in the three frontier counties were all cleared out by Von Willow in the name of Korg's accomplices, so there was no resistance to the use of it. It was completely different from other places in the Viking Empire.
"Aren't you busy with land reform? How come even you are alarmed by this incident?" Feng Willow patted his side and motioned Saiyan to sit over.
Saiya sat down next to Feng Willow very obediently and rested his head on his shoulder: "There is nothing wrong with the land reform policy, the problem lies in the implementation. Most of those landlords have inextricable ties with the nobles and officials.
The officials are all shirking their responsibilities. The policy is being implemented too slowly. In my opinion, we should just issue a death order, dismiss the officials who fail to do the job, and kill the landlords who dare to stop us. Then there won’t be so many troubles in the future.”
Saiya has been with Feng Willow for a long time, and has developed a decisive and murderous temper.
Feng Willow nodded in agreement. He also felt that Kenlohag was a little indecisive. But he could understand it. After all, most of the sequencers were nobles, and a few of them came from wealthy families such as big merchants and big landowners. If they offended these people, I'm afraid the empire's sequencer troops would collapse.
Unlike Feng Willow, who relied on his own strength to dominate the area without any scruples, the great power belonged to himself, so he could naturally say what he meant, and although Kenlohag's strength was not weak, he was not able to conquer the whole country by himself, so he could not offend too many people at once.
"They don't provide you with extraordinary resources in order to fight back. For the sake of the noble council's face, they naturally have to publicize it. Including the Heather family suddenly came into contact with a tribe of cyclops. There are people behind this.
Their goal is to isolate us. They will no longer trade with us for the various training resources you need and the resources needed for territory development. They will no longer buy my things, including the output of our steam factory, which should not be sold in the Viking Empire. "Saya said to Feng Willow.
"What is this? Non-violent non-cooperation?" Feng Willow laughed. He really didn't care about such disgusting means. If the Viking Empire didn't want to do business with him, he could still do business with the Anerfa Empire. He could even trade with the cults and underground races in the dark region.
It is simply a dream to want to punish him in this way.
"Professor, you really can't underestimate them this time. The Noble Council is discussing tariffs. They plan to impose heavy taxes on imported goods and prohibit the export of grain.
Because we have shown them the results of the territory's land reform before, and now the Council of Nobles knows that we have more food in our territory than can be eaten, and we have many large granaries.
Once our food exports are restricted, and our purchase of various goods from abroad is restricted, we will lose a large amount of money and various extraordinary resources. If these are also restricted, then the training of Sequencers in our territory and the improvement of their strength will be restricted.
This is their conspiracy. And it is obvious that if we disagree, it means we are ignoring the laws of the empire, and they will have a reason to remove your noble title on the grounds of violating the laws of the country. Let us stand against the entire Viking Empire.
No matter how powerful you are, once you go up against the entire Viking Empire, I'm afraid you won't get any benefit. His Majesty the Emperor is unwilling to use the Empire's resources to deal with us, but those nobles are looking forward to us fighting the Empire." Saiya said to Feng Willow with a serious face.
After listening to Saiya's analysis, Feng Willow's face also became serious. He really didn't think so much. These nobles were really like toads on the feet, not biting anyone but responding to others.
Feng Weiluo has a copper book space that can transport various materials on a large scale without any restrictions, but this kind of thing is really disgusting.
As the powerful party, Feng Willow's first thought was to use brute force to crack the enemy. But then he remembered that he was now the national teacher of the Viking Empire. Once a large-scale war broke out, regardless of winning or losing, the national strength of the Viking Empire would decline rapidly.
If the empire were to perish because of this, wouldn't he also be doomed along with it?
The fall of an empire does not necessarily mean the complete loss of its territory, but even if it is torn apart, it is still called the fall of a country.
After Saiya's analysis, Feng Willow could now understand why a heroic figure like Kenlohag would become timid after becoming emperor.
It was really because these nobles united and hindered us too much. They smiled on the surface but stabbed us in the back.
"I'm not afraid of anything else, but these extraordinary resources are the key to my next plan. What do you think we should do to break the impasse?" Feng Willow asked Saiya.
"If you ask me, this is not our territory's business. After all, it's the empire's business. Since it's difficult for us to solve it, let the emperor deal with it." Saiya suggested.
Feng Willow thought about it and felt that Kenlohag might not agree with his plan. His own estimate was much smaller than Kenlohag's. Wasn't he helpless now?
Although Kenlohag was the emperor, in fact, he was not as powerful as Feng Willow. The power in the hands of this emperor was really not as great as Feng Willow.
When Sai Ya saw Feng Willow shaking his head, he suggested, "Professor, the Death Cult still owes us a batch of goods. Because we are in a hurry to return to the Empire, the Death Cult has not yet given us the Minotaur slaves that they promised us.
Since the Underdark also has the resources you need, why not let the Death Cult exchange slaves for extraordinary resources for us? As for the other gaps, we can just purchase a batch from the New World and the Anerfa Empire.
These resources are not only available in the Viking Empire." Saiya suggested.
Feng Willow thought about it and thought that it would be okay to buy a batch and store them, but the production area was not in his hands, and he would definitely be controlled by others in the future. After all, if he wanted to promote the inheritance of sequencers across the country, the resources required were simply an astronomical figure.
Moreover, it is impossible for him to buy all of this stuff, and the country must buy it in the future. However, if the production area cannot be controlled by himself, the nobles of the country will raise the price.
The nobles of their own country do not want to see the common people gain power and rise, and other countries are even more unwilling to see a large number of common people in the Viking Empire become Sequencers, thus producing a large number of Sequencers.
Be prepared for a rainy day. The land reform may seem serious now, but compared with the national sequencers that Feng Willow had expected, it is completely insignificant.
When Feng Willow told Saiya about his idea, Saiya also started to have a headache. It was true that Feng Willow's idea was somewhat subverting the order of the world.
"Professor, your idea is too exaggerated. Even if you want to make the Viking Empire rich and powerful, you can just play by the rules, right? Your idea is too beyond the scope. Perhaps the Viking Empire won't even need to be destroyed by others. It will be destroyed by your reform." Saiya said speechlessly.
"Then do you have any other way to make the Viking Empire stronger safely?" Von Willow asked Saiya.
After all, it was a ritual that was related to Feng Willow's advancement. To advance to Sequence 2, it was like ascending to heaven in one step. For all the rituals that Sequencers wanted to take to advance to Sequence 2, none of them were easy.
"If you ask me, we should improve the status of merchants, increase the number of business nobles, and sell the sequence inheritance to merchant families at a high price. Although my method will not improve the national strength as much as yours, it will definitely have the least resistance." Saiya suggested.
Feng Willow thought about it and realized that if this was the case, the resistance would indeed be relatively small, but the improvement in national strength would not be fast. The merchant class was indeed much larger than the nobles.
But how many people in this class have the talent of a Sequencer? Compared with the grand plan of all people becoming Sequencers, Saiyan's plan is too slow to improve.
The most crucial thing is that his practice consumes a lot of national fortune. Isaiah's method can increase the national strength faster than the national fortune he consumes when practicing.
“Forget it, we will not participate in the land reform for the time being. Let’s just manage our own territory first.
Please help me go to various major chambers of commerce and ask where the extraordinary materials I need can be found. I plan to buy them in large quantities. "Feng Willow said.
After handing over the troublesome task of purchasing extraordinary materials to Saiyan, Feng Willow began to think about how to take revenge on these damn nobles.
Although not selling it to him did not cause him any actual loss, it would not be in Feng Weiluo's character if he did not retaliate.
"According to the rules of the nobles, I cannot use some shady tricks to retaliate in areas they are familiar with. However, if I want to retaliate, I must use methods I am familiar with. I will give them a hard time at once!" Feng Willow thought fiercely in his heart.
Feng Willow did not delay and quietly left the Duke's Mansion immediately. However, this time he did not take Moril with him. Instead, he transformed himself into a giant dragon and quickly left the capital. (End of this chapter)
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