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Chapter 249 Chapter 247: Uproar (Subscription Request)
Auxerre, White Castle.

The head maid Eva walked hurriedly through the long and dark corridor, ignoring the maid who saluted her, and quickly walked to a study and stopped.

She took a deep breath, tried to calm herself down, and knocked on the door.

"Come in!"

When Grand Duchess Aphra's voice came, Eva immediately opened the door and walked in.

In the luxurious room, the Grand Princess was reviewing various materials. Her desk was filled with various documents.

Nobility is actually a profession with a very high upper limit and an even lower lower limit.

If you want to be happy, you can ignore everything, live a life of drunkenness and dreams every day, and still live a carefree life.

But if you want to protect the ancestral foundation, revitalize the family, or even go further, you have to engage in intrigue, work day and night, and life will not be easy.

Grand Duchess Aphra is the latter, and she doesn’t have too many things to do every day.

However, at her position, many things could either go wrong or she could not do as she pleased.

She ignored Eva's arrival and continued to correct the documents in her hands.

However, Eva walked up to her very 'rudely' and placed a parchment scroll in front of Grand Duchess Aphra.

"Master, you need to take a look at this first!"

The Grand Duchess did not take any action. Instead, she was stunned for several breaths before looking up at Eva.

She asked, "Good news or bad news?"

Eva was stunned when she heard this, and she didn't know how to answer. After a long while, she finally said, "It's good news, but also bad news!"

The Grand Duchess glared at Eva and said, "Do you know what I'm asking?"

Eva giggled and became serious: "Master, don't worry, Master Luo Yi won. Not only did he win, but he won beautifully!"

"The Carlisle family suffered a great defeat, with at least half of their knights and militiamen captured or killed.

but……"

"but what?"

"The Marquis of Carlisle is dead. He died on the battlefield, and his head was cut off!"

pat!

The pen in Grand Duchess Aphra's hand fell onto the table. She suddenly looked up at Eva, her eyes full of disbelief.

Seeing that Eva had no intention of avoiding the question, she immediately opened the parchment and quickly read through it.

Then, the second time, the third time...

After several minutes, she threw the sheepskin scroll away, leaned back, rested her back on the chair, raised her head, and stared at the ceiling.

"Winning is a good thing. After this battle, no one in the Flower Territory will be dissatisfied. The nobles in the Principality should also put away their petty thoughts.

But the death of Marquis Carlisle is a problem! A huge problem! "

Eva said: "Are you worried about the internal struggle of the Carlisle family?

As far as I know, there are only three or four people in the Marquis' family who have the right of inheritance. It shouldn't cause much trouble, right?"

"Those are just minor incidents. What I'm afraid of is the main branch of the Carlisle family.

If the Bonaparte Empire feels that the balance of power within the Normans has been broken, the Duke of the Carlisle family will probably take action personally.

In this way, countless twists and turns will appear out of nowhere, and the future is hard to predict. "

"so what should I do now?"

Grand Duchess Aphra thought for a moment before saying, "Now that Marquis Carlisle is dead, the succession of the Carlisle family is a problem. We should suppress the one with the most potential and support the ones behind.

Let them fight for a while and buy some time!"

"And then there's Earl Wick. That old man has been hiding for so long. Now that the opportunity is so good, shouldn't he come out and walk around?
You make some arrangements to make him more courageous."

"Also, notify the Council of Noble Elders to issue a 'mediation' notice in their name so that all subsequent matters can be brought back to the negotiation table."

Having said that, Grand Duchess Aphra looked at Eva again and said, "These things are all left to you to do. Don't make any mistakes, understand?"

"Yes!"

Aiwa responded, but then said, "Mediation is a matter for both parties. What if Master Luo Yi disagrees?"

"I will write him a letter, asking for a higher ransom and more goodies, but not the territory.

Don't worry, I will persuade him!"

Eva continued, "And regarding that fourth-order earth-type sworn knight, should the news be sent over at the same time?"

This time, Grand Duchess Aphra paused for a moment and said, "Tell them. I think Roy should have a lot of guesses."

After everything was explained, Eva hurried off to do her work again. Before she left, she took away a large pile of documents that she had already reviewed.

When Grand Duchess Aphra was the only one left in the study, she played with the parchment scroll in her hand and suddenly laughed.

"Although it was a bit troublesome, this battle was won beautifully!"

……

Overall, Grand Duchess Aphra was very happy.
The death of the Marquis of Carlisle will bring endless troubles, but that is a matter for the future. Right now, the most direct result is that it has dealt a blow to the arrogance of the old aristocratic alliance.

However, although the Grand Duchess was happy, some people were very worried.

Somewhere, a secret place,
Marquis Thane Castro and Marquis Ricardo McKinley got together again.

"Lost? Lost? That bastard Nolan actually lost?

He was so confident, I thought he was really that powerful, but he ended up losing his life!"

Marquis Sean Castro paced around the room, in a state of anxiety and fear.

"I thought that Karl Raymond's death was a good thing, but I didn't expect that another person who doesn't follow the rules would come!"

"Marquis, that's a marquis, he killed him without blinking an eye?"

"This business is a huge loss! A huge loss!"

Marquis Ricardo McKinley was dazzled by his spinning and couldn't help but close his eyes, rubbing his brows, and said, "Okay, okay, stop spinning around, it won't do anything!
We are gathered together now to discuss countermeasures!" "Countermeasures? What countermeasures can there be?"

Marquis Castro retorted: "Now that Nolan is dead, I'm afraid the Carlisle family can't be counted on. Those little guys don't count. You and I are the only ones left in the old noble alliance."

“Let me make it clear first, the Castro family can pay, but don’t look for me on the battlefield.

Nolan had his head chopped off, I don’t want to face the [Lion King], the king of lions.

You should know how powerful it is. It is impossible to win a battle between knights."

"I am afraid now. I am afraid that Afra will get ruthless. If she wants to start a civil war, she will wipe us out completely.

We can, can..."

He didn't finish his words, but his meaning was obvious, and it was no wonder he thought so.

Before, when the three of them joined forces and gained the upper hand, they were extremely ridiculed and took a lot of benefits without giving any face at all.

However, compared to his panic, 'Silver Fox' Ricardo was much calmer.

He was sitting on the sofa, his silver-white hair was meticulously groomed, and his eyes, full of time, radiated wisdom!
After hearing what Marquis Castro said, he shook his head and said, "No, Aphra will never choose the path you said!"

"why?"

“Because, she is the Grand Duke of Normandy, what she wants is stability, not complete favoritism?
Therefore, she should use gentle means to stop the war and resolve all conflicts at the negotiation table."

I have to say, his prediction was very accurate!
But the next second, he added: “It’s just that Nolan’s death also destroyed all our advantages.

From now on, I’m afraid our lives will be really difficult!

Especially this time, the Raymond family has produced such a powerful figure."

"King of Lions, King of Lions!"

I don’t know how much emotion is contained in Silver Fox’s words.

The McKinley family is actually famous for its network of relationships among aristocrats. If they were to take a step back, they would have to give up a lot of benefits!

This is not a good thing.

"So we can only endure it like this?"

"We have to endure it. The worst that can happen is that we will lose some money. But it's not that we have no chance, is it?"

"Ricardo, is there anything you can say?

Don't divide a sentence into three parts and be evasive. This is really annoying, don't you know?"

"Besides, after all, you and I are already on the same boat. What can't we talk about?"

Old Marquis McKinley was so angry that he lost his temper. If Nolan was here, he could still suppress his temper. Now, he could only shake his head and said:

"What I mean is that we can't engage in a head-on conflict, as that would be a huge loss for us.

However, we are not the enemy of the Raymond family, so why should we act as their pawns?"

"what do you mean?"

"I remember that your family's business also has some market in the Bonaparte Empire, and you should have a lot of connections with the Duke.

You can tell him the news. After all, it is the relationship between the main family and the branch. If such a marquis dies, I don’t believe they won’t pay attention and even take action!!!"

Marquis Castro nodded repeatedly, but in the blink of an eye he raised a question: “But I remember that your McKinley family and the Carlisle family have more marriages. In terms of marriages and networks, they have much more business than my family.

Why not you, but me?"

Marquis McKinley enumerated, “Of course I have things to do, too. I am responsible for communicating with the families that participated in the destruction of the Lion Castle.

The Norman Diocese of the Church of the Sun, the Northwest Theater of the Bonaparte Empire, the Eastern Theater of the Sardinian Dynasty, I am responsible for far more things than you think! "

Marquis Castro nodded and said, "In that case, I will make the contact regarding what you said.

As for the Duke of the Carlisle family, I leave it to you."

"you……"

"Why, you have an opinion? I know you are a bad guy!"

"I mean, I promised!"

Marquis Castro was stunned, and then he was shocked: "Oh no, I was fooled by you, damn it!"

……

Another place, an ancient castle on the top of a mountain!

The elder Freud of the Freud family focused on something very different.

He looked at the secret document in his hand and roared at the group of young descendants of the family in front of him: "Look at them? Look at them?"

“He’s less than 20 years old, but he has extraordinary strength. He even dared to fight against the natural disaster and won!
Look at you again, each of you has a weak body, insufficient fighting spirit, and lacks magic power. You are as weak as a chicken.

"If you go out, don't tell me that I am the descendant of the Freud family. I can't afford to be embarrassed by that!"

A voice muttered in the crowd: "When you were twenty years old, you weren't much better than us, right?"

"Who? Who is mumbling down there? I want him to come up and speak."

Old Floyd's roar became louder, and as a result, everyone in the audience lowered their heads and no one spoke.

After a long while, he could only say: "Practice more, everyone, practice more!"

So, a group of people ran to training grunting, and old Floyd watched for a while, and when he saw that no one was slacking off, he turned around and left.

But the moment he turned around, his face had become completely gloomy.

The Marquis of Carlisle is dead, that disgusting fat bastard is dead, isn't that a good thing?
But in reality, it is not in the interests of the Floyd family at all.

……

The Battle of Nobles,

The Wick family was defeated, the Marquis of Carlisle died, and the new Lion King led his knights and was invincible on the battlefield.

When the news gradually spread, it was like a storm, causing an uproar in the Norman Duchy!

(End of this chapter)