Dear Broom Knight.

Chapter 132: Leon Fights from East to West
"Thank you for your brotherly love." Yuri made a closing statement before Aruna could hold back any longer, "So, for our big brother, for our little brother who is about to cry, you should go to the Gezaar Territory once!
Don’t you like the Chateau de Lorena restaurant very much?”

Aruna rolled his eyes at his second oldest brother: "I wonder, can I afford it?"

Do you really think that anyone can transform a devastated territory into a prosperous place in just a few years like Baron Lori did?
However, even for a wizard as capable as Lori, he was only able to build a rough outline of the territory in the first four years!

Although because he was too young, the people of Gezaer were not very willing to follow this wizard lord before seeing real benefits, but they had never refused to do anything for money.

However, Aruna did not have the confidence to exchange money for time. Besides, the most prosperous area of the Earldom of Hamilton, that is, the section between the two baronial castles of Baron Dugan and Baron Batty, was designated as the direct territory of the Earldom.

The three of them were professionals with special expertise who would definitely advance to level 10... Scholar Yuri, Bard Seven, Swordsman Aruna... They were directly conferred the title of Baron without any doubt.

As for Mirian's younger brothers, they will definitely have to endure for a few more years. Although they have been granted titles, they are still regarded as landless nobles who are "quasi-baronets". If they want to officially become nobles and completely transfer the territories they are currently managing to their own names, they must either have enough military merits or be very powerful.

To be honest, the reason why they were able to obtain permission from the noble agency so easily was because they could find the family they came from.

Otherwise, if you were born into a commoner family, it would not be so easy.

Even if they met the basic standards of nobility, Leon, as the lord, was willing to share the profits in his hands.

In fact, the other two younger knights and Miriam are also level eight.

If their surnames were better, the noble office wouldn't be so tough... After all, Leon's attitude was so firm, and he proposed the order of nobility by borrowing the power of the White Dragon King.

However, for the noble office, they would never let three people who were at most from a knight family and had almost no real nobles in their surnames to expand their territory so easily... Yes, it's not that there are no nobles, but most of them were awarded titles through military exploits, and even the title of baron is rare. They are the kind of military families that are still struggling.

It would be even more troublesome if Milian and the others didn't have any proper surnames at all.

They will inevitably only be allowed to start from the lord, that is, the reserve nobles, and climb up.

Moreover, if it doesn't take a few years, Leon will probably have to rush to the capital and go crazy.

One day, high-ranking generals of the National Defense Forces will have to go to the noble offices in groups with their military merit documents and argue for several days before they can get their reserve titles back!
Inheritance and innovation are always two different things. If the latter wants to reach the starting point of the former, it will take unimaginable effort.

What blocked the pioneers' way was not only the long staircase, but also the large and small stones that rolled down from the first comers at the top of the stairs from time to time.

The reason why Aruna always looked decadent in the past few years was not only because he felt that he would have to work like a slave for the old man's kid in the future, but also because he really didn't want to accept the bad luck of being supported by his original surname.

However, as an adventurer who has seen a lot of trouble in the world, it is impossible for Aruna to give up the benefits he deserves just because of a little disgust in his heart... There is nothing about him that is unworthy of the title of baron of this territory.

All the benefits that seemed to come from the family that he had abandoned long ago were all derived from irrational and illegal selfish thoughts. Aruna felt that he was not entangled with these.

But he still fell into depression because he recalled the messy past.

Although he was still muttering "Why?", his claws began to take care of himself very actively... Aruna knew very well that apart from Miriam, he was the only one suitable to go to the Gezaar territory.

The other two knight brothers of their Tiger Blade are complete copies of the boss, and they learn everything from Leon.

And Leon himself is the one who dislikes Alex's old-fashioned ideas the most.

He always believed that what knights need to follow is inner nobility, rather than superficial etiquette that is like a performance.

And Leon is a man who dotes on his younger brother very much... You can imagine how many conflicts there are between those two and Alex.

As for Seven and Yuri, Alex doesn't think it's worth it for them to give up the things they are doing.

Such a large earldom still needs to first clean up the remnants of the past lords and then reorganize the earldom of the panicked subjects. There are many things that need to be dealt with!
Even the bard Seven is very busy, not to mention a great scholar like Yuri.

Even Aruna only looked a little decadent, but he had a lot of things to do.

To put it bluntly, it was Miriam who had the easiest task.

After all, although he needs to run outside all the time, given the current situation on the northern border, no one will give Milian any respect... Most of the external affairs are handled by Montes Territory, Gezar Territory and the National Defense Force.

Moreover, the brothers would never let Miriam do some work that would make people feel bad or too dark.

Although they seemed to be very strict with their younger brothers, the older brothers made their younger brothers see only the difficulties of the world, and completely excluded those troublesome things that made people lose their hearts and feet. Aruna suddenly said impatiently, "What if Miriam comes back? That kid will definitely want to take over my job."

They all knew that this stubborn and competitive brother of theirs would never let Aruna work overtime because of him.

However, as the 'Sheriff' of the Earldom of Hamilton, Aruna is always responsible for dealing with matters that are not obvious.

Batty and Dugan are people who collaborated with the cult, and the aftereffects they left behind are enough to make people collapse!

"Leon will take care of it," Yuri said softly, "It's time for him to step forward."

Aruna was stunned for a moment, and said a little confusedly: "Hasn't he been messing around with the border guards all this time?"

Although because of his status, Leon naturally has an advantage over the Border Guards... Even if he is not like the former Count Montes who has fought in the Border Guards for at least ten years and has a comradeship with most of the senior officers, as long as Leon is a younger generation that the White Dragon King values, he will naturally have the support of the King's Army.

Of course, this doesn’t mean that the border guards will obey Leon’s orders from now on. That is impossible.

Isn't Count Montes also the leader of the Northern Border Army? But his family is almost destroyed, and the nearest border guards have not sent any strong men to support him.

There is no other way. In order to avoid being lured away, middle and high-ranking officers of the border defense force cannot leave their respective war zones within 100 kilometers at will.

The border lords are indeed very powerful. After all, although they are said to be supported by the state, in reality, for convenience, the military resources of the king's army are basically provided by the border lords.

However, this part cannot be regarded as the expenditure of the border lords. Instead, it is the tax that should have been paid to the king, but was directly transferred to the king's army.

Of course, this is not a matter of how much the border lord says. The king will definitely send one or more financial officers to stay in the border lord to monitor it.

Therefore, it is conceivable that only the king who holds real power can control the relationship between the border lords and the border guards.

It is even easy to control the contribution of border lords to border troops within a certain level... Unless it is a wartime state, then supplies must come from far away and are obviously allocated by the king to be sent to the army.

These are all obvious. However, once the king loses control of the situation, in order to protect his own interests, the border guards will naturally lean slightly towards the border lords.

Sometimes, there can be a slight balance between loyalty and self-preservation.

After all, sometimes, even if they knew that the border was the guarantee of their luxurious life, there would still be some nobles who felt that there was no need to be so nice to them.

Do you have to eat meat and have a big meal?

Rye is also quite nutritious, or maybe some beans?
If the king cannot suppress the greed of the nobles and cannot provide enough supplies to the border troops... then the king's army may become the thugs of the border lords.

Just like the border troops of the Ice Kingdom next door, their days are very confusing...sometimes they can't even tell who is giving them orders.

Things have gotten much better over the years, but the border troops of the Ice Country are still obviously quite shaky, otherwise the Ice King's men wouldn't be able to live so recklessly.

To be honest, the Ice and Snow Cultists are not very good at hiding their presence, and wherever they go, there are dogs barking everywhere.

It won’t be that bad here in the North.

No matter what happened in the past, at least in the years since the White Dragon King took power, the border troops knew very well who they were feeding on.

However, Leon still had to make the Northern Border Army understand that the reason why he, the new Border Earl, was able to take the position was not only because of his identity, but also because he did possess strong combat power.

Otherwise, no matter how much respect they have, it does not mean that they will choose to listen to Leon's command when encountering major events.

In the past four years, Leon has left all matters in the territory to his younger brothers, and focused on fighting from east to west on the northern defense line.

In the military, only direct face-to-face combat is the most persuasive.

"The battle is over." Yuri replied calmly, "We just left the camp on the snowy mountain cliffs in Gezaer County the day before yesterday."

(End of this chapter)