I'm not a lord

Chapter 85 You are the horse bandit!
"Gather the knights immediately! I'm going to White Bear Territory right now and I'm going to make that Earl's second son give us an explanation!"

Henryk was used to being a bully in the shallows, relying on his personal bravery.

Now that he has hooked up with the female regent Flora and become the guardian of the Baron of Shoal, he is even more arrogant.

What the hell is this horse bandit robbery?

There is only one land route from Qiantan Territory to Baixiong Territory. If there were any bandits there, they would have been wiped out ten thousand years ago.

How come bandits suddenly appeared on this road as soon as you, the second son of Earl Hanfeng, arrived?
You kid is a horse bandit!
Damn it, you dare to kill my people?
Today I must break into your shabby castle and hang you in public!

As soon as Henryk finished speaking, the other six knights gathered in the castle hall immediately responded.

"Send troops immediately and charge into White Bear Territory!"

"This is a naked humiliation to us, revenge is necessary!"

The Shallow Beach Territory has never had any major backers, and the only way to preserve the territory and its people is to unite and face the outside world.

This white bear leader has been bullying me to the point where I can’t stand it anymore!
The seven knights, including Henryk, never doubted Bova at all.

They are all close comrades in the same territory. How could they deceive each other?

And the scars on Bova's body are proof of this.

The robe outside the mail armor was stained with large patches of messy blood, and there were dents of varying degrees on the arms and thighs of the mail armor, which showed that it had been through a tough battle.

Bova didn't say anything else, just lowered his head with a slightly complicated expression.

His comrades shared the same hatred and wanted to avenge him.

But he had already surrendered to the enemy and became a traitor.

But this guilt only lasted for a moment.

Bova convinced himself as quickly as possible.

I am not wrong. The ones who are wrong are Flora and Henrik. They murdered the former baron and helped their illegitimate son ascend to the baron throne!

I just woke up early and pledged allegiance to the true master of Shoal Territory.

Everything I do is justice!
Nothing to do with vile betrayal!

"Lord Henrik, please include this sword of mine!"

Bova didn't want to waste time on himself at all. He quickly changed his mindset, drew the sword from his waist, and made a gesture of swearing allegiance until death.

Flora sat in the main seat, holding her three-year-old son. Seeing the increasingly heated atmosphere in the audience, she had no choice but to slam the armrest:
"Stop it all!"

A shrill sound swept through the hall, and the eight knights, including Henryk, gradually fell silent.

Flora was the true regent of the territory. Before her son came of age, she was the true Baron of the Shoal.

"Everyone, calm down. Don't start a war over such a trivial matter. He's the Earl's second son. If a fight breaks out, who can guarantee that we will be the winner?"

Flora's sharp gaze swept across the hall. The knights did not dare to look directly at her and lowered their heads.

Only Henrik dared to speak out: "But we can't just let this go like this, can we? Regent, they are slapping you in the face!"

"My face is nothing. I only care about the interests of the Shallows Territory. The autumn harvest is about to begin, and if a real fight breaks out, no one will benefit.

This autumn we have to pay the land tax for our territory, and next spring we have to pay another 130 gold coins in shield tax. Once the war starts, where will we get so much gold coins? "

The knights only need to take revenge and vent their anger, but Flora has a lot more to consider.

The head of the household only realized how expensive firewood and rice were. She was worried about the huge taxes owed by the Duke and didn't want to start a war easily.

Once a war begins, it is no longer up to the instigator to decide when it will end.

"Are we just going to let this matter go?" Henrik was still indignant, causing the knights in the audience to look up as well.

"Of course we won't let this go! We will accuse Baron White Bear of his crimes to the Duke and the noble court, and expose his ugly behavior to the public!"

Flora's coping strategy was simple.

War is not cost-effective, so reject it directly. Complaining is the most cost-effective.

In Flora's view, the new Baron of White Bear Territory disguised himself as a horse bandit and robbed the envoy of Shoal Territory. This was a naked provocation and a blockade of the territory at the risk of being beheaded.

Coupled with those several fully loaded slave ships, it was enough to show that some shocking changes had occurred within the White Bear Territory.

There is a high probability that precious minerals have been discovered.

Is it a gold and silver mine?

Or iron ore or salt mine?
Flora wasn't interested in the mineral deposits; she just wanted her northern neighbor completely destroyed.

She is very self-aware.

Even the least valuable iron ore is not something that a mere shallow shoal territory can get its hands on.

If the matter of the White Bear Territory Baron disguising himself as a horse bandit is reported to the Noble Court, the Duke will certainly send an envoy to the White Bear Territory for an on-site investigation.

No matter how arrogant you, the second son of Earl Hanfeng, are, you can't disguise yourself as a horse bandit and kill the Duke's envoy, right?
Once the messenger arrives, the secrets of your White Bear Territory will no longer be hidden.

Secretly mining without the Duke's knowledge?

There is a way to die!

When they heard that the female regent had chosen to file a complaint, the knights in the audience immediately stopped arguing.

Complaining is too boring, what they pursue is the real thrill of fighting!

In the eyes of the knights, the current strength of the Shoal Territory is far superior to that of the White Bear Territory, and they will have the opportunity to plunder spoils if they fight.

If we can capture the Earl's second son, we might be able to extort hundreds or thousands of gold coins in ransom from Earl Cold Wind.

Even if you only get one tenth, it will undoubtedly be a huge sum of money.

Without war, these knights could only receive a fixed salary, which could barely maintain their current living standards, far from being a class leap.

As early as last winter, they had planned to attack the White Bear Lord who had lost his baron.

But it just so happened that a baron died in the Shoal Territory, and the funeral, inheritance, and enthronement took several months, so the matter had to be left unresolved.

When the Duke of Swamp recruited local knights in June this year, the knights from the Shoal Territory actively requested to fight, but were all rejected by Flora.

The already low morale has now suffered another severe blow.

But Flora didn't care.

She just wanted to keep the Shoal Territory and her hard-earned position as regent.

She could vaguely sense that the situation in the North was inevitably heading towards chaos.

The North, which has been stable for nearly two hundred years, is about to usher in an unprecedented era of chaos.

But she had no ambition to compete for supremacy, and with the limited strength of the Shallow Beach Territory, she had no confidence to expand outward.

She was content to keep her own piece of land.

That's why she chose to avoid fighting and ordered the knights to stay in the territory.

After the meeting ended, Flora left her lover Henry and told him:
"Your territory is at the exit of the northern road. For the sake of our children, you must guard the entrance. Also, I suspect that Bova may have secretly defected to the White Bear Territory. You must keep a close eye on his movements."

"Don't worry, I know everything."

Henrik agreed readily, but didn't take these two things to heart at all.

The White Bear Territory's land and population can only support five canonized knights at most. Wouldn't it be courting self-destruction if they took the initiative to attack the Shallow Shoal Territory?
As for Bova, he is an old vassal of the Shoal Territory, and is notoriously poor in courage and bravery.

With the way he is, betrayal?

Impossible, absolutely impossible.

(End of this chapter)