I'm in Terra, governing a weird little country.

Ernst rolled his eyes at him.

My brother Enthiodis is a burly man, and compared to his double-door refrigerator figure, I am somewhat overestimating my abilities.

Ernst is a Snow Leopard who fits the image of a civil servant very well. Among the Snow Leopards, he is one of the few who smiles without showing his teeth.The figure is only well-proportioned, not muscular.

Of course, this is only a relative term. Living in a place like Kjerag, good health can still be guaranteed.

The unhealthy ones died.

Seeing that Ernst had no intention of teasing her, Ratatos pursed her lips and said seriously:

"why me?"

Because there is no one else under my control.

Naturally, it was impossible for Ernst to tell such a big truth to Ratatos.

There was a reason why he immediately thought of Ratatos, which even Enxiodis didn't expect.

"Lata Toss, don't you feel unwilling?"

He did not directly answer the question of squirrels, but asked instead,

"The changes in Kjerag are so fast now that some people have not had time to prepare before the curtain call comes. Don't you feel regretful?"

Rata Toss lowered her eyelids, and her hands hidden between the woolen shawl clenched tightly at some point.

Yeah, Kjerag gets a little too fast.

I don’t know since when, the three major families and Manzhuyuan, who had been performing on the stage for thousands of years, quietly came to the end of the curtain.

Ever since Enthiodis opened Tukarim and opened the door to Kjerag's external exchanges, there have been more voices discussing Kalan's trade than those discussing the Shivaash family.

Since the Holy Stone Trial, there have been far more voices discussing the Holy Lady and the new Holy Son than those discussing Manzhuyuan. .

At the Harvest Festival, Enya suddenly made an exception and had that extra "prayer" with Ernst, and got Yeragond's acquiescence. In Kjerag, the voices discussing the three major families were gradually replaced by the new ones. replaced by the Kjerag government.

When they forced Enthiodis to give up his arbitrary actions and establish the Kjerag government, the Brantau and Perroche families never imagined that they would face such a dilemma today.

And this change is even difficult to reverse.

Even if Ernst is overthrown, the Kjerag government is abolished, and the Kalan trade is completely destroyed, people will no longer look piously at the three ancient families.

Because a kind of knowledge, a kind of thought, and a kind of ideological trend have already planted seeds.And this cannot be killed.

After the French Revolution, no matter how many times the royal power was restored, how many people were massacred in counterattacks, and how many resistances were bloody suppressed, people already knew that resisting the king can lead to revolution!

The vested interest groups represented by the three major families are destined to be unhappy.

Losing power is not a pleasant feeling.Although Ernst has not touched the fundamental interests of the Branteau family and the Perrochi family until now, that is, the actual management rights of their respective family territories, so they will not suffer too violent a backlash, this is just his warm water. It's just a frog's trick.

This day is destined to come, and so is resistance. He can only be weakened, not eradicated.

What Ernst has to do is to weaken the opposition as much as possible, for example, by pulling Ratatos, the enlightened and capable leader of the Brown Tau family, into his own camp.

It is the ancient Chinese wisdom to use emotions to arouse people, to use force to move people, to use metaphors to benefit, to divide the enemy, and finally to annihilate the few stubborn reactionaries.

"Lata Toss, I want to give you a chance, and also give the Branto family a chance."

"On the eve of Kjelag's transformation, you were also one of the people who opened their eyes to see the world. You just opened your eyes a little later than Enxiodis, so you missed the first wave of opportunities."

"But Kjerag won't have just one Klan Trade, will he?"

Ernst looked at her and smiled,

"As my representative, enter Enxiodis' company. Your understanding of Enxiodis is no weaker than mine, and your ideas and skills of checks and balances are enough to gain my recognition and Enxiodis's attention. With you among them, I can rest assured that my vision will not be blinded. Enxiodis will not try to use those unscrupulous tricks. And you..."

Ernst paused and said,

"You will be given a unique and suitable position and opportunity in Kjerag to practice your talents, use your wisdom, and prove that Rata Toss of the Brown Tao family is not weaker than Enxiodis. Likewise. , you can also gain extremely valuable experience. This is experience related to the future transformation of the Brown Tower family."

From a feudal agricultural landowner, he transformed into a capital family in the modern sense.

Ernst made the conditions and immediately returned to silence.

He waited quietly for Ratatos to answer.

I have to say that the word "future" really has some miraculous magic.Only then can countless big bosses and leaders happily mention it as the absolute core word of PUA techniques.

How come Ratatos couldn't hear the mystery in Ernst's words.

Position, opportunity, practice your talents, use your wisdom, prove yourself.Finally, draw a pie to depict a bright future in which the Brown Tao family also opens a "Kalan Trading".

After all is said and done, what is never mentioned is remuneration and treatment.

Good guy, the old PUA master!

But what if you know this is PUA?

Just like Ernst said, this position at the decision-making level of the Kalan Trading Board of Directors is unique!If Ensiodis hadn't lost his mind, it would have been impossible for the appointment and dismissal of this position to fall into Ernst's hands again.

As for Kjerag, there is only one large company like Kalan Trading, at least for the moment.

A person with a black eye, no experience, no channels, no connections, just starting a business, let alone Terra, even in Ernst's previous life, the new era that encouraged all people to start their own businesses, was like a fish tank. The fish seemed to be very capable, and it was delivered within a few minutes of jumping out.

This is also the reason why Ernst is not willing to start a company by himself - everyone has his or her own strengths. Who said that cadres in the previous life could not do business? There is nothing they can do after time travel.

Ratatos looked like she might choose to refuse.But Ernst grasped her true state of mind - Ms. Zalak has always refused to admit defeat, and she is much more combative than she seems.

In this case, Ms. Ratatoss, you don’t want the Bronto family to be swept into the trash heap of history in the future, right?

What else could Rata Toss do?

She can only be PUA obediently!

After taking a long breath, Rata Toss finally made up her mind and raised her head, looking at Ernst with her brown eyes, as if some kind of flame had been lit:

"Leave it to me, I can do anything!"

1 Duke of Cester, please put on your clown mask

Generally speaking, Kjerag in 1094 was still a small country with no influence.

But Victoria in 1094 was still a behemoth who looked down upon Terra.

After finally deciding to eliminate the last obstacle in Londinium City - the Steam Knight, the nobles of Victoria began to gradually understand and value Sakaz's convenience.

A mercenary army with a small amount of money and strong combat power. Although it lacks discipline, it completes its tasks very efficiently. For the Grand Dukes of Victoria, it is simply the most convenient weapon.

Not only do they think so, but the noble members of the Londinium City Council also think so.

There are some small discrepancies here that are easily misunderstood, that is, the noble members of the Londinium City Council are not actually completely under the control of the Grand Dukes.

Rather, in their minds, it is not the Grand Duke who controls them, but their influence and control over the Grand Dukes.

Londinium's boss is the boss. Although Londinium's loss of steam knights is tantamount to losing an important security guarantee, they still have nothing to fear because Londinium's city walls are high enough and there are enough main guns for city defense. , the city defense corps is also elite enough.

As for the Grand Dukes, they did not dare to openly march into Londinium.

The nobles know the nobles best. With the throne vacant, any duke who tries to take the lead in marching into Londinium and shows his ambition in this regard will become the target of public criticism.

Shoot the first bird.Precisely because no grand duke has the ability to break through Londinium's external defenses in a short period of time, once someone attempts to advance, the other grand dukes will have sufficient reaction time. At that time, the first grand duke will Become a target, be defeated, eliminated, and then annexed.

On a certain level, they are not wrong to think so.Because the state of Londinium at this time is like the Emperor Zhou in the Spring and Autumn Period. His strength may be only half, or even only one-tenth, of the princes, but any princely country that is disobedient to the Emperor Zhou will really have to face But it is far from this one-tenth of the power, but all N except him, plus this 0.1.

But the Spring and Autumn Period will not last forever. We all know that the Spring and Autumn Period was followed by the Warring States Period, and the Warring States Period was unified under Qin.

If there is no fuse, the powder keg of Londinium can indeed remain stable for at least several decades, or even hundreds of years.

But there will eventually be a grand duke who will find an opportunity in this long tug-of-war of checks and balances. Through annexation, reform, or the explosion of technology, his strength will be able to completely crush the other grand dukes.By then, Londinium's dream of sitting on the mountain and watching the fight between tigers and tigers will end sooner or later.

And this land is very nasty.When the aristocratic members of the Londinium City Council were complacent that they could finally eliminate the "stubborn disease" of steam knights, they did not understand that this was just fighting fire with fire.

The trigger has come.

1094 spring.

The Duke of Stafford, as the first gambler, took the lead in sitting at the gaming table.

While the grand dukes remained silent and confrontational, Duke Stafford quietly sneaked into Londinium.

Yes, sneaking in. The Grand Duke abandoned the above-board methods and chose to sneak in.

He did this for three reasons. First, since King Aslan was executed in 1072, the grand dukes compromised, and Londinium issued a duke ban, the grand dukes have been prohibited from entering Londinium openly, even if Nobles like Kester could occasionally go beyond the rules, but they were also closely monitored in Londinium.

But it can’t be done openly, and no one says it can’t be done secretly.

Not many people would have thought that a grand duke would use such a method. It is disgraceful. Even if he really uses this method to win the crown and the position is not right, it will be unsafe!

But Duke Stafford played this anti-psychology, and he really did it!

The second reason is that when the Steam Knight and Sakaz collide, there will inevitably be a certain degree of chaos in the entire city of Londinium.

A large number of Sarkaz entered Londinium. This was something that could not be concealed, and Victoria's steam knights were eye-catching wherever they went. When they all returned to the city, they would certainly be noticed.

Add the two together, and chaos is bound to happen.

The Duke of Stafford seized the opportunity of this chaos.

He used his connections to instigate part of the city defense army, and placed men throughout Londinium City, preparing to start an uprising that night, directly attack the Parliament Square, and violently seize power!

But this is also risky.

After all, only part of the city defense army was instigated to rebel. Once the Parliament reacted and mobilized the remaining city defense troops to resist, at dawn, the news of the coup in Londinium City would inevitably reach the hands of the various grand dukes who were eyeing them. , their troops will immediately assemble and come to Londinium to "enter the capital to quell the rebellion."

By then, the Duke of Stafford, who had sneaked in secretly without any direct troops, would have been defeated.

Perhaps you have already seen that Duke Stafford's chance of winning this sudden attack is extremely slim.It can be said that as long as the reaction of the parliament is normal, the reaction of the city defense army is normal, and the reaction of the other grand dukes is faster, he will not be able to succeed, and he will even make wedding dresses for other grand dukes.

Theoretically speaking, with Duke Stafford's status and capital as a military aristocrat, he could join the other grand dukes in a sit-down war and stare at each other.There is no need to be impatient at all.

So why did he still choose to take this risk?

This is reason three.

The Duke of Stafford simply made the same mistake that everyone does - he was sick, and dying of it.

His illness came about quite strangely. Before the Duke's secret meeting, Duke Stafford was still a high-spirited Grand Duke. He continued to exploit his subordinates' territories every day. He was so powerful that he could compete with the Duke of Cester. The Duke of Wellington's eye contact.But just after the Duke's secret meeting, he fell ill.

However, there was actually not only him but also another person who suddenly became seriously ill at the same time. That person's name should be familiar to everyone.

Kent Windermere.

The military nobles, who were not vassals of the Duke of Castro and were unwilling to accept her leadership, came to attend the Duke's secret meeting and immediately fell seriously ill after the meeting.