Crossing The Dragon: The King Sacrifices The Princess At The Beginning

Promoted from earl to duke in one sentence!

Earl Buffett has already had a premonition!

He will be consigned to the toilet.

The surrounding nobles and lords said some compliments when they saw such a good thing, but the belated affection was inferior to grass. These afterthoughts were thrown in and out by Su Nian, and they didn't take it seriously at all.

"Article 3!"

He held up a finger.

The entire conference room suddenly fell silent.

"Each territory spends its own money to build a portal to connect to the Black Dragon Empire's royal city, oh, which is the former Andrius Royal City. Of course, the Airland Royal City also needs to be connected. In addition, each main city has a law enforcement agency. Among them Some monsters will be stationed to help you better manage the city."

Su Nian knocked on the table, attracting the dull eyes of all the lords.

"That's about it. All other laws are in accordance with the Black Dragon Empire. Airland's criminal law is too strict and some parts can be invalidated... Okay, what else do you want to say?"

After a while, Duke Ryan raised his hand.

"What's your problem?"

Su Nian raised his chin to Duke Lane.

"Your Majesty, this is it." Duke Lane shrank his neck, pinched his sleeves nervously, and said carefully, "Didn't you ask us to build a portal? But we have to hand over all the finances in the warehouse... We know that building a portal is a very expensive thing. After paying for everything, we have no money to build a portal at all..."

Duke Ryan obviously asked the question that was on the minds of all the noble lords, and everyone nodded and agreed.

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

"Without money, we have nothing to do..."

"Your Majesty, please have mercy."

Su Nian had obviously made a record of this matter, and said with a smile:

"What's the important thing if you don't have money? If you don't have money, just rob!"

"ah?"

"Steal money? Where can we steal money?"

It is very common for lords to compete with each other within the empire, and there may even be major frictions and territory annexations. They will step on the edge of the empire's laws and try to expand their territory as much as possible, so at this time, the lords are thinking the most. The only thing is that one's own people rob one's own people.

Then here comes the problem.

Every territory must hand over its property, and every month's harvest must be handed over in addition to what is needed to run the territory. Is there any point in them grabbing it?

Everyone has the same money.

Everyone is pauper.

"That's right, grabbing money, is it difficult to understand? I will send troops to the Slot Empire soon. Then you will send troops together. I will attack the royal capital, and you will attack the territory of the Slot Empire. How much can you grab? The money depends entirely on your own ability.”

That’s what it meant...

All the noble lords suddenly realized.

They must be in favor of grabbing the money from the Slot Empire next door.

"But before that, what we have to do is to eliminate all the discordant sounds in the territory." Su Nian drew a few circles on the map.

They are all noble territories that did not come to the meeting.

"You don't need me to teach you how to do this, right?"

"Yes, Your Majesty——!"

…

Duke Lane did two things after returning to the territory.

The first thing is to gather territorial property.

The second thing is to gather all the forces that can be gathered.

As for the new laws of the Empire, knights from the Royal Palace of Airland have long pasted them on the bulletin boards of various cities for all citizens of the Empire of Airland to watch and learn. From then on, the Empire of Airland also removed them from the territory of the Southern Continent. Excluded, only Black Nest.

"Father, what are you doing?"

Duke Lane's daughter, 17-year-old Kelly, looked confused at Duke Lane's operation.

At this moment, boxes filled with gold coins and gems have filled the castle hall, and the knights are still moving out the wealth accumulated by the Duke over the years from the warehouse, including various precious armors and swords collected by Duke Lane.

"Are we moving?"

Kelly asked cautiously.

"Moving? No!" Duke Lane turned around and looked at his generous daughter who had disappeared: "We must donate all these properties to the king!"

"What?!" Kelly's eyes widened, looking at Duke Ryan as if she were looking at a stranger.

"Father, are you kidding me? Give all these... to the king?"

"Yes." Duke Lane walked to his daughter and looked at her up and down for a while.

Under Kelly's surprised gaze, he stretched out his hand and took off all the pearl necklace around Kelly's neck and the pure gold tiara on her head.

"The empire raised us." Duke Lane threw his daughter's jewelry into a gold coin box.

"Now is the time to give back to our empire!" His tone was almost pilgrimage.

Kelly finds it difficult to feel confident about Duke Lane's attitude and behavior.

She knew her father's virtues. Although he was not a bad lord, he was always no worse than other lords in amassing money. And because he had a good business acumen, he was even better than other dukes in the empire in amassing money.

There is no doubt that her father is very greedy for money.

But now, her money-grubbing father actually wants to hand over the finances he has accumulated over decades of hard work to the king? !

It’s simply a fantasy!

"Father, are you crazy?"

Kelly took two steps back, thinking of some weird novels she usually read in her mind.

It is said that some powerful wizards will continue to live in the form of souls after death, and they will take over the bodies of others with evil curses and replace them!

Could it be that her father's body was replaced by an evil wizard?

That's really terrible!

"I'm not crazy." Duke Ryan shook his head helplessly and looked at his daughter again.

Now Kelly is 17 years old, and she looks exactly like her mother. Her long golden hair is like the warm sun, and her blue eyes are like the cloudless sky. In the past year or two, the noble heir, the powerful knight Zero, has come to propose marriage. All of this shows that Kelly has grown into an attractive flower.

As a father, it’s time to think about life events for your daughter.

over time.

Duke Lane will also gradually be affected by the contract.

He will start to take the initiative to consider the contract owner. This is the domineering aspect of the Dragon Vein Contract.

If the number of contracts signed by dragons was not linked to the strength of their souls, there might not be much trouble for other races in this world.

Basically all of them are occupied by dragons and devils who are good at playing contracts.

In short, when Duke Ryan was observing Kelly, a seemingly absurd but not inconsistent idea gradually appeared in his mind.

His Majesty Watrous means to hand over all the wealth in the territory.

So in a sense, his daughter Kelly, such a beautiful person, is also property.

This idea lingered in Duke Lane's mind as soon as it came up.

So he raised his eyes and looked at Kelly seriously:

"You go take a shower and change now, and put on your most beautiful clothes!"

"Here, father...is there any kind of banquet?" Kelly didn't know yet at this time.

Ryan: "No, Kelly, my beautiful daughter, I have decided! I will dedicate you to His Majesty!"