MTL - Heroes of Silver Moon-Chapter 757 : the king's forgiveness

The treasures accumulated by the Sea Clan Kingdom for countless years are astonishing. The Silver Moon Fleet transported them back and forth more than a dozen times before transporting all the looted materials back to the Silver Moon Kingdom.

The mint worked day and night, and it took two or three months to recast all the various gold and silver coins and utensils into Silver Moon coins.

In addition, there are countless supplies piled up in the military port warehouse waiting to be counted.

Subsequently, the king first cashed in a national debt of five million gold coins, and at the cost of increasing interest, delayed the cashing time of the remaining national debt.

Immediately afterwards, the Navy issued an emergency mobilization order to recall those retired soldiers and began to expand its armaments.

The citizens, who were excited because the national debt was cashed out as scheduled, were instantly doused with cold water, and everyone could smell a storm that was about to come.

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A secret underground room in the Noble Quarter.

Looking at the few remaining members, Lauren shook his head bitterly. The king has been deliberately reducing the number of nobles, and anyone who breaks the law will be deprived of his title.

Therefore, after so many years, there are fewer and fewer nobles in the Silver Moon Kingdom, and the sense of division between the noble class and the civilian class has become more and more serious.

This is a terrible phenomenon, because the nobles' greatest reliance is their influence in various fields of the kingdom.

In the past, nobles and commoners were not actually separated.

The nobles can indirectly control the common people through vassals, such as empty nobles, retinues, etc., and the common people will subconsciously obey the nobles because of the whip that can be whipped on their bodies.

Nobles, noble vassals, commoners, the three blend together to form a towering tree with intertwined roots that is difficult to shake even the king.

But now, the vassals of the nobles have been cut across the board, and the number of nobles is gradually decreasing. There is a serious sense of separation between the noble class and the commoner class.

As the saying goes, beauty comes from distance. When the nobles are far away from the common people, the whip cannot hit them, and the common people will no longer fear and obey them.

Over time, the influence of the nobles will gradually weaken, and once they can no longer agitate the people, they will lose their support against the king.

When that day really comes, no one will be able to resist the king's new law...

Of course, although the number of nobles is gradually decreasing, they still maintain a considerable size. This is not the reason why this room is so empty.

The reason why most people did not come is that they have given up fighting against the new law.

After all, what people pursue is comfort. Over the years, apart from not being able to trample on the law unscrupulously, they can still enjoy glory and wealth.

Even compared to before, the quality of life of most nobles has been improved.

Anyway, even if they don't do anything every day, they can still eat and drink, unlike before, when they were bothered by a bunch of crap.

In addition, the king's debts have basically been paid off, and the king's reputation has been further enhanced. Naturally, very few people are willing to continue taking risks.

Seeing that the few people left in the room were silent, Lauren took the initiative to ask: "From the current signs, the king seems to be preparing to launch a war. What do you think?"

There was a deathly silence in the room. After a long time, a mysterious person said slowly: "The few of us have already decided to quit."

Lauren froze, suppressing his anger and asked: "Don't you think it's too late to quit now?! Lord Wolfgang!"

Every day in the aristocratic district, people look up and see down, so even if they cover up their appearance, they can easily identify their identities.

Seeing that his identity was directly pointed out, the mysterious man simply stopped pretending, and directly lifted his cloak, looking at Lauren calmly.

It was the eldest son of the late Prime Minister Medel, the city magistrate of the capital, and Mike's father-in-law, Wolfgang, who was deeply trusted by the royal family. He snorted coldly: "I don't think it's too late at all!"

Feeling betrayed, Lauren gritted his teeth and said, "Don't forget, you lured the Earl and his wife to the capital, do you think the king will forgive you?!"

As the most trusted subject of the royal family and the father-in-law of the king's clerk, Wolfgang couldn't easily forge a letter from the king.

Even the assassination was planned by the city magistrate of the capital, otherwise who would assassinate the king's parents in the capital!

Wolfgang looked at Lauren with a gloomy expression: "I never need his forgiveness, I just need to keep the title of the family!"

In today's Silver Moon Kingdom, as long as there is a title, it can guarantee prosperity and wealth from generation to generation.

Therefore, for nobles who pay attention to family interests, being deprived of their title by the king is the most painful punishment, and death is not worth fearing.

Another mysterious person sighed in a strange way: "Lord Laurent does not have a family title, so naturally he is not afraid of continuing to fight against the king. Anyway, even if something happens at that time, the king will punish you at most, and if something happens to us, the people involved will be punished." But the whole family!"

The king's new law does not have a system of consecutive sittings. Even if the law is violated, it will at most punish the person involved and will not implicate his family.

The few of them shouldered the titles of the family, and once the incident came to light, the titles would definitely be taken back by the king.

But Lauren is different. Although everyone knows it, he is the one who is talking about the Hood family.

But so far, Marquis Hood, who is over ninety years old, is still alive and strong.

In name, the title of the Hood family has never belonged to Lauren, so even if he is captured by the king, the king cannot abolish the title of the Hood family.

The risks they take are different, why let them continue to take risks...

Wolfgang said with a cold face: "The king has proved with practical actions that his new law is not aimed at the aristocracy, and we will naturally not oppose him, but you, Lord Laurent, you have always opposed the new law. Because of personal grievances with His Majesty the King!"

Since the implementation of the new law, except for the first few years, when the income of some rural nobles' estates was embezzled, the nobles have been living comfortably for the rest of the time.

And as long as it is not breaking the law, the king will not specifically find fault with the nobles, which is also the key to most nobles no longer opposing the new law.

They can be free, eat, drink and have fun happily, why do they make themselves uncomfortable? !

Lauren clenched his fist unwillingly, but was speechless.

Because what Wolfgang said was right, he deliberately wanted to overthrow the king's new law, just to see Simon's displeasure, and he was not really thinking about the aristocracy.

Nowadays, the nobles are no longer worried that the new law will harm their interests~www.novelbuddy.com~ Naturally, only the personal grievances between him and the king remain.

One of them got up, waved his hand and said, "Let's go, let Lord Laurent play alone!"

Seeing several people get up and prepare to leave, Lauren gritted his teeth and said: "Remember the rules of this room, if anyone dares to tell the truth, I will kill his family first!"

Those who were about to leave froze, then nodded silently.

Under Lauren's painstaking management over the years, the Hood family is still the leader of the nobles, and the strength they have secretly accumulated cannot be underestimated.

If he wanted to kill their family, the king might not be able to rescue them in time...

Anyway, they have escaped from the game, and then they just need to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight. No matter what the king and Lauren want to do next, it has nothing to do with them!

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Mike handed a letter to Simon, and said with a complicated expression: "Your Majesty, the city magistrate committed suicide at home last night. This is his confession letter."

The Box family has always been the most loyal courtiers of the royal family, and Wolfgang is his father-in-law. Who would have thought that this would betray the king.

Simon opened it and glanced casually, then tore the letter into pieces expressionlessly.

He has gone through this process many times.

Those secret opponents are more or less guilty. If they want to get out of this game, they can only pass the title to the next generation and commit suicide.

If a person dies, he, the king, can't continue to pursue the case...

Of course, this is also a means for him to divide the opposition forces of the nobles, although he does not know how strong the opposition forces of the nobles still are.

But he knew that the day to eradicate this cancer was not far away!