Volume 4 Chapter 70 - Strong stance (1/2)

Leslie leaving the Stagg Family for Xu Yi wasn’t actually that serious of a matter.

When Xu Yi met Leslie back then, he knew that Leslie’s ideas were different from that of the Stagg Family. Leslie had always opposed the approach of his family.

When Leslie went back to fight for the right to inherit the family, he wanted to gradually change the ideas of the Stagg Family after becoming the family head, changing the ideas of the family to his ideas.

Although he had failed now, based on his personal point, this didn’t mean he had escaped.

In the end, he was Duke Stagg’s son. Even if Duke Stagg’s feelings for his son were light, it was impossible for him to do anything to him since he had the family blood in him.

Leslie wanted at least ten medium military Magic Boats from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, which required a lot of money. Without the approval of Duke Stagg, it was impossible for Leslie to take out that much money when he left the family.

Perhaps it was like Xu Yi had guessed, Duke Stagg expelling Leslie was to give an escape route for the Stagg Family.

So xu yi didn’t care about Leslie being expelled. Whether Leslie went to become a pirate or he went to become a trader, Xu Yi would support him as a friend.

Other than this, this wouldn’t impact Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that much.

However, this matter had a deep influence for the Stagg Family and even the entire Lampuri Kingdom.

When the nobles of the Lampuri Kingdom heard about Duke Stagg even expelling his son from the family because Leslie went against his views, going against him targeting the other nobles of the kingdom.

They knew that Duke Stagg didn’t even care about his son, so naturally he would be more ruthless towards other people.

And facts proved this.

After the news of Leslie being expelled was spread, Duke Stagg began moving even faster.

In just a single month, a large number of nobles in the Lampuri Kingdom were charged and the levels involved were getting broader and deeper.

Not only were four Counts that were City Lords losing their positions and titles, even one of the ministers in the royal army who was famed as the “Lampuri Falcon”, Duke Festalin was also jailed after being charged with treason.

Even a duke that was considered high up in terms of nobility couldn’t escape. This proved just how determined and ambitious the conservative faction led by Duke Stagg was this time.

However, this created a strong resistance in the Lampuri Kingdom.

Other than the newspapers in the Lampuri Kingdom criticizing that these recent actions were shaking the stability of the kingdom, there were many nobles that were charged that fought back.

When the forces of the kingdom’s parliament entered the manor of one of the City Lords and were going to capture him, they met the resistance of the City Lord’s private guards.

Both sides fought and the kingdom’s parliament forces had over a hundred casualties before capturing that City Lord.

The guards of a noble and the forces of the kingdom’s parliament clashing was without a doubt a serious matter. In terms of the kingdom’s laws, this could even be considered treason.

However, in this situation, this was considered nothing.

This matter was like a fuse, lighting up the tense situation in the Lampuri Kingdom.

For the next nobles that were deemed to be captured, the forces of the kingdom’s parliament met even fiercer resistance and more deaths occurred.

When they found that their forces couldn’t complete this mission, the kingdom’s parliament even moved the royal army.

However, this created an even stronger reaction.

According to the founding laws of the Lampuri Kingdom, the kingdom’s guarding army could only be used to protect the kingdom and they definitely couldn’t be used against the nobles of the kingdom. Now that Duke Stagg used this power he controlled to break this taboo, naturally it provoked the anger of all the nobles in the kingdom.

Forget those small nobles with those powers, but the big nobles who were on the same level as Duke Stagg with real power knew that they would be targeted by him sooner or later, so they began taking action.

Suddenly the Lampuri Kingdom became very tense. There were even several newspapers that expressed caution. With the current situation, if they weren’t careful, there might be a civil war that would be started.

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“Peng!”

Eric slapped down on the table and jumped up. He angrily looked at Duke Stagg in front of him and it took great effort to swallow the curses in his throat. He had a dark look as he said in a low roar, “Duke Stagg, I trusted you to take care of this matter, so I gave it all to you and didn’t question anything. But look at this now! Do you see what the kingdom has turned into? What do you want to do? Do you really want to start a civil war?”

This was Eric’s first time screaming at Duke Stagg, so Duke Stagg looked at him with a bit of surprise. Then he said with a faint smile, “Your majesty, please be assured, everything is in the palm of my hands. These people are just giving out a weak cry, they can’t do anything.”