Volume 4 Chapter 130 - Deciding factor (1/2)

Volume 4 Strictly speaking, without the authentication of Duke Stantine, all the land the lords controlled in the Stantine Duchy were considered illegal.

So according to this, over 80% of the land that Count Wein controlled now was illegal.

Count Wein was only a small lord back then, but now he had stolen land from the other lords. This was the silent rule of the Stantine Duchy, whoever’s fist was bigger and could steal it belonged to that person, no one had ever questioned it.

But now, Duke Stantine had announced that he would be giving land that belonged to Lord Wein to Xu Yi.

In theory, there wasn’t a problem because Duke Stantine could grant all the territory of the Stantine Duchy to whoever he wanted.

But by doing this, this was without a doubt a slap to Count Wein’s face.

Giving such a large piece of territory to Xu Yi was clearly trying to instigate the relationship between Count Wein and Xu Yi.

The most important issue is that territory was important to any noble of the Sines Continent, it could even say that how big a territory represented everything about a noble.

Duke Stantine doing this now was clearly throwing bait to let Xu Yi and Count Wein fight over it.

If Xu Yi and Count Wein really fought over this territory, naturally they would fall into Duke Stantine’s plan.

Count Wein was this forceful and the most important reason was the support of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. If he had a falling out with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, losing their support, this would be a fatal blow to Count Wein.

Like this, Count Wein that was already strong enough to threaten Duke Stantine would become nothing to worry about.

Even if Xu Yi and Count Wein didn’t fall out because of this territory, the ownership of this territory would place a deep thorn between them and would affect their relationship.

It had to be said, Duke Stantine’s move was very wise, making full use of his identity as the duke. He effortlessly took care of the threat that Count Wein had posed for him.

He made it more absolute by sending the news of Xu Yi’s new territory all over the Stantine Duchy, letting all the lords know about this matter.

So the other lords of the Stantine Duchy all stretched out their necks and waited.

The Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Count Wein working together was too terrifying. If their relationship was not destroyed, the other lords of the duchy wouldn’t be able to see any hope.

However, Xu Yi and Count Wein’s reactions to this greatly surprised everyone.

First, Xu Yi very quickly accepted Duke Stantine’s orders and even expressed that he would accept this territory.

Then what surprised everyone the most was that Count Wein didn’t have any objections to this.

After Xu Yi expressed he would accept this territory, Count Wein immediately removed all his subordinates from this territory.

Not only his army, even the people that were in charge of managing the territory were moved out. It was clear that he was completely ceding control of this territory.

Then the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s guards entered the territory, followed by the Amrit Chamber of Commerce. They began building many factories as well as staff residences with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s symbol, symbolizing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was officially taking over.

During this entire process, there was no conflict between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and Duke Stantine’s side at all. Rather when the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s guards met Count Wein’s troops, both sides were quite friendly to each other. There wasn’t the smell of gunpowder at all.

This performance had shocked everyone.

Count Wein was invincible in the north of the Stantine Duchy. Everyone thought that with his arrogance, he would tolerate someone stealing territory from him.

But when facing the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, he didn’t resist at all, he didn’t even say a single word of opposition.

Could it be……he feared the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?

No one knew what Count Wein was thinking, but everyone knew about Count Wein’s actions afterwards.

Perhaps he felt that his territory had dropped, but after this matter, Count Wein attacked two other lords. In just a single month, he defeated those two lords and took their territory as well.

The territory of those two lords were much bigger than the territory Duke Stantine had given Xu Yi. Calculating it, Count Wein’s territory had rather increased by quite a bit.

Half a month later, Duke Stantine played the same trick. He gave another part of Count Wein’s territory to Xu Yi and this territory was far from Xu Yi’s existing territory, with a large part of Count Wein’s territory in between them.

However, Count Wein didn’t object either this time. He removed all his subordinates from this territory and even gave the territory that separated the two pieces of territory that Xu Yi had, letting Xu YI connect them all together.

Like this, Xu Yi’s territory already surpassed a shocking two thousand square kilometers.