Chapter 94 Identity Targeting
"You mean, we should send troops together to deal with that evil cult? No, isn't that the principality's territory?"

After calming down, a knight suddenly asked in confusion.

His words brought the others back to their senses.

Indeed, they are angry, but that is the territory of the Northern Frost Principality. Why should they be asked to solve the problem if something happens?

It's not like there's a problem in their own territory. Whoever has the problem should solve it. This is the norm for nobles.

Our own soldiers are precious. Can we share their land if we help the principality to eliminate the evil cult? That's a dream!
Why bother? I can still hold on for a while anyway.

They just don't believe that the Northern Frost Principality will just sit there and do nothing. Why not just wait for the rebellion to be put down?

The knights who were standing excitedly sat back in their seats.

Seeing that the accumulated momentum was about to dissipate, Kelvin quickly signaled to a knight on the opposite side.

After receiving his instructions, the Carmen Knight suddenly spoke excitedly:
"Everyone, think about it carefully. It has been a month and there has been no movement from the Northern Frost Principality! They may send people to quell the rebellion, but who knows how long they will have to wait."

"The White Frost Cult will only grow stronger over time! They may actively attack us. Maybe the Principality is deliberately letting them do this and wants to use this evil cult against us!"

After Knight Carmen finished speaking, the people who had just relaxed became nervous again.

The pioneering knights looked at each other and realized that this was indeed possible.

"Damn it, the Northern Frost Principality is not really that shameless, right?"

"Why not?" Knight Carmen vowed, "So we must unite. A single pioneer knight is not important enough, and the principality will not care. But when everyone present unites, they will have to pay attention to the legion of tens of thousands of people."

After receiving Kelvin's admiring look, Carmen Knight, who was speaking, became more confident.

His eyes focused on a blond knight and he knew he had entered the final stage.

As long as Kelvin completes the next sacrifice to establish his authority, he will be able to successfully unite everyone, and he will also be reused.

Knight Carmen was excited.

Noticing that he was looking at him, Rhodes, who had been sitting in the corner without saying anything, looked helpless.

From the people's disgust and hatred for the cultists, to the public's indignation at the Principality's inaction, Rhodes had already seen through Kelvin's plan.

The chief knight wanted to guide the emotions and form a large-scale military alliance by relying on the anger of the people towards the Principality.

And in this process, he needs someone to establish his authority.

With his bloodline and previous behavior of being close to the Principality, he became a target for the other side.

If I don't take action and chop him off, I would be unworthy of my noble status.

As Rhodes expected, Knight Carmen, who was Kelvin's substitute, suddenly looked at him coldly.

"Come to think of it, one of our members has an unusually close relationship with the Principality."

The other knights followed his gaze and looked at Rhodes. Knight Carmen sneered and said:

"You may not know that as the king's pioneering knight, this Rhodes knight actually joined the principality and became a vassal of the Grand Duke."

"what?"

For a moment, there were surprised discussions around.

Many ordinary knights who didn't understand the situation frowned.

As for the Knights of the Round Table who understood the reason, they looked interested and their eyes moved back and forth between Rhodes and Kelvin.

They saw that this was Kelvin's way of establishing his authority and did not reject this behavior.

Who made Rhodes have such a close relationship with the principality? With the help of the border guards, he actually got two resource-rich principality territories for free.

Who wouldn’t be envious when seeing this!

In other words, even if they looked through the family tree, they could not find anything to do with Grand Duke Beishuang, otherwise they would have learned to curry favor with him long ago.

Great-great-grandfather, I am your long-lost grandson!
I am envious and jealous in my heart, but it doesn't matter if we don't have conflicts on a daily basis.

But now the Principality has aroused public anger, and they are happy to see Rhodes in trouble.

Carmen continued, "Knight Rhodes, facing the Principality's disheartening inaction, shouldn't you give us an explanation?"

Rhodes could feel the dissatisfaction and anger of others.

This made him realize that if he couldn't explain it, it would be difficult for him to leave here intact.

Fortunately, when he approached the principality, he had considered how to deal with similar situations and was prepared in advance.

"The Northern Frost Principality was severely affected by the disaster, and most of its manpower is currently in the south to provide disaster relief, so they were careless for a moment and allowed the White Frost Cult to start an uprising."

Rhode said, "Don't worry, Governor Elena has already mobilized troops and will wipe out the cult soon."

Carmen chuckled and said, "The soon you mean doesn't mean half a year later, when we are all dead, right?" The others were also very dissatisfied with his explanation.

"Of course not. We are anxious, but those nobles of the Northern Frost Principality who don't have any territory, aren't they anxious too?" Rhodes smiled indifferently.

After hearing his words, everyone understood what he meant instantly.

Why did they come here to explore? It was because there was no extra land in the kingdom, so they had to come to the north to fight.

Now, there is a large-scale rebellion in the northern part of the principality, which has left a large area of ​​territory vacant.

Moreover, it is cultivated land that has been developed for many years, which is far better than the wasteland that has been reclaimed!

It is impossible for them, the knights of the kingdom, to inherit, but what about the nobles of the duchies?
If you put yourself in their shoes, you will realize that they have probably been itching to come and quell the rebellion, and the sooner they inherit the territory, the better.

Everyone's anxious mood gradually eased, and Rhode struck while the iron was hot and continued:
"And this is precisely our opportunity. The duchy is short of manpower right now. In order to gain the credit for suppressing the rebellion and to have a better chance of inheriting the territory, I think the nobles of the duchy are happy to spend a lot of money to recruit mercenaries."

Rhodes' eyes swept over those ordinary knights.

Unlike the Knights of the Round Table, they do not have the financial resources to build a territory, and they come here as mercenaries to make money.

With the arrival of the cold wave, the war with the northern barbarians stopped.

No one is more eager for war than these knights, who are living off their wealth.

Seeing the change in everyone's mood, Knight Carmen immediately said in dissatisfaction: "You actually want us to send troops to help the Principality?"

Rhode smiled and said, "Why not? It's not like we won't charge you. It just didn't work before because we lacked communication and trust. But now I can help, and the Governor of Hanshui County, Earl Elena, will also serve as a witness."

Rhodes simply wrote a blank check, but he had his reasons.

It has been more than a month, and there is only one possibility why Governor Elena has allowed the chaos in Hanshui County to continue.

She was unwilling to waste her precious military strength, so she wanted to wait for the private soldiers of other nobles in the principality to come to her aid.

In that case, she had no reason to reject the power of the pioneer knight.

Maybe we should thank Rhodes for the help.

"Not only that, before our caravans passed through the northern territory, they would be charged a lot of tolls, but now it's different."

Rhode looked at the Knights of the Round Table. "This is a great opportunity, isn't it? We can use this opportunity to build good relations with the new lords and get them to lower their tax rates with military assistance."

Since taking charge of the estuary town, Rhodes has suffered greatly from the toll.

Because of the taxes on trade, a large number of caravans refused to come, and even the goods he sold had to be reduced in price before anyone would buy them.

The other Knights of the Round Table were no exception, with almost one-third of their income spent on paying taxes.

"The principality is right behind us. Instead of continuing to confront each other, we should take this opportunity to build closer relations. You also know that I have a close relationship with the principality, right?"

Rhodes said with a smile, even though he hadn't received a response from Elena yet.

But it doesn’t matter, these pioneering knights believed it.

Their eyes lit up. Compared with the tangible benefits before them, the mutual contempt between the kingdom and the principality was not worth mentioning.

Seeing this scene, Karl's forehead began to sweat, and he wanted to refute anxiously.

But he was interrupted by Kelvin's cough.

Once both the ordinary knights and the Knights of the Round Table were persuaded, this alliance against the Duchy had lost its meaning.

Kelvin glared at the incompetent subordinate in anger.

No matter how unhappy he was, he could only raise his glass to Rhodes with a smile on his face under the gaze of everyone.

"Thank you Knight Rhodes for everything you have done for us. I hope you can bring news from the Principality as soon as possible."

Amidst laughter and joy, everyone clinked glasses.

This corner of Rhodes was initially deserted and was surrounded by a group of pioneering knights.

Chatted with him enthusiastically about the next plan.

This banquet held for him made Rhodes the focus here.

Of course, the prerequisite is that he can ensure successful communication with Governor Elena and allow the Pioneer Knights to intervene in the rebellion.

Rhodes was not worried. No matter what the truth was, in the Northern Frost Principality, he was now the representative of the pioneering knights in the Hanshui River Basin.

Behind him stood a powerful army of tens of thousands of people.

You may not give him face, but you must give face to this legion!

It is an awkward position to offend both sides, but as long as you use it well, who says you can't have the best of both worlds?

(End of this chapter)