"These are the land gentry classes that both the Royalist Party and the Earl’s Party need to win over. In His Majesty’s words, they are the current owners of most of the production assets in the Kingdom.
No matter who wins, they have to pinch their noses and jointly govern this Kingdom with them.
Of course, killing a few people is easy, but can you make this entire class obediently hand over their lands?
Plus, Edward IV allowed the Remit People to immigrate on a large scale, and the immigrants are not just people but their transferred assets—a golden opportunity, isn’t it?
If you kill them now, how will you lure other fat pigs in to be slaughtered later?
We just need to ensure that these wealthy people don’t escape.
Even if they run away guilty, the Iron Anchor Bay and thousands of pirate ships around Black Sails Harbor are waiting in ambush. Our task is to inform and capture their movable and immovable assets all at once.
The King of the Wild Hunt, His Majesty, connects the industry chain upstream and downstream, not leaving a single copper coin behind—he’s a professional."
Traditional land nobles are vastly different from comrcial aristocrats; their wealth cos from land, and their favorite thing to do is hoarding.
Although the battle is won, the wealth accumulated by the family over hundreds of years—gold, silver, spices, antiques, etc.—movable assets are all taken away from Hightins. Byron absolutely cannot allow this.
This ti, so loyalists from the Royalist and Earl’s Party in other places, who received the news in advance, have indeed started to flee, but most were intercepted by pirates.
Just as a group of land nobles, satisfied from wine and food, pulled up handso n and beauties beside them, ready to engage in so post-dinner entertainnt.
Bang!
The palace door was pushed open from the outside, and the personal servant of Hal Black, the banker, rushed in, stumbling, in panic:
"Your Excellency, the Strait of Dover has determined its victor!"
The banker frowned and scolded:
"A result is a result, why panic? Did the Edward IV I funded win, or did the Kingmaker I funded win?"
The Remit People have almost financed every war on the Old Continent in modern tis.
This ti is no different; this [Banker] and the Netherland United Bank behind him funded both the Royalist Party and the Earl’s Party. Whoever cos to power has to repay their investnt!
Let him continue to expand his wool business using agents and even occupy more lands.
They learned to hedge risks and, as a banker skilled in investnt, they never lose money.
Moreover, with the Investnt Pact as assurance from the banker’s professional ability, no one can default.
That’s the reason why others fight desperately, yet don’t affect their carefree indulgence.
But the servant shook his head desperately:
"Your Excellency, neither of them; the winner is the suddenly intruding Wild Hunt Byron Lancaster!
Intelligence reports say he has already beco the new Fifth Order [King’s Title], and intelligence personnel witnessed the Ascension Stairs to Godhood shooting skyward, along with a terrifying mythical form.
It’s feared that his life... is longer than this country’s life!"
The servant quickly explained the intelligence.
A group of land nobles who had just been dreaming of the "monarchical parliant system" bright future suddenly felt darkness overtake their vision.
Soone recalled their drunken remarks about sending the King to the guillotine and couldn’t help but sweat coldly.
Even if they don’t know much about black sorcery, they at least know that a god ans—immortal!
Drowning, dying of chronic lead poisoning, dying from aphrodisiac overdose, bloodletting death, misdiagnosis by a quack doctor... none of it affects him at all.
To beco enemies with such a non-human, one must prepare for their grandson’s grandson to die naturally, while he can still dance on the grave.
Just as everyone was feeling utterly defeated, [Banker] Hal Black laughed heartily three tis:
"Hahaha, there simply is no excellent talent we Remit People have not invested in!
My brother Stiel Blake is a shareholder in the Sea Hunter Western Express (Chapter 353), and he manages the Bantaan District with special funding for the Sea Hunter.
Since the Sea Hunter and the Wild Hunt are the sa person, we are still the new king’s sponsor!
Why stand there stupefied? Keep playing music, keep dancing!
Join tomorrow morning at the port to welco the new king, show him the simple folk customs led by the Kingdom gentry."
But in his excessive pride, he forgot a piece of history.
"Two hundred years ago in the Silver Era of 1272, during Edward I’s reign.
He earned the title Hamr of Black Hightins, Conqueror of the Isles, and a series of very positive honors and King’s titles with his own bravery.
But few know that he was actually also the earliest and most thorough expeller of Remit creditors from Hightins, and even the East Coast instigator and executor.
He ordered 17,511 Remit People to leave Hightins before November 1 of that year, otherwise all were sentenced to death.
In the ensuing two hundred years, those kings who borrowed high-interest loans from the Remit People and couldn’t afford to pay back, ultimately resorting to killing the creditors painfully, were rely his followers and imitators.
"Lancaster Family History" notes: Indeed it’s painful, Remit People lost a life, we lost golden credibility—our pain was imnse."
Thus, "Kill it! Kill it!" is actually the Lancaster family’s traditional art, and it poses no psychological burden for Byron.
After all, it’s all... ancestral system!
"I decide that henceforth the Kingdom of Hightins should be governed by ’filial piety.’ It’s impossible for to make a decision contrary to ancestor’s teachings!"
Early the next day, as Byron and his great fleet gradually approached the royal capital.
The Kingston Daily had prepared two editions of newspapers to respectively publish the victories of the Kingmaker and Edward IV, but are still caught off guard and had to urgently print a special "Extra" for significant announcents:
"Welco to His Majesty the King to his loyal Kingston!
The people of Kingston, who suffered under the tyrannical White Rose Family rule, will be forever loyal to the great Red Rose!"
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