Milo didn't respond, just looked at the other party calmly.
Owen and Milo looked at each other for a moment and said: "If you are unwilling to stay in Haiboni, His Majesty the King can also issue a certificate for you to ensure your normal passage within the Kingdom Alliance."
Milo still didn't respond. Owen continued: "If you want to gain territory, His Majesty the King can issue you a development order, allowing you to open up a piece of land no larger than a standard marquis territory in the chaotic area inside the continent, and acknowledge that Your sovereignty. But as a price, you need to serve the kingdom for three hundred years."
When he said this, Owen could not hide the envy in his tone.
The development order can be regarded as one of the most precious things in the Kingdom Alliance. It represents the guarantee of the order of a kingdom. Each development order means the birth of a new noble and the consumption of a huge amount of order power.
For beings like Owen who joined the Kingdom of Hibernian from other countries, a pioneering order was something they dreamed of.
But Milo didn't care. Hearing that this was the other side's bottom line, he finally spoke: "Forget about the development order and so on. I don't need the honorary title. There are only two things I want. One is to promote the kingdom, and the other is to Do you know how you avoided the oath? If I remember correctly, your allegiance should be to the Gerd family. I don’t believe that the oath signed by the Gerd family and you has big loopholes or can be easily solved. open."
Facing Milo's question, Owen said slowly: "The family is the family, and I am me. It was the family, not me, who made the oath with the Gerd family back then. As long as I pledge allegiance to the king in advance, then I can To a certain extent, avoid the influence of the Gerd family’s oath, or offset most of the costs of breaking the oath.”
Owen said it simply, but Milo understood the key point.
There are capable people in the Kingdom of Hiberni who can divide concepts.
The Southern Islands are different from Hanxia. The stability of class has brought closer blood relations. Hanxia may have the opportunity to separate families and nobles, but in the Southern Islands, this is almost impossible.
Here, even if you are a direct descendant and cannot inherit the title, you can only lose your status as a noble and become a clerk or official of other nobles, or rely on your strong professional rank to become a guest of some small nobles.
For example, when Milo first came to the Southern Islands, he met Ji Luo's uncle, Viscount Whiteswan. When he introduced himself to outsiders, he mostly used the title Whiteswan, which sounded like he was The same as the Whiteswan family, but in fact his title originated from the title granted by the previous generation of the Gerd family. Therefore, according to the legal inheritance theory of the Southern Islands, this title still belongs to the Gerd family.
There are three different ways of division here. If the previous head of the Gerd family completely handed over the Viscount Whiteswan to him, similar to the hereditary replacement of the title of Middle-earth in the fantasy world, then the descendants of the Viscount Whiteswan would have The highest right of succession to the title of Viscount Whiteswan would be passed down for several generations, and a so-called Whiteswan family might actually emerge.
But if the previous head of the family did not completely hand it over to him personally, but gave Viscount Whiteswan a personal title, then after the death of Viscount Whiteswan, his brother and the current patriarch of the Gerd family will have the extremely high title of this title. Inheritance rights, this authority is high enough to affect the normal inheritance of Viscount Whiteswan's heirs.
The last one is similar to the court nobles and honorary nobles mentioned by Owen before. This title belongs only to individuals and is closer in nature to the administrator of a territory than to the person in charge.
Ji Luo's method of dividing the family title and seizing his brother's rights is essentially the first type. In the final analysis, it is still a struggle within the family.
From this point of view, it seems that the Kingdom of Hiberni's support for Jiluo's idea is in vain. But in fact, this is also a way of fighting within the aristocratic system of the Southern Islands. After Jiluo holds the title of earl, he retains his status as a direct descendant. His descendants will also have the opportunity to inherit the title of duke of the Gerd family. If this calculation continues, the conflict between Jiluo and his brother Ellison will be completely resolved. On the surface, it indirectly weakened the power within the Gerd family.
Therefore, what Irving calls me is me, and the family is the family. It sounds simple, but in practice it is very troublesome.
Not to mention the relationship between the family's corresponding energy and order and the individual, it is said that the Gerd family cannot be without some precautions.
Milo, who clearly understood this, said casually: "How far do you want me to do it?"
"How far can you go?"
As if he saw that Milo was planning to agree, Owen's attitude also changed slightly.
"It depends on what you hope to get? A pseudo-legend who is bound to the land and has almost no possibility of promotion, or a count who has a good chance of being promoted to a true legend?"
"Can't we completely lose the possibility of promotion?"
Owen's answer already indicated the kingdom's meaning. Milo sneered: "Unless he dies, who can conclude that he will never have a chance in the future? I can reduce the possibilities infinitely to the point where promotion is theoretically impossible, but I can't. So that he completely loses the chance of promotion, if nothing else, if a true god values him and gives him the power of a demigod, will he be promoted to a demigod soon?"
"This is extremely unlikely."
Owen answered coldly, and Milo also responded coldly: "But he does exist, right? I can't give you a definite answer. After all, it's impossible for us not to sign an oath. When the time comes, I will give you a definite answer. You have spent all your time." I worked so hard to help him get promoted, wouldn’t I be cheated to death?”
"You don't need to be so afraid. A mere Ji Luo won't cost us so much effort."
Owen seemed to want to explain a few words, but Milo's eyes were even more sarcastic: "Who cares whether Ji Luo will be valued by you? What I'm worried about is that you want to plot against me. Besides, since you said this The possibility is extremely slim, so why do I have to give a definite answer?”
Milo's words left Owen unable to answer, and then Milo continued: "I generally understand your request, but I hope that while I help Jiluo break through, you will publicize my name and promote it according to my needs. .”
"This is not consistent with..."
Before Owen finished speaking, Milo said sarcastically: "Don't act like you won't publicize it if I don't tell you. I don't believe that no one in the kingdom is secretly preparing to sow discord between me and the Gerd family. I I’m telling you this just because I don’t want any more nonsense in my rumors. Do you understand?”
Milo looked at Owen with cold eyes: "This is just a notification, not a request. After all, in addition to cooperating with you, I can also cooperate with the Gerd family."
After saying that, Milo turned around and returned to his place of practice to meet Ji Luo.
ps: There are certain references to the aristocratic inheritance system of the Southern Islands, but it does not completely follow the actual western aristocratic system. Please do not take it too seriously.
