The witch thought I am a Demon God-Chapter 536 - 313 Becoming a Viscount and Gaining Two Viscount Territories_2

Ivita sat at her desk, raising her eyebrows. Reputation, huh?

The bigger her reputation, the more likely it would attract attention from Alsace.

But it didn’t matter.

She would solve these issues on her own.

[Duva Gureggrevsky] said to Ivita, "My lord, the original territories of the Valji family are a messy mix. After all, these lands were seized by the family within the past decade."

"There are quite a few landowners there."

"The Valji family intentionally left them alone. I worry that if we let time drag on, they might stir up some trouble."

Ivita looked at him and nodded. "Just work hard and do things according to your own intentions."

...

On the vast countryside next to Sunken Ship Harbor, many villages were established. Sixty years ago, this area used to be under proper feudal lordship but when the pirates came, all the systems were disrupted.

Marco Anson wanted to establish a centralized administration system, the pirate earls wanted to decentralize power, advocating feudal republicanism, and now, after everything was messed up, no one knows what kind of system the pirate world was under anymore.

As for the farmers on this land, they didn’t much care who governed them, only how high the taxes were. Thus, these farmers numbly continued to live on this land, watching the landlords above their heads change again and again, until they were replaced by pirates.

In the town of Meri, under the Valji family, most of the influential land nobles under the Valji family banner were gathered in the mayor’s house, to discuss how to deal with the new lord and whether to acknowledge him.

The mayor of Meri town had someone extinguish the candles in the room and close the windows and doors. When the room was pitch dark, he said to everyone, "Whatever happens here now will not be known by any third party, especially not by our new lord."

"Ladies and gentlemen, village chiefs, mayors, lords, knights, barons, I want to ask you, do you recognize the rule of the new lord over our territory?" 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

As soon as the mayor of Meri finished speaking, a baron from Yinshan replied. "Recognize, why wouldn’t we recognize? Both the Governor of Sunken Ship Harbor and the Great Governor of Central Harbor have issued documents recognizing his rule over us."

"It would be useless if we don’t recognize his rule."

"The Church will also recognize it soon."

"The priests in our territory are not happy with us. Now that they’ve heard that a nobleman from the mainland is going to be the lord here, they’ve taken this as a divine proclamation from the God of All Things, thinking it’s time for them to turn the tables."

"Tch~"

"But although we recognize him, we can’t just kneel and lick his toes as a 14-year-old, that’s too unbearable. The youngest among us could be his father!"

Baron Anto, unlike the direct Baron Yinshan, was not as young and blunt as Yinshan, who was still a young man.

Baron Anto said: "Baron Yinshan, mind your words, don’t insult your lord, it’s not good for you. But if the new lord doesn’t give us any benefits and wants us to recognize his rule, it doesn’t work. We only recognized the pirates’ rule because the Valji family allowed us judicial independence."

Baron Anto, stroking his white chin beard, slyly said: "This time, asking for independent military power from him is not realistic, but we can ask him to allow us to double the number of current patrol guards in our territories, and to reduce our taxes by 30%."

"Of course, reducing the tax by 30% is a bit too much, but it’s just a way to give our new lord some face and let him bargain. I estimate that we could end up with a tax reduction of half."

"As long as we offer him a big enough steps, we expect him to be very satisfied. After all, youngsters love face."

Baron Yinshan admired: "No wonder you’re the wise old man Anto."

The other lords also praised him.

Mayor Anglu said: "I agree."

Chief Rock said: "I also agree, but our village can’t pay much tax anyway, we’re so poor."

The host of the meeting, Mayor Meri, happily said: "I didn’t expect our discussion to proceed so smoothly."

"Then everyone, let’s get on the same page in advance. We’ll need to collectively pressurize the new lord to get him to agree to make concessions..."

Suddenly, a timid town mayor said: "Actually... I’ve been wanting to say... the new lord you’ve been talking about seems to have attended this meeting..."

The room went dead silent in the darkness.

But not long after, applause echoed, and the room was illuminated as candles were lit one by one.

Iron Mountain Knight standing behind Ivita, after lighting up all the candles and filling the room with light, Ivita, sitting in the pew with her leg crossed, clapping, "Speaking of which, I saw a passion from everyone’s speech today. I’m glad to know that you all still have me in your hearts."

"I’m delighted that you all could express your heartfelt thoughts."

Those in the center of the meeting, the major landowners, almost suffocated, the person before them was the fierce who had cruelly wiped out the Valji family!

On his presence, they had...

In front of this fierce person, they were secretly plotting to oppose him, they were seeking their own deaths.