Chapter 163

Are you the new Lord sent by the Marquis?

Puda's words reveal a strange emotion that even Sean and Cecilia can feel. What do you seem to be looking forward to?

"Cough." Sean showed an expression that he thought he was very reserved and modest. He grinned. The smile was very friendly, "yes."

Then

Sean saw a disappointed look on Puda's face.

He made no secret of his disappointment, and the naked expression froze the smile on Sean's face for a moment. Can it be said that his expectation just now was that he wanted to say a "no"?

Sean looked at Cecilia suspiciously and whispered, "did I fail so much?"

Cecilia thought about it and whispered, "maybe it's because you look too young?"

Sean looked helplessly at Cecilia. The little fool's comforting words sounded unreliable at all. A lord's talent and strength have nothing to do with her age. As the youngest Marquis of strength in the Principality of lane, Athena is only 26 years old this year. Although she is about to turn 27, she is definitely the youngest aristocrat of strength in the Principality of lane.

Who would say she's still young? Or, who dares to say she is young?

Puda's disappointment confused Sean.

"I thought the new Lord would be one of the three followers of the female warrior God." Puda is a relatively honest man. He simply has one to say one and two to say two. He won't hide his ideas at all.

Sean said reluctantly, "I'm also a follower of Lord Athena."

"Ha ha." Puda smiled and said nothing.

Sean's face became a little ugly. The polite smile of "ha ha" really reminded him of too many bad memories before. If it's Athena or Elizabeth, Sean thinks he can accept it, but if a man or a middle-aged man hehe to himself, Sean has a crazy feeling of wanting to hit the wall.

In fact, if Sean had known that Puda judged his strength according to the number and quality of followers around a lord, he would have selected several strong men who looked more powerful to support the scene, or just wait until Alfred came back. After all, in Puda's eyes, the Lord only has a burly northern barbarian follower, and it seems that the strength of the follower is not very good.

However, Puda can still "ha ha" at the moment. The old mayor on one side has become a little unnatural: "Lord, I have just made it clear to you that this is not our Puda town's fault..."

Sean looked at the old mayor.

The old mayor was covered with silver, his face was deeply wrinkled, his figure had begun to shrink, and his body gave off a rotten smell. Even if Sean didn't understand this, he knew that the old mayor in front of him would not live for a few years. But even so, he has been making every effort to contribute to the development of the whole town over the years. Otherwise, he would not say the words "just ask the new Lord not to be too harsh".

"I don't mean to blame you." Sean shook his head gently and said, "I have a thorough understanding of the situation in the town. It's not your fault. At the beginning, it was abandoned and became a land without owner. If I were the mayor, I would do the same in order to survive. "

At this point, Sean stood up and saluted the mayor slightly: "I'll solve the problem of habinder's snake."

"At present, there are two or three hundred members of habinder's snake. They are all murderers who have really fought in the war. You saw the situation in the tavern just now." Puda's eyebrows wrinkled. He also stood up and said, "and habinder himself is a lower silver strength. Although his mercenary regiment is relatively weak in the three nearby towns, his own strength can definitely rank in the top five It is said that the heavy hammer you saw before is not his opponent. "

Puda's words are a little straightforward, which is easy to misunderstand. He is questioning Sean's ability. Even if Sean and Cecilia knew that Puda didn't mean that, it still sounded a little uncomfortable.

If Puda knew that Sean had killed two lower silver at Fort tonis, I'm afraid he wouldn't say such a thing.

Of course, this doesn't mean that Sean can really kill silver level masters easily. The most important thing is that Sean has enough cards in his hand. Just how to play all these cards for use, some need to study Sean's computing ability. Otherwise, he wouldn't have risked putting himself in an extremely unfavorable situation at tonis fortress, forcing the wind swordsman to use the last killing move, then break the necessary sword with a curse and silver scale, and then turn defeat into victory.

However, Sean really didn't pay attention to the general lower silver strength. At least Sean didn't care about the savage in the wild called heavy hammer. He just didn't want to expose his identity and strength so soon, so he used some small hands to force the other party away. Now when he heard Puda's words, he automatically filtered the tone that seemed to doubt his strength and focused on the information about the three towns.

"Strength can be ranked in the top five, so that is to say, at least four people's strength is ahead of him?" Sean asked, "is there any silver?"

"That's not true." Puda shook his head. "If there were silver, these three towns would have been taken by a mercenary regiment. How could they be safe like today But correctly speaking, only three are slightly better than habinder. He should be able to rank fourth. But if you want to say that the mercenary Corps is the largest and most powerful, it is the dabron mercenary Corps. "

"Dabron?" Sean has heard William mention it before.

In fact, he didn't choose to come to Hongye Town, but William had carried out some simple intelligence work. However, because the intelligence work is too simple, he can also get too much favorable information. After a rough evaluation, he decided to attack Hongye town first. The reason is that Hongye town has the least number of mercenaries, but only Hongye town has a militia.

According to the sum of William, Sean and Cecilia, it's best to inquire about the average combat power of the mercenary regiment first, and then let Sean know what Hongye town thinks about the succession of the new Lord. If Hongye town can accept the arrival of the new Lord without causing any problems, the result will be the best. If not, it can only be suppressed by force after Alfred brings people.

It's just that some changes in the situation are indeed out of expectation.

Arnold's big stupid iron fists directly turned the whole situation of Hongye town into a mess. If Sean doesn't know how to fish at this time, he will really have a head on his head.

"That town is the largest of the three nearby towns. It is said that it once reached 6000 people, almost catching up with a small town. They were the first town to invite mercenaries, but unexpectedly, they invited a bandit who had been looting in the southern part of the Kingdom, so that night the town was almost reduced to hell, and they robbed the wives and daughters of many families... "

These words, needless to say too frankly, Sean and Cecilia know what they mean.

"A few days later, the bandits seemed to find their target and went out to rob. On that day, one third of the people in the whole town ran away, and a large town was empty in an instant. Later, the bandits came back and found that the situation was wrong. Then they sealed several Town doors, leaving only one, and sent someone to guard them every day. Later, I heard that another group of people were ready to flee. It seemed that there was a conflict with the mercenary regiment. As a result, hundreds of people died, only dozens of people ran away, and all rushed to another town. For this reason, the mercenary regiment also sent people to beg. As a result, the town did not hand over the people. Therefore, a conflict broke out between the two towns later, but I don't know which side won. "

"It seems that the situation in my territory is somewhat complicated." Sean smiled bitterly. "Is dabron really a dead town now?"

"Eight, nine, ten." Puda thought for a moment, then said his guess, "one third of the people ran first, and hundreds of people died, which is about to catch up with the scale of Hongye town. There are only two or three thousand people left in the town, but a year has passed, and the mercenary regiment is a group of cruel murderers. Who knows if there are any more people dead there 5、 In a town of 6000 people, there are only so many people left. Isn't that a dead town? "

Sean was silent.

The development of a territory is closely related to the scale and quantity of its neighbors. If there are no neighbors in the territory, any development is empty talk. Under normal circumstances, the territory's neighbors will not grow explosively. Only when wars, disasters and famines break out in other nearby places will a large number of refugees and refugees appear and then flow into other territories. However, can these people eventually develop into their own neighbors instead of a group of bandits and robbers, It depends on the Lord's ability and ability.

Therefore, the situation in dabron town is tantamount to destroying Sean's foundation, which naturally makes Sean feel extremely unhappy.

Just then, a young man suddenly broke into the old mayor's house and shouted in panic: "Uncle Puda, it's not good! The people of habinder's snake left the camp and rushed to the town. Their momentum is very fierce! "

Upon hearing this, Puda's eyebrows wrinkled slightly, as if he was worried.

But only Sean's face suddenly changed: "are they coming for me?"

The young militia didn't know who Sean was, but when they saw him asking, they also replied, "yes! This time they all had weapons in their hands, and the habinder also had a long knife, and the habinder mercenaries in the town left the town... "

This time, Puda's face finally changed, because although there had been several conflicts before, the two sides had only fought each other at most, and had hardly taken weapons. Even in the conflict that night, neither side used weapons. But this time, the snake of Hubbard came with a weapon, which is completely different（ To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly ticket at qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation.)