The Lord of Another World: All Wasted at the Beginning, and He Made His Fortune by Taking in the Fem

Not long after Dawn White Bird returned to the border territory after changing its action plan, the eldest prince's forces, as Duke Oufei had said, officially declared war on the second prince who occupied the imperial city.

[Not only did he assassinate the late emperor with despicable means, but he also secretly joined forces with the enemy of the empire, Xi Mu, and attempted to overthrow the country. Traitors must be brought to justice! ]

Rather than being a manifesto, this pretentious declaration seems more like an emphasis on one's own legitimacy.

The eldest prince is of course the legitimate heir to the empire, but almost everyone in the empire knows that he is just a puppet of the nobles.

Even if he came out now and declared himself the emperor of the empire, no one would respect him at all.

But the second prince’s situation was even more outrageous.

Since the Dukedom of Booker was half destroyed and the small territories in the south were damaged by the infiltration forces of Cardia and Dusk, most of the people in the territory had fled to other places.

The reason why he chose to attack the imperial capital was to seize the surrounding territories and control the local people and resources.

"...Both sides are unpopular."

——For humans in this world, strength is still the top priority.

As long as those in power can win over powerful warriors, it will be difficult for those without power to resist.

And if the powerless are not exploited to the point where they cannot survive, subversive problems will not arise.

This is how the world works, and while it may seem hard to accept at first glance, it is not completely unreasonable.

After all, people without power may give birth to talented offspring, and young people who become strong may have the opportunity to change the class of their family.

“Even if people’s hearts can be suppressed temporarily, resources will not appear out of thin air.”

This is the reason why the two princes are eager for a decisive battle.

Most of the northern part of the empire is occupied by Duke Scott and his affiliated forces, but even the vast size of the territory cannot make up for the lack of important resources.

There aren't many magic source stones in this place.

As the cornerstone of human civilization, magic source stone, an important energy source, is indispensable.

Nowadays, when people are highly dependent on various magical tools, both industry and agriculture require a large amount of magic source stones to operate efficiently.

But there are no multi-magic source stone veins in the Duke of Scott's territory.

"Originally, the magic source stones needed by Duke Scott's territory could be purchased from Duke Booker's territory, but now there is still spiritual pollution in that territory, and it will not be possible to mine normally for a long time in the future."

Duke Booker's dying counterattack caused the empire to lose an important magic source stone production area - now think about it, the reason why he did this at the time was probably to cooperate with the second prince's plan to seize power.

If no one intervened at that time, I am afraid that Duke Booker would directly activate the artificial monster to attack the imperial capital, and then the second prince would take advantage of the chaos to hold the emperor hostage and force the emperor to abdicate the throne to himself.

After taking control of the imperial power, the invading Sunset Cardia coalition forces would be trapped in the trap set in advance by Duke Booker, and then be surrounded and annihilated by the reorganized Second Prince's troops.

But the princess's actions disrupted Duke Booker's plan, forcing him to accept the conditions proposed by the Star-Seeking Group and make a desperate and bad move.

"So, neither side of this decisive battle was fully prepared. They were worried that a third party might intervene at any time and destroy all the power and ambitions they had accumulated with great difficulty."

Whether it is Duke Oufei, who no one knows what he is doing until now, or Aarons, who has already controlled the empire's only foreign trade route, they both have the potential to overturn the current situation.

That is why the two princes decided to decide the winner as soon as possible - to defeat the other party before unstable factors intervene, become nominal emperors, and thus gain public support.

"But that kind of thing is nothing to a more powerful force. Your Excellency, you should understand what I mean."

"Of course I do, Mr. Lord Scott."

……

After Bai Niao returned to the border territory, Aarons immediately moved his office back to his familiar office.

For some reason, Karin and Xia Ye have kept a distance from him recently, and Jiangyue and Keliya are also busy updating the functions of the White Bird, so they did not come down with him.

In order to maintain the normal operation of the White Bird System, Yalu also stayed on the ship - so now the only one with Aarons is Zhu Ying.

However, in the eyes of the people he was meeting now, a girl with several steel flying swords floating behind her and a petite and fragile appearance was already extremely terrifying.

That person was Lord Scott... the man who had come to negotiate with Aarons on behalf of the nobles in order to prevent Aarons' engagement with the princess, but ultimately failed to achieve any results.

"After my father became ill with dementia, some of his retainers immediately sided with the Crown Prince. In just over a year, the Crown Prince almost completely controlled the Dukedom of Scott, sidelining those of us who still supported the Duke."

"Ha, then why did you put on such a big air to threaten me last time?"

"I wouldn't say it was forced by the situation because I don't think it was a mistake."

Although he has almost no power anymore, Lord's sense of nobility has not diminished at all.

Aarons did not object to this. Rather, he believed that such people who were consistent in their actions and deeds were easier to deal with than those who appeared to be righteous but had ulterior motives.

"I don't really care about that little thing, Mr. Lord. I just want to know why you came to me."

"Now only you have the power to break the balance between the two and restore the situation to a controllable state, and then-"

Lord's intention was somewhat unexpected to Aarons.

He did not want Aarons to destroy or support one of the parties, but to destroy the manpower of both sides and force them to stop fighting and sit down at the negotiation table.

"…Although the actions of the two princes are indeed despicable, they are still the direct descendants of the Armand family after all. Therefore, the best outcome is to let the two sides divide their spheres of influence and become independent, and forget the idea of ​​conquering each other with a foolish war."

"Splitting the Empire? Are you serious?"

"If we don't do this, those two bastards will treat all the people as expendable. Without the people, the empire will have no future at all."

Aarons then realized that this man's aristocratic consciousness did not only have a bad side.

As a nobleman, he knew that while he enjoyed power and wealth, he also had responsibilities and obligations.

The people of the territory are the cornerstone of the normal operation of the territory and the creation of wealth, so as nobles, they must of course protect their own people - but now the actions of the two princes have completely deviated from the normal rules and order.

"It sounds good to let both parties sit down and negotiate first... But have you forgotten something?"

"It must be His Royal Highness the Third Prince, right? I heard that he has been missing since he fled to the Dukedom of Oufei."

"What if I say that I don't want to care about those two idiots at all, and I just want to support the third prince as the emperor of the empire and rebuild the country in this territory?"

After hearing such a conceited declaration, Lord's expression changed rapidly.

Anger, doubt, distress, sadness, joy... When these emotions faded from his face, he stood up from his seat and respectfully performed a standard imperial noble salute to Aarons.

"If you can truly continue the lifeblood of the empire, the Scott family is willing to give up the name of nobility and become a loyal subject of the new emperor."

People who are consistent in their words and deeds are indeed easy to deal with, but of course they are also easy to be exploited.