Lord: Marry the villain's daughter at the beginning?

Seeing Jefferson integrate into the dance environment, Doug finally felt relieved.

"Don't be nervous, my nephew-in-law just thinks you are talking about serious business with me, right?"

Doug had no idea that the other party was smuggling weapons on orders. When he received the news, he was so excited that he could hardly believe that the other party was actually willing to smuggle weapons.

You know, in fact, Doug also has many businessmen and nobles who trade privately with gray-collar workers, but weapons and gunpowder are strictly controlled. Doug once spent countless money but failed to find a channel.

And now, a perfect channel is right in front of me.

Doug naturally knew Jefferson's status in the gray-collar industry. The trade of sugar, medicine, and some miscellaneous items was managed by Jefferson, and he was also responsible for connecting with the merchants on his side. But before, Jefferson was unwilling to release even the more powerful medicine, let alone weapons.

Doug didn't feel anything wrong with this smuggling channel that was suddenly opened to him. Smuggling between countries was nothing new. It was actually beyond Doug's expectations that the gray-collar workers could hold on for so long.

In order to welcome Jefferson, Doug held a welcome ceremony of the highest level, and had no intention of negotiating business with Jefferson on the first day. Anyway, Doug would take whatever Jefferson could offer.

Doug has discovered that there is no way he can equip the entire army with muskets just by relying on the alchemists' manual work. Moreover, the after-sales maintenance of these muskets made by the alchemists is a big problem. Almost only the alchemists who produced them can perform maintenance.

Not to mention that during maintenance, the replacement components are enough to buy a new musket, a new musket with a gray and white collar.

So whether it is to quickly improve the combat effectiveness of the army or to study the firearms manufacturing methods of white-collar workers, Doug will buy a large number of them.

Especially now, although other nobles are praising Doug, including Doug's two complicit brothers, Doug knows how bad his governance is.

In addition to internal problems, Doug also realized the change in the demons' attitude towards him. The demons who suffered misfortune in the royal capital were eager to recover their losses in the royal capital from other places.

Apparently, Doug Jiji still has some money.

At this moment, Doug felt what it felt like to sell his soul to the devil. The contract that Codick had signed had become a piece of waste paper. The demons violated the regulations and continued to step into the Broken Snow Territory, claiming that they wanted to help Doug fight against the Gray and White Territory.

But Doug is not a fool. Given the location of these concessions, it is impossible to fight against these gray-collar workers. The only option is to wait for Doug to be defeated and take the opportunity to attack him.

Not only that, the demons had hooked up with Duke Monroe of the East Territory at some point, and the army of the East Territory was also watching him eagerly.

Doug felt that history was repeating itself. The demons had found a new ally, or a new target to parasitize, and this target was an ambitious person like himself.

That's why Doug would do everything he can to strengthen his armaments. As long as he can take down the Gray Collar and unify the North, all the problems he is facing now will no longer exist. He will no longer be just a lord with the title of governor, but the only grand duke in the North.

Doug was like a gambler who put everything on the line at the end, praying that the winner would take all.

By then, the attitude of both the royal capital and the demon clan towards him will change, and the money owed will no longer be a problem.

Jefferson finally found the feeling he once had as a champagne aristocrat, constantly communicating and chatting with various nobles on the dance floor.

The more they communicated, the more frightened Jefferson became. The intelligence was still conservative. The nobles outside the western part of the North had fallen to a level that even an old noble like Jefferson found shocking.

Because he needed to gain the support of these northern nobles and concentrate his strength to deploy the army, Doug, who had relied on the demons and the royal capital to come to power and had no foundation at all and could not even wipe out the roots, had to open up privileges to these nobles in the name of governor.

The nobles who were once somewhat restrained by the Lars family are now like wild horses that have broken free from their reins. The farther they go from the western part of the northern border, the more corrupt they become.

Apart from paying sufficient taxes and providing troops to Doug, these nobles were no longer subject to any constraints. Their territories could even be described as a country within a country.

After Doug used the so-called Doug Coin to exploit the people of the Northern Territory, these nobles would issue the so-called exclusive currency in their own territories to exploit them again.

Some nobles, because of excessive exploitation, also set their sights on small and medium-sized merchants. This was the reason why those small and medium-sized merchants were taxed three times. However, all the blame was put on Doug, although fundamentally speaking, Doug was not wrong to take the blame.

Jefferson skillfully changed dance partners, and a girl came into Jefferson's arms. The girl exuded the pleasant scent of velvet flowers, but Jefferson, bathed in the fragrance, only felt that the girl was full of the smell of blood.

There are no artificially cultivated varieties of velvet, and it mostly appears in some dangerous places. In gray-collar workers, there are generally only a small amount of velvet used as medicinal materials.

Jefferson once studied how many flowers and human lives were needed to make a bottle of perfume with the scent of velvet. The cost was so high that even Jefferson could not afford it at the time. Moreover, the scent of velvet is not pleasant, it is just purely expensive.

But this was the third girl Jefferson had smelled wearing velvet perfume tonight.

Not only that, the girl even boasted to Jefferson while dancing that she used her family connections to get the troops transporting medicines and equipment to the western front to send him the latest large-scale piano musical instrument first. If Jefferson was interested, he could go to her house tonight to enjoy the new music she had learned.

Jefferson was shocked after hearing this - and this was not an act at all, the military transport routes were actually used by these nobles to transport luxury goods.

When the girl saw Jefferson's shocked expression, her vanity was greatly satisfied. She even talked to Jefferson about the transportation routes controlled by her family, which were all very important routes responsible for escorting weapons, medicines and food.

Jefferson still had an expression that said "I don't understand, but I'm shocked", and he humbly asked the girl a few more questions. The girl answered them one by one, and even told Jefferson the flag signals and flags to confirm the friendly forces, and showed off to Jefferson proudly.

In the second half of the dance, the girl suddenly grabbed Jefferson's clothes and her heavy breath hit Jefferson's neck.

"Ma'am, we are still in the middle of the dance."

Jefferson pushed the girl away like a gentleman, but the girl said nonchalantly, "Don't be nervous. This is also part of the dance."

It was only then that Jefferson noticed that, as the music progressed, he was surrounded by nobles who were engaging in intimate contact with each other, and many of them had already taken off their clothes in public.

Jefferson even saw a male noble directly intervene between two other nobles, but that male noble patted the other male noble on the butt, and then the male noble who was patted turned around and smiled charmingly, and the three of them left the ball in a drag.

"This is the fashion in the North right now."

The girl in Jefferson's arms explained, "I heard it came from the demon tribe. It represents openness, freedom, and tolerance."

"I'm sorry, I'm a very traditional noble."

Jefferson subconsciously wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"Oh, are you the traditional type who likes to watch slave duels? Or the type that likes to watch human-animal duels? There will be a duel performance in two days. Why don't you stay for two more days? I will ask my father to send out the strongest slaves in the family. As long as you bet on our slaves, I guarantee that you will make a lot of money and it will be fun to watch."

That was a bit too traditional, so Jefferson pretended to be drunk and made up an excuse to leave.

Originally, Jefferson felt that the governor's propaganda was a bit exaggerated. Jefferson himself was a nobleman in the North, and he had not turned into a monster.

But now Jefferson felt that the Governor was still too conservative.