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

The dances I attended were mostly social events in other cities.

Although the Governor did not restrict the nobles from holding balls at their own expense, this also resulted in fewer and fewer balls between gray-collar nobles. Not being able to exploit the people on their own lands as before was one thing, resulting in insufficient financial resources, but the Governor's dislike was also an important reason.

The only communication between these nobles and Lind was probably official documents at work. In other words, if you wanted to get in touch with Lind, you had to at least have a job there. So the more people wanted to get in touch with the noble officials through communication like they did in the past, the harder they had to work.

But Linde recently took the initiative to organize a ball at Gray Collar, which made many nobles start to feel nervous again.

Although these nobles did not know what the Hongmen Banquet was, they also knew that there must be something wrong when things were abnormal.

There were also some well-informed nobles who learned some inside information through their wives' intelligence network. These were nothing more than some rumors that began to circulate in the North about the discord between the Governor and his wife, as well as some slander against the Governor's wife. So the Governor had to personally host a ball to break these rumors.

At the same time, the battle report of Tongshan Territory also reached Gray and White Territory. Ordinary people no longer cared about the battle report. At most, the nobles would care about where the army was fighting and whether it was going to hit one of their relatives, and would write letters urging them to surrender.

However, this battle report of Tongshan Territory was discovered by some careful nobles. This was the first time that the army of Gray Territory crossed the enemy-occupied area to attack a territory.

Combined with some recent rumors, these nobles also realized that the origin of those rumors was the Tongshan Lord. It was said that the Tongshan Lord fabricated these rumors in order to marry a noble daughter.

The nobles in Gray and White Collar shook their heads and sighed, wondering how there could be such bold nobles. The nobles outside might not understand how good the relationship between the Governor and his wife was now, but the surrendered nobles in Gray and White Collar knew how disgusting the relationship between the two parents-in-law was every day.

Nobles who know more deeply will know that regardless of the fact that the Governor is now the patriarch of the Lars family, the capital for the Governor to start his business was all given by the Governor's wife. Although they don't know what angel investors are, these nobles still know what this means to the Governor.

Many of the surrendered nobles had beautiful daughters, but no one would have such an idea. Even if they did mention it, they would only be politely rejected by the Governor-General, and then be laughed at by their noble colleagues for overestimating their own abilities.

As for the status of the Governor's wife, just look at those noble ladies who are cramming for the principles of mechanics. Not to mention slandering them, they don't even have time to curry favor with them.

It has even developed to the point that every time the results of the major examinations of the gray-collar compulsory education schools are released, many nobles will go to the list to grab a wife. No matter how poor or humble a woman is, as long as she has good grades in physics, she can marry into a wealthy family overnight.

Of course, whether most of the nobles can now be considered so-called "wealthy families" remains to be discussed.

But this is enough to illustrate the madness of these nobles. Anyone with a discerning eye knows how stable Reina's position is. They have even begun to make plans for long-term investment, so much so that they even do not let go of men with good physics grades. After graduation, they are directly taken back to be tutors and train their daughters from an early age.

This is Reina's position in the Gray and White Collar Society. Even if we put aside her identity as Miss Lars, Reina is still the only channel for these nobles to communicate with Lind besides official documents.

All of this was just to have a chance to chat with Lena a little more. In the gray-collar world, real socialites do not compete with aristocratic etiquette, but with physics scores, because this will directly determine whether one can have a good chat with Lena.

At the first ball hosted by Lind, all the gray-collar nobles and officials were present. These nobles were very low-key, and everyone knew who the protagonist of the night was.

Soon Linde brought Rena out. This ball was no different from the usual balls held by the nobles. It was basically a place for the nobles to communicate and exchange information with each other.

The nobles had a rare opportunity to communicate with Lind face to face, but they didn't know what to say. After all, the official documents they usually sent to Lind were always "How are you, Governor?", "The weather is nice today" and so on.

That's fine. These nobles always like to tell Lind some Martian news. After all, no matter how well-informed these nobles are, they are definitely not as well-informed as Lind. But considering their kindness, Lind didn't bother with these nobles, and his daily replies were still quite polite.

In the end, it was Lind who took the initiative to ask these surrendered old nobles whether they had encountered any problems, how their lives were, etc. These nobles all said that they were living well and did not need to trouble the governor.

This is really what they mean. As long as the family is not too useless, there will always be one or two younger generations who can pass the examination and get into the civil service. At least now the education dividends of these nobles are still there, so they will not starve to death, but their style is definitely not comparable to before.

At first, these nobles were very dissatisfied with Lind for only giving them a house and some other compensation. After all, that was the land where their ancestors had lived for generations. But as the prices of gray-collar houses became more and more expensive, the complaints of these nobles became smaller and smaller, and some even felt fortunate that they surrendered first and got the houses.

Why do the nobles in the capital always look down on the nobles in the border areas? Isn't it because the nobles in the capital are closer to the king? Especially when the kingship is strong, these nobles are the best supporters of the king.

Although the Gray-collar nobles have no fiefdoms, everyone has seen the changes in the Gray-collar nobles. Now that they are closer to the governor, aren't they more like the former royal nobles?

Most of the gray-collar and white-collar nobles have realized that they have seized the opportunity and boarded the express train of the times. Everyone will just work as hard as they can. Unless there are fools, no one will jump off the train.

Who doesn’t want to be one of the first heroes of the New North?

Linde glanced at Rena who was with the wives' group. Since they had been notified in advance, almost all the wives' group of gray-collar workers came out to comfort Rena.

This opportunity was rare, and some of the noble ladies even thanked those idiots in Tongshan Territory. There were not many chances to make friends with Rena, so these noble ladies almost tried their best, and some even started to verify a difficult physics problem on the spot.

A good upper-class gathering turned into an academic conference, but this kind of atmosphere made Reina more relaxed. Seeing Reina's smile turn into a crescent shape again, Linde finally felt relieved.

He turned around and asked the nobles around him, "Have you seen the battle report from Tongshan Territory?"

These noble officials nodded like chicks pecking at rice.

"In addition to the Copper Mountain Territory, there are some nobles who have just occupied the area and are not very obedient. I don't want you to have any connection with those nobles, so as to avoid being implicated and liquidated. Do you understand?"

The noble officials all promised that their family relatives had absolutely no involvement in these matters, and some had already cut off contact, leaving it entirely to Linde to handle.

Linde had never carried out large-scale collective punishment before, so you can imagine how angry Linde was this time. Moreover, these nobles have now realized that they might become the founding figures of the New North. Not to mention severing ties and reporting it voluntarily, even if Linde asked them to do it themselves, they would definitely not show any mercy.

Only a fool would jump out of the car at this time.