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

As the North Wind roared across the northern land, Northern Governor Lind finally returned to his loyal gray collar.

Apart from anything else, Linde's sphere of influence is indeed quite loyal now. Some nobles who were originally procrastinating, slow in moving, and unwilling to move, after hearing the good news, all moved closer to the gray-collar workers.

The old era of the North has passed. These nobles can no longer fish in troubled waters as they did in the time of Grand Duke Lars. There is no longer any lord in the North, only one governor. There is no longer any complicated vassal relationship between the nobles. Everyone is loyal to the Governor.

This obviously violated the system of the kingdom, but no one had any objection to it. Everyone could see that the North was now de facto independent, and it was impossible to kill the officials of the North with Capet's sword.

Lind did not try to be low-key. The most he did was to ask Sean not to make the welcome ceremony so exaggerated. What he needed to do more was to maintain order at the station and correctly guide the people present.

After getting off the train at the station, the place was indeed packed with people. The wind and snow did not stop the enthusiastic crowd at all. Everyone was shouting the names of the Governor and the Governor's wife. Sean followed Lind's instructions and did not make any loud gongs, drums or firecrackers. He just used guards to keep a safe distance.

But this did not hinder people's enthusiasm. After all, the North was finally unified, and the seemingly invincible demons were defeated.

It's not that Lind wants to show off, but he needs to do so now, not only to boost people's confidence, but also to use a tough attitude to tell all the nobles in the North that their era has passed, and now the only choice is to accept all of Lind's conditions.

After all, the North is too big. In addition to the areas controlled by Lind and Doug, there are many scattered small nobles and lords. Most of these small nobles and lords are lucky enough to think that Lind does not have the time and energy to deal with them one by one.

If Lind really comes to them in the future, these lords will simply say that they know nothing about it and then surrender immediately.

Do they really not know? They just want to take advantage of this window period to transfer more wealth.

Lind has a lot of things to deal with now and really doesn't have time to pay attention to these nobles for the time being. However, with the expansion of the northern railway system in the future, these nobles who want to be clever will sooner or later be drawn into the system built by Lind.

The nobles who really thought it through have already taken the initiative to vote, seeking to join the new system built by Lind as soon as possible. Only those nobles who are really smart are still thinking of delaying as long as possible. Little do they know that if they delay, the original positions will be taken by other nobles who voted earlier. The nobles who join later may even start out worse than the common people in some places.

Therefore, Linde does not have the energy or the will to care about those lords who still want to abuse their power and authority in their own territories.

The main reason is that the North had just been unified, and there was a severe shortage of officials. There were simply no extra manpower to deal with those guys.

The tough stance is to tell those guys who are still trying to be clever not to have any evil intentions just because the governor has just finished a war and is relatively weak.

In the cabin, Linde and Lena held hands tightly together. This time, Lena was very careful and did not crush Linde's hand, but Lena's hand could still be felt to be shaking.

Reina thought that she had experienced many situations and even fought wars, so wouldn't this kind of small situation be easy to handle?

But there is a difference between people welcoming spontaneously and fighting a war. Reina, who has basically never experienced such a scene since she was a child, is still a little nervous.

In fact, Linde was just pretending to be calm. Seeing those people's sincere respect, Linde asked himself more than once whether he was worthy of it. The more enthusiastic people's support, the more Linde reflected on himself. After all, to Linde, he was completely reversing history.

But in this world, Lind seems to have progressed beyond his time.

Seeing Rena looking for encouragement from him, Linde strengthened his determination. Future generations will judge his merits and demerits. All he has to do is to do his best. What's more, no matter what, Rena is always by his side to support him. At least to Rena, he is undoubtedly a hero.

"Let's go."

Linde adjusted his mood and turned back into the calm and confident Governor of the North, standing up with Lena.

When Lena saw Linde's determined eyes, she gradually calmed down.

The couple walked out of the train surrounded by guards.

After going to the front line, Lind's figure became more upright, his face became less expressionful, and he already looked awe-inspiring without even getting angry.

Although Reina was still a little nervous, she gradually adapted to this atmosphere and kept responding to the crowd.

As Lind waved, there was a burst of warm cheers inside and outside the station.

"Long live the Governor, long live the Madam!"

No one knew who started it, but similar cheers continued to be heard from the scene.

Linde responded with a fist: "Long live the North!"

After these words were spoken, even many nobles who were watching the show were infected and kept swearing allegiance to Linde on the spot.

An old noble standing in the distance whispered, "It's like the first Grand Duke has been resurrected."

But Pierre beside the old noble asked: "Is it really just the first Grand Duke who has been resurrected?"

Thanks to having surrendered earlier than any other noble family in the North, Pierre's Laurent family has now successfully completed its transformation, with the younger generation either trying to join the army or going to grey-collar schools for further studies.

Although you have to compete with the new generation of commoner children in a gray-collar school, this is not necessarily a bad thing. If you are an aristocrat who has received education since childhood but cannot compete with commoner children who started later, you should find a leisurely job in the family business as soon as possible.

Moreover, the students in the school are likely to be the main force for the future development of the North, and may even form a new class. Pierre has long-term plans. Although his two sons are indeed not very ambitious, they are not bad by nature. They do not have the bad habits of the old nobles who look down on others. They are also not very old and can easily get along with the students in the school.

In addition, Pierre was willing to spend money on his two sons. Although these two sons were stupid in other aspects, they were very talented in spending money. If any classmate had difficulties, even the school teachers had not yet reacted, the two sons would have already brought gifts to visit the classmates. This made the two sons easily become socialites in the school.

Although the two sons have little development prospect due to their lack of ability, as long as they don't make big mistakes in the future, at least nothing will happen. In addition, they have a sister in the army. The Laurent family has gradually found its own position in the new era.

Hearing Pierre's question, the old nobleman smiled and nodded and replied, "Indeed, there is no need to consider so many taboos now. If you want to brag, just brag big."

Pierre also laughed, but said: "I think the Governor-General will not take action so quickly, and he may not even inherit the title of Grand Duke."

"Oh? Why? I think it would be no problem at all even if the Governor-General wanted to establish a country on an equal footing with Capet."

The old nobleman looked at the people in front of him who were shouting "Long live the governor" from the bottom of their hearts and stroked his beard. With the governor's current reputation, there would be no problem for him to become king. It was even estimated that many people would urge the governor to become king.

Pierre followed the old nobleman and looked at the crowd in front of him and said, "The Governor-General has great ambitions. How can he limit himself to the northern border?"