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

Jim was pulled out by his own mother.

Even though he was locked in the room every day, Jim still heard the news of the Evans family's defeat.

Not only that, his father Wesker was directly captured, and several of his brothers were killed or injured in the melee.

Now the entire Evans family is in chaos. The elders in the family have given money to Gray-collar Worker countless times but to no avail.

When the shoe dropped, everyone was in a panic, and no one knew what would happen to the Evans family in the future.

The situation in the North is completely different from before. After losing Grand Duke Lars, the apparent leader, the entire North has returned to the chaotic era of aristocratic separatism. Although there are rules from the royal capital, they are not many, especially after the king's deployment was retracted back to the central area.

The winner takes all. This is why Wesker and other nobles were so eager to conquer the gray-collar workers.

But now the Evans family has become the victim.

Jim, who had been locked in his room, was pulled out of the room by his mother and brought to the reception hall.

At this time, Jim finally realized that the boot that had been hanging over the Wesker family's heads was about to fall.

Neatly lined up on both sides of the hall were the white knights of the Lars family, as well as a number of soldiers holding strange fire sticks. This was an absolutely violent organization, representing the days when the nobles could negotiate peacefully over the table and pay fines.

The former lord with a gray and white collar, Linde Roll, was sitting on the platform with his legs crossed, looking down at everyone with his eyes lowered.

His temperament was much more restrained than when Jim was seen by the gray-collar worker. His face was neither cold nor friendly, but with a hint of majesty.

After quietly observing the surroundings, Jim discovered that not only were all the other members of the Evans family present, but also many nobles from the surrounding areas.

These were the noble families who had followed his father Wesker into battle. In the beginning, they had fought tooth and nail for a good position in the army, but now, they were kneeling in front of the gray-collared lord as equals.

And the bard who had flattered Lind Roll to the utmost before the expedition was now standing humbly behind Lind Roll, bowing his head.

Jim, who had done business with many people, knew that the bard now had none of the flattery he had when he was with his father. Instead, he put himself in the right position and appeared completely as a servant.

As if to confirm that everyone was present, Lind Roll took the document handed over by the bard, compared it with the document in his own hand, and stood up.

"I have two documents here. One is the result of the bards' investigation into you, and the other is the result of my clerks' investigation."

"In order not to wrongly accuse you, I will only select the parts that are consistent between the two investigations and judge you according to the Northern Regulations and the laws of the kingdom originally promulgated by the Lars family. Do you have any objections?"

After Lind finished speaking, most of the nobles in the audience were still trembling and shrinking, but a few of the braver ones looked up and said to Lind, "My Lord, the Northern Regulations have actually been abandoned for many years. There are many rules that we nobles no longer abide by. If you strictly follow the Northern Regulations, you will probably lose many of your loyal allies."

"I am not denying your authority, but should the Northern Regulations be relaxed?"

No noble would really abide by the Northern Regulations, because these were the laws used by the Lars family when they opened up and guarded the northern border and drove the demons into the eternal frozen land. That was the most powerful period of the Lars family.

The laws enforced were also evolved from military laws. Although they were gradually relaxed after subsequent amendments, they were still harsh laws in the eyes of these nobles. Even the Lars family themselves did not abide by the Northern Regulations.

Linde did not answer, occasionally looking up at Lucanus behind him.

Lucanus understood what he meant, and stepped forward and spoke in a rhythmic tone: "Barton Wordsworth, 34 years old, the younger brother of the sixth head of the Wordsworth family, and he and his brother murdered the previous head of the family. Oh, when your brother died in the battle, you took the opportunity to rob your sister-in-law and invade your brother's territory. I didn't expect you to have the leisure to do these things."

Linde interrupted Lucanus's gossip and said, "Keep reading."

Lucanus immediately withdrew his thoughts and continued to list Patton's crimes one by one, including illegal occupation of other people's territories, adultery within the family, abuse of power, illegal taxation and exploitation of farmers, and plundering other nobles during the chaos.

If these crimes happened normally, they would usually be handled by the clan themselves, or they would simply turn a blind eye. After all, no matter which noble they were, they would have dirty hands, and it was common for everyone to help each other clean up the mess.

"Deal with it according to the law."

After Lind finished speaking, two of Lars' knights dragged Patton out.

"Wait, wait, Lord, I know where our family still has treasure buried. My brother has hidden gold shield coins and magic stones. We still have them at home."

Patton was dragged out amidst such wailing. All the nobles present were too terrified to look up, recalling all the possible illegal things they had done.

But Jim somewhat approved of Lind's approach. This kind of scum and the scum among the nobles should have been dealt with long ago. The North was constantly declining because of these insects. How could the North be governed with such insects?

Lind was not interested in Patton's nonsense, but sat down and said to Lucanus: "Continue."

Soon, one noble after another was dragged out by the knights. According to the Northern Regulations and the laws of the Kingdom, those who committed serious crimes were directly taken to trial, while those who committed less serious crimes were dragged away to mine. As for the nobles who had not committed any crimes, they have not appeared yet.

Only some nobles, who had too little power and too small territories to do anything extremely cruel, were spared and paid the fines to keep their lives.

There was no resistance from the nobles, because for some reason, the transfer of power between Linde Roll and Lars was unusually smooth. Even the infighting that the nobles had imagined did not happen. The Lars family chose to fully trust Linde and directly promoted Linde to the position of patriarch.

No noble said it was unfair, because all of Lind's judgments were made in accordance with the Northern Regulations. Although the enforcement was a bit harsh, even if the case was brought to the capital, Lind was still right. The only unreasonable thing was that Lind abolished the immunity of all nobles.

Of course, there were a few places where Lind felt the sentence was too lenient. After all, although the Northern Regulations were strict, they were essentially a law issued by the nobles, and the bias was still very obvious.

Lind modified these parts on the spot, but when faced with the nobles who had committed crimes, he still sentenced them according to the old law.

If you do it again in the future, you will be punished together with the previous ones.

Those nobles who managed to survive all said that they would never do it again, and they were almost ready to lick Lind's boots.