The Path to Lordship Begins in the North

After contacting the Lantern Dream, Lind began to deal with the pile of letters.

In addition to sending a letter, the queen from the capital also sent a messenger, but Lind had not yet returned to Gray and White Collar, so only the letter was sent here first.

The letter began by praising Linde for defeating the demons and resisting the monsters, but the flattery was somewhat dry. It was clear that Her Majesty the Queen herself had written it, and that Her Majesty was not very good at flattery.

However, Linde didn't care much. The lack of formalities actually saved Linde a lot of time. Next, Linde was to attend the investiture ceremony. The capital had already decided that he would be the Grand Duke of the North.

In a sense, this also marked the official end of the struggle for succession in the North, with Lind now the designated ruler of the North. However, the King was nowhere to be seen throughout the entire process, only appearing after the battle to award the victor, adopting the posture of a superior arbiter.

It was as if Linde, the ruler, needed the approval of the capital.

However, Lind could understand. Although Lind didn't really need the capital to endorse the legitimacy of his rule, the king still had to personally endorse the book to send a signal that the North still belonged to the king.

Even though everyone knows that Wang Du is deceiving himself.

However, the most important information in the letter was not this, but the negotiations that accompanied the so-called investiture ceremony. In the words of the letter, Lind, as the new Grand Duke of the North, needed to meet Her Majesty the Queen.

It's clear that Her Majesty the Queen is very self-aware; she didn't even require Lind to swear allegiance to the Queen.

Even Linde didn't need to personally go to the capital. The time traveler probably understood that Linde would never go to such an obvious trap, so he specially chose a place at the border between the northern and central regions, which can be said to be very sincere.

Linde thought about it and realized that meeting the transmigrator was indeed very necessary. After all, Linde needed to give this transmigrator a heads-up and see how he would react. If the transmigrator didn't know what was good for him, Linde could prepare accordingly.

However, he declined the title of Grand Duke. Linde had always downplayed the influence of nobility and titles, so how could he possibly accept a title from the king?

Therefore, Lind wrote in his reply that he would not become the Grand Duke of the North, as it was against the rules of propriety. As for what those rules of propriety were, someone would find a way to explain it to Lind.

As for talking, of course it's possible. The North is actually quite weak right now, mainly because Doug sacrificed all the people. If the demons really make a drastic move at this time and join forces with the East and the capital to launch an attack, although they may not necessarily lose, farming will definitely be affected. Linde is not confident that he can completely control the battlefield outside the North, so Linde is not really willing to fight any more battles.

Although Linde knew that the capital was still undergoing reforms, and even if there was money, it was all circulating in the capital chain, and it was difficult to come up with much cash. It was also difficult to have any large-scale trade with the North.

Although the capital city is broke, it has plenty of manpower. The central region still has a large workforce. If they have no money, they can use people to pay off their debts.

If the capital city is willing to cooperate in large-scale immigration, then the new weapons and the like that Her Majesty the Queen hinted at in her letter can be discussed.

As for the specifics, we'll have to wait until we meet to discuss them in detail. Linde thought for a moment, and the officials from the gray-collar side also arrived one after another. It was about time for him to go back. After he finished awarding medals to the soldiers, he would go and meet this transmigrated queen.

After handing the reply to Lucanus, Lind casually flipped through the other letters. He could only say that although the situation in the capital was well hidden, the overall decline of the Kingdom of Capet could no longer be concealed, and many other minor nobles from various regions began to write to Lind.

They weren't there to conspire with Linde on important matters; most were just there to make an impression. These minor nobles were far more adept at flattery than Her Majesty the Queen, but they didn't gather much useful information.

These minor nobles were probably unaware of the detailed system in the Linde Territory, or even if they had, they didn't understand it. They assumed it would be the same as before, and that if anything unexpected happened, they would simply be replaced by a different king, while they could still stay on their own little plot of land and continue collecting rent. So, as usual, they continued to place bets everywhere.

Linde set aside these meaningless letters. No wonder ancient emperors needed to hire a bunch of secretaries for themselves, or even set up special institutions to train them. In the future, there would be more and more of these meaningless letters, and even if Linde was a workaholic, he couldn't possibly read them all carefully.

After briefly filtering through the uninformative letters, Linde picked up the letter from the King of Anjou. It was more of a letter of state than a letter, at least the envelope alone made it stand out from the rest of the mail.

The other letters, though their envelopes were quite ornate, with gold trim, colorful paintings, and feathers of dubious significance, were far less substantial than this letter of state.

The simple parchment envelope, with the Anjou royal seal imprinted on gold beeswax and wrapped in brocade on the outside, had no particularly ornate decorations, yet it looked more valuable than those messy letters, even those from the capital.

The letter was very formal. While Her Majesty the Queen of the capital wrote the letter herself, her writing was still a bit immature and she couldn't even flatter properly, this letter perfectly demonstrated Alberto's work ability.

Unlike his previous provocative letter, Alberto's attitude this time was humble yet regal, placing Linde on the same level as himself, that is, a king.

Unlike Wang Du, who could only hint cautiously in everything he did, Alberto directly analyzed the current situation on the continent in his letter. He believed that Linde and he should follow the principle of befriending distant states while attacking nearby ones, and carry out technical cooperation. He also made no secret of his ambition to share Cape with Linde.

Unlike the impoverished capital, Alberto was wealthy. As one of the most powerful and frugal kings in Anjou's history, Alberto and his family had accumulated unimaginable wealth. This was evident from the fact that he had previously paid a high price to buy firearms from Doug for research. For Alberto, money was merely a consumable to achieve his goals.

Not only that, Alberto also took the lead in acknowledging the identity of the descendants of the old Linde Empire, and stated that there are many relics of the old empire in Anjou. As long as technical cooperation can be carried out, Anjou is not only willing to spend a lot of money, but also allows Linde to send people to Anjou for archaeological work.

Faced with Alberto's friendly and generous attitude, Linde changed his previous style and prepared to write a reply to Alberto in the same manner. No matter how harsh the previous mockery was, once the situation changed, he could still pretend that nothing had happened and talk about cooperation amicably.