Chapter 434 [0431] Count Laxana
Faced with Jarvan III's request, Arzhen naturally just obeyed.
So, he was brought to Lux - many nobles made way for a spacious space for Arzhen to feel this energy that would make him lose sleep at a glance.
Arzhen had been informed by Dilito before.
After seeing the battle between Lux and Tariq, even if Arzhen had not received the news in advance, he could only follow Lux's meaning.
More importantly, Lux showed Evelyn's power, and Evelyn was the murderer of the murder.
In this case, Arzhen did not hesitate at all and nodded directly, confirming that the owner of the demonic power in Lux's palm was the murderer of the embassy murder: "It is this power, I carefully inspected the embassy the day before yesterday, and this strange energy tortured me so much that I didn't get a good rest these two days!"
Done!
With the "third-party witness", the logic of the whole thing seems to have formed a closed loop smoothly: Taric, who returned from the summit, was unwilling to give up and went to the embassy where the murder occurred, wanting to make up for the negative impact of his dereliction of duty. As a result, he was bewitched by the demons left there and fell into extreme paranoia, so he made mistakes.
Now that Lux has set things right, Taric has also repented. The two of them have worked together to severely damage the demons, and finally they have not made the same mistake again...
For this explanation, both the Council of Nobles and Jarvan III have a subtle expression.
In their opinion, this is a rather coincidental thing, but the evidence is here, and there is also Arzhen to testify. No matter how weird the matter is, it can barely make sense.
Moreover, if you think about it carefully, this result may be better for everyone.
Silas's jailbreak was an accident. Although Taric's performance at the beginning was a bit problematic, at least the jailbreak of the infected did not cause too bad an impact-in addition to the casualties of the garrison soldiers, only part of the Grand Plaza was trampled by Galio.
The nobles didn't care about the casualties of the garrison soldiers. What they cared about was that the Illuminati had suffered a big setback.
The cardinal who vowed to abdicate and let others take over didn't realize that Tari was bewitched by the devil. When Tariq tried to expand the chaos caused by the infected under the devil's instigation, he even strongly agreed and almost made a big mistake.
After this incident, let alone the Illuminati reaching out to the secular world, Jarvan III did not directly hold the Illuminati responsible, which was already giving them face - although today's imperial meeting did not involve the Illuminati, if nothing unexpected happened, the cardinal would resign and go into seclusion after the meeting to avoid the entire Illuminati being questioned.
This was undoubtedly a brilliant victory for the Noble Council!
You Illuminati are not good enough. You don't even know if there is a problem with the Peak. In the future, you should talk less at times like this!
As the biggest contributor to the Illuminati's defeat, Peak Lux will naturally be rewarded.
Rewarding Lux was originally a headache, but Lux herself said that she would ask the North to guard the border and give the infected a chance to redeem themselves... then everyone naturally agreed with both hands!
Look, what a good person this is, he crushed the Illuminati's wishful thinking, and then he didn't take credit for himself, and directly applied to go to the North, a place where no one lives, without making it difficult for everyone. For such a person, we must praise him fiercely!
Anyway, praise is free, and we don't need to cut off a piece of territory. If praising people can solve the problem, why not do it?
For a while, praise and compliments poured into Lux like a tide, and she seemed to have become a model for all the nobles in Demacia again!
In the midst of praise, Lux clearly maintained her sanity - or rather, the praise from these people was within her expectations. The more they praised, the more ridiculous Lux thought they were.
What Kalya said was right. These people were destined to be swept into the garbage dump. They only had their own interests in mind and had completely lost their responsibilities as decision-makers of a country!
Therefore, no matter what kind of praise she received, Lux was determined to stick to her goal: she wanted a name to go to the North and a name to redeem the infected!
And in the face of Lux's request, after some discussion, the Imperial Conference finally made a decision.
Laxana Crown Guard will be granted the title of Earl and will be independent from the Crown Guard family. Fosbyro and the surrounding areas without lords will be granted to her as fiefdoms.
Due to the bitter cold on the border, Earl Laxana does not need to pay taxes to Xiongdu within five years, and the taxes will be halved within ten years.
Of course, considering that there is basically no tax revenue sent to Xiongdu at present, it can be said that even if this place is divided and not much money can be collected in the first ten years, the Xiongdu royal family will still make money.
Regarding the military issue, this part is also relatively easy to solve.
According to the rules of Demacia, lords whose fiefdoms are located on the border are eligible to support a private army according to local conditions. Unlike lords in the heart of the kingdom who usually only arrange sheriffs in their fiefdoms, lords whose fiefdoms are located on the border dare not rely solely on the legions stationed nearby.
You know, Demacia has always taken the route of elite soldiers. Although almost all Demacia soldiers are armored and those who can ride horses have war horses, the number of people is not large.
Relying on the advantages of water transportation in the kingdom, Demacia's elite soldiers can be quickly assembled and transported from various camps, but they are somewhat incapable of border defense. Therefore, for border defense, Demacia has always implemented the policy of local militia garrison + elite soldiers support.
The location of the Fosbyro area is important. It is the regular route for the Freljord barbarians to plunder southward. It is obviously not a simple matter to maintain the defense here.
When there was no lord in Fosbyro, the Xiongdu had to increase the number of Fosbyro Legion and use elite soldiers as militia to defend the city. At the same time, it directly requested local supplies from the Fosbyro people, and with the support of supplies from the Xiongdu, it maintained the stability of the local area and prevented the Freljord barbarians from breaking through the pass and plundering southward.
Now that Lux is going to become the lord of Fosbyro, she naturally has to assume the military responsibilities of the lord!
Anyway, you still have to redeem those infected demons. Since it is redemption, then all of them will be militia.
In this way, Lux easily obtained the policy conditions for freely recruiting militia. According to the common intention of the Noble Council and Jarvan III, as long as you can afford it, you can make all the people in the entire Fosbyro area soldiers. As long as the barbarians in the north are not allowed to break through the defense line, everything will be fine.
Obviously, the defense of the north was regarded as a burden and was thrown to Lux, but Lux gladly accepted it.
She had been to Fosbyro. Although the geographical conditions there did not look very good, could it be worse than Nerimaj, which had snow-capped mountains on one side and desert on the other?
For the noble lords, Fosbyro was a wild land where you could not get any money even if you scraped the land, but for Lux, it was a brand new beginning where she could really show her skills!
Moreover, the Xiongdu even fully "supported" more than a thousand infected demons to follow him!
More than a thousand mages with such good talents that they needed to be imprisoned in the Forbidden Magic Prison!
You know, when they were in Zaun, Lux and Ino picked and chose, and only found more than a hundred children with good magic talent.
Now, the noble council waved its hand, and all the prisoners in the Forbidden Magic Prison were under Lux's management!
Although many of these prisoners were resentful of Demacia, in Lux's view, except for a few diehards, most of them could be reformed.
Moreover, on the surface, it seems that there are more than a thousand infected people, but don't forget that behind each infected person, there is a family!
As long as they feel that Fosbyro does not exclude them and let them believe that magic is not wrong here, their families will be happy to come to Fosbyro.
Demacia is very large and has a large population. As long as they gather together, even if it is only the population related to magic, it is enough to support Lux's ideals and support a huge change that completely changes Demacia and even the entire Runeland.
Even if Lux does not have much capital for the time being, this poor and remote area that is not paid attention to by the heroic capital can still surprise everyone after careful watering!
Karya's Little Classroom Lux's title:
Because he obtained the title alone, starting from the next generation, the surname of Lux's descendants is no longer Crown Guard, but Luxanna - according to the tradition of Demacia, the first generation of nobles retain their original names, and the second generation of nobles use the names of the first generation of nobles as their surnames, such as the Laurent family.
Of course, this is only the majority of cases, because surnames and given names are easily mixed up, many first generation nobles often choose a word that can represent their own merits or ideals as the surname of this new family, such as the Light Shield family. If the surname determination method is based on the original name of the first generation of nobles, then the Light Shield family will be called the Oren family.