One Piece: In the Name of the Father

Chapter 112
As the sky got darker, Baritu placed the Xiaohe army of 50 people outside the palace and came to the side hall where Matsurize was.

Baritubai was a little puzzled during the day, so he just asked Matsurize, Earl of Xiaohe, at this time.

"My lord, aren't we short of people? The slaves brought back by His Majesty the King this time are all young men, and the price is very affordable. Why don't we add a group of people back?"

This time King Yagyu plundered a lot of treasures and slaves, and as many as 5000 slaves arrived at Songbai Island alive.

Of the [-] slaves, the Yagyu royal family kept [-] for their own use, and released [-] slaves to trade.

Earl Matsurize of Xiaohe unhurriedly answered the words of his subordinate consul Baritu.

"The spoils of the unjust war, we can't rely on this kind of population to expand the size of Xiaohe Territory.

Besides, you also know that as long as we spread the reputation of Xiaohe Dao this time, we can take more orders and make a lot of money.

We can organize manpower to recruit more than 4 mountain people who are still wandering in the wilderness. "

After hearing this, Baritu cleared up his doubts, but he didn't understand why the Earl could see that the slaves in Shipwreck City were obtained by King Yagyu through an unjust war.

Matsurize saw Baritu's doubts at a glance, and explained it to him.

"It's actually very simple. The eyes, the eyes of the group of slaves, the eyes of most of the slaves have the same meaning, that is hatred, the monstrous hatred for my Pine Kingdom."

Baritu understood that if King Yagyu had been obtained through normal wars or traded from the outside world, these slaves would not be like this.

The side hall where Song Rize lived was very large, and Baritu found a small room to live in, and Song Rize also chose the master bedroom to rest.

Night fell completely.

Early in the morning, before the sky was completely bright, Matsurize was woken up.

This is Baritu and a servant from the palace who came to wake up Matsurize.

Of course, the official start time of the Songbai Kingdom's Grand Court Meeting is not until dawn.

But this Grand Court Meeting is a once-a-year gathering of all nobles and officials set by the Songbai Kingdom.

There are a lot of people involved, and it will take a lot of time for a group of people to get together. In addition, King Yagyu and Prince Jay will come later, which will delay some time.

Naturally, nobles and officials like Matsurizawa had to wait in the newly repaired main hall early.

Baritu sent Matsurize into the main hall and left. He is not qualified to enter here, and he has to lead a 50-man Xiaohe army to guard [-] Xiaohe knives. At that time, he will pay tribute to King Liusheng. Barrett goes to specific operations.

Although Matsu Rizawa was not very valued by King Yagyu and Prince Jay, but in order to reward Matsu Rizawa and Ayane for their contributions and set an example, Matsu Rizawa's noble titles were granted to Earl Megan, Earl Maris and Prime Minister Tam Earl Tam-Arjamin is the same earl as the three.

Matsurize was no longer taken seriously, and he stood at the forefront.

The throne stands high at the top of the main hall, and there are nine steps from the hall where Matsurizawa and others are standing below.

The nobles and officials of the Pine and Cypress Kingdom came very early. The main hall was divided into two columns, each with 30 people standing.

No. 1 in the column on the left is the prime minister of the kingdom, Tam Earl Tam Arjamin, who was the original mayor of Shipwreck Town and is now the powerful faction in the Songbai Kingdom. He also has a large number of kingdom officials under his command.

The second person on the left is Maris Rose, Earl of Maris. Although he is in charge of the kingdom's medical system, he doesn't actually have much real power. His status is very similar to Matsurizawa's.

Standing behind the column on the left are all officials of the Songbai Kingdom and false nobles.

False aristocrats are nobles other than pioneering aristocrats. Earl Tam and Earl Maris are both members of the system of false aristocrats.

False nobility, as the name suggests, means that they do not have the right to manage the territory. In name, a piece of land is sealed on the territory directly under the kingdom, and some taxes on the territory are distributed to these vain nobles through the hands of the royal family.

And the line on the right is full of pioneering nobles, but not everyone is a tyrant in the territory.

Only Earl Megan and Earl Matsurize of Xiaohe and more than ten people are nobles with territories.

There are more than a dozen nobles who have not successfully opened up their own territories.

For example, the tribute of the great court this time is all about developing nobles, and this time, if the more than a dozen nobles who failed cannot pay tribute that satisfies the royal family, most of them will lose their reputation as nobles. Guaranteed.

And if they can successfully pass the test this time, after this time, in fact, many failed pioneer nobles will be very confident that they will be able to successfully open up their territories after this time.

The first one on the right is of course Megan Stewart, Earl of Megan, who has the highest title and the strongest strength, that is, Stewart, the second disciple of the 21st disciples in the Songbai Dojo, the one-armed Stewart.

After that, it was naturally Matsurizawa himself.

This time, Matsurize is not going to buy slaves to enrich the population of Xiaohe Territory.

If Matsurize can't recruit those mountain people as soon as possible, then Matsurize's Xiaohe collar will soon lose its second position among pioneering nobles.

Most of the [-] slaves released by King Yagyu this time have been divided among pioneering nobles, and the most powerful Megan leader, Earl Megan, bought a thousand of them.

Many pioneering nobles knew the situation of Earl Xiaohe's Matsurize family. This time, Matsurize didn't buy a single slave, and rumors spread that Earl Xiaohe's family could not afford slaves.

The reason why Baritu, the Consul of the Xiaohe Territory, was so concerned about the matter of slaves at the beginning was because he was afraid that the population of the Xiaohe Territory would be overtaken by some people with lower titles in the future.

The sun came out and the sky brightened. Nobles such as Matsurizawa and officials from the territory directly under the kingdom had been waiting in the main hall for more than an hour.

Finally, King Yagyu, accompanied by Prince Jay, walked into the main hall from the back of the main hall. King Yagyu sat on the throne, and Prince Jay stood on the steps between the throne and Matsurizawa and others.

The first grand court meeting of the Pine and Cypress Kingdom officially began.

In the beginning, officials from the ten small towns and Shipwreck City in the territory directly under the Songbai Kingdom reported their achievements.

This process was very boring and very long. Matsurize listened to these big and small things that had nothing to do with him, and he was very boring and drowsy. Most of the pioneering nobles were like Matsurize.

Only Earl Megan Stewart pretended to listen with gusto.

(End of this chapter)