Lord Harland.

Lord Harland Text Volume Chapter 305: Promoted to Duke On the night of the Harvest Festival, in a simple square, the Harland Opera Troupe began their performance.

There was no curtain, no speeches, just a wooden board separating the front stage from the back stage.

Catherine appeared on the simple stage for the first time. Looking at the huge audience, she felt a little nervous and excited.She is a veteran actress with two years of acting experience and the most popular female star in Fort William.

Catherine had only felt this nervous feeling when she first took the stage.Catherine is a person with a big heart. The bigger the scene, the more passionate her performance becomes.

She looked around and saw that there were many orcs in the audience.

Although Richard sold orc prisoners of war, there are still about orcs living in the Lothar Basin.The remaining orc slaves are relatively docile, and most of them are goats.

The coexistence of humans and orcs is also a special scenery in the Lothar Basin.

"The story takes place in a village near Fort William. Sam was sold to Harland Territory by a slave trader..."

As the narration begins, the background of the opera begins.

The name of today's opera is "Life is Beautiful". It tells the story of a man named Sam who was captured by slave traders and sold to the Harland Territory. Five years after Harland became an indentured slave, Sam became a free man, was assigned land, founded a new family, earned rich gold coins with his hard-working hands, and gained a new life.

The highlight of this opera is the male lead, Catherine plays Sam's wife Irene.

Irene doesn't have many roles in this play. As the narration starts, Catherine slowly walks to the stage. She was wearing a dirty gray robe, her hair was messily tied on her head, and her face was covered with black ash. She looked more like a woman from a poor family.

Although this play is new, after two days of rehearsal, Catherine has memorized the entire plot flow.

In this era of lack of entertainment, the opera's performance form was very novel and could easily attract a large number of audiences. The performance had just begun and caused a sensation.

Steven stood under the simple stand, watching the performance with relish, staring closely at Catherine.

A middle-aged officer looked around. After seeing Steven, he squeezed through the crowd and slapped Steven hard on the shoulder.

"Brother, I heard from the people in the logistics department that you came to Losar Basin. We haven't seen each other in five years. How have you been doing recently?"

The speaker was Norman, the captain of Harland's third brigade. He was Soros's nephew and had been promoted to a sixth-level warrior. He and Steven were old comrades in arms and had a very close friendship.

Stevin was born a serf in Northern Xinjiang. He became a serf soldier of Baron Barton when he was young. He was later bought by Soros and joined Soros' mercenary group. As the mercenary group was merged into the Harland Territory, Stevin Also became a veteran of the rd Squadron.

With this relationship, Steven is naturally very close to the officers who came out of the old No. Squadron.

"Just like that, after I retired from the army, although I made a lot of money, my life seemed to have lost its direction and I couldn't muster the energy to do anything."

Hearing what Steven said, Norman shook his head and said: "Your mental state is not good. I think you lack family life and cannot adapt after leaving the military camp. You should find a woman you like to get married."

Steven stared at Catherine on the stage and said thoughtfully: "Maybe you are right. What do you think of the girl on the stage?"

"The conditions are very favorable. I heard you are a star in Fort William, but you are old enough to be a father."

"But I like her, and after the show, I will ask her to propose."

Seeing the determination on Steven's face, Norman seemed to be looking at a madman, took his arm and said: "Listen to me, you will scare the little girl. It is not easy to marry a girlfriend. Things. You need to get close to her first, attract her with your advantages, and arouse her curiosity about you, then you can succeed.

Just like we fight a battle, first work hard on scouting.After the investigation is completed, you must decisively invest your troops in the battle. At this time, you must not hesitate to be brave.If you listen to me, I guarantee you can get this woman. "

Even when the two were chattering, the special envoy from Nolan rushed to the Lothar Basin.

It has been two months since Richard killed the dragon-veined kobolds. The orcs have already retreated across the board, and the Grant royal family has begun to reward the heroes.

This year the Grant royal family will divide four fiefdoms, one earldom and three baronies, and two noble titles will be promoted, including Earl Harland's promotion to duke.

The birth of a duchy will greatly affect the power structure of the Grant Kingdom and even the stability of the regime.

According to King Roger's true intention, he did not want a new duke to be born.But Richard had made real military exploits, so it would be unjustifiable not to be promoted to a noble title.

If the Harland family is suppressed, it means that the noble promotion system has lost its authority.

The noble reward and promotion system is the foundation of the Grant Kingdom.

It is precisely by relying on this system that we can attract generations of outstanding talents to serve the Grant Kingdom.Nobles big and small joined forces and fought bloody battles to stop the orcs from invading again and again.The eight main legions of the Grant family alone cannot stop the orc army.

If this system is broken, not only will the Harland family become enemies, but it will also affect the stability of the situation in northern Xinjiang.

Through this battle, King Roger has understood that the Harland family has become fully fledged, and even if he does not promote Richard to a title, he cannot stop the expansion of this family.

If you step forward to suppress it yourself, you can only suppress it in name. In fact, you are a villain in vain.

After carefully weighing the pros and cons, King Roger decided to abide by the nobility title award system, promote Richard to a title, and grant him a new earldom.Anyway, most of what the Harland family conquered in the fiefdom were barren mountains and mountains. The Grant family only paid in name and did not need to invest much principal.

In this year's battle, not only did Richard gain a lot and was about to be promoted to Duke, William also accumulated enough military exploits to obtain a second barony.

If he hadn't spent a lot of merit in exchange for the Breathing Technique, William would have had enough merit to obtain the third territory and be promoted to Viscount.

William's first territory is now the core of the Harland territory. Although this territory belongs to William in name, it has not yet been incorporated into the Earldom of Harland and is actually controlled by Richard.

Even if William were to distribute this territory to other heirs, he would not have any say in it. Instead, it would be the bane of death.It was impossible for Richard's brothers such as Ron and Hayden to make the soldiers of Fort William obey orders.