Lord Harland.

As long as Richard nods, there are hundreds of noble ladies in Northern Xinjiang who are willing to marry the Harland family.

If you wait a few years and Richard grows into a high-level magician, even members of the Grant royal family may be willing to marry him.

Now Richard is very popular in the aristocratic marriage market in the northern part of the Grant Kingdom. He can be called the most popular young man in the province of Geda. He is a matchmaker and a prostitute. Every day, old comrades and senior officers come to William to send messages, hoping to marry into the Haaland family.

On the Dawn Continent, low-ranking aristocratic families basically get married around the age of twenty.

Ordinary people also consider love when they get married, while marriages among nobles are mostly determined by interests.

Although monogamy is also said in this world, the teachings of the Goddess of Dawn also persuade everyone to be loyal to their partners and treat their families well.

But in a world where extraordinary power belongs to oneself, the system of monogamy is simply impossible to implement.

Male nobles have court ladies by their side, and female nobles can also have guardian knights.

Strong professionals, regardless of gender, can have multiple legal partners.

If two barons, Richard and Sophia, get married.

Richard can find the palace maid, and Sophia can also find the guardian knight.

The children born have the right to inherit the territory of direct blood relatives, but the order of inheritance is lower than that of the legitimate son.

The combination of two barons involves very complex issues that are related to the interests of everyone in the territory.

Marriage between lords is essentially the merger of territories. In the history of Dawn Continent, there were rarely marriages between hereditary nobles with titles.

William is not optimistic about their relationship, this is the main reason.

After returning from Black River Fort, Richard went directly to Vicksburg and met Sophia. He directly raised the topic.

"I went to Black River Castle the day before yesterday. My father asked me to attend a party and marry a noble lady from Count Martins' family."

Before Richard could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Sophia: "What do you mean by saying this to me?"

"I want to tell you that I rejected William on the spot and told him that I had someone I liked. You know, the person I like is you. If you don't object, I will come to Vicksburg as soon as possible to get engaged."

Richard was so direct, which caught Sophia off guard.

When she was in Markholm Kingdom, Sophia had a secret crush on a talented magician. But she needed to shoulder family responsibilities, and this secret love ended in vain after inheriting the territory.

During the time she spent with Richard, Sophia also had some affection for him, but it was not yet in love.

It wasn't until Richard led the troops to defeat the orcs and rescued Vickburg's plight that Sophia had a different feeling for him.

The subsequent relationship between the two, although not made explicit, feels like a pair of lovers.

Sophia grew up in an aristocratic family, so of course she understands marriages between aristocrats.

The relationship between her parents is a combination of interests, and they don't have much affection.

The father also had four court maids who competed with the mother for favor.

Of course Sophia is a powerful magician, just like her father in status.

She can also choose to marry a noble who has not inherited the territory, and then find a few guardian knights. This is completely in line with the laws of the Grant Kingdom and the conventions between nobles.

But the days with Li Cha were so sweet, emotionally she couldn't let go of her sweetheart.

Richard is mentally mature and not a love brain.

Although Sophia is a few years older than Richard physically, she takes relationships very seriously.

Facing Li Cha's proposal, she readily agreed without discussing it with other people in the territory.

The Territory of Stopa was severely damaged in the last orc invasion, and Sophia started from almost nothing.She personally compiled and trained the army, and she personally purchased the people in the territory. Her prestige in the territory is very important.

Even though some people in the Stopa family objected, with Sophia's insistence, the marriage of the two was quickly settled.

After settling on the marriage, Sophia used some of the middle-level skills she had accumulated, and with the addition of the middle-level skills that Sophia had accumulated, the Harland territory could gain another barony.

After obtaining the territory, William hurried to Wrightburg to find someone to clear it up, hoping to obtain the unclaimed land in the east of the Harland territory and the north of the Stopa territory.

If the event is successful, the three territories can be connected into one.

When Richard and Sophia's children inherit the territory, they can be merged into a Viscounty.

In other areas of the Grant Kingdom, this kind of incident would be difficult to handle.

The royal family has always been committed to suppressing the influence of the great nobles, and is very disgusted with the merger between territories.

Every time a territory is merged, it takes a long time to shirk, and it is only when I can't stand it that I agree to the promotion of the title.

But in the northern region, the royal family needs the big nobles to take on important responsibilities, so naturally it will not limit the influence of the big nobles, but will support the development of the small nobles.

After the orc invasion, the royal family directly granted two hereditary counts in the north.

The current situation in northern Xinjiang is far from the time to restrict hereditary nobles.

As long as William persuaded the high provincial officials, this matter could be done.

William not only found the old chief Martins, and asked Martins to help clear the way in the noble council, but also found Zachary, the new commander of the Northern Legion, and asked him to be a middleman, and sent a gift to the provincial governor Jerome Holland. A generous gift.

Jerram is a court baron with a low family background and comes from an ordinary baronial family in the eastern part of the kingdom.

But his sister was a lady of the Grant royal family. She was very favored by King Charles and gave birth to Prince Felix.

With this relationship, Jerram could reach the high position of governor of the province.

However, to serve as a provincial governor in northern Xinjiang, one must obtain the support of the main army commander.

The relationship with the noble lords should not be too rigid.

Insufficient ability and simply incompetent.

Zachary is the commander of the Northern Army and the most powerful person in the province of Geda. He and Jerram were also old acquaintances in the royal capital, and both were close associates of King Charlie.

Please moved Zachary and it went very well.

More than square kilometers in the northeast of Harland's territory was granted to Richard, an area equivalent to a viscount in the south.

The Richard family has three territories, and the Stopa territory covers an area of ​​ square kilometers.William's territory covers an area of ​​ kilometers.Richard's territory is square kilometers.

The total land area of ​​4,500 square kilometers is less than 20,000 people. With such a small population density, it is naturally difficult to develop the territory.

There are a series of cumbersome procedures in the wedding ceremony of the nobles in the Dawn Continent.

But Richard and Sophie are hereditary lords, so they don't have to worry about messy little things. The new housekeeper Bernard Luca has arranged everything in an orderly manner, and they don't need to worry about tedious things.

Although it seemed rushed, Richard and Sophia were willing, and they did not care about the opinions of others. They decided to hold a simple wedding. The invited guests were no outsiders, only blood relatives and in-laws of both parties.

The nobles in the Chenxi Continent like to talk about ostentation, and the waste of weddings and funerals is astonishing.

Nowadays, although Sophia and Richard have made war fortune and have a lot of funds in their hands, they have already decided to invest and manage their territory and will not waste their gold coins on weddings.

Richard has a modern worldview and is very good at weighing pros and cons. Sophia has studied magic in the Kingdom of Markholm for many years. The study of a magician consumes a lot of gold coins, and Baron Stopa's support alone is simply not enough. This experience has led to her habit of calculating money. The cruel war in northern Xinjiang and the responsibilities of Baron Stopa in the Territory have made her pragmatic and cannot vanity.

Therefore, regardless of the criticisms of other nobles, the two behaved a little maverick.

On August 13th, the day when the two got married, Richard and Sophia went to the Dawn Church together. They exchanged tokens of love, received the blessing of the church, completed the wedding, and became a family.