Lord: Marry the villain's daughter at the beginning?

Chapter 256 Treaty Reversal

"No! This tax also needs to be changed. Merchants from the northern region should be taxed normally when they come to the central region!"

Lilith was in high spirits and even started pointing at the treaty.

Nora, who was standing by, saw Lilith becoming more and more presumptuous, and kept reminding her in a low voice: "Your Majesty! Watch your attitude! After all, the other party is the Governor of the North. It is only right for us to give up some of our interests!"

Although she knew that Lilith seemed to have hit the Northern Governor's soft spot, no matter what the Northern Governor's soft spot was, the capital still had to rely on the power of the North, so Nora was frightened by Lilith's aggressive behavior.

Not to mention that they still need the other party's weapons assistance, what if the other party gets angry and directly sends troops to flatten the capital? Why has Her Majesty become so unstable? Although the other party is Her Majesty's sworn brother, he is not really Her Majesty's brother? Alliances are the most unreliable.

At the same time, Nora immediately stood up and explained: "Your Excellency the Governor, that's not what His Majesty meant. His Majesty meant that this place is still under discussion. We can talk about it in detail."

But Lind picked up the treaty that Lilith pointed at helplessly, read it carefully, and then said, "Your Majesty is right, but this tax cannot be collected by the capital. Taxes related to the northern border should be collected by another agency, and the manpower should be decided by Your Majesty."

After hearing this, Lilith's face was full of pride, and her expression seemed to be saying: Call me Your Majesty two more times.

And when Nora saw that Linde really and honestly modified the treaty, gave up the rights and interests in the North, and handed over all the profits to His Majesty, she almost couldn't control the expression on her face.

What on earth did the two talk about in dialect? Why did the usually calm His Majesty become so unrestrained after the conversation, and the Governor of the Northern Territory, who was previously intimidating and oppressive, became like an eggplant hit by frost, becoming extremely honest and even a little... nagging.

However, Nora still faithfully performed her duties as prime minister. She looked at the contract and said, "Your Majesty, if a separate agency is established to collect taxes from the people in the North, how will the capital explain this?"

Nora could even imagine why the nobles in the royal capital would fight over this treaty. The tax revenue from northern goods was a huge fortune, a big piece of cake.

The officials in the royal capital who were originally in charge of taxation would definitely strongly oppose it.

But after Lind heard what Nora said, he seemed to have turned back into the Northern Governor in the first half, and said in a cold tone: "If anyone objects, let him come and talk to me!"

"If you really want to object, then don't do it. According to the previous treaty, our people in the north will specifically control these merchants, and the capital will not need to collect taxes. Our merchants in the north only need to pay me the exit tax!"

The room was very warm, but Nora felt that the temperature suddenly dropped a lot. Looking at the eyes of the Northern Governor, she knew that the other party was serious.

Nora wiped the cold sweat from her forehead. She was obviously a top student who graduated from the Royal Capital Academy, but she found this negotiation increasingly difficult to understand.

On the contrary, Judith nodded repeatedly after seeing Lind's behavior, which confirmed her guess.

The smile on Lilith's lips was even harder to suppress than those old-fashioned muskets with huge recoil in the royal capital. It felt so good.

As long as this institution can be set up separately to manage the taxation of merchants in the North, Lilith will have a stable and huge income. Moreover, because the staff of this institution is completely selected by Lilith, almost all the taxes collected will flow into Lilith's personal pocket.

Of course, it is impossible for Lilith to monopolize such a big piece of cake. The nobles in the royal capital will probably fight to the death for the little bit of money that flows from Lilith's fingertips and for the position of this new organization.

All Lilith needs to do is sit on the throne and see whoever wags their tail the hardest will be admitted into the new organization.

After all, it is clearly written in the new treaty that the new institution will be entirely managed by Her Majesty the Queen. Anyone who objects can go and talk to the Governor of the North.

Then, Lind took out another treaty and said, "As for the previous matter about weapons, although we still hope that the capital will exchange population with us, we also understand your majesty's difficulties."

Lind wrote and drew on the treaty, and said: "It is indeed not a good idea for Her Majesty to forcibly take the population from those noble territories, so we plan to issue some trade certificates to those nobles as compensation."

"Nobles who have trade certificates can use them to trade between the Northern Territory and the capital. Although there will be fewer people, I believe the profits from trade will soon make up for the nobles' losses."

Nora took the new treaty and looked at it carefully. Wow, it was entirely up to Her Majesty the Queen to decide to whom the trade certificate would be issued.

You must know that now it is the goods from the North that are being dumped in the Royal Capital and the central region. The Northern merchants are unilaterally harvesting the Royal Capital, and the Royal Capital has no ability to resist. The biggest problem with this harvest is that the nobles themselves cannot join in. With this trade certificate, those nobles can directly transform into Northern merchants, purchase goods from the North, and join in this feast.

The profits brought by this trade certificate are enough to make those crazy nobles willing to sell their land, not to mention the small population.

What's more, with this trade certificate, he could establish direct contact with the Governor of the Northern Territory.

Truly priceless.

Looking at this certificate, not only Nora, but even Judith, who had always thought that things were within her expectations, swallowed her saliva. Are they just siblings from the same clan? Are they real siblings?

Judith was extremely envious of the certificate and looked at Lind with extremely earnest eyes. She said that she was also a descendant of the old empire, and asked, "Governor, please share some soup."

But Lind, who was still very depressed, did not notice Judith's earnest gaze, but was thinking about which treaties needed to be revised and which treaties could guarantee his sister's absolute power and safety in the royal capital.

Lilith took the treaty from Nora, glanced at it, and nodded with satisfaction. As expected of a brother, isn't this quite capable? He directly changed the treaty that originally checked the capital and caused Lilith and the central nobles to fight each other, into an absolute power in Lilith's hands.

Lilith now feels refreshed. Not to mention that the feeling of being pulled back and forth by the North is gone. With these, after returning to the royal capital, Lilith has absolute power. She doesn't even need to rely on the royal family. It should be the royal family that relies on her.

After all, these treaties are effective only for Lilith. If Lilith does not sit on the throne of queen, all these treaties will be invalid.

After returning to the royal capital, I'm afraid it won't matter what the new party or the old party is. There will only be the radical Queen's faction and those who think the radicals are too conservative. They are not strong enough and will play a balancing game.

In the end, everyone stayed in the room for most of the day before Linde finished revising all the treaties. At this time, Nora was sweating profusely. The conditions given by the North were a bit too generous, which was far beyond Nora's expectations.

At this time, Lin De stood up and said, "I have prepared a small dinner party, and I sincerely invite Your Majesty to come."

"Excuse me."

Lilith stood up, put her hand to her lips, and said sarcastically, "Governor, I didn't hear you clearly just now. Could you please say it again?"

Hard, Lind’s fist was hard.