After discussing whether Lawrence, as a stakeholder, was suitable for purchasing in this store, they began to talk about whether Lawrence, as a complete outsider, was suitable for intervening in the affairs of the region.
"As for the fact that you are neither from the island nor from Briton, it is easier to solve. As an ancient country, the nobles of the Holy Visby Empire actually have a large number of foreign marriages, and Earl Sauer is no exception.
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After hearing Lawrence ask this question, Viscount Surrey thought for a moment and then explained to Lawrence.
"Several nobles present now have actually been married to your family in history, so in this economic alliance, you can join this alliance as a helping relative and become the core representative of the alliance.
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"So it can be like this." Lawrence and Saphire looked at each other with surprised expressions. As standard nobles who became monks on the way, the two of them were not familiar with this type of operation at all.
"Of course, this can be said to be a traditional rule among nobles." Viscount Surrey, who knew the specific situation of Lawrence Joseph, said with an expression that should be on his face.
"For nobles, except for a few situations such as war, nationality will not be an obstacle in most things between us."
Then Viscount Surrey began to tell Lawrence and others about this aspect. At least in the west of the Old World, there used to be independent or semi-independent noble territories, and the so-called royal family was just the leader of these nobles.
Therefore, the internal autonomy of the nobility has naturally become the tradition of this land, and is even considered an important right that the nobility should have naturally.
Although as time went by, modern countries began to appear, and then the central governments of various empires and kingdoms that were much more powerful than in the past relied on their strength to take away some of the power from these nobles.
For example, these countries basically limit the nationality of nobles and prohibit them from jumping repeatedly in wars as they did in the past. However, except for these extreme cases, other rights of nobles still exist.
For example, the private property of nobles will be regarded as legal private property and protected no matter which country it is in. Even if a war breaks out between two countries, it will not be forcibly confiscated as the enemy's property.
Even if this wealth is expropriated during the war, those countries need to return these things to the original owners of the wealth after the war, and at the same time pay for the new wealth generated when these properties were expropriated during the war.
Of course, the status of nobles is not completely invulnerable. For example, there are some exceptions to this type of immunity rule for nobles.
To give the simplest example, if someone takes refuge in the existence of those lower planes, believes in some evil gods that are expressly prohibited from belief, or does something that is obviously anti-human, then no matter what their previous identity, their previous
All wealth will be confiscated.
However, except for those extreme cases, nobles still have greater freedom in various cooperation or similar things, at least a wider range of freedom than ordinary businessmen have.
For example, if the nobles on Green Island want to set up an economic organization, they can recruit some non-residents.
Although the central government of the Briton Kingdom may not be too happy in this case, they will not create any obstacles in this regard.
So Lawrence is now naturally able to join this alliance through his somewhat remote in-law status with several nobles on Green Island.
After realizing the benefits of this kind of alliance, Lawrence immediately thought that this type of organization could be replicated on Sauer Island.
So after the dinner where the host and guest enjoyed themselves, Lawrence immediately returned to his room with Saphire and used the radio to contact the officials staying on New Saul Island. During the contact process, he also said
I hope to establish an economic cooperation organization with myself and Sauer Island as the core and that can conduct economic coordination internally as a whole.
Butler Bayer, the current person in charge of Sauer Island, is very supportive of Lawrence's plan. In his view, with the gradual development of the island territory, Earl Sauer, as a man with a long heritage, should also expand his sights outside the island.
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Of course, in this era, it is not a good idea to seize territory through war with civilized races, so expanding one's strength through means similar to building alliances is the most common choice.
As for the idea of establishing an economic alliance proposed by Lawrence, it is naturally a very good idea. It is at least equivalent to a political or military alliance. An economic alliance is easier to form and is not so sensitive.
Even better news is that Lawrence's series of previous actions have established relatively close economic ties between Sauer Island and the surrounding islands, which is equivalent to laying the foundation for the establishment of such an organization.
So Lawrence immediately asked Butler Bayer to help contact the lords of the surrounding islands that have economic ties with him, and then see who is willing to join in this trade with the northern islands colony belonging to Briton.
.As for the specific matters of establishing the organization, there is no need to rush into it, because Lawrence feels that it is more appropriate to discuss the alliance issue after everyone has benefited from this trade and there are practical examples as evidence.
After finishing talking about the economic alliance, Lawrence began to ask about Nora's current situation.
Lawrence learned from Butler Bayer that Nora had been flying to the Blue Mountains alone since she was sent back by a group of clergy in a fast airship a while ago and said she wanted to retreat. Then there has been a strange light in the direction of the Blue Mountains in the past few days.
Flashing.
But now no one knows what the results of Nora's retreat are, and no one even knows where Nora's specific location is.
But according to Butler Bayer, the clergy who sent Nora over before met with the clergy on the island and went to the meadow at the foot of the Blue Mountain together, giving the impression that they were providing some kind of cover for Nora.
"Everything is fine in my hometown now, and our plan should be able to be implemented smoothly." After ending the contact, Lawrence stood up from the chair in front of the radio station, and then briefly introduced Saifei beside him.
"It's just that Nora made a lot of noise after she returned. What's even more depressing is that no one knows what her current situation is."
"You seemed to have said before that she is now going to make an important breakthrough in the extraordinary direction. Didn't she make a breakthrough in our temporary residence?" Saphire said to Lawrence after thinking for a moment.
"I remember that there were a lot of defensive facilities around our house, so the security should be better. I think it would be better to choose a safer place when breaking through this relatively fragile situation."
"Theoretically, this is true, but the problem is that the extraordinary level that Nora has to break through now is very high, and the defense around our house is basically meaningless to her." Lawrence shrugged with a look of helplessness on his face.
His family knew their own affairs, and Lawrence knew that the magical defenses around his house could only provide a certain degree of hindrance and alarm when extraordinary beings of Silver level or below came to attack.
If you rely solely on those traps and defense systems, you may be able to stop some Black Iron-level extraordinary beings who don't know much about this type of traps and defense systems and lack all kinds of preparations, and even some with relatively strong defenses.
A high-level Black Iron-level transcendent can break in directly.