There are roughly two divisions of the political structure of the gold coin federation. One is the central aristocrat headed by two marquises and the local powerful faction headed by earls from various places; the other is the merchant faction represented by the coastal and border trade circles, and the aristocrat faction represented by the mainland.

The former division is not very meaningful. The contradiction between the central and local factions can be seen everywhere in all countries - oh, except the Northwest Republic. This kind of thing is really common. For thousands of years, even in the longer years, countries of all races have faced the same problem. Never saw anyone come up with any solution, and rarely would it be a large-scale conflict.

The power of the great nobles is absolutely impossible to defeat the union of local nobles, but local nobles will not easily unite. This is the check and balance between the two sides.

But the latter division is the biggest problem of the Gold Coin Federation at present.

With the long-term operation of this country, the conflicts between the two major factions of merchants and aristocrats have accumulated more and more, and gradually reached an uncontrollable point.

The merchant sect controls more than 60% of the country's assets. If it is limited to money, then the amount they control is even more than 70%. Although the aristocratic sect controls nearly 80% of the country's population and almost the same amount of land.

One party has money, the other party has someone. When the relationship between the two parties is good, they work together sincerely and do great things more than once.

But as time goes by, the conflict between the two sides has become increasingly greater. The merchants hope to promote more commercial road construction, promote consumption, and promote population mobility - in short, make businessmen's business better and better. The aristocrats hope to maintain the status quo and even reduce trade roads to stabilize the situation, reduce unnecessary expenses, and especially restrict population mobility to ensure that their territory can have stable output.

This contradiction is almost irreconcilable, and even the great goddess of wealth has no choice but to do anything about it. He can only let his priests stand in a neutral position, try to mediate disputes between the two parties, ease their relationships, and act as a role like lubricant or cushioning pad.

In the past, because the merchants sent a lot of money, they could gain powerful force by recruiting mercenaries and suppress the nobles. Even though the nobles were large and powerful, they were always at a disadvantage in front of the merchants who could recruit a large number of mercenaries at any time.

In recent years, as the noble gods become stronger, the power of the noble faction has been increasing. They have already had population advantages and have gained the support of the noble gods' church openly and secretly, and their combat power has accumulated more and more.

The so-called murderous intention arises from the fact that the aristocratic faction has increased its force, so naturally it is inevitable to rely on this force to fight for greater benefits. In addition, since the Battle of "Day of the Sun Extinguishing", the number of mercenaries walking on the main plane has decreased greatly, and the mercenaries have become increasingly opposed to joining the army to fight, so the strength of the merchant faction is indeed declining. As one grows and the other disappears, the aristocratic faction becomes more radical, and various conflicts of all sizes occur in the country.

The most famous thing happened in a city in the mid-west of the Federation. The local lords and the Chamber of Commerce had a conflict. From the quarrel, they eventually triggered a large-scale conflict. The two sides mobilized a total of more than 500 troops and fought for about half a month. If it weren't for a marquis joining the church of the Goddess of Wealth to mediate, I'm afraid both sides are still fighting.

This incident was almost the fuse, which completely clarified the conflicts between the two factions and brought them to the table. Since then, there have been more and more frictions and conflicts between the two factions, and bloodshed incidents have occurred from time to time.

For this reason, the leaders of both factions are currently stepping up their efforts to win over the forces of all parties, hoping to increase the strength of their own camp as much as possible to overwhelm the other party.

Since the summer, Baron Dahl has been receiving letters from both sides. Whether it is the aristocratic faction led by the two marquises or the merchant faction led by the seven major merchant acts, they have been constantly persuading him to support his side, and there are also nominally reasonable reasons.

In any case, Baron Dahl has always been a nobleman and a lord, which makes him naturally belong to the aristocratic camp. However, for a long time, the Dahl family has always made profits by doing smuggling business. It can be said that the lifeblood of the family does not depend on the identity of the lord, but on the identity of the smuggling merchant, which makes him naturally belong to the camp of the merchant camp.

In fact, in the Gold Coin Federation, most of the small and medium-sized nobles like the Dahl family are like this. While they are the lords who manage their territory, they do business and subsidize their family income. However, few of them can think of Baron Dahl like this, and they do it very successfully whether they are the lords or business.

Things are broken in this "very successful"!

It is probably because Dahl's leadership is regarded as a typical example. Both sides are getting stronger and stronger in their efforts to win over Dahl's Baron, and their attitude is getting stronger and stronger.

Especially this time, the messengers they sent all imply that "if they are not comrades-in-arms, they are enemies."

This is the problem that makes Baron Dahl the most headache.

He really doesn't care who he is a comrade-in-arms with, but he cares a lot about who he wants to be an enemy.

After all... no matter which side it is, it is a behemoth that is too powerful for the Dahl family. No matter which side he surrenders to, he may be slapped to death by the other party...it is like slapping a mosquito to death.

Although both sides swear that as long as Baron Dahl surrenders to them, he will be able to get several benefits and will definitely be well protected, Baron Dahl doesn't believe it!

Just fools believe it!

Protection? Very good protection?

Haha, how did the heir of a certain viscount who suddenly fell off his horse and died not long ago?

A young man with the strength of a quasi-knight will fall to his horse and die? He will not die even if he falls to his horse and dies!

In addition, how did a medium-sized chamber of commerce, their warehouses on the beach were broken by the fishman? Don’t tell me that those who were abandoned by the Ocean Goddess, who actually had the ability to break through the fortresses made of rocks on the shore. That was an insult to everyone’s IQ!

Baron Dahl dared to bet with his own head that as long as he defected to one of them, after the news spread, it would take less than half a month for several people sitting here today.

Of course everyone understands this principle, so you look at me, and I look at you, all of you are frowning.

Embarrassing silence enveloped the small conference room.

After a long time, in this silence, a voice suddenly sounded, but it was a young quasi-knight named Dahl.

"I think... it's better to join the Void Mask Church!"
Chapter completed!