After dinner, Niu Zida specially ordered Aponia to serve him tonight. He hadn't been with this beautiful nun for a long time, and he also had more important matters to discuss with her. Misato Shizuku naturally looked at Niu Zida with resentful eyes. After all, he hadn't sought out Misato Shizuku for several nights in a row. However, the proud young girl would never initiative say anything to Niu Zida. Asking her to admit that she now cared about Niu Zida's favor in her heart would be like killing Misato Shizuku.
"It's been a long time since I took a bath. Have them prepare some hot water. I want to take a bath with my wife Aponia."
Currently, the defense of the castle and the city is completely entrusted to the Goblin Army, while only the patrol within the city is given to the human garrison troops. These troops are all composed of Militia and thieves who survived and surrendered after the previous battles. The number is very small. After all, if directly contacting humans, it's still better to have human troops do it. Letting Goblins patrol within the territory might cause some trouble. Currently, the foundation of rule is still very weak, and Niu Zida feels that it's best to focus on appeasing the territory as much as possible.
As for the cooks and servants in the castle, they are all retained from the original staff. However, only Amelie's maids are allowed to enter the few rooms in the inner chamber on the second floor. Men, even servants, are not allowed to come up. This is the area where Niu Zida and his four maids live. Niu Zida signed a female consort contract with Amelie, so he doesn't have to worry about her instigating poisoning or anything like that, so he can use these servants with peace of mind.
Of course, the more fundamental reason why Niu Zida can continue to retain these servants is that he is determined to support Amelie's daughter, Dona, who is less than 1 year old, to become the female Baron, allowing Amelie to become the territory's regent, thereby realizing his bond with Amelie. If it weren't for his support, Amelie's daughter's title would likely be taken over by knights from other knight territories. Only with his support can her daughter's title be preserved. Only by using this method of binding through Benefit can he truly achieve Amelie's submission. Niu Zida is not so naive as to rely solely on a piece of paper contract.
"Master, do you really trust Amelie that much?"
"If it weren't for me, Amelie and her daughter would either be forced into a 'suicide' by these knights, or she would have to marry her daughter to a certain knight as a reliance. Even then, she might not be able to protect the territory. Now, I can not only help her protect the territory and the title but also tell her that she can take back the knight territories that participated in the rebellion this time and make them the Baron's direct land, which is equivalent to expanding the power of the lord of Dore Territory. She will support me."
After having the maids prepare the hot water, Aponia hugged Niu Zida with her naked snow-white Delicate body and soaked in the bathtub. Looking at the big breasts floating on the hot water, Niu Zida couldn't help but reach out and grab the big breasts, kneading them hard, which quickly made Aponia's snowy face show a shy expression:
"But Master, taking back the knight territories like this will arouse the vigilance and dissatisfaction of the other knights, right?"
"Yes, the other knights are temporarily defeated, they will be quiet for a while, but my approach of taking back the knight territories will definitely make many knights feel insecure."
"Since this is the case, why does Master still want to do this?"
"It's impossible to avoid offending anyone. Rather than that, it's better to temporarily use Amelie's daughter's position as the legitimate heir to suppress the knights in the territory. Of course, this is not a long-term solution. The key is that our strength must be strengthened. In other words, you little ones have to give me more sons."
Niu Zida said with a lewd smile and then grabbed Aponia's big breasts again and twisted them hard. The soft flesh was now covered with clear finger marks from the Goblin's big hands, like the Texture on a watermelon.
Curling up her slender body and kneeling in the bathtub, letting Niu Zida step on her back, Aponia looked at the other person with a pair of beautiful eyes, gently wiping Niu Zida's body with her snow-white soft hands, even if the other person treated her big breasts rudely, the beautiful woman still gently served Niu Zida to bathe and helped him clean his body.
"Ah... But Master, the inheritance of the title still needs to be reported to the kingdom's House of Nobles, right? If someone really interferes and tells the kingdom about the situation in the territory, what should we do? Without the real permission of the House of Nobles, Miss Dona's inheritance of the female Baron is still without legal basis."
"The kingdom is so chaotic internally now, it won't specially investigate the affairs of this remote western territory."
"But what if... Besides, once the war in Atair's kingdom ends, this side will sooner or later be noticed."
Aponia's words made sense. Niu Zida also felt that he couldn't help but consider this situation. If someone from the knight territory really revealed to the House of Nobles that the territory was controlled by Goblins, it would definitely attract the kingdom's investigation. After all, this is not a case of cuckoo taking over the nest. No matter what, the human kingdom would not allow a noble territory to be actually controlled by Goblins.
"It seems that we still need to accumulate our own strength. Let's not report the matter to the House of Nobles for now."
After thinking about it, Niu Zida decided to suppress this matter for now. He must at least be able to truly suppress the other knights in the territory in terms of military strength. Now, taking advantage of the knight's punitive army's new defeat, let's have more Goblin babies during the strategic window when the opposing army doesn't dare to act again.
Moreover, Niu Zida also felt that relying solely on him producing Goblins wouldn't solve the problem. How could he truly establish a human army under his control? Expanding his ruling base was the real way to contend with the knightly nobles within the territory. The entire territory was like a joint-stock company. As the newly appointed chairman from outside, he couldn't control the board of directors for a long time just by suppressing them. For example, by expanding the shares and involving more shareholders, and making all these shareholders dependent on him, relying on him to maintain their interests and closely uniting with him, in the end, everyone would support him out of shared interests.
"Leaving that aside for now, Aponia, I want to establish the Saintess Doctrine within the territory. You will serve as the head nun."
"Huh? Master, you want me to open a church in the city?"
There was already a Saintess Doctrine in Dorei Territory, but the nuns had fled due to the war. Now that Niu Zida wanted to propose rebuilding the church and have her serve as the head nun, Aponia could roughly guess what Niu Zida wanted to do.
"Master, do you want me to serve as the head nun in order to use the power of the church to control the Militia within the territory?"
"Aponia, you are indeed very clever. Dividing secular power can be done from multiple angles, and strengthening the power of the church independent of the lord is one method."