Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 414 Fifteen days under Rong Zhao

The elves of the Stardust Protectorate naturally couldn't hastily allow General Virgil to send troops to the front line just because of the opinion of an outsider, the Duke of Frost Maple Ridge.

After Xia Houyan pretended to be swaying and talking, the upper elves in the Emerald Palace soon fell into endless struggle——

After all, even if it is finally decided to send troops...

When to go, how to go, how many people to take?This is also a matter that involves the interests of many parties and requires careful discussion.

Xia Houyan was tired of listening to the twittering of these sharp-eared idiots, so he called Master Spirit Song, Master Laurie and Kenny Clever, sneaked out of the conference hall, and found a tavern near the Emerald Palace to have a drink. up.

Unfortunately, with the exception of a foodie scum who can write novels, nature-loving elves rarely eat meat, so the food served in the tavern is also mainly vegetarian.

In order to drink, Xia Houyan had to ask Master Laurie to hunt down a few pigeons in the street with magic, and hand them to the tavern owner to roast and eat.

After eating, Eldridge, Cousins, Bob and a few others got the letter from the camp, so they dragged Mountbatten and a few frontier staff officers over to fight for an extra table. This little elf tavern is crowded.

While roasting pigeons, the owner of the elf tavern squinted at these yelling thugs, and had already despised the human upbringing of the empire a thousand times in his heart.

When the sun passed noon, Bob Brooke was already drunk and began to swear, but Cousins ​​covered his mouth; the spiritual master also drank too much, and insisted on toasting the lord for "our class friendship".

The news from the Emerald Palace finally arrived:

After a lengthy discussion and an in-depth, frank, and pragmatic exchange of views, the Stardust Protectorate Council and Her Majesty the Elf Queen Anya finally reached an agreement:
Three days later, General Virgil, the commander of the "Fengyun Brigade", will lead four thousand soldiers of the "Fengyun Brigade" to the front line, trying to force the orcs to return the prisoners!

As for the "Morning Star Mage Corps", Master Alighieri will be in charge of staying in Eternal Sun City.However, "The Morning Star Mage Group will also send a hundred magicians to follow the Wind and Cloud Brigade to the Burning Crystal Canyon to provide necessary assistance.

——Although Master Alighieri is unwilling to get involved in this continental war, after all, he still cannot see his friend General Virgil, who has been with him for many years, go to the front line without the support of magicians.

When the news of the elves' decision to send troops came, several humans in the tavern shouted "To the allies of the elves, to the united front of the empire, to the fucking green-skinned orcs", and clinked glasses enthusiastically.

Only Sean Mountbatten, who knew the tricks behind this matter, smirked and winked at the lord.

According to follow-up news, the elves in the Emerald Palace have already written a note to the Imperial Army, stating that Eternal Sun City's move to the front line this time is to "rescue the noble elf captives" and not "to participate in any war between the Empire and the Federation." Military action".

However, these beautiful words that try to dig themselves out of the accident, just look at it.

When it comes to the front line, if General Virgil's "Fengyun Brigade" wants not to be involved in the vortex of war, it is simply a dream and a fantasy.

——As long as the "Fengyun Brigade" sets foot on the Burning Crystal Canyon, it is already the best proof that Eternal Sun City has officially sent troops to support the front line of the empire.

With the presence of elf archers and a hundred magicians, although it is still impossible to completely reverse the situation of the battle, at least the imperial army will no longer be helpless and slaughtered in the face of the ice demon mammoth's heavy equipment attack.

Now that Yongri City has decided to send troops, there is no need for the people of Shuangfengling to stay in the Gentle Elf Township.

After the banquet was over, the lord decided that the "Frost Maple Ridge Labor Art Troupe" and the elf brothers from the "Fengyun Brigade" would set off together to the "Civil Fortress" at the front of the Burning Crystal Canyon.

Of course, the rhetoric of the Shuangfengling side is still that we are a serious art troupe, and we will go to the front line to perform "labor troops" with art performances, and we will not participate in dirty work such as fighting to death.

The elves of the "Fengyun Brigade" who were already mentally prepared to die in the bombardment looked at the "Frost Maple" who was wearing a strong and stubborn and holding various "performance props", but his face was full of death. Ling Labor Art Troupe", I can't help but despair again at the huge gap between people.

However, just before this little "elven-human coalition" set off from Eternal Sun City, Xia Houyan encountered another major event:
The morning before departure, the elf maid Leah came to the camp on tiptoe, urging the lord and other heroes of Frost Maple Ridge to change into formal attire and go to the Emerald Palace.

The little girl's earnest expression almost scared the high officials Xiahou out of their wits, thinking that Queen Anya was going to force the marriage before she left;

But after careful questioning, they found out that there was a royal envoy from the imperial capital that had just arrived in Yongri City.

——The task of this mission is also very simple:
Give the Igor family a reward.

Since the start of the war, Frost Maple Ridge has really made great contributions to the empire - not to mention killing the "Hammer of Purgatory" division, guarding the front line of the Lionheart River, and uncovering the "inner ghost" of the Duke of Houston Well, just leading troops to occupy the Temple of Blood and forcing out a cease-fire treaty is a major achievement in saving the life and people of the empire from a crisis!
During the whole process, although Shuangfengling did earn a lot of money by his own ability, the official reward from the empire has not yet been handed out!
The Royal Etiquette Department of the Imperial Capital has been contacting the lord for a long time to discuss the merits and rewards, but the envoys of the Etiquette Department have not left for a long time——

——According to the research and judgment of the Military Statistics Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, this should be because the officials and lords of the Etiquette Department are really worried about the safety of the wasteland of the Land of Souls, and they are afraid that the envoys sent on the road will be inexplicably stolen by thieves and ogres. The good lords and his ilk have been ripped off.

As a result, this time, after hearing the news that the lord was going north, the Royal Etiquette Department immediately sent an envoy to Eternal Sun City, intending to use the stardust elves to protect the country's treasure land, to award honors to the strong men of the Igor family, and to save on etiquette Si's gang of gentlemen ran under the dangerous wall of the Land of Cracking Souls.

Thanks to this envoy group walking fast enough, it was able to arrive at Eternal Sun City before the lord left for Burning Crystal Canyon——

——If it was a few days later, you guys would have to run all the way to Tumubao to give Lord Elliott Igor the title of Mongolian Top Order in Wala.

However, Xia Houyan was still a little regretful, and felt that the envoy came too late after all: if he could have given the high-ranking members of the family a few days earlier a noble title, he would not have brought two magicians to the Emerald Palace to embarrass himself.

After asking Ming for a closer look, Xia Houyan hurriedly bathed and changed clothes in the camp, and then rushed to the Emerald Palace with several senior family members to participate in the award ceremony.

According to imperial etiquette, in formal occasions such as conferring titles, all imperial people participating in the ceremony not only need to wear Chinese clothes, but also cannot wear weapons to show the supreme respect for the imperial power of the empire—but this time, all All the Shuangfengling thugs clamored "I can't give a full ceremony when I have a mission", and they walked into the ceremony hall of the Emerald Palace with all their weapons.

--joke!What if this so-called "envoy" has evil intentions and takes the opportunity to murder the lord?
After experiencing the Vincent Igor case, the Igor family naturally lacked trust in the imperial family.

Therefore, Mr. Royal Special Envoy of the Mission Group stared stupidly at the knives, guns, halberds, axes, hooks and forks on the members of the Igor family for a long time, and then he came back to his senses. Under the green dome of the Emerald Palace, he announced the awards The award ceremony officially began.

A group of aliens from the land of cracked souls, who have never participated in such a grand occasion, are almost blinded by the royal envoys' fine clothes and the ribbons and flowers filling the hall;
However, Queen Anya and other high elves, who were watching the ceremony, clearly disdain the barbaric etiquette of the human empire.

After the emperor's special envoy announced the start of the ceremony, a bishop of the Church of the Holy Light stepped forward and said a few drowsy prayers, to the effect that we are gathering here for the glory of the Holy Spirit;

Then, the bishop brought a bottle of holy water, wet his fingers in a serious manner, and wiped it on the face of the lord, as a blessing to the official Xiahou on behalf of the Supreme Holy Spirit.

Taking advantage of the bishop's inattention, Xia Houyan stuck out his tongue and licked the holy water on his face, but it didn't smell at all. It felt like the Holy Light Church scooped it up from any well in the imperial capital.

Not as good as Queen Anya's holy water.he thinks.

After the religious session was over, the bishop withdrew, and the emperor's special envoy stood up again.

This time, Mr. Special Envoy brought a golden ritual sword that looks like it is priceless.

This great sword named "Sword of Contract Victory" is the eternal symbol of the imperial power of the empire, and it is the witness of all the imperial nobles signing the contract with the royal family.

As long as he holds this great golden sword, Mr. Special Envoy temporarily obtains the authority to represent His Majesty Basil III and award honors to the nobles of the empire.

Mr. Special Envoy raised the "Sword of Contract Victory" with some difficulty, and did not ask whether the lord is his Master, but stretched the sword forward, and under the vigilant eyes of all the Shuangfengling horse boys, he held the sword Pointed at Lord Lord's shoulder.

Afterwards, Mr. Special Envoy put down the big sword, turned around, picked up one golden medal after another from the velvet cushion held by the attendant, and put it on the chest of the Lord Lord's red suit.

Lord Shuangfengling's current title is already the noble Duke of the Empire. It would be too shocking to raise his title to Grand Duke in just two years.

Therefore, at this award ceremony, Xia Houyan did not actually get an additional title, but just scooped up a lot of various medals as rewards:
For example, the highest level of knighthood "Bauhinia Knight Medal"...

For example, the "Emblem of the Ring of Thorns and Grass", which symbolizes the utmost devotion and dedication to the Supreme God...

For example, the military medal "First Class Iron Cross Badge" that symbolizes the highest military exploits of the empire...

For example, the "Mrs. Bovary Medal of Honor" in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the empire's cultural and artistic undertakings...

There are so many things, the metal medal that Mr. Special Envoy hangs on Xia Houyan's chest is worth a heavy 30 to [-] yuan.

For ordinary civilians of the empire, such an honor is enough for them to lift the coffin board, climb out of the grave, and tell the story to the descendants of all generations;
But Xia Houyan has already passed the stage of life where he values ​​these reputations.For him and Shuangfengling, these vain imperial medals are actually useless except for cosplaying Brezhnev.

What Frost Maple Ridge really values ​​is the titles granted by the empire to other high-level members of the Igor family.

During the war with the lord, the core members of the Igor family also successfully registered in the Imperial Etiquette Department, and won the title of nobleman for themselves by virtue of their military exploits. From then on, the sparrow became a phoenix. It is not the same as ordinary civilians.

The so-called "lower-level title" means that although the imperial citizen has become a nobleman, he still has to be a member of the people and be under the jurisdiction of a certain noble, instead of directly loyal to the imperial family like an independent noble.

——In other words, you are still from Shuangfengling, but with a noble name.

In history, only the top nobles with a vast territory and astonishing power like the Grand Duke Rosario have the places of lower-level titles under their hands;

But this time, His Majesty Basil III made a generous move and awarded five junior titles to Shuangfengling at once:

Frost Maple Ridge Knight Commander Aaron Cousins, because of his "heroic performance in war, fearless in the face of danger, unruffled in the face of the enemy, and unyielding in the face of death, which demonstrates the noble character of imperial knights", was named "Viscount of Dongbingku" ".

Alice Comstock, captain of the Frost Maple Ridge guards and chief instructor of martial arts, was awarded the title of "Star Master" because of her "excellent achievements in the Imperial Swordsmanship Competition and her inexhaustible feats in beheading enemy generals in battle". Baroness Dew Valley".

Sean Mountbatten, Chief of Staff of Frost Maple Ridge, was named "Baron of Keel Peak" because of his "excellent staff and logistical support work in the war".

Chris Mann, the deputy commander of Igor's pioneering army, was named "Baron of the Red River Valley" because of "admirable loyalty, admirable bravery, and admirable conscientiousness".

The most surprising thing is that the last person to be rewarded was Pavol Eldridge: this lazy dog ​​who had served as the commander of the Eastern Army for half his life, came to Shuangfengling to catch fish for two years. He even managed to get a noble title of "Baron of Beitong Mountain" because of "the blood, toil, sweat and tears selflessly paid in the war".

Kenny Clever, who was watching the ceremony from the sidelines, was almost red-eyed by his ex-colleague's triumphant look.

The five lower-level nobles who received the reward were officially included in the roster of the imperial nobles, and they could pass on their titles to their descendants with the joint approval of the imperial family and the Duke of Shuangfengling.

In addition, they will have their own food and salary from now on—don’t get me wrong, because they are lower-level nobles belonging to the Duke of Shuangfengling, so all their salaries still have to be paid by the lord himself, which is regarded as a gift from the imperial family.

However, the preferential treatment and a series of privileges received by noble status in the empire are the intangible wealth most valued by those who are awarded titles.

In addition to the five lower-ranking nobles, the emperor's special envoy also tirelessly awarded honorable knight titles to more than 20 pioneer soldiers with outstanding martial arts, adding up to a total of one Bauhinia Knight, eight Rose Knights, and seventeen Lily Knights .

Aaron Cousins ​​is nominally the "Chief of Frost Maple Ridge", but the original knights in his own territory are only himself, plus a "thorn knight" Clement who is not recognized by modern times. ;
Today's Frost Maple Ridge finally has a knight team, and Knight Commander Cousins ​​is no longer a bare-handed commander.

Knight Commander Cousins, who was so excited, seemed to have returned to the heyday of the family when Vincent Igor had not yet been murdered, and he had more than a dozen Knights of Eagle's Rest under his command.

A series of awarding ceremonies finally came to an end. The emperor's special envoy, who was dizzy from exhaustion, was about to call it a day, but was stopped by the Duke of Shuangfengling, whose chest was covered with medals.

"What's the matter, please tell me!" The special envoy didn't dare to neglect the popular fried chicken in the empire, and hurriedly said with a smile.

"Master Special Envoy, I remember that in the past when the empire awarded honors, didn't they always reward gold coins, treasures, subjects, slaves and other things at the same time?" Xia Houyan asked, "Why not this time?"

"Ah." The special envoy said with a chuckle, "Now is the time of war, and the royal family's finances are also very tight, so other rewards will not be paid for now. Everyone in Shuangfengling is a well-known loyal minister of the empire. His Majesty Basil and the Supreme Holy Spirit must be willing to make selfless sacrifices for the empire, so there should be no need for any vulgar material rewards, right?"

Xia Houyan was dumbfounded:

He really didn't expect that Shuangfengling would be so adept at cheating money and fooling people all day long, but at the end of the day, he was pecked blind by the old goose of the imperial family!

(End of this chapter)