The main duty of the palace guard is to protect the personal safety of the main royal family members living in the palace, similar to the Ouchi guard, only the knights who are most trusted by the royal family and the most skilled in martial arts can have this honor, and the guards by the side of the royal family members can have this opportunity to meet His Majesty the Supreme King, His Royal Highness the Queen and those noble princes and princesses. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In addition, the knights of the palace guards, as well as the honor guard of state guests, greet foreign guests, diplomatic occasions, perform mounted archery and swordsmanship performances, show the martial spirit of the Kingdom of Volis, and also hold martial arts competitions in some grand festivals, and those who have won higher rankings will also be cordially received by the king, and they will be awarded knighthoods and awards of glory flags and medals.

Some of those who are particularly valued by the king will go directly to the Knights of the Kingdom and arrange for a position of captain or more.

It can be said that this kind of martial arts competition, like Zhou Ming's world, the imperial examination of the ancient dynasty and the modern college entrance examination, the higher the ranking, the more generous the rewards.

Zhou Ming is not very concerned about this kind of martial arts competition, because a small Warris Kingdom, no matter how rich the rewards are, this kind of competition is done every year, and there are not many rewards for the shots, maybe the top three, will be rewarded with the title of a baron, and a fief that I don't know will be remote to that corner (the fief may even be in the territory of a neighboring country), and the last few are only some honorary awards such as the Royal Eagle Banner and the Order of Outstanding Knights, and the actual rewards are too few.

As in the previous game, the Royal Eagle Banner that Edward carried to the Gran Collar was obtained by finishing seventh in the annual knightly jousting competition, and he himself felt extremely honored, not to mention that Baron Connor also boasted about it in front of other nobles for several years.

Glory is life, and for the nobility, it is not just words.

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"Edward, why don't you go to the knight competition, the knights of the palace guard have all signed up, why are you standing here stupidly?"

Standing in front of Zhou Ming, who was standing guard on duty, a girl wearing a palace dress and a skirt, with a light blue bow tied on her chest, slender jade arms, wearing a pair of plain white gauze sets, delicate face, skin like clotted fat, pouting cherry mouth, hands crossed thin waist, although she was a head shorter than Zhou Ming, her proud words carried a domineering extravagance.

"I'm not interested in this kind of game, it's not interesting. ”

Zhou Ming shook his head, and found that Princess Elena, who was only 13 years old, has become more and more fond of playing tricks on herself recently, especially after he told some stories such as "The Frog Prince" and "Snow White" in order to coax her not to mess around, but he was entangled by this little Lori, sometimes let him learn to frog bark, sometimes let him play the prince, he, who was originally just a guard who was in charge of guarding the door, is about to become her full-time nanny.

"Hmph, not interested...... I think you're cowardly, aren't you? You coward, this coward who is afraid of fighting with others, and you say that there is a prince in this world who saves Snow White, and there is a ghost prince! There is a timid frog, little frog, call me twice! Like last time, croak, hee......."

The eccentric Elena, with a grimace, and a mock frog croaked twice, and the flowers and branches trembled with laughter.

"Little frog, I'm going to tell Sister Linda about your timidity, and your mother, that you don't dare to participate in the knight competition!"

Elena, who loved to play tricks on this knight, lifted the corner of her skirt, turned around and ran, with a string of silver bell-like laughter, and ran in the direction of the deep palace.

"Give me back!"

Hearing this, Princess Elena stopped.

"I'll sign up now and show you the first place!"

Zhou Ming's face turned blue with anger, it is undeniable that this girl looks very cute, but the black heart under this cute appearance is not cute at all.

On the same day, on the last day of the registration deadline, Zhou Ming signed his name on the registration form and became the youngest of the 364 knights who signed up for the competition.

Young age, does not mean that the strength is weak, as early as 14 years old can be one against three, defeat three strong adult knights of him, now almost 17 years old, his body functions are close to the peak, in the knockout round, all the way to chop melons and vegetables, generally not more than 30 rounds, the opponent in front of him knocked to the ground.

The final scene.

Zhou Ming and a powerful opponent have been fighting back and forth for more than 100 rounds, because of the lack of strength and game experience, Zhou Ming has not found an obvious loophole in the opponent, but because of his thin body, to the surrounding audience watching the game, a slightly inferior feeling.

"Edward, well done!"

"Edward, come on!"

"Edward, I'll marry you if I win!"

At this time, hearing a crisp and pleasant sound from the VIP audience, which resounded throughout the audience, Zhou Ming stumbled and almost fell off the horse.

The opponent's eyes lit up, and he immediately seized this opportunity, and a sword picked off the long sword in his hand, and there was an exclamation at the scene, and even covered his eyes and didn't dare to see the tragic situation of him being cut off the horse, but he let go of the stirrups, and a fish and dragon turned over, and unbelievably got under the horse's belly, and when everyone thought that he was about to fall off the saddle, in an exclamation, a kick of lightning stretched out, and kicked heavily on the softest part of the opponent's horse's belly, and the opponent's war horse neighed, and lost its balance in an instant.

Seizing this opportunity, Zhou Ming rushed out from under the horse's belly again, and hit the opponent with a punch at the throat of the chin, and the opponent screamed miserably and fell off the horse.

"This little guy wins!"

"Oh my God, this knight is so young, he actually defeated all his opponents and won the first place!"

"Win, Edward wins! My Frog Prince wins!"

Elena danced and laughed and danced without the ladylike manners of a princess, and at last the queen coughed a few times, which stopped the youngest daughter's loss of honor in front of everyone.

Knowing that the winner of this knight's tournament was the son of an ordinary baron from the Earldom of Rhodes in the eastern part of the kingdom, and that he was only 17 years old, the old king was very surprised and a little embarrassed, what should he be rewarded? The Knights of the Kingdom were already full, and it was difficult to convince the public to let this 17-year-old boy be a captain, so after thinking about it, he still gave him a baronial title, and encircled a plateau territory with an average altitude of more than 8,000 meters to the east of the Earldom of Rhodes, at the foot of the Ural Snow Mountain, as his baronial fiefdom.

"This old man of the king is really slamming the door, can you give me a princess? Just a barony sent me ......"

Zhou Ming pursed his lips secretly, still knelt on one knee, touched his chest with his hand, and after making a declaration of loyalty to His Majesty the King for generations, he accepted the reward with a grateful face, and also implored His Majesty the King to give him another Royal Eagle Banner and an excellent knight's medal, which he wanted to bring back to his hometown and show his father.

The old king readily agreed, and the queen was also very satisfied with him, and after the knight competition, Zhou Ming, who was originally on duty in the outer courtyard of the palace, was transferred to the inner guard of the palace.

After being a deep palace guard for a period of time, Zhou Ming learned a lot of things in the upper echelons of the kingdom, such as the king's palace ministers and courtiers, when discussing national affairs in the palace, he stayed outside the palace to listen, and gained a lot of valuable information, and sometimes he would enter the palace and drag out some officials who offended the king or failed the party struggle...... Often observing the wonderful "performances" of the superiors inside, Zhou Ming secretly sighed: The struggle between the upper echelons of a small country is still so fierce, and if there is no good institutional constraint, the big country is afraid that it will be a mess even more.

Of course, Zhou Ming is just a small guard, these things in the court have nothing to do with him, he is just a knife in someone else's hand, the person in charge of the knife will arrest whoever he wants, no matter whether this arrested guy is a loyal minister who is dedicated to the country or a traitor who brings disaster to the country and the people, as long as he finishes this shift, he will be able to return to his hometown in another year.

But......

Heaven did not fulfill people's wishes, and Zhou Ming's thoughts and plans were quickly dispelled by a woman in the deep palace.

"Your Royal Highness the Princess, this kind of thing is really not okay, please respect yourself!"

In a luxurious, luxurious and elegant boudoir, Zhou Ming blushed slightly, closed his eyes, and did not dare to look directly at the plump woman in front of him who was half-exposed and extremely charming, for fear that as soon as he opened his eyes, his soul would be taken away by this woman and he would do something rebellious.

This woman is the old king's favorite concubine, named Diana, from a famous open country in the south, the woman of this country, good at entertaining people with sex, proficient in bed skills, more than ten years ago, when the old king just accepted this woman as a concubine, he set a record of ignoring state affairs for three months, if it weren't for the courtiers outside the palace kneeling for three days and three nights, and pulled the old king back, I am afraid that this small Warris kingdom will be destroyed in the hands of this woman.

Zhou Ming didn't know when this woman was eyeing him, it seemed that two months ago, the messenger sent by the Savage Kingdom brought a warrior named Abbas over, provoked in the palace, and killed ten knights with high martial arts in a row, the messenger of the Savage Kingdom said to the old king, the small Warris Kingdom, there is no one who can fight, but the Savage Kingdom, warriors like Abbas, there are hundreds of them, and I advise the old king to be honest and give 100,000 Tarun of food to the Savage Kingdom, otherwise the two countries will fight......

In the silence of the scene, Zhou Ming took the initiative to ask for battle, and there was a flash of Tengtuo, but after more than 20 rounds, he stabbed this wild man Abbas, who was more than two meters five tall, had an amazing weight, and was full of muscles, and then said to the messenger of the Savage Kingdom that there were more than a thousand unknown people like him in the Warris Kingdom, and he advised the Savage Kingdom to eat the soil honestly and not to provoke again......

It should be this competition, Princess Diana, who was also watching from the sidelines, had a terrifying golden light in her eyes, as if she saw a peerless delicacy, and repeatedly created various opportunities to transfer herself closer and closer to her dormitory, until this night, Zhou Ming, who was on duty at the gate of the dormitory, was pulled into the room......

"Little one, as soon as you walk out of this room, I will shout loudly and let Herbert's useless old thing clean you up! That old thing won't let you go easily~"

This voice made Zhou Ming, who wanted to leave, stop.

"Little one, do you know how much my sister wants to eat you? This handsome face, this heroic posture, this strong body, ah...... Little baby, my sister will fly you up with you......"

A charming and intoxicating aroma hit his face, and the fiery body that was getting closer and closer had been pasted together, and the doppelganger in the lower half had grown into a giant eel at some point, and when it was held by a soft and boneless touch, Zhou Ming, who was already on the verge of outburst, pushed her down on the red tent bed on the side.

"I still want to push Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu pushed you first!"

For a time, in the dormitory, it was extremely debaucherous.