Although the kingdoms of Tajon and Byron are called "kingdoms", neither of these countries is an aristocracy or an absolute monarchy, but because the supreme ruler is a "king", they are called kingdoms. The existence of www.biquge.info decision-making committees makes the two kingdoms look more like republics in the guise of a royal system.

Although the Tairong Kingdom has a large number of territories that can be claimed, the only territory it actually controls is Yaolin City and the seven towns north of Yaolin City, including Liangyue City, and their dependent territories. But even so, this territory is still a major expansion for Mel, because the territory of the Kingdom of Byron is originally only Byrensburg and Hope City.

Now that Maier has just annexed Shangjin County, he has annexed so many territories before he has digested much, and the official reserve is seriously insufficient. Nami Layman complained at least fifteen times a day because of Meier's rapid expansion. But now it is useless to complain, there is still a war on the front line, and a great victory has been achieved, the mood of the national war is high, and the pace of expansion cannot be stopped.

On August 15, 135 years of the new calendar, without waiting for the Byronic army to come to Chunshan City to relieve the siege, Xiaohu Liantong withdrew his troops and withdrew to Bogu City to defend it. In the first battle of Yaolin City, the Byrons army defeated more than 200,000 Xiaohu troops with 55,000 people and captured 130,000 prisoners, which was enough to shock the world. With Xiaohu's cautious character, he will definitely not go head-to-head with the vigorous Byronic Army.

And Xiaohu Connect has to face not only the Byronic army, but also Tengyuan's 30,000 elite soldiers. In the offensive and defensive battle of Chunshan City, Teng Yuan showed ease, and the Xiaohu Army caused a lot of losses to the defenders of Chunshan City, but the dead and wounded were ordinary city defense troops and standing troops, and Teng Yuan did not send his elite troops out to fight at all.

Tengyuan loves the people like a son in Chunshan City and is deeply loved by the people. In the battle to defend the city, the people of Chunshan City spontaneously came to the city wall to assist the defenders in the battle, and even formed a militia to defend the city for Tengyuan free of charge. Xiaohu has been connected for a long time, and there is a strong enemy approaching behind him, with his character, he will naturally withdraw his troops.

On 25 August, Maier arrived at Springhill with a coalition of 50,000 troops. On the same day, Xiaohu Liantong officially launched a full-scale ethnic war, and the Taeyong nobles declared war on the Ilibi people on the grounds of helping their fellow clans, and at the same time declared war on the Taerong Kingdom on the grounds that the establishment of the Taerong Kingdom was not in accordance with the legal principles of Taerong. As a result, the civil war of the Xiaohu family officially turned into a civil war between the forces of the Tairong people, and an all-out war between the Tairong people and the Ilibis people.

The arrival of Maier made Tengyuan very happy, and he personally went to the outside of the city to greet Maier. Maier wanted the coalition forces to be stationed outside the city, but Tengyuan insisted that the coalition troops enter the city.

The coalition led by Maier is no longer the original coalition army. The army of the Republic of Bukin and the army of the Kingdom of Egus are still there, but there are only 10,000 men left, and the army of Byron is only 10,000. The wounded soldiers were left behind in Yaolin City, and Meier left some troops to take over the defense of Yaolin City, so that the original coalition army was only 30,000 men. The remaining 20,000 men were selected from the rebel army in Yaolin City, and after a brief reorganization, Maier set out with the newly formed coalition army.

The new coalition army had 20,000 Tayonmen, and the combat strength of the cavalry and melee troops had increased considerably. The musket unit did not lose anything in the Battle of Yaolin City, but more than half of the ammunition was consumed, and although a small amount of replenishment had been made in the local area, the amount of ammunition was barely enough for one battle. If Xiaohu is connected and does not withdraw, Maier must achieve another victory in the Battle of Yaolin City, otherwise his musket unit will become an ornament and will not be able to participate in the battle for a long time.

The victory in the Battle of Yaolin City greatly boosted the morale of the coalition forces. Including the newly joined Taerong soldiers, everyone felt that they could fight another beautiful victory in Chunshan City, and even the people who accompanied the army were full of confidence.

After learning the news of Xiaohulian's withdrawal, most of the coalition soldiers were disappointed, and only Maier secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Although the Battle of Yaolin City was a great victory, it was not easy for the coalition forces to win. The Lord's Escort suffered more than seventy percent of the casualties in the battle, and if they hadn't been on the front line, the defense line would have been breached long ago.

This force was formed after the successful capture of Hundred Villages Fort, and was mainly composed of young men in Byron Fort and Hope who had volunteered for Mel, including some of Yishan's bodyguards, as well as Mel's own guards. The task of this regiment, which was more than twice the size of the regular regiment, was to keep Mel safe on the battlefield or to follow Mel's charge, so the regiment was mainly a melee unit, including a cavalry battalion and three melee infantry battalions, with only two squadrons of ranged infantry.

The regiment did not have a regimental commander, and all the battalion commanders and squadron leaders of the separate squadron were directly under the orders of Meier. Mel's personal guard still exists, but the number has been reduced, and it has completely embarked on the elite route, and those who do not pass the physique, combat skills, and consciousness will be eliminated from the lord's guard, leaving behind the best warriors in a hundred.

After Mel formally established the kingdoms of Byron and Tairong, the Lord's Guard was renamed the "King's Guard". Due to the heavy losses of the Lord's Escort Regiment in the Battle of Yaolin City, this regiment is currently in a serious state of shortage. Maier wanted the King's Guard to return to Byronsburg for reorganization, but the soldiers insisted on participating in the Battle of Springhill Castle, and Mel had to let them follow the troops and come to Springhill Castle together.

Meier's personal guards also suffered heavy losses. Captain Tal of the Guards suffered a serious arm injury and now has to move his arm regularly every day and cannot do strenuous exercise. Half of the fighters of the Guards were killed, and two-thirds of the rest were wounded.

After setting up the coalition forces, Teng Yuan invited Maier to his mansion. Tengyuan's mansion is much larger than Tengyan's, like a city within a city, but the appearance is simple and low-key, and it attaches great importance to practicality. The mansion was loosely defended, the gate was always open, and there were only two guards at the door. There are many soldiers stationed in the mansion, who look like Tengyuan's own soldiers, and the spacious courtyard has been converted into a training ground, and the soldiers are all wrestling in the courtyard shirtless, not even knowing that the guests are coming.

Tengyuan's chief attendant shouted at the soldiers, and then they stopped wrestling, and stood in line in a few breaths, waiting for Tengyuan's review with their heads held high. Teng Yuan just smiled at them, gave Mel about half a minute to visit his soldiers, and then told them to disband and do whatever they wanted.

Teng Yuan told Maier that the mansion had been built hundreds of years ago. If he was asked to build his own mansion, he would never build it so big. But the wood is already in the boat, he can't tear down the mansion and rebuild it, that will cost the people and money, so he can only rebuild the mansion according to his own ideas, and finally rebuild the mansion into its current appearance.

"My father is a good man among good people, and the Xiaohu family has grown under his leadership."

After talking about the mansion, Teng Yuan suddenly mentioned his father, the previous head of the Xiaohu family.

"The fact that Chunshan City can have its current scale is all due to him, and what I have done is just icing on the cake. Before my father handed over Chunshan Castle to me, he made me swear to heaven that I must not fail the people of Chunshan Castle, otherwise I will not die a good death. I am still standing in front of you in good health, which means that I have not broken my oath. I've heard that you want to liberate the Taeyong people from the hands of the Taeyong nobles, is there such a thing? ”

Mel grinned awkwardly and nodded weakly. Teng Yuan saw his appearance, waved his hand disappretently, signaling him not to care.

"Aristocrats are not necessarily good, but they are not necessarily bad. The people need a leader, and they need a good leader, but that leader doesn't have to be an aristocracy. Truth be told, every time soldiers and civilians salute me, I feel relieved because their salute makes me feel that everything I do is worth it. When my father was teaching, he always exhorted people to do good, but few people actually listened to him. If it weren't for that, my father wouldn't have handed over Chunshan Castle to me. ”

Speaking of this, Teng Yuan sighed heavily.

"Actually, I have always found it strange that my younger siblings and I have received the same education, but only your mother and I have really listened to my father's teachings, and everyone else has taken my father's words as a deaf ear and said that he is old and stubborn. I don't know why the attraction of power, vanity and wealth is so great, I have experienced a lot and seen a lot when I was practicing martial arts. There are mountains outside the mountains, there are people outside the people, and martial arts is endless, so we have to keep pursuing, keep surpassing, because we want to know where the limits of human beings are. ”

"But power and wealth are limited. Although the world is big, there is an end, and although the population is large, there is a fixed number. Even if you become the ruler of the world and have all the wealth, what can you do? When a person dies, what can he take with him? Whether it is power or wealth, don't they all cheapen others? As for vanity, it is a temporary thing, but there are always people who will do anything for it. If they really love these things, it's fine, after all, everyone has their own ambitions, and I have no right to comment on anything. But when their lives are threatened, how many of them are willing to give up their lives and choose power, wealth, or vanity? ”

"For the sake of martial arts, I have wandered on the line of life and death more than once, because it is my beloved, and I am willing to pay the price of my life for it. If it weren't for the responsibility that I couldn't relieve, I would have left everything behind and devoted myself to studying martial arts. This burden is the heaviest in the world, carrying people's hearts and human lives, compared to these, martial arts seem worthless. What could be more important in this world than human hearts and human lives? In my opinion, no. ”

"Your father has said to me more than once that God created the world and man to live in the world. The world is like that, because the world is full of people's actions, what people think in their hearts, what they pursue, and what they do. Mel, if you open your eyes and take a good look at the world, and see what this world is like, you will know what people are after. How many people care about other people's feelings? How many people care about someone else's life? People call people who do these two things 'good people', but how many good people are there in the world? How many people can they make happy, and how many lives can they save? ”

"It's always been said that there are more good people than bad people in this world. In that case, why is the world still a miasma? Could it be that the world is like a pot of soup, and the bad guys are like rat droppings, as long as one falls in the soup, the soup stinks? If the world is so fragile, why don't people take good care of it? Why do you have to let more and more rat droppings fall into the soup? In this regard, I see it completely differently from my father. My father didn't think a few rat droppings were harmful, but I was a guy who wanted to clean up the rat droppings. ”

"My father gave me most of his territory, but now I am left with Springhill Castle. It's not that I can't hold my territory, it's that people don't want to accept my rule outside of Chunshan Castle. In the past, my father only knew how to love the people and never taught them, but I wanted to discipline them and let them know right and wrong, right and wrong. But they would rather collude with outsiders and betray me and my father than accept discipline. They feel that they are right, but they only think about their own interests, and even take pride in their own interests, treating it as a progressive idea and treating people who think about others as fools. ”

"Only the people of Springhill City are willing to be disciplined, so only they have not betrayed me and my father. There are always people who say that the road of Chunshan City is not forgotten, the night is not closed, three million people are like a family, and the bounty hunters see the city around. Whose credit is this? Is it my father's credit? Is it my credit? If anyone praises the prosperity of Chunshan City, the credit will go to my father; If someone praises the strength of Chunshan City, the credit can go to me; If someone praises the people of Chunshan City, this credit can only be attributed to the people of Chunshan City. ”

"Maier, if you are really thinking about the Tayon, you should not simply free them from the oppression of the nobility. There is only one Chunshan City in Taeyong World, and there is no second one. They don't know what to do, they don't want to know what to do, they just want to live according to their own wishes. If you don't discipline them, nothing will change in their lives, and one day they will overthrow you or your descendants for their own benefit, just as they overthrew the rule of the nobles. ”

When Teng Yuan said this, he didn't shy away from anyone. The people who came to Tengyuan Mansion with Meier were shocked by these words, but the people on Tengyuan's side seemed very calm, obviously not the first time they had heard this kind of words.

Maier was also shocked by Tengyuan's words, and after a while he remembered to salute Tengyuan, and said from the bottom of his heart: "The younger generation has been taught." ”

In fact, Tengyuan's idea is similar to that of Ramogis, what they want to change is not the system, but the people's mind. Because the system is just a framework, the talent who lives in the framework is the key. If people are bent on evil, even if they hand over the most perfect system in the world, they will turn the world into hell on earth; If people are dedicated to goodness, even if the most backward system in the world is handed over to them, they will turn the world into a paradise on earth.