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- Sigmund Freud (Austrian Jewish psychologist, psychiatrist, founder of the psychoanalytic school)

The five dukes' families are deeply rooted in the Celestial Dragon Empire, and even the ambitious Charlemagne has to make appropriate compromises and concessions, and their strength is naturally not as simple as it seems on the surface;

Duke Patel, his first identity is the contemporary head of the Watson family, and his second identity is the prime minister of the Celestial Dragon Empire, and it is the first emperor of the empire who can really make the five duke families of the empire willingly loyal to him, not the current Charlemagne.

After arriving at the tea house called 'Wu Ming', the solemn Duke of Patel handed over a dragon token minted by Mithril to the shopkeeper of the tea house, and then four samurai in black suits quickly left the tea house through a secret passage in the tea house.

After drinking a pot of tea, Duke Patel, under the close supervision of several secret guard spies, Shi Shiran walked out of the tea house and embarked on the road back to the Duke's Palace;

That night, the heads of the five major ducal families in the imperial capital gathered in the mansion of the Duke of Patel, and in addition to each family taking out their own family's 10,000 duke's guards, they also contributed another 50 million gold coins at the proposal of the Duke of Patel!

However, these are only deliberately made by the five dukes' families to show the secret guard, or Charlemagne behind the secret guard, and the real secret meeting of the five dukes' families is held by the descendants of each family at the same time in another secret place.

The Celestial Dragon Empire has never been not only the empire of the royal family and the emperor, but also the empire of the entire aristocratic class, and Duke Gna and Duke Kleist, who are trapped in Sunset Fortress, are both representatives of the aristocratic class, and how to rescue them is the purpose of the five duke families.

The 50,000 elite soldiers that the five major families are about to hand over to the unified command of the empire are the duke's guards they put on the surface, and secretly, each duke's family has a city defense force comparable to the royal legion in its own family's feudal provinces.

Gathering the city defense troops of the five major families and five provinces, it will be an elite army of 50,000 people, plus the three old standing legions drawn from the southern region, the army used to rescue the two dukes will reach 80,000 people!

An army of 80,000 is a lot, but it is still nothing compared to an army of more than a million orcs, so this army of 80,000 is only a frontal rescue force of the five major families, and it is another small-scale side rescue team that really plays a role.

This side rescue team jointly formed by the five major families only had a total of fifty-six people, among them, five squad leaders were saint-level powerhouses of the five major families, and fifty ordinary team members were all masters of the peak realm of the Great Sword Master.

The captain in charge of commanding them is the eldest son of Duke Gerald, the head of the Praetorian Knights, who is the head of the Gerald family among the five major families, and his eldest son is also a powerful saint-level powerhouse.

Using six saint-level powerhouses and fifty masters of the peak realm of the Great Sword Master to rescue Duke Gna and Duke Kleist, who were surrounded by an orc army, this is not a difficult task to complete in Duke Patel's opinion, after all, both dukes are saint-level powerhouses.

As for whether the five major families in the southern region were willing to send three standing armies north, Duke Patel was very confident in this, although the five major families in the southern region were increasingly distant, and although the relationship between the five major families in the south and the empire and the emperor was becoming more and more estranged, their ties with the five dukes' families were very close.

If it weren't for the covert support of Duke Patel and Duke Gna, how could the five major families in the south take root in the southern region where barbarians are everywhere, and it is no exaggeration to say that without the strong support of the five major duke families, there would be no current five major families in the south!

In fact, the secret expansion of the armaments of the five major families in the south is not such a secret matter to the five duke families, and a large number of experienced instructors in the newly established Southern Knights and Southern Swordsmen are from the five duke families.

Of the five standing legions in the south, which were still nominally subordinate to the Imperial Army, the 11th, 12th, and 13th legions were transferred north, and the orders for these three legions were personally issued by the Minister of War, Duke Cullen, and then conveyed by the Duke of Patel.

The normal command channel takes at least ten days to travel from the imperial capital to the southern border, and the Watson family's secret channel can send this order to the southern border five days in advance, so that the five major families in the southern border also have enough time to prepare for the north.

The 11th Legion belonging to the Bai family currently has 20,000 soldiers, and the 12th Legion and the 13th Legion belonging to the Andrew family each have 15,000 soldiers.

Whether it is the Bai family's Llorente Province, the Andrew family's Rapov Province, or the Li family's Solsona Province, there are 6,000 city defense troops, and compared with the regular army, which is not easy to cultivate, the recruitment and training of the city defense army is much simpler.

After some careful consultations, the five major families in the south decided to take out an average of 3,000 soldiers of the city defense army and 3,000 soldiers of the regular army, and the city defense army and the regular army were mixed to form the new eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth legions.

The loss of 3,000 city defense troops and 3,000 regular troops is not a big loss for any southern family that owns a province; taking the Bai family as an example, it only takes half a year at most for the losses of these 6,000 soldiers to be replenished.

What's more, the strength of the southern realm is far from being as weak as it seems, the five families have their own hidden hole cards that have not been exposed, and the hidden hole cards of the other four families are not subject to the fact that for the time being, the Bai family still has 20,000 troops in Rome that everyone does not know.

In just three days, the newly renovated Eleventh, Twelfth, and Thirteenth Legions were headed for the junction between the southern border and the southern part of the Empire, and since the commanders of the three legions were all appointed by the Imperial War Department, the original commanders still led the three new legions north.

When the heavens made the Celestial Dragon Empire unlucky and was attacked by the steppe tribes and the orc empire at the same time, it finally blessed the Celestial Dragon Empire with a ray of luck, and compared to the northward movement of the three legions in the south, the smooth operation of the other two things made Charlemagne even more excited.

Under the mobilization of the Marquis of Amber, the nobles of the imperial capital donated generously one after another, and donated a total of 1.24 billion gold coins, not including the 300 million gold coins donated by the wealthy merchants led by the Westminster Chamber of Commerce.

After solving the problem of gold coins, the formation of a new army and the creation of weapons and equipment naturally went very smoothly, but what pleased Charlemagne the most was the good news that Marquis Boris brought back from the Holy See.

In view of the predicament of the Celestial Dragon Empire, the Pope has decided to leave all the Papal Protectors in the entire Celestial Dragon Empire to the Imperial Military Department, and in addition, an elite Templar Order from the Papal Realm will arrive in the Celestial Dragon Empire within the next month!

The Knights Templar, an elite order of at least 5,000 high-ranking knights, was the most important military force defending the Holy See, and the last time the Holy See dispatched the Knights Templar was more than a hundred years ago when the Rhine Merchant Alliance was almost wiped out by the steppe tribes.