Loyalty to the God of truth trumps all other loyalty.

- Mahatma Gandhi (the founding father of modern India, India's greatest political leader, founder of Gandhiism)

Because Count Abraham was about to take up the post of Interior Governor of the Metropolitan Governor's Office, he could not follow Bai Feng to the province of Mengdan, and the Knight Woodlow, who was in charge of the Eastern Knights, would not be affected by the Eastern Governor's Mansion.

The Eastern Knights, which were formed with the Imperial Knights of the Eastern Provinces as the core, did not know what Bai Feng's combat effectiveness was; even Hades's netting did not invest too much monitoring power in the Eastern Knights, which lacked cohesion.

On the contrary, the Eastern Noble Alliance, which was ruled by Count Abraham, attracted more attention from Luo Wang at the beginning of its formation, and later, with Bai Feng's promotion of new military upstarts, more and more people joined the Noble Alliance, and Luo Wang relaxed its monitoring of the Eastern Noble Alliance.

Among the more than 1,000 Oriental nobles owned by the Eastern Noble Alliance today, there are less than 200 original Oriental nobles who have no real power like Count Abraham, and the total number of powerful upstarts loyal to Bai Feng has exceeded 800, which is four times the number of original nobles!

This means that even if Count Abraham, as the executive of the Alliance, has the intention to betray Bai Feng, he will not be able to gain the support of the Alliance's forces, and even if he shows the slightest intention to betray Bai Feng, the nobles of the Alliance will eradicate him.

Among the powerful nouveau riche scattered in the cities and towns of the eastern provinces, who do not have a number of local security forces that can be called upon at any time? These security forces may not be as effective as the city defense forces, but they are definitely stronger than the guerrillas who have been improvised and scattered.

For example, in Benissaf, which has a population of about 50,000, there are four nouveau riche who control the security, administration, justice, and finance of Benissaf, respectively, and are absolute nobles.

Also relocated to the city of Benissaf were six other former Oriental nobles with the title of baron, and these six nobles who did not hold the title of baron had no other privileges than the monthly salary of 500 gold coins from the city lord's palace.

Bai Feng, who personally deprived these fictitious nobles of their powers, would not be stupid enough to send them money every month to live; these five hundred gold coins were the welfare allowance issued by the imperial capital to the imperial nobles every month, and the City Lord's Mansion only played a role in conveying them.

It is a matter of the past that there were only 11,000 city defense troops in the current province of Brojansson, and among them, the capital city of Brojansson County, where the capital city of Brojansson County is located, and all the 5,000 city defense troops are stationed in the city of Brojansson.

The city of Benisaf, which lacks the protection of the city defense army, has a thousand security forces subordinate to the city lord's mansion, and the only person in Benisaf City who has the power to command these thousand security soldiers is precisely the magistrate of Benisaf City, that is, Viscount Statham.

The Statham family is a viscount family with a very long history in the province of Bronjansson, and one of the traditional noble families in Benissaf City, and the current Viscount Statham is a civilian-born squadron leader in the former Feather Forest Legion under the command of Bai Feng.

After all the descendants of the Statham family were unfortunately killed in the fire at the Governor's Mansion in Brojansson, the squadron leader with the same name as the Statham family was selected by Bai Feng to inherit the Statham family in the name of a distant relative of the Statham family.

Statham, who was born as a commoner, knew that his family would not have anything to do with the family of the same name Viscount Statham for another five hundred years, so he understood who gave him the title and life of the nobleman, and who was worthy of his allegiance.

Viscount Statham was originally the squadron leader of the Feather Forest Legion, which he had earned by virtue of his actual combat exploits, and as soon as he took over the security forces in Benissaf City, he began to use the training methods in the army to train the security forces under his command.

A month earlier, the Imperial War Office had issued an order to limit the size of the provincial city defense forces, forcing the provinces to reduce the number of city defense forces formed during the war.

In every town in the province of Brojansson, there are security forces of varying sizes used to maintain local order, and these security forces, which have almost no actual combat experience and are armed only with a wooden gun that can barely be used as a weapon, are naturally not as effective as the city defense forces in the nature of a reserve army.

Although the weaponry and actual combat experience of the city defense army are also more than a star and a half inferior to that of the regular army, they are still much stronger than the security forces that are at best militia; in particular, the combat effectiveness of the city defense forces in the eastern provinces is no worse than that of the newly formed standing corps of the military headquarters.

On the one hand, it is because the city defense army of the eastern provinces was formed by Bai Feng to dispatch the elite of the army as the backbone, and on the other hand, because the city defense army of the eastern provinces used all the weapons and equipment replaced by the standing army under Bai Feng's command when it was redressed on a large scale.

The weapons and equipment used by the Standing Legion under Bai Feng's command at the beginning were all inferior standard weapons and equipment issued by the Imperial Army; when used for battlefield fighting, it was simply a man-made attempt to kill the lives of soldiers, but it was used to arm the city defense army.

At present, a large number of city defense forces, equipped with military standard weapons and equipment, have been incorporated into the security forces in various cities and towns, and the direct result of this is that the combat effectiveness of the security forces in the province of Brojansund, as well as in the eastern provinces, has been improved by leaps and bounds.

The city of Benissaf, which was close to the water, was reinforced by 500 city guards because it was closest to the county town of Browjansson, so that 500 of the 1,000 security forces under the command of Viscount Statham were from the original provincial city defense army.

The other six powerless nobles, all the servants, slaves, and guards in the family combined, the total number is less than four hundred, how can they resist the 1,000 security forces under the command of Viscount Statham? Therefore, even if Count Abraham chooses to betray, the city of Benisaf will still not change hands.

You must know that the towns similar to the city of Benisaf are not one or two in the Eastern provinces, but every town in the Eastern provinces, and the nouveau riche loyal to Baifeng controls every town in the province of Bronjansund, excluding the former nobles.

Based on such a status quo, not only did Count Abraham not betray Bai Feng's capital, but even the Prince of Pross could not clear Bai Feng's forces from the provinces of Brojansson and Grenoble, even if Bai Feng agreed to assign these two provinces to the Prince of Pross.

The six eastern provinces under the rule of the Eastern Metropolitan Governorate, except for the Nice Province ruled by the Nice family for more than a hundred years, the other five provinces with the Brojansson Province as the core are all Bai Feng's sphere of influence, which is a reality that no external force can change.

Of course, with the conclusion of a series of agreements between Bai Feng and Prince GLP this time, Meng Dan Province will inevitably replace Broyangson Province as the new core of Bai Feng's forces in the future;

In this regard, Bai Feng's bottom line for all the nouveau riche in the two provinces who were loyal to him was that the control of the security forces in each town must not be lost, and if the people of the Eastern Metropolitan Governorate forcibly deprived them of their power, Bai Feng would not mind them launching an 'armed rebellion' because of this.