All beauty is a constant renewal effort, which seeks to embody as much as possible the highest form of value, and which contains an element of great satisfaction. When faced with beauty, all desires and all self-exploration will disappear.

– Otto Weininger (Austrian philosopher)

Whether it was Count Abraham or Woodlaw and the other six knight representatives, they all knew in their hearts that among all the fallen nobles, the nobles above the rank of knight were the beneficiaries of following the Marquis of Bedouin, and it was impossible for them to betray their benefactor, the Marquis of Bedouin.

In particular, Bai Feng had refused to allow these nobles to return to their 'homeland' several times, which had already made the nobles who were not very broad-minded hold a grudge, and even to some extent, they wanted to deal with Bai Feng more than the Marquis of Bedouin.

Even among the knights who have a good impression of Bai Feng, there are not many knights who are really willing to betray the Marquis of Bedouin and follow Bai Feng instead;

The reason why Woodlow and the other six were chosen by the knights as knight representatives was because they had very high prestige and appeal among the knight-level nobles, and the fact that all six of them were willing to follow Bai Feng meant that at least hundreds of knights were willing to join Bai Feng's command.

Earl Abraham, who had a clear division of labor, asked Woodlaw and the other six knights to return to their respective families' temporary residences first, and secretly recruited more knights to join his camp;

After Woodlaw and the others left in turn, Count Abraham did not act blindly, but sent an old butler who was loyal to his family to buy some daily necessities in the city, and inquired about the basic situation in the city by the way.

The old butler, who had been loyal to the Abrahamic family for generations, had dealt with some shady matters for Count Abraham on more than one occasion, and he naturally understood Count Abraham's intention in sending him out to buy things, and he fulfilled this task conscientiously.

The adeptness of Earl Abraham lies in the fact that he is not in a hurry to do anything that would reveal his purpose, but simply lives his quiet life step by step, and the shrewdness of the old butler lies in the fact that he can always quietly obtain important information by his side-knocking.

The Marquis of Bedouin, who was extremely uneasy about Count Abraham, did not care at all about the six knight representatives who made the same choice as Count Abraham, and he focused all his attention on Count Abraham alone.

In fact, from the night when Count Abraham left the Doge's palace and returned to the restaurant where his family was staying, dozens of spies from various families watched Count Abraham's every move 24 hours a day.

Count Abraham, who knew it well, was quietly playing a game of 'keeping silent' with the Marquis of Bedouin, and on the other hand, he let Woodlaw and others woo the unsatisfactory knights, and before he knew it, most of the knights had joined his camp.

With the addition of more than 250 knights, the number of convoys under the direct control of Count Abraham reached a staggering 6,500, and the number of convoys under the control of the Marquis de Bedouin was sharply reduced to about 13,000.

Of course, this is only a specific number known to only a few core members of Count Abraham's camp, and in the eyes of the unsuspecting Marquis of Bedouin, he still has more than 19,000 escorts under his command, and Count Abraham has only made a neutral choice.

The down-and-out nobles, in order to get enough benefits from the Marquis of Bedouin, did not hesitate to be loyal to them, and the nobles who swore allegiance to the Marquis of Bedouin, led by the Earl of Hamilton, actually accounted for the vast majority.

With the Earl of Hamilton as a loyal pawn, the Marquis of Bedouin's power and position in the county of Brosjansson has been strengthened, but it is the successive compromises of the Fire Legion that have really increased the prestige of the Marquis of Bedouin.

The proposal made by Count Abraham allowed the Marquis of Bedouin to justifiably order half of the military rations belonging to the Fire Legion to be distributed from the storehouses in the city, which not only allowed the Marquis of Bedouin to stabilize the nobles who were short of food, but also dealt a heavy blow to the morale of the Fire Legion.

The three generals Eder, Ospina, and Sania, who lacked courage, were so angry that they almost mutinied again after learning that half of the military rations of their army had been taken away by the Marquis of Bedouin, but they finally chose to swallow this bad breath.

Edel and the other three generals of the Fire Legion can comfort themselves out of the overall situation, but it cannot change the fact that the soldiers under their command are excited, and if this matter were made by other governors, I am afraid that the reaction of the soldiers of the Fire Legion will not be so fierce.

The contradiction between the Marquis of Bedouin and the Fire Legion is already known to almost everyone in the Celestial Dragon Empire, and as the person concerned, the Marquis of Bedouin hates the Fire Legion to the core, and the soldiers of the Fire Legion are also eager to kill the Marquis of Bedouin.

Originally, the Marquis of Bedouin was suddenly appointed by Charlemagne as the governor of Brojansson Province, which had already made the soldiers of the Fire Legion stationed in Brojansson Province very dissatisfied;

But what could the angry soldiers do? The Marquis of Bedouin, the governor of the province of Bromjansson, had the right to distribute the grain stored in the warehouses of the county town of Browjansson, a fact that none of the soldiers of the Legion of Fire could deny.

More importantly, it was Eder, Ospina, and Sania who commanded the 30,000 soldiers of the Fire Legion, not Rodriguez and Danilo, and Rodriguez, who regarded the Fire Legion as his own, and Danilo, who had a violent personality, were the ones who really made Bedouin jealous.

The compromise on the issue of military rations was only the first compromise of the Fire Legion, but it was by no means the only compromise of the Fire Legion, and the Marquis of Bedouin, who had gained an inch, quickly extended his greedy hands to the most important weapons and equipment of the Fire Legion.

It is impossible for any legion to have only enough weapons and equipment for soldiers to use, and to reserve a certain amount of weapons and equipment is also a necessary measure for a legion to maintain strong combat effectiveness; there is no doubt that the number of weapons and equipment reserved by the Fire Legion is not a small number.

The 2nd, 3rd, and 5th Divisions of the Fire Legion, which had 30,000 soldiers, had weapons and equipment that could arm about 10,000 soldiers; although the quality of these weapons and equipment was not as good as the standard weapons and equipment used by the soldiers of the Fire Legion, it was better than ordinary weapons and equipment.

The army under the command of the Marquis de Bedouin consisted mainly of 10,000 standing soldiers lent to him by the Duke of Rundsteadt, and more than 19,000 escorts provided by the nobles.

Therefore, after receiving the allegiance of the nobles, the Marquis of Bedouin paid more and more attention to the escort troops they provided to him, and even the Marquis of Bedouin, who did not know much about military affairs, knew that weapons and equipment were an important factor affecting the combat effectiveness of an army.

Therefore, he put his goal of further weakening the combat effectiveness of the Fire Legion on the reserve weapons and equipment of the Fire Legion, and the Marquis of Bedouin, who was becoming more and more bold, directly used the military rations of the Fire Legion as a bargaining chip, and forced Eder and the other three generals to hand over their weapons and equipment.

Between the food necessary for survival and the vital reserve of weapons and equipment, Eder and the others wisely chose the food, and then handed over the reserve weapons and equipment of the three divisions, and the successive compromises from the Fire Legion made the Marquis of Bedouin's ambition swell even more!