If you want the world to become, you have to become. That's the difference you can make.

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

On July 3, Bai Feng, who had been waiting for a long time in the county of Besançon, finally waited for the order of the Imperial Military Headquarters, and arrived with the news that the four princes of William, Harry, Philip, and Proglot had been officially ordered to form the Metropolitan Governor's Palace.

The Northern Governorate, with the northern province of Metz as the core, has jurisdiction over the northern provinces of Mulhouse, Alsace, Langchamps, Saint-Dière, Verdun and other northern provinces.

As the Grand Governor of the Northern Metropolitan Prefecture, Prince Philip not only has the power to control the military and political affairs of the six northern provinces, but also has hundreds of thousands of troops at his disposal, including the six standing armies left by Bai Feng in the northern part of the empire, and his commander Quintus.

At the same time as Charlemagne announced the establishment of the four major governors, in order to completely separate the legions under the command of the Grand Governorate from the Imperial Military Department, he specially created a new post of Overseer above the legions of the Grand Governorate, as the commander of several legions.

For example, the sixteen legions that belonged to the Northern Metropolitan Governorate were assigned to four new Overseers as commanders: Quintus who remained in the north of the empire by Bai Feng, Curtis and Evely, who were the confidants of Prince Philip, and Bishop, who was the commander of the military headquarters.

Quintus, who received the title of Overseer, commanded six legions, namely the 14th, 16th, 56th, 57th, 58th, and 84th legions, loyal to White Peak, and they were stationed in the eastern border between the Northern Governorate and the steppe tribes.

The four legions under his command, namely the Eighteenth, Twentieth, Sixty-third, and Sixty-fourth Legions, which were left in the north of the empire by the Imperial Army, were stationed in the western border area between the northern governors and the steppe tribes.

After the border areas that were most vulnerable to the attack of the steppe tribes were handed over to the troops led by the Overseers of Quintus and Bishop, the remaining hinterland of the Northern Governor's Mansion was naturally garrisoned by the troops led by the henchmen of Prince Philip, the generals Curtis and Evely.

Curtis, who was originally the commander of the 96th Legion, supervised the 96th, 98th, and 113th Legions under his command, and were the three descendant legions secretly controlled by Prince Philip, and their station was in Metz Province, where Prince Philip's capital was located.

The last of them, the 114th, 117th, and 120th Legions, was not a general at all, but one of Prince Philip's favorites.

Whether it was the position of Overseer of Quintus or the position of Overseer of Bishop, it was appointed by Charlemagne and Duke Cullen after careful consideration;

As for Curtis's Overseer and Evely's Overseer, they were purely the two seats left by Charlemagne to his son to control the Northern Governorate, and no matter how much Prince Philip didn't like Charlemagne, he was Charlemagne's son, wasn't he?

With Quintus and Bishop, two battlefield generals, leading ten legions and 200,000 elite troops to defend the northern frontier, the situation in the northern part of the empire can be stabilized, and the remaining six legions are just a means for Prince Philip to take charge of the military and political power of the northern provinces.

Compared with the 200,000 elite garrison troops in the northern provinces, the difference in strength between the 120,000 new army and the 200,000 elite border garrisons is not small.

According to the new provincial city defense army size limit issued by the Imperial Military Department, the six northern provinces under the northern metropolitan governor's office can form 5,000 city defense armies in each prefecture and each county under the prefecture can also form their own 2,000 city defense armies.

Among the six northern provinces, the provinces of Alsace and Saint-Dieh are large provinces with a capital and four counties, each with 13,000 city defense troops, and the four provinces of Metz, Mulhouse, Langchamp, and Verdun are ordinary regular provinces, each with 11,000 city defense troops.

The 70,000 soldiers of the city defense army and the 120,000 soldiers of the standing army together constituted the direct army of the Northern Governor's Palace, and in addition, if Prince Philip wished, he could also organize the Metropolitan Legion and the Metropolitan Guard directly under the Northern Metropolitan Governor's Mansion.

The so-called Metropolitan Guard, that is, the personal escort of Prince Philip, is nominally a newly established unit subordinate to the Northern Metropolitan Governor's Office, but in fact it is an expansion of Prince Philip's original black-clothed guard, which can be regarded as a special force integrating protection and intelligence.

The nature of the Metropolitan Legion is completely different from that of the Metropolitan Guard, they are not a guard force, but a serious combat corps, and even to a certain extent, the reason why there is the name of the Metropolitan Legion is because of the initial creation of Bai Feng!

At the beginning, in order to strengthen the counteroffensive force in the eastern part of the empire, Bai Feng successively formed five Eastern Army Corps, which had always existed in the operational sequence of the Imperial Military Headquarters in the name of local militia units;

The crux of the matter is that because of the addition of the five Eastern Legions, the Eastern Metropolitan Governor's battle sequence not only has sixteen Imperial Standing Legions, but also five more Eastern Legions of the nature of private armies, which makes it unfair to the other three Grand Governors.

The main purpose of Charlemagne's formation of the four governorships and the surrender of them to his four sons was to test his sons to see which of them was most capable of inheriting the throne, and the secondary purpose was to have the prince come forward and command the army to maintain the stability of the empire's borders.

Based on this fundamental purpose, in the process of forming the four metropolitan governors, Charlemagne has been balancing the strength of the various metropolitan governors as much as possible, and there are external reasons why the eastern and northern governors have more troops than the other two.

The Eastern Governor's Mansion was threatened by the orc armies occupying Sunset Fortress, the Northern Metropolitan was threatened by ambitious steppe tribes, and the Northwest Metropolitan Mansion of Prince William and Prince Harry's Southwest Metropolitan Mansion were much safer in comparison.

Charlemagne, who had managed to balance the strength of the four metropolitan governors, would never allow the five Eastern Legions to break the balance of power among the four metropolitan governors, so the four metropolitan governors all had the power to form their own capital legions.

Prince Pros's Eastern Metropolitan Mansion now has five Eastern Legions, and more Eastern Legions can be formed in the future, and similarly, Prince William's Northwest Metropolitan Palace, Prince Harry's Southwest Metropolitan Palace, and Prince Philip's Northern Metropolitan Mansion can also be formed.

It's just that the number of the Metropolitan Legion formed by Prince William is the Northwest Legion, the Metropolitan Legion formed by Prince Harry is the Southwest Legion, and the Metropolitan Legion formed by Prince Philip is the Northern Legion.

In this respect, his maternal grandfather, Duke Cullen, the Imperial Minister of War, and Prince William, who commanded the Metropolitan Governor's Office and was close to the Rhine Merchant League, had an advantage over the other three princes, and of course, each prince had his own unique advantages, which the other princes did not have.