Hearing Pandora's words, Jones said with a slightly complicated expression: "I have to admit that this Red Dragon Duke is indeed a genius, and he has become an elemental knight at such an age!"

In this regard, I am indeed inferior to him, but if he can grow into a king, I do not believe it!

You should know how difficult it is to give birth to a king, talent alone is not enough! Even the mercenary-born Blood Hades King is not promoted by talent alone!"

Behind the birth of every king, in addition to unparalleled opportunities and talents, there is also a large amount of resources piled up, Jones is pessimistic about Allen's promotion to king!

"I think you just think that others are more talented than you, and you are jealous!" Pandora pouted.

Jones looked at her eyes with some disbelief, smiled, and teased: "Pandora, I'm your own brother, and now you're actually helping others talk?"

In my opinion, you are interested in this Red Dragon Duke, and I heard that this Red Dragon Duke is not yet married, if you are interested, when you return to the kingdom, I will tell you about your father?"

When Pandora heard this, her face turned red, and she was about to refute, but Jones said again: "Okay, okay! I'm also joking, don't take it seriously, now we should rush back to the kingdom as soon as possible to restore our lives, and the province will be preempted by the four royal brothers!"

"Humph!" Pandora snorted dissatisfiedly as she looked at Jones with a smile on her face, and turned her head away from him.

As he spoke, the convoy had already left Red Dragon City far away and disappeared into the east of the city.

......

The first day of the second month of the Red Dragon calendar.

As soon as the sky dawned, outside the gate of Bluebird Town, which was east of Huomai County, there was already a lot of people, crowds, and the number of people was still increasing, and people were constantly gathering from all directions.

People throughout the Blue Bird Town know that today is an extremely special day, it is the first recruitment of troops in the principality since the Duke of Red Dragon established the Principality of Red Dragon, and the good treatment of the principality's army is well known.

So early in the morning, all walks of life, all classes, farmers, artisans, merchants, officials, etc., from all walks of life in the principality, rushed over with their children, expecting to pass the selection!

I saw that outside the gate of Blue Bird Town at this time, the water that was surrounded was different, and the young and immature teenagers were pulled by their families and mixed in.

A middle-aged man with bulging muscles and dark skin stood at the front of the team with a black-faced young man with a simple face in his hand.

"Cusis, if you can pass the selection this time and become a Duchy warrior in the future, you won't have to be a blacksmith like me in the future, and you will be knighted and become a nobleman when the time comes!" the middle-aged man said to his son with a soft face.

"Father, don't worry!" Coussis clenched his hands, his face confident, and his eyes filled with hope!

In the distance, a fat man dressed as a wealthy businessman squinted his eyes, sat on a large chair, looking at the grand scene in front of him, several guards stood behind him, and a little fat dun stood beside the chair with an angry face, his face full of tears.

Kochi glanced at his son next to him, and said disapprerovingly: "I'll tell you this bastard, it's not easy for anyone to come today!"

The little fat man didn't lift his head, and he was secretly angry.

I think that although he Kochi is quite famous in Blue Bird Town, he has made some money by relying on the wine business, but out of Blue Bird Town, he Kochi is not a fart, in order to do some wine business, he is groveling outside, tired and tired!

Now that the principality has finally launched the recruitment plan, how can he give up, even if he does not meet the conditions, but he must send his son in, and when the time comes, he will be knighted, become a nobleman, and his status will rise, so he will no longer have to be busy like himself, working day and night. Kochi sighed in his heart.

Similar situations are not counted among the population, and due to the prestige of the Duchy's army, coupled with the constant propaganda of the Nine Places, the people of the entire Duchy are eager to join the army.

It's just that the official in charge of recruitment has not yet arrived at this time, and even if everyone can't wait, they can only be secretly patient.

Suddenly, I don't know who shouted in the crowd.

"Here we go! The recruits are coming!"

Suddenly, the originally noisy crowd suddenly fell silent, and they all stood on tiptoe, stretched their necks hard, and looked ahead.

The first to burst into the crowd was a group of guards in leather armor with swords at their waists, who, after entering the crowd, roared loudly, pushed the crowd back, and widened the open space in front of the gate for a radius of several meters.

Later, accompanied by a number of officials from the town's household registration office, a man in a military uniform, with sharp eyes and a terrifying majesty all over his body, strode in front of everyone.

When he saw this battle-hardened Duchy sergeant, the whispering on the periphery had stopped.

A large table was brought and placed in front of everyone, and the warrior sat down first, followed by two household registration officials behind the warrior, one in blue and one in green clothes, who held in their hands the roster of age-appropriate teenagers in the entire Blue Bird Town.

Seeing that the crowd had formed a long line with the efforts of the guards, the two blue-clad officers in the household registration office smiled and said to the sergeant: "Sergeant Mkesa!

Muksa didn't smile and nodded faintly.

Originally, he was a low-level knight of the Blue Desolation Knights, but now he has been transferred to the warrior base to serve, and this time the principality has transferred a group of instructors with knightly strength in several major knight orders to be responsible for training in the base.

This time, he was sent here only to supervise and bring the recruited teenagers back to the reserve soldier base safely, and the specific recruitment work was done by the people from the household registration office.

"First place! First place!"

When the blue-clad officer got a reply, he cleared his throat and shouted.

After that, a white-haired old man at the front of the line and the teenager next to him were let go by the security officer.

The blue-clothed official of the household registration office glanced at the thin young man and asked, "Where is the identity card?" ”

When the old man heard this, he hurriedly took out two wooden cards from his arms and handed them over respectfully.

The identities of the two are recorded in detail on the two wooden plaques.

The Tsing Yi official quickly picked up the two wooden plaques, stared at them a few times, and read: "Blue Bird Town, Kewu, a villager of Lufeng Village, was born in the sixty-third year of the former Chilong calendar, and his immediate family members ...... Grandson Mdala, Occupation ...... Blue Bird Town, Mudala, a villager of Lufeng Village, was born in the twelfth year of the former Chilong calendar, and is a direct family member...... Grandpa Keu ......"

The Tsing Yi official read, while the blue-clothed official took the booklet in his hand and compared it, and after confirming the identity of the thin boy Mdala, he recorded his name and said to the grandfather and grandson who looked apprehensive in front of him: "The first round of assessment has passed, please wait for the second round of assessment in the periphery!"

As soon as they heard that they had passed the first round of assessment, the grandfather and grandson were naturally very grateful, and with a look of surprise, they took a jade plaque from the hand of the Tsing Yi official and walked out of the crowd.

"Alright! Next ......"

At this time, inside the Red Dragon Palace.

"Duke, the recruitment work has been carried out this time, and the selection will be carried out on a town-by-town basis! I believe that it will not be long before the five thousand reserve soldiers will be recruited!" Antonio stood in the hall and said respectfully to Alan in the hall.

"Hmm!" Alan nodded, and the recruitment of reserve fighters officially began, of course, in addition to the official recruitment of reserve warrior bases, the naval school that was set by Allen on Herlan Island has also begun recruitment.

Unlike the navy and the army of the Knights, the Red Dragon Principality has no experience in cultivating this at all.

Therefore, Allen is not going to recruit naval soldiers on a large scale, but first recruits 500 people in Heilan Island, first makes a small-scale attempt, and then uses these 500 people as seeds to expand the size of the navy.

In order to solve the problem of teachers in the naval school, Alan transferred a group of experienced sailors from the two fleets of the Red Dragon Principality, as well as some retired old captains, to teach the recruits, and at the same time, the only Black Dragon warship was also transferred by Allen to familiarize the soldiers with how to operate the Duchy's warships.

......

"Your Excellency, this is ...... Invitation!" Antonio did not leave, but hesitantly took out an invitation from his cuff.

Alan raised his eyebrows, glanced at Antonio curiously, and gestured to Barton next to him.

Barton understood, walked over, took the invitation from Antonio's hand, and handed it to the duke.

Alan opened it, a smile bloomed on his face, and said to Antonio: "Duke Ben really didn't know that Barry was going to get married!"

Then Alan glanced at Barton beside him reproachfully, Bartonbad and Barry were brothers, and he must have made this matter clear, but he didn't tell himself at all.

"I don't know whose young lady it is?" said Allen again.

Antonio bowed respectfully and said with a smile: "Tell the Duke, it's the sister of Viscount Quincy!"

"Quincy, okay! Duke Ben will definitely go with a generous gift!" Alan smiled helplessly, not to mention Antonio's face, just take Barry as the head of the Duchy Security Department and his squire knight, he will not refuse.

"The Duke is stern! The Duke can come to give the war a great face!" Antonio's face was happy, and he bowed again, originally came to hand over the invitation, but he was very hesitant in his heart, not knowing if the Duke would give face.

A few minutes later, looking at the back of Antonio's departure, Alan sighed, time flies so fast, and he still remembers that Barry and Battenbad became his own squire knight at the same time a few years ago.

However, due to the fact that Barry was more agile among the three, and it coincided with the shortage of management personnel in the nine divisions, Allen transferred him to the security department, and Barry did not live up to Allen's expectations over the years, managing the security department only in an orderly manner, maintaining the security of the principality.

Now, two or three years later, Barry is about to start a family!

It's normal to think about it, after all, Barry Batonbad is twenty years old, Cooley, the treasurer, is nineteen years old, Andy is the eldest of the five, twenty-two years old, and Allen is eighteen years old, all of whom are old enough to start a family.

Ellen, in particular, if he hadn't always rejected Mrs. Lisa's kindness, I believe he would have married earlier than Barry.