If a person wants to live, he must have faith. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 What do you believe in?Believe in the rational inner connection of everything and all moments, believe that life as a whole will go on forever, believe in what is closest and what is farthest away.

- Franz Kafka (Austrian novelist)

After all, the Iron-Blooded Earl is still the Iron-Blooded Earl, and the painful past in his memory makes him unable to control his emotions in front of Bai Feng, but the twilight state of the hero's weeping is the state of the little daughter that Rundstead will never make if he dies!

Count Rundstead, who acted decisively, reached out again to take the energy light ball, and then put it into the space ring on his right hand; looking at the smile on Bai Feng's face, he said to Bai Feng with a solemn face:

"When your group was attacked today, I led the most elite Iron Guards under my command to watch from a short distance, and I can tell you clearly that these hidden conspirators will definitely not stop easily, and it is best for you to go to the imperial capital in the future. ”

"Iron Guard?" Count Rundstead's bystander observation was already expected by Bai Feng, and in comparison, he was still more interested in the count's guard: "Your Excellency, having a personal guard seems to be the privilege of the Imperial Duke, right?"

"The Duke formed a guard, that is clearly stipulated in the laws of the Empire, and the guard formed by me, the Earl, was personally approved by His Majesty the Emperor!" Count Rundstead, who was full of pride, explained the origin of the Iron Guard with aristocratic pride.

"Since His Majesty the Emperor thinks so highly of you, why did he transfer you from the battlefield of the Sunset Fortress to the province of Perpignan to do something to break the governor?

"His Majesty the Emperor has never transferred me away from the Sunset Fortress!" Hearing Bai Feng say this, Longsted's face was covered with gloom, and he said with a little indignation: "Your Majesty the Emperor I approve of is not the guy who sits on the throne now!"

Well, Bai Feng now fully understands why Rundstead was transferred to Perpignan Province, which is a typical old minister who is only loyal to the previous emperor of the empire, and it is too normal for the current emperor of the empire not to be liked by the current emperor and sent to a poor country to become governor.

"In this way, your old Iron and Blood Guard was formed nearly twenty years ago, and with your ability to command the army, this Iron Blood Guard is probably very good, right?" Bai Feng, who didn't want to continue this topic, had to pull the topic back.

"Nearly twenty years, since I was knighted thirty years ago, I have formed the Iron Guards on the orders of His Majesty the Emperor, and by the time I was promoted to Earl twenty years ago, the size of the Iron Guards had reached three thousand. ”

"You went from sir, all the way through barons, viscounts, and finally promoted to earl?!" Bai Feng, who exclaimed, was so shocked that he stood up directly, he didn't expect that the iron-blooded earl in front of him would actually step by step to the position of earl with real swords and real guns!

As one of the most powerful old empires on the mainland, the number of nobles in the Celestial Dragon Empire is far greater than that of other countries, and the stable and intricate aristocratic system not only firmly controls the power of the empire, but also seals the path of ordinary civilians to the promotion of nobles.

There were so many interests in the empire, and the greater the number of nobles, the fewer benefits each nobleman could share, so resisting the birth of new nobles became a necessary means for the imperial magnates to protect their own interests.

However, the birth of new nobles was inevitable, because each emperor would promote his cronies to canonize a certain number of new nobles, and the meritorious civilians on the battlefield also needed to obtain the title of nobility in order to motivate more commoners to join the army.

In the promotion path of the nobles who were blocked by the nobles of all classes, there were only three paths left in the end: the first was to become a saint-level powerhouse by virtue of their own efforts, the second was to gain the favor of the emperor with loyalty and ability, and the third was to make contributions on the battlefield!

It is no exaggeration to say that the one that is really feasible of these three paths is actually the last one, after all, a saint-level powerhouse is not so easy to be born, and there are almost no gifted people born from civilians who can become a saint-level powerhouse by their own efforts alone.

Bai Feng didn't know if there was such a miracle that a commoner had grown into a saint-level powerhouse in other countries, but there was absolutely no such situation in the Heavenly Dragon Empire, and the courtiers reused by His Majesty the Emperor were often nobles themselves, otherwise they would not have had a chance to see the emperor at all.

Commoners who have made meritorious contributions on the battlefield and won the position of nobility have to work several times harder to establish several times the merits than the nobles, so that they can barely obtain the same status as the nobles; in other words, if Rundsteadt's military exploits are placed on the nobles, it is more than enough to be crowned a duke.

This is why Bai Feng was so uncalm when he heard Rundstead mention the past, Bai Feng only knew that the Iron Blood Count was one of the famous generals of the Empire, but he didn't know that the Iron Blood Count was still a battlefield nobleman who was promoted from a commoner to an earl.

A famous general of the empire who fought from ordinary civilians to the position of earl, his prestige in the imperial army is probably higher than that of most of the so-called imperial marshals;

For those ordinary soldiers, they will not trust the nobles who are high, but they will hold the iron-blooded Earl in high esteem, who is also from a commoner background, and perhaps this is the real reason why the current emperor of the empire transferred him.

"What's the matter, don't you believe that I'm an Imperial Count with a real sword and a real gun?" Bai Feng's exclamation made Rundstead very dissatisfied, and he asked in an unkind tone: "Do you think that I am like those nobles who only know about intrigues, relying on the family to climb up?"

Seeing the anger on Count Rundstead's face, Bai Feng hurriedly explained: "Your Excellency, how can I question your great military exploits? Since I was born, you have not been fighting in the Sunset Fortress, and it is normal that I don't know much about your situation. ”

"Alas, this is indeed not your fault, who in the current empire can still remember the iron-blooded Count eighteen years ago?" This kind of self-deprecating words came out of the mouth of Count Rundstead, but it made Bai Feng feel an unprecedented sense of sadness.

"Your Excellency, you obviously led the soldiers of the Iron Guards to the battlefield today, why didn't you rescue us in time? If we had your reinforcements, we wouldn't have been beaten so badly!" Bai Feng, who continued to change the topic, was about to become the king of the topic.

"My Predator Guards are spread throughout the counties of Perpignan, and all the turmoil in Perpignan cannot be hidden from my eyes, and I was going to rescue you, but when I arrived, I found that you didn't need my rescue at all!

To be able to defeat the 1,500 elite swordsmen of the Blue Jays Swordsmen Regiment with less than 50 soldiers, your Roman city is indeed more powerful than I imagined, and the swordsmen of the Bluebird Swordsmen Regiment are no match for you at all, so I have no need to come to the rescue. ”

"Blue Bird Swordsmen?" Count Rundstead's address to the blue-armored warriors made Bai Feng realize that something was wrong, and he asked directly: "Your Excellency, do you know the army that attacked us, who are they, and why are they attacking us?"