People are not the same from each other, and people cannot understand equality before the law as equality means equal treatment and equality for all.

--Ludwig von Mises (20th century economist and outstanding liberal thinker)

Two months after the fall of Longchamps, the former governor of Besançon was transferred back to the imperial capital by Charlemagne, and a new meritorious nobleman who was born in the military was appointed.

The new governor of Besançon was originally only a count who had just entered the ranks of the high nobility, but after he was appointed governor of Besançon because of his experience as a legionary commander, his title was promoted from Imperial Count to Imperial Marquis, that is, Marquis of Besançon.

The seemingly complex imperial title system is very simple when you really understand it in depth: with the count as the boundary, the nobles above the earl are the high nobles of the empire in the traditional sense, and the nobles below the earl are ordinary nobles with a lower status than the high nobles.

Ordinary nobles such as viscounts, barons, and knights do not have any titles, and all of them are titled by the names of their respective families plus titles; only nobles who have become high nobles are eligible to use titles that are different from ordinary nobles.

The titles of the high nobles are divided into three types: the first is the old family title with the five dukes families as a typical example, and its use is basically the same as that of ordinary nobles, all of which are linked to their family names and family titles.

The second type is the special title nobles with the Duke of Yulin of Baifeng and the iron-blooded Duke of Rundsteadt as typical nobles, and there are not many such high-ranking nobles in the entire empire, and the third type is the nouveau riche family with the title of the highest family title.

The Duke of Nice, the governor of the province of Nice, and the Marquis of Metz, the governor of the province of Metz, are very typical nouveau riche families of the empire; more than a year ago, the title of the head of the Bai family, Bai Mingcheng, was also the Marquis of Llorent, which is also the embodiment of the identity of the Bai family's nouveau riche family.

Previously, he was only the new governor of Besançon Province, who was only a count-level nobleman, and his title was Marquis Besançon; while the delicate Ames provided Bai Feng with various information about the Jurchen tribe, he naturally did not forget to provide Bai Feng with the details of the Marquis of Besançon.

The six-year-old Marquis of Besançon, who is now Chinese New Year's Eve, was originally born in the imperial capital, but his family is only a baronial family with an unknown reputation, and he lives in the imperial capital full of high nobles, so the development of the family will inevitably be a little slow.

The not-so-wealthy aristocratic life of the Marquis de Besançon cultivated a hard-working character compared to other nobles, and the uneventful life lasted until the Marquis de Besançon entered the Military Department of the Imperial Academy, where he experienced an event that changed his fate.

The son of an Imperial Count pursues a good-looking civilian girl at the Imperial Academy, but unfortunately, Luohua is deliberately ruthless, and the civilian girl does not like the son of the flamboyant count, but falls in love with the taciturn Marquis of Besançon.

At that time, the Marquis of Besançon was not the current feudal official who was in charge of the military and political power of a province, and he was not even an ordinary nobleman;

After a two-year love run, the commoner girl and the Marquis de Besançon became a loving couple, and the son of the count, who had repeatedly been rejected for courtship, decided to use his family's power to force the young Marquis de Besançon to give up his lover on his own initiative.

But how could the iron-hearted Marquis of Besançon give up his beloved lover? The Marquis of Besançon, who would rather die than give in, finally embarked on a difficult road to survive, that is, to take his beloved lover to serve on the war-torn northern border of the empire.

In the past 12 years, the Marquis of Besançon, who had been generous in his military career, grew from a squad captain who did not even have a knighthood to a regimental commander who was named an imperial count; in the year when he returned to the imperial capital, the son of the Marquis of Besançon was already nine years old.

The Marquis of Besançon, who returned to the imperial capital with glory and merit, did not forget the power of the earl's son twelve years ago, but he was not so stingy as to think about the old past twelve years ago, and, in his opinion, it was a good thing that he was a blessing in disguise.

Twelve years of time not only changed the fate of the Marquis de Besançon, but also the fate of his rival, to be precise, the fate of his rival father.

The reason why the Marquis of Besançon was sent to the northern border of the empire was because his rival's father was a powerful official in the imperial military department, and twelve years later, this count, who was the confidant of the Duke of Kulen, had already sat in the position of deputy military minister.

The number of means at his disposal, as a high-ranking deputy commander of the military department, was simply innumerable if he wanted to deal with a corps commander who was directly under the management of the military department, and after some covert operation, the Marquis of Besançon, who had returned to the imperial capital and was knighted, was dismissed from his post on some trumped-up charges.

Next, the Marquis of Besançon experienced more than five years of idleness, and finally after the fall of the province of Longchamps, Charlemagne was appointed as the governor of the province of Besançon, and the title was also promoted to the Marquis of the Empire.

After learning about the life situation of the Marquis of Besançon, Bai Feng was still full of expectations for the Marquis of Besançon who was about to fight hand in hand with him, and in his opinion, a provincial governor who had a grudge against the Duke of Kulun was a potential ally that he could win over.

From the point of view of internal connection, the enemy who had a grudge against the Marquis of Besançon was the confidant of the Duke of Coulom, which means that the Marquis of Besançon could not have a close relationship with the Duke of Coullen, and how could the dismissal of an imperial legion commander not be approved by Charlemagne?

The enemies of the Marquis of Besançon, the Duke of Coulomb, and Charlemagne, the three are linked one by one, which means that if the Marquis of Besançon wants to take revenge, he must be the enemy of Duke Coulomb and even Charlemagne, who is the emperor of the Celestial Dragon Empire!

Aren't people who are dissatisfied with the emperor exactly what Bai Feng needs the most? Since Bai Feng joined the imperial army, all the generals at all levels who have been appointed and promoted have a common characteristic, that is, they have no loyalty to the emperor of the empire.

Bai Feng, who had positioned himself accurately, knew that the fundamental purpose of his development within the empire was to create a reasonable opportunity for the emergence of the forces of Roman City in the civilized world, and the royal family, which represented the orthodoxy of the Celestial Dragon Empire, had always been Bai Feng's enemy.

This point will not change because of anything, even if Bai Feng himself has a good relationship with the Seventh Princess Diana, and is an ally with the Eighth Prince Prologe, the fundamental conflict of interests determines that Bai Feng and the royal family of the Heavenly Dragon Empire can never become friends!

Looking at the capital of Besançon Province, where the outline could be faintly visible in front of him, Bai Feng, who was full of interest in the Marquis of Besançon, had already begun to think about how to recruit the Marquis of Besançon;