Man cannot love a person whom he fully understands, because if he fully understands a person, he will surely see the imperfections of the other person, which is an inevitable part of the human being.

– Otto Weininger (Austrian philosopher)

"Alas......" Marquis Bedouin, who sighed loudly, deliberately pretended to be helpless and said: "You are all nobles of the empire, the mainstay of our Brojansson Province, why don't I want you to share some responsibilities for me?"

"Your Excellency the Governor, as long as you are willing to trust our Hamilton family, our Hamilton family is willing to swear allegiance to you to the death!"

"Count Hamilton, I naturally don't doubt your loyalty, but do you think I really have the right to divide the three towns of County Lemonier into your family's fiefdom?" met the burning gaze of Earl Hamilton, the voice of the Marquis of Bedouin was full of bitterness.

Seeing that his family's hope for revival was blocked, Earl Hamilton's eyes glowed slightly red and said: "Your Excellency the Governor, you are the Governor of Brojanchung Province personally appointed by His Majesty the Emperor;

"If General Bai Feng, the 'Feather Forest God of War' of the Megatron Empire, does not obey my orders, are you Hamilton also willing to be the enemy of General Bai Feng?"

"Enemy with General Bai Feng?!" Earl Hamilton, who was shocked, had just boasted that Haikou would clear the way for the Marquis of Bedouin, but now he didn't even have the courage to express his position;

Even if the down-and-out nobles, led by Count Abraham and the Marquis of Hamilton, gritted their teeth in their hearts for Bai Feng who prevented them from returning to their homeland, this did not mean that these down-and-out nobles had the courage to be enemies of Bai Feng.

The iron-blooded five tiger generals personally cultivated by Duke Rundstead have now become the iron-blooded five tiger generals labeled as Bai Feng; plus the six heroes of Yulin who followed Bai Feng and became famous in the bloody battle with the orcs, and the butcher Lister who even killed his own soldiers, who would dare to be the enemy of Bai Feng?

The eyes of the Marquis of Bedouin and the other representatives of the nobility were fixed on Count Hamilton, whose face was blue and white, and after a long struggle between the revival of the family and the enmity of Bai Feng, Count Hamilton, who had made a choice, let go of his hands that had been pierced by his palms.

"Your Excellency the Governor, our Hamilton family is willing to offer our loyalty to you, and if your enemy is General Hakufeng, then our family is willing to follow you and wage war against General Hakufeng with an army of 300,000!"

"Good!" Looking at the Earl of Hamilton who was kneeling on one knee in front of him, the Marquis of Bedouin, who was very excited, stood up directly, walked to the Earl of Hamilton, helped him up with his own hands, and then solemnly promised him:

"Earl Hamilton, from now on, you will be the county guard of County Lemonier, and the five towns in the eastern part of County Lemonier will be the fiefdom of your County Hamilton!"

In the blink of an eye, the three town fiefs that the Hamilton family should have received were promoted to five towns by the Marquis of Bedouin, and while the other nobles were extremely envious, the Earl of Hamilton, who had been envied, excitedly swore allegiance to the Marquis of Bedouin:

"I, Hamilton, swear in the honor of my family, that I and my family will swear allegiance to His Excellency the Marquis of Bedouin!"

The fact that this was in front of everyone's eyes greatly stimulated the nobles who were not yet ready, and after the Earl of Hamilton swore allegiance to the Marquis of Bedouin, more than a dozen nobles swore allegiance to the Marquis of Bedouin on behalf of their own family.

The Marquis of Bedouin did not give them any additional rewards or withhold the fiefs they deserved, but there were still more than a dozen representatives of the nobility, led by Count Abraham, who did not express their position.

The representatives of the nobility who came to the Governor's Palace this time were now clearly divided into two factions: one was the nobles who had completely defected to the Marquis of Bedouin, led by Earl Hamilton, and the other was the nobles led by Count Abraham who did not want to be the enemy of Bai Feng.

"Count Abraham, have you forgotten how Bai Feng prevented us from returning to our homeland before, and now His Excellency Bedouin is the rightful governor of our province of Brojansson, and you should join us in swearing allegiance to the governor and jointly deal with the threat of Bai Feng!"

In the face of Count Hanmidon's bitter persuasion, Count Abraham, who secretly shook his head, just asked in a calm tone: "Count Hanmidon, if the army of the orc empire attacks again, can you keep the fief of the family under the attack of the orc army?"

Count Abraham's point-to-point retort caused everyone present, including the Marquis of Bedouin himself, to fall into silent silence, and the slightly pale Count Hamilton did not say anything more, but Count Abraham continued to say to himself:

"Since the day the Sunset Fortress fell, the Orc Empire is no longer an alien empire suppressed by our imperial army east of the Sunset Mountains, but a powerful enemy that can invade us at any time;

The silent nobles remembered their deserted escape when the orc army attacked, and remembered countless former friends who were slaughtered by the orc army;

"Count Abraham, you mean that we must maintain friendly relations with Bai Feng, who has a heavy army, in order to ensure that our fiefdoms and families are not threatened by the orc army, right?"

Marquis Bedouin, who was also worried, frowned slightly and said: "However, if we want to maintain friendly relations with Bai Feng, we can't touch the people he left behind, are you willing to sit back and watch the province of Broyangsong and control it in the hands of Bai Feng?"

This dilemma was once again thrown to Count Abraham by the Marquis of Bedouin, and Count Abraham, who had already had a draft, replied in an orderly manner: "Your Excellency the Governor, why can't we share the dominion of the province of Brojansson with General Bai Feng?"

"Are you sure that Bai Feng is willing to share with us the rule of the province of Brojansson?" Earl Hamilton, who did not want to lose his family's hope of revival here, said with a mocking expression, "At the beginning, he turned us away. ”

"It was once, it is now, the two are not the same. Earl Abraham, who was saddened by Earl Hamilton's short-sightedness, said sharply: "Moreover, even now, Bai Feng still has the strength to reject us, doesn't he?"

The Earl of Hanmidon, who was still unconvinced, said stiffly: "He only had the temporary management right to recover the province before Bai Feng, and His Excellency the Marquis is the governor of the empire appointed by His Majesty, why did he turn us away?"

"Just because he has 300,000 elite troops under his command, and we only have 30,000 rabble, we are still a patchwork!" Count Abraham, who did not give in, blocked Count Hamilton from saying a word of truth.