The mystery of practical rational criticism is that man is alone in the world, in infinite and eternal isolation. Man has no purpose outside of himself, he lives for nothing else, he is far removed from the situation of being a slave to his own desires, abilities, and necessary needs.

– Otto Weininger (Austrian philosopher)

The Marquis of Bedouin, who was politically insensitive and unfamiliar with military affairs, was a master of maneuvering, and he used his power and position to firmly control the down-and-out nobles led by the Earl of Hamilton in his own hands.

As for the down-and-out nobles led by Count Abraham who are unwilling to be enemies of Baifeng, their main body is not strong knight-level nobles, and the number is only a few dozen people, so the focus of Marquis Bedouin's attention is only Count Abraham.

In the eyes of the Marquis of Bedouin, as long as he controls Count Abraham's every move within his line of sight, Count Abraham, who has limited ability, and the knights who have no leader, cannot afford to toss any storms.

As it turned out, the Marquis de Bedouin's thinking and practice were very correct, and the only thing that he did not expect was that Count Abraham's prudence had reached a very terrifying level, and could even be described as cowardly!

The immovable Earl of Abraham, after asking Woodlow and other six knight representatives to contact the knights, has been living in seclusion in the restaurant where his family temporarily lives, and the old butler's outing when he buys daily necessities is his way to obtain information from the outside world.

In the city of Brojansson, the military officer Moritz, the secretary Heinrich, the civil affairs officer Hess, and the financial officer Shalah are the four well-known high-ranking officials loyal to Bai Feng;

It was not that the Marquis of Bedouin did not pay attention to Wink, who commanded the three thousand soldiers of the city defense army, but that Wink, who was straightforward and one-eyed, and did things no different from ordinary squad leaders and squadron leaders; even the Earl of Hamilton thought that Wink was 'only' worthy of being a squad leader.

The vast Celestial Dragon Empire has thousands of generals at the level of wing captains, division commanders, and corps commanders, and a commander like Wen Ke who commands three thousand soldiers of the city defense army is actually equivalent to the wing captain in the imperial standing army, or maybe even worse.

In the strictly disciplined Imperial Army, there were two completely different classes between officers and ordinary officers, and there would never be a thing in which officers and ordinary officers ate and lived together, even if this possible phenomenon was not expressly prohibited in the Imperial Military Law.

Duke Rundstede, who was born as a civilian, was promoted to the rank of Imperial Knight and Legion Squadron Leader, but he still became two classes between him and ordinary soldiers, and Wen Ke, the commander of the city defense army appointed by Bai Feng himself, actually ate and lived with ordinary soldiers!

Not only that, Wink, who was strict with his subordinate officers, had to order his officers of all ranks, such as wing commanders, group leaders, and squadron leaders, to eat and live with the officers and men under their respective commands, and even conduct training together.

This did not provoke a backlash from his officers, but it did provoke all kinds of ridicule from the Marquis de Bedouin and his followers, and the offensive ridicule was followed by everyone's contempt and ignorance.

None of the nobles, including the Marquis of Bedouin, thought that they could do anything if they were at best 'worthy' to be the commander of the city defense as a squad leader, and over time, their attention to Wink plummeted until they completely ignored Wink's existence.

No matter what the other nobles thought, the discerning Earl Abraham felt that Wenke, as the commander of the city defense army, must not be a simple person, and the reason why he had such a judgment was because Wenk was the commander of the city defense army appointed by Bai Feng himself.

As the world knows, the most important core city in the entire Brojansson Province is the capital Brojansson County, and the city defense army of Brojansson County is the top priority in defending the provincial capital.

Although Bai Feng's name of the 'Feather Forest God of War' is powerful in the Empire, Count Abraham, who knows little, believes that compared with Bai Feng's ability to march and fight, his ability to recognize people and the way of employing people are the key factors for him to shine in war.

Borg and others, who did not graduate from the Military Department of the Imperial Academy, and Bonella, who had served as a captain in the Imperial Army for many years, were only known as the iron-blooded five tiger generals in Perpignan Province;

Why the commanders appointed by the Imperial Military Department are all veteran generals in the army, who have been repeatedly defeated and retreated by the orc army and the steppe cavalry on the battlefield, while the young talents and low-level officers promoted by Bai Feng can repeatedly perform on the battlefield, this in itself is very revealing.

Since the commander of the city defense army, Wenk, was Bai Feng's chosen talent, then Count Abraham had reason to believe that the Wenk commander was by no means an idle person, and it just so happened that Bai Feng remained among his cronies in the county town of Brojansson, and only the Wenk commander was not paid attention to by the Marquis of Bedouin.

So, at noon on a sunny day, Earl Abraham's old butler took advantage of the opportunity to go out to buy daily necessities, and in the bustling vegetable market, he quietly stuffed a secret letter with only a few words into the vegetable basket of the city defense army to purchase vegetables.

That evening, Commander Wink, who had never left the barracks of the city defense army, took a dozen officers who had recently performed well to dine at another restaurant not far from the restaurant where Count Abraham lived, which was undoubtedly the property of the Sophia Chamber of Commerce.

The Sophia Chamber of Commerce is inextricably linked with the Net, and it has almost become a common practice that there are intelligence agents in every industry of the Sophia Chamber of Commerce.

Sophia, who didn't know anything about the existence of Luowang, only knew that these skilled and agile employees were all trained by Bai Feng for the Sophia Chamber of Commerce;

The secrecy of intelligence officers will always borrow some auxiliary tools, the most typical of which are secret rooms and secret passages; the restaurant where Count Abraham temporarily lived and the restaurant where Commander Wink ate were the property of the Sophia Chamber of Commerce, and there must be a secret passage in between.

The dozen or so officers of the city defense army who were rewarded were a cover played by Commander Wen Ke to avoid being conspicuous when he went out alone, in fact, those officers were all veterans of the Yulin Wing, and they were loyal soldiers to Bai Feng.

After entering the private room of the restaurant, Commander Wenk let more than a dozen officers pretend to eat and drink in it, and he himself, under the leadership of the members of the net, changed into the clothes of ordinary servants, and walked into the secret passage through a storage room full of miscellaneous items in the restaurant.

A winding secret passage about 300 meters long is a secret passage that connects the two restaurants and is known only to the members of the net, and if Bai Feng hadn't taken precautions to inform Wenk of the way to contact the net, I am afraid that Wenk would not know how to go to the secret meeting with Count Abraham.

As soon as he walked into the secret passage, Wen Ke, who was born in the military, found that the walls on both sides of the secret passage were densely distributed with a large number of orifices for arrows to shoot;

The dense secret passage, only 300 meters long, allowed Wen Ke to walk for nearly ten minutes, and after successfully walking out of the secret passage, Wen Ke, who had been following the members of the net intently, found that his back was already wet with sweat.