Nature has everything to provide for human needs, but not for human greed.

- Mahatma Gandhi (the founding father of modern India, India's greatest political leader, founder of Gandhiism)

Without the support of the Minister of War, it means that the five Eastern Legions of the Eastern Metropolitan Government cannot receive the support of the Imperial Military Department, and without the support of the Minister of Finance, it means that the five Eastern Legions of the Eastern Metropolitan Government cannot receive the support of the Imperial Finance.

Prince Philip, who also did not have the support of the Imperial Military Department and the Empire's finances, only had to temporarily not form a Metropolitan Legion for the Northern Metropolitan Governor's Office, and when the six northern provinces recovered in the future, the Northern Metropolitan Governor's Office, which had the support of the six northern provinces, would be able to do anything.

Of the thirteen steppe tribes in the northern steppe of the empire, only the Turkic, Khitan, and Jurchen tribes are really close to the northern frontier of the empire; now, the strongest of the three Jurchen tribes, the Jianzhou Jurchen, has been defeated by the Baifeng army, and it is almost impossible to pose any mortal threat to the northern frontier of the empire.

The Jurchens of the East China Sea and the Jurchens of Haixi, who were in great internal chaos, did not even have the strength to unify the tribes, so where could it be possible for them to invade the northern frontier of the empire in the south? As a result, the Jurchen tribes in the northern steppe of the empire did not have the strength to threaten the northern frontier of the empire for nearly ten years.

If it weren't for the fact that the empire had suffered heavy losses in the two-front battle in the past two years and was really unable to launch a counterattack, the weakened Jianzhou Jurchens and the chaotic East China Sea Jurchens and Haixi Jurchens were undoubtedly the best targets for the empire to take the initiative to counterattack; unfortunately, the empire did not have that strength.

The reason why the crazy expansion of the Imperial Military Department did not cause a backlash from the people and nobles of the Imperial Army was not that they supported the crazy expansion of the Imperial Military Department, but that the invading orc army and the three grasslands had brought the empire to the brink of life and death.

The people of the empire who were unwilling to allow the invaders to wantonly kill and plunder, and the imperial nobles who did not want to lose their power and wealth, united as one, unreservedly supported the expansion of the imperial military headquarters to the death, and fought to the death against the tyrannical invading enemy.

Now, the orc armies that once occupied several eastern provinces have abandoned all the lands they occupied and retreated to the Sunset Fortress, and the three major tribes of the steppe, who were unwilling to retreat, have also withdrawn from the northern frontier of the empire under the pressure of the imperial army.

At such a time, the people of the empire and the nobles of the empire, who had been nervous for a long time, will inevitably relax quickly, and the many domestic contradictions that have been covered up by the war will soon resurface, and that is what Charlemagne and the magnates of the imperial capital are really worried about.

At such a juncture when internal tensions are about to appear but have not yet appeared, what the rulers of the empire hope to do most is to appease the forces in the empire as much as possible when various internal contradictions erupt, so as to stifle the internal conflicts before they erupt.

If the army is blindly launched to counterattack the Jurchen tribe, then the hidden worries within the empire will be induced in advance, and when the time comes, there will be fierce battles outside the empire, and there will be all kinds of worries inside, and the so-called existential crisis is nothing more than that!

In all fairness, Charlemagne sent his four princes to the border to form the Metropolitan Governor's Office, which may not have been without this consideration, and the four Metropolitan Governor's Mansions with four princes sitting in front of the Empire to defend the borders of the Empire can at least make the empire's chaos not affect the frontier even if it breaks out.

In the final analysis, the formation of the four major governors was beneficial to Bai Feng, and even if the army under his command was therefore divided into two and assigned to the two major governors, he had absolute confidence and took this opportunity to develop and strengthen his own power.

What's more, the current situation of the army under Bai Feng's command is far from being as bad as the bystanders imagined, and even the six legions that Bai Feng was forced to stay in the Northern Metropolitan Governor's Mansion are all under the unified command of Bai Feng's henchman General Overseer Quintus, is there a better result?

The transfer of the Feather Forest Legion and the Fire Legion to the Imperial Capital is also a good thing for Bai Feng, and among the five royal legions that defend the Imperial Capital, the two legions with the strongest combat effectiveness are Bai Feng's, isn't this a good thing?

The order sent by the Imperial Military Department included a letter of appointment from Charlemagne to the commanders of the two royal legions, the acting commander of the Agni Legion, Rodriguez, was officially appointed as the commander, and the lieutenant general of the Featherwood Legion, Hans, was also officially appointed as the commander.

Rodriguez, Edel and other generals of the Fire Legion did not have much confidence in Bai Feng's heart about their loyalty, and even, in Bai Feng's opinion, even if the generals of the Fire Legion confessed their mistakes and begged for mercy as soon as they returned to the imperial capital, it was a reasonable thing.

What really reassured Bai Feng about the Flame Legion was not Rodriguez and other Flame Generals, but the ordinary soldiers and middle- and low-level officers in the Flame Legion; these ordinary soldiers and middle- and low-level officers were not the original Flame Legion soldiers, but were added in the war.

Whether it is an elite veteran from the city defense army, or a supplementary recruit from the military department, after being injured, they are all treated by Hua Mu, a field doctor under Bai Feng's command;

It is no exaggeration to say that if Rodriguez and other generals of the Fire Legion choose to stand on the opposite side of Bai Feng, then only Bai Feng needs to ascend and shout, and it is still unknown who the 50,000 soldiers of the Fire Legion will stand behind!

Compared with the generals of the Fire Legion, whose loyalty cannot be guaranteed, Hans, López and other generals of the Feather Forest Legion are different; Hans is a system general, needless to say, and Borg, Bartroli, and Vermaelen are the personal confidants raised by Bai Feng himself.

And López, one of the Iron Blood Five Tiger Generals, is unlikely to be loyal to Charlemagne, because the Iron Blood Five Tigers will be cultivated by Duke Rundstead, and Charlemagne's deliberate suppression of Duke Rundstede is a well-known thing in the world.

In addition to the five main generals, the Yulin Legion also has a special co-captain who is not inferior to these five generals, that is, Leonardo, the co-captain of the Yulin United, before the Yulin Legion left for the imperial capital, Leonardo and his Yulin Wing were sent to the north by Bai Feng.

Bai Feng, who was about to transfer Luculus back to Rome to form the Seventh Legion, finally chose Leonardo as the second commander of the five military battalions of the personal guards, and the two thousand elite soldiers of the Yulin United were also handed over to Leonardo by Bai Feng, which can be regarded as Bai Feng's personal guard for his henchmen.

In fact, the main reason why Bai Feng handed over the Yulin Wing to Leonardo to take away was that he was worried that he would not be able to suppress the proud soldiers of the Fifth Military Battalion;

Why did Leonardo always win Bai Feng's trust? His ability was only one aspect, and his identity as a veteran of the Seventh Wing was the key to Bai Feng's reuse; however, this identity was quite a deterrent to others, and had no effect on the Wing Commanders of the Fifth Army Battalion.

When the Seventh Wing was first expanded, the Wing Commanders of the Fifth Military Battalion, Siquela, Mirallas, and Wanyama, became the captains of the Seventh Wing.

Let the ordinary soldiers of the former Seventh Wing, serve as the boss of the former captain of the Seventh Wing, can Siqueira and the others accept it? Although Bai Feng believes that Leonardo can solve this small problem with his own ability, it will take time to solve the problem.

In order to avoid some unnecessary troubles in the process of solving the problem, Bai Feng deliberately handed over the 2,000 elites of the Yulin United to Leonardo; with these 2,000 soldiers, Siqueira and the others would not dare to do things too much, and Leonardo would not be able to be overridden by anyone.