"Chapter 62: The Escort Transaction"

There is a sense of respect for serious and important things in a man's natural nature, and it is those things that make him respected by others.

– Otto Weininger (Austrian philosopher)

The Marquis of Bedouin, who had returned to the imperial capital from the province of Nice, once again came to the province of Nice from the imperial capital with great ambition; the Duke of Gnain, who was in the province of Nice, had no intention of summoning the Marquis of Bedouin, and several other dukes avoided him.

The Marquis of Bedouin, who had experienced a mutiny, did not dare to go to the county town of Brojansson alone with dozens of guards even if the new official was appointed as the governor of Brojansson Province;

Duke Gna and Duke Kleist are both heads of the five major duke families of the empire, and with a few dares from the Marquis of Bedouin, he will not take the initiative to provoke these two dukes;

Duke Reinhardt is not only the commander of the Praetorian Legion, but also the commander of the Third Route Army under the jurisdiction of the Imperial Eastern Army, with eight legions including the Praetorian Guard, and more importantly, Duke Reinhardt is Charlemagne's confidant.

The Marquis de Bedouin believed that he was the governor of the province of Brojansson, personally appointed by His Majesty the Emperor, and that the Duke of Reinhardt was a trusted confidant of His Majesty the Emperor, and that the Duke of Reinhardt would not refuse his request for help, whether out of public or personal interest.

As everyone knows, Duke Reinhardt is a typical imperial military aristocracy, and what he hated most in his life was the kind of person who did not understand military affairs and forcibly interfered in military affairs.

The Marquis of Bedouin, who came to visit him in person, after three closed doors in succession, did not know that the Duke of Reinhardt was deliberately avoiding him, then he would really live in vain, and even the most promising Duke Reinhardt was like this, and the Marquis of Bedouin was inevitably a little discouraged.

After nearly ten days of delay in the province of Nice, the Marquis of Bedouin, who was forced to desperate, tried to visit the Duke of Albert again;

Even the last hope was shattered, and the unwilling but helpless Marquis of Bedouin was about to ask Charlemagne for help in the imperial capital, when an invitation from the Duke of Rundstead made him see a new dawn in an instant.

Rundstead, who was recently canonized by Charlemagne as the iron-blooded Duke of the Empire, although his army is not as large as that of Duke Reinhardt and Duke Albert, he also has four standing armies and 50,000 elite private armies of the five major families, with a total strength of 130,000 people.

Previously, the reason why Marquis Bedouin had not sought the help of Duke Rundstead was that he felt that Duke Rundstead, who was born as a commoner and had a good relationship with Bai Feng, would definitely not help him;

I have to say that Marquis Bedouin's judgment of Duke Rundstead is still very accurate, and the reason why Duke Rundstead took the initiative to come to the door was purely because Bai Feng specially sent someone to send him a secret letter before leading the army to the battle.

In the secret letter, Bai Feng unreservedly informed the Duke of Rundstead of his intention to use the Marquis of Bedouin as the governor of Brojansson Province to completely control the Fire Legion, so the Duke of Rundstead decided to come forward to help the Marquis of Bedouin.

This is also a helpless thing, if the Marquis of Bedouin does not even have the courage to go to the county town of Brojansson to take office, then Bai Feng's plan to control the Fire Legion will not be bankrupt?

The 2nd Division of the 55th Army Corps, a standing army division with a full strength of 10,000 soldiers, was temporarily 'loaned' to the Marquis of Bedouin by the Duke of Rundstead.

In order not to arouse the suspicion of the Marquis of Bedouin, the Duke of Rundsteadt lent his 10,000 soldiers to the Marquis of Bedouin at the same time, and also made three 'small' requests to the Marquis of Bedouin.

First, the Marquis of Bedouin had to return the division within two months, second, the division was only responsible for protecting the personal safety of the Marquis of Bedouin and did not accept any other orders from the Marquis of Bedouin, and third, the Marquis of Bedouin had to pay 100,000 gold coins as payment.

A mere 100,000 gold coins was not an unacceptable condition for the Marquis of Bedouin, who was ready to make a rampant conquest in the province of Brojansund, but the order of paying first and then borrowing troops was really unacceptable to the Marquis of Bedouin.

It's not that Marquis Bedouin can't bear the 100,000 gold coins, but he can't take out the 100,000 gold coins at all! With Marquis Bedouin's usual character of being lazy and hardworking, and spending money like dirt, it is a miracle that he can have 5,000 gold coins in his magic gold card!

When it came to money, the Duke of Rundstead, who had added this condition himself, had no intention of retreating, for he knew that the Marquis of Bedouin, who was greedy for life and afraid of death, would definitely find a way to make up 100,000 gold coins.

Facts have proved that the Marquis of Bedouin did not guess the Duke of Rundstead wrong, and the Duke of Rundstead did not misunderstand the Marquis of Bedouin;

Even though the Westminster Chamber of Commerce knew that the Marquis of Bedouin was an empty governor, they still agreed to the Marquis of Bedouin's loan, and a Marquis of the Empire, who was being trusted by Charlemagne, was worth 100,000 gold coins from the Westminster Chamber of Commerce, which was just a way for them to invest.

On the day of the delivery of the 100,000 gold coins, the fully equipped 2nd Division was 'loaned' to the Marquis of Bedouin by the Duke of Rundstead, and the hard-won gold coins were directly used by the Duke of Rundstead to buy weapons and equipment at the Westminster Chamber of Commerce.

The 55th Army Corps, which had just been formed, was seriously short of weapons and equipment, and the weapons and equipment issued to them by the Imperial Military Department were all shoddy and defective products that had been improvised and rushed out, while 100,000 gold coins could solve the problem of weapons and equipment for at least three wings.

The Westminster Chamber of Commerce, which knew that the Duke of Rundstead had a close relationship with Bai Feng, under the instructions of Duke, its regional head, 'sold' the sophisticated weapons and equipment worth millions of gold coins to the Duke of Rundstedd, who was in urgent need of weapons and equipment, for 100,000 gold coins.

Bai took advantage of a large advantage, Duke Rundstead, at first shocked, and after he learned more from Duke, he calmly accepted this batch of weapons and equipment, and after obtaining this extremely sophisticated batch of weapons and equipment, the Duke of Rundstedder immediately redressed his army.

The 50,000 private armies of the 50,000 families who were already well-equipped were more than a step better than those provided by the Westminster Chamber of Commerce, so naturally they did not need to be reequipped; among the four standing regiments that needed to be reequipped, each of the standing regiments had replaced the weapons and equipment of a division.

After borrowing a division under the command of the Duke of Rundstead as his escort, the Marquis of Bedouin confidently set off for the county town of Bronjansund, under the arch of the army, and the conflict between the Fire Legion and the Marquis of Bedouin was about to break out again!