You must start for yourself and use all your existence to meet the world. In this way, you too will meet God.

- Martin Buber (Israeli Jewish philosopher, translator, educator)

Putting aside the development of the Bai family and the open and secret struggles of the princes of the imperial capital, Bai Feng, who forcibly incorporated the Wind Thieves Regiment, and personally formulated a list of meritorious deeds to reward the soldiers under his command who had made great contributions.

Ordinary monetary rewards have become less and less interesting to the soldiers under Bai Feng's command, especially the soldiers of the Feather Forest Legion, and people are like this, they will never be satisfied, which may be the fundamental reason why human beings have been making continuous progress.

In order to reward these soldiers who no longer value money, and in order to strengthen his control over the provinces of Brujansson and Toulon, Bai Feng decided to apply for a noble title from Charlemagne in the imperial capital for the soldiers under his command!

The Yulin Legion, which is mostly civilians, and the other six standing legions, the soldiers who have made great contributions are naturally mostly civilians, and the awarding of honorable noble titles to civilians is rare in the long history of the Heavenly Dragon Empire, not to mention that Bai Feng's list is full of names.

The more than 30-page list details the loyalist of 642 Imperial soldiers on the battlefield, because they were all civilians, and their names did not appear in the list of honors and knights from the Imperial Military Department.

This time, Bai Feng applied for the titles of barons, and only thirty-two people were qualified to apply for a higher level of viscount, while the commanders of the Yulin Legion and the six standing regiments were uniformly applied for the title of earl for them.

The legion commanders of the empire, which one of them did not have the title of earl? Only the legion commanders under Bai Feng were either civilian tiger generals trained by the Marquis of Longdstede, or civilian heroes who were rapidly promoted by Bai Feng himself, and generally did not have any high-level titles.

Bai Feng, who didn't like to drag his feet, applied for the title of Imperial Earl for thirty-six generals in one go, among them, there were not only the commanders of the Featherland Legion and the Standing Legion, but also the commanders of the five Eastern Legions, Ranocchia, Luculus and others.

Even Montgomery, who had just agreed to Bai Feng as the commander of the Wind Legion, was on Bai Feng's application list, and among all the generals under Bai Feng's command, only Leonardo and Lister were not among them, after all, their positions were only wing captains.

As the commander of the Death Battalion, Lister Ster could theoretically be included in the application list, but the scale of the Death Battalion is limited, and its current combat strength is not much stronger than Leonardo's Yulin United.

Bai Feng, who did not have a clear goal and did not make a quick move, it was naturally not unreasonable for him to apply for the title of meritorious soldier from Charlemagne in such a big way, and his real purpose was to strengthen his control over the provinces of Brojansson and Toulon through these soldiers who were loyal to him.

The ever-expanding net can help Bai Feng control the wind and grass in the provinces of Brojansson and Toulon, and the Sophia Chamber of Commerce, which is extremely popular, can help Bai Feng win the hearts and minds of the people of the provinces of Broyangsson and Toulon, but this is far from enough!

As an intelligence organization, the Sophia Chamber of Commerce cannot play its role on the surface, and the Sophia Chamber of Commerce, as a commercial organization, cannot develop smoothly without the support of those in power, and this is the limitation of the Sophia Chamber of Commerce and the Sophia Chamber of Commerce.

If one day he and his army were transferred out of the eastern part of the empire, how long would the so-called popular will last? Bai Feng, who was inevitably worried, had to take some precautions in order to firmly control the provinces he led his army to recover.

The six hundred and forty-two meritorious soldiers were indeed all soldiers who had made great contributions on the battlefield, and at the same time they were loyal to Bai Feng, and the purpose of Bai Feng's application for the title of nobility was to let them withdraw from the army and fill the vacancy in the power to recover the province.

The provinces of Brojansson and Toulon each had four counties, and in each county there were seventeen or eighteen towns of large and small, all of which together there were one hundred and thirty-four towns, six counties, and two capitals, and none of them had a single nobleman!

Thirty-two viscounts, with an average of four viscounts for each county town and capital, can be respectively in charge of the military, economy, people's livelihood, and judicial power in the county or capital, and the earl governor who may be appointed by the future empire is completely hollowed out.

There are also 536 barons, an average of 4 barons can be assigned to each town, and while holding the real power of each town, even the city lord and mayor can be held, and the last 74 barons are the core of Bai Feng's rebuilding of the city defense army of the two provinces.

With the title of Imperial Baron and rich combat experience, in the rebuilt city defense forces of the two provinces, all the duties of squadron leaders, group leaders, and wing commanders will be taken over by them, and outsiders will not be allowed to interfere at all.

As long as Bai Feng's application is approved by Charlemagne, then the provinces of Brojansson and Toulon will be the provinces of Bai Feng in the future; even if Charlemagne wants to settle accounts after the autumn and eliminate these people installed by Bai Feng one by one, it will be impossible in ten or eight years.

The basic premise that Charlemagne spent ten or eight years to successfully eliminate these people is that the situation in the empire has always been in a peaceful and stable state, and Bai Feng is willing not to make any resistance, but is that possible?

Putting aside the fact that Bai Feng will not resist for the time being, judging from the current situation of the empire, it is impossible for the turbulent situation in the empire to stabilize in the next ten years;

If it were really ten years later, the provinces of Brojancson and Toulon would have been run by Bai Feng like an iron pass, and at that time, even if Charlemagne wanted to eliminate Bai Feng's power in the two provinces, I am afraid it would be difficult to start.

Of course, whether it is two provinces, four provinces, or five provinces depends on Bai Feng's next performance and Charlemagne's statement, as well as the strategic deployment of the orc army; if Charlemagne does not agree to his application, Bai Feng's army will not push further.

Bai Feng, who had never thought of being a courtier who guarded himself, had never thought about how to be a courtier, and in his opinion, it was what he needed to do to develop his power as quickly as possible without exposing the city of Rome.

Moreover, Bai Feng is a core member of the Bai family, and the Bai family is an ally of the Prince of Pross, which means that Bai Feng's infiltration of the provinces of Brojansson and Toulon will be understood by Charlemagne as the actions of the Prince of Pros.

This judgment was not Bai Feng's speculation, but his speculation based on the development of past cases, and it was on the basis of this speculation that Bai Feng was convinced that Charlemagne would definitely approve his application for the title of meritorious soldier.

Facts have proved that Bai Feng's prediction of Charlemagne's psychology is extremely accurate; after receiving the application submitted by Bai Feng, Charlemagne agreed to Bai Feng's application after a night of careful thinking, and nearly 700 nobles have been canonized by no one before or since!

Before Bai Feng, who had successfully implemented the plan, had no time to be happy, a secret letter from the secret guard made Bai Feng's originally happy mood instantly turn bad, and even Sophia's return failed to change Bai Feng's mood!