According to Isabel Walton's vision, she originally planned to use the management and training mechanism of the federal police under the sheriff Baron Haswell, the magistrate, into a 16th-century English version of the American city police law enforcement agency.

However, judging from the extremely bad law and order situation that cannot be ignored at present, and the tradition of advocating force and using violence in the northern region, she still wants to transform this purely "police force" into a militarized force. As the later "Newsweek" once commented on the police in a small town in the United States to deal with the demonstrators: When you only have a hammer in your hand, then all the problems look like a nail.

While transforming into a militarized force, she also had to delegate the three functions of maintaining order, enforcing the law, and providing civilian services to the county security patrol, and had absolute authority in enforcing the law. County Patrol officers also have the right to stay, interrogate, search and arrest, and are not required to consult the County Magistrate as long as suspects are arrested in accordance with the law. If the suspect tries to resist, the security patrol officer also has the right to kill him in defence.

This is a region with a tradition of using force, an era that celebrates violence as a solution to problems, and the only way to deal with the ever-changing law and order situation is to "counter violence with violence" as a last resort. Only when the barbaric and violent northern society was transformed into a civilized society could she sweep away the militarized image of the county security patrol officers and improve the relationship between the security patrol officers and civilians through "demilitarization" measures.

There's a deeper idea here: Isabel wants to turn the "Blackfriars" of a large number of elite knights into a legitimate standard militarized force. One way is for most of the members to infiltrate Baron Haswell's County Patrol, and when the time comes, she will be able to take full control of the county force. Another way, to expand all the remaining members into the personal guards of the Duke's Palace,

As for the "Blackfriars'" personnel honorariums, weapons, armor, horses, and other issues, we will continue to refer to the strategy of "feeding war with war" that the US military has been accustomed to using since the founding of the People's Republic of China. Without harming women and children, poor agricultural laborers, artisans, beggars, landless vagrants, and the vulnerable, the spearhead of the war was directed against the old Catholic forces in the north and the old aristocracy with large amounts of land and property.

As a result, Alexander Longman, who had long hair in a "mohican" hairstyle, and most of the elite members of the Order of Monks successfully entered the baron's county security patrol and acted as militarized security guards. Francis Swift, the second son of Viscount Darlington, became a personal guard of the Duke of Richmond, secretly only under Isabel's command.

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Alexander Longman, who was patrolling south of Richmondshire, with 10 vigilantes, stood quietly in front of Isabel and waited for her orders. Isabel hurriedly said, "Alexander, you quickly send someone to find His Royal Highness the Duke." ”

Alexander hurriedly said, "Yes, Your Excellency. But if Your Highness asks me, how shall I answer? ”

Isabel looked at the London lawyer and the others behind her, as well as Caroline, who had not moved, and said, "You say, Lord Darlington's eldest daughter asked Her Highness to be a witness and judge of the duel!" ”

Alexander glanced at Robert, Caroline and the others a few meters away, and guessed, "Your Excellency, those men seem to have come from the south. ”

Isabel said truthfully: "It's nothing, it's just that one of the guys is from London." ”

"Your Excellency, is there anything that can help you?"

"You find another person and stay here with you, and the rest of the people continue to patrol."

"Yes, Your Excellency." After Alexander finished speaking, he hurriedly said a few words to the security patrol officers behind him.

After Alexander and another guard followed Isabel back to Caroline's side, Caroline glanced at the two heavily armed guards and said, "Villain, what do you mean by calling the two guards of Your Highness?" ”

Isabel looked at the London lawyer who was standing at a loss, and said with a smile, "No, Carrie, they are just county vigilantes who maintain order in the county and enforce the laws of the kingdom. ”

When Robert Althop learned from Isabel about the occupations of the two guards, he exclaimed, "Sirs, if you cannot tolerate any bloodshed in the lands of the county of Richmond under your jurisdiction, for God's sake, report to the Duke of Richmond and the magistrate of the county of Richmond what has befallen me!" ”

Alexander glanced at Isabel, who did not say anything, and said solemnly: "Sir, as far as I can see the facts, you are not harmed by anyone at the moment. So, I don't understand what you mean by misfortune. ”

"Duel! This young lady wants to duel me! Robert pointed at Caroline.

"Sir, we have also heard what this young lady herself said about a duel with Mr. Lawyer." An earlguard standing in front of Robert said calmly.

At this point, Isabel still did not say anything, and Alexander uttered something that almost broke Robert's heart: "Sir, if this young lady had proposed to you a judicial duel, I don't think we would have been able to help you. ”

The London lawyer turned his gaze to the two Earl of York's guards, and said to one of them in a slightly begging voice: "Sir, I remember that before I left Yorkshire, my Lord asked you to keep my life safe, right?" ”

The middle-aged guard with a thick beard nodded and said, "Yes, sir." It's our job to keep you safe. However, we can't stop such a duel as we can do it. ”

Another of the younger guards said, "Sir, you may also refuse to fight after this young lady has asked you to fight a duel. However, I don't know if the consequences of refusing to fight will be good or bad for you. ”

"Sir, what are the consequences?" Robert asked impatiently.

"Refusing to fight will give you the nickname 'coward' for the rest of your life. I thought, you know what that nickname means. The younger Wei Cong said sincerely.

Isabel doesn't have a good opinion of the lawyer, who is still suspected of being a leader of the rebellion, but she doesn't want Robert to be killed by Caroline so quickly. Assuming that this Robert is not the leader of the rebellion, then he is at most just a duelist who has fallen in the dueling arena.

Assuming that this Robert is indeed the leader of the rebel army, then he has to survive. Determined to prevent this duel from happening, Isabel whispered to Caroline, "Carrie, you know you can definitely defeat him in a duel. I can see this very clearly. ”

Caroline looked at her and said, "Isabel, you're right. What do you mean...? ”

"Look, you're Lord Darlington's daughter, and he's just a second-tier lawyer. So, you should show your identity and nobility before the duel. ”

"You want me to sign a duel agreement with him?"

"That's right. Carrie, the only way to highlight the aristocratic status of the Swift family. Do you want your family to be a family that has lost even aristocratic etiquette in the eyes of the other nobles in the north? ”