The Imperial Army was defeated, and it was a crushing defeat.

The Imperial Army of the Great Bogar was certainly not invincible, but it had not suffered such a level of defeat in the past hundred years.

In the territorial war with the kingdom of Miredang, the situation was ideal, and four of the six imperial legions that they thought could take half of the territory of the war zone before the complete winter began, suffered a devastating blow, and the remaining two were basically difficult to regroup in a short period of time. The Imperial Army was not only completely expelled from the war zone, but even the previously occupied kingdom territory was also impacted, and the Kingdom Army, which was pursuing the victory, rushed into the Imperial Occupation Zone, and together with the remnants of the Kingdom Army and the civilian resistance forces lurking in the occupied area, they surrounded and annihilated one of the five Imperial Army Corps responsible for maintaining the occupation in the occupied area, and the other four Army Corps quickly assembled in the camp after repelling the first wave of local counterattacks, and formed a joint camp less than two taeks away from each other, which made the Royal Army stop the offensive.

This is the news circulating among the people of the empire, and when these news began to appear among the people, it was already the third day after the defeat - such a tragic defeat naturally needed to be reported to the imperial court and the military and political department as soon as possible, and because the news was too shocking, it had already spread in the empire at the same time as it was reported upwards.

Although the vast majority of the Empire's citizens only heard very limited or even false information, it was enough to make the event the hottest topic of conversation in taverns and meeting places.

It was naturally impossible for the small inhabitants to know the cause of this great defeat, but this did not prevent them from enthusiastically speculating and discussing, and there was probably one dominant opinion and at least two other opinions in every tavern in the empire. There are many theories about the causes, but there is much more unity of opinion on the direction of the war, with almost all agreeing that the war should end with peace talks, with the Empire gaining new territories as new territories and the kingdom of Miledan gaining three to five years of recuperation.

Yes, even if more than 70,000 or 80,000 soldiers were lost at once, the people of the empire would never think that the kingdom would be able to recover all the lost territories. Whether it's optimism or blind confidence, for ordinary people who are far from the border, these are just rare talking points, and they won't make much difference to their lives.

And when this rare discussion began in Tongchasu, Ao Zongheng didn't know it. Because after two days of inquiring in Sakai Mansion, he finally got the information of the Shernashak family, so he naturally left Tongchasu and rushed there without hesitation.

At this time, he had just arrived at Lu'er Pang.

It was not under the purview of Sakai Prefecture but under the jurisdiction of another Sakai Prefecture, but it was less than twenty drives away from Sakai Prefecture and sixty or seventy drives away from its Sakai Prefecture, so it is no wonder that Levima regarded this place as a periphery of Sakai Province.

The Shernashak family of Lurpong is a local noble family.

The Shernashak family, two generations ago, once produced a Junzhong, so it became a nobleman, although the Hanzhong is only the last seat among the courtiers, and can be called the lowest among the nobles, but with the vast territory of the empire, it is not difficult to get a fief with a better position. In fact, the original fief of this Shernashak family was in the middle of the empire, which was much better than that of Shan Zanman Sakai here. Their family was transferred to Lu'er Pangyuan, which was actually a matter of the previous generation.

The transfer is to transfer the family fief, this kind of thing is not too much and not too little, every time there is a big movement in the imperial court, most of them will be accompanied by the family transfer, of course, this is not the only reason.

Transferred to a better party, this is the head of the family. Moving from a good place to a bad place is the loss of power in the family, and even the natives who are not very literate in the village understand this truth.

Due to its age, the inhabitants of the village do not know exactly what kind of turmoil the Shernashak family was involved in. Then why can it be determined that it is implicated? Because the imperial law is strict, and in a large-scale imperial struggle, the transfer of feuds is the best outcome that can be obtained by those loser forces who are too marginal to be marginal. Abolishing officials and going to prison, and being killed and removed from office is the main theme of the losers in the struggle.

Although they were not removed at the time, the current Shernashak family is still in danger of being delisted.

The aristocracy of the empire had its own characteristics, for example, it adopted a system of succession that was neither a lifetime system nor a hereditary system that was not easy to inherit forever, but a three-generation descendation system.

The highest noble title of the empire is the title of the Emperor, which is the exclusive title of the successor of the Emperor of the Brakes, which is equivalent to the crown prince of Middle-earth, and there is only one owner of this title, of course, it cannot be inherited.

For example, the first-class title is the Emperor, which is only awarded to the emperor or the emperor's brother, which is the first generation, and when the heir of the emperor inherits, it is reduced to the second-class title, and the third generation is also the third-class title. After three generations, unless a new blood relationship is formed, you can no longer be a relative, and you can only leave a name in the imperial family tree. Of course, if the children and grandchildren are more competitive, it is still possible to be meritorious by merit.

The above is about the pro-noble, even the pro-noble must be demoted, and the meritorious will naturally not be an exception, but the inheritance law of the meritorious is more complicated than the pro-noble, such as the highest meritorious can obtain the title of the noble, but this title is only given to the individual and not to the family, so if the family of the family passes away, and the inheritor himself does not have the title of the emperor, then it will be directly reduced to the title of the first class. And because the ancestors of the empire said in the ancestral teachings that "you have passed on three generations", those nobles who have been reduced to the middle third class and have not yet been three generations do not need to be removed even if the heirs themselves do not have titles. In other words, as long as there are clansmen who can obtain the status of Sakai retainer or regimental general in three generations, they can continue the title status of nobles.

And now the head of the Shernashak family has just been passed on to the third generation, and the current head of the family is already three out of fifty, and his health is not very good, once he has any mistakes, the Shernashak family next to Luer, which has been passed on for nearly a hundred years, will be removed.

But of course, these are not the things that Arrogant is concerned about, what he needs is the genealogy of the Shernashak family.

Arrogant asked the inhabitants of the village, and none of them had heard of Lance Keitel Lepodandu Norio du Schernashak. In fact, he didn't even need to look at the family tree, and he felt that this Schernashak family of Lu Erpang was not his target, because the history of this family was too short, it was only an ancestral surname, and it was not any of Lepodandou, Norio or Keitel.

But since the mountains and roads have come from afar, can you balance your heart without looking at the genealogy?

Ao Zongheng didn't make any special preparations, and went directly to the door of the Shernashak family.

The feudal mansion of the Shernashak family was located on a low hill outside, and as a middle-class nobleman, the fief was thirty nair (the main unit of area in the southern part of the empire, and the size of the twelve longitudinal and horizontal areas was one na, and the mansion was not allowed to exceed three floors, nor was it allowed to build walls more than one and a half people high. Although in the remote Sakai village of Lu Er Pang, the Shernashak family did not dare to exceed the rules - this kind of thing, as soon as it is sued, as a family that has been transferred, it must be extremely cautious.

Hearing that it was the mage of the legal management department who came to visit, the people in the mansion were stunned for a while, and then excitedly invited Ao Zongheng into the living room of the mansion, and rushed to invite the representative head to meet.

The head of the house of Shernashak is a foreign official, and the acting head of the house is naturally his wife. It is said that Mrs. Shernashak rarely sees outsiders except for orders, but in the face of the Dharma Department mage who came to the door, even the people of the mansion decided that it was impossible for Madame not to come out to entertain her.

Sure enough, Mrs. Shernashak came, but it was a bit rude to be honest, but he didn't mind, because he knew that the request he was going to make later was even more rude—no matter where an outsider who met for the first time asked to see someone else's family genealogy, it could be regarded as a reluctant invitation.

In fact, Mrs. Shernashak was a little wronged, how could she dare to snub this guest, even the wandering mage leader would be politely entertained, let alone someone from the legal department. It's just that this rare guest is too rare, even if the grandfather in charge is still there, and the family is at the peak, there has never been a mage from the Legal Management Department who has come to the mansion of the fiefdom. So don't mention the apprehension in her heart, she can't think of anything worthy of the mage of the Legal Management Department in her family, which is already a flower of tomorrow. In the end, I really had no choice, so I had to find my younger brother Ikuo and the only guardian mage in the family - not that I had to beware of doing it, this was a green-sleeved mage, what could I do with it?

After discussing, the lady had to dress up a little, and the three of them came to the living room, so it was naturally late.

In Tschernashak's opinion, Mrs. Shernashak is quite similar to the official wives of Middle-earth—not necessarily pretty, but dignified and courteous. However, this is also the woman Aozong likes to deal with the most, so after a few simple words, he went straight to the point.

"Master Mage, I beg your pardon for taking the liberty of the matter, as far as I can see, there is not a single person from Lance Keitel Lepodandu Norio du Schernašak in the genealogy of my family."

"Madam, it's not that I don't believe you, it's just that I've come from afar, and I might want to see for myself, maybe I'll be able to see the name associated with this person. ”

Mrs. Shernashak hesitated, and said in good conscience that he did not think that his memory could be wrong, nor did he think that this person, who had nothing to do with his family other than his family name, would have anything to do with his own family. But she also didn't anticipate the impact that rejecting a Judicial Leader could have on the family—she really didn't have any historical experience in this area.

Just when she was making up her mind to reply, her younger brother Yufu, who had always been able to help her, suddenly said something that made her tremble.

"Master Mage, if you are willing to help us solve a puzzle, we will immediately be willing to share the genealogy of the Shernashak family in Lurpong. ”