Fortunately, these people were also smart enough to send the young male children of the family to sway around in front of Sophia, otherwise Philip would definitely let them know that the young legend who could kill millions of prairie people was also legendary.

Until he couldn't stand it anymore, he didn't want to be the standard little wolf dog next to the princess, and wanted to go back to Gaokan City, but he was forcibly left by Sophia, and he didn't hesitate to play coquettish and ask him to accompany him to socialize.

The reason was to develop his political ability to dominate the diocese in the future, but Philip could clearly see the satisfaction and vanity in the eyes of the ambitious princess of the empire.

Vanity has never been a bad thing, and it is because of vanity that human beings can continue to progress.

The criterion for success in this world has never been how many resources you occupy, but how many people you stand on, otherwise you are the only one left in the world, even if you have hundreds of millions of assets, what is the use.

It wasn't until two days later, when the two Potter envoys sent by the new emperor Gulliver after the Southeastern Massacre and the Southeastern Victory arrived in Carroste City, that Philip got rid of this vain and hectic life.

Beyond the city of Gokan and the southern border, there are still many things waiting for him to finish.

This New Year is special and unforgettable for the people of the three border cities, because in the past two months, countless people in this land have lost their families, and they desperately need to find something to vent and warm their hearts during this long and cold winter.

It's been more than a month, and Philip has been busy, racking his brains to prepare for his upcoming academic career, at least to build a stable rear, and exchange the benefits that should belong to him for something tangible.

During this time, he only met Sophia three times, and through a successful night raid, he achieved good things in the half-push and half-push of the girl who said that she could not say whether it was encouragement or rejection.

Philip's only feeling about this is that the physical fitness of the Ward women is ridiculously good, even if it is not the princess of the empire who has awakened with physical ability.

No matter how romantic it is, it is better to have a good waist and abdominal muscles, and the laws of the Wardsman Empire that can marry three wives may not really be made for the benefit of men.

I don't know how Chand's group of fools survived from the enthusiasm of Avril's group of mature mountain women, it's really fatal.

Philip is very grateful to Edward for giving him an excellent physique since he was a child, so that he can benefit a lot for the rest of his life.

In the vast mountains beyond the Red Moon Pass, the various tribes of the Alpine Ward tribe had withdrawn to the Black Forest with a satisfying harvest when the winter snow fell.

Albert officially joined the Wild Lion Division, stationed at the New Red Moon Pass, and sent someone to replace the giants who were wrapped in animal skins and exposed half of their shoulders, but did not feel cold in the ice and snow.

As long as the spring flowers bloom and the earth thaws, they will also set up three outpost camps in turn at the Bishan Pass, the Meilin River Valley, and the original eastern assembly point.

And Murphy also scattered his men into a dozen large and small camps, dotted throughout the mountains.

Of course, the largest and most populous one is Murphy's royal court, with 36,000 people, including 8,000 elite guards equipped with full armor.

The camp was located in the middle of the New Red Moon Pass and the Tieyan Pass, a few hundred kilometers south of a steep mountain on three sides and facing the river, and there were four or five smaller camps scattered around him controlled by his henchmen.

A number of the captive steppe people froze to death, but most of them survived with their tenacious vitality, and with these hundreds of thousands of laborers, even if they were weaker, Murphy did not wait for the beginning of spring, but took advantage of the best time when the hardest wood of the four-colored birch was the best to build a city for himself that was not very gorgeous, but it was wide and strong enough.

According to Philip's estimates, even if 500,000 steppe people besieged here, they would not be able to take down two or three hundred thousand without dying.

In the final desperate situation, Murphy can escape through the wide tributary of the Solance River to the west and retreat towards Iron Rock Pass.

Willing to follow the advice, Murphy lived up to the hype by marrying three Ward women who had fallen into the mountains and grew up there, one of whom was the same Winma, and successfully impregnated two of them.

Looking at his visibly pale face and vain steps, Philip gave a thumbs up, acknowledging his fighting spirit, and sent the two women back to Gaukan City in secret, just as he had promised.

Just wait for the spring of next year, Murphy will send people to plant that kind of mountain tobacco on a large scale, and in the future, it will become a huge base for high-quality tobacco cultivation and cigarette manufacturing.

Entirely handmade, inexpensive, and of high quality, Philip had to pay nothing more than a large amount of food and other necessities, as well as political and military asylum.

Don't think that he is exploiting, when these former robbers and smugglers heard that they could exchange their labor for enough or even good materials, at least more than sixty percent of them were full of yearning and expectation for their future life, which also made Murphy, the king of the Rubbo clan, reach unprecedented heights.

Philip could use the Lion family and his own comptoir to promote the new brand throughout the Southeast, and with limited production, it would be a luxury brand for at least five years, providing him with a steady stream of money.

At the same time, the rapid expansion of the trading house will also allow him to gradually establish a private intelligence system, which will be handed over to Peter, who returns from the imperial capital.

When he learned of the great changes in the southeast, he ended his internship in the Wardkud empire and returned to the southeast with all his might.

But just like other students from the southeast who were eager to return to their hometowns, they were blocked in the commercial capital of Holmei, even if he used his profession and background to sneak through the blockade line, he also missed the key battle.

To Philip's horror and thankfulness, Peter was in the small town of Pattin, less than 400 kilometers north of the city, at the time of the Ferretti tragedy.

Had it not been for the hardships of the journey, which caused the brave boy to fall ill, Philip would have almost lost a true friend.

The two who met again hugged each other for a long time, with tears on their faces, which made the eyes of Miss Afu who was watching from the side a little strange.

However, when Philip sadly told him the news of Yun'er's sudden departure, Peter was not surprised in the slightest, and told Philip that he had learned through the Empire's intelligence system that Yun'er had boarded the ocean-going freighter named 'Moonlight' more than half a month ago.

And also knew that Yun'er was seriously ill because of heartbreak, and was carried onto the boat by Lynch's followers in a coma.

Philip didn't know how to feel when he heard the news, whether he should be happy, worried, or angry.

Nearly two months of life-and-death struggle has made his whole person change dramatically, and this time he saw his old friend like a world away, and all kinds of depression and contradictions in his heart cannot be expressed in words.

It's like looking at someone else's life story through a glass, with a little alienation, but deep nostalgia and heartache.

At last it turned into a long sigh, and he drank with Peter all night, crying and screaming for no reason, and finally fell drunk in the conservatory, and was habitually picked up by Miss Aph.

When he woke up the next day, he felt a hot pain in his body again, and his fair skin was as if he had been whipped and showed a hint of pink, Philip was very strange, although the memory of last night was a little trance, but one thing he was sure of was that this time he definitely did not vomit on other girls.

A wind chill caused those steppe people to suffer heavy losses, but the captured Sacred Beast Tribe's eldest prince Dang Sen was raised alive under the service of a group of tribes, and his face was ruddy when most of the clansmen were yellow and thin, not only the broken bones recovered well, but also gained a few laps of weight.

What surprised Philip even more was that he was later extradited to Gaokan City, not only was he very cooperative, and he neatly confessed a lot of secrets of the steppe people, but also didn't know what means he used to get the mad lion Brad to allow him to live in the city, the conditions were quite good, and he also sent him more than 20 servants and a woman of the steppe tribe, and the small life was not too nourishing.

This is the most incredible news that Philip has heard since he was sensible, and the fact that a grassland captive can live in Gaokan City shows that Dang Sen has really contributed something.

After learning all this, Philip simply didn't care, and handed over all this group of steppe people to Brad for arrangement, and it had nothing to do with him whether he killed or stayed.

He also figured out that many of the previous foreshadowings were meaningful under the premise that he inherited the Mad Lion family, and at this moment Bruce not only lived intact to the end of the entire war, but also achieved more feats and the love of the Mad Lion in the later defense of Gaokan City and the final battle.

Even the only trace of immaturity in his character seems to have been smoothed out, and he really began to enter his own role, which was admired by many old people.

So he went with the flow and let go completely.

Not only that, for more than a month, except for assisting Catherine in repairing the castle and practicing martial arts in the Lion Castle, he did not participate in anything related to the Lion Division or even Gaokan City, and even the previous small arms workshop was handed over to Catherine to take care of, and he became an outsider cleanly.

Most of the young people of the Gaoshan tribe who followed him were divided among several masters, leaving only six or seven people such as Viktor, Valery and Sergei, who would become his personal force to accompany him to the temple.

Rather than being a warrior defending the city, these excellent young men were more willing to follow Philip to see the greater power and the wider world, especially after seeing the incredible power of the Templars, the one-third of an acre of land in Gaokan City felt smaller and smaller.

Of the 2,000 Gaoshan Clan's big men, more than 1,100 survived in the end, of which more than 600 returned to the tribe with enough gifts, and the remaining 500 were divided equally between the giant bear and the mad lion, and with them as the backbone, two heavy armor teams were built, leaving a great reputation in the future defense of Gaokan City.

Of course, that's all for later.